‘BOOB JOBS’ FOR 16-YEAR-OLDS
While a nose job and castration are technically surgeries, they are not the same thing
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‘BOOB JOBS’ FOR 16-YEAR-OLDS
At about two in the morning eastern standard time today, Jill Filipovic thought she had an idea for a genius tweet.
If you don’t know who she is, you’re probably leading a productive life. Filipovic is a progenitor of and an expert and adherent to Neo Marxist Gender ideology. As an acolyte, she has written feminist gender screeds for The New York Times, the Guardian, Cosmopolitan, CNN and the like. Her creds are what you’d expect, she earned a bachelors in journalism, politics and gender studies from New York University, where she’d also later go on to earn a JD.
As if you need more evidence she’s damaged goods, she also calls herself a “Yogi.” Frankly, people who take stretching class that seriously are usually mentally ill in one way or another.
Among her many brain damaged takes over the years, by far my favorite was her 2013 Guardian article that everyone on the left absolutely loved.
“Why should women change their names? Let men change theirs”
I’ve encountered this argument before. Once at a dinner with Meta execs and “fact checkers” several years ago, one of the execs said she kept her maiden name because she and her husband didn’t want to perpetuate patriarchal structures.
“So you kept your father’s name?” I said, with a hint of a smile.
Everyone at the table practically dropped their forks.
If a headline could be a microcosm for the left’s self undermining and self destructive worldview, it would be that one from Filipovic.
I also noticed that, despite dedicating 1300 words to the subject, one particular word was entirely absent.
The vernacular word “dad” does appear, however, in perhaps the most twisted series of logic flaws I’ve ever seen.
“My last name was my dad’s anyway,” she writes as a hypothetical argument, one she then flatly asserts “makes no sense.”
“If your last name is really your dad’s, then no one, including your dad, has a last name that’s actually theirs.”
If you’re having trouble following that, it’s because it “makes no sense.” (It could also be construed, if the naming logic is followed back down the line to the very beginning, to the very first name, as a case for God, but I’ve digressed too much at this point.)
So we have Filipovic thinking she’s an insightful genius, as usual, and virtually no one in her sphere telling her otherwise, and she punches out this absolute gem at 2:22 am.
“If we’re going to ban gender-affirming surgeries for minors, we should ban all cosmetic surgery for minors. A 15-year-old should not be getting a nose job. A 16-year-old should not be getting a boob job. Exceptions of course for medically necessary procedures.”
Let’s set aside her blithe sexualization of children. Shortened and stripped of euphemism, her argument is this: If 16-year-olds can’t get their penises and breasts cut off, then they also shouldn’t be allowed to get penises and breasts added to their bodies.
By God, Jill, you’ve gotten so stupid in your argumentation that you’ve actually punched a hole into smart. Shame you’re probably too goofy to figure it out.
Of course, sober conservative onlookers, brains intact and quarantined from the stew of Gay Race Communism, looked at her tweet and instantly agreed.
In response, National Review columnist Charles Cooke pointed out my favorite version of the Filipovic equation.
Yes, liberals stopped making that argument – that if we ban abortion we should enforce productive fatherhood – the moment conservatives fell all over themselves to agree. Unlike Gay Race Communists, conservatives believe a father is something that should be included in families, by force if necessary (shotgun wedding anyone?).
Despite her blathering, highly credentialed ignorance, I expect Filipovic to come to an at least dim realization when she wakes up this morning, sees she’s trending on X, and reads through her replies.
Of course, Dear Reader, it’s needless to say that while a nose job and castration are technically surgeries, they are not the same thing.
Regardless, Jill, we find your terms acceptable.
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