The Dorx couldn’t wait for Corinna to edit the 2 recorded episodes in the queue, so they had a spontaneous RAW & UNEDITED conversation and are slapping it up here WITHOUT COOKING OR EDITING! Yes, it’s as uncooked as a 19-year-old’s brain, which doesn’t finish baking until age 25 or a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. We discuss transing as a social phenomenon, Fundamental Attribution Error, long pauses, male detransitioners, the white supremacist mass shooter in Buffalo, and the decline of American hegemony. Hopefully it’ll stave off hunger until our next fine well-edited episodes come out of the oven. Bon appetit!
Episode 56: Voluntary Human Extinction with Les U. Knight
Which would hasten the Apocalypse faster: population decline, or population increase? Economists urge growth, but Les U Knight, discoverer of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, argues the peaceful, gradual elimination of humanity would be better for everyone – especially humanity itself. We discuss contraception, Insectageddon, donuts, the Demographic Transition Theory, ritual human sacrifice, and what would happen if we got rid of Netflix. May we Live Long and Die Out!
VHEMT web site: vhemt.org
Nina on the Jerry Springer show with the Church of Euthenasia in 1997: https://vimeo.com/235654079
Virginia Abernethy – Population Politics (which includes a debunking of the Demographic Transition Theory): https://books.google.com/books/about/Population_Politics.html?id=oJ4jngEACAAJ
Episode 55: BioTrans with Kikomi
In a very “meta” episode that probably won’t make sense to those not deeply involved in online transactivism, the Dorx speak with BioTransGirl Kikomi. Kikomi was Assigned Female At Birth (AFAB) and identifies as a man who identifies as a woman: a transwoman. We learn how BioTrans are even more marginalized and oppressed than trans, not even validated by Stonewall or the ACLU. Nina realizes she may be a BioTrans “egg”, but if she “comes out” she could face BioTransphobia or worse: biodetransition. Should she get vaginoplasty on her front hole? Does she have autoandrogynephelia? Will she replace Corinna as the One True Trans? Perhaps the most marginalized of all are the .02% of the population capable of getting these jokes.
Kikomi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BioTransGirl
Kikomi comics: https://archive.org/details/kikomi/
BioTrans insufficiently welcome at Nina’s local bike club: https://blog.ninapaley.com/2022/03/21/cycling-and-gender-intersect-in-meaningful-ways/
TERF-Tranny Alliance: https://www.heterodorx.com/terftrannyalliance/
Episode 54: Listener Questions
Second time’s a charm as the Dorx answer YOUR questions, having already answered them a week earlier in a session that failed to record properly. What are our favorite podcasts? What would we have done differently? How is putting on a dress and having fake breasts different to blacking up and wearing an afro wig? Is there Right Wing creep in the GC movement? Is it too soon to hope? Do we have autogynephilia? Learn the answers to these questions and more on this hot, re-heated, re-recorded episode!
Links:
Our Grace Lavery interview: https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-26-trano-a-trano-with-grace-lavery/
Greg Dember on Metamodernism: https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-16-metamodernism-with-greg-dember/
Put Yourself First (In a Sexy Way): https://youtu.be/H2lmojePnA0
Andrea Dworkin – Right Wing Women: https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Andrea-DWORKIN-Right-Wing-Women-The-Politics-of-Domesticated-Females-19831.pdf
University of Illinois requires DEI statements for tenure and promotion: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/04/01/u-illinois-require-diversity-statements-tenure
Episode 53: Autogynephilia with J Michael Bailey
J Michael Bailey authored the seminal The Man Who Would Be Queen, which attempted to bring to a mainstream audience Blachard’s “Two Types” of male transsexuality: effeminate homosexuals, and autogynephiles, men sexually aroused at the idea of themselves as women. Is autogynephilia (AGP) a sexuality, a paraphilia, or both? Is male bisexuality linked to AGP? How common is AGP? (Bailey: “We don’t know.” Corinna: “Very, at tech conferences.”) What are the similarities between autogynephiles, furries, wannabe amputees, and “adult babies”? Can women be GAMPs? Are traps gay? What is up with adult AGP men favoring castrating AGP boys? Questions abound, but one thing is for certain: it’s one hell of a paraphilia.
The Man Who Would be Queen – free PDF download https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/JMichael-Bailey/TMWWBQ.pdf
Michael Bailey on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=o_vo1p0AAAAJ&hl=en
https://psychology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/profiles/michael-bailey.html
Nina’s San Francisco Sex-Postive Memoirs (again): https://4w.pub/sex-pos-memoirs/
Episode 52: Calm and Wreasonable Colin Wright
Evolutionary biologist and gender-critical free speech advocate Colin Wright tries to throw the Dorx a bone by introducing himself with bun/buns/bunself pronouns, but remains indisputably a paragon of calm reason. Our conversation calmly and reasonably meanders through Wright’s early cancelation, academia, social contagions and cycles of silence, saving women’s sports, whether social media is making us insane, and the resemblance of wokeism to creationism. Nina is lulled into such a calm state that she doesn’t even challenge Corinna and Colin when they question whether “Patriarchy” is a Thing. Is it possible to be TOO calm and reasonable? Listen in and find out!
Wright’s Substack, Reality’s Last Stand: https://www.realityslaststand.com/
Wright’s cancelation story on Quillette: https://quillette.com/2020/07/30/think-cancel-culture-doesnt-exist-my-own-lived-experience-says-otherwise/
FAIR (Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism): https://www.fairforall.org/
Wright’s Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/SwipeWright/
Genderism descends on Nina’s local bike club: https://blog.ninapaley.com/2022/03/21/cycling-and-gender-intersect-in-meaningful-ways/
Episode 51: Potty Mouths
While some Radical Feminists consider bathrooms (aka toilets) a distraction from more salient and enforceable realms of prisons, shelters, sports, and therapeutic settings, for others they represent the front lines of women’s boundaries in public space. Nina and Corinna have an honest, long-postponed, and undoubtedly controversial discussion about the reality of who uses which toilets, when, and why. But first, they discuss how the TERF-Tranny Alliance is accelerating the Apocalypse, the history of the term “gender critical,” and the difference between “pet trans” and actual pets. This episode is sure to piss off just about everyone!
TERF-Tranny Alliance: https://www.heterodorx.com/terftrannyalliance/
Genspect Detransition webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnvZvqwIR7o
Ideological Totalism: https://theradicalnotion.org/ideological-totalism-left-and-right/
Does Sex Matter? 2019 panel discussion at the Urbana Free Library, featuring Corinna Cohn, Carey Callahan, and Nina Paley. Talk: https://youtu.be/RguD61siLB8
Q & A: https://vimeo.com/326585294
Q & A: https://vimeo.com/326585294
Episode 50: Cynthia Breheny Literally Erases by Drawing
The Dorx chat with Cynthia Breheny, a sexist, racist, and transphobic artist who perverts free speech and art as a means to hurt people. OR DOES SHE?? Perhaps she’s a sweet, young, unusually moderate illustrator with her own interesting history of gender dysphoria and heterodox gender-diverse friends. Nina, as Elder Artist and TERF, imparts her aged wisdom upon the young’un, while Corinna is unafraid to face accusations of “erasing” kinky toddlers. Is there hope for the future? Maybe!
Cynthia Breheny of Twitter: https://twitter.com/PTElephant
Website: https://www.ptelephant.com/
Episode 49: MK Fain Wants to Keep Fighting
Corinna and Nina welcome back MK Fain, creator of women’s social network Spinster.xyz and online feminist news publication 4w.pub. Life has dished out some tough lessons in the intervening 10 months, and Fain is a fast learner. She shares newfound wisdom about having a life outside “the Movement,” purity spirals, Truth mills, scapegoating, infighting, fracturing, and cults. After resolving not to join anything in 2022, Fain becomes the newest member of the TERF-Tranny Alliance, and Nina looks forward to Death. Then the Dorx get philosophical about the difference between oppressors and leaders, the nature of human hierarchies, telling the truth as well as questioning it, writer’s block, and spaying and neutering our pets — and ourselves. Somehow all this inspires Fain to continue her fight for justice; maybe she’ll inspire you too.
Episode 48: Bully-Proofing the Grown-ups with Stella O’Malley
After Nina goes on about copyright abolition again, our delightful guest discusses her new book, Bully-Proof Kids (© Stella O’Malley 2022). All the adults in this conversation have been – and are currently being – bullied by other adults; will techniques for kids and families work for us too? The power to make or break bullies is in the hands of bystanders, whom O’Malley urges to become upstanders. Nina and Corinna are cynical as ever, and at one point sound like mental patients arguing with their therapist. Did we mention O’Malley is a therapist? She’s got her work cut out for her, in this episode and beyond!
Bully-Proof Kids: http://www.stellaomalley.com/bullyproof-kids
TERF-Tranny Alliance: https://www.heterodorx.com/terftrannyalliance/