There Are People Who Believe They're Napoleon, Too

How about Normaphobic or something similar...Its difficult to come up with appropriate responses to these people as you have to pretty much delve into the twilight zone where they inhabit...scary thought!

RGB asks: "Why does the left have to apply the term "phobic" to any fact-based comment and/or criticism ... "

Precisely because, as you say, phobia is an irrational fear, a mental illness. Any view which differs from the liberal consensus is thus the result of a mental illness. Anyone who strays from (post-)modern liberal politics is sick, and may be treated accordingly. Re-education camps, compulsory sensitivity training, incarceration; being denied a vote, being audited, and so on. There is method to their madness.

They of course reject your conception of objective fact and truth.

I think the term is 'fantasist'. They subscribe to what should be called the make-believe theory of truth (TM).

Phobia: the inability to embrace Utopia.

Kathy, go check out the crap going on with the girl from Trinity Western applying for a job with "Amaruk". She was attacked for her Christian beliefs. I went to their website, and it looks like a male prostitution setup.

Why does the left have to apply the term "phobic"

I assume you're being rhetorical, but for those not versed in the tactics of the professional left, the use of the term of "phobic" is an attempt at political jujitsu. Almost everyone would agree that Mr. Savage, aka "it", is fundamentally defective in some way. By calling his critics "transphobic", he is suggesting that there is something fundamentally wrong with his critics and he is implying that his world view is normal. Notice that he reinforces these ideas by accusing Kathy of "Jumping on the transphobic bandwagon trying to sell books" as if criticizing those who have themselves surgically mutilated for questionable reasons is somehow a fad that the cynical and greedy Ms. Shaidle is cynically latching onto because she greedily wants to sell books.

Obviously then, Kathy's criticism can be dismissed because she is a rotten person, being both cynical and greedy, and because she is insincere in her criticism since she is motivated only by greed and cynicism, not by conviction.

In some ways, Mr. Savage calling Ms. Shaidle transphobic is a little like a kid on a playground responding to an insult by yelling, "No, I'm not! You are!"

We do not need any fancy terms RGB so why not just call a spade a spade?

They're 'fvcking freaks'.

Thanks Kathy.. It's everywhere.. Good on Ezra..

"My concern is this: young children do not have the capacity for abstract thought that adults do"

Respectfully disagree. They do have the capacity(invisible friends and huge imaginations), what they don't have is life experience and that's why they need to be directed by responsible adults who do have life experience, and have taken sane productive lessons away from that experience, to channel that innate capacity in the right direction in order to develop in proper productive adults.

Mr. Savage has had some kind of warping experience earlier in life that was allowed to continue into adulthood and so has become a disordered individual who wants others to descend into his private Hell-on-Earth so that he can feel comfortable and accepted in his insanity.

Mr. Savage: "Why can't you all just accept me for who I pretend to be?" Waaah!

It's a matter of cognitive development which proceeds in stages which can be tested for. For instance, one milestone that infants eventually pass is the ability to understand that an object is somewhere even if it cannot be seen directly. That's what the "peekaboo" game is all about. Early on, babies don't understand that concealing one's face behind one's hands does not mean that one is no longer there.

Young children go through a number of stages like that. I remember one time when I was about 23 and I was at a dinner party and a child about 4 yrs. of age asked what was for dinner. I told him that we were having little boy soup and he got a look of terror on his face and he ran to his mother for comfort. He had not yet learned the concept of "pretending" and he took my words literally. Sure kids imagine things which can lead to some pretty wild misconceptions about the world, but the capacity for deep abstraction is not developed until much later in life, if at all. Heck, I've spent years pondering some of the most abstract concepts ever developed by man in the field of natural science and half the time, I don't know what the blazes the wack-a-doodles on the hard political left are babbling about.

"He had not yet learned the concept of "pretending" and he took my words literally."

He already understood the concept of pretending, simple lack of life experience prevented him from knowing that in that particular case, you were not serious. You see, at the tender age of 4, children have very few reference points, but it doesn't mean they cannot understand when they do have those reference points. They gain them from experience, not cognitive inability.

They really hate it when you refer to them as "he or she".