Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Mass Shooting Conundrum for the Mainstream Media

Media Faces the Glen or Glenda dilemma.

Ed Wood, famous low budget schlock film maker, once did a very bad movie in which he dressed up as a woman for half the film and a man for the other half. In the film he posed the eternal question, "Which is it?"

This past weekend there was a shooting in Nashville* targeting a Christian School. The shooter was a 28 year old transgender person whose pronouns the shooter says are he/him. Reporting on this one will be scant I guarantee. This human who is biologically mismatched chosen he/him as the pronouns the shooter preferred. This presents a problem for our progressive news establishment.

The difficulty is that women make up less than 2% of mass shooters. This fact is a big attention getter and puts eyes on stories which generates income for the writers and publishers.  At the same time, the media must boy to the shooter's demand that they use he/him as the correct pronouns. Therefore, the progressive media must classify the mass shooter as male whatever genitalia the shooter might possess or lack. 

But if they don't list the shooter as female, they lose the excitement of having a rare female shooter which novelty, as we said, attracts readers. Not my problem, though. Let the media sort that one out. Whatever the back story, three 9 year-olds and three 60+ year-olds are dead and he/she/whatever is also dead. 

No disrespect meant other than that like all mass murderers, I refuse to support their crime by repeating he/him/her/its name. Removing the instant fame removes part of the incentive to commit such a horrific crime. I mean 9-year olds. Really? God help us that it's come to that.

* https://www.foxnews.com/us/nashville-school-shooting-6-killed-including-3-students-shooter-dead (copy and paste this link in your URL)

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