I think we atheists/skeptics/nonbelievers on the left (there ARE some of us on the right, too, btw*) need to do some honest internal analysis of (among other things) WHY we didn't apply our skepticism to the T of the LGBT stuff.
The dominant narrative on transgenderism clearly, at its very foundation, isn't logical or rational (none of po…
I think we atheists/skeptics/nonbelievers on the left (there ARE some of us on the right, too, btw*) need to do some honest internal analysis of (among other things) WHY we didn't apply our skepticism to the T of the LGBT stuff.
The dominant narrative on transgenderism clearly, at its very foundation, isn't logical or rational (none of postmodernism/queer theory is). I think there are at least a few reasons, including (actual) gender and the disproportionate number of males that made up "new" (and old) atheism, but we (not me, personally, but us as a group/movement) obviously really, really missed the warning signs on that one. Let's talk about why.
*Another at least part of the problem is our tendency, as humans even when we're presumably committed to logic and reason, to paint with broad brushes and to feel superior to whoever we've decided is "evil" (hahaha). Now that I've admitted the part that I also played in creating the "woke" monster, I have to admit that there are tenets of conservative political philosophy that are logical, rational, reasonable, pragmatic, etc. And that I, allegedly reasonable and rational, dismissed it all in the name of my own non-believer (left and yes, "woke") political ideology.
I think we atheists/skeptics/nonbelievers on the left (there ARE some of us on the right, too, btw*) need to do some honest internal analysis of (among other things) WHY we didn't apply our skepticism to the T of the LGBT stuff.
The dominant narrative on transgenderism clearly, at its very foundation, isn't logical or rational (none of postmodernism/queer theory is). I think there are at least a few reasons, including (actual) gender and the disproportionate number of males that made up "new" (and old) atheism, but we (not me, personally, but us as a group/movement) obviously really, really missed the warning signs on that one. Let's talk about why.
*Another at least part of the problem is our tendency, as humans even when we're presumably committed to logic and reason, to paint with broad brushes and to feel superior to whoever we've decided is "evil" (hahaha). Now that I've admitted the part that I also played in creating the "woke" monster, I have to admit that there are tenets of conservative political philosophy that are logical, rational, reasonable, pragmatic, etc. And that I, allegedly reasonable and rational, dismissed it all in the name of my own non-believer (left and yes, "woke") political ideology.