There was an article… by Lauren Rowello – a they, she’s a pronoun pointer, “they/them” – and her article was saying, “Kink belongs at Pride, and I want my children to see it.” The whole thing is… talking about how, if children are exposed to kink, then it will show them that not everyone is into the same stuff, blah blah blah. We used to have a word for that. And that word used to be grooming.
Given recent posts – and lest we assume that all people with gender dysphoria are insufferably woke - this video by Sinead Watson may be of interest. It’s not the most jolly viewing, but it is frank and eloquent, and, I think, informative. Issues touched on include the practicalities of transitioning and de-transitioning; the eye-widening failures of supposed experts; social contagion; and attempts by activists and their cheerleaders to erase the customary boundaries of women and children, and those between childhood and the adult world. Regarding which, Laurie Penny gets a brief mention. The word arsehole is used.
A second, longer video, in which Ms Watson talks with Benjamin Boyce, can be found here.
Lifted from the comments. Which you’re reading, of course.
painstakingly honest examination
Well, there’s your problem.
(Not yours personally, of course)
And this is the same crowd that f*cking LOVES
ScienceLysenkoism.Remember Alfred Bester’s The Scientific People?
“Bug chasing”. I’m afraid to google that.
I just know I enjoyed chasing after fireflies and putting them in mason jars, when I was little. Probably not quite the same.
“Bug chasing”. I’m afraid to google that.
You have already heard of men who knowingly infected others with deadly STD’s. Well, there are men who seek unprotected sex with infected men.
So does cutting, drug abuse, bug chasing, facial piercing and self-destructive sexual behaviour. And for the same reasons.
There are good, humane grounds for saying we should be kind to those with damaged minds. But the cult of tolerance demands that we embrace and approve their brokenness–and the more broken the better.
Remember Alfred Bester’s The Scientific People?
“Your pulse is 98.6. Very scientific.”
and close to 100% of the time know which one to pass.”
Not so… The word shart comes to mind. And often.
“Your pulse is 98.6. Very scientific.”
“You have been inoculated with something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. Very scientific.”
“self-destructive” behavior.
Some florid examples of mental illness and weird compulsion, above. Some of them have a clear social contagion aspect to them. With internet subcultures as a vector for the madness.
I suppose that in Ye Olden Days there must have been neuroses distinctive to the period. Neuroses centering around maleficium and demon-possession fueled the witch crazes (afflicting both the burners and the burnt). I wish moderns were entirely less mad.
Not so…
[ Rummages under bar, emerges with tarpaulin. ]
Some florid examples of mental illness and weird compulsion, above. Some of them have a clear social contagion aspect to them.
I have been wondering to what extent malevolent foreign actors are involved in spreading this stuff on the internet.
The word shart comes to mind. And often.
Might want to consult a gastroenterologist and/or colorectal surgeon for that.
…emerges with tarpaulin.
Maybe too much hump fat, some folks do get carried away with its mouthfeel, might want to put that back under the bar.
emerges with tarpaulin
For a moment I thought maybe David was bringing jello wrestling to this fine upscale establishment.
There are good, humane grounds for saying we should be kind to those with damaged minds. But the cult of tolerance demands that we embrace and approve their brokenness–and the more broken the better.
The cult of tolerance is very selective about which brokenness gets embraced and approved of and which is allowed to be treated as brokenness (so far anyways) and which gets burnt at the stake for having transgressed some woke taboo (Rachel Dolezal comes to mind).
We should absolutely be kind to those with damaged minds, and do our best to help them. But a small and vocal minority has decided that their particular damaged minds are not damaged after all, and instead demand affirmation of whatever is going on in their heads. And the people who should be putting a stop to the nonsense instead are capitulating. So anorexia and bulimia are still abnormal mind states, but gender dysphoria is just another way of being normal. Wax my ladyballs, bigot. Lysenkoism rides again!
For a moment I thought maybe David was bringing jello wrestling to this fine upscale establishment.
[ Rummages under bar for rolodex. Looks up number for Darius and Bruno. ]
[ Rummages under bar for rolodex. Looks up number for Darius and Bruno. ]
Got any other options?
Is there something toxic in England’s drinking water?
Anita Sarkeesian
Isn’t it amazing how things like “consent” “no means no” “sexual harassment” “bodily integrity” … even “women’s rights” go right out the window if they are all in conflict with whatever new shiny thing the Left cult decrees – like the belief in a “female penis”.
You can imagine how that chafes.
No refunds, credit note only.
Actual, pervasive problems can be addressed – though never eliminated – through difficult, painstakingly honest examination of the causes and tradeoffs needed to alleviate the issue. Far better to create new problems, solutions to which can be used as vehicles for grift and political oppression.
They’re only interested in individual troubles if they can be cast in terms of the individual being so crushed by majority customs and conventions that they need professional advocates to tear down those customs on their behalf.
The extraordinary power of these professional advocates is excused from scrutiny by the claim that they’re modest scientific workers and caring professionals whose only goal is helping these vulnerable individuals. They’re as pure and agendaless as somebody helping an old lady across the street.
The advocate piloting Sinead through the checklist wasn’t in the business of eliciting second thoughts, because second thoughts are the majority social expectations recapturing the individual at the moment of their liberation.
It’s a funny kind of empathy that’s not really the difficult process of discerning the thoughts and troubles of the person in front of you. It’s more like a force diagram that starts from the assumption that the individual, no matter what they testify about their own internal motivations, is being crushed by a ten tons of social pressure. In order to be able to liberate the individual, the advocate demands the resources and authority to be able to apply ten tons of pressure in the opposite direction.
“You can imagine how that chafes.”
[ Rummages in pocket.
Discreetly slides tube of ointment across the bar. ]
[ Rummages under bar for rolodex. Looks up number for Darius and Bruno. ]
*fetches glitter*
We used to have a word for that. And that word used to be grooming.
“Love has no age”
https://thebridgehead.ca/2020/08/14/uk-drag-queen-storytime-tweets-out-pedophile-slogan-love-has-no-age/
“Love has no age”
Via Ace: San Francisco Gay Mens Chorus posts and then deletes 2 videos singing “We’re Coming for Your Children” and “Convert Them Bit By Bit”
Chillingly creepy. But I suppose that as San Franciscans they had no idea that normal human beings would react badly.
Got any other options?
Moose and Rocko?
Lauren Rowello – a they, she’s a pronoun pointer, “they/them”
I heard that as pronoun punter, demoting Lauren from a possessor of esoteric knowledge to a betting shop patron who’s been sold a system for beating the market.
Moose and Rocko?
Mandy, Candy, and Brandy would be easier on the eyes. But any entertainment of that sort would be inappropriate at this fine, respectable establishment. Right, landlord?
Moose owes me money.
I heard that as pronoun punter,
It could well be. I wasn’t at all sure and had to guess.
I don’t often venture to The Barren North.
I don’t often venture to The Barren North.
I’ve been told that the neep herders and flocks of wild haggis are quite picturesque. And in any pub you might be treated to a spontaneous lunchtime recitation of the poetry of the great Ewan McTeagle. What?
San Francisco Gay Mens Chorus posts and then deletes 2 videos…
“Whoa there team, too soon, too fast! You can’t just show people your lizard skin and expect them to take it lightly. See, we start with a few Netflix originals and some daytime talkshows normalizing and celebrating lizardhood while casting lizard people as victims. Then we have opinion columns in major publications saying how being under a lizard overlord isn’t all that bad, and may in fact be beneficial. Of course #lizardlivesmatter will trend, and we’ll need to suppress lizard dissent on places like YouTube. Throw in a false flag incident or two, order up “The Conservative Case for Lizard Overlords” and Bob’s your uncle!”
– The cabal of pedo humanoid-lizards running the world, probably
like the belief in a “female penis”.
This kind of thing used to be a crime…
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1412903230594592776
This kind of thing used to be a crime…
There is no slippery slope. David French told me so, and he’s a certified true conservative. /sarc
See, we start with a few Netflix originals…
Possibly the strangest example of this that I have encountered was an sf novel by Samuel R Delany in which anonymous random and brief sex acts in dimly lit backrooms between male humans and male space aliens was portrayed as an excellent way to promote peaceful and harmonious coexistence. More recently he was quoted somewhere as saying that such promiscuous anonymous sex was an excellent way to build interracial comity.
This kind of thing used to be a crime…
As described, the hot tub incident clearly wasn’t some bid for acceptance or an attempt to pass as a woman and bond in some imagined sisterliness – all us girlies together, as it were. It sounds much more like an attempt to scandalise and unnerve, and thereby dominate.
It sounds much more like an attempt to scandalise and unnerve, and thereby dominate.
Exactly. Although there are a few badly broken minds out there who think this sort of behavior is actually an effective and acceptable method of flirtation. In the 70’s feminists and their leftist allies said that “Hi, want to f*ck?” was a grossly aggressive and antisocial mode of seeking sex partners. Now many of these same people are instructing us that we must accept and applaud far worse behavior, whether it be perpetrated for purposes of flirtation or domination.
normalizing and celebrating lizardhood
It’s working. No objections recently to my posts promoting the eating of offal.
It has still not occurred to anyone that if everyone else switches to haggis that leaves more steak for me and my minions. [ evil laugh ]
if everyone else switches to haggis
From the picture, are we to deduce that like Scottish, Vegetarian is a nationality? Or, conversely, that Scottish is a way of eating?
Vegetarian is a nationality?
You start with a vegetarian’s stomach, heart, lungs…
We have a thousand ways to lure the suckers.
Scottish way of eating
“I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a haggis today.”
Thank God it’s skinless (eww)!
Thank God it’s skinless (eww)!
Sooner or later someone’s mother will reply “the skin is the best part and it has all the vitamins.”
Nothing beats the sound of an emptying tin of skinless vegetarian haggis.
Except maybe for a big jobby.
From the picture, are we to deduce that like Scottish, Vegetarian is a nationality? Or, conversely, that Scottish is a way of eating?
They use only the finest Scots as filling for the Scottish haggis.
They use only the finest Scots as filling for the Scottish haggis.
Are they made from real girl scouts?
They use only the finest Scots as filling for the Scottish haggis.
When you are invited to a Robert Burns dinner, be sure to ask them if the Robert Burns is fresh.
In the not too distant dystopian future, the streets of California will be patrolled by the celebrated members of a task force known as Special Unit Rainbow. Their mission will be to identify potential LGBT children and whisk them away to the safety of Affirmation Housing.
Their mission will be to identify potential LGBT children and whisk them away to the safety of Affirmation Housing.
And they shall be carried on the backs of winged unicorns, accompanied by care bears and led by troll dolls.
So let it be written, so let it be done.
Today’s purple-haired SJW is tomorrow’s gruppenfuhrer, as a wise man once said.
On the subject of the sudden increase in transism among teenage XX chromasonal beings;
1970s: Mom and Dad, I’m a vegetarian!!!
1990s: Mom and Dad, I’m a lesbian!!!
Now: Mom and Dad, I’m a boy!!!
Problem being that the last isn’t quite as easily dropped as the others.
Bath salts? Or just psychotic? I suppose the courts can require him to stop taking illegal drugs or start taking antipsychotics, but the odds are he will not comply and there will be more “incidents” until something deadly happens. (Via JuliaM)
As Ms Watson notes in the second video, the increase in cases and referrals over the last decade or so, especially among young women and girls – previously a minority of cases – is so large, and so shifted in its composition, that media visibility alone doesn’t appear to be an adequate explanation. In terms of scale, it’s not unlike if, say, a fifth of the population suddenly said it was gay. You might think something odd were happening.
Ah, the power of marketing.