Brian Gwin is a transgender girl who won last week a beauty contest held in New Hampshire in the USA.
In the photo published in the media, Gwin - who was born a male - is seen standing among the other contestants, who look more "classic" for this genre of competitions: slim, proportional, and excuse me - beautiful.
The problem with Gwyn's win is not that a transgender won a female competition, but - and again, forgive me - that she is much less beautiful than any other contestant.
In fact, the joint picture in which the winner is seen against the background of the other contestants looks like a grotesque cartoon they created on Channel 14 to make fun of progressives.
Brianne Gwynne is only an allegory for a wider theme, and my reference to her is solely as such.
I have no interest in humiliating her or mocking the sight of her body.
I refer to her in the female form, as I assume she would have wanted.
But this is exactly where the line crosses between concepts of respect, freedom and choice - and the attempt of very powerful forces to deny us our freedom and our choice, and force us to see the world anew through engineered eyes: slavery is freedom, ignorance is power and the PC is the queen of beauty.
There is not one judge in the competition who thought that Brian was beautiful in the aesthetic and feminine sense of the word.
Her win is an "educational" win, a means through which they signal to the public what should be thought.
I will emphasize: there is nothing sacred in the ideological status quo, and if someone wants to present to the public a more advanced, enlightened, moral or intelligent world view - that is a welcome thing.
Challenging discourse is an excellent thing, and in the context of the beauty contest - it is possible and desirable to criticize the prevailing concept of beauty.
But exploiting positions of power to force the public to "renew" - the same term that Orwell coined in his book "1984", which describes a discourse designed to educate the public and coil its line of thought - is an abominable thing, because it is an attempt to castrate our consciousness and displace from it the independent thinking about what Good, beautiful and worthy.
In the course of social gaslighting, they try to explain to us that what we see is not really reality, and that if we still insist on sticking to our positions - the problem is us.
Whoever does not see the beauty in the new beauty queen is a transphobe;
Anyone who does not see the beauty in massive Muslim immigration is a racist;
Anyone who is not willing to accept without question this erasure of the terms "man" and "woman" is a dark conservative whose cheese has been moved.
The chain of insults thrown at those who dare to think differently marks the new boundaries of the decree, and makes it clear to the general public what he is allowed to think and what he is not allowed to say.
In 1943, Ayn Rand's timeless book "As the Rising Spring" was published.
I wouldn't be in a hurry to learn from Rand anything about the relationship between men and women, but in another context she puts a short monologue in the mouth of one of her heroes, which explains why he, as a shaper of public opinion on any cultural issue, usually exalts poor and puppet works that have nothing special about them.
If millions of readers read unimportant books, he argued, they will no longer know how to appreciate a fine work, and finally the road will be paved for the realization of the highest vision of all: the vision of equality.
This is not the place for a manifesto on the equality between people.
There is no doubt that even in the conservative Israeli society, most of us wish everyone around us to feel comfortable in their bodies and find their marital and family happiness.
But if in the name of striving for equality and acceptance we are expected to set aside common sense and logic;
If our mind is forcefully shaped by an emotion police that is increasingly rejecting more and more concepts as illegitimate;
If there is someone who cares to point out to us that if we do not accept reality exactly as it is mediated to us, we are terrible and dark people - then the world that is being created is neither "equal" nor a "safe space".
A world where it is forbidden to shout that the king is naked is a very worrying world.
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