Background: “Cultural appropriation” is one of the few sins actually recognized by the Wokemob. One can not, it seems, be white and wear african jewelry or cook mexican food, at the risk of inciting the Wokemob.
They seem to be more tolerant of people of non-Western descent using things invented in the west, like free speech and respect for the individual (as long as they are that individual), but let’s not get carried away in technicalities, here.
Foreground: The actress formerly known as Ellen Page – most famous for starring in Juno, the inescapable and insufferable indy sensation that put former Minneapolitan “Diablo Cody” on the map way back when – is now Elliot Page, and has asked to be referred to by the pronouns “he” and “they”.
And the media – mainstream and social – have complied with that demand at a clip that would have terrified Orwell, and probably Emmanuel Goldstein as well.
Elliot Page was never a woman, Winston.
Appropriated: Brendan O’Neil has an excellent piece at Spiked on the subject, focusing on three subjects – the Orwellian completeness of the “transformation”, the deleterious effect of the Transgender mafia on gay kids…
…and the bit that caught my attention: Page’s cultural appropriation. I’ll add some emphasis.
The disappearing of Ellen Page, and the demonisation of anyone who dares to mention that woman’s name, matters because it tells us a great deal about the increasing instability and elitism of identity politics. There are many reasons we should have a frank, legitimate discussion about Ellen Page rather than robotically repeating that she is now a he and that anyone who says otherwise is a moral reprobate. First, is it really the case that Page is male? A he? How can someone who doesn’t have male biology and who has had no male experiences – boyhood, male puberty, masculine impulses, being a brother, an uncle, a father – be a ‘he’? How does that work? Is it magic? Or have words like male, he, brother and father been so denuded of meaning thanks to the cult of genderfluidity that anyone can adopt them as their preferred identity? It is not prejudiced to ask these questions; it is reasonable, and important.
And the same goes the other way, for “women” who grew up male as well. If eating a burrito made by a white woman is genocide, what is being an insta-male or female?
It’s not you. It’s not even your identity. It’s the costume of the day.
It’s a lot weirder than that, MBerg.
Page was a lesbian with a live in girl friend.
The girlfriend still insists that she, herself, is a lesbian & is still romantically involved with Page.
But I think that there is something going here that is akin to Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance” concept of quantum mechanics.
The instant page became a man, her girl friend became heterosexual. And this would have been true if the girlfriend had no idea that page had just become a man, and in fact, since page has always been a man and a heterosexual male, her girlfriend has always been a heterosexual, even when they were going bumper-to-bumper.
It is actually not as weird as you think, but much simpler. Ellen’s carrier needed a boost so she clamped on to the topic du jour that would land her most paid TV appearances and exposure. Mission accomplished.
I have a taboo against attempting psychiatric diagnoses on people I don’t know. However it strikes me that a skilled actor or actress might be vulnerable to developing delusions about one’s personality, sexual orientation, and gender. Goes with the territory.
Bah, she just wants some of that White Male Privilege that everyone’s talking about. You know, easier grades, preference in college admissions, affirmative action in hiring, that stuff. Hey, didn’t NASDAQ just add a “must have a White Man on the Board of Directors” requirement? You know, that stuff.
Nothing principled or brave about wanting to join the Literally Nazis so you can scoop up the benefits of oppression and hatred.
I can honestly say I have never worn African jewelry, so won’t miss it much. I do cook Mexican food, better than many Mexicans in fact, but if it’s gotta go, so be it.
In the meantime, I’d like anyone who is not white to turn in your flat-screen, your computer, and your car. Once that is done, remove the commode from your bathroom, well hell, remove the bathroom all together, and dig a hole in the back yard. Turn off that running water and electricity, too.
And that’s just for starters.
I expect to see the vibrant, black and brown community squatting over dung fires in loin cloths (until you weave some cloth by hand since the loom was the invention of a white devil), and cooking up some tasty soul food and tortillas by next weekend.
Ellen Page’s acting opus was playing Treena, the daughter of drunken trailer park manager Jim Lahey in Trailer Park Boys.
She wasn’t very memorable, tbh. In fact, if she’d have discovered she was a boy while the show was still filming, she might have made it to main character status. I can almost see the episode where Ricky and Julian offer to do her tuck and roll in exchange for a case of liquor from Lahey…would have been hilarious.
Could do quite a riff on Life of Brian by asking: “What did White men ever do for us?”
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+did+the+romans+ever+do+for+us&t=brave&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DY7tvauOJMHo
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