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Captain Awesomeness

Social Conservative Manipulation Abounding with False Foundations and Paranoia

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 18 July 2022

Mr. Trueman and Mr. Anderson. If you're against gay marriage, don't have one. It's just as simple as that.
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From Page 125: "The importance of this will become clear when we look at the challenges that the rise of the LGBTQ+ movement poses to traditional freedoms, such as those of speech and religion. Such things were once considered basic essentials to a free society. Now they are coming to be seen not merely as unimportant social luxuries but as antithetical to a truly just and free society."

This helps form the basis of why I give this well-written book a 1 star review. It abounds with false foundations as well as extrapolations about mass groups of people, including entire generations, at some war against people's rights of expression and religious morality.

I used the above quote to illustrate that the book constantly denies any issue regarding the freedom of those on the "margins of society." The book seems to believe people expressing how they feel and their sexuality and/or gender identity somehow negates the majority in this country from being able to go about their daily life.

This book argues there is an intrusion upon how people who believe in traditional marriage feel. This is ridiculous. Last I checked, most marriages in the United States are still of a traditional bent. I don't believe children come home to their parents after some kind of 'daily indoctrination from the public schools' full of anger and spite their parents are of different genders.

To put it bluntly, there is no war of mass perverts and homosexuals infiltrating the minds of children to make them gay and indulge in Dyonsian sex orgies at ever increasingly earlier stages of their life.

The author asks "Juneteenth or Columbus Day?"

Well, for one thing, it can be both. They don't fall on the same day. It's "Indigenous People or Columbus Day" by and large, but it's not exactly double-think to allow both either (And, if one is guessing, this writer believes in Indigenous People Day instead of Columbus Day, but if some restaurant or other business has Columbus Day, I'm not going to flip out over it).

The point of this book appears to be to sow fear through the basis of a false foundation, and then well-documented historical quotations from great minds taken in context and out of context, to establish a theory that isn't true, full of catcalls, and is meant for an audience of the social conservatives.

If you don't agree with gay marriage, don't have one. It doesn't mean it shouldn't be allowed.

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Hedera Femme

A scantily researched outsiders’ perspective that is as dull as it is flawed

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 14 May 2022

Here I thought I was getting into a book tracing theories of gender, sexuality, and identity. If that’s what you’re looking for, find a book written by someone who has actually done research grounded within the communities they’re talking about. Often myopic and consistently dull, Trueman delivers opinion and conjecture with little substance to back it, seemingly bewildered by the strange otherness of non-normative identities and sexualities he neglects to understand, probably because he has chosen to close his eyes to writers and critical theories grounded within those communities and their histories. The LGBTQ chapter is a joke, misunderstanding the origins of the movement and retroactively separating it from its historically intertwined relationship with trans and other queer community members. He also continuously throws around this idea that biology determines sex, while completely avoiding an understanding of biology and the many components that determine sex and gender. As someone who teaches anatomy and physiology, I would find his grasp on science to be laughable, if it weren’t in fact a sad indictment of the world’s lack of literacy on basic topics relating to our bodies. What an awful, flimsy, boring, and facile book. Truly, it is a testament to the phenomenon of giving mediocrity a megaphone when it suits a political perspective. I hope when this book gets recycled that it gets turned into something better, like toilet paper perhaps.

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Brian J. Greene

Not For Me

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 26 April 2022

I made a mistake in choosing to review this book for Vine. I didn’t realize what the author’s worldview and the book’s slant were. I am not interested in reading a conservative’s backwards-looking take on sexual identity. I didn’t get past the first few pages.

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