The description of how all the little apparatchiks dutifully went through and changed all the so-called “open source” information about him/her/it is the scary part. Who needs MiniTrue when the masses will do the work free of charge.
Silly girl.
Now she has made herself the least important of people: A white male.
Yeah, but she should rake in lots of awards for having so convincingly playing lead actress roles for years!
Sometimes I wonder if all this idiocy was inadvertently started by Lexa Doig, who played the A.I. on Commonwealth starship in Andromeda. I mean, if a woman can self-identify as a warship, which was a central part of her character, then why shouldn’t people identify as anything they want?
But I really have to draw the line at Joe Biden self-identifying as President.
Biden can identify as whatever he wants, but should take a lesson from Abraham Lincoln:
“Abraham Lincoln once posed the question: ‘If you call a dog’s tail a leg, how many legs does it have?’ and then answered his own query: ‘Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one,’”
So another former “it” girl hit the wall and is not getting offered any roles and thus is desperate for attention. Such shock. Much face.
She has the lead role in a TV series. Her psychological problems are real, and of almost no interest to me.
The fate of some oscure/famous actress has no importance.
Our ubiquitous information systems combined with the enormous bandwidth and the human proclivity for dopamine addiction has produced a non linear system that raises 6 sigma noise spikes into the public information/knowledge stream. The answer to the insanity is technical or medical, not cultural.
I never heard of this person until seeing that she was now a he.
Didn’t celebrity gossip used to be about, you know, celebrities?
She was on Trailer Park Boys here in Canada. Not sure whether she’d done anything since.
AFAIK, her one big role was in the movie, Juno…
No, she was in Hard Candy a story about a girl who takes revenge on a murdering pedophile – actually well made, and critically acclaimed (and a box office flop).
She was also in X Men: The Last Stand, portraying a character whose superpower is the ability to walk through walls (I, too, have that superpower, but only when there’s a door in the wall).
Superpower, shmooperpower. Page in reality has a hyperpower: the power to command large numbers of people to deny reality.
I think that this Page person should be publicly condemned utterly and without remorse.
She’s a white male now, after all. What greater evidence of perfidy can there be?
I just wonder if her career trajectory from here on will more resemble Mickey Rourke’s or Any Kaufman’s.
She can think of herself as anything she wants.
The movie/tv industry can hire her or not as they see fit.
My concern, with all of this, is that all of these people are telling everyone else how they MUST speak.
Agree with this. People change their names all the time: get married, get out of dodgy contracts (“The Artist Formerly Known as Prince”), etc. So it’s no big deal that someone changed their name. So why try to make it a big deal? Definitely not because this name change is somehow much more critical than the rest.
This reminds me so much of all those social gatherings, past and present, where everyone jockeys around with words and behavior, trying to slavishly follow the fads of the day. The King’s mistress wore sky blue pantaloons, so everyone needs to wear sky blue pantaloons. The CEO used “paradigm” in every third sentence so the rest of us need to use “paradigm” in every third sentence while we stand around the water cooler.
One part I will not agree with is the idea that “they” is only a plural.
It’s attested as a singular back … about FIVE HUNDRED YEARS.
That dog will not hunt. It won’t even get out of bed.
The only reason for any backlash against “they” is – and I sympathize – the hectoring and smug tone of the people demanding it be used so much, so reflexively, and with such backlash if their demands aren’t met.
But it’s a fine gender-neutral singular, with a long pedigree in English. It’s not an innovation or a novelty.
The description of how all the little apparatchiks dutifully went through and changed all the so-called “open source” information about him/her/it is the scary part. Who needs MiniTrue when the masses will do the work free of charge.
Silly girl.
Now she has made herself the least important of people: A white male.
Yeah, but she should rake in lots of awards for having so convincingly playing lead actress roles for years!
Sometimes I wonder if all this idiocy was inadvertently started by Lexa Doig, who played the A.I. on Commonwealth starship in Andromeda. I mean, if a woman can self-identify as a warship, which was a central part of her character, then why shouldn’t people identify as anything they want?
But I really have to draw the line at Joe Biden self-identifying as President.
Biden can identify as whatever he wants, but should take a lesson from Abraham Lincoln:
“Abraham Lincoln once posed the question: ‘If you call a dog’s tail a leg, how many legs does it have?’ and then answered his own query: ‘Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one,’”
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/25/warren-buffett-loves-this-riddle-from-abraham-lincoln–heres-why.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CAbraham%20Lincoln%20once%20posed%20the,one%2C'%E2%80%9D%20Buffett%20writes.
So another former “it” girl hit the wall and is not getting offered any roles and thus is desperate for attention. Such shock. Much face.
She has the lead role in a TV series. Her psychological problems are real, and of almost no interest to me.
The fate of some oscure/famous actress has no importance.
Our ubiquitous information systems combined with the enormous bandwidth and the human proclivity for dopamine addiction has produced a non linear system that raises 6 sigma noise spikes into the public information/knowledge stream. The answer to the insanity is technical or medical, not cultural.
I never heard of this person until seeing that she was now a he.
Didn’t celebrity gossip used to be about, you know, celebrities?
She was on Trailer Park Boys here in Canada. Not sure whether she’d done anything since.
AFAIK, her one big role was in the movie, Juno…
No, she was in Hard Candy a story about a girl who takes revenge on a murdering pedophile – actually well made, and critically acclaimed (and a box office flop).
She was also in X Men: The Last Stand, portraying a character whose superpower is the ability to walk through walls (I, too, have that superpower, but only when there’s a door in the wall).
Superpower, shmooperpower. Page in reality has a hyperpower: the power to command large numbers of people to deny reality.
I think that this Page person should be publicly condemned utterly and without remorse.
She’s a white male now, after all. What greater evidence of perfidy can there be?
I just wonder if her career trajectory from here on will more resemble Mickey Rourke’s or Any Kaufman’s.
She can think of herself as anything she wants.
The movie/tv industry can hire her or not as they see fit.
My concern, with all of this, is that all of these people are telling everyone else how they MUST speak.
Agree with this. People change their names all the time: get married, get out of dodgy contracts (“The Artist Formerly Known as Prince”), etc. So it’s no big deal that someone changed their name. So why try to make it a big deal? Definitely not because this name change is somehow much more critical than the rest.
This reminds me so much of all those social gatherings, past and present, where everyone jockeys around with words and behavior, trying to slavishly follow the fads of the day. The King’s mistress wore sky blue pantaloons, so everyone needs to wear sky blue pantaloons. The CEO used “paradigm” in every third sentence so the rest of us need to use “paradigm” in every third sentence while we stand around the water cooler.
Status signalling is hard work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAA1xgTTw9w
“We need to talk about her.”
Seriously, why?
One part I will not agree with is the idea that “they” is only a plural.
It’s attested as a singular back … about FIVE HUNDRED YEARS.
That dog will not hunt. It won’t even get out of bed.
The only reason for any backlash against “they” is – and I sympathize – the hectoring and smug tone of the people demanding it be used so much, so reflexively, and with such backlash if their demands aren’t met.
But it’s a fine gender-neutral singular, with a long pedigree in English. It’s not an innovation or a novelty.
I don’t know anybody by that name.