From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Fri, 5 Apr 2024, oldernow wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Woke, or any ism for that matter, that tries to compete with reality   
   eventually fails. Reality will always beat any ism. Socialism failed and   
   so will woke:ism. The only question is how long time does it need to   
   distort reality to such extremes that it just stops working?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)