Battling the bullshitters

If others are winning by spewing brazen nonsense, why be a loser and restrict your utterances to what you sincerely believe to be true? IT’S NOT OFTEN YOU’RE PRESENT AT THE birth of a meme. But on 20 January, when the new Trump administration published its executive order on “defending women from gender ideology”, anyone paying attention could watch as the latest transactivist talking point emerged, blinking and squalling, to flummox the world. By defining “male” and “female” as “belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces” the small and large reproductive cell, respectively, the order aimed to halt the stealth redefinition of those words as identities, not biology. Cue an army of libfems, wokebros and blue-haired TikTokers claiming Trump had accidentally abolished the male sex since — apparently — all…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2025

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