Ugh.
I wouldn’t expect the individual who thought this…
…was a reasonable or ethical way to behave at the White House or to thank President Biden for inviting her and other LGBTQ activists to attend a political suck-up event would be revealed as a smart, articulate, ethical force in civic discourse. That three-minute babble-fest above, however, is special. I’m not even certain what the transsexual’s intention was. I can determine what it communicated, however:
- This is a clinical narcissist. I know, “Duh!” Baring one’s breasts for the web and on the White House lawn was a pretty good clue, but this “apology” is the signature move of someone who just likes hearing herself talk and being in front of a camera. I would love to know the percentage of activists on the LGBTQ side that are narcissists; I’d love to know that percentage for all activists and “web influencers.” Without the numbers, I can only guess, by it sure seems as if public discourse is disproportionately warped by people motivated by self- (uh) exposure.
- This is Authentic Frontier Gibberish, the jargon-filled, elliptical, rambling, free-association language of people who want to sound erudite who don’t know how to think or speak, and think just throwing words around is enough. It is only enough for listeners who are at least as cognitively disabled as the speaker.
- Here’s typical snippet (no source that I could find has a transcript of the whole, head-exploding speech): “More so than ever before, I have learned how powerful and just how impactful my actions are and how impactful it is when we share our stories and experiences, and how we do so with the world. I want to take this moment to apologize for the impact of my actions.” “Impactful” is junk English: what impact is she talking about, and what does “how we do so with the world” mean? She was an asshole at the White House and made sure her act was recorded. That’s not “powerful.” What does it have to do with sharing stories and experiences “with the world”? Is she saying her behavior was a good thing or a bad thing? Does she even know?
- She repeatedly refers to “trans-joy.” What…the hell…is a “quick moment of fleeting and overwhelming trans joy”? Is it fleeting because she didn’t let her boobs hang out for the rest of the day? Does “overwhelming” mean that transsexuals can’t be trusted not to let “trans joy” make them do foolish and offensive things in public or in inappropriate places? Is this a malady peculiar to trans individuals? Is there also LGBTQ joy? Is this a clinical condition, or just more gibberish?
- On the Ethics Alarms Apology Scale this word salad is both a #9 [“Deceitful apologies, in which the wording of the apology is crafted to appear apologetic when it is not (“if my words offended, I am sorry”). Another variation: apologizing for a tangential matter other than the act or words that warranted an apology.] and a #10 [ “An insincere and dishonest apology designed to allow the wrongdoer to escape accountability cheaply, and to deceive his or her victims into forgiveness and trust, so they are vulnerable to future wrongdoing.”] Rose is “sorry” that all those mean bigots out there used her juvenile and disrespectful stunt to show just how contemptuous of standards of civility, decorum and common sense trans activists had become. “I’m sorry my conduct gave bad people a chance to do bad things” is the dodge. Here’s Rose in another segment of the speech: “It was never my intention to create a situation that would lead to harassment and harm of myself and others, nor for trans joy … to be weaponized by vile people of the opposition.”
- As with Rose’s White House flashing, the non-apology apology for those whose sock drawers are in order and are willing to spend the full three minutes listening to it reinforces a destructive stereotype regarding trans activists. She represents her group as someone who is self-obsessed, passive-aggressive, opposed to basic societal conventions and not very bright. But she never apologizes for that.
- It’s all right, though: Rose knows the mainstream media has her back. The Washington Post’s spin was “Republicans pounce!,” or rather, “conservatives swoop!”: “Right-wing media outlets, including Fox News and the New York Post, swooped in to cover her bare-chested moment.” In reality, all media outlets eventually covered the episode, because guests don’t bare their silicon-pumped breasts on the White House lawn every day. However, that section makes clear that if the Post and it’s woke propaganda buddies had their way, Rose’s stunt would have been buried like so many other legitimate new stories that undermine the cause. And the Post wrote that even though later in the same paragraph it admitted that Montoya was slammed by many of the more reasonable members of the LGTBQ community as well. This comment was typical: “What made you think going topless at the White House was a good idea? Thoroughly selfish, indulgent, short-sighted behavior at a time when our community needs all the allies it can get!”
Aw, this poor dear just doesn’t understand “trans joy”!
Ethics Alarms 
What an annoying voice! I made it through 34 seconds…which was ~ 30 seconds too long.
That’s not a Level 10 apology. That one goes to 11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgx4k83zzc
“I would love to know the percentage of activists on the LGBTQ side that are narcissists; I’d love to know that percentage for all activists and ‘web influencers.’”
I’d be willing to bet a substantial sum that the statistical correlation between narcissism and social justice activism is a big fat “1.” Ditto for narcissism and transsexualism generally. And as for the “LGBTQ community,” that term is a false contrivance of convenience as well.
She should have used ChatGPT! It couldn’t have been any worse (I hope).
My heart goes out to those who must, or at least feel they must, pay attention to this drivel. I think I understand the duty to confront, but my understanding is that the duty must be tempered by what is reasonable and maybe practical. I think confronting this behavior in a blog favored mostly by those of political leanings far different from the activists portrayed above serves only to agitate.
We don’t and cannot know if this confrontation is merely sound and fury, but I suspect it is.
My efforts at serious confrontation lately have borne no fruit. I have challenged the NAACP on their lie about education law in Florida; a car dealer on business ethics, and newspaper scribblers on their ignorant or intentional falsehoods, all to no avail. Likewise, does highlighting unethical behavior here lead to change, a bit of remorse, an apology, even an acknowledgement, or does it signify nothing?
I’m thankful that I am not an ethicist.
Oh, I think you are, just not paid for it.
Your point brushes by The Julie Principle.
Funny how I was reading more about the Julie Principle and my mind kept wandering to the Serenity Prayer. On a lot of issues, I don’t know if I should just accept and move on or attack those windmills.
Attack! Attack!!!
It gets even better. She made an earlier video where she REFUSED to apologize:
I think the comments on “moments of trans-joy” are made in reference to transgressive joy, not transgender joy.
A trans activist who is engaged in everything trans wouldn’t mean THAT trans while explaining her conduct? If so, that’s criminal ambiguity.
The White House never should have sponsored a Pride Month event on White House grounds to celebrate a collective of abnormal behaviors. We shouldn’t be having a Pride Month at all unless we can have an equally celebrated Heterosexual Month, etc. Pride Month is a month long mass indoctrination event.
As for Rose and other trans persons.
Personally, like other lifestyle choices, I just don’t give a damn what these trans people choose to do to their bodies or what they choose as a lifestyle; their choices, their consequences and their cost. As long as they don’t try to ram their abnormal choices down the throats of others, don’t try to make me pay to mutilate their bodies with higher instance costs or other tax payer subsidies, and most importantly society and parents they need to keep the trans abnormal behaviors away from immature impressionable children until the children mature enough to understand that trans persons are narcissistic psychological freaks mutilating their bodies. But of course, this is not what’s happening, instead we have a White House that’s actively promoting these kinds of abnormal behaviors.
Well I’m quite sick and tired of the “trans” community and their social engineering activists counterparts ramming the trans minority and quite abnormal, yes abnormal, choices and behaviors down the figurative throats of the majority population trying to intimidate, indoctrinate and brainwash people into accepting and/or believing that “trans” choices are normal. Activist parents that choose to take their impressionable youth to “trans” events are trying to psychologically manipulate their children into seeing abnormal behaviors as normal behaviors, these parents are fools. Trans persons intentionally exposing their abnormal behaviors to children as if they are “normal” is the epitome of indoctrination. In my opinion this kind of bastardization of “normal” is going to go terribly wrong for our society and culture.
The behaviors and choices of trans persons are NOT normal, period!
That which is abnormal cannot actually be perceived by the majority as normal unless the majority sets aside critical thinking and logic and succumbs to indoctrination or brainwashing. Intimidation gets an entirely different reaction, it gets a false facade from non-believers which must be maintained with more intimidation.
The thing about activists regardless of ideology is they tend to be unflinching true believers who excel at protesting but usually not much else. They received attention by being bold and brash rather than their critical thinking or their collaborative skills. Progressive politicians in particular have encouraged them and used them for decades as sources of cash and votes. Unfortunately, a one-trick pony has very limited utility. Something Joe Biden and Gavin Newsom may just be learning. I think it is poetic justice what their idiots are foisting on them and other progressive politicians.
Yesterday in the NY Times an opinion piece by EZRA KLEIN titled: “‘What the Hell Happened to the California of the ’50s and ’60s?” states.
“By the time I talked to Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, he was clearly frustrated. “This is ridiculous,” he said. “These guys write reports and they protest. But we need to build. You can’t be serious about climate and the environment without reforming permitting and procurement in this state.”
and
“It hurts to get hammered by your friends. And that’s what’s happening to Newsom. More than 100 environmental groups — including the Sierra Club of California and The Environmental Defense Center — are joining together to fight a package Newsom designed to make it easier to build infrastructure in California.”
While I wish progressive politicians could learn from their mistakes I fear the Frog and the Scorpion parable is more probable. We can still enjoy the show.
Why does anyone who professes to refute trans-ideology betray said beliefs by referring to trans-women/biological males as “she/her?” Isn’t that like condemning fascism and anti-semitism while rendering a “Heil Hitler!” salute?
No. As far as I’m concerned, such individuals are trapped between worlds. I’m happy to call them whatever is more polite, as long as it’s my choice.