A recent Washington Post article about a trans comedian starts out with the following passage,

As far as questions go, this is an easy one.

‘What have you done before?’ the judge asks Jamie Mack.

It’s March, and Jamie is about to perform in the DMV Comedian of the Year competition in D.C. This is a potential humblebrag moment, an opportunity to boast about all the open-mic appearances and paid gigs they had done to rise from amateur to professional funny person.

But words now abandon Jamie. They don’t know how to answer. Words, Jamie had come to realize, were slippery.

I got that far into it when I had to ask myself what just happened. Then, I realized that the author had just mobilized the English language to confound me. As a good liberal and Washington Post reporter, he was doing what is expected of him. Modern leftist etiquette dictates that we should all mangle the English language to comply with the needs of a transvestite; he was now called a “they.”

The story that the author recounts is typical. It is one of a closeted queer having dalliances with other closeted queers in hotel rooms, until one day he gets the wacky idea to tell his wife and kids that he wishes to morph into Aunt Millie. I could just imagine how that went over. However, the author tells us nothing about the response from his family to the news. I know how I would feel as that man’s son and it would not be compassionate. It would be, “Why are you laying this on me? I have an upcoming basketball tournament, calculus final, and need to ask this girl to the prom, and you’re telling me that you now want to parade around in public in a dress and wig?”

The author instead dwells on Aunt Millie’s new name tag with “they” printed on it and an open mic night at a comedy club where apparently no one can fashion a joke. This is what your Washington Post reader wants to know. They don’t care about the emotional wreckage this guy has left in his quake. They just want to be reassured that their pet victim de jour is being treated with the utmost respect.

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