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Culture War Roundup for the week of March 27, 2023

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This is a rare case of me sympathizing with the media because it seems like a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't. If they put up a fight and try to affirm their gender, they get made fun of for caring so much about the gender identity of a mass-murderer. If they decide not to do so, they get called out (by the same side) for their beliefs being conditional.

That's like saying that it's a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't, if you commit a bank robbery and have to choose between assaulting the officers or surrendering, each of which is bad. Sure, but that's because you robbed a bank to begin with.

This is only a dilemma for the media because of their previous policy about gender pronouns. Either don't follow the policy (showing that they're not sincere) or do follow the policy (showing how absurd it is). If they didn't have such a policy in the first place, they wouldn't have faced the "dilemma" of choosing between an absurd policy and hypocrisy.

They willingly waded into the no-win scenario that I'm sure many people warned them of. Sympathy seems unnecessary.

What, by doing their job?

I guarantee not covering the story would meet backlash, too. And rightly so.

You know full well I'm talking about media outlets twisting themselves in knots over how to gender a mass shooter - or in many cases trying to dodge it altogether by just not mentioning it.

You only find yourself in this bind if you've swallowed trans activists' prescriptions, but now find yourself having trouble fully digesting them.

How did the media wade into it willingly, though?

True enough. Plenty of ways this could have been avoided.