Your Children, Their Politics
Science may still be divided over whether gender differences are rooted in biology or culture, but many of Sweden’s government-funded preschools are doing what they can to deconstruct them. State curriculum urges teachers and principals to embrace their role as social engineers, requiring them to “counteract traditional gender roles and gender patterns.”
“Their role as social engineers.” And so,
Two schools rolled out what was called a compensatory gender strategy. Boys and girls at the preschools were separated for part of the day and coached in traits associated with the other gender. Boys massaged each other’s feet. Girls were led in barefoot walks in the snow, and told to throw open the window and scream.
Yes, it’s faintly absurd and veering towards comedy. But if you read the whole thing, you may well be struck by the eye-widening arrogance and vanity of the educators, who, as self-appointed “social engineers,” feel entitled to “counteract” normative gender differences, along with the preferences of parents, some of whom have complained about their children’s subsequent behaviour.
Via Ben Sixsmith.
Sounds like a result of Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracies.
To expand on the point about organisations becoming more bloated and overreaching, and intrusive, even as they become hopelessly unreliable at routine tasks – something similar seems to be happening more broadly, culturally. Such that a great deal of time and energy is directed to relatively trivial matters, and any number of absurdities and evasions, at a time when serious problems have arisen and look likely to get worse. Almost as if it were a kind of displacement activity, a way of pretending that the issues that ultimately matter aren’t as pressing as they are.
The behaviour of, say, the police – apparently ineffective against robbery and rape gangs, but merrily wearing rainbow nail polish – is a pretty good yardstick of a broader dysfunction.
And you thought the clown quarter couldn’t get any worse…
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/43321/
And you thought the clown quarter couldn’t get any worse…
The impression given – that teenage students now require instruction on how to masturbate – doesn’t inspire great confidence.
And you thought the clown quarter couldn’t get any worse…
Actually, I doubt there’s a limit to the Clown Quarter’s capacity for posturing and contrivance. Even when the money runs out and Departments Of Fatuous Chest-Puffing start to close, those that remain will still be devising new ways to be absurd.
“Ms. Storesund, 54, nodded thoughtfully. “They are trying to understand what it is to be a girl,” she said.”
No, they are trying to understand why they’re being babysat by a lunatic.
You don’t get the same left wing bollocks in a Catholic school (yet).
BWA HA HA HA HA HA
Come to Canada some time.
And you thought the clown quarter couldn’t get any worse…
“Organizers have pledged to dole out free condoms and bottles of lube for anyone who attends the events, and will also be giving out a sex toy to a “lucky participant” at every workshop, according to their Facebook page.”
I’m sure that will work out well…
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5744236/mortar-bomb-sex-toy-woman-dead-arequipa-peru/
It’s a reminder, if one were needed, that there ain’t no creepy arrogance like ‘progressive’ creepy arrogance… You’d think that glorified child-minders might know their place.
Also that.
Even when the money runs out and Departments Of Fatuous Chest-Puffing start to close, those that remain will still be devising new ways to be absurd.
One anticipates that they will strive feverishly and tirelessly in an effort to one-up their peers, in order to keep the dwindling revenues flowing in. Assuming that our broader civilization is still standing when the Angry Studies edifice crashes, I imagine it will be the world’s most entertaining game of leapfrog.
I’m sure that will work out well…
Well, tragic though it is, at least it wasn’t as gruesome as the clickbait headline suggests.
So this happened today…kinda off topic but kinda not…I’m on vaca skiing. Riding up in the gondola with me this morning was a father, son, and daughter (I think….had her face covered but seemed too young for a wife…either way irrelevant I guess) and in the process of the usual chit-chat, we hear the family was originally from LA but had moved to Jackson Hole in the last year. The boy was a bit small for his age, 6th grade, slightly shy but seemed like a nice, quiet kid. There was another mother and teenage son there and the mother asked the boy how he was getting along in a new town, new school, etc. The boy spoke of the usual adjustment problems one would expect of a new boy in a new environment, some difficulties, yadda-yadda, but he spoke of having trouble with one or two boys and then let it slip that one of them had “tied to stab him with a knife”. Now I’m guessing maybe it’s just a game of mumbly peg that got out of hand or whatever. Granted, could be much worse but putting that aside and taking the simplest explanation what bothered me was the father’s reaction, it seemed it was the first he had heard of this, of “what did you say to upset him?”. I so wanted to punch his old man in the face.
I so wanted to punch his old man in the face.
Enraging. No doubt the parents will enthusiastically vote to f**k up Wyoming the same way as they did California.
Yes. I’m actually more interested in building a wall up the middle of California. I sometimes think those people are a greater threat to the country than most anything coming out of Mexico.