2 + 2 = 5

This was bound to happen eventually.

These are all girls. Keep repeating it to yourself until you believe it. If you don't agree that these are all girls, you will be punished.

Gabrielle Ludwig, a 51-year old, 6' 8", 220# man is claiming to be a woman. A couple of years ago, he played on the Mission College women's basketball team. The news media reports all fawned over him. It was a breakthrough!

Oh, it was a breakthrough alright. It was a break through reality. John Zmirak, writing at The Stream, penned a marvelous piece tying this phenomenon in with George Orwell's 1984.

Leftists long ago abandoned as too restrictive any notion of Natural Law. That is, a structure and purpose and code of right and wrong encoded in human nature. Without such a law, we live not just unanchored. We’re more like a ship at sea that doesn’t even have a rudder. We simply drift from one place to another, based on the shifting winds of political power and intellectual fashions. We are ruled not by Reason but Will — the whims, in fact, of the cognitive elite, the bureaucracies they dominate, and the corporations they control.

Read the whole thing. John claims that the Secular Left forces this fantasy world upon us because it must create a secondary reality in order to survive. This is an alternate world where it makes the rules and we all must live by them. I don't agree with that part, but I'm open to being convinced. I have a different interpretation which I will explore in a future blog post.

Robert Reilly, writing at The Catholic World Report, suggests that this is a new form of Gnosticism.

Gnosticism does not accept the evidence of reality. It is not a matter of what Gnostics do not know, but of what they refuse to acknowledge. Composer Igor Stravinsky wrote that “the old original sin was one of knowledge, the new original sin is one of non-acknowledgment.” It is the refusal to acknowledge anything outside the operation of the human will—most especially “the good” toward which the soul is ordered. The Gnostic is not interested in conforming his mind to reality but in conforming reality to his wishes.

I spent some time investigating the Gnostics and I think it's a stretch to fit the square peg of the Secular Left  into that round hole, but I'm open to convincing on that, too.

The key feature of all of this goes back to 1984. This is a fantasy. That photo is 2+2=5. The only way to get the rest of us to agree with it is to torture us in some way, to fill us with such fear of reprisals and punishments that we all agree that a massive man is actually a woman.

Because the Secular Left are Nazis Without Ambition, that is they lack the ambition to be willing to die for their cause, I just don't see them being able to summon enough raw power to jam this insanity down our throats. You can see that in the replies on Twitter about men pretending to be women and just crushing the competition in sports. The Normals aren't buying it and until the Secular Left can figure out how to put us all in re-education gulags, it's not going to happen.