It was a parody, folks

An odd post is making its way around social media.

It purports to be a post from someone calling herself "Ann Lesby, Ph.D.".

It reads:

"Misgendering a pet can result in serious microsubconscious distress. Pay attention to clues. Your pet will let you know his/her/their/cir identity through things like body language, toy preferences, and reactions to gendered pet clothing."

Conservatives in general fall for it and re-post it with expressions of disdain for these insane liberals.

But the author is almost certainly ... one of their own. A conservative seeking to parody 'those crazy liberals.' Consider the name. Presumably "Ann Lesby" often ends up signing her name as "Lesby, Ann." That possibility might give us a clue as to the parodic intent.

The term "microsubconscious" is evidently targeted at the cultural-leftists' all-too-common use of "microaggressions." This means, My action, X, will be taken as aggressive unless I can portray it as self-defense. I can't really do that with a straight face -- I can't say you aggressed against me. So I'll say instead that you "microaggressed against me." Either way, it ends up the same -- I'm right and you are wrong.

In this instance, the microaggression is aimed at the microsubsconscious of, say, a female dog on whom the human (owner? no, companion!) puts pink clothes even though the female pet identifies (to itself, or by its body language, or something) as a male pet.

My understanding is that dogs can't see color, but ... Actually, a bit funny and somewhat sophisticated. Too sophisticated, it appears, for the MAGA crowd, who don't get the joke.

BTW, Ann Lesby should not be confused with Ann Nesby, the Grammy award winner whose photo I have put above.

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