Their Hypersonic Sled Is Faster Than Yours

The Passion Play of Jane Fonda.

In the pages of Slate, a guide to woke dating etiquette.
Sounds like ‘conversion therapy’.

Sounds like ‘conversion therapy’.
Well, it does have that air about it. And you do have to marvel at a supposedly right-on article implying, quite strongly, that if, say, a lesbian doesn’t want to go to bed with a person equipped with a penis – which is to say, a man – then she is something close to a bigot and should “self-interrogate” her preferences.

“When I was a child, I was bullied by fellow black children for not being black enough, and that bullying was the fault of ‘white supremacy’.”
An educator, of course. At Rutgers’ Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. Her areas of expertise include “Hip Hop Feminisms.”

a lesbian doesn’t want to go to bed with a person equipped with a penis – which is to say, a man – then she is something close to a bigot and should “self-interrogate” her preferences.
Kinda like Woody Allen’s The Kugelmass Episode, it’s like we’re all trapped in a joke book written by Chandler Bing. Well you lot anyway. I’m still trapped in The Truman Show.

Her areas of expertise include “Hip Hop Feminisms.”
I’m pleased to see it’s not just a singular feminism. The pluralisation of abstract nouns is usually the marker of a superior intellect.

I’m pleased to see it’s not just a singular feminism.
I’m pretty sure The Gratuitous Plurals has already been suggested as a possible band name.

”Colorado governor replaces actual engineer head of Department of Transportation with a history major.”
But I was told that electing leftist politicians would reduce corruption. /sarcasm

Speaking of gratuitous plurals.

Heh. It does sound like the kind of thing we ought to have.

It does sound like the kind of thing we ought to have.
Go for it. You do have a “Giant Vaginas” category, after all. Why not a male equivalent? And that said – Giant Vaginas and the Unexpected Penis – band or album name?

Yes, and I suspect there’s yet more mileage to be had.

Transgender writer for Slate: New gender-neutral Barbie dolls are too ‘playful,’ do not go far enough in ‘deconstructing the gender binary’

“The bodily blankness,” he argues, “erases so much of what the discussions — personal and political — about gender focus on. These dolls do not have bodies that are like ours; these dolls do not have bodies that society reads in a gendered way at all. That sort of misses the entire point.”

Uh yeah, thats because they’re dolls.
Original Slate article here.

Fascinating article by libertarian economist Deirdre McCloskey on her decision to change gender:
https://quillette.com/2019/11/10/reflections-on-my-decision-to-change-gender/

Guilt by implication? Maybe. It’s a very well-written article anyway, and striking in that it doesn’t attempt to argue anyone into our out of the current LGBT party line.

They won’t be happy till there is a Brobdingnagian Barbie.
Opening up the possibility of Giant Vaginas should they choose to give the dolls nasty bits.

My immediate response was that PETA would surely be against such very large people sitting astride race horses…
The Magic 8 Ball says Signs Point To Yes.

striking in that it doesn’t attempt to argue anyone into our out of the current LGBT party line.
Well, not the strident “T” line of “if you don’t agree that men can menstruate, you’re committing violence” … but I noted more than once he used a well-worn passive-aggressive tactic “What? Why are you/they so angry?” This along with “I thought you all believed in freedom and that’s all I’m doing, acting free.”
More telling to me was this

Truth to tell, my surgery had left me without physical sexual feelings, which was no loss. It’s a relief, actually, to stop the biological yearning.

and

Without the change I would have become by now a quite horribly miserable old man

He wanted a gentile life of a celebrated dowager, free of all physical expectations of romance, the ability to be surrounded by girlfriends and to partake of women’s social activities (save for those few male passions of sports).
He had the freedom to choose his life. He is smart enough to know there would be a trade-off for his response to his fear of ending up a “miserable old man”. He shouldn’t be trying to shame his “marriage family” for his own free choice.

Heehee, if I’d shared the article with my leftist friends they would have been pissed off with it for entirely different reasons – McCloskey’s robust support of markets and dismissal of the idea that the wealth of modern western nations occurred because it was ‘stolen’ from colonised peoples. Something in there for everyone to dislike!

“Activist” should be treated as a synonym for “bullying idiot,” because, well, it actually is a synonym for bullying idiot.

Our educated betters.

He does this better tha…
The brain freeze goes up to eleven, apparently.

I noted more than once he used a well-worn passive-aggressive tactic “What? Why are you/they so angry?”
Yes, I noticed that too. All who disagree/disapprove must be labeled (and thus dismissed) as “haters” or “phobic”. An easy rhetorical technique for avoiding all the ugly inconvenient little facts that get in the way of the narrative.

My wife soon remarried, and lives with her new husband and still enjoys the square dancing she and I loved in the last five years of our happy if sometimes tempestuous thirty years of marriage. Bless ‘em. She’s not spoken to me.
“Not spoken”, as if that is something that only reflects badly upon his ex wife, with no hint of acknowledgement that she might legitimately have seen what he did as a betrayal. I knew a couple decades ago where the man decided he wanted to be a woman. She was devastated and furious. All her plans for a stable life with someone who had vowed to be with her forever were dashed. I moved away not long after and lost touch, so I don’t know if she managed to fall in love with someone again (some don’t) and to add to the difficulty she was no longer the slender cutie that she was when they had married; smart and interesting, but men do look for youth and beauty so she was at a disadvantage compared to when she first married. None of that matters (or even exists) to the trans fanatics.

I also joke that I am the only person in most rooms who has been certified sane by psychiatrists four times.
Heh…yeah, given the current state of the profession, that may not mean what xe thinks it means.

Posted the above before getting to a well-worn passive-aggressive tactic “What? Why are you/they so angry?”. Where do you suppose some such people get those tactics? Similar to denial is one of the signs, you know. But hey, they decide what is rational. They’ve been to school. College even. Advanced degrees. PhD’s. So…ipso facto, rational. And not at all agenda driven. Nope. Nope, nope, nope. To find yourself in opposition to that kind of thinking is simply anti-intellectual. It is, you know. You deny it? Well, that just shows how anti-intellectual you really are.