By Kyle Smith
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
How dumb do you have to be to allow your house to be
stolen from you? So dumb you’d almost have to be a progressive Harvard Law
professor, in this case one who was punished for trying to be kind to a lesbian
and her transsexual friend. Like a lot of people, I read this insane
story of what has to be one of the most elaborate con jobs ever pulled and
thought, “What Tom Wolfe would do with this!” Rod Dreher came up with the perfect
headline: “Bonfire of the Trannities.” You might also call this story Woke
Fatal Attraction.
The Cut, the site on which the story appears, is
making something of a specialty of serving up yummy schadenfreude for
conservatives by relentlessly exposing the foibles of the expensively educated
and strenuously woke. The story is really long but if you can’t make time for
it, I’ll tell it backwards. Two extremely wicked people, one of them a cute
French-American woman and the other her transsexual (man to woman) friend,
apparently are running multiple overlapping scams against unsuspecting men for
no reason except to mess with them. Don’t ask them for motives: “I just hate
the patriarchy, that’s all.” The French cutie lures men to bed by walking up to
them on some ridiculous pretext, like not being able to find the batteries in a
hardware store, and saying something like, “By the way, you’re very
attractive.” Men, be suspicious if this happens to you. You’re not
irresistible.
Harvard Law Professor Bruce Hay, the mark in this
elaborate story and a former liberal law clerk for Justice Scalia (who liked to
have a devil’s advocate around), had sex with the woman a couple of times
because he was pretty sure his wife wouldn’t mind. (She minded. They were
legally divorced, but had moved back in together and were raising two
children.) Hay didn’t ejaculate, due to his anti-depression meds, but later
fell for it when the woman, a professed lesbian who said she didn’t have sex
with other men, told him she was pregnant. Not only did he trust her, “he felt
it would have been insulting for a heterosexual cisgender man to question a
professed lesbian as to whether she’d had sex with other men. He believed her
when she said her sexual relationship with him was an exception.”
Hay says she started making hysterical demands, got him
to sign a sheaf of papers he didn’t read (he figured that since she was an
accountant, she knew best) and on a thin pretext gave him a check for $3000
which he cashed. It turned out he had signed over his $3.5 million house to her
and her trans buddy for lease at a nominal rate. The check was framed as a
“security deposit.” The woman and her trans friend first moved all of the stuff
out of the house, charging the expenses to his credit card, access to which he
had also provided them.
Fortunately for Hay his (ex) wife saw a lot of this
coming and had arranged to have the house put in her name only, which made the
lease invalid. Hay has incurred $300,000 worth of legal bills sorting all this
out. Also, the woman who seduced him charged him — falsely, according to him —
with sexual abuse, causing Harvard to suspend him automatically under its Title
IX policy.
Hay got sucked into a vortex of things that light up all
the pleasure circuits of the woke: a hip international lesbian, a trans person
of color (Indian-Pakistani descent), an unconventional living arrangement (the
two friends, plus the boyfriend of the transsexual, were raising children
together), Harvard, and, of course, lots of political discussions about
victimhood. Hay was under the impression that the trans person was the victim
in this story when in fact he was. He fell for a progressive honey trap.
Hay, by the way, wrote a vile piece that amounted to
dancing on the grave of his former employer Scalia when the latter passed away.
The piece essentially charged Scalia with making life miserable for people like
. . . the people who were making life miserable for Hay.
Just about no one deserves to live the nightmare that
happened to Hay, but the credulity that comes along with super-wokeness is
stunning to behold. Once you have willed yourself to believe that a man can
become a woman simply by identifying as one, what else might you be willing to
believe? This piece is the slippery slope in the form of a black comedy. Dreher
says a friend wrote to him, “the story has it all — decadence in our elite
institutions, erosion of due process, a bizarre transgender subplot, Modern
Family-style living arrangements.” He follows up with this: “You can’t keep
crazypants liberals from blowing up their lives, but from a public policy point
of view, the most important question raised by this story is: What is it going
to take to get Title IX reform?”
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