Here’s a question for Progressive philosophers—if any there be. Since we can all choose our “gender” now, why can’t we also select our age and race? And if our decisions flatly contradict reality, so what?
From Mark Luedtke comes a link to the finale of Emile Ratelband’s story. You may remember him: the 69-year-old Dutch gentleman who “argued … in a Netherlands court” that “temporal existence was as fluid as gender. Ratelband feels 49 years old, he has said, and wanted to be legally considered as such to blunt age discrimination.”
Alas, the court voted against him. I guess those who are 69 must stay 69 even if men who are men can pretend they’re women—and increasingly compel the rest of us to participate in that charade.
What about race? Is it as fluid as “gender” or as fixed as age? So far quacks–sorry, doctors are confusing issues of pigment as much as they have those of sex: “A white couple, who have had tanning injections to turn their skin darker, … [claim] that doctors have told them that their future children will be born black.”
But Twitterers “rubbish[ed] the idea of the couple having black babies, pointing out that it’s impossible due to their DNA.” Hmmmm. Wouldn’t it also be impossible to turn a man into a woman or vice versa via cosmetic surgery?
Oh, wait, my bad: I’m applying logic to Progressivism.
4:36 pm on January 25, 2019
