Unembraceable You - News With Views

by Lee Duigon

November 30, 2023

Even if they could be done “safely”—which they can’t—and without creating chaos and driving everybody crazy—which they can’t—some things would still be just plain wrong.

Here are two examples.

New York City has just made it a crime (!) to “discriminate” against anyone too fat, too tall, or too short. This is not surprising. All over the doddering Western world, liberals are embracing corpulence as something to “celebrate.”

New York Mayor Eric Adams, with his plant-based brain, refuses to believe there’s any connection between your weight and general state of health. There are a zillion insurance actuarial tables to prove him wrong; but the beauty of Far Left kookism is, all the facts are B.Y.O. You get to bring your own. Remember “your truth” and “my truth.”

Even better: now that it’s a law, if you’re as fat as a house and you go to community college and can’t fit into those little desks they have—calloo, callay, O frabjous day! For you can sue the school! For failing to accommodate you.

I don’t know what would happen if they said you were too short, too old, or too slow to play on your college basketball team, let alone the pros. Play it safe and sue them, too. We’ll never run out of lawyers!

Rumor has it that the Democrats in the New York State legislature are getting ready to enact a similar law on the state level. By all means encourage obesity! Celebrate it!

And while you’re at it, here’s another thing they want you to embrace and celebrate.

Recently a bunch of men who “identified as women” crashed a women’s tech job fair in Florida—the fair’s organizers described it as being “overrun” and “invaded” by men. When the men got physical, a lot of the women just up and left.

But see—we are supposed to embrace and celebrate “gender fluid”—it’s like lighter fluid, only useless—and dagnab it, any man who says he’s a woman must be a woman!

Feminists, you started this. No distinction between the sexes, you said. In fact, you got rid of “the sexes,” claiming it was a “construct,” and replaced it by “genders”—which is indeed a construct, but it’s your own construct so that makes it… I dunno. Sacred? You are, you said, whatever the devil you say you are! And everybody else is supposed to embrace and celebrate it, or else! Hence “pregnant people,” men with periods, “people with penises,” the whole line of liberation loopiness. You asked for it, ladies.

“Give me a job because I say I’m a woman!” This is what our civilization has become. Men elbowing their way into women’s sports and winning all the medals: again, you asked for it.

What are we headed for? Some grotesque unisex world where there really is no male or female anymore, anyone can be plugged in to anyone else. Or, what’s more likely, a world wherein the human race is dying out because “gender reassignment” leaves you unable to reproduce. (But it would still be wrong even if it didn’t make you sterile.” If you need to ask “But why?,” you won’t understand the answer.)

How about we stop embracing and celebrating things that are demonstrably bad for us? We could do worse than simply reject anything and everything pitched to us by Far Left politicians and our babbling horde of overpaid academics.

When you see them point, just turn around and go the other way.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit… while it’s still allowed. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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