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When you're told that if you feel uncomfortable, you're clearly denying your racism/homophobia/etc., people who feel uncomfortable will do whatever it takes to stop feeling uncomfortable, even attack someone else. Because if they admit, even to themselves, that the canceled are speaking sense, they fear that uncomfortable feeling with return and they told if they feel uncomfortable or like they ought to defend themselves.... Yes, that snake is eating its own tail.

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If you are a trans widow, your voice is silenced. Your husband's diagnosing "sexologist" PhD psychologist submits a sworn affidavit into the custody case, despite the fact that your older son, at age 9, said he wants to kill himself and "Neddy," my pen name for him, will not attend therapy with the school mandated psychologist. That does not matter. The son witnessed Neddy saying he was his mom, to a doctor he randomly decided to take the children to. The younger son had serious asthma, but Neddy wanted to portray me, THE MOM, as a Munchausen By Proxy parent, who wants the child to have an illness. This, despite son's difficulties breathing at age 6, and before, every spring. "Be nice?" How about be responsible? How about don't spend on a designer handbag what the mother of your children is paying to a good dentist, a good therapist, and all? How 'bout that? Ute Heggen, discovered the diaries in 1992. It was the same back then~

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For someone who claims to be able to hold opposing truths and multiple perspectives, your writing does a great job at generalizing and homogenizing a group of people based on very lose descriptors of “left” and “woke” and attributing an imaginary (as in artificial) group of people with dishonest intentions and behaviours. This feels slippery to me.

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