The Atlantic vs Rod Dreher
The Atlantic ran an interesting story on accomplished professional transgender women today.
At work, women leaders experience more sexual harassment, lower pay, and less respect than their male peers. But what about transgender women at the tops of their fields? What is their experience of gender discrimination at work? What I found among the various accomplished trans women I spoke to was that, for them, leadership and professionalism aren’t functions of gender; they are a matter of making sure that one’s inner life and public life are in harmony.
“Authenticity resonates,” said Michaela Mendelsohn, the CEO of Los Angeles’s Pollo West Corp., one of the largest franchisees for the fast-food empire El Pollo Loco. “Finding my voice as a woman gave me new strength, and now I get more respect than I did as Michael,” Mendelsohn said. It’s not about being a man or a woman; it’s about “integrating as one whole person.”
And on the other side of things, Rod Dreher has gone back onto his minimum of three stories a day on disordered, nominalist trans people destroying Christian America.
This is what he had to say about trans people today today:
What we see in Time magazine is a symbol of a society and a culture that is so far gone into decadence that it will defile what is most sacred in the human experience. It will use technology to transgress all natural boundaries to impose man’s will — and will call that freedom, will call it progress, and will punish anyone who dissents. And it will teach its children that there is no such thing as man, no such thing as woman. It destroys in the hearts and minds of the people the icon of fatherhood, of motherhood, of the family — and it intends to do this! As the writer of the Time piece points out, the “social battleground” has shifted. There will be no peace. No peace is possible with this thing, even if we want peace….Now is a good time to brush up on your Jeremiah. And your Benedict, in the MacIntyrean sense. As David Gushee, who is on the side of these anti-family, anti-Christian, anti-metaphysical revolutionaries, warned, “Neutrality is not an option.” Believe him.
Is it any wonder that our side is winning? Who would you rather be associated with? Michaela Mendelsohn…or Rod Dreher?