{"id":73274,"date":"2022-07-27T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=73274"},"modified":"2022-07-26T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T14:08:07","slug":"qotd-sex-and-the-young-zoomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/07\/27\/qotd-sex-and-the-young-zoomer\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Sex and the young Zoomer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I bring this up because we seem to have entered one of those moments, not infrequent in American history, when the keepers of our culture have decided sex should be taboo. The word itself is now indecent and unmentionable: We’re supposed to say “gender”. But gender pertains to linguistics, not biology. In Spanish, for example, the moon is feminine in gender: la luna<\/em>. The sun is masculine: el sol<\/em>. This sets up all kinds of interesting possibilities during sunrise and sunset, but that’s not the point here. The point is that some moralistic souls think you can somehow detach the sex act from sexuality. But why?<\/p>\n

Apparently, many in the zoomer generation find sex scary. I get that. When I was 13 and contemplated the mechanics of the thing, I pretty much became reconciled to a life of despondent celibacy. But at what point was our culture handed over to clueless 13-year-old kids? The zoomers mate later, less and with fewer reproductive consequences than their parents and grandparents. They get triggered by 50 Shades of Grey<\/em> and suffer a permanent headache from climate change. I mean, can anyone conjure up a romantic vision of Greta Thunberg?<\/p>\n

There’s also the idea that sex is fluid \u2014 that one can be born into a biological “gender” then pick among dozens of other flavors, like scoops at the gelato store. But weren’t we told, not so long ago, that being gay was a matter of genetic destiny<\/a>? Evidently, everyone else is free to choose. You can be transgender<\/em>, of course, and cisgender<\/em>, which I think is what I am. But there are 70 more buckets<\/a> to pick from, such as abimegender<\/em>, aerogender<\/em>, cassgender<\/em> \u2014 even cloudgender<\/em>, which means one’s gender “cannot be comprehended or understood due to depersonalization and derealization disorder”.<\/p>\n

If you believe there are 72 sexes, you’re overthinking. You’re also likely to be online 22 hours a day and paddling toward a digitally reinforced narcissism. “You may say you’re cassgender. Fine. Big deal. But I am cloudgender and can’t be fully comprehended or understood!” That’s the stuff of social media. It feels<\/em> like millions are listening to your magnificently baroque sexual identity, even if you’re only talking to yourself.<\/p>\n

Martin Gurri, “Get the Kids Out of the Room \u2014 We’re Going To Talk About Sex”, Discourse<\/em><\/a>, 2022-04-25.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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