If you want to destroy a culture, destroy it’s language first.

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[–]WildApples 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

So true. I was thinking about this as I was trying to figure out how to talk about the purported Equality Act. If we speak the truth and acknowledge people by sex, we will be accused of hatred and bigotry and our arguments will be ignored. If we concede as a matter of politeness so people will listen to us, it undermines the argument that we are trying to make. It is an impossible situation we're in.

[–]BEB 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

When I talk about the Equality Act and similar legislation, I only talk about women (and sometimes gay men) sex-based rights, sex-segregated spaces and sports.

I never mention the words "gender" "transgender," etc., I just stick to how the legislation affects women (and children because they are in some women's sex-segregated spaces).

So far, so good.

OMG - a horrible thought just hit me - girls would also have to have boys in their hospital rooms. Imagine the opportunities for abuse!

[–]MarkTwainiac 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Yup. Trans ideology and regulations that put "gender identity" ahead of sex mean girls such as my younger sister with cystic fibrosis who spent a good deal of her life in hospitals now have to share hospital rooms with male patients and can't refuse intimate (or other) care being provided by males who "identify as" female. Same goes for elderly and disabled women in nursing homes.

Similarly, girls and women who are dependent on care/assistance within our own homes from home health aides, visiting nurses and various kinds of assistants such as shoppers are being told we no longer have the right to insist or even request that the people we are dependent on and must admit into our intimate, private sphere be of the same sex.

[–]BEB 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Just outrageous. Everyone must be told of this!

[–]MarkTwainiac 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Just to be clear, when I said "girls such as my younger sister with cystic fibrosis" I was speaking generally. My sister with CF died in 1984.

However, the circumstances I spoke of regarding girls with CF and all other reasons for being hospitalized today, and for female people who need home care and are in nursing homes as well, all hold true for 2021. There's a huge movement afoot to put pressure on infirm, disabled girls and women and elderly women to suspend all boundaries, and to depict anyone who resists as a bigot and phobe.

[–]BEB 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm really sorry about your sister. I hope that you and your family have found some healing and peace.

[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks, BEB! That is so kind of you to say, and I do appreciate it.

Unfortunately, before my beloved younger sister died of CF at 24, my older brother died of CF in our childhood - and later on another sister died of cancer at 46. Our mother died young too.

My two remaining siblings and I have tried hard to find peace and healing, but we've discovered that these are hard to come by. On the upside, we are all very good at crisis management and gallows humor. And the humor has passed on to the next generation. At age 7 my oldest child remarked from the back seat of our minivan, "Mom, I've been wondering. How come in dad's family everyone lives till they're like 98, but in your family there's always somebody young croaking all the time?" I had to pull off the road for a moment coz this made me laugh - and cry - too hard to safely drive. "Out of the mouths of babes"...

[–]mortauxeleveurs 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Then speak the truth.