How interesting, John, since tomorrow I'm referencing Willa Cather's 1936 letter to the Commonweal, where she claims that enduring art cannot be created from a political motive alone. She'd been accused of being escapist, of not leaning hard enough into labor issues and such (and this after working for years at S.S. McClure's muckraking magazine). I rather like her thinking here. I'm fairly sure she would say much the same now.
I have to set aside your piece to read after I finish my own stack for this week. But I wanted to thank you immediately for the shout-out to BordoLines!!
I’m sorry, but it continues to amuse me that people use women as a reason to vote for Kamala Harris. Democrats are relying on the public interpreting the meaning of “women” as sex-based while they work behind the scenes to eradicate women as a sex-based class in law, policy, and language even though the entirety of women’s rights, including abortion, flow from the material reality of being female. No one’s full participation in society should be conditioned on having to play make-believe with a person pretending to be the opposite sex, but that’s what Democrats have done to women on sports teams, in prisons, and even by allowing men to represent women as women. No one is listening to the women sounding the alarm and even worse, when they do have to pay attention to them, it’s to try to convince the public those women are bigots, not because women deserve and need to be recognized for what they are—not an appearance or a behavior or a testosterone level, but a sex distinct from males.
Thank you for this excellent and informative piece. Would that millions would read it and heed your wise counsel
How interesting, John, since tomorrow I'm referencing Willa Cather's 1936 letter to the Commonweal, where she claims that enduring art cannot be created from a political motive alone. She'd been accused of being escapist, of not leaning hard enough into labor issues and such (and this after working for years at S.S. McClure's muckraking magazine). I rather like her thinking here. I'm fairly sure she would say much the same now.
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/escapism-letter-willa-cather
Thanks, Josh! Will check it out.
Kudos to you.
A brilliant read. Thank you John.
I have to set aside your piece to read after I finish my own stack for this week. But I wanted to thank you immediately for the shout-out to BordoLines!!
I’m sorry, but it continues to amuse me that people use women as a reason to vote for Kamala Harris. Democrats are relying on the public interpreting the meaning of “women” as sex-based while they work behind the scenes to eradicate women as a sex-based class in law, policy, and language even though the entirety of women’s rights, including abortion, flow from the material reality of being female. No one’s full participation in society should be conditioned on having to play make-believe with a person pretending to be the opposite sex, but that’s what Democrats have done to women on sports teams, in prisons, and even by allowing men to represent women as women. No one is listening to the women sounding the alarm and even worse, when they do have to pay attention to them, it’s to try to convince the public those women are bigots, not because women deserve and need to be recognized for what they are—not an appearance or a behavior or a testosterone level, but a sex distinct from males.