Posted on 07/31/2014 1:41:29 AM PDT by markomalley
A reader recently alerted me to an article in Slate Magazine that is so bizarre that, as you read it, you think it is a joke, an April Fools farce, or someone illustrating absurdity by being absurd. Yet, as far as I can tell, the author means every word she says.
I must say, I have never read anything stranger in my life (except a couple things in Mad Magazine, but they actually were jokes). If you dare to read the excerpt below, prepare for your brain to explode.
And yet too, nothing I have read is such a perfect catalogue of the growing absurdities of the cultural radicals who are increasingly losing touch with reality. So bizzare and out there is this article that some of you will say, “Oh well, no really takes this seriously, why give publicity to such fringe lunacy?” But if that is your view I would ask to to think again. Even just ten years ago most people did not think the notion of “Gay marriage” would ever go anywhere. And yet. what was thought by most as a fringe lunacy then, is now celebrated by many and the “law of the land” in a growing number of States.
Watch out, things are getting dark very fast. Make sure you have a strong stomach before you read what follows. And beware, it may be coming soon to a maternity ward near you. An article such as this surely illustrates what St. Paul said of the unbelievers and sexually depraved of his day: they became vain in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened. (Rom 1:21)
As usual the words of the author are in bold, black, italics. My comments are in plain, red text. If you have a very strong stomach and a brain that does not easily explode you can read the full article here: Slate Magazine article
Imagine you are in recovery from labor, lying in bed, holding your infant. In your arms you cradle a stunningly beautiful, perfect little being. (being…? “Baby” is the usual term is it not? Consider this your first warning dear reader) Completely innocent and totally vulnerable, your baby (thats better) is entirely dependent on you to make all the choices that will define their life for many years to come. (OK, here’s another sign of trouble. This woman has succumbed to fearing her own philosophy. Let me state for the record that it does not pertain to the human person to “define the life” of another person. That is what God does. This is a central error of the cultural radicals. They claim the right to “define life, and the lives of others. This woman is going to go on to describe her anxiety about the fact that a parent can “define the life” of their child. Again, her fear is based on a flawed and prideful notion she carries).
Suddenly, the doctor comes in. He looks at you sternly (oh please), gloved hands reaching for your baby …“Is it really necessary?” [you ask]. ….The doctor flashes a paternalistic (oh please) smile. “No, no … but….This is a standard practice. People just wouldn’t understand why you didn’t go along with it,” he says, casting a judgmental (oh please) glance.
Look out here it comes…
…The imaginary [scenario] I described above is real. Obstetricians, doctors, and midwives (well at least its not all stern, paternalistic, judgmental male doctors!) commit this procedure on infants every single day, in every single country….without even asking for the parents’ consent, making this practice all the more insidious. It’s called infant gender assignment: When the doctor holds your child up to the harsh light of the delivery room, looks between its legs, and declares his opinion: It’s a boy or a girl, based on nothing more than a cursory assessment of your offspring’s genitals. It just gets stranger every day. Again this story is so insane that I was certain this article had to be a joke. But it seems the “woman” (can I call “her” that without giving offense?) is quite serious.
We tell our children, “You can be anything you want to be.” We say, “A girl can be a doctor, a boy can be a nurse,” but why in the first place must this person be a boy and that person be a girl? Your infant is an infant. (No, the sex of a baby in not incidental, it is integral, the infant IS male or IS female AND it is deeper than genitals, despite our author’s flippant reductionism. “Gender” or as most of us used to say the “sex” of a person goes all the way down to the DNA, and I would argue to the soul, which is the form of the body)…. As a newborn, your child’s potential is limitless (No it isn’t. Human beings are limited, contingent beings. We are not God. Here too, the strange notions of the cultural radicals are on full display. The simple fact is, no matter how unpleasant some think it is, human beings ARE limited and thus our potential is also limited. No matter how much our author might wish to leap a tall building in a single bound or be “genderless” (to use her term), she cannot. There are just some stubborn facts that get in the way of her pipe dream. Namely, we are not of unlimited potential and we ARE male or female. The world is full of possibilities that every person deserves to be able to explore freely, receiving equal respect and human dignity while maximizing happiness through individual expression. I wonder if our author would allow “offspring” to “explore freely” the owning of slaves, or the thrill of “maximizing happiness” through the “individual expression” of engaging in human trafficking or leading a genocidal campaign in a foreign land. Just asking. But her vague and wide open notions here allow such a question. Surely “she” (can I call her that) has some lines in mind that should not be crossed? But if she does, does it not mean she is limiting the “limitless potentials” she celebrates for every newborn?
With infant gender assignment, in a single moment your baby’s life is instantly and brutally (Oh please) reduced from such infinite (there’s that word again) potentials down to one concrete set of expectations and stereotypes, and any behavioral deviation from that will be severely punished (Oh please) —…That doctor (and the power structure behind him) plays a pivotal role in imposing those limits on helpless infants, without their consent, and without your informed consent as a parent. This issue deserves serious consideration by every parent, (no it doesn’t) because no matter what gender identity your child ultimately adopts, infant gender assignment has effects that will last through their whole life. I would like to say that I think the author is seeking to “limit my infinite potential” by trying to coerce me into ignoring the obvious, she is “imposing” silliness on me and then (as the cultural radicals are more than capable of doing) threatening to “severely punish” any “behavioral deviation” by me against their politically correct agenda. In other words, doesn’t she want to break the very rules she announces? Does she not seek to impose an agenda on doctors and folks like me, whom she says commit the crime of imposing an agenda on others?
….Infant gender assignment might just be Russian roulette with your baby’s life. (Oh for heaven’s sake, such over the top rhetoric. But since she raised the issue of taking life I would like to point out that the cultural radicals are the one who have the body-count, in the hundreds of millions, through their advocacy and funding of abortion which really DOES kill babies).
For the sake of thy sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
Msgr Pope ping
Oh, I think I can beat it:
PIV is always rape, ok?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/3108209/posts
Good gravy.
Analysis: A few people have minds are out of sync with their genitals for whatever reason. So to make sure those people are not uncomfortable, we have to mess up all children’s heads the same way.
I must say, I have never read anything stranger in my lifebump
It is called reality - boy or girl, as the design is intended.
Occasionally we have developmental deformities, but that’s just another reality - face it or go insane. Seems some people have such a hard time with reality, they insist others share in their shortcoming.
Bingo. Have you been reading the news, Msgr. Pope? People have lost their jobs for holding the belief that a coworker who was a man yesterday is still a man today, even though he's wearing a dress and heels ... and most people who are aware of it cheer, because they've been taught that there is no reality, per se, only individual perceptions.
See where this leads? "There never was such a person as Leon Trotsky, comrade."
Is it wrong I found that article hilarious?
This doesn’t even address the brutal practice of species assignment.
LOL!
I guess she must think that the womb is a sort of Schrodinger’s box, where the baby is neither male nor female until someone looks at it, at which point the probability cloud collapses into a reality?
If that is the case, then how would she avoid gaining any knowledge of the child’s genitalia? She has to change diapers, after all. And how will she keep the child from discovering which set of genitalia he or she has and thereby collapsing the probability cloud him/herself?
I’m all for keeping the gender of the baby a mystery all through pregnancy. It’s nice to have a little surprise waiting after all that labor. But not knowing the gender doesn’t mean there isn’t one!
Each time “gender” appears in your post, it should be replaced with “sex.”
I read the article at “Slate”; the author’s a barking moonbat.
I think of “sex” as the physical act, so it is not something I would associate with babies (except as an explanation for their existence).
Now I will have to go see the article at Slate. I’m wondering how readers over at Slate receive the article.
I think of “sex” as the physical act, so it is not something I would associate with babies (except as an explanation for their existence).
Now I will have to go see the article at Slate. I’m wondering how readers over at Slate receive the article.
Oops, it looks like no comments are allowed at Slate. Hmm, they publish such nutcase articles, they probably don’t want the shredding that would no doubt occur if they allowed comments.
You are forgetting that that is standard practice for the Left - Make outrageous statements, and then try to prohibit countering opinions.
"Sex" is our biological dimorphism, male and female.
Not surprising that "Slate" doesn't allow comments. Surely even some of their regular readers would think this is crazy.
It did make me laugh. It’s just more evidence that the Democrats are not exactly the party of science.
We think science is a procedure for investigating reality.
Leftists think science is a body of dogmatic beliefs, which are “true” only as long as they serve the Revolution.
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