The "T" Mentality

Today will be a bit of a combo for me—mental health day and PB day. But to start things off, here’s a recommended read from Steve Sailer:

Invasion of the Nasty Nerds

To give you a flavor for it, I’ll excerpt the first few paragraphs, but do follow the link:

The so-far triumphant transgender movement is a political coalition that includes two polar opposite sets of allies who are so radically different in their thought styles that they can’t even begin to understand each other: naive nice moms and smart but not-at-all nice nerdy ex-men. The incoherence of transgenderist ideology is inevitable because its proponents aren’t at all on the same wavelength.

Few of the nice white ladies who make up much of the political support for the fad of surgically altering moody teens have even noticed that a high percentage of the best-known male-to-female trans celebrities are toxically masculine jerks. The ladies presume instead that they must be bullied victims in need of maternal nurturing and protection from the cruel world because that’s who they want them to be. (I suspect, but can’t prove, that mothers were prepped to fall for World War T in the 2010s by the anti-bullying campaign of the 2000s.)

A large part of the mainstream support for the transgender mania comes from nice white-lady mothers, pretty much the same well-meaning suburban moms who buy those “In this house, we believe” lawn signs off the arts-and-crafts website Etsy:

In this house, we believe:
Black Lives Matter.
Women’s rights are human rights.
No human is illegal.
Science is real.
Love is love.
Kindness is everything.

This momcore classic was originally handwritten from preexisting slogans the morning after Donald Trump’s election by Kristin Garvey, a pleasant-looking blond wife, mother of two toddlers, and youth services librarian in Madison, Wis.

In its compilation of woozy conventional wisdom, Garvey’s sign is something of a master class in how not to be a critical thinker. The essence of the current year momist mindset is a pantheistic aversion to drawing distinctions: e.g., “Love is love.” In an age of Diversity, all is one and one is all. Liberal moms these days hate to compare and contrast for fear they might learn something.

It reminds me of those bumper stickers you see: “=”. It’s the mentality that thinks the wild complexity of human nature lived out embodied in virtually countless individual manifestations can somehow be encapsulated in a fundamentally mathematic concept or, better yet, a mathematical symbol.

Where to even begin?