BrattyChaz
1yr ago
Transsexualism is largely an adult male fetish that compulsively objectifies and covets womanhood. Men with autogynephila (the professional name for this form of transsexualism) seek to medically appropriate the sexed humanity of women by purchasing surgical simulacrums of their sexed reality, in parts, to assuage their compulsion. It is the apex of the sex industries, reducing women to parts for commercial and sexual use.
Per UCLA, referencing a pair of CDC datasets, “Of the 1.3 million adults who identify as transgender, 38.5% (515,200) are transgender women, 35.9% (480,000) are transgender men, and 25.6% (341,800) reported they are gender nonconforming.”
Source: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-adults-united-states/
BrattyChaz
1yr ago
Tangential development that isn’t yet large enough to be a systemic problem but is small-scale horrifying:
Since the refi boom is over and sales are slowing, originations departments are looking for ways to lower costs for consumers, so they can write more loans. One old, bad idea being kicked around again is attorney title opinion letters. And Fannie Mae has begun accepting them in limited amounts.
The attorney title opinion is a written letter from a lawyer that says based on the public records they were able to review, the title on the property you are buying is clear. It’s a cheaper alternative to title insurance, but what it isn’t, is title insurance.
Now, title insurers make good money. As an industry, they bring in billions in premiums versus paying out hundreds of millions in claims. But they also protect consumers against error and fraud.
Most homebuyers would surely love to save several hundred dollars in closing costs. But the ones that get burned and wind up in contested law suits are going to be out five figures in legal costs. Uncontested title resolutions run $1,500 to $5,000.
Woke has successfully borrowed from religion. It has appropriated the Christian concept of original sin (people have privilege assigned to them at birth due to immutable characteristics that they must strive for the rest of their life to redress), and other shared religious concepts like blasphemy (only certain people can say certain words, even in a neutral, journalistic, or academic context; only certain people may make certain foods, wear certain hairstyles, sell certain foods, perform certain music), atonement (restorative justice, public apology, doing the work), ritual (land acknowledgments, exchange of personal pronouns) and excommunication (canceling).
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