black_robin's Journal

Manīju nesen kārtējo apgalvojumu, ka kāda vēsturiska persona, šoreiz - Luīza Meja Elkota, esot bijusi non-binary. Un tad atšķīru 63.lappusi Abigeilas grāmatā:

"There have always been women who broke barriers and inhabited male roles, behavior that would today be sufficient to deem them "gender nonconforming": Joan of Arc, Catherine the Great, George Eliot, George Sand, Sally Ride. But none of these women thought she was less of a woman for having taken on traditionally male roles. None insisted that she was really a man.

They might then be surprised to learn that this is precisely how schoolchildren across America are increasingly being taught to see them: on the female side of the spectrum, perhaps, but not entirely female. A little more to the male side. Or somewhere in between.

California, New Jersey, Colorado, and Illinois all have laws mandating LGBTQ history be thought in schools. As a practical matter, this has meant rewriting social studies textbooks and curricula to "out" the likes of Sally Ride, who kept her lesbianism a secret - perhaps because that wasn't how she wanted to be remembered. She seems to have considered being the first woman in space a little more important. Other giants of history are similarly vulnerable to a "baptism of the dead" - the chance to reemerge as non-binary, genderqueer or trans.

While all this sexual identity politics marches through the front door, a large scale robbery is taking place: the theft of women's achievement. The more incredible a woman is, the more barriers she busts through, the more "gender nonconforming" she is deemed to be. In this perverse schema, by definition, the more amazing a woman is, the less she counts as a woman."

Abigail Shrier, Irreversible damage (2021)