In which our regular writers toss around
subjects a little more volatile than usual.
Fox News reports that the Baltimore Book Festival has
dropped Rachel Dolezal’s invitation to participate in the festival this year
after receiving too much negative public feedback.
You may remember Ms Dolezal from a flurry of media scrutiny in 2015 when it was revealed that the leader of the
Spokane chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People wasn’t really a person of color after all, but was in reality a little
blonde in blackface.
Tom: IC, I don’t understand. Society says it’s not only okay but morally
imperative for me to self-identify as a woman if that’s how I feel about
myself, even if I have been born biologically male. It will defend my right to call
myself any made-up gender I like, even to the point of stripping you of your
right to disagree with me about it in the public space.