“The phantoms of their brains have got out of their hands.”

In the German Ideology, Karl Marx and Frederich Engels describe perfectly queer theory and the postmodernist attitude:

“Hitherto men have constantly made up for themselves false conceptions about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. … The phantoms of their brains have got out of their hands. They, the creators, have bowed down before their creations. Let us liberate them from the chimeras, the ideas, dogmas, imaginary beings under the yoke of which they are pining away. 

“Once upon a time a valiant fellow had the idea that men were drowned in water only because they were possessed with the idea of gravity. If they were to knock this notion out of their heads, say by stating it to be a superstition, a religious concept, they would be sublimely proof against any danger from water. His whole life long he fought against the illusion of gravity, of whose harmful results all statistics brought him new and manifold evidence. This valiant fellow was the type of the new revolutionary philosophers in Germany.”

This type of revolutionary philosopher has not disappeared from the West. Indeed, his presence is today ubiquitous—at least in the academy where I spend too much time. This type of revolutionary—and his devotees—believe that reality is reducible to words and that by denying the words or changing their meanings, he can deny and change reality.

But truth has its own integrity. The man and his followers are fools.

I was reminded today on X that there are languages that are not gendered. Of course, this is true. But that fact does not erase gender. How could propagation of the species in those cultures occur if there were no gender? Even plants have gender, I explained, and plants have no language. The flower contains a stamen (male organ) or pistil (female organ). It is as if people have literally never before heard about the birds and the bees.

One X user said he never heard anybody say they wanted to have gender with another person, as if the dual meaning of sex as description and action negates the fact that gender and sex are synonyms. If fact, if sex were only used to describe an action, then gender should become the exclusive term referring to gamete size.

Sex as action is, of course, shorthand for sexual intercourse. Since sex organs are what is engaged in this type of intercourse, it makes sense. Also, sex can be a verb, as in the farmer will sex his chickens, i.e., determine their genders. Yes, chickens have genders. The male chicken is a rooster. The female chicken is a hen. Hens lay eggs.