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February 25, 2026 28 Comments

On a theme of leftist librarians, some items from the archives:

Middle-school librarians want 11-year-olds to know that whoring is empowering.

Presumably, these other middle-school librarians didn’t find anything inapt about 11-year-olds learning about the glories of prostitution and its general awesomeness. Because “high-end escorts” can “pull in half a million dollars a year.” Though it seems to me that an 11-year-old “sex worker” would be an abused child, a child being trafficked. Not an ideal aspiration for the pre-pubescent. But maybe that’s just me and my uptight stuffiness.

The Librarians Will Save Us.

Ivy League librarians demand things, struggle with logic, causality.

Something-something “white supremacy” something-something “privilege.” I’m paraphrasing, of course.

But really, it’s the same doctrinaire horseshit we’ve seen a hundred times. And according to which, the world will be enormously improved by the “abolition of policing in all its forms.” If that isn’t sufficiently unambiguous, our Ivy League librarians insist that their “ultimate goal” is, and I quote, “the complete abolition of law enforcement… everywhere.” Because “a world without policing” will somehow, rather conveniently, be a world without crime.

And because helping people find the books that they’d like to borrow is just too boring and insufficiently high-status for minds such as these.

Don’t Oppress My People With Your Public Libraries.

I bring you the mental exertions of Ms Sofia Leung.

Ms Leung airs her distaste for “white men ideas” – as if they had been uniform across continents and throughout history – while reminiscing about attending a “white AF conference” two years earlier. I was unsure what the “AF” might refer to and searched for some literary or scholarly explanation. It then occurred to me that a “white AF conference” is, to borrow the woke vernacular, a white as fuck conference. Which is how not-at-all-racist academic librarians convey their thoughts, apparently.

Readers may also wish to ponder the implications of a librarian and self-styled educator, schooled at the University of Washington and Barnard College, New York, and who is offended – something close to enraged – by the existence of “white ideas” and the “so-called ‘knowledge’” of “white dudes.”

Having dismissed as tiresome the entire breadth and history of “white men ideas” – from Ptolemy to Babbage, Tesla to Solzhenitsyn, Turing to Shakespeare – these “white dudes” and their “so-called ‘knowledge’” – Ms Leung then makes clear the kinds of feedback she is willing to entertain: “I still have some thinking to do around this topic, but curious to hear what others think. I’m less interested in hearing that you don’t buy it, so don’t bother with those types of comments.”

That Ms Leung’s overt racial animus and eye-widening ignorance haven’t been mocked out of her or resulted in any kind of censure or career impediment – indeed, quite the opposite – suggests that she’s not entirely without the “privilege” she denounces in others, based solely on their melanin levels.

I’m now trying to imagine a white librarian, employed by MIT, mouthing comparable noises about the history and literature of non-white people, and their obviously malign inclinations, and surviving the day with the approval of their employer, and their peers, and their job, intact.

For those craving more, this is a pretty good place to start.

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Written by: David

Academia Free-For-All Parenting

And What was Your First Clue?

February 24, 2026 47 Comments

In educational news:

Following a complaint letter… on behalf of several parents, an elementary school in a district that serves military families in North Carolina has fired a teacher who identifies as a “trans wolf.”

No, wait. Let’s not rush to conclusions.

[Concerned parents] alleged the “male, trans-identified” substitute teacher/teacher’s aide had “engaged in disturbing behaviour” for about a year, which included wearing “feminine” clothes, a dog collar with “fetish tags,” and a tail.

However, I think we can walk towards said conclusions at a fairly steady pace.

The teacher also was accused of telling kids he “turns into a wolf at night,” that “he is ‘actually a woman’ who ‘likes boys,’” and that he required students to refer to him by some of his “wolf” names.

Since you ask,

“Roxxanne Wildheart,” “Captain Roxxie,” and “savagebeastqueen.”

Because naffly suggestive pseudonyms are exactly what you hope for at a kindergarten. In this case, at Mildred B. Poole Elementary School.

The educator in question, whose actual name has not been disclosed, took to social media to express his indignation at being asked not to wear his false tail at work. “People wanna be straight up pearl clutching bitches,” he said, in a teacherly manner. Among images of stabbed and bleeding teddy bears, and while describing himself as a “butt-sniffing wolf bitch.”

Parents also suggested that a cross-dressing kindergarten teacher wearing mini-skirts, a BDSM dog collar and black fishnet stockings was, all things considered, a tad inappropriate.

At the end of January, Poole Principal Lisa McGee allegedly told two parents she “can’t do anything about how [the teacher] dresses, because there is no official dress code and because he is ‘transgender.’”

However, despite this assumed imperviousness to normal consequences, the educator in question has since been removed from his paid proximity to children.

Previously in the world of suboptimal hiring decisions.

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Politics Pronouns Or Else

Land Of Mandatory Make-Believe

February 22, 2026 107 Comments

Canada, I mean.

Following this eye-widening farce, in which a mentally ill woman claimed to be crushed and psychologically violated by a haircut booking form, I bring you a vision of things to come:

The tribunal ruled that saying you do not believe in gender identities amounts to the “existential denial” of trans people and is therefore discrimination.

And thus a pretext for legislative punishment and financial ruin.

The school board trustee, Barry Neufeld, must now pay a $750,000 penalty for his lack of belief in gender souls.

Because you must defer to the claims of people whose perceptions are wildly unreliable, at least regarding themselves. And because you mustn’t notice the overlap of cross-dressing and unsavoury phenomena, as Mr Neufeld did. Lest it bruise the egos of the Officially Downtrodden, who must be spared any whisper of contradiction or exposure to statistics.

This quote from the ruling is particularly astonishing:

“A person does not need to believe in Christianity to accept that another person is Christian. However, to accept that a person is transgender, one must accept that their gender identity is different than their sex assigned at birth.”

And so we arrive at compulsory question-begging. No other possibilities being permissible, it seems.

Oh, and gloating, vaguely threatening cross-dressing men:

Threaten me all you like. I still won’t pretend to believe in gender identities. https://t.co/xkPFJZTGWL

— Mia Hughes (@_CryMiaRiver) February 21, 2026

Mr Oger, quoted above, spends his time campaigning to financially cripple women’s rape shelters, on grounds that said shelters don’t also cater to cross-dressing men, i.e., men much like himself. A preoccupation that possibly tells us quite a bit about the kind of man he is.

Presumably, absurd and sweeping rulings of the kind seen above will inhibit questioning of the motives in play, and will deter people from acknowledging distinctions between autogynephiles, transvestites, opportunists, and people with sexual dysmorphia, and deter them from considering the possible causes of that dysmorphia, including, quite often, childhood sexual abuse.

Which is to say, it will stupefy. It will make dishonesty mandatory. Because you mustn’t be allowed to determine for yourself what it is you’re looking at.

It will also give enormous leverage to spiteful bedlamites.

Which doesn’t strike me as an entirely utopian scenario.

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Written by: David

Ephemera

Friday Ephemera (805)

February 20, 2026 116 Comments

Chicken detected. || Heirloom discussed. || Today’s word is dexterity. || Switches and reels, 1979. || Bang to rights. || Because we’re doing axes now. || Little Miss Biohazard. || Bumping and grinding. || She gets that they’re confused. || She’s not even kidding, you hear. || Chillin’ at the gym. || Alan. || And they jiggle. || Tongue action, 1982. || The cave houses of Kandovan. || Clowns with pronouns discuss “queer animals.” (h/t, Laurie) || The progressive retail experience, parts 701, 702 and 703. || Not entirely unrelated. || He had to explain. || They’re roses. || Knight Rider. || Tricky situation. || Question asked. || Hot and strong, the way you like it. || Her magic shoe didn’t work, it seems. || Dream Cars of the 1950s, parts 1, 2, 3 and 4. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || And do feel free to suggest a fitting response.

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Hair Pronouns Or Else

Hair Crisis

February 19, 2026 41 Comments

And in absurd, wearying narcissism news, a new realm of human suffering has been discovered:

A Montreal hair salon has been ordered to pay $500 to a customer who claimed the company’s booking system is discriminatory. Alexe Frédéric Migneault identifies as non-binary and was asked to select a male or female haircut on the salon’s site in 2023.

Well, ladies’ haircuts generally take longer. And this has to be scheduled accordingly.

Migneault was disappointed to find that during the booking process, they were asked to select between a men’s or women’s cut and sent an email asking for accommodation.

They say they were told to just select one or the other.

No laughing at the back. Being a made-up cartoon character is a serious business.

Naturally, this reminder of reality had to be punished, at length, and so,

They filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission, which recommended a $500 settlement.

Because just, you know, getting over yourself was never an option.

And this being Canada, a precedent has been set. More rumblings of boutique victimhood, and opportunist chiselling by mentally ill men and women, will doubtless ensue.

A demonstration, were one needed, that men and women who pretend to be “non-binary,” miraculously unsexed beings – a fantasy to which you must be made to defer – may not have the best of intentions. Indeed, theirs may be a world of self-preoccupation and unrelenting spite.

“I was already spiralling into a huge mental health crisis… I was unable to work for a year and a half.”

Says she. Supposedly because of a haircut booking form.

Readers may wish to ponder whether putting small businesses at the mercy of the mentally ill – say, people with a history of narcissistic ‘activism’ and repeated hunger strikes, i.e., threats of self-harm – is an obvious path to utopia. And whether such indulgence and affirmation will result in a better, more caring society, or merely a twitchier and more neurotic one.

Oh yes, nearly forgot. The hair in question: