To paraphrase 1984, “We have always been at war with reality.”
Or to just quote USA Today, “Marsha Blackburn asked Ketanji Brown Jackson to define ‘woman.’ Science says there’s no simple answer.”
A good rule of thumb for testing to see if you and your movement have gone completely insane is if you imagine emailing a link to a story 5 years into the past to the past and trying to imagine if your past self would believe that this was anything other than a hoax.
Show that one to a lefty 10 years ago and he would be pretty sure some right-wingers made it up. Of course now everyone has to fall in line with the current insanity.
“Science says that the sun revolves around the earth.”
“Science says ghosts are real and really racist.”
“Science says UFOs are homophobic.”
There’s a point here, beyond dismantling biology, the human family, and society. It’s also about dismantling reality. Back to 1984.
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal. Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party.”
The Party has that women don’t exist. Only birthing people or bleeders. And you must conform to this reality because it shows you are submitting to the Party. If the Party can make you believe women don’t exist, they can make you believe anything.
Like 2 + 2 = 5.
O’Brien held up his left hand, its back towards Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended.
‘How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?’
‘Four.’
‘And if the party says that it is not four but five — then how many?’
‘Four.’
The word ended in a gasp of pain. The needle of the dial had shot up to fifty-five. The sweat had sprung out all over Winston’s body. The air tore into his lungs and issued again in deep groans which even by clenching his teeth he could not stop. O’Brien watched him, the four fingers still extended. He drew back the lever. This time the pain was only slightly eased.
‘How many fingers, Winston?’
‘Four.’
The needle went up to sixty.
‘How many fingers, Winston?’
‘Four! Four! What else can I say? Four!’
USA Today – “Marsha Blackburn asked Ketanji Brown Jackson what 2 + 2 equals.’ Science says there’s no simple answer.”
Don McKellar says
I often wonder how much influence or “dark money” is being pumped into this whole movement by members of the medical establishment who profit from the cons of “sex change”? There must be a lot of money to be made not only from the operations, but from the hormone production, the coaching and consoling etc. Really it’s a whole little industry looking to grow, all of it based on a lie. Much like the Global Warming / Climate Change industry.
Has anybody done a study on this? How much money is the Trans Industrial Complex pulling in? What is it worth?
gravenimage says
Oh, I don’t think so, Don–this is more “political correctness” gone mad. There are only a few thousand “sex change” surgeries a year–no doubt profitable for the individual medical teams, but not enough to financially affect the entire society.
Don McKellar says
That;s what you think.
Between 2008 and 2014 38,000 transsexuals were created.
3,250 operations in 2016 and it has increased over 20% every year. There’s at least 10,000 newly minted transsexuals minted every year and big industry to support them because it costs about a $100,000 in surgery for each one PLUS drugs PLUS consoling — all about the same. Much coming out of your pocket.
This is an industry on the rise and their tool is the internet to grow. 10’s of thousands of customers and supporters and people profiting. Make no mistake, it’s a growing industry.
gravenimage says
There were about 8000 transgender surgeries in 2019, at a cost of about $260 million. That’s a lot of money, but not enough to change the views of a nation of 330 million.
DazzleMe says
Makes me wonder -this is making them a minority and the hopes of government giving them tax money because of such has any bearing on the situation.
Pray Hard says
Wanna bet?
gravenimage says
Please see my reply to Don McKellar, Pray Hard.
somehistory says
The idiot said she couldn’t define “woman” because she isn’t a biology expert. Why then, should she get a seat on ***any*** court? Much of the Law of the past century concerned “equal rights” that was meant to end discrimination against anyone due to “gender, religion,” etc.
So then, this idiot is “confirmed”….should be confirmed as an idiot and one who promotes crime…to the Court and a “woman” says her mozlum male assaulted her without her permission and the male claims that since he bought her when she was three and has been “assaulting” her since that time, it’s an established thing than he can continue. That he doesn’t need her permission, because “women’ are not worth more than a camel, which jackson will not be able to define, because she isn’t a biologist or a vet.
What will the idiot, jackson, who is not an “expert” on biology, cannot even define the word “woman,” do that will she help reach a decision on such an important issue? How will she “define” the woman whose case she is hearing? How will she help make a decision if she can’t define words that have been in use since the creation of male and female?
In a saner time, when asked to define the word “woman,” had she answered as she did this week, she would have been laughed out of the room, taking her idiot husband with his multicolored socks with him.
Question for jackson: Can you define the word “husband”?
somehistory says
Sorry for the typos. People such as this “woman”….perhaps she isn’t one as I’m not an “expert” on her and not a “biologist,”…disgust me, as do those who so readily support her.
Infidel says
Tucker had this video where he suggested a response that Jackson could have given. But there’s a reason Marsha Blackburn asked that question: she knew that the judge won’t respond that way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Jmv0vZvJ4
But another way she could have responded could have been: “Senator, there is no such thing as a woman. The correct term is ‘womxn’, b’cos we’re not derived from men. And what is a womxn, you may ask? A womxn is any human who thinks they is a womxn. They may be a man the day before and the day after, but if on the day in between, they think they is a womxn, then they is a womxn’. 😈
That would at least have had the backing of the wacko left, as opposed to her response of ‘I can’t give you a definition of what a woman is’.
On a different note, in the same above video, I loved the female spectator of the swimming event that Lea Thomas won, as she kept arguing w/ the wacko next to him that Lea was not a woman (“Do you have ovaries?” 😂 🤣). When the wacko asked her whether she was a biologist, she came back w/ the ultimate beatdown: “I’m not a vet, but I know what a dog is!” 👏👏
somehistory says
thank you for the laughs. On a day when I need them.
You know the old question about why did the chicken cross the road?
Well, today, when I had to stop for a red sign with the command on it, a pigeon was crossing the street. When the bird was directly in front of my bumper, it sped up and was speed-walking. After it passed by, it slowed down again to normal rate and just kept on crossing the street.
I would guess that the pigeon wouldn’t be able to define in human terms the word “car,” but it had enough intelligence to know the danger of walking slow in front of one.
More intelligence than this “judge” has, for sure. Or those defending her for being asked some questions about her poor and stupid “judging” history.
Kepha says
Why did the chicken cross the road? He wanted the fox to run into the path of an oncoming truck.
Maybe we should just keep hammering at these PeeCee goons with simple questions like “what is a woman?’ Let them look sillier and sillier.
Infidel says
Kepha, sounds like one of those Campus Reform surveys that are done every now & then. They are this decades version of Jay Leno’s ‘Man on the Street’ in the 90s, or Jessie Watters’ ‘Watters World’ quizzes that he asks kids in the street or on the beach
somehistory says
Never heard that answer about the chicken. Thanks.
Yes, people should ask simple questions and since they can’t think for themselves, they will show just how foolish they have become. Not that they will ever admit to it.
Ami Horowitz is great at bringing their stupidity to light.
There are some words that are hard to define, but “woman” and “female” are not difficult at all. The idiot just didn’t want to lose those who are most likely to be very vocal…I’ve noticed that those who are failing at reason, are the ones who yell and insult. Much like the “man” who is no “pearl” whose words were so foul in his disagreement with Sen . Cruz.
gravenimage says
Yes–Ami Horowitz has some great stuff. Often quite disturbing, though.
gravenimage says
Good post, Somehistory.
somehistory says
TY, g.
wpm says
I can tell the difference between a dog and a cat ,but I am not a veterinarian .I can tell the difference between a motorcycle and a semi-truck though I am not a mechanic. This idiotic divorce between stating common sense facts known to things any 5 year old child knows, shows the the lying the left must do to further their causes. Logic and common sense must be remove from any discussion ,we must all believe never neverland is real and we can wish ourselves into anyone of the 67 different genders we want and move between them at will anytime we want.
gravenimage says
+1
tim gallagher says
I suppose some of these people who, when asked what a woman is, say that they don’t know, are out to avoid the pile on from all those vicious wankers who are pushing this absolute nonsense about how gender is not a clear thing in most cases. It is insanity these days how the tiny number of transgender types have somehow managed to garner so much power and get so much attention. All this nonsense about how you can’t really say what is a woman is extremely disrespectful to normal women and girls as far as I can see.
gravenimage says
USA Today Fact Checkers Disprove Existence of Women
Or to just quote USA Today, “Marsha Blackburn asked Ketanji Brown Jackson to define ‘woman.’ Science says there’s no simple answer.”
A good rule of thumb for testing to see if you and your movement have gone completely insane is if you imagine emailing a link to a story 5 years into the past to the past and trying to imagine if your past self would believe that this was anything other than a hoax.
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Good point. This is becoming more unhinged all the time.
Apparently Ketanji Brown Jackson doesn’t know if she herself is female or not, by these standards. The fact that she’s given birth to two daughters doesn’t seem to have given her a clue…
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) should have followed up and asked Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson this:
Are you a woman?
somehistory says
Excellent…she should have asked that.
gravenimage says
Spot on, James.
Wellington says
A bitter irony in all this rot, including the male swimmer at Penn posing as a female, is that women’s rights have been taken to a completely self-destructive degree so that real women’s rights and real women are now both endangered phenomena.
Leaver it the Left to destroy everything. It’s their modus operandi and it would be hilarious if it weren’t so stupid and tragic.
Leftism is a mental disorder. There are only two genders. Someone desiring to be the other gender has a disorder and not a lifestyle. All three of the above should be self-evident but we live in the first age of man which has a dearth of self-evidence. We do indeed live in the Age of Nonsense but I for one refuse to participate in this age. I am a stranger in a strange land and am damn proud that I am.
I would close here by stating that if you can have gay marriage then anything is possible. ANYTHING. I said that ten years ago, I most certainly said it in June of 2015 when the Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case by a 5-4 decision found a Constitutional right to gay marriage, which I am certain would have highly perplexed and irritated every member of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in the Summer of 1787, and I continue to say it to this day. Yep, if you can have gay marriage, then you can have anything, including instructing 5 year-olds about the 37 (or is it 67?) genders that exist, how wonderful it is to be a tranny and just how sexist pronouns are.
We live in a mad age. Surely.
Gay marriage was the key to the descent. I stand by this. I always will just as I will always stand by the conviction that marriage should only be between one man and one woman. All else, including polygamy, is aberrational.
Infidel says
Actually, Wellington, I think that Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, even Fidel Castro would be horrified if they were to return to earth and find that their ideology – which was just about class warfare and wealth jealousy, has been hijacked and morphed into a combination of gender dysphoria and climate alarmism. None of them would recognize the movement today, but that’s what it has become. The champions of workers today, which was something they at least thought they had the answer to, is capitalism and the Right
Another thing that would totally startle them would be that their best allies would be woke capitalists. Lenin once said that capitalists would sell them the rope to hang themselves: it’s gone a step further, where the capitalists would co-opt them into their club so that they wouldn’t necessarily want to slaughter them
Kepha says
I guess that Lia Thomas proved that men are better than women–even at being women? sarc.
To take this silliness further, I saw a FB message saying that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was motivated more by homophobia than by fear of NATO or irredentism. I believe that in her heart of hearts, Judge Johnson knows that there is no way that Bruce Jenner and Richard Levine are as much women as her own mother. But, too many people have invested their pride and made careers of promoting this nonsense. Who will be first to declare that the emperor has no clothes?
somehistory says
Most people have a problem admitting to being in error. and most of the most, never will if they can avoid it.
Infidel says
Also, I agree w/ you that Gay Marriage was the watershed moment when all this started. Whenever he bites the dirt, I do hope Justice Anthony Kennedy RIH for what he’s unleashed not just in this country, but also on the world. B’cos once the US recognized gay marriage, the floodgates were opened to other free countries not on the same page as Europe also recognizing it
Saydalii says
When I was reading this, it became apparent that to me the craziest 2 + 2=5 equivalent is
“ISLAM is a religion of peace”
I bought a copy of 1984 in Egypt many moons ago, I wish I would have taken a picture because Mein Kampf was front and center on the table. I did end up buying a booklet at a kids toy store that has a bloody dagger and star of David on the cover. As well as a video game where you go around murdering haredim, at least as far as I could tell from the 10 minutes I played until it crashed.
Very peaceful
gravenimage says
Appalling stuff, Saydalii–thanks for that view on the ground in Dar-al-Islam.
OLD GUY says
These hearings are just all a show, Jackson will get confirmed no matter what gender or lack there of. The skin color is now the main attribute to a government high paying jobs where fore the most part you don’t have to be right or do anything. Soon we will nor use terms like women, men, he, she, girl, boy, we and it are the replacements.
Sorry if Jackson doesn’t know what gender Jackson is, or how to define the word WOMEN then IT should not be on the highest court in the country. I guess Jackson must have slept through middle school biology class.
bongiorno says
One way of dealing with the trans-women push is for real women
to no longer to refer to themselves as women and to use some
other word -yeah, they can get uppity with their pronouns just like
any 6ft-six flat chested trans-woman swimmer.
Remember that when Napoleon arrived at Moscow to take it over
there was no one there: the Moscovites had gone elsewhere. It’s
one way to defeat your enemy
I don’t know what a good new word would be but the idea has
precedence in a limited way: a lot of women didn’t like the use of
“Miss” because is was a public label pointing to them as spinsters,
unlike the use of “Mr” which doesn’t tell you if the dude is a
bachelor or not. So now we are used to the “Ms” and it seems
quite appropriate.
It can be done, And why not. And a lot of women don’t like the
“man” and “men” syllables in “woman” and “women” so here’s a
chance to go elsewhere away from the Trans and away from the
“man/men” syllables.
When the Trans-Women (now called exclusively “Women”) arrive at
the Women-only Swimming event there will be few competitors
and spectators -because the real women will have all gone
elsewhere.
somehistory says
Your comment brings to mind what David Rasche said (in a sitcom where he played a detective who loved his big gun, “Sledgehammer” was the title of the show )when he was with a woman who wanted to be called “Ms.” (miz)
Someone called him Mister (for the Mr.) and he said, “That’s Merr.”
IF they can’t define a word, they shouldn’t use it to designate something. Esp something as well-used as the word “woman.”
gravenimage says
bongiorno, why should women be forced to abandon the word “women”?
CogitoErgoSum says
Whenever a child is born and no one can easily tell at a glance if that child is male or female then that child has a serious birth defect. However, if those who are easily identifiable as male or female at birth but later in life decide they have the wrong sex organs, well, those people have a serious mental problem. Anyone who does not know that should not be allowed to sit on the highest court in the land.
If Rachel Levine’s parents and the doctor who delivered him thought he was a male at birth, then Rachel Levine is a man who now likes to wear women’s clothing – a transvestite – and not a woman. If he keeps insisting he is a woman when it is apparent to everyone that he is a man then he is mentally ill. I think everyone knew Levine was a male at his birth or he would not have initially been given a man’s name – Richard. I will admit that there are many men who have feminine traits (and vice versa) but the reason for that lies in the brain. Most people don’t like being told they have a problem with their brain. So Ketanji Jackson took the easy way out of answering the question of what is a woman so as not to offend her supporters but by doing that she showed she is a poor choice for the Supreme Court – but since she is black and a woman (even though she can’t define what a woman is) she will be praised as being heroic and given approval. We live in a world dominated by the insane.
somehistory says
IT’s a “Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad……World.” And many are angry too.
Tim says
Paraphrasing Voltaire, ‘Teach them to believe the absurd and you can teach them to commit atrocities’. Think the Manson Family or the current Jan. 6 political prisoners held in a D.C. jail.
gravenimage says
USA Today is now claiming that even scientists have no way of identifying women:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2022/03/24/marsha-blackburn-asked-ketanji-jackson-define-woman-science/7152439001/
…
CogitoErgoSum says
Actually, it’s so simple even a cave man can do it. Well, maybe not …. that could be the reason the Neanderthal’s all disappeared … and the dinosaurs too. It was just too complicated for them to figure out.
gravenimage says
🙂