My latest in PJ Media:
Welcome to 2022, when men are women and women are men, and anyone who dares point out the madness of all this is immediately branded a “transphobe” and driven from polite society. We are so enlightened in 2022 that the specter of a woman publicly acknowledging that she actually loves being a woman is enough to drive Leftists into paroxysms of rage because apparently, it means that the woman in question is not a man, or doesn’t want to be one, or something equally insane. The latest sane human being to run afoul of this fashionable madness is the popular British singer Adele, who committed the unpardonable sin of affirming her delight in her own femininity at an awards ceremony on Tuesday.
At the BRIT awards gala that night, Adele won the Artist of the Year award, which up until now was two awards: Best Male Artist and Best Female Artist, but now has been merged into one to suit our brave new post-gender society. When she accepted the award, Adele said: “I understand why the name of this award has changed” (Really? I don’t) “but I really love being a woman and being a female artist–I do! I’m really proud of us, I really, really am.”
The audience cheered when Adele said this, but others weren’t as pleased. Adele’s detractors began to make themselves known on Twitter. Jacob, a man who, like Adele herself, goes by only one name and who identifies himself as a “performer, host & total attention seeker,” as well as a “staunch feminist,” wrote: “Please, no, ADELE can’t be a TERF. That last comment, though ambiguous, could be perceived as TERF-y. Please no.”
A TERF is apparently a “trans-exclusionary radical feminist,” or someone who thinks that men can’t be women and women can’t be men, otherwise known as a person who is not insane. Mind you, it isn’t even clear that Adele is a “transphobe” at all, as she is being called now. All she said was that she loved being a woman. To interpret that statement as meaning that she didn’t think it was possible to change genders, or that she didn’t approve of such changes, or that she hated the people who undertook them, is absolutely unfounded based on what she actually said. But when has that ever stopped the Left once an outrage mob starts forming?
A man named Paul M. Rodriguez, Jr., tweeted: “Lost a lot of respect for Adele, wish her the best of luck but will not spend a cent on her music and what sux I really liked her, sad but life goes on tyvm [thank you very much].”
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Hank says
The safest for Adele would be to sing that she is proud to be an “it”. Then the upside down world can’t attack her. 🙂
mike says
No matter how much plastic surgery no matter what you want to change your birth certificate says or you changed it to. In the box in the ground after you pass your either a boy or girl. If you really want a girl to be a boy change your pelvis
mortimer says
The dna in every cell doesn’t change. I replicates the male or female traits it contains.
bill says
More significantly and scientifically you cannot change chromosomes. There some creatures mainly in the marine world that can change sex, but t]human beings can only do it with drugs and drastic surgery
mortimer says
I don’t want biological men in my daughter’s change room.
Rather than cancel an award for female performers, let them create an award for trans performers. Problem solved.
Ade Fegan says
I’ve just about had a guts full of the world
Let’s just leave it to the muslims and the fringe left
They’re all it’s fit for
gravenimage says
Ade, you can surrender the world if you want. Personally, I think it is worth fighting for! 🙂
Westman says
We seem to be living in a new world of actors who read and act out scripts prepared by others. Men acting as women, women acting as men, a dementing US President lost without a script, and a Canadian leader who parrots his party’s language while having the demeanor and logic of an adolescent.
Is this the basis of wokeness – Acting is reality? Has, “I can become anything through hard work and effort”, become, “I am, and have achieved , whatever role I assume”?
tim gallagher says
The thing I can’t understand is how a tiny number of people who want to actually go and change their sex seem to have garnered so much power and get so much attention these days. It seems insane to me that the trans mob manage to get so much attention these days. I was saying that to a fellow old man, I said i just can’t believe how much attention some of this rubbish gets these days and he said, well, I guess old people have always been saying that the sort of crap that younger people seem to think is important is weird and is total nonsense. I feel sorry these days for all those good women athletes who now may as well not even try to compete as serious athletes when they, completely unfairly, come up against those transgender athletes. The small number of people who want to go and change their sex should not be hassled by anyone, but they should not be constantly whingeing and whining and getting so much attention with their crap. I think the average person couldn’t care less about them and think men are men and women are women just as it has always been. I would think that Adele would have the support of most people and it is the usual fringe dwellers who would carry on with their usual bullshit who attack her on this issue.
Jacksonl03 says
Well said Tim.
tim gallagher says
Thanks, Jackson103. Well, it certainly is a mystery to me how this whole transgender caper gained so much attention. The really appalling thing that I have heard mentioned by some commentators here in Australia is that, probably because the children are being brainwashed in schools about how they may be not living life as the right gender, some young children are given hormones to start transitioning to a different gender. To me, that is a terrible crime against young children who need to be left to grow older before they make a choice about whether they are the right gender. Anyway, to me it is all a very bizarre, trendy type of fashion. To me, there must be thousands of issues more important than all this crap. But maybe I’m just a cranky old bugger.
Westman says
Or, maybe you have described the very thing that ended the Roman Empire. Will any society that arrives at fluid genders be capable of fighting for its existence? We have always depended on strong men who would fight for our nation’s survival. Will they be willing to die for sexual hedonists and morally ambiguous relatives?
Compared to our 1800s ancestors, we have everything. If you are hungry or have no place to sleep then either you are mentally ill, cannot sign your name, or someone responsible for you is being irresponsible and likely on drugs.
tim gallagher says
Good points you make, Westman. As far as there being reluctance to go and fight for our western values and way of life, one of our conservative commentators out here in Australia, Andrew Bolt, has said that the way the left leaning educators in schools and universities continually tell their students how terrible the western countries have been, etc, throughout history, then how are those young people going to believe that this terrible western civilisation is worth fighting for if they face a war. On this transgender stuff, I’m not sure how many young people are going to actually be affected. I suspect that a lot of them must think that all this carry on over transgender issues is complete bullshit. I hope that’s the case anyway because I think it gets a lot more attention than it deserves..
James Lincoln says
tim gallagher says,
“…then how are those young people going to believe that this terrible western civilisation is worth fighting for if they face a war.”
Yes, tim.
Taken to the extreme – with complete loss of patriotism – the citizens of that “Western” country will no longer have the will to defend it.
tim gallagher says
Yes, James, I agreed with Andrew Bolt when I heard him make that point about how all this attacking and denigrating our western societies will weaken young people’s will to go and fight in a war to defend it. Over time, with the left wing school teachers and media types constantly saying how appalling our western societies have supposedly been, it must have quite an effect on young people’s minds.
gravenimage says
Agreed, James and Tim.
gravenimage says
The Wokesters Are Not Going to Like What Adele Just Said
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Good grief–we live in insane times.
And–as noted–saying you love being a woman is not “anti-trans” at all–it says nothing about whether others should or should not love the gender they were born as.
Good for Adele!
JHL says
I’m a jihadphobe.
OLD GUY says
In 78 years of life I’ve never had a question about what sex I’am. Just what happened to people to cause the confusion. If you were born with a penis you are a male, like wise if you were born with a Vagina you are a female, what’s so hard about that?