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And speaking of notable trends:
A leading girls’ school has drawn up a “gender identity protocol” that allows pupils to be called by boys’ names and to wear boys’ clothes if they request it… There are understood to be up to 10 girls in the sixth form who have gone through a formal process to be known within the school either as boys or as gender-neutral.
Ten, in just one sixth form of maybe 200 students, in a school of 770.
“We are moving to the point where your gender is a choice,” said [headmistress, Clarissa] Farr. “I see this as a social phenomenon, especially in London, which is much talked about among school leaders.”
And presumably, among students too.
Farr said no one had yet come forward to be counselled on whether to embark on medical procedures to change sex. If a pupil had fully transitioned and become legally male they could no longer be a pupil, the protocol states, because St Paul’s is a girls’ school.
At risk of sounding heathen and indelicate, and while wishing no ill to people actually alienated from their own physiology, I do wonder to what extent this may be a fashion thing, a way to become interesting.
Uprising, my bookmark. Been here bout 8/9 years now.
Re: Abba. Now I was there, 1973 or so. Man, they was good, we all wanted them to win. And they did, hey. History n all. Don’t dis the Abba.
Circa 1980 I was 13, all my mates had spikey hair and shit. Make-up, n stuff. I am, totally, wtf, maaaaaaaaaan? But I had two older bros and prog and shit. Dressing up to get music was weird.
Either way, all I can think of is Creedence, so I will give you some Spirit. Fuck you all, in the nicest possible way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltsF6x17LkY
but hey, i dig this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NV6Rdv1a3I
put me ina box.
. . . such dubious attention-seeking ‘stunts’ epitomise the modern, tragicomic phenomena of nobodies desperate to be somebody.
Ehn, no, too simplified, that.
Not so much be somebody, as be seen by with the inherent logistics that such requires.
The issue with the hipsters of any sort, is not the matter of being X, or Y, or Z, the issue is the demand by any such hipster that everyone else is required to A) perceive the hipster as being [insert vaguery] and also B) that the hipster then is consistently and insistently admired by everyone else for being [insert vaguery] . . . With that B) bit being the most important part.
Quite by contrast, the simple practice of adults rather than hipsters is to just do stuff—or not, as inclined—without also having the demand for an audience to provide any adulation. For adults the doing is sufficient on its own, where the only point of letting others know is to find a better way of the doing, or as Paul Erdos would put it, to find the proof from The Book.
Can we just put the blame for all this nonsense where it truly lies: Freud and his huge pile of steaming theories.
Can we just put the blame for all this nonsense where it truly lies: . . .
Only if one wishes to merely perform the archiving of assorted fads.
Much better yet to come up with the or a solution to hipsters, and demonstrate the quality of any such solution by applying it and having it work.
“When I was at school, I used to pretend to be a spaceship.”
Steve 2 wins the thread. Dead on the money.
Peoples ability to swallow any old guff as the new right-on makes me wonder if we will one day end up with schools like Hailsham.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go_(novel)
Aren’t you missing the elephant in the room? It’s a girl’s school (it might be slightly more complicated if it was a boys school). Girls school says many things. For example, no worries about which bathroom to use because, gender identification not withstanding …. unisex. No worries about putting sexual appendages into various cavities as just might occur in a boys school. It’s all a harmless game, dress up day, teen girl drama, etc.
My keen powers of observation have lead me to believe that females suffer the most under the new and rapidly changing social order. It’s not just the Hough Mongus girl or her screeching ilk, or all those heart broken Hillary supporters threatening suicide or the women’s marchers with their vagina hats, or the female activist professors urging violence or insane female politicians spreading their legs for immigrants or the irrational feminists.
No it’s not this that makes me believe that females suffer the most. Rather it’s the observation that under the new social order women are no longer allowed to obey their prime biological directive … to go forth and have children and feel that having done so is success. The new social order has made it clear that this is abject failure.
So call me a misogynist. Maybe women are happier under the moslems rules.
I want to identify as a woman – what is a woman – is a woman someone who dresses in women’s clothing? No, not necessarily…is a woman someone who wants to have sex with me? not necessarily…is a woman someone with XX chromosomes? not necessarily….someone with breasts? a vulva?
If not, what does it mean to “identify as a woman”??
sex with MEN that should be!
The bad joke is that for the true gender dysphoriac, gender is not fluid at all – it is a Procrustean bed to which the body must be tailored.
The leftist fad of choosing a gender at odds with one’s body is a demented fetish. Unfortunately, the leftist perverts have become de facto allies of the genuine dysphoriacs against traditionalists who reject all transgenderness.
hUgO: “is a woman someone with XX chromosomes? not necessarily…”
People with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome have XY chromosomes, but their bodies don’t respond to testosterone. They have female external genitals, protuberant breasts, hips, and buttocks, hairless faces and bodies. Nearly all are presumed to be girls until they don’t hit menarche, and are found to lack all internal sex organs. Incidence is about 1/20,000-1/100,000, so there are 70,000 to 350,000 such in the world. Are they women?
It does sound like at this school you get a rather batty head mistress and agonisingly right-on staff, probably combined with many stridently progressive parents. Perhaps it is less surprising in these circumstances that up to 10 girls in one class claim to be opposite sex or gender neutral.
Perhaps it’s time Larkin’s ‘This be the verse’ was set as a school hymn. ‘They fuck you up, your mum and dad…’
Perhaps it’s time Larkin’s ‘This be the verse’ was set as a school hymn. ‘They fuck you up, your mum and dad…’
Well, there already is one pointed bit that already did get recorded as a song, and particularly got recorded with a cluster of British school children . . .
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave those kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave those kids alone
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall
“Wrong, do it again!”
“If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding
How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?”
“You! Yes, you behind the bike sheds, stand still laddy!”