Yang on Gender: A Wider Lens Podcast
To persist in empirical reality is now a form of heterodoxy
Gender: A Wider Lens Podcast may be the single best news source extant for in-depth discussion of gender ideology, hosting a range of experts and practitioners far more knowledgeable about the subject than me. My modest contribution to an ongoing dialogue from which I have obtained most of what I know about the subject was to situate the gender ideology within the wider politics of ideological succession and to sketch out, in a somewhat woozy series of spontaneous dithyrambic monologues, its function as “the highest form of Successor Ideology,” the domain in which activist capture of knowledge-forming and certifying institutions has gone furthest fastest with the most destructive consequences and no sign of restraint in sight . A commenter at YouTube timestamped a handful of interesting moments that I have reproduced in the body of this message. I tried to transcribe parts of this, but the words do not work as written text at all. Somehow the medium of the impassioned human voice — my own — imbues these words with an uncanny coherence of both sense and affect that can’t quite be grasped except through listening.
26:47 This is a great point about "being based in material reality" now meaning to be "heterodox" 29:49 "This process of ideological capture is more advanced on this issue than any other issue" 50:22 This is key. It is young women clamouring for this! And creating a space in which other young women are too frightened of shaming to speak up if they disagree. 55:53 Activist Professionals Professional Activists
Write the book, Wes. Everyone needs it.
You were great on this Wes. I’ve been following this issue closely over the past few years, and it’s been shocking to watch this completely insane ideology being affirmed and promoted by the medical community, educational institutions, liberal media, and the entire Democratic establishment. It’s been clearly obvious for a while now that there is a social contagion occurring among teenage girls, but no one ever pumped the brakes on treatment. I’ve never seen anything like it. Your voice is much needed.