House of Eratosthenes

The other issue is, of course, that there are reasons why we have been herding males into boy-restrooms and females into girl-restrooms. It’s a “Chesterton’s Fence,” you shouldn’t be allowed to dismantle it until such time as you understand why it got put there in the first place. One liberal was admonishing me that there is a possibility that a girl can be molested in a girls-only bathroom, and a boy can be molested in a boys-only bathroom; my rebuttal to which, of course, was that the likelihood of such shenanigans going down was much higher with men being allowed in a girls’ facility. Which I’m sure the liberal, when he responds, will make untrue by chortling at it and invoking his magical “I Laugh At It And So It Becomes Untrue” powers. That’s the ethereal liberal realm; people don’t change their behavior in an altered environment, ever, unless such behavioral change would be helpful to whatever liberals are pushing. Buying doesn’t slow down when there are artificial prices built into things, active-shooters don’t gravitate to places that restrict the ability of bystanders to shoot back…human behavior remains absolutely static.

But the primary, most-important issue is that we’re deciding what truth is. Is it merely an after-product of a person’s feelings.

As Heather Wilhelm points out at Red State (H/T William Teach):

So why can’t we just live and let live? Bathroom law opponents “are crusading against a tiny minority that poses no real threat,” Jillian T. Weiss, a transgender rights lawyer and activist, wrote in Wednesday’s USA Today. In a way, she’s correct: Demonizing transgender people is unfair in any light. But Weiss also misses the bigger picture behind the bathroom brouhaha. It’s not a fight against people. It’s a fight about reality, and whether the government can dictate a certain version of it. Ultimately, it’s a fight about freedom of thought.

America’s burgeoning bathroom wars, so silly and banal on the surface, are actually quite deep: They fling together two conflicting, wildly incompatible streams of thought. On the transgender side, identity is everything. If gender is truly fluid, and yet truly knowable, then the denial of one’s gender identity is a hurtful denial of one’s very being or self.

This is also why the bathroom issue provides such a massive spark point: If the government agrees that trans men and women can access the bathrooms of their choice, they are officially validating the view that gender is no more than what you feel or believe it to be. They are ruling this view, in their own way, a fact—and if it’s a fact, can anyone really rightfully disagree?

In a way, this is all quite obvious, this business of government ruling on a belief held by only a few among us, as a fact, and ruling against the contrary belief held by the remainder. People actually “know” this already. You can see it in the faces and hear it in the voices of the sugar-pumpkins in the video. “I identify as a 6’5″ Chinese woman.” How say they? Well the honest answer would be — I’m not as “sure” about height as I am about gender identity, because this month’s bandwagon is all about gender identity and not about height. We’ll see about height sometime later, maybe.

That would be the honest answer. But once people climb onto the bandwagon, they can’t say that.

From the comments:

My problem with this bathroom thing is no[t] even related to abstraction or morality, but to plain and physical conditions of the people affected. Male has penis, female has vagina. There are not “Peginas” in nature, not in humans, no in animals, not even in plants.

Public bathroom separation is based on that very simple, binary, but undeniable scientific and natural truth. Everything else is opinion and PC. And that is all there is to it.

I think the liberals have really met their Waterloo with this one. One of their most popular tactics in recent years is to get hold of some cherry-picked statistic, friendly to their agenda, that makes the reciter-of-the-statistic sound like he’s somehow pulled in a Ph.D.-level of expertise on the subject overall. It doesn’t matter if the statistic is questionable, or even if it’s been entirely discredited. President Obama, for example, is still getting mileage out of the business with ninety-seven percent of the world’s scientists agreeing with global warming. The shelf life on this stuff is quite long. And let’s be honest, your Republican Uncle is usually going to be unprepared for the recited-statistic. This stuff works, that’s why they keep using it. So the liberals get to crow about “get the facts!” Case closed.

They use that here too. But here, on this subject, they are promoting a view of truth that contradicts their “facts.” They’re promoting a new fabric, a new shape to the space-time continuum, that says facts must give way to feeling. They are reduced to their usual, routine protest that the facts are on their side, while simultaneously insisting on the premise that facts don’t matter.

Furthermore, if facts don’t matter and feelings count for everything, then there is only one solution available to us to keep our society functional. We’re going to have to have more separation, not less. Give up on that celebrated liberal one-world utopia. Build more and more walls, so that people can live in segregated-bathroom societies, or unified-bathroom societies, whichever way their feelings make them feelz. And then we’ll have to build more walls still. Guns-or-not; high-taxes-or-not; meat-or-not; birth-control-or-not; money-or-not.

If we must insist that all feelings are valid, and that they trump truth, but that we are unified in our desire for peace — there is no other solution.

Update 4/18/16: Thanks for the feedback from those who weren’t able to play the video. I’ve replaced it with the tried-and-true YouTube.

This nonsense will end when, and only when, it adversely affects something liberals like. For instance, for all the hue and cry about “transgender” bathrooms in the workplace, gyms are suspiciously exempt. Why? Well, a few months back some 6’5″ guy with a 8″ hog and major 5 o’clock shadow started insisting on being able to change in the women’s locker room at a Planet Fitness. All the very very PC soccer moms freaked out and canceled their memberships. And now we don’t hear about it anymore.

There used to be organizations on college campuses that would take care of this kind of idiocy. Back when, the ROTC brigade and the defensive line would take it upon themselves to use “transgender bathrooms” to haze freshmen — walk into the women’s room, drop trou, and sing the first verse of “Billy Jean,” and you’re on the team. And that would be the last we’d ever hear of “transgendered” bathrooms.

But since nobody on campus has the sack to do that today, I guess there’s really no need for separate bathrooms anyway.
- Severian | 04/17/2016 @ 07:33
It still amazes me that the folks that scream “the science is settled” on climate change can push the notion that gender is fluid. It is hard coded in your DNA. If you were to die and be buried, they could dig up your bones a hundred years from now and tell your true sex. That is science that is truly settled.
- teripittman | 04/17/2016 @ 14:02
“I think the liberals have really met their Waterloo with this one.”
I disagree. I believe THIS issue is simply shoving, and trampling all the OTHER
disco patrons to try to get out of the burning building, ensuring EVERYONE’S plight of course.
Waterloo moment? I couldn’t say. Too many to chose from.
But remember those stories about Japanese soldiers, cut off from intelligence, that BELIEVED the war was still ongoing several years later?
Remember those stories of renegade southern Civil War raiders, who REFUSED to accept their superiors surrender, and chose a violent criminal “lifestyle” until they eventually had to be gunned down like rabid dogs?
- CaptDMO | 04/18/2016 @ 01:42

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