Watching the Ember Paradox fallout right now. It holds minimal interest to me personally, but the social consequences are worth detailed commentary. In particular I'm seeing dozens of people all repeating variations of 'why is this a bad thing?' or 'who actually cares lol'. These are people who frequently claimed to be 'right wing' or at least 'based' in some degree. Yet here they are, justifying it when a man infiltrates women's spaces by lying about his biological sex. He got women to trust him based on those lies. He got women to confide in him based on those lies. But we're supposed to just ignore this because 'he's on our side'. No, he isn't. He's a parasite and a liar. There is no reframing this in any other capacity. It is simply disingenuous to do so. Ember lied about being a woman. Some will try and argue semantics such as 'but he never said X or Y, so he was never actually claiming to be a woman, he just let other people assume he was', and I will address these arguments directly. It is very simple to debunk them when one views this through the lens of biological instinct. Women are creatures of consensus. They do not see the world the same way that men do. When the average, sane man looks at another man using a voice changer on a stream, our brains go 'this is clearly just someone pretending to be a woman as a gimmick. Of course they're not a real woman, it'd be stupid to think otherwise'. Women by and large do not do this. They do not say to themselves 'I think this is a man pretending to be a woman'. They say to themselves 'do other women agree that this is a woman?' If the answer is yes, they will ignore what their brain is telling them in favour of the consensus. This is not some misogynistic screed; this is directly paraphrasing what many, many women have said to me directly, as well as a great deal of empirical research. You may dislike me putting it in such simple terms, but it is still true. That is what makes the actions of men like Ember despicable. They are the kind of men who understand how women think and act. They abuse that knowledge to infiltrate women's spaces by creating a persona that says confidently enough that it is 'female' to be believed by real women. It doesn't matter if men believe they are women or not, they aren't the target audience. This is why the 'but he was honest about using a voice changer' argument is irrelevant. Women were still willing to believe he was another woman despite this, and he knew that. When women dare to question this persona, they are immediately bullied and browbeaten by other people. They get told it 'isn't a big deal' or that 'they're making something out of nothing'. Thus, they start to doubt themselves and question whether they were right to stand up for themselves at all. This causes as much damage as violent left-wing radical transgender men forcing themselves onto women does. In both cases, you are deliberately refusing to acknowledge that a liar is trying to take advantage of women and force them to accept his preferred consensus of what reality is. Seeing people defend a blatant liar is genuinely disgusting to me. It is an inversion of reality, a classic case of putting bad for good and good for bad. The liar is the good person, while those bringing the truth to light are the evil ones. Yuri Bezmenov is turning in his grave at this total propagandistic triumph. Let me be very clear about all this, because it will be the only time I address it. It is entirely wrong to claim to be a woman when you are a biological man. There is no grey area here. There is no 'but everyone knows the truth, it's purely a joke lol' get-out-of-jail-free clause. If you are a man pretending to be a woman and assuming the rights, privileges and social status of a woman, while entering their spaces, you are objectively evil and should be ejected from society without mercy. I have zero interest in associating with or engaging with people who are so demoralized and incapable of reasoning that they do not see this as a self-evident truth. The only people I want to keep company with are loyal, trustworthy individuals who share my core values of honesty, decency and morality. If you want to take the side of the liar who wrote in graphic detail about children getting raped and snuffed, you are not someone I want to associate with. In conclusion, I have this final quote to share: "When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control." - Theodore Dalrymple