I happened to flick on to MOTD2 last night. They had a feature on this bloke, who is apparently a Premier League photographer. I nearly put the screen in.
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He was talking about how, when he got hair extensions to cover his male pattern baldness, he felt the transition to a woman was complete. All of which, of course, went unquestioned.
It's really hard to know where to start with this sort of institutionalised idiocy. It's getting depressing.
There's always been cross-dressing and all that sort thing though. Perhaps "normal" chaps are just more sensitive to it nowadays because of their own .. issues.
We watched "Summer Holiday" the other night and there was even one of that sort in there, which I'd completely forgotten about.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
A man feeling like he wants to live as a bird is fine. Up to him. However, everyone else agreeing that he is a bird and must be treated as such with no questions asked is not. That is what I mean by institutionalised idiocy. No-one involved in that story would have had the editorial freedom to question his status or call him 'him' without a world of shīt landing on them. That is complicity in a lie.
But we are often complicit in lies in the interest of good manners and tolerance of other people's peculiarities and flaws. If you go to a dinner party and the food is f*ucking rank, you don't come out and say it. And if you did, you would incur punishment in the form of social opprobrium from your fellow guests.