The mechanism behind the emergence of the gender theory was described as early as the 19th century. For the third sex (and many others) is the same as with the emperor’s new clothes. Representatives of the elite, enlightened, wise, educated people are convinced of their existence, in a word: worldists and salonists. In their opinion, anyone who claims that the emperor’s robes do not exist is a stupid, backward obscurant with narrow minds with whom a decent man should have nothing to do with.
Jan Christian Andersen perfectly described the mechanism of exerting social pressure by an anonymous authority of public opinion. Ernst Casirrer would say that cunning weavers have created a kind of “political myth” which is the most effective weapon of mass influence. Only a child who had not participated in social games of prestige distribution could tell the truth. It was the only one who saw and called reality as it is, and not mediated by symbolic structures.
One recalls that little boy who, upon seeing an individual born as Krzysztof Bęgowski and holding an identity card in the name of Anna Grodzka, got scared, cried and, hugging his mother in his mother’s arms, asked: “Mother, why did this gentleman dress up as a lady?”
„The king is naked “
Had Jan Christian Andersen, this keen observer of the surrounding reality, lived today, perhaps his fairy tale would have ended differently. A child’s exclamation that “the king is naked” would not make the crowd conscious of the crowd and burst out laughing, but rather it would make the boy and his family feel angry. Parents would probably be deprived of their parental rights, he would be placed in a foster family (probably made up of weavers), and anyone who would dare to repeat the theses of this child would be brought to justice for hate speech.
Though it could end even worse. Leszek Kołakowski concluded in his futuristic “The Legend of the Emperor Kennedy” with the sentence: “Defending wrong anthropological theories is, as you know, punishable by the death penalty”.
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