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“heyyy guys”
Did he just misgender me?

You don’t see females who’ve transitioned to male simulacrums doing the same kind of taunting in male spaces, do you? I wonder why this is?

There are four lights!

Related.
Also related, Our Betters™.
And that’s sort-of the thing, isn’t it? I mean, as an issue, a phenomenon, transgenderism has little, if any, direct impact on my life and I certainly don’t spend my evenings fretting about it. I am, though, interested in the mental contortions that are often and widely performed in its name, both by activists, for instance, here, and by those who apparently think that mouthing modish idiocies will make them popular, or at least help them to remain employed.
What primarily interests me is the fashionable unrealism, the abandonment of probity, and just how readily some people will choose to become absurd. And of course, the way in which poking at such things – or simply failing to affirm them – can result in rather breathless accusations.
It’s not unlike the subject of race, which, again, I don’t find particularly, intrinsically interesting. But as this blog is largely about the mental habits of so-called progressives, and as so-called progressives seem all but fixated with these subjects, in ways one might call neurotic, they do tend to crop up.

From Ed West, a potted history of the left’s useful idiots:
Talk. Talk. It’s only talk. Approaching these problems, be they socialism or tranny fascism or feminism or whatever from a perspective/expectation of rationalism or logic or any other such tool of the so-called enlightenment is folly. A fool’s errand. If you wish to have any sway over future events you must employ strong emotionally based efforts. It may go against logic and reason but in a world where no one cares about such things they are a waste of time in the real world of human psychology.

The Left in general and women in particular have been pulling the fainting couch out at the slightest provocation: they feel “unsafe” because of this or that, a man looked at them!, no more dirty jokes!. You can’t even ask some of them on a date. Especially on college campus. And yet this vid of a guy in the ladies room is supposed to be not only ok but to be celebrated.
In the past when everyone had to work 12 hrs/day in a factory or on a farm and the rest of the time was difficult due to lack of conveniences, there was no time for performative nuttiness. And of course, no internet to show off your specialness.
How do you see the true % of blonds? Count blondness on children (adult women color their hair). Likewise, to see that trans-ness in teens is mostly fake, note the very high % among girls but that of those who get the surgery it is far more men than women.

He seems proud of his menacing air. What woman wouldn’t want to share a ladies room with that?
What man would want to share a men’s room with that?

Babble, burble, banter
Bicker, bicker, bicker
Brouhaha, balderdash, ballyhoo

Left off blather.

Oh dear lord.

I don’t want my grandchildren getting a trans story hour or getting DIE indoctrination.
Well, exactly.
At work, we had to sit through all day zoom training on anti-racism. It wasn’t too bad when going through the history of racism, but the implications of “privilege” and the ending exhortation to become activists…arghhh.
Yes. That thing I’ve said time and again here regarding my Jane Elliott style diversity training 30 years ago. I fought that crap as much as was reasonably possible. Probably cost me promotions…ones that I didn’t want anyway. But still. It is a primary reason I turned down a management position when offered. There was simply no way I was going to browbeat any developers that worked for me into participating in that crap in any way. The guy that position went to, a younger very conservativey conservative religious I see is just now, finally…slowly waking up to the damage that the idiocy has been doing on such a broad scale for the last 30+ years. Of course he’s now all It’s All Part Of Great God’s Great Plan. So he’s good.
This isn’t directly tied to the diversity or tranny or socialism or whatever crap, except that it is in the context of group-think and how the smarty-smart-smart guys, like doctors…the MD kind…are trying to kill me. I have been complaining to two different doctors…actually I think it’s three or four but at least with one of those it was out of his specialty…sort of…about the miserable trouble I have been having over the last couple of years now getting out of a chair. I’m still not 60 yet. I have worked out, fairly hard, most of my life. Not much for weight lifting but I even started some of that along with other physical therapy. Over the last year and a half, the PT was having no effect. By accident, I ran out of my statin a couple weeks ago. I’ve always been a bit lazy about it but never went more than two nights without it. Long boring story omitted (you’re welcome) but after three days without it, I found I was getting in and out of a chair, in and out of my truck, etc. much more reasonably. My balance, which was very noticeable with some of the PT I have been doing, has greatly improved.
Doctors. One who when I expressed rational but mild skepticism about the vaccines…in defense of seeing no need for myself to get one, asked me where I would have been regarding polio vaccines. So bloody f’n boilerplate lefty pop-news BS coming from a doctor. When I expressed frustration with doctors, something I had expressed several times with a (once) close friend and his girlfriend, the girlfriend empathized and recommended her doctor. Which was the same doctor who mocked my questioning the vaccines.
But hey, experts….they’re smaaaaart. I mean sure, medical doctors with all of their training and all of their smarts, maybe might kinda sorta mess up medical stuff and stuff. But the ones sending you to diversity training? Don’t you question that. They will shut down your social media accounts. Even if you’re just joking.

The cultural template was set by the movies where Worthington Winthrop III and his chums find their country club/college fraternity/investment bank invaded by a cheeky outsider.
The template depicts the outsider’s gleeful flouting of the insiders’ sense of propriety and discretion as a breath of fresh air into an institution that stinks of hypocrisy and privilege. The more disagreeable the outsider makes himself to Worthington, the more Worthington protests, the better the comic justice.
For most of that time, white women thought that only white men would have to bite their tongues when an outsider invited him- or herself into their spaces, for fear of getting 15 minutes of fame as a Worthington. But Karen Winthrop III having become a cultural reference point, white women can now get their 15 minutes too.
https://www.si.com/olympics/2022/03/23/transgender-athletes-testosterone-policies-ioc-framework

But often, trans eligibility policies are created by people outside the trans community. They center the feelings of the cisgender competitors who may feel threatened by competing against a trans person rather than the feelings of the trans people like Weiner, who are often excluded or policed by them.

The logic is spelt out explicitly: who should be consulted about our community’s access to your community? Our community should be consulted. Your community of Winthrops and Karens has no moral authority in the matter of outsiders having access, merely irrational fears requiring medical supervision. Moreover, your community’s historical exclusion of our community creates a moral debt requiring ongoing scolding, monitoring, and reparations, the implementation of which our community expects to be consulted about.

… policing who gets to be a woman in women’s sports—and in society at large. … an increasing desire to cede to the government—or executive entities like the NCAA or an international sporting federation or the IOC—the power to control people’s bodies and scrutinize who is sufficiently “female”

The entry of MtF’s into women’s sports has created the need for managerialism and policy committees and for smaller sports bodies to punt tricky issues to the IOC. And then the MtF’s turn around and say that the policy is policing us. Rhetorical judo, and also following through on the logic that being a woman makes you a legitimate inheritor of the historical mantle and moral authority of groups of women oppressed by the authorities throughout the ages.

“No longer valid”
https://twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/1506523416853204994

If you wish to have any sway over future events you must employ strong emotionally based efforts
When Western society allowed women to vote but did not also require them to shoulder all of the burdens of citizenship – such as being subject to the draft – it set in motion an inevitable chain of events which has led to the current state of affairs. Give any large monolithic voting bloc power without accountability and they will use it to rewrite society according to their subconscious desires.
As has been pointed out repeatedly, woke posturing and cancel culture are just high school mean girls tactics writ large.

They center the feelings of the cisgender competitors who may feel threatened by competing against a trans person rather than the feelings of the trans people like Weiner, who are often excluded or policed by them.
In the name of comedy, please tell me Weiner has one…or did…
Now I have to read the danged article. But what pops out from that quote (besides the Weiner) is this theme of “Me, me, me: center the feelings of me and disregard the feelings of everyone else – or else!”.

No one “decides” (I mean in the real world) to be male or female.
Yep, no one is “assigned” a sex at birth.
This is peak Lysenkoism.

Note that despite using the words “transphobe” and “transphobia” quite pointedly, almost gleefully, and no fewer than seven times, the author of the piece apparently sees no need to provide even one example to support the accusation.
Actual quotes would ruin the narrative. #wokejournalism

Heh…missed CLR’s comment to that hermaphrodite effect. Exactly.

Farce today, real tomorrow:
https://twitter.com/drefanzor/status/1506651277874237443?s=20&t=yNOeBSsCg-rRYR6DhDdvTw

Farce today, real tomorrow:
Actually, just a couple minutes in, I’m calling Poe’s law. “At least Hilter doesn’t hurt my feelings, Trump does.”

Now THIS is how you sell a kids toy.

Now THIS is how you sell a kids toy.
One of the best commercial makers of the day was Stan Freberg. Totally irreverent and always hilarious. The commercials were many times more entertaining than the shows they ran on.
(check out who shows up at the 5:30 mark)

From “Casual Geographic”: “When Nature gets a little too creative.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onwyC2xsT84

Farce today, real tomorrow
Jacket needed, please, extra-long sleeves.
A room? Not even a country, thank you.
I think you are forestalled on that one @pst314

Actual quotes would ruin the narrative. #wokejournalism
Apparently, this is the standard now. This is good enough for people who will agree and want to be seen agreeing. It’s quite shameless. It’s also quite weird, dealing with people whose most emphatic opinions – declared loudly and often, like social jewellery – are governed by social positioning and group dynamics, rather than anything approaching autonomous mental activity.
Again, wokeness corrodes probity.

“This is not care”
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=19243

Terrell Starr is attracted to lots of kinds of women but not men at all, but is coming out as queer. Words used to be useful vehicles for conveying meaning. Ah, the good old days.
One of the things that maybe confuses teen girls is that their sex drive is not as strong as for guys, but that doesn’t mean they are not women.

Maybe if I read it backwards, or under UV light.
I’d be hesitant to get a UV light out anywhere near some place these pre-verts have spent any significant time.

Maybe Terrell Starr coming out as queer but not attracted to men means that he thinks he is a male lesbian?

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Farce today, real tomorrow
Example there of a joke on a joke on a joke, all neutralizing each other.
“A nuclear war is worth it if it just saves one life” is quite good, reminiscent of Norm MacDonald’s “What terrifies me is if ISIS were to detonate a nuclear device and kill 50 million Americans. Imagine the backlash against peaceful Muslims?”

Heh.

Yes, this makes perfect sense.

You might have to turn on the translate but this is exquisite in the German:
Hilarious. And I see that the Germans borrow our “shitstorm” rather than use the perfectly good “Scheißesturm”.

Is today a Not-Friday?

[…] young people are still developing their identities up to the age of 25 [….]

What the flying fuck is that bullshit?
There’s a building at West Point named Cullum Hall (https://www.westpoint.edu/military/directorate-of-cadet-activities/hostess/cullum-hall-history). When I was there over 40 years ago, there was a plaque on the wall for a graduate who had died in 1918. Unfortunately, I don’t remember the young officer’s name from that plaque, but he died as a Colonel during the fun of 1918 in France. (There’s a lot of boring trivia around that he may have been a Colonel in set A of the US Army at the time, but still considered to a 2LT in the ‘real’ set of the US Army at the time. That trivia still existed in WW2.)
Here’s a 25 year old (http://forwhattheygaveonsaturdayafternoon.com/wp-kia1915/edwin-richardson-kimble) who died as a field grade officer. When I was 22, my job was to take my M60 tank (M60A1 RISE Passive in the beginning then M60A3 RISE TTS, for those who would care about such things (who probably aren’t reading any of this)) with another 4 of them to a location somewhat near a border of a Warsaw Pact member to kill as many of the invading military as possible to delay them.
I was barely 17 years old when I volunteered to do that. I had to do the work to get the nomination when I was 16. If you don’t know who you are by 25, you are worthless.

I should mention that the young officer who died in 1918 was a 1915/1916 graduate; I believe that should have put him to be a rather bit younger than 25.

sigh I was barely 17 when I became a cadet. I was almost 22 when I was a platoon leader with the aforementioned tank platoon.
I had absolutely no doubts about what it meant to be a US Army officer at the age of 16 when I did the work to become a cadet at the age of 17. So, I had volunteered to “do the needful” when I showed up at West Point when I had been 17 for ~3 months.
(This is getting close to spamming. I extend my apologies to our host for my being so unfocused.)

Is today a Not-Friday?
Alas, time and circumstance didn’t permit the usual compiling of ephemera. And despite rumours to the contrary, I do try to maintain some semblance of quality control. But by all means use this thread to share anything of interest.
For instance, a notable fashion solution. It makes a statement, I think.

It makes a statement, I think.
The Milhouse cartoon is spot on.

When I was 22, my job was to take my M60 tank…with another 4 of them to a location somewhat near a border of a Warsaw Pact member to kill as many of the invading military as possible to delay them.
And the likelihood was that the tank platoons would not survive the battle. Life expectancy measured in days, a USMA graduate told me.
Measured in hours for a National Guard air refueling wing, as I recall, because they could maximize the range of B-52’s by doing the refueling rendezvous beyond the point where the tankers would have enough fuel to get home.

Chair – Fat Studies Area
Specially reinforced?
She is known to all as “Two Chairs”.

Apparently, it’s imperative that fighter pilots “learn more about the history and significance of drag performance art within the LGBT+ community.”
“High Speed, Low Drag”.

“And no I shouldn’t need to ask for an extender. It should just be easy! @delta,”

…Delta’s seatbelts range in size from 40 to 45 inches.

“I mean really, just change around 2000 or so seat belts on all your planes”, she added, “so I don’t have to be inconvenienced or pallet loaded on a C-17″*.
*(I may have added the second quote)

Trunk Monkey*, for all your motoring needs.
*(Boot Monkey not currently available)

“A dude” hesitates about making a choice.
When you’ve fallen down the identity well.

“Scientists agree…”, thus again proving social sciences aren’t.

Trunk monkey: a classic. Now probably violates animal rights.
Uni job without salary: going back to the earliest days of Cambridge, where you got a room and meals in the commons as a prof unless you had your own income.
Skinny librarian “lady”: talk about cognitive dissonance!
Crowder: he is hilarious. Makes his point so well. I get spammed daily with invitations to be an honored speaker at a vaguely defined conference in Malaysia or China or somewhere, and they will accept any abstract at all. It is either a business (for the real conferences) or a scam (you pay registration and go and there is no conf). The uni decline started with the “studies” programs. Because it was either feminist or black, you could not criticize them. Because they were fundamentally based on lies and used critical theory as their method, you got BS piled on top of BS, but no one could say anything. The rot spread.

Thinking about the uni job without salary, it seems to me this is perfect for a NGO staffer (Greenpeace, WWF, Extinction Rebellion, etc) who has a salary to become an instant professor and increase his creds.
Hippies objected to rigor. “Just be relaxed and casual, man, here have a joint. Don’t be uptight.” (I was there, I remember) Because being on time, and accurate, and thinking through problems is hard work and causes anxiety they are to be banished. So the precision of words is to be vanished (women, equality, harm, violence) and public policy should be just based on feelings–let’s just ban fossil fuels, virtuous renewable energy will just fill in!

Hippies objected to rigor. “Just be relaxed and casual, man, here have a joint. Don’t be uptight.”
Gawd, that brings back memories.

When you’ve fallen down the identity well.
A proper response.