Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality | Helen Joyce

I don’t do Twitter (I just, personally, think a lot of it is too deliberately manipulated by paid-for interests trying to start flamewars); however, I know (from reading a U.K.-based threadreader app website called “Twuko”) about the unfortunate “drama” some people are UNFAIRLY now trying to pile-on Ms. Joyce for over a recent Posie Parker event and: I’m glad (it appears, at least!) you’re not throwing her under-the-bus because, she IS an excellent author/speaker whom I (when I became aware, “over here”: the U.S., of who she was and her writings) admire the articulate and concise analysis from very much; involving a topic anyone valuing living in the real world *cannot* capitulate an iota to the whackjob fraud of. As someone that has always loved language and writing since high school honors English classes (as well as, I suppose — lol!, probably due-to being a precocious Scorpio also!): MS. JOYCE NAILS-IT OUT OF THE PARK LIKE NO ONE IN AMERICA COULD EVER SEEM (REMOTELY) CAPABLE OF EXPLAINING AN ISSUE AS SUCH. SHE IS A ROLE MODEL!

Brits and, no offense!, Canadians often don’t realize how fully commercialized ALL parts (FOR THE *WORSE*) of American life truly are now (politics/media/health). Yes, we have devolved back into being “the Wild West” and: it IS depressing when the system, even by *its own admission*, is reduced-to becoming a literal “lesser of two evils” each voting cycle. There, for example, has been this weird (what you’d have to call) “realignment” in what U.S. media now looks like where; because of the role of unregulated private wealth compromising the public trust: THERE IS NOTHING OF THE ACTUAL “LEFT” ANYMORE (at the core-of) tv or print news. It is all a one-way narrative now; whether it’s: let’s-all-batten-down for WW3…or: Trump’s latest case of awful character judgement…or: (colloquially) anyone that voices an opinion about how bad things are, to the people in charge *not* fixing them, is then (apparently?, in some parallel universe defying all logic) somehow made into the (fill_in_the_blank) “wrong side of history” (an expression soooo brimming with American hubris — THAT immediately should *discredit* the beholder of it!)/”bad person”/etc. There isn’t even the decorum of having a debate in the public arena of American discourse anymore because, of how corrupt the corporatized donor influence is here (and: anything seen as a “threat” to somebody with more money and more power is made to shut-up before they even try to say a word challenging them).

The political culture in the U.K., I realize, obviously must be different. Though, seeing the response of Dr. J.C.J. (to the Brighton protest) was a bit of a (disappointing) shocker! I feel it’s beneath her to start, for example, adding insult to injury by citing things like Ms. Joyce’s appearance on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson; as somehow indicating Ms. Joyce is in-league with “Far-Right forces”. Most people here don’t see any difference, now, between Fox News and CNN. They’re BOTH monopolistic parasites promoting an outdated, U.S.-unipolar imperial view (at the behest of the Members of Congress Murdoch as well as Time/Warner lobby): which is THE *REAL* PROBLEM. I know someone like Dr. J.C.J. must understand the truth of that because, when The Queen passed away: all these American tweets from vicious and nasty woke trolls were trying to get their digs in and, Dr. J.C.J. gave it right back at them totally on-point; responding, how we (the U.S.) behave like the Empire of the World today and had no entitlement to feel we could believe we were SO sanctimoniously better. Loving her wit expressed with wisdom in an instance like that (another British trait there is no American version of, sadly!), made her response to the current situation just seem all the more surprising (to me, anyway).

It is virtually impossible to try to “survive” daily life in the U.S., in these clown world times, *without* being CYNICAL TOWARD EVERYTHING(!). “Right” and “Left” (in the framework of Post-Modern America) ARE ALL ABOUT WHERE THE *MONEY* IS COMING FROM. There IS absolutely a connection between: promoting an imperial world view/$800-BILLION “defense” budget/bankrupted social services/gun violence/anti-reproductive rights more *backward* than, honestly, now 50 ‘effing years-ago!/unchecked consumer capitalism/you-name-it. Other countries don’t get how ALL. OF. THOSE. components connect to one another under the American system…with ALL of them “justified” using the most pathological interpretation of Religion Inc. the worst-of-the-worst men could’ve invented out of their rear-end.

Beyond the party store drag, a major element of the “trans” dogma one tends-to notice is: how it always gets back to a cult-like fervor of defining what male and female behavior “should be?” — according to a RELIGION-defined “role playing” of it. That, as well as the narcissism, is probably why they are so blind to: the blatant anti (REAL)-Science; the misogyny; the homophobia; or, just having AN INDIVIDUAL *PERSONALITY* mature enough to develop self-worth. Add those ingredients to the commodified culture war the U.S. exports and, you don’t have a “progressive” movement at. all. You have the same old system insulated in power while zombie idiots couldn’t be more conformist in their nihilism together.

(sorry for the rant!)

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