There was a bit of a stir about a console game called Pragmata and the usual coalition of weirdos and feminists (but I repeat myself) rose up to declare that healthy men should treat helpless children with indifference and any fatherly interest must be a mask for pedophiIia. Obviously, this is industrial-grade projection (which I touched on in my most recent column).
This got me to thinking about how this used to be a staple in lots of movies. Aliens, for example, has Newt, a little girl who looks a lot like the one in Pragmata. The foul-mouthed Colonial Marines instantly take to Newt, showing her a kindness they would never display to each other. This was viewed at the time as entirely appropriate.
I can also invoke the ancient Battlestar Galactica wars by recalling that a prominent character in the original series was Boxey, a fatherless child whose mother dies early in the series, and he is raised by Apollo, who became his adoptive father. In that far-off age, how men interacted with children was important in determining if he was husband material. Now it’s being portrayed as sinister and strange.
It is a small detail, but a key part of the current social environment where evil is praised and virtue is condemned.
The Desecration of Ellen Page
At this late date, race and gender swapping are simply absurd, and for that reason, I could care less about Christopher Nolan doing it in his version of The Odyssey. Hey, if you want to trash the historical feel of your historical epic, have at it. Honestly, he could have done it better by just putting it in space or, gee, maybe the Depression-era American South (as in O Brother, Where Art Thou?).
That would at least be creative. No, the thing I find most horrific is the casting of Ellen “Elliot” Page, whose mutilation should be a source of deep shame for everyone in the entertainment industry.
The science on gender transitioning is settled: it’s a form a mental illness. In some forms it is a compulsive sexual fetish, in others a sign of sexual abuse and deep, abiding depression. This is known. It is indisputable.
The question that should rightly be on everyone’s mind is: What the hell happened to her?
What drove a rising, talented and indisputably beautiful actress to turn herself into Gollum? We are used to seeing women try cosmetic surgery and radical dieting in an attempt to retain the appearance of youth and fitness, but it is simply unprecedented for a cute girl-next-door to decide she wants to be a scrawny little man, a Mickey Rooney without the charm. (Rooney was a force of nature, by the way. His impish grin and boundless confidence was catnip to the ladies and he ploughed his way through at least half of the starlets of his era.)
Ellen Page portraying GollumAbout that “Me Too” Moment
The whole situation with Page is really about the dog that hasn’t barked. As her star rose, she clearly suffered mentally, and there are vague rumors that she was used and abused, but how can this be? I thought Alyssa Milano and Rose MacGowan were on the case! Who is the new Harvey Weinstein serving as the Scourge of the Ficus Plant?
I also want to be clear: her casting is not about “checking a box,” it is about shoving her defilement in the face of America. “Remember how adorable she used to be? Look at her now!” This a shout of defiance against the re-establishment of Christian morality, and putting it in a big-budget film with A-list actors and a top-shelf director is the whole point.
The demons of L.A. want you to know that they are not going anywhere.
The Case for Mockery – And Compassion
As we enter the Primacy of Gen X, snark and mockery are once more back on the menu. I’m even hearing “retarded” being used in Church homilies. One of the reasons the woke stole a march on the normals is that everyone was told to be sensitive and this was brutally enforced with the threat of job loss or other punishment. We must now embrace this moment of branding freaks, degenerates and weirdos as “freaks, degenerates, and weirdos.” Call them what they are.
But at the same time, we also must be clear that many of these people do not have agency in their decisions. They are being pushed into it by truly evil people. Put simply, I don’t think Ellen Page is going to hell for being trans; I think the people who did this to her are.
Page’s presence in the film is a pagan ritual right out of Greek myth, the equivalent of a royal princess being raped to death by ruthless conquerors who then parade her corpse before her demoralized subjects. “Look upon this, and despair!”
We see you, Hollywood. We know what you are. The hour is late, and the gate is narrow. Repent.
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