“While Miriam Grossman, a physician, aims to dismantle the gender industry, organizations like Genspect adopt language reminiscent of their adversaries, blurring the lines between advocacy and acquiescence:”
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Dr Hilary Cass OBE is 66 years of age and the former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Her 388-page report into child gender services, the Cass Review, the result of a four-year investigation, was published last week.
Since then Dr Cass has had to deal with a ‘pretty aggressive’ response from trans activists and is consequently keeping away from social media. She told The Times, “There are some pretty vile emails coming in at the moment”. She added, “What dismays me is just how childish the debate can become. If I don’t agree with somebody then I’m called transphobic or a Terf.” She also told the paper that she is not currently travelling by public transport following security advice and due to concerns for her safety.
Dr Cass also criticised the spread of ‘straight disinformation’ around her report. She said that even before her report was published, there were attempts to undermine it with dishonest claims.
She explained to BBS Radio 4’s More or Less why claims she had ignored or dismissed evidence are ‘completely incorrect’. She added, “If you deliberately try to undermine a report that has looked at the evidence of children’s healthcare, then that’s unforgivable. You are putting children at risk by doing that.”
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Many of our emotions are driven by a need to protect our own identities: envy, pride, shame, anger... because they're private and (by definition) selfish they often get a bad rep but this isn't always earned.
There are other emotions which are driven by our membership in a group of people and gain strength from the massive value that belonging entails (to normal people). Those are some of the most sublime emotions we have: patriotism, empathy, group hilarity, self-sacrificial courage, the urge to behave selflessly in an an emergency (although they can become incredibly dark and deranged when applied to fear or violence). I think the feeling you describe is one of the second group of emotions: it feels profound, and pure because it IS pure. It is a specific instance of deep care for other people (as individuals and as a class) and an expression of true empathy. It feels so strangely impactful because it is bringing you completely outside of yourself and that is a rare experience these days. It wasn't always so.
In January, the World Economic Forum released a report showing that fourteen hundred and ninety international experts rated “misinformation and disinformation” the leading global risk of the next two years, surpassing war, migration, and climatic catastrophe.
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Saying that “misinformation” is a global risk is like saying that “mistakes” or “dishonesty” or “immorality” are global risks. They presume that these words have some objective meaning.
Information that is intended to deceive people might be considered ‘misinformation’ but this is not what the experts mean (they don’t even claim that it is).
The working definition of ‘misinformation’ is ‘any fact or opinion which contradicts or calls into question our narratives: immigration to the West is always good and never bad, carbon emissions are always bad and never good, the values of federal agencies and urban academics trump the values of rural or skeptical or religious or family-oriented people, all of these values are self-evidently good and should be inculcated in children at the earliest possible age, anyone who questions them is right-wing or conspiratorial and automatically invalid, etc.’.
I wrote something tangential to this awhile back… :
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Our civilization has devalued and marginalized men and masculinity more than any other culture in history. Is it time for feminists to declare victory?
Not quite. This shift has had devastating cultural and social effects… but I tend to think that as society pushes men to to the margins it values the masculinity that remains EVEN MORE. Look at the franchises and stories and films which have tried to introduce ‘strong female characters’ into their lead roles (partial list below).
Unfortunately for feminism, just as men cannot bear children, women cannot generally be aggressive or competitive or risk-seeking enough to do what men do.
The only question is whether or civilization will topple due to the damage it’s already sustained or whether it will regain its equilibrium.
Peter Pan & Wendy
Captain Marvel
The Rings of Power
Terminator: Dark Fate
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Echo
Prey
Willow
The Witcher
The Witcher: Blood Origins
Dr Strange & The Multiverse of Madness
And many, many more. Audiences don’t like these stories. They sense that something is wrong with them. Aside from the poor writing, their leads are all female replacement characters who replace natural masculinity with arrogance and entitlement and try to deconstruct the beloved traditions of Western storytelling. One way or another, this experiment is nearly over.