The post-mortem on the gender identity movement will, I think, be written - and probably fairly soon. At every level, the alphabet soup following the B in LGB is a mess, a fractally broken and destructive compendium of twisted words and irrational self-justification in service to low-grade psychological illness. This topic continues to fascinate me because of how comprehensively incoherent it is. (Not homosexuality that’s actually a real thing.) I think we will someday look back upon the trans and gender-identity movements as the flash-in-the-pan social contagions they are. It seems to me that TRAs are the most socially constructed of all, given how Extremely Online and strenuously performative they can be. It’s like saying right-handedness is a social construct. I think the vast, vast majority of people instinctively inhabit their sexual identity because of innate biological imperatives. Q is ascendent B is archaic.Īside from hardcore pro-binary trans people, most sexual identities are 100% socially constructed. There will be a convocation in 2025, when the position of Q and B will be swapped please use the proper order going forward, to indicate you understand the implications. The complexity of human nature must be sorted and coded to isolate one’s position on the intersectional matrix, so your status can be identified and used to position you accordingly. Sexual orientation is not the same thing as identity.Īh, so you suffer from false consciousness, and do not understand that you have a contrapositive nature that refutes the bourgeoise paradigms. Published in GeneralĪs a bisexual I’m expected to think of myself as part of this weird amorphous “LGBT” thing, a category that includes a fantastic number of freaks and weirdos and people I want nothing to do with. So is Pride Month just a weird upper-class sexual cult? I don’t know. That’s true for queer people, the non-binary, lesbians, and those gay men who have a “sexual identity” (many do not). Aside from hardcore pro-binary trans people, most sexual identities are 100% socially constructed. This almost strikes me as a religious phenomenon. Seeing sign after sign proclaiming “Pride Month” in every store I go to is surreal. Sexual orientation is not the same thing as identity.
What is going on?Īs a bisexual, I’m expected to think of myself as part of this weird amorphous “LGBT” thing, a category that includes a fantastic number of freaks and weirdos and people I want nothing to do with. This seems a bit much for epater la bourgeoisie (the emotional need of certain rich people to constantly shock the sensibilities of the middle class). The US is not a country that undertakes mass PR campaigns celebrating abstract identity groups for an entire month. This level of sheer corporate pageantry doesn’t even happen for Black History Month.