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Wonderful choice, yet once again. The 2019 quote from Hayes is beyond price. WOW! You mean sex-role stereotypes shouldn’t define us? WOW, I never thought of that. What a nincompoop.

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Jul 29Liked by Kara Dansky

Every time I see FFS, I can't help but think For Fuck Sake. Because FFS! Thank you for this.

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Ssssshhhhh that's secretly what it means. Don't tell anyone! :)

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Partly true, but why do people have to change their bodies to match their minds? If it is learned, can’t we change the learning? Oh, wait, that would be illegal.

The two genders, or sexes, are necessary for reproduction of the species. Nothing to do with the universe, just plain old baby making and the mystery behind the birds and the bees, which is nothing like human reproduction.

Trans people don’t reproduce. The “pregnant man” is actually a physical woman, so that doesn’t count. This is where all the confusion comes from. Inside you are a woman, who feels like a man, or maybe thinks like a man. But somehow, you got pregnant and now you are concerned about your “reproductive rights” because you know you should have them, and really, you want to make sure everyone knows that you know you have them.

Back when unisex bathrooms, and other unisex things, like clothes and haircuts, were the extent of what passed for feminism, aside from equal pay for equal work, everything was easier. Back then, children were sexually off limits. Most people knew they were either a girl or a boy.

I started writing these ideas thinking it would be a couple sentences, so I’m sorry for taking up your comment space, but this happens a lot. Everything has become all twisty and confusing…maybe I’ve gone down the rabbit hole that everyone was talking about.

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Chris Hayes attended a little old school named Brown University, so his Important College Experience ("we spent a lot of time talking about the things that we were reading and studying, and staying up late and debating them") is not likely to be typical of most American college graduates'. At Northwestern, my middle-class, midwestern fraternity bros (whose interests ranged all the way from baseball to beer) spent almost every night drinking, smoking weed, listening to loud, obnoxious music and cracking each other up. One would have thought they were on permanent spring break.

In any case, I abandoned "Why Is This Happening" years ago because I found Hayes to be a know-it-all who'd invite interesting and accomplished guests only to start the podcast by holding forth on his expertise in their field.

Of course Chris Hayes is all in on gender identity ideology. It is a central tenet of liberal and progressive orthodoxy that sometimes boys and men find that they are girls and women, respectively (and vice-versa), and that one must be unfailingly and uncritically inclusive and affirming of every gender identity that comes down the pike. Do Hayes and others of his ilk realize they're living in an "Emperor's New Clothes" reality? Who knows. And Chase Strangio is a huge wankess.

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Thank you Jenny. We all must do our part, and call out this dangerous ideology that does real time harm. I'm going to share my latest community guidelines violation from Tik Tok here, since it's dedicated to women speaking out. I was called a TERF for not wanting to change in a locker room with a penis haver. I wrote back;

"No, I'm fine sharing a locker room with a trans man, just not a man. And you're a WERF. Woman- erasing- radical- fascist."

I was also on a TIK TOK live and was told I was, "homophobic" for not wanting to urinate with men in may bathroom. People have no clue WTF they're talking about.

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KUDOS TO JENNY!!! Love her work! Check out Transmuted if you haven't already for a treasure trove of inspiring information and connection with other women.

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"[Chase] Strangio and I have had a few interactions (in person and online) over the years; she doesn’t like me very much."

You're usually all business, so thanks for the chuckle.

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Tee hee!

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