If you don’t think he’s a woman, you’re transphobic. When he claimed to be a woman, he became a woman. He now belongs in women’s changing rooms, bathrooms, hospital wards, prison cells and rape support centres.
If you try and differentiate between him and a trans woman who looks more convincing as a woman, you are promoting patriarchal beauty norms. If you admit to seeing an aggressive and possibly unbalanced man in this video, you’re saying all trans people are mentally ill predators. If you refuse to let him into female-only spaces, you’re removing his right to exist. If you suggest he could comfortably use male facilities, you secretly want him assaulted. If you refuse to call him ‘she’, you are guilty of unpardonable cruelty. If you’re a woman who wouldn’t want to share a locker room with him, or a man who wouldn’t want your daughter, sister or mother to get undressed in close proximity to him, you belong to the far-right. If you point out that there is no objective difference between his claim to be a woman and that of any other biological male claiming a trans identity, you are too stupid to understand the circular arguments explaining why he’s not really trans whereas other men who say they’re women are really trans.
If you’re righteous, you must argue that this man’s self-declared identity overrides any consideration of the safety and rights of females. To be godly, you must agree he’s as ‘valid’ as every other trans woman, because people are who they say they are. No matter what your eyes, ears and common sense are telling you, if you don’t want to end up on the wrong side of history, you must pretend to believe that this angry, intimidating man is actually a vulnerable, oppressed woman.
jordan peterson on choosing a partner for marriage:
1. Attraction isn't optional. it's weird and biological. scientists once rated men by how symmetrical their faces were, then had them wear the same t-shirt for a day. women rated the symmetrical men's body odor as more attractive. smell alone gave it away.
2. after attraction, trust is everything. no marriage survives without it. you have to be able to tell each other the truth.
3. think of marriage as handcuffing yourself to someone. you tell them the truth, they tell you the truth, and neither of you gets to run away. that's what forces you to actually grow instead of hiding.
4. our culture massively undervalues marriage. it's roughly a third of your life. kids are another third. skipping either one is a bigger mistake than people realize.
5. look for someone who'd be a good mother. if a woman's in her mid-twenties and still doesn't know she wants kids, that's usually a sign something's off psychologically. not always. but usually.