Pride Goeth Before The Fall Of Gender
The costs of totalizing hubris in a social movement, spelled out in dollars and sense
“Can a man become a woman? Not — no.”
Rahm Emanuel, former mayor of Chicago, former Obama chief of staff, and 2028 Democratic Party presidential hopeful, to Megyn Kelly on Monday
As I said at the beginning of the year, the summer of gender love is over. We are now one month past midsummer of 2025, the winter of gender’s discontent is definitely coming, and the fall season of ‘gender’ is already at hand.
On New Year’s Day, I wrote that we “will see the gender hippies splitting into factions” in 2025. “Some are acting out, and lashing out, hardening public attitudes against their agenda. Others, like Brianna Wu, appear on Triggernometry in hopes of salvaging something from the wreckage of ‘we just want to pee.’”
Last week, transsexual libertarian Sara Higdon’s appearance on the Dad Saves America podcast served up every TERFy talking point except the autogynephilia controversy. The tide is turning and we are going to win.
For a decade now, Pride has been dominated by a large, powerful, and politically-connected community that regularly, overtly, and loudly calls for the deaths of their enemies, namely women who say “no” to men who say they are women. This ‘community’ is now on the wrong side of events and social shift, i.e the wrong side of history.
Any larger social movement that tolerates a smaller group using a violent political slogan (“Kill All TERFs”) is bound to eventually deteriorate into wider displays of violence. Sensational stories about the Zizians death cult, trantifa shooting attacks on ICE agents, and ‘Queers for Palestine’ exert a cumulative effect on public perceptions of what the LGTBQ+ contrivance stands for.
Meanwhile, Pride has become a proven brand-killer this year. From Bud Light to Jaguar to Hollywood to the Democratic Party platform, eliminating ‘toxic’ white heterosexual males in favor of ‘queer’ imagery and emasculated men supporting mediocre feminist women leaders (e.g. Tim Walz, Pedro Pascal) has been a recipe for disaster, from beer booth to box office to ballot box. It is all coming to an end, now.
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