Since the beginning of the Butlerian Crisis we know as the Trans Rights crusade, there has been an astonishing lack of interest. This lack of interest is not due to boredom in what Trans Identity is. No, this is due to the utter absurdity that shields the trans rights activists like a mystical bullshit shield that would make Donald Trump look on in envy.
Have you got the link to the tweet you mention here? I have been scrolling through your Tweets & Replies and getting thoroughly distracted by other things to follow up:
"In many ways, I have struggled for weeks to fully describe the absurdity of the Trans Movement. I even had to ask on Twitter what people had experienced when they informed those who are ignorant of the Transgender assault on our humanity. The result was one of my most-liked posts and the answers were exactly what I thought. The unaware observer sees you as nothing more than that guy with his pants at his ankles screaming not to eat the peanut butter because the government transmission intercepted by his fillings has told him it is a mind-control scheme."
This is a really interesting observation on the difference between the presentation of "trans issues" to the public in the UK vs USA.
"The reason for this is simple: in the War of Absurdity, the truth became the first victim. The Trans Movement launched a two-fold assault—one in the UK that centered on feel-good shows like Haley Cropper's Coronation Street, while in the USA, the beating of Chrissy Polis by two teenage black females and the bathroom bills by Conservative states would solidify Trans people as victims needing protection. These two events showcase the differences in US and UK politics and how the Transgender activists used a sympathetic charm campaign in the UK, while in America, the crown of victimhood lay across the brow of the trans community's collective head."
I have had occasional bouts of watching "Corrie" over the decades and one of them, lasting until 2003, coincided with the appearance of Hayley Cropper. Julie Hesmondhalgh won many awards for the part but I had no idea that the character of Hayley Cropper had such political significance.
Corrie is good on dialogue, quirky characters and wry humour - at least it used to be, I hope it still is. However, goody-two-shoes Hayley and decent-but-dull Roy Cropper were two of the wettest characters in the serial. The "reveal" that Hayley had been Harold was ludicrous and, while the Hayley-Roy story-lines had novelty value, it was never possible to suspend disbelief and view Hayley as transsexual who "passed". That is why everything about Hayley's character and any storylines that depended on her "transsexuality" were fantasy rather than fiction.
The Hayley Cropper phenomenon is a reverse of the current TWAW pronoun-brainwashing. Viewers were asked to believe that Hayley was a male playing the part of a woman when Hayley's character was very obviously played by an actress rather than an actor. It would be interesting to know how many viewers were persuaded by the Hayley Cropper character to believe that (what used to be called) "male transsexuals" are indistinguishable from actual women.
As far as I can recall, the issue of Harold/Hayley's sexuality was never discussed. Harold was a straight, heterosexual male who fathered a child, started taking cross-sex hormones in his twenties then first appeared in Corrie aged about 30 as Hayley, a "straight woman".
Despite Harold's brief dive into "straight sex", Hayley's character is a HSTS (Homosexual Transsexual) who has had genital reconstruction surgery, ie. the only sort of transsexual most of us were aware of back in the 1990's UK. The character and storyline would have been very different, and more representative of reality, if Hayley had been an autogynephile with a pseudo-bisexual attraction to poor, long-suffering Roy. However, that would not have been suitable viewing for "before the watershed".
A shame, because it would have been very unlikely to have led to a female MP lobbying for introduction of the Gender Recognition Act, then recognition of "gender reassignment" as a protected characteristic in the Equality Act 2010, which have got us into the mess we now find ourselves in.
So thank you very much, Corrie and Hayley, for suckering the UK public for over 15 years!
(The watershed: 9pm, UK TV programmes before 9pm have to suitable for viewing by children.
I'm on LGBS and SuperStraight General. LGBS is the more active. I joined when Reddit closed down the Super Subs and spent over 24 hours on them! Must admit that I haven't spent much time on them since then.
Something that impressed me was that so many people were saying that they were enjoying the LGBS Discord and the conversations more than anything they had previously experienced on the internet. I got the feeling that most of them were quite young and that many were male. I recognised a few people as possible Mumsnetters or Ovarit members from their posts that were very well informed, referenced and with an explicit feminist slant.
You have reminded me that I should go back and see now things are getting on :-)
Excellent analysis! Thank you!
Have you got the link to the tweet you mention here? I have been scrolling through your Tweets & Replies and getting thoroughly distracted by other things to follow up:
"In many ways, I have struggled for weeks to fully describe the absurdity of the Trans Movement. I even had to ask on Twitter what people had experienced when they informed those who are ignorant of the Transgender assault on our humanity. The result was one of my most-liked posts and the answers were exactly what I thought. The unaware observer sees you as nothing more than that guy with his pants at his ankles screaming not to eat the peanut butter because the government transmission intercepted by his fillings has told him it is a mind-control scheme."
This is a really interesting observation on the difference between the presentation of "trans issues" to the public in the UK vs USA.
"The reason for this is simple: in the War of Absurdity, the truth became the first victim. The Trans Movement launched a two-fold assault—one in the UK that centered on feel-good shows like Haley Cropper's Coronation Street, while in the USA, the beating of Chrissy Polis by two teenage black females and the bathroom bills by Conservative states would solidify Trans people as victims needing protection. These two events showcase the differences in US and UK politics and how the Transgender activists used a sympathetic charm campaign in the UK, while in America, the crown of victimhood lay across the brow of the trans community's collective head."
I have had occasional bouts of watching "Corrie" over the decades and one of them, lasting until 2003, coincided with the appearance of Hayley Cropper. Julie Hesmondhalgh won many awards for the part but I had no idea that the character of Hayley Cropper had such political significance.
Corrie is good on dialogue, quirky characters and wry humour - at least it used to be, I hope it still is. However, goody-two-shoes Hayley and decent-but-dull Roy Cropper were two of the wettest characters in the serial. The "reveal" that Hayley had been Harold was ludicrous and, while the Hayley-Roy story-lines had novelty value, it was never possible to suspend disbelief and view Hayley as transsexual who "passed". That is why everything about Hayley's character and any storylines that depended on her "transsexuality" were fantasy rather than fiction.
The Hayley Cropper phenomenon is a reverse of the current TWAW pronoun-brainwashing. Viewers were asked to believe that Hayley was a male playing the part of a woman when Hayley's character was very obviously played by an actress rather than an actor. It would be interesting to know how many viewers were persuaded by the Hayley Cropper character to believe that (what used to be called) "male transsexuals" are indistinguishable from actual women.
As far as I can recall, the issue of Harold/Hayley's sexuality was never discussed. Harold was a straight, heterosexual male who fathered a child, started taking cross-sex hormones in his twenties then first appeared in Corrie aged about 30 as Hayley, a "straight woman".
https://coronationstreet.fandom.com/wiki/Hayley_Cropper#1966-1997:_Becoming_Hayley
Despite Harold's brief dive into "straight sex", Hayley's character is a HSTS (Homosexual Transsexual) who has had genital reconstruction surgery, ie. the only sort of transsexual most of us were aware of back in the 1990's UK. The character and storyline would have been very different, and more representative of reality, if Hayley had been an autogynephile with a pseudo-bisexual attraction to poor, long-suffering Roy. However, that would not have been suitable viewing for "before the watershed".
A shame, because it would have been very unlikely to have led to a female MP lobbying for introduction of the Gender Recognition Act, then recognition of "gender reassignment" as a protected characteristic in the Equality Act 2010, which have got us into the mess we now find ourselves in.
So thank you very much, Corrie and Hayley, for suckering the UK public for over 15 years!
(The watershed: 9pm, UK TV programmes before 9pm have to suitable for viewing by children.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/advice-for-consumers/television/what-is-the-watershed )
Genderwang, are you on the discord?
Ah! I am not on @ogsuperstraight - I'll DM you on Twitter for an invite :-)
The ogsupestraight server was nuked by the owner. We had to start a new one a month ago. This server is better but we need more people.
Cheers! I've found it from the link in your Twitter bio and joined :-)
The info about ogsuperstraight is in your Substack info - this is where I found it:
https://hamzawatani.substack.com/p/coming-soon
I'm on LGBS and SuperStraight General. LGBS is the more active. I joined when Reddit closed down the Super Subs and spent over 24 hours on them! Must admit that I haven't spent much time on them since then.
Something that impressed me was that so many people were saying that they were enjoying the LGBS Discord and the conversations more than anything they had previously experienced on the internet. I got the feeling that most of them were quite young and that many were male. I recognised a few people as possible Mumsnetters or Ovarit members from their posts that were very well informed, referenced and with an explicit feminist slant.
You have reminded me that I should go back and see now things are getting on :-)