Sex Trouble: Feminist Androgyny and the Polymorphous Perversity of ‘Queer’

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@KayleeSeranada‘s future homecoming reunion?

“Genderqueer, as it is, refers to a person who uses various gendered techniques from across partitions in order to either express themselves, prove a political point, or both.
“A genderqueer person can have any gender identity, but the mixture and way of combining of that, their gender performance/expression, and their bodily sex is queered to the point that the only way they can be definitely described is by saying that they’re ‘not cisheteronormative.'”
— Kaylee Jakubowski, “Too Queer for Your Binary: Everything You Need to Know and More About Non-Binary Identities,” EverydayFeminism.com, March 4

Have I ever mentioned that, while feminists are usually both crazy and wrong, sometimes the crazy ones — the man-hating radical lesbians — are surprisingly right? Indeed, in 21st-century feminism, it seems the only feminists who are ever really right about anything are “extremists” like Janice Raymond, Sheila Jeffreys, Cathy Brennan and Julie Bindel.

For example, Bindel was one of the first and most vocal feminists to raise the alarm about the Asian rape gangs whose prostitution rings targeted troubled girls from Britain’s white underclass. (See “The Rotherham Horror,”  Aug. 27). Meanwhile, radicals like Raymond and Jeffreys have long criticized the trend toward the medicalization and commodification of womanhood, whereby our society treats female reproductive capacity as either a market commodity or a disease in need of treatment. Wealthy gay men buying eggs and hiring surrogate rent-a-wombs to make designer babies? The radicals are dubious. IVF, cloning and other “Frankenbaby” experiments? The radicals are skeptical.

Given a choice between two groups of crazy man-haters, my preference is always for the honest lesbian radicals over the intellectually bankrupt liars of so-called “pro-sex” liberal feminists.

It’s the difference between Nikita Kruschev and Alger Hiss.

OK, so now it is time to meet Kaylee Jakubowski, gender freak:

Kaylee Jakubowski is a Contributing Writer and Online Community Manager for Everyday Feminism. She is a trans, queer feminist who prides herself on being an educator on issues of queerness and gender. She is in her last semester at Winona State University in Minnesota pursuing a B.S. in Statistics with a minor in Women’s & Gender Studies. She is also in the process of writing a book that will formally organize and explain gender philosophies within the trans community.

Which is to say, “she” either (a) has a penis or (b) once had a penis, but it is probably a transphobic microaggression to point this out.

Where do they come from, these trans-weirdos professing their “issues of queerness and gender”? How exactly do the psychiatric woes of the freaky few create a “community” in need of organizers?

If you are a college-educated adult, think back to your undergraduate days. While I was partying my way through Jacksonville (Ala.) State University, Class of 1983, the student body included no small number of drunks, dopeheads and demented degenerates, none of whom were crazier than me. Yet the administration saw no need to incorporate our weird, decadent and/or illegal habits into the curriculum. We could not major in Tequila Studies, “Introduction to Hallucinogenic Mushrooms” and “Principles of Strip Poker” were not listed in the course catalog, and there was no campus Center for Banging Coeds.

Were we oppressed and marginalized by this lack of official recognition?

Oh, hell, no. We were have a blast!

Times change, and not for the better. Visitors to the home page of the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program at Winona State University are greeted by this impressive vision:

Let’s take a look at the program’s full-time faculty:

  • Dr. Tamara Berg, Director
    Tamara graduated from Indiana University with a PhD in English Literature and a PhD minor in Women’s and Gender Studies. She has taught at WSU since 1997, and she has presented and published on service learning and women’s and gender studies issues. In her current faculty position, she directs the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at WSU. . . .
  • Dr. Linda d’Amico
    Linda D’Amico is a cultural anthropologist interested in gender, ethnic, and environmental issues. She has been doing fieldwork in Ecuador and Mexico for over 30 years. Her recent book, Otavalan Women, Ethnicity and Globalization, focuses on transnational and gender issues within an indigenous community in Ecuador.
  • Dr. Mary Jo Klinker
    Mary Jo Klinker graduated from Washington State University with a PhD in American Studies, where she taught in the Departments of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies and English prior to teaching at Winona State University.
    Engaging activism in the classroom is central to Mary Jo’s pedagogy and also fuels her research, which focuses on the relation of queer activism and theory to feminist antimilitarist organizing and anti-imperialist critique. Her research utilizes ethnographic and participatory action methodologies to examine the impacts of neoliberalism on contemporary social movements. Her teaching interests include LGBT/Queer politics and history, transnational feminism, contemporary masculinities, and postfeminist media studies.

Well, I guess the  8,254 undergraduate students at Winona State enjoy learning about the problems of indigenous Ecuadorans, queer activism and anti-imperialist critique, but why Minnesota taxpayers are footing the bill for this is an interesting question. Somehow I doubt Minnesota taxpayers have any idea what the hell is being taught at Winona State. Do they have a substantial population of Ecuadoran queers? Is there much “feminist antimilitarist organizing” in Winona? The local representative in the Minnesota legislature is Republican Steve Drazkowski, whose family are Catholic farmers. Are his constituents OK with the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program at Winona State University?

You see that Minnesota taxpayers have subsidized Kaylee Jakubowski’s “education” at Winona State, and “she” was kind enough to share with “her” 116 Twitter followers the helpful “reminder that Thanksgiving isn’t a celebration of peace — it’s one of genocide.”

Well, happy holidays to you, too, Kaylee. And thanks also for sharing with your 116 Twitter followers this chart about gender:

You may click on the image to enlarge it, in which case you’ll notice how this Venn diagram portrays “Individuals who are ‘reproductively viable’,” “who exhibit the secondary sex characteristics typically associated with” male or female and who were “likely to have been classified . . . at birth” as such, as if these normal biological categories of human sexual dimorphism did not encompass the vast majority of people in Winona, Minnesota, or anywhere else.  You can verify this with the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA):

“If you ask experts at medical centers how often a child is born so noticeably atypical in terms of genitalia that a specialist in sex differentiation is called in, the number comes out to about 1 in 1500 to 1 in 2000 births.”

Which is to say, between 99.93% and 99.95% of humans are born without any genital defect. It’s possible that among the 8,000 or so students at Winona State, four or five were born with “ambiguous genitalia,” and maybe Kaylee is one of them. More likely, however, Kaylee is afflicted with a mental illness known as “gender dysphoria.” Fortunately, advances in Feminist Logic™ have enabled intellectuals to cure this disorder by reclassifying it as “genderqueer,” which is not a psychiatric illness,  but a “community” in need of organizing.

Magical thinking — a belief that merely thinking about an event in the external world can cause it to occur. It is regarded as a form of regression to an early phase of development. It may . . . reach delusional proportions when the individual maintains a firm conviction about the belief, despite evidence to the contrary. It may be seen in schizophrenia. (Segen’s Medical Dictionary 2012)

There are many kinds of crazy in the world, you see, but random nutjobs can’t claim that their craziness deserves an entire department at the local state university, where the professors tell them it’s perfectly sane for a male to be called “her.” The lunatics aren’t just running the asylum, they’ve turned the asylum into an influential institution that tells sane people we are suffering from an irrational “phobia” because we insist on calling insanity by its proper name.

You need a Ph.D. in Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs to understand 21st-century feminist gender theory, and Kaylee is well on “her” way.

“Hey, wait a minute,” the reader wonders. “What about sex? What kind of sex do these genderqueers have?” So glad you asked!

Pansexuality 101: It’s More Than ‘Just Another Letter’
For some, the LGBPTTQQIIAA+ acronym (better known in some circles as “Queer alphabet soup”) can be intimidating in its all-inclusivity — “how on Earth am I supposed to not only memorize every identity in this nebula, but learn to respect them in my everyday life as well?”
Well worry not, kind feminist! . . .
So let’s explore one specific identity in this acronym today — pansexuality. . . .
This word “pansexual” was originally coined by Sigmund Freud within his theories on psychoanalysis in the early-to-mid 1900s, but was instead defined as how sexual energy and desire is the basis for all human interaction in life.
However the modern usage of “pansexual” has very little to do with Freud’s definition or his psycho-sexuality theories.
Instead, the modern usage (which I am exclusively referring to in this article) likely started gaining ground in the early-to-mid 1990s.
While it’s hard to pin the exact moment when its use began, it is almost certainly tied to the growing activism and awareness of non-binary and genderqueer people since pansexuality would not exist without these identities. . . .

So the non-binary genderqueer is pansexual. Please continue, Kaylee:

Like with any identity on the rainbow, individuals can (and will—and should!) define the identity in a way that’s more tailored to themselves. While the aforementioned definition is (technically) accurate, some pansexual people have a slightly different way of defining their identity.
For instance, the folks at Pansexuality is Perfect define it as a person who is “not limited or inhibited in sexual choice with regards to gender or activity.”
Other individuals have also described their identity by saying that “they just don’t focus on gender or sex identity, but focus more on the person instead.” . . .
While all of these ways of being pansexual are slightly different, they are all legitimate and they all help define pansexuality as the diverse, all-inclusive sexual identity that it is.
So someone who identifies as pansexual, no matter what their gender or sex is, can potentially be attracted to cis men, intersex men, trans men, agender people, genderqueer people or any other non-binary person, trans women, intersex women, cis women, or any other combination of sex, gender, and gender performance.

The adjectives “weird,” “desperate” and “creepy” could also apply, but there I go with the transphobic microaggressions again.

What Kaylee Jakubowski is actually describing, of course, is the infantile condition of polymorphous perversity:

Polymorphous perversity is a psychoanalytic concept proposing the human ability to gain sexual gratification outside socially normative sexual behaviors. Sigmund Freud used this term to describe the normal sexual disposition of humans from infancy to about age five. . . .
Freud theorized that humans are born with unfocused sexual libidinal drives, deriving sexual pleasure from any part of the body. The objects and modes of sexual satisfaction are multifarious, directed at every object that might provide pleasure. Polymorphous perverse sexuality continues from infancy through about age five . . . Only in subsequent developmental stages do children learn to constrain sexual drives to socially accepted norms, culminating in adult heterosexual behavior . . .
Freud taught that during this stage of undifferentiated impulse for sexual pleasure, incestuous and bisexual urges are normal. Lacking knowledge that certain modes of gratification are forbidden, the polymorphously perverse child seeks sexual gratification wherever it occurs.

Normal psychological development requires that the child learn to behave in accordance with “socially accepted norms,” but what happens when society so completely breaks down that there are no longer any “norms” and everything becomes acceptable?

[Canadian psychologist Hubert] Van Gjiseghem says what he and his colleagues mean by sexual orientation is a person’s inborn and unalterable sexual preference, irrespective of whether that preference is harmful to others or not. Currently, there is no significant longitudinal evidence that pedophiles can be made to not be attracted to children, and thus it can be defined as their orientation. And if pedophilia is a sexual orientation, that also means it’s futile to send pedophiles to prison in an effort to alter their attractions. . . .
Dr. James Cantor is the Head of Research in the Sexual Behaviours Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada’s largest mental health and teaching hospital. He’s also an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto’s school of medicine. He’s been working on better understanding pedophiles for about 12 years now using a variety of methods.

Common sense connects the dots: Winona State teaches that we must accept the pansexual genderqueer; meanwhile in Canada, a leading psychiatrist shrugs and says jailing child molesters is “futile.” This is what Matt Barber has called “Sexual Anarchy.”

Polymorphous perversity isn’t merely the New Normal, it’s federal law!

A federal judge [in August 2012] ordered state prison officials to provide a taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder.
U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled in the case of Michelle Kosilek, who was born as a man but has received hormone treatments and lives as a woman in an all-male prison. Robert Kosilek was convicted of murder in the killing of his wife in 1990.

Kill your wife, go to prison and demand that taxpayers fund your sex-change surgery. Rape a child, and it’s “futile” to put you in jail. Professors teach weirdos that “the growing activism and awareness of non-binary and genderqueer people” is necessary to obtain social justice on behalf of oppressed victims who can only “be definitely described is by saying that they’re ‘not cisheteronormative.'”

Obviously, I didn’t do enough psilocybin back in the day. If I had, I might be crazy enough to understand why the only people protesting about this “genderqueer” business are radical lesbians. 

Republicans in Minnesota? They don’t give a damn

Sanity is increasingly rare in the 21st century, but it’s not illegal, yet.

 

92 comments

  1. No field trips to look for gay dinosaur bones in Guatemala? Seems like they have the credentials. Gay dinosaurs were probably genocided… by an angry God who launched asteroids at Earth.

  2. The problem with Minnesota is the very strong Democratic-Media Complex would shred anyone going after those loons as focusing on this issue. The state GOP after its loss this year, needs to be on pocketbook issues, not culture wars that give said Complex ammo. See also the reelection of one asshat comic and a drunk incompetent.

    This is the kind of thing that needs to be done well beforehand.

    In practice, most MN State Colleges and Universities students are as political as rocks, unless a hot topic comes up they fall in fashionable love with.

  4. Evidently I didn’t do enough “Cow Shit Mushrooms” back in the day either.

    I don’t know how you do it Stacy…I would have gone crazy a long time ago trying to read and understand this crap. I’m glad we have you to read and parse it for us.

  5. GenderTrender dot com is the place for TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminism) commentary and is always interesting and often amusing.

    Part of the fascination comes in watching their utter outrage and disbelief at being on the other side of their own damned tactics. It’s particularly fun to watch them take offense at having their space invaded

  6. His(yes, HIS! Just because you shove feathers up your ass does not make you a chicken!)Thanksgiving tweet is the epitome of sanctimonious douche baggery. Unfortunately this isn’t a minority view amongst leftists, and MSNBC’s Ronan Farrow tweeted an equally idiotic Thanksgiving message last year.

  7. it appears the Jakubowski has yet to learn research skills during its time at the university, inasmuch some rather simple “Google-fu” demonstrates its assertion regarding Thanksgiving and “genocide” is absurd. That does not speak well for Winona State University, the “Harvard of Winona County, Minnesota.”

  8. The term “cis heteronormative” is like describing people as “bipedal ambula-normative” because they’re not rolling around in wheel chairs.

  9. I… I just don’t have the strength to read anything under a headline like that.

    I thank everyone on this website; the same way I thank soldiers for doing what I can’t do.

    But I just don’t have the fortitude at the moment.

    Carry on, folks.

  12. Apparently there has been a 5400% increase in Australian men giving birth in the last 12 months. The article also points out the discriminatory gendered language that persists in medical texts in relation to these birthing procedures.

    http://bernardgaynor.com.au/whatever-women-do-men-can-too-or-words-without-meaning/

    * Bernard Gaynor is an ex-officer in the Australian army, whose commission was terminated after he dared to suggest that uniformed military participation in the ‘Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras’ was against army policy. He is also up on a few civil charges relating to homosexual vilification for pointing out that homosexual men probably shouldn’t “flop it out” in front of children.

  16. No! NOOOOO. You MUST have strength. You once said that you would hold my coat while I beat the crap out of an idiot feminist. Now you must be brave while I exhibit feminine histrionics at the the very thought of…this…this…honestly…I don’t even have words. This is the sort of thing that a gentleman must protect a lady from. I have to return to my quilting and embroidery and tune this out. This is the sort of thing for men to handle. I have sandwiches, and tasty potato salad to make.

  18. McCain, seriously. If there’s a photo from the Rocky Horror Picture Show leading the blog post, should a nice Christian lady just move on? I think I have a case of the vapors. Perhaps you ought to include a link to a blog by Mrs. M. with delicious crockpot recipes and child rearing tips for us ladies when you’re planning to discuss this sort of material. Holy schnikes, dude! I’m looking forward to your book, but I’m kind of scared now.

  19. I’ve had two days without any proper sleep… and then… THAT HEADLINE! Look at it! Look at that collection of words!

    I’ll have a Rueben. I mean, while you’re makin’ sandwiches…

  20. It’s really amazing how you have looked at social policies enacted in the last 20 years that are aggressively hostile and bigoted, looked at the buzz words and rhetoric used and tracked it back to its source.

    It turns out it is people who have spent decades perfecting that rhetoric to make their own racism and sociopathies not only seem reasonable but noble, and even necessary.

    Daphnai Patai in her 1998 book Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism you recommended to me writes about a sexual harassment conference where Andrea Dworkin claimed…

    “‘millions of men wanted to have a young woman at work to suck their cock.’ Did anyone rise to contest such outrageous slander directed at all or most men? No one. On the contrary… It is hard to imagine any other group of people in the United States today who could be so crassly maligned in a public setting without arousing immediate protest.”

    The bottom line is what we are seeing is the normalization and mainstreaming of hate speech. It is the same process and combination of fake academic arguments, demonization theories and media and gov’t backing the Nazis used to drive an entire country insane in the remarkable space of only a few short years.

    This is damned dangerous fire for Americans to be playing with and the greatest threat to America since WW II. When you have people like Ta-Nahesi Coates openly maligning 230 million whites institutionalized in a place like The Atlantic and seen as a voice of reason and justice and insane gender feminists scrubbing sanity, principle and reason straight out of academia that is too nutty for words. It is an Orwellian nightmare to any sane American.

  24. Tennessee Tuxedo is a race-baiter. If he didn’t have something hate-filled to say, he wouldn’t have a job.

  25. It’s amazing how these people abandon the most fundamental principles behind our Fourteenth Amendment while exploiting its cracks until it ceases to exist in anything but name. That’s plain dangerous. Ironically, more for them than for me. Using their own language, I land Hot Wheels on Mars and asteroids. They don’t. If that’s privilege then yeah, they’re sunk. Who knows, I might rescind the Fourteenth Amendment for a lark.

  26. Stacy, this is quite enlightening. I had no idea how mistaken I have been. I always thought that “pansexual” involved jerking off into a bedpan….

  27. Okay, one more thing – The Cotton Ceiling. Google that and be prepared for total insanity!

    I tend to think of it as karma for their lawfare against Christians over gay marriage. It’s just that in the case of TCC, the property they’re demanding the use of is rather, shall we say, intimate?

    Seriously, these lunatics expect, no, demand that lesbians sleep with them – and accept their “womanly penis.”

  28. “if pedophilia is a sexual orientation, that also means it’s futile to send pedophiles to prison in an effort to alter their attractions”

    Well, this argument is true, but dishonest.

    We don’t put kiddy fiddlers in jail for the purpose of changing them. It’s widely recognised that child molestors have a high rate of recidivism. We put them in jail (a) as punishment for their crimes and (b) to keep them away from kiddies.

    But assuming the purpose of prison was to change the prisoner’s sexual proclivities. Would the same argument be used to suggest it’s futile to jail heterosexual rapists?

    *crickets*

  30. Two things stuck out to me here. First, I’m not a ‘real’ woman because I vote republican and think feminism is bunk but a person with an actual penis *is* a real woman just because he calls himself Kaylee and checks off all the proper leftist belief boxes. Seriously? Second, pedophiles aren’t sent to prison in an effort to change their ‘orientation’, they are sent there to be punished for committing crimes against children and to protect the population from further crimes. My husband was just saying last night what a scary thing it is when you live in times that make you long for the wholesomeness of the 80’s & Mr. Kaylee is a perfect example.

  31. If pedophilia is a sexual orientation that cannot be altered, then the real concern is that the behavior eventually becomes decriminalized/legalized like homosexual activity was. All it takes is some psycho babble bullshit akin to your cited example above to “prove” that the behavior is not harmful to children, it is only societies view of it that is. And these lunatics are just the type of people to make it happen.

  32. So I’m not a ‘real’ woman because I vote republican and think feminism is bullhockery but a person with an actual penis *is* a real woman because he calls himself Kaylee and checks off all the proper leftist belief boxes? My husband was just saying last night what a scary thing it is to live in times that make you long for the wholesomeness of the 80s.

  35. That’s the philosophical conundrum which results from elevating sexual proclivities to the status of “protected class,” where heretofore, such were merely behavioral preferences. The leap has already been made with homosexual behavior, of course, with the obligatory aspersions cast against those who warned against the inevitable expansion of the “class.” We were told we were deploying the “slippery slope” fallacy.

    Yeah, right.

    When you know that the purpose of these movements is the destruction of the institutions of traditional marriage and family, and thus the destruction of pluralistic, individualistic republican governance, there is, indeed, a slippery slope. Or, more precisely, it’s a precipice leading into the Abyss, where there is weeping and great gnashing of teeth.

  38. It’s worth noting that, back in the 70’s, paedophiles were very much part of the gay rights movement. Groups like NAMBLA in the US and PIE in the UK were by all accounts welcomed by the main gay rights umbrella orgs at the time.

    To their credit, the mainstream gay righters dissociated themselves from the paedophile lobby in the 80’s, but there’s always been an element of the “sex positive” radical fringe that has sought to normalise child sexual activity. And we can’t blame this all or exclusively on the gays: see – the Dunham Horror.

    This goes way beyond issues over acceptance of homosexuality. It has its origins in the Frankfurt School’s recipe for destroying Western civilisation by dismantling the family.

  39. The legalization of homosexuality alone, meaning legalizing the previously illegal act, was one thing. But in recent years the push to consider sexual orientation as a protected class is a serious problem, because we are going from legalizing acts to protecting groups. If we stayed on the issue of acts, then you could justifiably separate homosexuality and pedophilia. But if we focus on orientations or groups, then that legal distinction is not so easy to obtain.

  41. For a period of time in the 80s the mushrooms were illegal but not their spores. One could buy kits advertised in High Times mag for instance. This eliminated the need to risk being shot at by farmers while traipsing about their fields upsetting their cattle. Or so I’ve been told.

  43. Where to start…


    “Departments of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies”
    “Critical Culture”? As if these whining narcissists need lessions in fault-finding and whining! What a waste of funds and time.

    “Hey, wait a minute,”the reader wonders. “What about sex? What kind of sexdo these genderqueers have?”So glad you asked!
    Actually, I didn’t ask, have absolutely no interest in, and ardently desire to remain ignorant of other people’s sexual desires, habits, and proclivities! If one really desires to “show off” their mental abberations and emotional defects, let them rent a hall, sell tickets, and not splash it all over creation! (besides, noising it all over would cut down on ticket sales…)

    And, lastly:

    And if pedophilia is a sexual orientation, that also means it’s futile to send pedophiles to prison in an effort to alter their attractions
    [NB: emphasis mine]
    I’ve never advanced the idea that pedophilic should be imprisoned to alter their attractions! That’s an attempt at thought control— and not possible in any event.

    There’s three reasons to imprison an active pedophile:

    1. to remove people from society those whose actions infringe on other people and their rights and property. By this out-of-date doctrine we each own ourselves and it is a form of theft.

    This is the reason we used to imprison robbers. The purpose behind imprisonment is to protect society. It was the Progressive Movement that decided “rehabilitation” should be foremost— and that idea descends from “the state owns the individual”, and repairing a part of the state’s machinery. Why toss a tax-source w/o trying everything to rehabilitate it?

    2. to punish those who impinge on another’s person and that person’s rights. Punishment often teaches self-control. Enough said.

    3. to impress on the pedophile (and the robber mentioned in my first point…) that self-control is beneficial both to himself and society. You don’t help an alcoholic by dismissing, excusing and/or encouraging the behavior! (I chose alcoholism as something else w/roots in both personality and physiology…)

  48. Wasn’t Winona what Chrichton named his blaster?

    Here’s a “theory” of this whole mess: Lesbians are just a sort of herd response to a dangerous world. It’s almost understandable. It’s also why lesbianism isn’t a permanent choice for many of them.

    I’m guessing the vast majority of the folks claiming to be “trans” whatever have a ‘Y’ chromosome. They are just following the more primitive (as in leftist-governed thought processes) Y tendency to drag a distorted version of the patriarchy into the XX realm of Feminism, so they can pretend it’s really theirs. The more primitive ones enjoy trying to dominate it. Domination is at the very core of leftist behavior.

    http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/3/34651/1196272-0john.jpg

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