His primary concern seems to be the satiation of his own....mental illness.
Chu's prose (and pose) reeks of psychopathology and his greatest skill is knowing what titillates the NYT/NPR set, who never met a twisted soul they didn't wanna save, as long as it provides a frisson of radical compassion.
Chu and his ilk (the sad lost souls and broken bodies of the Social Justice Revolution) all have the same overarching desire: to sicken and smear their filth on as many other people as they can, most esp the young and impressionable, so as to feel less sick and filthy.
You brought up Foucault’s similar arguments in contrast with Chu’s.
I fully admit that I can’t not unsee the blazing yellow brick road that are the arguments for rebranding MAP as a legitimate sexual orientation and rebranding children as fully cognizant of their agency and conception of self to make significant decisions about their lives and bodies. I can’t unsee this connection, and I hate it.
I hate it cause this blood libel was used against gays forever and it is this libel for which gays will suffer. And they shouldn’t because it is a sleight of hand argument, one that enrages genuine homophobia but one that is countered effectively by suspect insterests by riding off the laurels of decent people.
Hi Ben, I thoroughly agree that Chu and his brethren in misogyny are eternally appalling. I would make one tiny adjustment to your thinking, and that is this: you know that the subset of men who harbor various forms of misogyny consists in both straight and gay men. That includes the particular flavor of misogyny based on envy/resentment of a woman's "power" to "elicit" male desire. Now the overwhelming majority of autogynephiles are absolutely straight, getting off on both a woman's body and her suffering in the playing along. But some men who don't fancy women *do* resent women, *do* enjoy women's suffering, and *do* relish the illusion of "besting" them in desirability contests. Hence AGP is not an *exclusively* straight male phenomenon, though it appalls the vast multitude of gay *and* straight men...
He is the embodiment of toxic narcissism. Toxic male narcissism. I wrote a review of his book on Amazon and they refused to publish it. Because of offensive sexual terms in my comment. Which just made me laugh. His entire book is one long offensive sexual fantasy. They’re perfectly happy to sell his book, but they won’t publish my comment.
He’s a transvestic fetishist and a psychopath, a type of person that is well represented in popular culture, from the campy Frank-N-Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show to the sinister Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs. We know who Andrea Long Chu is it’s just that we’ve decided to forget these men exist for the last 10 years. Actually, it’s worse because we’ve decided that they are now a type of woman.
"According to research, the majority of adult trans-identified males are autogynephilic, while the minority can be classified as “homosexual transsexuals”—gay males whose gender-nonconformity has been evident since earlier childhood." This is actually not correct according to Az Hakeem and it has become as much of a zombie statistic among the gender critical as the suicide myth is a zombie statistic among the gender activists. Non-fetishistic trans-sexuals far more common than autogynephiles. Gender critical people are hurting the cause of sanity on gender stuff to go down this "trans is extremely tided to child molestation/groomer" stuff. Chu is a weirdo. Gender ideology is wrong but the gender critical are increasingly radicalizing themselves by the very same processes the gender ideologues have radicalized themselves to the detriment of winning the debate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bGZGYaRz_w
I do agree with you. I think the gender-critical dialogue's insistence on applying the Blanchard typologies is overlooking something simpler that doesn't really have a name. Blanchard published his work a decade before the internet was widely available and three decades before the explosion of video game culture. This has made me hesitant to pile on to the idea that it's all autogynephilia. The trans-identifying males that I know are hugely into video games, anime, and all did or do have tech jobs. Basically they're insecure about being male while not caring for rugged dudely mcbrodude masculinity and want an outlet for being soft and Not Male. It's like, a manga bookshelf, a Steam subscription, and a regular tits guy's fixation on boobs. Their entire relationship to "femininity" is just anxiety, dodging paternalistic straight male pigeonholing, and holding out for their slice of minority victimhood while it's on tap. Oh yeah and being allowed to force women to let them in to women's private spaces, can't overlook that. I did watch enough of that video to get the presenter's point that "autism" is a factor, but there seems to be more cultural memery going on here than just fetishes and brain chemistry.
Humans evolved the capability and behavior, as have a fair number of other animals, to be able to temporarily pull off sex mimicry.
It’s both defensive, as in these males want to avoid male competition and harm, as well as offensive, since it allows them access to female spaces and sex without scrutiny by other males.
The condition of being both delusional and compulsive is what makes it very difficult, for all humans, who have not had sufficient experience to recognize the syndrome.
It doesn’t have a single origin (unlike some Malt Whiskeys) but it does have a single explanation.
Unfortunately, psychiatry seems to be unable to examine ethology and evolutionary biology for simple clues about ordinary human behavior.
Temporarily in what sense? Pull off in what sense? I won't say there are _no_ transwomen who actually come across like women, but they're vanishingly rare. For the vast majority, especially since trans activism has dragged self-ID to rhetorical extremes, there's no mistaking them. Oh yeah, and the existence of a lucky few who do resemble women... still doesn't make either them or any of the not-even-close blokes into women. Passing is a self-delusion for this crowd. I'm sorry, I don't see how it's like some neat camouflage trick that cuttlefish can do.
Trans men die of violent assault at half the rate of ordinary men. If men confuse them for women that’s a good metric for how well it works. Men tend to be worse than women at judging sex.
Like all acting, suspension of disbelief is temporary.
None of the trans men I know ever put themselves up to the same kind of risk scenarios as men who are killed by other men. They work from home and play Animal Crossing. Most of them don’t even drive. Which, no judgment, I’m just saying they’re not out there doing guy shit.
Granted I don’t know anyone who’s been in prison it’s a good guess you haven’t either.
Trans general population estimates vary from 0.3% to 0.6%, while their proportions in federal prison is around 1.5% - around 3x the presence you would expect if they were as criminal as the average person.
Of sex offenders, again I don’t know anyone who has been, but around half the prison population of sex offenders are trans. One would expect 0.6% of prison sex offenders to be trans but it’s almost 10x higher.
I doubt of any average person on the street is about to be violently assaulted resulting in death.
His primary concern seems to be the satiation of his own....mental illness.
Chu's prose (and pose) reeks of psychopathology and his greatest skill is knowing what titillates the NYT/NPR set, who never met a twisted soul they didn't wanna save, as long as it provides a frisson of radical compassion.
Chu and his ilk (the sad lost souls and broken bodies of the Social Justice Revolution) all have the same overarching desire: to sicken and smear their filth on as many other people as they can, most esp the young and impressionable, so as to feel less sick and filthy.
Why wallow with they/them?
You brought up Foucault’s similar arguments in contrast with Chu’s.
I fully admit that I can’t not unsee the blazing yellow brick road that are the arguments for rebranding MAP as a legitimate sexual orientation and rebranding children as fully cognizant of their agency and conception of self to make significant decisions about their lives and bodies. I can’t unsee this connection, and I hate it.
I hate it cause this blood libel was used against gays forever and it is this libel for which gays will suffer. And they shouldn’t because it is a sleight of hand argument, one that enrages genuine homophobia but one that is countered effectively by suspect insterests by riding off the laurels of decent people.
God, I'd forgotten how repulsive his estimation of womanhood was.
Perfect evisceration of Chu. I have restacked. Thank you, Ben.
Hi Ben, I thoroughly agree that Chu and his brethren in misogyny are eternally appalling. I would make one tiny adjustment to your thinking, and that is this: you know that the subset of men who harbor various forms of misogyny consists in both straight and gay men. That includes the particular flavor of misogyny based on envy/resentment of a woman's "power" to "elicit" male desire. Now the overwhelming majority of autogynephiles are absolutely straight, getting off on both a woman's body and her suffering in the playing along. But some men who don't fancy women *do* resent women, *do* enjoy women's suffering, and *do* relish the illusion of "besting" them in desirability contests. Hence AGP is not an *exclusively* straight male phenomenon, though it appalls the vast multitude of gay *and* straight men...
He is the embodiment of toxic narcissism. Toxic male narcissism. I wrote a review of his book on Amazon and they refused to publish it. Because of offensive sexual terms in my comment. Which just made me laugh. His entire book is one long offensive sexual fantasy. They’re perfectly happy to sell his book, but they won’t publish my comment.
He’s a transvestic fetishist and a psychopath, a type of person that is well represented in popular culture, from the campy Frank-N-Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show to the sinister Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs. We know who Andrea Long Chu is it’s just that we’ve decided to forget these men exist for the last 10 years. Actually, it’s worse because we’ve decided that they are now a type of woman.
The fact that he was given a Pulitzer Is enough to discredit the award altogether.
"According to research, the majority of adult trans-identified males are autogynephilic, while the minority can be classified as “homosexual transsexuals”—gay males whose gender-nonconformity has been evident since earlier childhood." This is actually not correct according to Az Hakeem and it has become as much of a zombie statistic among the gender critical as the suicide myth is a zombie statistic among the gender activists. Non-fetishistic trans-sexuals far more common than autogynephiles. Gender critical people are hurting the cause of sanity on gender stuff to go down this "trans is extremely tided to child molestation/groomer" stuff. Chu is a weirdo. Gender ideology is wrong but the gender critical are increasingly radicalizing themselves by the very same processes the gender ideologues have radicalized themselves to the detriment of winning the debate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bGZGYaRz_w
I do agree with you. I think the gender-critical dialogue's insistence on applying the Blanchard typologies is overlooking something simpler that doesn't really have a name. Blanchard published his work a decade before the internet was widely available and three decades before the explosion of video game culture. This has made me hesitant to pile on to the idea that it's all autogynephilia. The trans-identifying males that I know are hugely into video games, anime, and all did or do have tech jobs. Basically they're insecure about being male while not caring for rugged dudely mcbrodude masculinity and want an outlet for being soft and Not Male. It's like, a manga bookshelf, a Steam subscription, and a regular tits guy's fixation on boobs. Their entire relationship to "femininity" is just anxiety, dodging paternalistic straight male pigeonholing, and holding out for their slice of minority victimhood while it's on tap. Oh yeah and being allowed to force women to let them in to women's private spaces, can't overlook that. I did watch enough of that video to get the presenter's point that "autism" is a factor, but there seems to be more cultural memery going on here than just fetishes and brain chemistry.
Humans evolved the capability and behavior, as have a fair number of other animals, to be able to temporarily pull off sex mimicry.
It’s both defensive, as in these males want to avoid male competition and harm, as well as offensive, since it allows them access to female spaces and sex without scrutiny by other males.
The condition of being both delusional and compulsive is what makes it very difficult, for all humans, who have not had sufficient experience to recognize the syndrome.
It doesn’t have a single origin (unlike some Malt Whiskeys) but it does have a single explanation.
Unfortunately, psychiatry seems to be unable to examine ethology and evolutionary biology for simple clues about ordinary human behavior.
Temporarily in what sense? Pull off in what sense? I won't say there are _no_ transwomen who actually come across like women, but they're vanishingly rare. For the vast majority, especially since trans activism has dragged self-ID to rhetorical extremes, there's no mistaking them. Oh yeah, and the existence of a lucky few who do resemble women... still doesn't make either them or any of the not-even-close blokes into women. Passing is a self-delusion for this crowd. I'm sorry, I don't see how it's like some neat camouflage trick that cuttlefish can do.
Trans men die of violent assault at half the rate of ordinary men. If men confuse them for women that’s a good metric for how well it works. Men tend to be worse than women at judging sex.
Like all acting, suspension of disbelief is temporary.
None of the trans men I know ever put themselves up to the same kind of risk scenarios as men who are killed by other men. They work from home and play Animal Crossing. Most of them don’t even drive. Which, no judgment, I’m just saying they’re not out there doing guy shit.
Here’s a statistical view.
Granted I don’t know anyone who’s been in prison it’s a good guess you haven’t either.
Trans general population estimates vary from 0.3% to 0.6%, while their proportions in federal prison is around 1.5% - around 3x the presence you would expect if they were as criminal as the average person.
Of sex offenders, again I don’t know anyone who has been, but around half the prison population of sex offenders are trans. One would expect 0.6% of prison sex offenders to be trans but it’s almost 10x higher.
I doubt of any average person on the street is about to be violently assaulted resulting in death.
Prisons, different question.
I call him "Andrea Long Pig."