The Enchanted Dagger #2 – Page 11
And with with that, the menace of Trump is brought low. I mean Kalthar. As mentioned, when Trump got in the race it rang a familiar bell and in an abstract way I was excited about it. His ‘naturalistic’ approach was ‘winning’ when compared to the parsed political measurements of his professional politician adversaries. Embodied by the inconsistent Hillary who alternately presents as either infuriatingly dull and wishy-washy or competently overqualified, the tendency to talk out of both sides of their mouths is the real “political correctness” that the half-witted hillbilly voter block on the right find so offensive. The bigotry and racism are baked into the cake. I got a kick out of Trump beating up on the Republican establishment, a gaggle of shills shamelessly exploiting the red state religious nincompoops on behalf of a greedy capitalist aristocracy. I was even willing to discount his questionable statements about Mexicans and Muslims! No, Mexicans aren’t rapists. But the same news organizations that were up in arms about his infamous 2015 kickoff statement had, almost exactly one year earlier, reported with great compassion about a refugee crisis on our southern border. By their own accounting, a despicable percentage of the girls and women attempting to flee their violent homelands were sexually abused by the evil mules who ferried them across the border. His suggestion of the Muslim ban also struck me as offensively feasible as a disincentive (lets give a thought to the human rights of tens of millions of Muslim women here, please), if only in relation to years of meek Obama dithering. Eventually it became too much to ignore though. Those statements about the Judge being a Mexican crossed a line and I begrudgingly voted for Hillary, who I am not sad not to have as president. Hillary was a terrible candidate with awful judgement. If she had picked Bernie to be her VP, an absolute political no brainer, she’d be president right now. Instead, in her first of what would have been many bad decisions, she picks whats his face. I’m betting Hillary was the only person Trump could beat so things could turn around for the Democrats in the next election, but only if they pick a candidate who can bring back those white blue collar Obama voters they lost. You might not like that assessment, but consider this. If the next Democratic Candidate is perceived to be the candidate of Black Lives Matter and “finding a ‘safe place’ to surgically alter my genitalia,” you might end up w/ four more years of Trump.
I feel compelled to comment on my own post! Less than a week after posting the above text which concluded with a warning against the Trump gang’s potential targeting of the trans movement (surgically alter my genitalia), the President as declared, out of the blue by tweet, that trans people are no longer fit for military service! Where did he get this idea? Was it, perchance, via his favorite webcomic, the Enchanted Dagger, hmmm Mr. President? My tone in the statement above was terse, so as to relay the sort of rhetoric that Republican hacks might employ. Its not a reflection of my personal views about trans people. I think all Americans have the right to serve honorably in the military. I do have questions and I confess that gender reassignment makes me nervous…is irreparably Curtailing you sexual function for what might be cosmetic change, albeit one with psychological benefits a good idea? What if the disorder (which is what DSM V calls it) can be corrected in a few years with pharmaceuticals? I also feel that it needs to be differentiated from the new gender paradigm, which seems to me a little bit faddish. I’m having trouble getting past this pro noun thing! I think if you want to define new terms to identify yourself, feel free. But appropriating “they” to identify an individual strikes me as a little absurd. Mx I’m fine with. By You don’t just get to redefine grammer! Trust me on this…Trump did the Democrats a favor by blowing his load on this now instead of 3 years from now…it’s on the table and can be adjusted for. I do worry about young people conflating flirting androgeny with actual transgender conditions and taking it to the extreme. That could be tragic. But I’m sure most young people are more hip to this stuff than I am. I’m just a comic book artist! What do I know….
I propose using Xey/Xeirs (pronounced Zey/Zeirs…we might as well throw some love to the letter X while we edify a harmonious parlance). That would maintain the inflection of the ‘they’ users in the gender click while differentiating it from common ‘they.’ Someone get Chomsky to sign off on the linguistics. There. Now….everybody all at once. “THANK YOU, GREG.” You’re welcome .
Xey also goes with Mx.