‘Idiot compassion’ is an affliction and failing we must acknowledge and deal with.

It's not just a harmless quirk - it has wide-ranging consequences.

I recently encountered the Buddhist concepts of Idiot Compassion and Wise Compassion in a column by Raven Maverick on the website Gender Dissent. As I discovered when searching these concepts afterwards, there’s a lot of people saying many things about them. However, good ol’ AI overview summed it up reasonably well –

Before continuing, here’s the disclaimer: this blogpost is a sweeping generalisation of my hot reckons about why we’re currently seeing a sizeable number of women worshipping at the altar of trans ideology. And I know what I say is #notallwomen and #notallmen. The dumbing-down for trans ideology is not confined to any one group, but my commentary here leans towards the trend we see amongst (mainly) younger women – both the very young, and those not quite so young anymore. I make no apologies if any of these reckons and observations are deemed ‘wrong’, or if I offend anyone with them. To me, not talking about it is more ‘wrong’.

Now, onwards.

I think it’s fair to say that believing in trans-ideology wokery has its foundations in Idiot Compassion. Being ‘woke’ wasn’t always based on that - it originated in Black American culture, meaning to be conscious of racial and social injustice. But, it has now morphed into meaning ideological wankery. Others may have a more sophisticated description than that for it, but this suffices for me at the moment.

Transactivists marketed ‘idiot compassion’ to younger women more than anyone else, because they knew younger women would buy it more than anyone else. Lots of reasons for that – social conditioning, peer pressure, more inclined to empathy, more inclined to study Humanities at university, blah, blah, blah. I’ve even had a few blokes opine that women winning the right to vote is to blame. Poor sods. Mind you, if a micro-organism in the Sahara Desert was having a bad day they’d even find a way to blame that on women having voting rights, too.

Which - bear with me - leads to me to indulge in a little digression, and show you one bloke’s reasoning of why he considers women don’t need the right to vote, after also informing me in all his wisdom that it hasn’t made us happy. This reasoning involved sharing a picture of a statue of a near naked Boudicca, which he thought explained to me how women could still be tough and – not least - feminine at the same time, even if they couldn’t vote. I’m going to take a punt that his “feminine” was very much influenced by the perky boobs and see-through clingy clothing on Boudicca, and exposed breasts on one of her daughters behind her. Strangely enough, this bloke appears to engage more than one brain cell at a time on other matters.

However, back to how too many women buy into ‘poor trans’ with their idiot compassion. Transactivists, many of whom were and still are men who say they’re women, dumped expertly-crafted sad stories on unwitting women. The stories were devised to dupe women into reflexively showering their empathy upon these men. And many unthinkingly did, and do, just that. The men who executed this plan knew that most other men would see through them in an instant for the gratuitously self-serving pricks they are, often with fetishes, whilst women have always tended to be a tad naïve about men’s motivations - until they get older and wiser. Men, however, mostly know men right from the start.

I do know that both younger and older men have got on board with trans ideology, as well, and may be as gullible as the duped women about it all, and/or have transed their kids. There are those, though, who’ve done this because they see the benefit of paying lip service to a novel and cutting-edge trendy cause; and then there are those who’ve weaponised ‘idiot compassion’ for the purpose of control. Whatever the reason, it’s largely cost-free for them. Those who weaponise idiot compassion for control do so by conning women and girls into believing it’s the modern thing to let sick men into their spaces, and making a fuss about it isn’t cool. They know as soon as women’s and girls’ boundaries get broken once, subsequent chipping away at them becomes easier and easier. In fact, trans ideology is a gateway for chipping away at all good-purpose boundaries. The inevitable result of allowing men who say they’re women into female spaces is that another group of men will eventually get cherry-picked as desperately needing access to them, too, and public life for women and girls becomes more and more precarious. Fettering women and girls in that way suits some men’s psyches very well.

Most young people want to feel they’re making their mark on the world by being in the vanguard of social change in some way. This may feel more imperative for young women than for young men (unless it leads to getting more sex, then it feels very imperative for young men). Trans ideology is the current cause du jour, and in a bizarre but incredible masterstroke, it has been made to sound as though allowing men who say they’re women into female spaces liberates women from social norms and restrictions.

Universities were the initial target for transactivists to start infecting us. Inculcate the young women there with it, and eventually those inculcated women spread it into politics, the workforce, and schools when they move out of university. Amongst them are women determined to transmaiden until the bitter end, and who will not hesitate to do whatever they need to do to coerce compliance from others.

Women aren’t immune to seeking status and power, but what they consider gives them that, and the pathway to it, can be different to that which we see from men. We’ve been well used to the ways that men do mismanagement and corruption, and probably thought that women will do it in much the same way, but with less porn. It turns out, though, that women can do it quite differently. Naturally, there’s no neat line which cleanly divides the ways women and men behave badly, but each sex does have tendencies. Women have shown that, perhaps due to their generally more empathetic natures, they have more of a tendency to be duped into idiot compassion, even if that doesn’t strictly apply only to them. Whilst empathy is an admirable trait, idiot compassion isn’t, and we have to start acknowledging that it can cause a lot of damage to an organisation and those within it.

By the time women get older, though, life has knocked a lot of the idiot compassion out of us and replaced it with ‘wise compassion’ - sometimes also known amongst us as giving zero f*cks for any more bollox. As I said at the beginning, I know I’m making generalisations, as there are still older women who are twats for trans ideology.

I’m not going to make any claims that as a younger woman I was smarter than today’s young women. I have no idea how I would have responded to trans ideology if it had hit me back then. Perhaps my not having gone to university would have saved me. Who knows?

What I do know is that between the older women who aren’t having a bar of trans bullsh*t, and the young girls who are beginning to push back on it, too, we might squeeze it out of all those idiot women in the middle presently in thrall to it. Here’s hoping.

We’re in an era of women being in positions of power and authority in numbers never seen before, and we have to not be afraid of addressing the specific foibles and failings they bring to table, just like we have done forever with men – whom we still allow to vote.

And addressing those foibles and failings doesn’t mean getting all hot and bothered about women’s lack of perfection. Nor tearing them down because they can squabble and fall out, including in the gender critical/sex realist movement. Big deal. We have a lot of fun and solidarity, too. As long as human bums point to the ground women and men both will always squabble and fall out. They may have different ways of doing it, and we simply acknowledge and manage that.

Now, make what you will of this spiel. Have your own ideas and opinions about the subject matter - I’m sure they will be every bit as incomplete and ‘messy’ as mine, because like it or not the world is an incomplete and messy place 😊