No female should be forced to share a locker room with a biological male.
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Justice For Real Women
How Tumblr Corrupted The NY Times
Kat Rosenfield’s latest work on today’s Identitarian conspiracy theories filling the pages of the New York Times. All of which is representative of a culture careening head-long into absurdity.
Self-reinvention narratives have always played well in America — perhaps unsurprisingly, given the origin story of the country itself. From the feel-good to the sinister, the Great Gatsbys to the Talented Mister Ripleys, there’s something enticing and titillating about the idea of uprooting from one location, one identity, and starting over in a place where nobody knows your name (or, in its darker iterations, where nobody knows the face of the person whose name you’ve taken). ---- For those not familiar with the early-2010s dynamics of Tumblr: Katherine Dee has described the site, accurately, as the “digital sideshow attraction” from whence much of today’s weirdest and most toxic identitarian political discourse originates. What is worth discussing,....is how easily Tumblr’s cult-like fandom culture became the default mode of engagement for its adherents, a way to not only participate in fandom but to understand the world. The way discourse functioned on the site, it was a brief step from writing gay fan fiction about, say, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, to fantasising openly about a same-sex romance between the men who played them, Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman — and then to lashing out publicly at actress Amanda Abbington when she had the audacity to not only be cast as Watson’s love interest, but to be Freeman’s paramour in real life.
A fandom culture that has thoroughly infected the New York Times.
Case in point:
Did The Mother of Young Adult Literature Identify as a Man?
Companion Post
The Guardian as well.
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First ‘Gender-Queer’ Priest in the Church of England
As a Christian, I know that separating the soul from the body is the definition of death. Those who believe their ‘authentic self’ has nothing to do with their physical body are engaged in a death wish.
Christians who love God and their neighbor cannot affirm such a wish. And we surely should not ordain as pastors the deeply confused.
Church of England priest on how God guided them on their journey of becoming queer
To Bingo Allison’s knowledge, they are the first openly non-binary priest to be ordained in the Church of England.
It was while writing an essay on how God created the earth that Bingo had an epiphany. They said the language which the bible originally used in Genesis 1:27 spoke about “from maleness to femaleness” as opposed to men and women.
They added: “I was sitting there in the middle of the night when I realised I might need to run my life upside down. It was a deepening spiritual experience, I properly felt God was guiding me into this new truth about myself. One of the things that has kept with my ministry ever since is that transition and coming out can and should be a spiritual experience, as well as an emotional and social and sometimes physical one. There is something beautiful about growing into who we were created to be and growing into our authentic selves.”
I suspect we will soon hear of a few other Christian denominations that have also fallen into this death trap.
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God Help The Body Of Christ