Why I Hate Oprah
Well, I don't literally hate her, but despite the good she has admittedly done, I consider Oprah! to be a destructive cultural force. Case in point is her inviting the "pregnant man"--who is really a woman who has had his gender reassigned--on her show, further hyping what should be a non story into the sensationalist stratosphere.
As I wrote here, Thomas Beatie is a transsexual who has not had his female sexual organs removed. Wanting a child, he stopped taking the male hormones necessary to maintain the appearance of masculinity--at least he had better have stopped taking hormones--and was artificially inseminated. Now, Beatie has gone on Oprah worrying that people will want to kill his baby "as an abomination." From the story:
However, the 34-year-old transsexual also told chat show host Oprah Winfrey that he feared for his own safety and admitted doctors had warned him his baby could be killed because of the revulsion at her birth.To quote Charlie Brown, I can't stand it. First, everybody knows that Beatie is not really a man, biologically, and so the baby would not be "an abomination," (as if any baby could be). So a woman is giving birth, as four million do in this country every year--big whup. Secondly, the only reason anyone even knows about this is because Beatie made his situation public--and Oprah decided to grant her blessing! And get this:
As well as the Oprah show, Beatie also gave a detailed interview to People magazine.Did I tell you I hate People too?
This story encapsulates so much of what is going wrong with our contemporary popular culture: The me-me/I-I sense of entitlement that has become so pervasive (few thoughts of the impact on the child from all of this), the power of celebrity and the cult of personality, hyper sensationalism substituting for real news, the media's celebration of the bizarre, postmodernism where narrative rather than facts drive our discourse, a person who intentionally sought publicity complaining because people criticize him for making himself a spectacle.
Well, this is what the transhumanists want--radical individualistic self expression. But it strikes me as further proof that we have ceased to be a serious society.
Labels: Pregnant "Man" is a Woman
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 8:28 AM
4 Comments
4 Comments:
Dear Wesley,
I don't think we should refer to the person involved in this story as "he" or "him" it is only a validation.
I have no malice toward her, actually pity. This is a matter simply of submitting to and rejoicing in who God created us to be and not thinking that we know better than He does.
I am from Delaware and am concerned about Lauren
Richardson. We are praying that God will spare her and use her story to cause us to see how far we have turned from Him and how wrong we have been in regard to human life.
Thanks for your work, it is important.
gk51: Thanks for writing and for your kind words. I thought about the "he" or "she" carefully before posting my first comment, and decided that he was appropriate for two reasons. First, legally he is a man, even though biologically she is a woman--an illustration of how facts don't matter much anymore. Second, he wishes to be called he, and my purpose is not to hurt feelings or insult.
As to Lauren, I share your concern and have written a bit about the case here at SHS. I hope her father's lawyers present a powerful appeal.
Dear Wesley,
I understand and appreciate your intention regarding the phrasing you used, we should seek to be as gentle as possible.
My concern is that so much of what is happening that is wrong today involves terminology and words and while I may want to be kind to an invidual, there is the larger battle where words and terms mean so much as you know.
Could I trouble you for a few thoughts? As you see Lauren's case, on what basis would her father base his appeal? I read the master's ruling last night and though it seems very legal, it is a travesty.
To starve people who would otherwise live is wrong no matter what. The fact that people can enter a judgement as somone's guardian to end their life to me is only an indication of how eager we are to have people exit this world.
Think of the number of things you and I say after seeing something emotional, comments following events like these should never be the basis by which we determine someone's intentions.
I wonder how likely it is for the one reviewing the case over this master to alter his decision?
As we consider cases like Lauren's from a distance, have you ever wondered what you would do if you were her father and the order stood to remove her feeding tube?
Thanks Wesley.
Frankly, I don't care if she wishes to be called a man or if she's legally a man. I will not call someone I know is a woman "he" or vice versa. It's ridiculous. It's insanity.
If someone got their sex legally changed to "it" and their legal name changed to "chair" and believed they were indeed a chair, would it be wrong of me not to treat them as a chair?
When this woman dies, the coroner, if he/she is truthful and if he/she has not been sucked into this pc craziness, will state this is a female. You can tell by the bone structure. You can tell by the organs.
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