SHOCK TREATMENT

 An awful anti-trans gender activist and instigator, Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull aka Posie Parker is in the news after causing disruption in Australia that verged on violence and is scheduled to do the same here in NZ.

When I heard of this I immediately thought that Robert would approve of her nasty and dangerous opinions given that they are a match for his own reactionary, 'head-in'the-sand' christian views on marriage, gender roles and sexuality.

Guess what? I wasn't disappointed. Robert of course, on cue wrote this:

I read this and thought about it and then wrote this comment:

I then thought about my comment and wondered if it was too abrupt, too rude and a bit unfair.

Nope.

Stupidity deserves to be shocked in order to make the commenter think about what they've said.

I might be just reading things into this but I think that it did shock Robert because in his very next post he wrote this:

I don't believe that my comment has made him re-think his (or his parish priest's) views on transgender rights but it did have some sort of resonance. Maybe I just have to keep bombarding him and, like a rock under pressure of water, wear him down so that he'll change.

I just hope that the rock isn't like Sisyphus's one though.