10/9/13 Washington Times Op-Ed: Transgender Equality Movement Will "Dismantle" Civilization | Blog | Media Matters for America mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/09/washington-times-op-ed-transgender-equality-mov/196364 1/6 Like 2 Tweet 15 0 28 Washington Times Op-Ed: Transgender Equality Movement Will "Dismantle" Civilization Blog ››› 55 minutes ago ››› LUKE BRINKER An op-ed in the conservative Washington Times assailed the campaign for transgender equality, lamenting that "you no longer need lady bits to be a lady" and asserting that the LGBT movement is part of a broader left-wing effort to "dismantle" Western civilization. In an October 9 column, the Media Research Center's Matt Philbin complained that it's becoming increasingly unacceptable to misidentify transgender individuals. According to Philbin, the notion that we should respect a person's gender identity is emblematic of a larger leftist cult of identity: My privilege invalidates my perspective on how you identify. If you had to read that sentence twice and maybe are still unsure what it means, you're woefully unfamiliar with contemporary liberal-speak. You see, "identify" and "privilege" are terms with great currency on the left these days. They are also two sides of the same magic coin, minted to instantly quash dissent and silence argument. This became abundantly clear recently when I made the mistake of commenting on Twitter about the latest 6-year-old "Princess Boy" news story. My crime, according to the liberals I offended, was declining to call a boy a girl. I'm rather a stickler for reality, and because the child was a biological boy, to my benighted thinking, the male pronouns still applied. [...] First, that matter of "identifying": In 2013, you no longer need lady bits to be a lady. You need only "identify" as one -- reality be darned. In modern America, you can't earn a living the way you want to, or build on your own property if it impacts the habitat of the spotted slug. But call yourself a halibut, and you can self-righteously demand the world cover you in beurre blanc and serve you with a dry white. How you identify is sovereign. If Bradley Manning says he's Chelsea, then, by golly, the world is expected to send gender-warming gifts with a C embroidered on them. (Would his and hers hand towels be inappropriate?) We're all expected to choose sides in Manning's argument with biology, and make no mistake: Biology is in the wrong. Anyone with the temerity to point out the empress has no womb is a bigot. Woe unto the pronoun refusenik who happens to be a straight, white guy. As my possibly straight and definitely white Twitter interlocutors so damningly pointed out, I am guilty as charged. Told to "check my privilege," my instinctual response was to suggest they check their bong. In their eyes, I am a creature of privilege. My skin color and reproductive organs -- Blog Video Blog Blog › All posts › Twitter Luke Brinker has been a researcher at Equality Matters since July 2013. He holds an M.A. in the social sciences from the University of Chicago. ABOUT THE BLOG Our blog section features rapid response fact- checks of conservative misinformation, links to media criticism from around the web, commentary, analysis and breaking news from Media Matters' senior fellows, investigative team, researchers and other staff. LUKE BRINKER ››› LATEST ››› George Will's Bad Obamacare/Segregation Argument 24 minutes ago Laura Ingraham Wishes That 1,100 Immigrants Would Be Deported Today 28 minutes ago Washington Times Op-Ed: Transgender Equality Movement Will "Dismantle" Civilization 55 minutes ago Fox's Erickson Issues New Debt Ceiling Marching Orders To GOP 1 hour and 16 minutes ago Local Conservative Media Jump The Gun To Attack Exchange Rollout R SS ABOUT CONTACT search Like on Facebook Recommend on Google View our pin boards Sign up for our mailing lists Follow on Tumblr Subscribe YouTube 16K FOLLOW US ››› Follow @mmfa 125K follow ers 21k Like 144k ISSUES BLOG VIDEO RESEARCH DONATE
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10/9/13 Washington Times Op-Ed: Transgender Equality Movement Will "Dismantle" Civilization | Blog | Media Matters for America
conservative theory about how only the "liberal" print media is struggling.
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GeniusLemur • 22 minutes ago
Right wingers claim transgender equality will be the end of civilization. They said the same
thing about equality for nonwhites, equality for women, the end of slavery, voting rights for
non-landowners, questioning the king in public, allowing people to not worship the
emperor... shall I go on?
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Jimijams • 18 minutes ago
I don't see how less than .0001% of the population can dismantle ANY society, and if they
could, that society was too weak to begin with.
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Kit tenMit tons • 17 minutes ago
This charge of privilege amounts to a simple statement: You had your time, white guy.
You built this civilization.
This, of course, can be fodder for an entirely different post. White men like Philbin thinkwhite men built Western civilization with their ideas alone, with their own blood and sweat.His assumption of white male preponderance in building civilization shows us how ignoranthe is.
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LordofLight • 16 minutes ago
>>This charge of privilege amounts to a simple statement: You had your time, white guy.
You built this civilization. You're going to sit quietly while we dismantle it.>>
Actually, a large portion of the Southern civilization was built by African-Americans free of
charge (even after the supposed emancipation of slaves).
So how are people who are merely being themselves going to "dismantle" civilization?
That's gotta be one heck of a conspiracy theory; can't wait for his next op-ed.
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The_C_a_t • 9 minutes ago
I'm not buying his persecution complex, or his lousy attempts at logic for that matter.
You know, I'm a straight white Christian male in 21st century America, and I've never felt
the tiniest bit persecuted. Am I weird?
> o.- <
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politeradical • 5 minutes ago
Culture warriors love to extrapolate offenses to their tender sensibilities into civilization
ending calamities.
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Steve N • 5 minutes ago
Haven't right-wing bigots and morons said this exact thin about EVERY "equality