A gay man invoking Orwell to attack the left wing and transgender community strikes me as odd somehow.
Orwell once wrote:
> One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England"
and some suggest he had one specific gay man at the top of his mind when writing that:
> Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was an English utopian socialist, poet, philosopher, anthologist, an early activist for gay rights[1] and prison reform whilst advocating vegetarianism and taking a stance against vivisection.
His Wikipedia is wild. EM Forster wrote a novel about him, which became the basis for DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 18.7 ms ] threadBut also I don't care about words like that. People at work want random pronouns, fine. It's just a fad, like wicca.
Orwell once wrote:
> One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England"
and some suggest he had one specific gay man at the top of his mind when writing that:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Carpenter
> Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was an English utopian socialist, poet, philosopher, anthologist, an early activist for gay rights[1] and prison reform whilst advocating vegetarianism and taking a stance against vivisection.
His Wikipedia is wild. EM Forster wrote a novel about him, which became the basis for DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.