Gender
A shallow pond that ideologues drown themselves in.
Predominantly supported by those with spurious assumptions about what sex is and what is claimed about it, which makes it an article of faith for social scientists.
A unnecessary convolution that people struggle to discuss exclusively with muddled claims and clumsy language that they pretend are logical and coherent.
A subject that demonstrates - with glaring clarity - the human proclivity to hold strong beliefs or opinions about topics they know nothing about. The vast majority of people are unaware of its conceptual origins, the motivations of its progenitors, why it was coined, when and why it made its way into academia and medicine, its ideological genealogy, or even the underlying theory behind its sudden explosion in social discourse. Despite this, everyone volunteers their opinion on it at every opportunity, and worse, they behave confidently moralistic when doing so. Apparently, a particular configuration of compassion and ignorance is all that is needed to occupy the moral high-ground.
An ideological product that has become a prominent part of the Western culture war, giving rise to numerous cults that use it as a tacit mechanism for leveraging illegitimate power. It also dabbles in victimizing people with autism.
A vague term that became popularized in ordinary language due to POLITICAL CORRECTNESS in an attempt to remove the word sex from official documents.
An obsession that will go down as one of the most embarrassing, gratuitous, and pernicious stains on Western culture when future generations study it in history books, if for no other reason than how it has permanently harmed vulnerable children.
When it was first introduced as a concept, it offered a glimmer of hope to academics and intellectuals in navigating matters of identity, especially for the more vulnerable among us. The butchery, quackery, criminality, perversion, and pedophilia regarding its originators have been ignored or overlooked because it would inevitably contaminate the motivations for such a concept. This is common for intellectuals, who will happily sacrifice the well-being of others, especially children, provided it supports their vision or agenda. Then, as if we became CERTAIN about its assumptions overnight, we moved directly into cutting and shaping human flesh like mad scientists, because speed limits are for those who lack conviction.
Decades later, it has become apparent that, while presenting as insightful, it is predominantly a general interest topic smeared across a substrate of intuitions. While there may be some residual value in discussing animal behaviour using terms like ‘gender,’ the vast majority is adequately explained by sex. The mysticism surrounding gender is a product of the human inability to grapple with forces in the world that are beyond our control, especially who or what we are. This is entirely appropriate and to be expected, but it suffers from the same flaws that most human conceptualizations do. Recognizing there is a gap in understanding is one thing, but assuming you can fill it with whatever you want and you are bound to be fine is irresponsible and FOOLISH.
Gender as a concept is not entirely without merit, such as observing that certain activities, interests and temperaments tend to inhabit one sex more than the other. However, even in these situations, sex is likely a sufficient explanation. Sex is a deep and rich concept already, one about which much is known, and it is predominantly those unfamiliar with the finer details of sex that insist gender is a necessary addition to the conversation. The problem for intellectuals is that sex is far too grounded in reality, which makes it far more difficult to manipulate using rhetoric. Gender is therefore introduced at every opportunity as a form of ‘idea laundering’ to substitute reality with idealism.
It is also the case that many find what is known about to sex to be challenging, inflammatory, or inconvenient, and so gender is wedged in to make room for what is considered more appealing, comforting, or placative. It is frequently the case, however, that a distinguishing feature of truth is that it disturbs; lies on the other hand, console us with their deceit.
Beyond these narrow applications, people struggle to use it to explain phenomenon that has already been articulated by other fields, and with far greater and more convincing evidence. It is the prioritization of abstraction over reality, social scientific posturing over the scientific method, romanticism over truth, and the primacy of belief over wisdom.
MARXIST views became formally integrated over time, then FEMINISM jumped on the bandwagon, and now dialectical models and sophistry permeate the field of gender. This is why it is so difficult to be clear about what is being discussed; its conclusions and methodologies are intended to confuse and mislead by design. The frameworks for its desired outcomes have been established and all research and peer review is carried out and interpreted by so-called ‘gender experts’ to support their preferred conclusions. This is not a legitimate form of inquiry. It is not SCIENCE, it is THE SCIENCE.
It should be highlighted that being an ideologue immediately eliminates any legitimacy ‘experts’ might have in a field. Their primary concern is not truth, after all, it is redefining reality to conform to a narrative. The intent is to engineer gender into an incredibly complex phenomenon so that we need to depend on its experts to guide us through the material. This is their opportunity to shape public perception and align it with their views. Gender is not that complicated, but it needs to be to appear academically rigorous enough to infiltrate the medical field in the manner that it has.
Unfortunately, it is neither scientifically nor medically rigorous; it is ideologically sophisticated, which is not the same thing at all.
It is currently puppeteering the medical apparatus through policy decisions in hopes that it will generate data that may be used to legitimize it scientifically. Typically, there is a need for a broad and compelling body of knowledge in a field before bridging the gap into medicine. Gender has somehow managed to skip this step, which will force proponents to support its claims post hoc.
The evidence is not likely to support its narrative, and in the interim, we will be used as test subjects in experiments that we have been told are necessary to realize our true self, whatever is meant by this.
It takes a long time to learn about reality, and the findings are challenging and offensive. It is no wonder we adopt views that place us in the position of defining ourselves and reality in terms that accommodate our desire for acceptance. The sticking point for most is that we are then expected to submit to incoherent claims absent clarity or verifiability. Being who you are is not enough for some; they want others to kneel before them. Acceptance is not being sought in these situations - most people accept others for who they are, most people are happy to live and let live. Perceptive re-education is what is being sought.
It feels good to dictate our identity as we see fit and demand that others accept it without negotiation, does it not?
We often find it a more appealing option than feeling helpless and hopeless, and so we will happily prey on the compassion of others in order to provide us with some sense of control.
How quickly desperation becomes resentful tyranny.
We all deserve to be accepted for who we are, but constructing an incoherent and manipulative framework around the crisis of identity that we all experience in our own right makes the issue political.
Identity should remain a humanist issue that we resolve on our own in due time.
Gender is not a concept native to a burgeoning mind - it has been placed there. It is an answer thrust into a situation in a desperate attempt to remove all doubt so that maybe, we can experience the relief of standing on solid ground.
Regretfully, gender is shaky at best, and it has claimed the well-being of many who have been pushed through its cracks.
See: CHILDREN, DARK TRIAD, LOST
Revised: 10 Apr 2023
