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David Reimer's Life



Dave Reimer was born a boy named Bruce in 1965. He had a twin brother named Brian. Due to urinary issues, doctors recommended circumcision in order to alleviate urinary concerns. The doctor used a controversial method of cauterization which resulted in the complete burning of his penis.



Bruce’s parents were justifiably worried about his future & his happiness with no penis. They took him to Dr. John Money, a quickly emerging psychologist who was a strong proponent of blank slate theory. Dr. John Money was firmly convinced gender was a performance and could be learned away through appropriate psychological & behavioral intervention.

Let’s step through the ideas pioneered by Money. He believed in sex differences & gender differences. His perception of sex differences was small (but larger than feminists consider); he noted sexual dimorphism, that women are vulnerable while rearing children, so that explains why men were the hunters & wanders. However, he coined the term “gender role,” replacing the traditional term “sex role.” He thought most behavior exhibited by men & women was socially constructed. “Gender roles” are the publicly displayed traits; “Gender identity” was how one conceived of their sexual identity.

He was one of the leading scientific forces that helped second-wave feminist smash gender roles & traditional society. Armed with the information that gender & sexuality were social built, they radically altered society. As for Money himself, he transformed the medical & scientific community and turned the professions towards social constructionism. We see the vestiges of this in the supreme reticence of academia to admit biological sex differences. Since feminism & social construction are fused at the hip, they know the disavowal of social constructionism would seriously call into question feminist approaches.

As for Bruce, he began to go to therapy with Money as an infant. Under Money’s recommendation, Bruce’s testicles were removed shortly before two years, but no artificial vagina was created, just left young Bruce with a urinary hole. Bruce was renamed Brenda. Brenda was a patient of Money’s for about a decade, with his brother Brian. Money noted this was perfect for deconstructing gender – as he had the perfect control in Brian.

The therapy was bizarre, making Brenda lie on the ground while Brian made thrusting motions, mimicking penetration. Money believed sexual identity around gender was formed during childhood sexual play. Money claimed that Brenda was a stereotypical girl & Brian the stereotypical boy – concluding gender is completely constructed.

Brenda, however, was not as he portrayed. Brenda refused to wear dresses at an early age and engaged in roughhousing with Brian. Brenda refused to sexualize boys and, for a time, identified as a lesbian. Bullied and abused at school, Brenda developed suicidal tendencies and refused to ever see Money again. She got estrogen treatments and underwent female puberty, growing breasts, developing a feminine voice and the whole bit. For his part, Brian developed a serious case of schizophrenia because of Money’s incredibly reckless and ignorant “therapy.”

Brenda, in high school, dropped the female act and assumed the identity of man – named David. Notice the lack of taking his original name - he was trying to assert autonomy over his life & identity. He eventually had a double mastectomy and had phalloplasty. This was years after he married a woman and became a step-father to a few children.

Brian, unable to cope with mental illness, overdosed on his anti-depressants in 2002. Just two short years later, David’s wife informed him she wanted a divorce. Unable to cope with his life, his brother’s death & his impending divorce, he went to the local grocery store and put a sawed-off shotgun into his mouth and pulled the trigger. He was 38.

Judith Butler: The Profile Of A Delusional Blank Slatist



Let’s talk about a prominent feminist & ardent social constructionist named Judith Butler. Butler is a gay Jewish radical feminist. Like any prominent feminist, she was gifted class & educational privilege. In the so-called hallowed halls of American academia, she came to her fame for her dogged insistence that gender is little more than a performance. Her seminal work is “Gender Trouble," released in 1990 to the cheering applause of feminist & liberal academics.

A brief breakdown is needed. It is considered one of the essential readings of queer theorists & post-structural feminists & liberals. She is generally credited with coining the term “gender perfomativity.” A key point she belabors is the fact that both sex & gender are socially constructed – meaning humans have no inborn traits relating their sexual organs. She argues that is because there is no identity for women behind their gender performance. She further makes a Freudian argument that boys identifying as masculine are repressing homosexual desires for their father – same for feminine women. She calls for radical subversion of gender, such as drag shows. She claims our humanity “admits no genealogy” and we are born into this world completely free & clear to be anybody we want – our inappropriate socialization limits our autonomy.

Instead of directly refuting all of her points, let’s break down Butler, her narcissism & lesbianism. Butler is a classic homosexual narcissist – unable to understand that the vast, vast majority of people don’t have the issues they have relating to masculinity & femininity; they demand the rest of the world change so they don’t have to reconcile the fact they will never have true social approval for their deviance based on lack of adherence to expected male/female behavior.

Her dogged insistence of blank-slatism is little more than her own issue with the fact she is an androgynous female biologically. When we see such resolute devotion to social constructionism, it usually has either a biological or psychological root. Here, Butler was probably exposed to masculinizing hormones in the womb, but – as expected – she hit puberty and has estrogen coursing through her veins. Her inability to come to terms with that is the fuel that fires her pseudo-intellectualism. As for psychological issues, it could be many things – unable to deal with hypergamy, sexual abuse as a child, etc.

Let’s talk about the narcissism. What Butler is doing is pretending everybody is just like her. They aren’t. When heterosexual females take to this rhetoric, there are two reasons. First, is the desire to reform the world so they will be queens of the SMP and slake their hypergamic thirst. Second, is narcissism.

Many heterosexual women aren’t interested in actually slaking that thirst - just in theory. Many clinical narcissists never have intercourse. Their sexual inadequacies will bubble to the surface and threaten their narcissistic armor, so they ditch sex once they are assured a partner’s codependent devotion. Butler, here, most likely never has sex. She doesn’t understand it & fears it.

Let’s also talk about academic rhetoric as narcissistic. Butler’s work is needlessly verbose and relies heavily on mindless feminist jargon to make simple points. See the class issue here? She makes her work ridiculously complicated so that it makes people come into her frame and debate her on her terms. This is the pathetic nature of academia – the need to pad their ego’s via pointlessly complicated literature. I would love to be a professor – particularly one of the law – but I doubt I ever will be because of this sort of behavior – your intelligence should show through the quality of your writing, analysis & perception, not a bunch of self-serving nonsense of discourse. Also, note one of the reasons is the fact they are covering up their own logical & rhetoric failures.

Gender Politics As Narcissism & A Lament



Let’s consider yet another brilliant post by The Last Psychiatrist: Couple Reveals Their Child's Gender Five Years Too Late

Let’s break this down.

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What drove her to using her child as a you-go-first skydiving partner is the desire to be something coupled with the terror of doing anything-- which results in ambivalence and inertia camouflaged in a consumerist lifestyle full of meaningless choices. This leaves a lot of unused emotional energy left over for me me me. She's had 46 years to obsess over her identity, and this is what she came up with, a hail mary pass in the second half of a mid-life crisis.

Gender politics is the porting of personal terror of betraying social expectations and demanding that other people change so they don't have to. The obsession over changing socialization, media representations of gender, etc. is little more than the inability to change themselves.

If challenging of gender roles was a desire of the first order, a woman would flaunt her hairy legs, her refusal to wear dresses, etc. Notice how Jessica Valenti has hairy armpits - a classic narcissistic move as she can hide it if she wants to via clothing - but then show it off in photos. OMG! Look at me smash the patriarchy!

It isn't a desire of the first order, the foremost desire is conformity, which is represented in the desire for society to give them new scripts so they can avoid the existential terror of truly becoming self-actualized. Notice the constant rhetoric of oppression of true personhood by society - what they are signaling is they want new ways of socializing people to be enacted because they are too afraid of becoming the people they think they want to be.

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Her life has been marked by nothing eventful, nothing challenging, nothing unusual, nothing difficult, so she will have created drama out of ordinary events in order to self-identify. "Oh, God," she'd say as she parks her Subaru at the Gymboree. "These mums are all so desperately conformist. Marry the father of my child? How utterly bourgeois. Did I mention my child is a court jester?

Check out Tuthmosis' post of this woman's online dating profile. This women is the sort of woman TLP is talking about - just another white, entitled female who has had nothing exceptional - good or bad - happen to her. She is most likely not dumb, but not smart. Not incompetent but not excellent. She needs to create alternate realities where the dialogue is about her - about her exceptionalism.

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It isn't for the kid, it is for her. If it wasn't for her, you wouldn't have heard about it. Wasn't the whole point not to call attention to the gender? Oh, I had it backwards, the whole point was entirely to focus on the gender. Sigh. The main character in this story is herself. The kid is supporting cast. He is not a person, he is a blog topic."

This what gender politics is about - the person talking about gender politics. They don't give a damn about the people they purport to help - they just want the worship from like-minded people that they are pioneers transforming the world for the better. The people they target - the kid here - is little more than a pawn in a greater scheme of worship from their preferred authorities.

As we saw with Judith Butler, she doesn't understand that other people have vastly different relationships with femininity than she does. She understands the blank-slatist approach academia takes & that encourages the retrenchment of her narcissism. As for the gender-neutral parents talked about above - all it is is their inability to smash gender roles like they claim to want to. They need proxies - children - who will supposedly prove their theories right. That is why feminists insist so strongly on taking over schools, universities & transforming the family - they need vulnerable children to become the people they never could be.



David Reimer was little more than a pawn in the greater game of gender politics. Born into an ideologically churning world, he was little more than a notch-count for ignorant feminists who think the world revolves around their delusional ideas of reality.

His suicide should have been the shot heard round the world for the death blank-slatism. Was it? No. Most explanations revolve around financial issues, his brother's suicide, the clinical depression his family has that apparently has genetic roots. That article even alludes to inappropriate social standards that make men feel less masculine because of sexual inadequacies. His wife leaving him? Nah, he was already leaving because of all that.

The most obvious reason is he was denied his biological identity as male. The fact that article was called "The Real Reasons" was because anybody with a brain & a heart knew it was because he was denied his biological birthright. See the narcissism? Confronted with one of the saddest events to occur in life - suicide - they still go out of their way to assuage themselves that gender is still a social construct. Blame the free market - he can't find a job! Blame his depression - she left him because he was too angry!

David Reimer was a just a boy that never had a chance. His mother became clinically depressed, his father an alcoholic. His brother was a schizophrenic. He was just a person born into this world who had to become his own man long before he had the tools to do so. He tried so hard to do right - he lived 38 horrid years before he took his own life.

Some might say he was weak - no, he was strong. He fought so valiantly against the world around him - from infancy! - that he did the best he could. Even the strongest of men can crack. He did. His suicide should have ushered in a serious gut-check for America about gender. Did it? No.

He died alone in a grocery store parking lot. He went to a place where communities come together, where families shop. He went alone. That is how he felt - on the outside, looking in. Losing his family was the final nail in coffin. Fuck that Rolling Stone writer - he wasn't leaving, his family left him.

Which was the story of his life. His country failed him, the medical profession failed him, even his family failed him. He had no reason to believe in any bullshit anybody shot his way. A victim of blank-slate narcissism, he was little more than a pawn in their ideological battle. You think they attended his funeral? Nah, they just continued to whine about how gender was little more than a performance.

He came into this world as he left it - alone. Alone. Completely, utterly & entirely alone.