CAUTION: irreverent controversy alert!
Based on breaking news, I posted the following today on my OK Cupid profile page and thought that some of you might be able to appreciate it.
"OK, I think I've reached the end of my ability to tolerate the expectation that we all knuckle under to one increasing level of misguided political correctness after another. This may get me kicked off OK Cupid, but I'm ready for that. OKC, airbnb and other online organizations have recently been asking their users to comply with what amount to loyalty oaths, mostly along the lines of promising not to 'discriminate' (one of the most vaguely-defined terms ever) against people of alternative genders, sexual orientations, identifications, etc. -- including on this site agreeing to ensure that such discrimination will not affect our dating choices.
"Today, I heard a news story about a report from a major LGBTQ group that has determined (for the rest of us, of course) that we are no longer to idly sit by and let body parts sustain names that were given them by dead white men. So, going forward, we're all to start calling them something different (watch out, because this means a new loyalty oath is on its way, and if you think I'm kidding, just check out the prosecutions and lawsuits going on around the nation of people who have supposedly gravely damaged another human being by referring to hir with a gender pronoun with which s/he doesn't identify): the vagina will now be referred to as 'the front hole;' the anus will now be referred to as 'the back hole;' and the mouth will now be referred to as 'the upper hole.'
"No way am I going to give in to what amounts to evidence that a significant portion of our culture has literally embraced insanity. Even besides the assault that it would represent on free speech (guaranteed by our 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution), something perhaps even more insidious is occurring here.
"One of the opening salvos of the scourge known as feminism was the declaration that women were being treated as sex objects; could there be anything more sexually objectifying than renaming precious body parts that just happen to have among their uses sexual potential 'this hole', 'that hole' and 'the other hole'?
"Moreover, I see this as potential evidence that a blatantly cynical effort is being perpetrated to elevate in the sexual realm those who penetrate over those who receive, and I don't think the LGBTQ community or the wymyn's movement should stand for this. Observe the disrespect inherent in using the term 'hole' to denote each of the orifices in question. Donuts have holes, and Swiss cheese has holes, but mouths, vaginas and anuses are not holes -- one cannot see through them or blow them; in fact, one couldn't blow with a mouth if it were a hole. More distressing is the clear absence of renaming the penis, and I suspect this isn't accidental but evidence that this whole thing is a not-necessarily-subtle but nonetheless-covert strategy on the part of penetratists to assert superiority over receptivists -- because EVERY renaming is of a receptive orifice. And I, for one, will not support such a movement intended to produce dominance for male oppressors and female strap-ons in the bedroom."
[Wink, wink!]
Based on breaking news, I posted the following today on my OK Cupid profile page and thought that some of you might be able to appreciate it.
"OK, I think I've reached the end of my ability to tolerate the expectation that we all knuckle under to one increasing level of misguided political correctness after another. This may get me kicked off OK Cupid, but I'm ready for that. OKC, airbnb and other online organizations have recently been asking their users to comply with what amount to loyalty oaths, mostly along the lines of promising not to 'discriminate' (one of the most vaguely-defined terms ever) against people of alternative genders, sexual orientations, identifications, etc. -- including on this site agreeing to ensure that such discrimination will not affect our dating choices.
"Today, I heard a news story about a report from a major LGBTQ group that has determined (for the rest of us, of course) that we are no longer to idly sit by and let body parts sustain names that were given them by dead white men. So, going forward, we're all to start calling them something different (watch out, because this means a new loyalty oath is on its way, and if you think I'm kidding, just check out the prosecutions and lawsuits going on around the nation of people who have supposedly gravely damaged another human being by referring to hir with a gender pronoun with which s/he doesn't identify): the vagina will now be referred to as 'the front hole;' the anus will now be referred to as 'the back hole;' and the mouth will now be referred to as 'the upper hole.'
"No way am I going to give in to what amounts to evidence that a significant portion of our culture has literally embraced insanity. Even besides the assault that it would represent on free speech (guaranteed by our 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution), something perhaps even more insidious is occurring here.
"One of the opening salvos of the scourge known as feminism was the declaration that women were being treated as sex objects; could there be anything more sexually objectifying than renaming precious body parts that just happen to have among their uses sexual potential 'this hole', 'that hole' and 'the other hole'?
"Moreover, I see this as potential evidence that a blatantly cynical effort is being perpetrated to elevate in the sexual realm those who penetrate over those who receive, and I don't think the LGBTQ community or the wymyn's movement should stand for this. Observe the disrespect inherent in using the term 'hole' to denote each of the orifices in question. Donuts have holes, and Swiss cheese has holes, but mouths, vaginas and anuses are not holes -- one cannot see through them or blow them; in fact, one couldn't blow with a mouth if it were a hole. More distressing is the clear absence of renaming the penis, and I suspect this isn't accidental but evidence that this whole thing is a not-necessarily-subtle but nonetheless-covert strategy on the part of penetratists to assert superiority over receptivists -- because EVERY renaming is of a receptive orifice. And I, for one, will not support such a movement intended to produce dominance for male oppressors and female strap-ons in the bedroom."
[Wink, wink!]
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