Severely Educated

Does it ever occur to our self-appointed chastising class that there may be quite a few transgender people, perhaps a majority, who find such demands a bizarre distortion of their own expectations and preferences?
Those who would be the ‘unwoke’ trannies.

Not quite on topic, but meanwhile, an allegedly professional news org has just threatened to dox someone as blackmail into an apology. Horrifying.
https://twitter.com/anewcolouruk/status/882420444736999424

Preview is your friend

Quite. Not an italic cascade this time, fortunately.

As opposed to the horrors of literature interpretation.

There were, besides, great formless heaps of books on the floor and in crude bins; and it was in one of these heaps that I found the thing. I never learned its title, for the early pages were missing; but it fell open toward the end and gave me a glimpse of something which sent my senses reeling.
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It was a key—a guide—to certain gateways and transitions of which mystics have dreamed and whispered since the race was young, and which lead to freedoms and discoveries beyond the three dimensions and realms of life and matter that we know. Not for centuries had any man recalled its vital substance or known where to find it, but this book was very old indeed.
-H. P. Lovecraft, The Book

it is National Bikini Day.
Ah yes. One is reminded of all the furor over the annual sports issue of Bikini Illustrated.

some icing on the cake
Snort!
“I want a house. I’m saving for a house. When my loans are forgiven, I will have a house. Maybe. :(”
No inflated sense of entitlement there then.

I want a house. I’m saving for a house. When my loans are forgiven, I will have a house.
It is rather more like, “I work the fryer at McDonalds in New York City and until I am 60-70 I will be paying off the Lamborghini Aventador I use to commute three blocks, unless the government picks up the payments for me.”

Taking Some of the Heat: the Obligations of Defenders, wherein our brave Martyr For Teh Cause™ suffers the slings and arrows of “violent” tweets on behalf of the downtrodden “trans” community, and in the process, jumps the tracks.

Interestingly, I also got a handful of cisgender lesbians screaming at me as well, claiming that transgender women are not women. These ladies, known as Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists, or TERFs, were engaged in the very same rhetoric as sexist men upholding their position of power and oppression of women. Their desire to hate and attack transgender women upholds the very patriarchal forces they claim to despise, leading them to attack a fellow queer woman simply for suggesting that cisgender, straight people need to think more deeply about gender and sexual attraction.

Let me see if I have this right, the oxymoronic cis-lesbian ladies are using their patriarchal powers to “attack” a man pretending to be a woman, because as patriarchal lesbians, they cruelly don’t want to have sex with a “woman” with a johnson.
Truly I have been made woke, like I was shot with a diamond bullet right through my forehead. My God, the genius of that. The genius, and all this time I have been thinking this gender studies stuff was pure codswallop.

“After 60 years of Gender Studies, I have come to the conclusion there are 2 genders. Everything else is sexual preference or mental illness.”
Fair enough. However, for those determined to declare themselves something else, what about “chimeras dire” as a catch-all term? Maybe “chi” could serve as a preferred pronoun?
Sorry, been on the Milton again…

Erm, not sure there is “public sector forgiveness” on U.K. student debt?
Miss Anderson is an American who, unfortunately, blighted Blighty while at Oxford, assuming she didn’t mean Oxford, Mississippi.
In the US there are, for instance, a variety of loan forgiveness programs, however, there is a bit of a puzzling detail as “qualifying employment” means employment with any federal, state, local, or tribal organization, but not partisan political organizations, which would seem to rule out any state, local, or tribal schools of any kind.
If not, why a teacher at a state school should get zer loan blown off, and not that of a teacher at a private school is also a mystery, except the latter are not required to join unions.
At any rate, the whole concept of student loans being forgiven just because the students made crappy degree choices still stinks on ice.

One more:

“Actually.”