In an earlier post, I flippantly declared the existence of 5 sexes. At least. Give or take. Biologist Anne Fausto-Sterling makes that case at the same time that she presents the scientific and meta-scientific argument that gender and sexuality are arbitrary and imposed.
The fake world of politics seems to be imitating the real world of art and science. In the wonderland of Ontario, the Ministry of Education has now introduced an anti-bullying campaign that includes: the establishment of gay-straight clubs in all schools upon student request (and all means Catholic homophobic ones, too!), the expulsion of bullies as a last resort and--and this is a huge "and"--sensitive instruction on gender issues, including lessons about the 6 genders. Not just 5 but 6!!! At least. Give or take.
Well, don't rejoice and sing the Hallelulah Chorus just yet my fellow darklings. The real Hallelujah Chorus of the JesusWeenie faction is up in arms and appalled and self-righteously outraged and otherwise writhing and wrathing and raving about in the sanctimonious Gormenghast that is their ideal White Christmas Canada.
Foremost among the JesusWeenies can be found the inaptly named Institute for Canadian Values. Well, because, you know, intolerance, homophobia, transphobia and religious bigotry are all Canadian values and not the hackneyed dreams of the false worshippers of a past that never was. Anyway, the Institute has launched a grotesque stop corrupting our children campaign. I mean, seriously, you can hear Mrs. Lovejoy shrieking, "What about the children?! Won't somebody please think of the children!?" And of course, the children, that's really what this is all about, in'it?
Right, JesusWeenies care about children as much as they care about women and real people in general. This is the Canadian Taliban out to impose their version of this country on the rest of us. Just as anti-choice is about controlling women, this anti-corruption campaign is about controlling children--and marginalizing LGBTQ people in the name of family, religious and parental freedom. The freedom of institutions and structures that restrict and script us.
Just look at the horror over questioning gender and the diatribes against the fabled radical politically correct agenda. The sacrosanct binary system of the family-sex-gender complex is under attack and it must be defended. Because society needs the simple world of twos, of easily reducible and complimentary opposites. If there are more than two sexes, then there will be sexual chaos and all of civilization will crumble into the anarchic orgy of mass confusion and liquidating pleasure. Without two, we have no discipline; and no law and order and no work and production and no inequality and authority.
And, of course, that is the whole point. Let's have a little sexual chaos. A little polymorphous perversity. Let's undermine this little fantasy world called 'Western Civilization.'
Maybe when we start doing that, we'll actually help a few children unlike the JesusWeenie bullies behind the bullies. Charles McVety, the President of the Institute of Canadian Values, asks about the gender-bending side of the anti-bullying campaign, 'And what does this have to do with bullying? Nothing!' There's the naked face of hatred, brutality and oppression.
Ask Jamie Hubley what homophobia and transphobia have to do with bullying. Ask Billy Lucas, Asher Brown and Seth Walsh. Ask the more than 200 LGBTQ people killed this year alone or the hugely disproportionate number of LGBTQ teenagers who try to kill themselves or succeed. Hell, you don't have to ask them. Everyone who has grown up in this hate-ridden society knows that 'fag' and 'lesbian' and 'queer' are the archetypal taunts of the bully.
If anything homophobia/transphobia and bullying are one and the same thing. Bullying is about imposing sexual and gender norms. You know it, Chuckie boy. That's why you're being so coy and disingenuous. You are a bully, like all your fundie friends. You want to protect your racket.
Yes, it does get better. But only because we combat hatred, intolerance and religious bigotry.
Let's keep Canada loud and proud, my dark comrades!
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