For nearly all of human history
there have been some points that have been fixed. These are the foundations
stones of society. Society begins with the family. It begins with a man and a
woman deciding to be together and having children. When lots of men and women
do this, we have a village, when more still we have a town and when enough
families decide to live together and form a common purpose we have a country.
Without men and women deciding to be together to form a family we would have
nothing.
Throughout human history in
almost all cases and almost without exception whether someone is a man or a
woman a boy or a girl has been something objective and determined at birth. In
no primitive society is there a debate about who is a woman and who is a man.
There is no doubt about what is a girl and what is a boy. There may be a very
few individuals who are born in an indeterminate sex. There are homosexuals and
there are people who like to dress up as the opposite sex. There have
throughout history been eunuchs. But for the vast majority of people throughout
history sex is something fixed and unchangeable.
Hardly anyone who hasn’t followed
and obeyed Left wing orthodoxy thinks that there is a valid distinction between
sex and gender. Boy/girl, male/female, man/woman describe the same difference and
this difference is determined in the same way. To suppose that someone can be a
boy, but female is to misunderstand the words “boy” and “female”.
Imagine learning a foreign
language and pointing to a person in a dress and saying he’s a man. The teacher
would quietly correct, no, she’s a woman. This is how we all learned our own
language. We determine the usage of words by objective visible characteristics.
It is because men and women are
the foundation blocks of society that most languages use gender. English is one
of the few languages I know that has relatively few instances where words are
changed according to whether they describe men or women.
Everyone who did French at school
knows that words are divided into “Le” words and “La” words, but some languages
are inflected by gender even more than this.
In Russian every word and every
pronoun is either masculine, feminine neuter or plural. There are six main
grammatical cases that apply to each word and each pronoun with a few extras
cases that are sometimes used. If you multiply 6 cases by 4 you get 24
variants. There are patterns of course, but for a foreigner it is literally a
nightmare to discover the multitude of ways of saying a simple word like he,
hers, this, that, it. The word “one” can
be said 24 ways in Russian. It can be plural. “One” is plural when it describes
a watch in Russian, because watch is plural.
The idea that Russian could be
made gender neutral or that anyone could change their pronouns is simply
preposterous. It’s hard enough dealing with three genders. If everyone was able
to simply add a new pronoun “ze” “xe” etc., everyone else would be baffled and
unable to speak. How would ze decline? What would the accusative of ze be? If A
Russian said he wanted to be known as she I could manage, but if he wanted to
be known as xe or ze I wouldn’t know how to form sentences.
Language is collective, not
private. We determine the meaning of words and the grammar that joins them
together as a group. No individual can on his own change grammar without
causing chaos.
The American Left has taken an
unusual feature of English, the fact that it has relatively little gender
inflection and used this to not merely try to eradicate gender in English, but
also to make it supposedly possible for everyone to change their pronouns at
will. The ignorance of this is that while it is just about possible to make
English gender neutral and just about possible in English to make up pronouns,
this is only because gender is relatively unimportant in English. Chairman can
be made gender neutral in English, but it can’t be made gender neutral in
French without wrecking French grammar. Still less can it be made gender
neutral in Russian. We could probably manage in English to call someone ze,
though we might have to think sometimes, because there are so few possible
grammatical variants in English. It’s either he, him, his or himself. It would
be possible to say ze, zim, zis and zimself. But it would hardly be possible to
do this in Russian where there are a multitude of variants and where gender is
determined not merely by whether a man or a woman is speaking but also by how
each word ends. To imagine a world where everyone can call themselves what they
like is to imagine Humpty Dumpty saying words mean what I want them to mean. It
would leave us all unable to speak.
I don’t believe that it is
possible for a human being to change gender. I think that it is something
determined objectively by biology and known at birth. I also don’t think that a
cow can become a bull. If you cut off the penis of a bull and give it fake
udders, it doesn’t become a cow, because it can’t do what a cow does. It can’t
have calves and it can’t produce milk. The same goes for human beings. A woman
is essentially a human being who can give birth to children. Men and women are
similar in many respects, but we are different in this respect. A man is
essentially a human being who can father children. A woman could not do this on
her own or with another woman. It is for this reason that marriage was
developed as something that involved a man and woman. Because only men and
women together could create children. It is this fundamental building block of
society that the Left wants to overthrow first by opening marriage up to
everybody and then by arguing that anyone at any time can simply decide that
they are either a man or a woman.
When you have overthrown society
you can begin to create socialism. The Soviets tried to get rid of families,
because they knew that the family would always be an obstacle to socialism. We
care more for our husbands and children than we care for the state. The Soviets
never could break the family bond, though they tried. This is the battle the
modern Left wants now to win.
Transgender was a non-issue until
recently. Some very few people found that they were unhappy being men or women
and decided to change sex. The rest of us may have been rather bemused but we
were sympathetic. If I had met such a person, I would have called him or her
whatever they pleased. I would have said “he” even if I thought she was still
she and vice versa. I would have done so out of politeness. It doesn’t much
bother me if some people decide they want to have sex change surgery. It
doesn’t affect me.
But my politeness wouldn’t chance
my view of the reality, for the idea of transgender is intellectually
incoherent. If you think that gender is a matter of how you subjectively feel
why should it matter that you dress as a man or a woman or have the bodily
characteristics of a man or a woman? Either you think gender is subjective, in
which case body and clothes don’t matter at all, what matters is how you feel,
or you think gender is objective in which case how do you suppose changing body
or clothes can ever amount to a change of gender? Transgender theory assumes
that gender is both objective, otherwise surgery is pointless, and subjective
because the objective nature of the bodies we are born with does not determine
our gender. The whole theory is therefore
founded on a contradiction. If you think that being a woman is a matter of how
you feel, why not feel that way without cutting anything off? If on the other
hand it is a matter of what is objectively between your legs (and if it isn't
why do you want surgery?), how can it be a matter of how you subjectively feel?
These sorts of contradictions were fine so long as this sort of illogical
thinking involved only those few individuals who chose to go down this route.
The rest of us could safely be bemused. But not any longer.
But rather than leave this
situation alone, the Left decided to weaponize trans. Suddenly we all had to
give up our understanding of ordinary words like “man” and “woman”. Suddenly we
were all supposed to think that a boy could be female a woman could be male. We
were all supposed to agree that a man could give birth to a child and that a
woman could have a penis. We were supposed to cheer as a man changed into a
woman and then competed in international sport in a competition where everyone
else had been born a woman. We were supposed not to notice that “she” had the
physique of a man and many of the advantages of a man. We were all supposed to
accept that “women” with the physique of men could come into women’s toilets
and that they could go to a woman’s prison and they could live in a woman’s
refuge shelter. We were supposed to not care when male and female toilets,
which benefited both sexes were abolished. We were supposed to not care when
our children were told they could be one of a hundred genders and they could
choose to be whatever sex they wanted. We were supposed to go along with it
when they were pumped full of hormones and when they had irreversible surgery
that meant they could never have children. A niche issue that affected none of
us began to affect all of us.
The modern Left’s message spreads
usually from American universities. Ideas that seem completely mad, like
safe-spaces, trigger warnings, cross the Atlantic and arrive in Britain and the
other English-speaking countries quickly. It doesn’t matter how crazy these
ideas first seem, two or three years later they go mainstream. But not
everywhere. It is an English-speaking disease.
Eastern Europeans look on bemused
as Western liberals argue for mass immigration from the third world, that men
can become women and that homosexuals can marry. Eastern European women are
rarely interested in feminism and most commonly are quite happy for the
distinctions that have always existed between men and women to continue. They expect
to be treated as women by men and they like it.
In China and Japan, they want the
vast majority of people who live there to be Chinese and Japanese. This is the
case everywhere except English speaking countries and Western Europe. These
places have not been infected by the American disease that spreads by means of
English. They look on us as in decline and decadent.
In no other continent except
Europe do people think it’s a good idea for very dissimilar countries to form a
group which is ruled from the centre and which has the goal of creating a new
nation state. The Japanese don’t want this. The Australians don’t want it. The
Canadians don’t want it. But many of these same people, criticise Britain for
not wanting it either. The Americans would not allow a supreme court that was
higher than their own. They would not allow a Parliament other than their own
which could overrule Congress. Yet they think Britain must Remain.
The American disease spreads most
quickly to English speaking countries and to a lesser extent to Western
European countries. Everywhere else rape is a crime of violence to be
investigated objectively. Evidence is required. A Russian man cannot be charged
with sexual assault merely because a woman said he touched her twenty or thirty
years ago. A Russian woman student who sleeps with nine men and then says she
was raped by the tenth although she has no evidence of this beyond her
testimony, will not gain a conviction. The police won’t even investigate. This
is the same everywhere except those few countries infected by the American
disease. Men and women are happier in those countries too. They look on us as
immoral, promiscuous and bizarre.
Where next for the Left. We have
reached the stage where we are told to say that black is white, a man is a
woman. Ordinary words like "marriage" have been changed. The bedroom
has become a place which men should fear.
None of this was imaginable fifty
years ago. In 1960 most people still went to Church in Britain. They believed
more or less the same things as their ancestors had believed for centuries. The
idea that men could marry would have been considered ludicrous. The idea that
little boys could become little girls would have been considered bizarre if not
perverted.
What new unimaginable things does
the Left have in store for us. Are they going to demand that polygamy be
legalised? Are they going to demand that transwomen be given surgery so they
can have babies? Are they going to demand that countries and borders be
abolished? Who knows what they will dream up next? The Left needs to destroy
everything so as to create socialism from the rubble. It needs to destroy what
the Soviet Union could not destroy, what the Chinese Cultural Revolution left
standing, otherwise socialism will fail here as it failed there.
But as the Left works its magic,
we are becoming ever more divided. Most people pretend to go along with the
latest left-wing edict about race, sex, gender, multiculturalism and
homosexuality, because we want to live a quiet life. The consequences of failing to obey can be
that we are denounced, arrested and that we lose our jobs. But there is a
tipping point. When enough of our children are taught things that we think are
crazy and harmful, we will no longer obey. When enough of our sons are sent to
prison because their girlfriends were drunk, we will protest. When enough men
dressed up as women enter women only spaces we will rebel.
The first step is to write
honestly, openly and fearlessly. We must use argument and we must use truth. We
must show the Left that they are the minority. When we do that, we will be free
again and we shall also be cured. There will no longer be anything to be afraid
of. This is the only cure when infected
with the American disease. The First Amendment kills all known leftish germs
stone dead, just like Domestos. The American disease therefore has an all-American
antidote.
The end
