Political correctness – weirdness, sex, and “gender”

As we continue to look at ThirdWay and their encouragement of the Woke, social justice warriors, and Democratic politicians and activists to clean up their language, we come to this next set of eight.

It seems that the reason ThirdWay wants their constituency to abandon these words is they believe using such words is looking down on people. The eight words say “your views on traditional genders and gender roles are at best quaint.” But the Woke who use these words seem to relish being superior: the vanguard of the proletariat, in the eyes of some.

And since they turn people off, the people they are trying to convert to their cause just turn their ears off! Oh dear!

(A brief note. Since we here at TPOL are engineers and scientists, as well as being old-fashioned, we were taught and understand that “gender” applies to objects. Like electrical or electronic connections. Humans have sex (well, most do once they are physically mature), but they also intrinsically are of one sex or another. However they “identify” themselves, their body’s biology establishes their sex.).

The words:

1. Birthing person/inseminated person. Like most of the next seven verbotten words, this is based on the bizarre idea that someone who is, in fact, mentally ill and believes that they are of the opposite sex should be coddled and treated as though this delusion was reality. Biological men cannot be inseminated, become pregnant (see below), or give birth to a human child. No matter what sex they are attracted to, or what “gender” they sincerely believe in their warped mind to be. Mother or even dam (usually applied to animals, not human) is a simple fact.
2. Pregnant people. See above. Assuming we are not using some sort of artificial womb and massive amounts of genital mutilation, transplants, and chemicals and drugs, it is only humans who are biologically female – with XX chromosomes – can be pregnant. Using generic, nonsex-identifying words just makes someone look stupid.
3. Chest feeding. Even more ridiculous that the first two, using this term is very likely to anger the hearers and make the speaker appear not just stupid but crazy. One reason? Biological male humans have breasts. Natural hormones do not destroy the basic anatomy and structures, just keep them from functioning the way they do in biological women.
4. Cisgender. This bizarre word is quite new, apparently invented by a grad student back in 1994 and recognized by the (nongovernmental entity) Oxford English Dictionary in 1997.
5. Deadnaming. Easy to understand this rude term, supposedly to be a response to those horrible people are so rude as to use the name they’d known the person (child?) by for years, and refuse to embarrassed by calling someone by their sex and not their desired “gender.” Hmmm. Does a woman who follows the Anglo-American tradition of adopting her husband’s name consider someone who using her maiden name to be “deadnaming?” Just a thought.
6. Heteronormative. Oh, dear, another one of those pyschological labels that are used to disparage people that might be “normal” as far as their understanding of their sex and sex in general. Of course this word turns off people just as much as deadnaming.
7. Patriarchy. A perfectly normal word describing how society works that has been turned into a curse and totally disparaging expression. Oddly enough, by feminists, who are now being cancelled if they do not accept the claim of someone that their “gender identity” does not match the plumbing. And very old: from the original Greek, 2500 or more years ago. Oddly, the counterpoint of “matriarchy” is not also viciously attacked.
8. LGBTQIA+. Like “genders” and “sexual orientations” the number of letters in the label continues to expand and more and more puts people not just into groups, but into tiny little groups. While at the same time trying to expand the “big umbrella” of the Woke.

ThirdWay is very, very concerned that its readers and their fellow travelers are able to stand up to “cruel attacks on gay and transgender people” and of course, whatever other “victims” of society they can rope in to their coalition.

While they zero in on MAGA types, we are confident that TPOL is equally to be condemned. So we view ThirdWay’s requirements of creating empathy and building a broad coalition to be viewed as a counter to we who advocate a godly view of people, society, and how we should behave towards one another. But we do appreciate that ThirdWay wants to avoid confusing or shaming people who could otherwise be allies. (An honor which we do, without regret, decline.)

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