Bill Maher Attacking Gender Cult

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[–]Femaleisnthateful 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

It's not even an 'attack'. He's just pointing out that we need to be able to talk about this shit. You can tell his team researched this segment extensively - moreso than his usual monologues which are just jokes and opinions. They were anticipating pushback. There was a time when Bill wouldn't touch this stuff and I thought he couldn't, being on HBO. Very heartening to see that changing.

[–]MarkTwainiac 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I believe the change in tune is directly related to the fact that the merger deal involving the parent company which owns HBO was completed last month (April) - and new management has been installed at the top of the new firm that's been created, Warner Bros Discovery. The content officer of HBO, Casey Bloys, is to remain in place for the time being, but now he reports to a new boss, Discovery CEO David Zaslav. Zaslav is openly "anti-woke."

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/warner-bros-discovery-top-boss-announces-new-leadership-team-2022-04-07/

One of the first things Zaslav has done in the few weeks he's been at the helm of the new entertainment behemoth Warner Bros Discovery is announce that he's set up a face-to-face meeting with JK Rowling in hopes of convincing her to make content for HBO Max.

He now plans to sit down with Rowling to discuss new Harry Potter-related content for his HBO Max streamer.

That comes despite Rowling facing mounting criticism over her view on transgender people, with HBO Max 'canceling' her from a Harry Potter reunion special it broadcast on New Year's Day.

Any rapprochement with the billionaire British author is likely to infuriate progressive staff at HBO Max, but Zaslav seems unlikely to bow to woke pressure.

Zaslav seems to want to keep HBO Max profitable while remaking its parent company in his image.

On Wednesday, Zaslav took to CNBC to share some of his colleague Chris Licht's plans for CNN, another one of his new properties.

Zaslav appeared to confirm the network would move away from opinion-focused primetime shows, and instead return to its roots as a breaking news broadcaster with an extremely strong reputation for covering big stories.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10833471/WarnerDiscoverys-anti-woke-new-CEO-David-Zaslav-plans-cancel-JK-Rowling.html

I'm hoping this means we can look forward to hearing more from Bill Maher about gender madness. Since he's a foe of all religions - as well as authoritarianism and "political correctness" of all kinds - taking aim at the Church of Genderology should be right up his alley. Also, he's always been on point when it comes to calling out the ridiculous excesses and histrionics of the so-called left.

[–]FlippyKing 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

interesting the url has "cancel" but the headline has "'un-cancel'"

[–]FlippyKing 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

at the end though: trans is not innate, it's bullshit. It's way past time people stop saying otherwise.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah I caught that. I disagree that anyone is 'born trans'

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

Trans is a narrative explanation for the experience of being profoundly gnc from early childhood, but of course has been expanded to include people who developed a fetish or want to be special and different even if they don't stand out.

It is an illogical explanation unmoored from reality, but I think it is important to make the distinction. When you say "trans isn't innate" a lot of people hear "nobody is naturally inclined to be profoundly gnc; they could (and should) act gender conforming as easily as snapping their fingers."

It's that many in society think the trans explanation (born in wrong body, as most understand it) is a good one that is the problem, as it persuades many profoundly (and other not-so-profoundly) gnc people to believe their bodies are wrong and that their happiness is contingent on surgically altering their urogenital systems to approximate a form and function they will never have.