All That Lovely Power

Readers will, I’m sure, draw their own conclusions.
‘I don’t discriminate against boys. Except when I do.’

‘I don’t discriminate against boys. Except when I do.’
Yes, just for a whole month every year. And obviously that doesn’t count. And when she said, quite gleefully, that she lies to five-year-old boys in the name of feminism, she was just lying when she said that, so how dare we question her motives and sincerity? After all, she’s only allowing girls to have an “unencumbered opportunity to become more comfortable working with Lego.”
That’s unencumbered by boys. Not that she discriminates against them, you understand.

Once upon a time communists knew what they were and that they were opposed by right thinking people. Nowadays if you were to arrest people like this woman and charge her with the treasonous promotion of collectivism, she would look at you in blank incomprehension. As Deckard says in Bladerunner, “How can it not know what it is?” but they really don’t.

Followed your “been here before” link and spent half an hour reading your conversation with Dr Dawg. 🙂

I still marvel at the idea that if children’s play doesn’t conform to hugely presumptuous leftist theorising, then the only possible answer is there’s something wrong with the children.

I remember Lego insisting they would make no bits of plastic that could be construed as a weapon. Then they had a spaceman who held a sort of megaphone-like device which my sons took to mean it was a gun. Great happiness all round as they could then pew-pew happily.
But I have a theory about the woman teacher and Lego. I think a boy dropped a piece and she, maybe in a barefoot moment of hippydom, trod on it. Anyone who has stepped on a piece barefoot will want to stop everyone playing with Lego for a while, and if the girls won’t play with it and the boys are denied, she will be happy. Anyway, a non-hoppy happy hippy is a joy to behold.

Hmmm. “Out of context” must mean “I never dreamed a female reporter would rat me out, the bitch” in certain quarters of Bainbridge Island.

“For years, it has been the bane of every parent’s life – the pain caused by stepping on a tiny Lego brick that’s been left lying around the house. But the creators behind the long-time favourite children’s toy have now launched an extra-padded slipper to protect the feet of adults everywhere.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3321877/At-Lego-creates-extra-padded-slippers-prevent-adults-getting-injured-stepping-bricks-lying-house.html

no less an intellectual titaness than Miss Penny.
As Karen Straughan and others have noted, when juxtaposed with your own actual family and the couples you know well, claims like Ms Penny’s tend to seem… well, ludicrous, like conspiracy theories. And that’s before we get to the issue of how denouncers of maleness and heterosexuality – as some violently imposed hallucination – often have little practical experience of it. At least half of radical feminism’s “classic texts” are written by disaffected lesbians, for whom, one assumes, a lifelong heterosexual marriage exists only as a concept, a theory, not something actually lived.

It doesn’t matter. Biology wins every time.
Maybe so. In the long run. But not at a cost to the trust those little boys will have in teachers and other adults. Little boys are not as stupid as this stupid git thinks they are. They are constantly observing the world and their little sponge-like minds are forming ideas and opinions on how the world works. Undermining the trust and faith little boys have in the authority figures that their parents and/or society submit them to is not a good long run play for society. Especially for female authority figures.

I have to disagree with WTP: right now we NEED boys to start distrusting authority figures. There are too many wannabe Stalins in education and government nowadays. A healthy distrust and rebelliousness will be good for society.

WTP is correct, but of course so is Trimegistus. A paradox for our times, and no doubt for other times too.
I took two bright grandsons through the global warming lessons they were receiving at school. They had received assertion; I offered evidence. One of the lads, slightly autistic, was deeply angry at being lied to. In the end I sighed, told them they could trust their maths teachers, but they were welcome to check everything else with me.
The older one later told me that most of his friends were taking a deeply sceptical view of their lessons, across several subjects. Sad, but there is a generation of youngsters who are perhaps resistant to SJW-ism.

I too enjoyed the long-ago thread, and was “amused” at how Dr Dawg could so blithely assume that the “agreement” apparently reached to have a communal approach to the use of the lego blocks was reached in “consultation” with the children.
Oddly enough I have been told (by my mother as it lies, alas, too far in the distant past to truly be certain of remembering it well), of an almost identical problem I was involved in at “Playcentre” (a sort of parent run kindergarten, run as I recall in a local hall) with wooden blocks. Another young lad and I finished up constructing some huge thing and to complete it we required ALL of the blocks and so commandeered them and forbade other children to take them back. We were, as I recall, rebuked mildly but complimented on the size and inventiveness of our construction before it was deconstructed and the blocks distributed. I don’t think my life was blighted by either the power we exerted over the other children or the rebuke, but I didn’t take up engineering, FWIW.
The experience seems a common one…

Five year old boys need to be able to trust and obey authority.
Trust and obey are unrelated concepts. Just the ability to do what they are told is enough.
I’d rather have a boy who can obey, even though not liking me, than one who likes me but has no self-control and therefore cannot sit still and quiet.

It requires a special level of stupid, an absolute inability to observe the world around you, to work in a kindergarten and still believe there are no intrinsic differences between boys and girls.
These are children who are so young they don’t play co-operatively. They may engage in parallel play. But they are pretty much oblivious to their peers. At primary school, yes, children are hugely influenced by other children. Not at kindergarten.

Behind every successful man, there is a woman. Behind every fucked-up man, there is also a woman.