Palo Duro earth

  

It wasn’t only grand landscapes that I focused on at Palo Duro Canyon
on May 14th. The orange-brown earth at our feet also had its appeal.

 

 

The second view lends itself to pareidolia. A shrieking rabbit, anyone? In the third picture
you see subtle traces of the way rainwater had flowed a couple of days before our visit.

  

 

In the last view the remnants of the recent flow are more conspicuous.

 

 

 

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Gobbledygook

 

In commentaries over the past three years I’ve called out the delusions that have swept through the formerly scientific field of medicine. One manifestation of that delusionality is the making up of “genders.” People have catalogued well over a hundred of them, and the number is still growing. Another manifestation of delusionality is that increasingly many people with medical degrees blithely accept such nonsense.

Last week I came across a website called MedicineNet, whose About page tells us: “Founded in 1996, MedicineNet.com is a nationally-recognized, doctor-produced network consisting of more than 70 U.S. board-certified physicians. MedicineNet.com is a trusted source for online health and medical information.”

What brought me to that website was the article “What Are the 72 Other Genders?” The article credits Shaziya Allarakha, MD, as the medical author, and  Pallavi Suyog Uttekar, MD, as the medical reviewer. In answer to the question “What is gender identity,” the article proclaims:

 

In today’s age, one does not need to fit in with regards [sic] to their choices, including their gender identity.

• Gender is no more regarded as a binary concept where one can either be a male or a female.
• It has emerged as a continuum or spectrum where one can identify themselves as any of the gender identities.

The term gender identity means how a person identifies themselves [sic] concerning their gender. It may be regardless of their anatomy or genetics. Thus, a person may identify themselves as male, female, none, both, or some other category independent of their genitals.

The idea is to make everyone feel comfortable in their skin irrespective of what gender they were assigned at birth.

 

Then the article asserts that “Besides male and female, there are 72 other genders,” which it goes on to list. Here are the first 10:

 

1. Agender: A person who does not identify themselves [sic] with or experience any gender. Agender people are also called null-gender, genderless, gendervoid, or neutral gender.
2. Abimegender: Associated with being profound, deep, and infinite. The term abimegender may be used alone or in combination with other genders. [Abîme in French means ‘abyss.’]
3. Adamas gender: A gender that is indefinable or indomitable. People identifying with this gender refuse to be categorized in any particular gender identity.
4. Aerogender: Also called evaisgender, this gender identity changes according to one’s surroundings.
5. Aesthetigender: Also called aesthetgender, it is a type of gender identity derived from aesthetics.
6. Affectugender: This is based on the person’s mood swings or fluctuations.
7. Agenderflux: A person with this gender identity is mostly agender with brief shifts of belonging to other gender types.
8. Alexigender: The person has a fluid gender identity between more than one type of gender although they cannot name the genders they feel fluid in.
9. Aliusgender: This gender identity stands apart from existing social gender constructs. It means having a strong specific gender identity that is neither male nor female.
10. Amaregender: Having a gender identity that changes depending on the person one is emotionally attached to. [Amare is the Latin and Italian verb meaning ‘to love.’]

 

What a bunch of gobbledygook—and what a travesty that people with medical degrees are passing these delusions off as if they’re real.

 

 

© 2024 Steven Schwartzman