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Sufeitzy's avatar

You got the gut of the matter. It’s staggering to imagine that nobody has a clear idea from reporting of anything of this cult relating to sex, the men driving forward and the women caught up.

It’s like a remake of “Female Trouble” written and directed by Quentin Tarantino with jokeline furnished by Russ Meyers.

My only quibble is “In the clip, LaSota comes across as highly intelligent, quite autistic, slender and geeky — classic tropes of transgenderism in general and autogynephilia in particular”

Eh, you just described the entire male cast of “Big Bang Theory”, and the back-office tech support of every police procedural for the last 30 years. Slender geeky men do not a trans male. Go to lunch at Google, Microsoft, Apple, any tech giant and there are plenty of slender geeky intelligent quite heterosexual men running loose. The quote was jarring and diminishes the writing.

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Matt Osborne's avatar

Transgenderism has enjoyed a level of power in Silicon Valley because that sentence does in fact describe many men who work at those tech giants. Jamie Reed has talked about the way 'gender medicine' has swept up new populations in each country and in the US, it has attracted the gifted kids. I have noted many times that esoteric transgenderism is often the most ideational and that fits with what Bailey told us about AGPs. I appreciate that the sentence may be jarring to you but there is an evidence basis for the statement.

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Sufeitzy's avatar

We have a difference of opinion which is fine.

The chance that a slender geeky intelligent affectless (Autism is a clinical condition to mec not a social style) man is trans delusional 0.3% or so - it’s statistically unlikely in the extreme.

By contrast, a the chance a recent vintage trans delusional man (your claim) is skinny and pushy is likely because men who are young and just out of puberty tend to be skinny. Most young men are poorly socialized (ask any young woman) therefore appear geeky, pushy, and affectless. People who are well-spoken seem Intelligent because incessantly rehearsing mantras, no matter how nonsensical, evoke a feeling of intelligence.

Speakjng at NASA means of course they’re relatively smart. I do believe trans-delusional men are more clever than average, I’ve met many. When I was at Caltech in the early ‘80s, it was famously a joke that engineers liked fetishistic transvestism more than any other group of men.

By contrast, the most well-known seemingly AGP trans-delusional men are not young, not skinny, nor affectless, and intelligent but not smart enough to grasp their delusions, and the delusion presented quite late in life - it is a cliche that it seems tends to pop up later in life - James (Jan) Morris comes to mind, Walter (Wendy) Carlos, Lynn Conway, and recent vintage: admiral “Rachael” Levine, Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner, the Wachowski brothers “sisters”, Pritzker, Serrano, Boylan, Rothblatt, and many others creating “Trans Widows”.

You only have to read them speaking about their kids. Kind of the opposite of your conclusion.

I like your writing but that’s why the one quote was jarring, it didn’t ring true and conjuring up an image of Rachael Levine didn’t make me think young geeky skinny affectless AGP.

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MM's avatar

Is this group implicated in the murder of the TIF in upstate NY? (I avoid almost all media at this point, especially as related to trans, so I mostly rely on this gender critical Substack universe.)

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Matt Osborne's avatar

Not that I am aware, but they are connected to the murders of Zajko's parents and the shootout that killed a Border Patrol agent in Vermont on Inauguration Day. That's just the east coast.

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