Xe Puts the Lotion on Xir Skin...

... or else xe gets the hose again.

On screen: He says freedom, they say hate. The pronoun fight is back

Jame Gumb: gender-neutral pronoun pioneer

Ever wonder whether the the whole gender ambiguity issue, with its special pronouns and men in the ladies room, is really less about advocating for the rights and respect of a tiny minority of people, and more about annoying, manipulating and humiliating normal people? Jordon Peterson certainly has: 

Peterson has continued to state publicly he won’t use non-gendered pronouns — especially ones that have been created like “ze” and “zir” — which he said “compel the use of a particular kind of ideological language.”

“For me, personally, that’s the sticking point,” Peterson told the Star in a December interview in his west-end home. “I think that’s dangerous language. I don’t trust the people who formulated it. And I’m not going to be their mouthpiece because I know what they’re like.

“They’re power-mad people who use compassion as a disguise.”

(Emphasis mine)

Let's do some math to see what the picture really is, because the media and leftists (redundancy alert) would have you think the victims are everywhere. An internet search will yield more surveys and studies on the topic than you can digest, but after a dozen or so, the numbers start to converge. I won't link to all of them, but this one is pretty typical. 

Approximately 95% of Americans are straight, which means that 1) they believe in binary male/female gender 2) identify their gender with their genitalia and 3) are sexually attracted to people with the opposite genitalia. I'll call these people "normal", because, well, they are. A characteristic shared by 95% of ANY population is considered the norm in any reasonable context. 

Figures for homosexuals vary depending on methods and how they count bisexuals, but 4% looks like a good average. Overwhelmingly, gay and lesbian people match straight people in characteristics 1 and 2. They differ in the third, as they are attracted to people who have the same genitalia. Gay men, for instance, have male parts, consider themselves to be men, and like men.

For those keeping score, the ratio of binary to non-binary gender folks is 99-0 so far.

Surveys vary on the transgender population, but for this exercise, we'll round it to .5%, and assume that the whole of that group is genuinely gender dysphoric. These people are as gender-binary as straight people, because they are convinced that 1) there's only male and female and 2) they were born in the body of the wrong one. They came out wearing the wrong team's uniform, as it were. My own exposure to to transgender people is that they want nothing more than to be thought of and addressed as the gender they identify with. So, for example, no male to female transsexual would dream of going into a female bathroom or locker room and exposing themselves as a biological male, or wish to be addressed as anything other than "her" or "she".

For the record, in case anyone thinks I'm transphobic: I believe this condition is real, rare and often tragic. I wish every transgender person success in their transition, and peace and happiness at every stage of their journey.

We're now at 99.5% of the population who believe there's male and female, and know what side they're on. When you have that kind of consensus, society doesn't really have a problem. So why are we being told there is one? What's special about the last .5%?

The other half of a percent is made up of

• Asexuals
• Gender-queer (whatever the hell that means)
• Gender fluid (make up your minds) 
• Pains in the ass
• Drama queens
• Rounding error

Note: some overlap between categories. 

This .5% are the ones jerking the rest of us around. Their voices are amplified somewhat by the LGBT folks, who see them as fellow travelers, and side with them because normal folks haven't always treated any of them with respect. But if pressed on the issue, they'd probably admit they don't agree with the non-binary folks on most issues.

But the real problem is with progressives, who see this as yet another way to piss off the normals, and exercise power over them. Their goal is to make everyone speak and think total lies as though they were the truth, because that's the ultimate power to have over anyone. They're halfway there if they can force you to address people as "xe" or "zir" and threaten your freedom and livelihood if you don't. If you have that power, you can force them to do anything. Orwell knew, and tried to warn us: 

“He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother”

And that's what it's all about. Jordon Peterson is smart enough to recognize it and ornery enough to call it out for the bullshit that it is. The thing is, that bullshit is on the heel of the boot that would stamp on your face forever. Don't let it.