The Punisher debuted in 1974 in The Amazing Spider-Man # 129 as an antagonist to Spider-Man. In his initial appearance, Frank Castle is portrayed as a violent vigilante manipulated into targeting Spider-Man. But even from the start, he wasn’t a traditional supervillain. He was written as a brutal, morally conflicted antihero figure. He became popular enough that Marvel repositioned him to star in his own stories.
Frank Castle was created by writer Gerry Conway with artists John Romita and Ross Andru. Conway has described the character as a critique of extreme vigilantism rather than an endorsement of it. While the Punisher’s skull logo has been adopted in some military and law-and-order subcultures, Conway and other creators are generally associated with progressivism. The character was not created as a right-wing symbol, but as a morally problematic antihero meant to raise questions about justice, violence, and the limits of the legal system.
I watched the police interview a few days ago of an interrogation video in which a twisted trans killer calmly confesses to executing both of his parents, blaming it on the mom trying to thwart ongoing gender transition surgery.
Briefly, Mia Bailey slaughtered his mother, Gail, and father, Joseph, and tried to kill his brother (he and his wife escaped out of a window), inside the family home in Washington, Utah, in 2024.
The video is chilling, not just because the man murdered his parents and tried to kill his brother and his wife, but because he appeared to believe these awful deeds were completely justified. Those around him did not affirm his delusion that he is a woman, so they deserved to die.
Most of us know about the mass shootings perpetrated by trans-identifying individuals and their allies. In a high-profile event captured on video, we watched a trans ally murder social influencer Charlie Kirk in front of a large crowd.
How many acts of violence have these deranged individuals committed against their families? Most short of murder, of course. One finds it difficult to understand how parents sleep well at night with monsters like this in their house, but many don’t realize the danger they’re in. Persons with delusions this severe are inherently dangerous.
The motive in cases like this is straightforward. Once a person identifies with what he believes is an oppressed class, when he steps into oppression, he comes to believe he is excused from moral responsibility for his wicked deeds. He redefines his homicidal or violent compulsions as just deserts for those whom he believes are oppressing him. He has allies who see the world through the same twisted conception of justice. They see themselves as warriors for justice. The oppressed man becomes the Punisher.
This is a problem with what passes for the left today. They suffer from the Punisher complex. Trans-identifying individuals and their allies are motivated to perpetrate widespread violence because they’re told that trans people are being erased. One cannot erase what does not exist, but the delusion is so deep with these individuals that they actually call into existence the impossible. Those around the deluded individual affirm his delusion. They condemn others—the enemy—for refusing to do so.
This type of virtue signalling is not merely obnoxious but deadly. The man has a supportive community, which makes his violent thoughts all the more likely to manifest in actual death and destruction. In the Kirk case, an ally did the work for his lover.
I’ve personally had violent desires expressed in my direction. It’s not a good feeling to read that another man wants to punch you in the face for simply refusing to believe the impossible.
This is a mental illness. It is no different in effect from a paranoid schizophrenic murdering his neighbor because he believes in thought broadcasting—the false belief that others can hear his private thoughts—or killing couples on Lover’s Lane because a dog told him to.
I suspect some parents go along with the madness because they do realize their lives are in danger. They fear their own children. So rather than stopping their insurance from being used for so-called gender affirming care (was this what Obama and the Democrats were enabling?), they let the doctors physiologically alter or mutilate the genitalia of their children. They subject their child to what is, in reality, sex-denying harm.
Transactivists enable the violence and other forms of deviance by lovebombing disordered personalities, telling a deranged man that there’s nothing wrong with him. Instead, they tell there’s something evil in those still tethered to reality.
It’s like the parents of a meth addict affirming their son’s addiction and excusing him when he commits violence in a manic rage.
In the case of the trans-identifying individual, it’s not just friends and family that enable harm to self and others. The medical profession is also an enabler. One of their angles is to threaten suicidality on behalf of their client.
Did you know that suicidality goes up after transition medicine? This is yet another lie in the service of gender affirming care. One should never fall for emotional blackmail, but many do. This is the result of pathological empathy.
Doctors tell parents this lie because they have dollar signs in their eyes. A mutilated kid is a lifelong medical patient. They make kids forever clients for profit.
The pathology of misplaced compassion causes parents to hurt those they love. The join with the medical industry to lie about something as obvious as the immutability of gender.
A man cannot be the other gender. His gender is encoded in every cell of his body. He comes with a gender identity. It is in his chromosomes. He is what natural history made him. The moral thing to do is to teach those who suffer from body dysmorphia to learn to love their bodies as they are. A truly compassionate person does not tell a person that they can find happiness by drastically altering their physiology or mutilating their genitals.
People think they are being compassionate by affirming delusions. But, really, they’re being cruel. Love is tough. Truth is hard. A man has to be tough if he truly cares about his children. Yet, this may put his life in danger. This is why there must be a whole-of-society effort to contain the madness.
There is no real debate here. The truth has its own integrity. If we deny it, we lose our’s.
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