There Are Only Two Identity Groups

Ask the question "how many genders are there," and you'll get answers ranging from “two” to triple digits. You'll also get responses along the lines of "gender is fluid, so there's really no specifying a number." Which may sound progressive and open-minded, but is in practice a lever being used to wipe out the concept of gender entirely.

Sound cynical? Hold that thought.

Internet searches of the query produce varying results: 58, 63, 68, 81, 112, 130, etc. Many results don't even try to answer the question, offering instead various categories that, like a Domino's pizza, can be combined by an individual seeking to craft a gender identity description.

Which makes its own point.

The apotheosis of identity politics, including gender identity, is getting to where society recognizes the primacy of the individual. With "identities" growing in number, with increasing granulation and hyper-stratification, the natural evolution would be to recognizing that every individual is unique, and therefore should be treated as an individual rather than as a member of a group.

Or, at least, that's how it'd evolve if the social arbiters allowed it.

They haven't and they won't.

They draw lines, reject certain granulations, and limit individuals' self-identification to approved categories. You can declare your gender, but not your race. You can sometimes claim an ethnicity, but not always, and oftentimes it’s assigned to you against your wishes (or reality, for that matter).

However, this is all a dog-and-pony show.

The reality, though they won't admit it, is that there are really only two identities:

"Oppressor" and "oppressed."

There are assertions of degree, and therefore intersectionality, but in real life application there's always a decision in every interaction: who's higher on the grievance hierarchy, and therefore the "oppressed" in that interaction.

The "oppressed" individual gets hisherzhizzhir way, otherwise "bigotry!!!"

Thus, we get the tragedy/farce of individuals born with XY chromosomes, grown through development and puberty to adulthood with male hormones, having developed male musculature, skeletal structure, cardiovascular capacity, and the like, declaring female gender, spending a token period of time on hormone treatment, competing against women.

With wholly predictable results.

The collegiate women swimming against, and losing to, Lia Thomas in the Ivy League, would in life outside their sport be sorted into the "oppressed" class by virtue of their gender (men oppressors, women oppressed), but in relation to the transgender athlete, if they dare speak truth to woke-power, they shift to "oppressor" status.

Even though they're seeing all their hard work, their years of toil and sacrifice, go for naught as someone who's biologically advantaged shatter the records of their sport.

It's OK, in this form of thinking, for an oppressor to suffer injustice, since it helps balance historical wrongs. The individuals don't matter, nor does common sense.

Most people who embrace this postmodernist rejection of objective fact and stability of meaning genuinely believe, I'd surmise, that they're improving the plight of oppressed minorities and the societally marginalized - that they're improving tolerance and acceptance. That they're full of rage-hate for the large chunk of the nation that's not of their political tribe might be deemed ironic, unless we realize they've been taught not to see individuals at all. Instead, they see identities, and judge others by those identities, and lay expectations upon them based on those identities.

That this is the very definition of racism or bigotry is an inconvenience they resolve by literally redefining those words.

These true believers are secondary to the cynics, those who use the identitarian movement for, you guessed it, power and money.

Along with slowly inuring people, frog-in-pot-style, to a radical societal shift. While you might think I'm referring to the genderless society I mentioned at the open, the real goal is calm surrender. It's not just about upending cultural norms, it's about getting the masses used to being told what to think, how to think, and whom to obey. We're not talking, here, about the fight against genuine bigotries, or about acceptance of the marginalized and societally-mistreated - there's been progress on that front since the Enlightenment without the need for "woke," cancel culture, or the oppressor-oppressed filter. We're talking about an inculcated evolution away from the Enlightenment values that produced all this good, in favor of an autocratic and authoritarian society, where the century-old progressive dream of the Best-and-Brightest running our lives is finally fulfilled.

The Marxists tried to get there by making "Oppressor-Oppressed" about matters economic, and failed. Their hell-spawn, the "woke," are seeking to get there via matters demographic. They'll probably fail, too, but they're going to cause a lot of damage along the way.