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   oldernow to All   
   Tired of the pretend yet?   
   05 Apr 24 20:38:30   
   
   From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   I've a friend from high school days who regularly complains   
   about perpetually feeling compelled to openly pretend that   
   men and women are "equal" per modern liberal dogma. He   
   basically goes on and on about how much less - in his   
   own experience/reality - women are than men, and yet   
   wants to remain a member of the   
   let's-pretend-things-about-reality-and-then-go-on-   
   to-congratulate-ourselves-to-each-other-for-having-   
   elevated-pretence-to-the-level-of-reality party,   
   I imagine for some kind of personal benefit that   
   exceeds the cognitive dissonance misery he   
   claims to be regularly experiencing.   
      
   Unfortunately, he doesn't seem capable of understanding he's   
   railing - not to mention transgressing  - against what might   
   be called the first commandment of the modern liberal religion. He   
   embraces an ideology demanding openly displayed acceptance thereof,   
   and then becomes mystified when suffering in that pretence due to   
   the reality itself perpetually lifting its middle finger to that   
   dogma in the course of simply being what truly is.   
      
   What's extra sadly funny about that state of affairs is that   
   the gullible morons clinging to such manufactured-reality dogma   
   *themselves* attest to the bullshit of the situation by inventing   
   even *more* genders - whose alleged existence/reality consists   
   utterly of people identifying therewith.   
      
   To wit: why do you need to create new language/terms/labels   
   to distinguish between what you claim to believe are EQUALS?   
      
   The answer is that they're trying to have it both ways. They want   
   to be seen as "woke" by droning on the equality mantra, but clearly   
   don't believe it, as evidenced in their insistence that "equals"   
   be referred to by difference-rooted gender terminology.   
      
   --   
   oldernow   
   xyz001 at nym.hush.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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