Last updated July 12, 2022.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - Orwell, 1984
It is to be expected when mavericks like Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin are punished for being on the wrong side of an issue involving transgenderism.1
It is even expected from certain rogue celebrities like James Woods or Kevin Sorbo.
What is not so expected is when the wrong-think comes from the likes of Bette Midler and Macy Gray. But the times, they are a’changin’.
July 4th, 2022
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It’s been in the air since before Bette Midler2 or Macy Gray made these statements. For example, JK Rowling has been in the doghouse, as they say, for wrongthink with regard to transgenderism. Speaking of whom, she had this to say about what Macy Gray said…
Something tells me I will be updating this before-long as our little time in history carries on.
You see, if you level your lance at stone-wrought wind-mills, your quixotic crusade is doomed to fail. Your ship crashed, smashed and dashed ashore on rocky crags, splinters splattered asunder. Fool! Think you to attack liberty and succeed? And what folly it is to think you can blaspheme womanhood for long! Sooner or later the sleeping giant will awaken and shrug you off like the Lilliputians that you are.
No matter what
You can't beat back the wind
No matter what
No matter what
You can't keep down the rising tide
(Lyrics from No Matter What by Underdog)
UPDATES
After I wrote the above, Midler tweeted this thread…
PEOPLE OF THE WORLD! My tweet about women was a response to this fascinating and well written piece in the NYT on July 3rd. tinyurl.com/2p9dw2th. There was no intention of anything exclusionary or transphobic in what I said; it wasn’t about that.It was about the same old shit women – ALL WOMEN – have been putting up with since the cavemen. Even then, men got top billing. But seriously, folks, if anyone who read that tweet thinks I have anything but love for any marginalized people, go to Wikipedia and type in my name.
But…
Also…
On this date, also, Rolling Stone published Macy Gray Thinks People ‘Misunderstood’ Her Transphobic Comments. They Didn’t by Thomas Mier who characterized Gray’s views expressed in her interview with Morgan as “anti-trans bullshit”, claimed she made “wildly transphobic comments” and complained that “she said trans women who receive gender-affirming surgery aren’t really women.”
They wrote that Piers Morgan is a “certified transphobe” and that he “baited” Gray by asking “for her definition of a “woman””
They also wrote…
the “Sweet Baby” singer said she believed women to be “a human being with boobs… and a vagina.” She also later agreed with the interviewer that trans women have no place in women’s sports…
They preached…
Let’s be clear: trans people’s gender identities are not defined by their genitals. Whatever body part people have between their legs is no one’s business
…and…
It seems that Gray doesn’t understand that trans women — regardless of the sex they were assigned at birth — are simply women.
There they go with the belief that one’s sex is made up by the person filling out the form. When you see those forms that say the baby’s weight and sex and so on, you’re seeing a made up number and a made up sex. Yep. The person filling out those forms are not observing and recording real attributes. Nope. they are making it up. There’s no such thing as large new born babies or small ones or male babies or female babies. It’s made up. Sure, Rolling Stone, you’re, um, sane.
GLAAD defines gender identity as “a person’s internal, deeply held knowledge of their own gender.” Trans people’s gender identities are not built on anatomical differences, but on their own sense of identity and expression — and unlike, Gray’s definition, it’s not something you can simply “see.”
GLAAD Accountability Project, we’re gonna need your help explaining this one to Ms. Gray.
They then indulge in the irrational and demonstrably incorrect view that if one questions the radical agendas being pushed, one is afraid of transgenderism. meanwhile, some of us know, are, or are friends with transgender people who disagree with those radical agendas. If a transgender person does not agree that the government should force people to use other peoples’ preferred pronouns, is that transgender person transphobic or hateful towards transgender people? That’s an absurd and extremely stupid view. Yet, they label Rowling a “transphobe”…
During the televised conversation, Morgan brought up his fellow British transphobe J.K. Rowling, who has become infamous for her think-pieces and tweet threads invalidating trans experiences.
Gray defended her. “But it’s the truth,” Gray said. “And I don’t think you should be called transphobic just because you don’t agree… there’s a lot of judgment and throwing stones at people for just saying what it is.”
(The Harry Potter writer tweeted on Tuesday that “today feels like a good day to ensure I’ve bought @MacyGraysLife’s entire back catalog.”)
Fast-forward to Tuesday, after Gray received all this backlash, she tried to find a way to backtrack her comments and pretend like she was simply “misunderstood.” In a statement to Rolling Stone, she said, “I have nothing but love for the LGBTQ+ and transgender community and have been a supporter since Day One.”
She added, “My statement on Piers Morgan was grossly misunderstood. I don’t hate anyone. I respect everyone’s right to feel comfortable in their bodies and live their own truth.”
She also went on a “reply” tirade on Twitter telling one guy there was “no bigger admirer of the LGBT community” than herself, adding that, actually, for her, “‘women’ is a title that you earn and become… there are plenty of females who aren’t women yet.”
Looking at the facts, 2021 alone was the “deadliest year” for transgender and gender non-conforming folks. Three hundred seventy-five people were murdered worldwide last year alone, according to Transrespect versus Transphobia.
One thing’s for sure: Gray’s antiquated, misguided, and hateful rhetoric surrounding trans people is the type of sentiment that has had deadly consequences. The violent killings of trans Black women Brazil Johnson and Kitty Monroe last week are just the most recent examples.
Like her forthcoming LP’s name, maybe it’s time for Macy Gray to Reset her beliefs surrounding transness.
Also…
Now for a surprising dialogue between Macy Gray and Gad Saad (“Professor, Evolutionary Behavioral Scientist, Author” of The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense and other books)…
July 9, 2022, 2:23am
Hopefully there will be more juicy interaction to update with.
July 9th, the Post Millennial published Macy Gray backtracks her claim that men aren't women after woke backlash by Joshua Young.
In response to Gad Saad’s tweet at 2:23am on July 9…
An account called FiLiA (a UK feminist organization according to the Post Millennial) tweeted..
Matt Walsh, currently infamous for his documentary What is a Woman? responded…
FiLiA responded…
J.K. Rowling responded to that tweet by Walsh with this…
Walsh responded to that with these 2 tweets…
Rowling replied…
..to which Walsh responded…
…and…
This is the madness we face…
Meanwhile, I ask…
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F O O T N O T E S
See this thread by Jordan Peterson’s daughter…
Also see…
Jordan Peterson Suspended by Twitter Over Post Referring to Transgender Actor by Mimi Nguyen Ly for the Epoch Times, June 30, 2022
Twitter suspends Jordan Peterson for tweet about Elliot Page’s trans ‘sin’ by Emily Lefroy for the New York Post, June 30, 2022, 2:39am, updated
Twitter suspends Dave Rubin after he shows support for Dr. Jordan Peterson, also suspended by Chris Pandolfo for the Blaze, July 5th, 2022