A load of old Aloks- Book review- Alok Vaid- Menon
By: Rebecca Fury
Tags: Gender Identity, Postmodernism, Bollocks, Ideas, Gender Equality

A load of old Aloks- Book review- Alok Vaid- Menon

TW ideas, class analysis

“Beyond the gender binary“ Sounds thrilling, doesn’t it.

Like a sci-fi action adventure novel. -Beyond the gender binary. Like you are exploring unknown territory.

Boldly going where no non binary gender queer masc has gone before.

Flying off into outer safe space to plant your gender specific flag in one of the 58 planets that have recently been discovered- beyond the gender binary.

Unfortunately, science fiction is always more interring than science fact.

The nearest we’ve got to discovering life on other planets is the recent discovery of some gas that it has been speculated might have been produced by a Venusian bacterium

So, the nearest a NASA probe has got to discovering life on other planets is picking up a whiff of what might be best described as maybe an alien fart.

first contact with an alien race involved it farting in our face, which, considering how things are going on Earth is more than we deserve.

A Load of old Aloks.

Is what Vaud Menons has written in this naff book ; Beyond the gender binary.

Because theres nothing beyond the gender binary. Nothing. Not even the gender equivalent of a molecule the gas from an asexual microbe fart.

But you can pretend that there is but it will be a load of postmodern Aloks.

That’s what gender ideology is. I don’t need to buy it to find that out. I don’t want to buy it because I don’t want to increase the size of Aloks ego or the size of his bank balance or the funds for some lgbtqi kids charity.

To clarify obviously I think that kids who have genuine issues around sexuality should have access to support services.

Not for kids who pretend they do because it’s cool.

It’s difficult enough for anyone to discover authenticity these days. Without well intentioned adults providing them with manuals on how to be some synthetic lab grown gender.

kids don’t need support for issues around gender. They just need to be allowed to get on with being themselves.

There are people starving to death in Yemen that need food, if I’m giving money to charity I’ll give it to a proper charity not some bullshit one set up to create the very people it is mandated to help.

Which is what the gender ideology behind this book is. It is a hack for middle class white children to identify as oppressed minorities so they can still get all the jobs.

No wonder their parents are happy for them to buy it.

So they can reappropriate gains given away to genuine minority groups to ensure little Tamara can still capitalise on the gains made by xir private school education.

Now it’s not just the letters after ones name that count. It’s the pronouns

Being an oppressed minority is so cool these days, which is one of the reasons kids buy silly but ultimately dangerous books like this.

Because kids want to be cool. Which is the same as it ever was. Pretending to be oppressed is a fashion for the privileged like grunge or heroin chic or wearing ripped jeans.

Looking unprivileged is only cool if you are privileged. That’s why

working class people and immigrants would never be seen dead in ripped jeans because they expose their poverty. That’s what instead they appropriate high end brands and wear their labels as status symbols in a way that the genuinely wealthy would never do because displaying wealthy in that way is considered trashy if you have wealth.

In the same way less privileged people wear oversized gold jewellery and branded baseball caps with the price tag still on it to show how new and expensive it is.

That’s how privileged kids wear their Gender pronouns on their twitter biog.

As a label to show how newly oppressed they are.

Gender pronouns are a gaudy and fake display of oppression. Worn like a council estate kid wears a fake Chanel handbag.

Gender pronouns and gender ideology are actually a demonstration of class privilage

Anyone who had been attacked or dragged through the courts for challenging these frankly naff ideas stand as proof that this is the case.

Gender ideology is just rich powerful people re appropriating gains made by genuine minority groups for their own benefit.

The court cases, unbelievable media coverage and corporate sponsorship are all testament to who in this issue are actually wearing the unisex trousers- rich boys.

Sorry Alok you can put on a dress and write poetry but you’re just a posh boy with no real problems. You’ll be fine. This is punching up because you have the confidence of your class