The fact that the left has/have taken over virtually every aspect of western civilization—government, institutions, corporations, academia, media, entertainment—is extremely dangerous to the freedom, prosperity, rights, happiness, and safety of all of humanity. Nothing should minimize that. But it is also the case that modern wokism just looks kind of…dumb.
Take, for example, the spectacle of the woman in the video below asking Jordan Peterson, “But…do you think a trans woman is a real woman?”
We have accepted the left’s premise that dialogue ought to be civil, even as they are hardly civil to us. We have surrendered to the fact that they are in power, even though they are comparatively fewer in number. We continually grant them the benefit of the assumption that they “mean well”—as they mutilate children and call us Nazis, and as they continue to propagate an ideology that racked up a nine-digit body count in the 20th century alone.
We have grown so accustomed to deferring to these people that we have forgotten to respond to them in the way they deserve.
Far be it for me to suggest that Peterson did not handle the exchange well. He certainly did, with his usual brilliance and aplomb. But at this point, they do not deserve even the civility and decorum we continue to show them. And questions like, “Do you think a trans woman is a real woman?” especially deserve to be identified for what they actually are, and then roundly mocked.
Off the cuff, perhaps something like this…
What the heck kind of stupid question is that? You know darned well what a trans woman is.
Look, I get it—you have chosen that question, and phrased it that way, for two reasons: First, to announce to all your lefty confederates that you are on the “correct” side of the latest dogma: that a transgender woman is a “real woman.” And second, to try to paint me into a corner and make me look wicked for not unquestioningly accepting that same dogma.
Except here’s the problem: that dogma is completely absurd.
You already know EXACTLY what a trans woman is. You know that a trans woman is a biological male who, for some combination of reasons, has chosen—through chemical, surgical, or lifestyle changes—to live or identify as a woman.1
The “real woman” formulation is not intended to elicit scientific answers or philosophical truth. It is propagandistic dogma. It is an attempt to force us to say that we have always been at war with Eastasia. That we see five lights when there are, in fact, only four. It is gaslighting. It is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth. It is evil.
But it is also just silly. You have attempted to make me look bad to all your lefty friends, but what you have actually done is make yourself look ridiculous to every normal human being on planet Earth.
The setting of the interview is civilized. The woman speaks in soothing, refined tones. But nothing about this is civilized. It is a toxic stew of hypnosis, psychosis, and totalitarian mind control.
The left will insist on maintaining the patina of “civil discourse” right up until the moment when they haul you off for saying that a trans woman might not be exactly the same thing as a real woman. (And if you think "haul you off" is overwrought, then try cracking a history book.2) But this level of psychotic totalitarian gaslighting is absolutely not “civil discourse,” and it needs to be dealt with accordingly.
People who understand what the left is actually up to need to call it out in no uncertain terms.3
And the rest of humanity should just point and laugh.
I am personally sympathetic to that portion of the human population who suffer from actual lifelong, protracted gender dysphoria that does not resolve itself in adulthood. This is somewhere between .001 and .003 of the human population (a tiny fraction whose situation could have been dealt with compassionately, without all of the current madness). I am also sympathetic, though for a different reason, with all the children whose gender confusion would have cleared up by age 18 (as 90% or more of real gender confusion does), but who have been gaslighted into mutilating themselves by this psychotic cult. And worse still for those who weren’t really even suffering from gender confusion so much as teen angst or loneliness and a desire to belong, and who were also addled into mutilating or poisoning themselves.
Better hurry, before the left has run all of those through the Ministry of Truth as well.
Needless to say, it’s easier to do this in hindsight than in a live setting. And it’s also tough because there is a risk in appearing uncivil to someone who appears to be acting civil. But somehow, we need to figure out how to thread that needle. The future depends on being honest about what is really going on.
Peterson's reply was great -- I've seen it a couple times.
I would suggest this response as well:
1. A "real woman's" DNA exhibits the XX (female) chromosome in every cell of her body.
2. A "trans woman" exhibits the XY (male) chromosome in every cell of "her" body, with the exception of "her" semen (if she can still produce it), which will be about half XX and XY.
3. So NO, a trans woman is not a "real woman" because she fails the DNA test. Period.
As much as I admire Peterson that was difficult to watch.