Pronouns? Yup - love them. I count nouns amongst my favourite kinds of words. These days we’re all encouraged to explore the wonderful possibilities of the infinite world of pronouns. Pronouns, like other things, are not just a binary, you see. We all exist on the pronoun spectrum.
You see what I did there? I just made shit up. There is, as far as I know, no such thing as a “pronoun spectrum”, but it had just enough plausibility that I reckon many of you would have had the thought; are they really talking about a pronoun “spectrum” now?
And I will make a confession; I did a quick search to see if, indeed, this was being promoted by some purple-haired weirdo somewhere.
But even the most ardent ejaculator of novel pronouns must recognise the pronounal ejaculata of the mirrored pronoun as an absurdity. Yes - they really are making shit up as they go along.
LGBTA+ Wiki defines it as
Mirrored pronouns, or mirrorpronomial, refers to someone who identifies with the pronouns of the individual referring to them
Do they hold conferences where they try to figure out what ridiculous crap is going to get pushed over the next few months?
You’d basically have to have the IQ of a fridge magnet to think mirrorpronomial made any sense whatsoever.
But sprinkle your nonsense with the alluring fairy dust of The Expert™ and even intelligent people can get drawn into your fantasy world. The whole world of wondrous shit we can make up opens up to you in a way you could never have imagined when you get The Experts™ involved.
If you get The Experts™ involved, you can make people write crazy stuff like this
The unwholesome sodomization of reality by an Expert™ is a demonic coupling that leads to the spawn of all sorts of specious nonsense.
Look at all of the covid fairy dust that was sprinkled over the last two years or so (and this is just a very small sample).
covid is an unprecedented health crisis
we need to lock down to save lives
if we don’t lockdown 50 Ferguson units1 of people will die
masks are an effective measure to prevent spread
asymptomatic transmission is a significant driver of the spread
hands, surfaces and deliveries should be sanitized in order to prevent spread
vaccines were never about infection protection but about reducing symptoms
people will die as a result of misinformation spread on the internet
There’s been so much sprinkling of covid fairy dust that we’d need to use all of the Dysons that have been produced, or ever will be produced, in order to vacuum it up. But we can’t do that because that will cause at least a 1 Ferguson unit degree of global warming.
They did the whole “making shit up as we go along” schtick par excellence with covid. But it was shit they could sell because they got The Experts™ involved.
All of a sudden, Scientific Experts™ and Health Experts™ were popping up everywhere to tell us how deadly covid was, how wonderful masks were, and, oh goodness, the joy and beauty of lockdowns, why had we never thought of them before?
It was all made-up shit.
These things were stated with only the flimsiest and most partial of evidence bases. But it looked good on TV when some Serious Expert™ sonorously intoned their opinion.
Just recently, the Imperial College Department of Absurd Numerology told us that up to 20,000,000 lives had been saved by the ‘vaccine’ in 2021 alone!!!!
More made-up shit. This time it was model-derived made-up shit. Ooh, don’t you just get that delicious tingle down your spine, that frisson of admiration, when scientists get their models out in public?
I’ve included this picture for all of the modern progressive lesbians reading - just imagine if this guy identified as female!
Unfortunately, there isn’t enough sarcasm in the universe to fully express my disdain at current trends. There are only a finite number of elementary Snarkons that were produced during the Big Bang and once they’ve been used up, that’s it.
It kind of hurts. I feel a palpable sadness at the tarnishing of expertise. It’s a much-deserved tarnishing, sadly. When you have people who have, actually, earned the right to be labelled as an expert in some field go on TV and tell you not to play Scrabble at Christmas because of the dangers of covid transmission, you realise that whilst expertise might be hard-won, integrity is cheap to buy. This statement about Scrabble was made by one of the chief scientific advisers to the UK government.
There was never, and still isn’t, any evidence to suggest that surface (fomite) transmission was anything other than an absolutely miniscule risk factor. Yet we had Experts™ pretending that the risk was significant.
More made-up shit.
Is it any wonder The Experts™ are so vilified?
Attaining genuine expertise is a very worthwhile thing. It’s hard work, but rewarding. So it’s no cause for celebration when Experts™ get pimped out by the government. They discredit themselves and they discredit expertise itself by their shameless behaviour in acting as a kind of scientific hooker. Mind you, it’s probably the only kind of “sex” work your average scientist would actually get paid for.
You can use an Expert™ to pretty much back up any assertion you want to make, however fantastical. JK Rowling has become something of a cause celebre for her allegedly “transphobic” remarks and stance. She is described as “the Queen of TERFs” in some quarters. Here’s an example of someone attempting to ‘argue’ the case against JKR on Twitter :
She repeatedly equates the words “woman” & “womanhood” with biological sex and belabors the point that “sex is real.” 🧐 Women are a gender, not a sex. Hard to imagine someone who’s made billions off words doesn’t understand that, so safe to chalk it up to hatefulness I think
This Twitter mediocrity then goes on to state that all the major Health Organisations etc (that is, The Experts™) agree with this view. And this person is probably right about that. Gender-ideology has taken root.
But gender is a fine example of made-up shit.
It has no actual basis in reality. It’s a fluffy vague concept that sounds like it ought to mean something. But, like the word “woman” in progressive circles, the word “gender” means whatever the fuck you want it mean at that particular moment in time in support of your argument.
This sprinkling of The Expert™ fairy dust is everywhere. Here’s another example, this time regarding “Climate Change”
More made-up shit.
And if you managed to get through all of Amazon’s Rings of Power, I applaud you. I stopped at episode 2. By all accounts, it’s an Amazon Prime example of made-up shit. We have, I believe, even had the Nazgirls
A Ferguson unit is a dimensionless factor that is applied to any realistic number to produce a sensationalized result. Typically, a Ferguson unit is anything between 0 and 100,000 and the choice of number is determined by how you’re feeling on that day, or whether the government has recently helped out with your overdraft or promised you a knighthood
If anyone demands my pronouns, they will be 'thou' and 'thine' (because there is only one of me!) and I can them spend the rest of any conversation correcting their verbs and insisting they agree correctly with my pronouns ("No, no - it's "Art thou going to Salisbury today?"). Everyone against wokery should do this as the screechy blue and pink haired nutters won't be able to cope and it's a good excuse to get really offended and whisper hate speech.
The gender ideologues have found a very sneaky and distressing way of exploiting perfectly ordinary dissatisfaction. Everyone at some point dislikes some aspect of their being. The ideologues tell them the world should be adjusted to alleviate that. The most self-absorbed agree. The virtue-signallers and hystericists see an opportunity for attention. Nice people worry that suffering people are suffering more than necessary, which is certainly true: they're being ruthlessly exploited and suckered into a lifetime of very expensive, very limiting medicalized torment.