3/23/2023 0 Comments Fake boobsNeither can they become zebras, oak trees, or a Snickers Bars - not even if they triply click their heels together, while wishing really, really hard. But this perversion was actually no more perverse than the social imposition & acceptance of any trans-absurdity. Or should have been disgust, a crawling of the skin, that nauseous refusal of mind and body to accept perversion. Welcome to the World of Poe’s Law in which “ every parody of extreme views can be mistaken as a sincere expression of the views being parodied.” It makes no difference whether the the walking Grotesquerie was satirizing or underlining gender impossibilities: the outcome was disgust. In either case, why does the answer matter? It is, in effect, an admission of defeat. Doing so accepts your opponents’ premises, and just forces them to fine-tune the moral code you so dislike. The larger lesson may be this: if you’re serious about challenging a social norm that has institutional power, don’t waste your energy on satire. The school, exasperated at the international attention they’ve garnered, has simply approved a new dress code that would force Lemieux to wear slightly smaller fake boobs. Rather than forcing the school to confront the grotesque absurdity of letting a male wear prosthetic boobs to a teaching job, it’s simply prompted a debate on what size and shape the prosthetics should be. Academia is still publishing, apparently sincerely, autoethnographic studies about pedophilic masturbation.Īnd in much the same way, if Lemieux is attempting to force an absurd anti-discrimination law to breaking point, the attempt has failed. It caused a huge stir, but neither academia’s perverse incentives nor the often ridiculous stances in ‘critical studies’ have noticeably changed as a result. Readers may recall the 2018 Sokal Squared hoax, in which James Lindsay, Peter Boghossian and Helen Pluckrose seeded peer-reviewed journals with absurd ‘critical studies’ papers they’d simply made up. Historically, satirists from ancient Greece and Rome onward have taken aim at those in power not with the aim of removing them, but of disciplining bad actors: that is, when confronted with satire, people develop a better sense of what ‘going too far’ looks like, and the culture corrects accordingly. More often, it has a parasitic (and, arguably, reinforcing) relation to its subject, in more precisely defining its boundaries. For regardless of intentions, the actual function of satire is rarely to dismantle what it mocks. If this is so, though, does it change anything? Sadly, probably not. His aim is probably ‘to get fired, then sue for discrimination’. The student goes on to say that the teacher hates ‘woke culture’ and would regularly ‘drop redpills to his class, such as how silly gender neutral bathrooms are’. Someone on the Anonymous messageboard, who claims to be a student in this man’s class, says the giant prosthetic breasts are in fact a kind of absurdist protest. Another more recent rumour, though, suggests ‘Kayla Lamieux’ is neither a sincere identity nor a fetish, but a prank. Much online outrage suggested Lemieux was using Ontario’s human rights laws as a cover for exercising a grotesque fetish around children, and reacted with wholly justifiable disgust.
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