Your Children Will Participate In My Psychodrama
I as a student did NOT want to know about my teachers’ personal lives.
From the comments following this, in which Mr Jo Brassington, a teacher of small children, considers it “so important” to parade around the classroom, looking “cute,” in painted nails and make-up:
Update, via the comments:
Mr Brassington is, he says – or they says, because pronouns, obviously – that he’s “working to make educational spaces more emotionally honest.” And so, we’re expected to believe that “queer” teachers everywhere are somehow being suppressed and robbed of their energy unless they can start cross-dressing at work and telling small children about how screamingly fabulous they are. Such are the struggles of the modern primary-school educator.
Readers will note that the exhibitionist tendency and self-preoccupation are presented as an identity, something to be affirmed and applauded. But it’s not clear to me how one might differentiate an identity of this kind from a kink, or a mental health issue. And when you’re talking about adults having influence and authority over small children, it’s not an entirely trivial matter.
When not cross-dressing in class, or telling us that “almost all ideas of professionalism are either sexist, homophobic, transphobic, fat-phobic, racist, etc.,” our totally self-effacing educator apparently expects to be “celebrated, not tolerated.” Which strikes me as an odd choice of words – and perhaps somewhat revealing. I mean, imagine going in to work every day and expecting to be celebrated – and not celebrated for anything remarkable that you’ve actually achieved – but simply for your professed identity tags. “Oh, isn’t he being gay so terribly well…?” Or, “See how cleverly brown he is!”
It's like expecting congratulations for having big feet.
Via Julia.
Also, open thread.
Because it’s all about him.
That.
We are here to teach the children -it is not their role to ‘validate’ our inner selves.
Well, quite. As I said a while ago, regarding the claims of this chap,
I suppose it depends on one’s appetite for primary school teachers using the banners of “activism” and “diversity” to indulge their own narcissism and inflict their psychological quirks on a captive audience of other people’s children, over whom they have authority, and who, being children, are much more likely to comply.
We’ve been here before, of course. More than once.
“And how do we spell ‘narcissism’?”
In thread: #BringYourKinkToSchoolDay
And to think as children we were taught to view teachers as authority figures. Role models, even.
Where are you, Sr. Andrew Marie? The world needs your no-nonsense stance and yardstick.
(My 8th grade teacher. Tough? Yup. Intimidating? You bet. Fair and a good educator? Absolutely.)
And to think as children we were taught to view teachers as authority figures. Role models, even.
The exhibitionist tendency and self-preoccupation are presented as an identity, something to be affirmed and applauded. But it’s not clear to me how one might differentiate an identity of this kind from a kink, or a mental health issue. And when you’re talking about adults having influence and authority over small children, it’s not a trivial matter.
Also, this:
Those “archaic ideas of professionalism,” “almost all” of which are somehow “either sexist, homophobic, transphobic, fat-phobic,” or, inevitably, “racist.”
Needless to say, according to his retweets, our totally self-effacing educator expects to be “celebrated, not tolerated.”
Yes, applauded simply for being.
It’s an odd choice of words – and, I think, somewhat revealing. I mean, imagine going in to work every day and expecting to be celebrated – and not celebrated for anything remarkable that you’ve actually achieved – but simply for your professed identity. “Oh, isn’t he being gay so terribly well…?” Or, “See how cleverly brown he is!”
It’s like expecting congratulations for having big feet.
It is completely appropriate that I “hide” most of myself at work. This is basic professionalism…
That applies to pretty much every workplace and public space: Part of what makes civilization work is self-restraint in one’s speech and conduct in order to allow very different people to get along amicably.
But then, amity is the opposite of what the left seeks to achieve.
All these little gay Muhammads are as tiresome as the original.
I mean, imagine going in to work every day and expecting to be celebrated – and not celebrated for anything remarkable that you’ve actually achieved – but simply for your professed identity tags. “Oh, isn’t he being gay so terribly well…?” Or, “See how cleverly brown he is!”
It’s like expecting congratulations for having big feet.
LOL. That.
LOL. That.
Well, it does seem a little odd, and not just carelessness with language. Sort of, “Oh, you made it into work today despite being gay.”
As if being black or gay or whatever and still managing to function were some kind of accomplishment.
The functioning of civilization depends on reducing interpersonal friction. You cannot have millions living in a city if everyone is ready to fight at a moments notice. It would be monkeys on a plane. Politeness is moving out of the way for someone with a heavy package or who is old or has kids. It is holding the door for people. We need these things to function.
Children do not know about sex, don’t need to know, and having it forced on them (the info, not the sex) is damaging to their development. For that matter, I don’t want to know about the sex lives of all the people I meet. Just keep it to yourself FFS.
Almost no one is “celebrated” and “affirmed” by society. You are lucky if they pay you well and you have friends. Expecting such is a sign of extreme narcissism.
It’s like expecting congratulations for having big feet.
Well, you know what they say about guys with big feet…
*must be a clown*
(slinks towards door)
Professionalism: A good employee, one showing professionalism, shows up on time, does their work well, doesn’t start fights with other employees or customers, looks decent, and doesn’t distract others from their work. It used to be that sharing your views on religion or politics were considered not professional because it could cause rancor. It turns out in the woke workplace that this is exactly correct: everyone sharing their politics distracts from getting the work done and can even destroy a business. A US navy ship had a collision 2 yrs ago. Why? The two chief officers on duty were women who had a beef and they were not speaking to each other. So no one was paying attention to hazards. People died. Millions in damages. Not professional.
See also:
Why, it’s almost as if there’s a script for this ostentatious non-conformity.
As noted at the time,
And,
There is, I think, a pattern.
The functioning of civilization depends on reducing interpersonal friction…
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Side note: The Latin roots of “civilization” and “civilized” and “civil” are “civis” (city) and “civitas” (citizen). Which should be a hint that they have to do with the proper conduct for people living in a city (although visiting barbarians may not be capable of understanding this.)
It would be monkeys on a plane.
That, or just another day on Spirit. (I will now report for regrooving.)
Professional dress codes are inherently racist, sexist, and rooted in white supremacy.
Once again, what isn’t?
These leftist idiots on the one hand want us all to live in cities, use public transportation, and the higher the density of both the better. Yet at the same time they encourage crime and general antisocial behavior to the degree that discourages the use of public transit and drives people out of the cities and away from their control. You would think at some point some leftists would figure this out. Not that I give such people much credit for thinking but they’re not all complete morons.
Once again, what isn’t?
Also racist: rain.
A millstone! A millstone! My kingdom for a millstone!
WTP: “they’re not all complete morons”–sorry. They are. They spout platitudes and vote without any consideration of cause/effect. Move to the suburbs to avoid crime? racist. Move to the city and renovate old buidings (ie gentrification)? racist. Picking one is so white supremacy. Of course the gentrification creates lots of jobs, but that is still not ok.
The professional narcissists ever-increasing demands – tolerance > acceptance > celebration – seem driven more by an underlying sense of guilt & shame from which they cannot escape.
The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine — attributed to Sextus Empiricus
sorry. They are.
Well the keyword there was “complete”. Very smart, functional, even productive people exist on the left. I’ve even encountered a few on the right. I actually was once friends with quite a few. But there is not one person whom I know, left or right, who has ever made that connection between crime/cleanliness and it’s effect on the viability of city life/public transportation. Admittedly it’s not exactly something that comes up a lot, though it should given the talk about similar related things. Perhaps they have made the connection but they just never mentioned it in my presence. And perhaps the few times I brought it up, they got distracted by crickets. But it’s a big, bloody obvious thing. I would have been cool with taking some form of public transportation IF, big big big IF, it were safe, clean, etc. The kind I experienced in Tokyo years ago.
My one “opportunity” to regularly use public transit here in FL, a job I had worked downtown O’doh just before the Damnpanic, it was not bad. What was horrible was the cost, not so much for me but via the taxpayer subsidies, and also the horrible inefficiency. In the course of a month the stupid train or one of the trains, not the ones I was on, twice hit a car delaying my otherwise 45 minute trip home (35 by car) by over an hour. Many of my coworkers, very smart people, some even conservative…”conservative” would take the train every day and loved it. Yet they seemed oblivious to the true cost. Engineers, mind you. So I wouldn’t say it’s a function of being stupid. It’s more a function of being afraid to discuss it publicly or some desire to bury their heads in the sand. It’s not an inability to think, it’s a social fear of being publicly known to think things differently from others.
“The two chief officers on duty were women who had a beef and they were not speaking to each other.”
Clearly a tale told by the patriarchy to hold wymn from their rightful place at the top of every organization. Or something.
I can’t help missing the middle word from the rank CPO there is, perhaps, inapt…
“The two chief officers on duty were women who had a beef and they were not speaking to each other.”
Clearly a tale told by the patriarchy to hold wymn from their rightful place at the top of every organization. Or something.
That reminds me of Alice Sheldon (pen name James Tiptree Jr) and other feminist science fiction writers who became famous/infamous for stories about how utopian the future could be if only all the men were killed off. (See, for example, her story Houston, Houston, Do You Read? for an example of just how stupid and vile these feminists were.) I would have enjoyed waving such news stories in their faces.
James Tiptree Jr
I still get the heeby jeebies thinking about her The Screwfly Solution. Not so much the story anymore, but the mind of the author.
I still get the heeby jeebies thinking about her The Screwfly Solution. Not so much the story anymore, but the mind of the author.
Agreed. And various other stories she wrote. And note that we are talking about stories that were written 45 years ago. Since then the rot has only spread.
In the show “survivor”(or something) from some european country, they set up one island with guys and one with girls. After a week the guy’s island had huts, food, a sauna, chairs, etc. The women had nothing. They were just eating the initial batch of supplies and complaining. Now clearly, farm wives in the old days would have done much better, but this is an indication of the current state of affairs (recognizing that the women who audition for this show want to be movie stars…). They finally had to move some of the men to the women’s island or stop the episode.
BTW don’t miss Brendan O’Neill’s hilarious takedown of perennial DT fave Laurie Penny.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/02/20/the-revenge-of-the-posh/
James Tiptree Jr.
Cancelled
Crap. Let me try again.
Cancelled
Poor Ms/x/? Penny, so traumatized by bad reviews and then JK Rowling takes her to task. What’s a (genderx du jour) to do but take the Twitter account “private.”
Obviously the producers of the show failed to position them for success.
I’m less put off by Tiptree’s writing (some of which I enjoyed) than I am by the moral & intellectual cowards renaming the award at the behest of moral & intellectual defectives.
Well, that’s a new one.
But there is not one person whom I know, left or right, who has ever made that connection between crime/cleanliness and it’s effect on the viability of city life/public transportation.
…Rudy Giuliani?
Penny, so traumatized by bad reviews
Bollocks like this offends me. Laurie Penny does not have CPTSD, and claiming it is an insult to the people who struggle with it every day.
I still get the heeby jeebies thinking about her The Screwfly Solution. Not so much the story anymore, but the mind of the author
Late in her career, Sherri S. Tepper went full on sociopath. There’s a scene in one of her books where sentient trees eat a baby and this is presented as entirely reasonable, given that humans are reproducing too much.
I will note the baby is neither Indian nor Chinese.
…Rudy Giuliani?
Well exactly. I did give him money once. You’d think he’d give me a ring when he comes through town. Buy me a beer. Fix a traffic ticket. Something.
I can’t help missing the middle word from the rank CPO there…
Not CPOs, commissioned officers, both Lieutenants (Navy O-3, as opposed to an Army/Marine/USAF Lieutenant O-2).
Is </b> the new </i>?
But it’s a big, bloody obvious thing. I would have been cool with taking some form of public transportation IF, big big big IF, it were safe, clean, etc. The kind I experienced in Tokyo years ago.
I noticed it long before we went to Japan (2016) and traveled for 3 weeks exclusively on a Japan Rail Pass.
It’s part and parcel of “first, make your bed.”
Is the new ?
Clearly, I need to report to the regrooving machine. Lemme get my towel.
Late in her career, Sherri S. Tepper went full on sociopath. There’s a scene in one of her books where sentient trees eat a baby and this is presented as entirely reasonable, given that humans are reproducing too much.
? Did not know that. Curiously (or significantly) none of the sf fans I knew mentioned this, although many read her stories.
Public transit: I have taken enough to know that you always end up walking many many blocks because train/bus does not go everywhere. I have spent an hour trying to flag down a taxi (before phone apps, obviously). If you buy something large, are you supposed to haul it around on the bus/train? So everyone as soon as they can afford it buys a car. Perhaps NYC is different but that is not most US cities. I have taken the Atlanta train many times across the city to/from airport and it is nice BUT there are scary looking people on it. Had a young woman pretend to be lost so she could stand next to me (not because I’m handsome, though I am).
If you buy something large, are you supposed to haul it around on the bus/train? So everyone as soon as they can afford it buys a car.
Ask merchant to deliver it? Back in the “good old days” when fewer people had cars, all department stores had their own in-house fleet of delivery trucks, and small stores often used the services of various delivery companies. I also remember scenes in 1940’s/50’s movies in which the cashier would ask “Do you want this delivered?” I remember those department store trucks from my early childhood, and I spent a month between semesters loading delivery trucks for a company that serviced many local stores.
One problem with such delivery services today: Possible low quality of service causing damage to merchandise. That happened to me the one time I requested delivery of some Ikea bookcases.
Dear Lord. Still, in the circumstances the P still applies.
Dear Lord. Still, in the circumstances the P still applies.
Can’t speak for anyone else, but I got it. Their behaviour was “petty” and therefore appropriate vis-a-vis the rank Chief “Petty” Officer.
A US navy ship had a collision 2 yrs ago. Why? The two chief officers on duty were women who had a beef and they were not speaking to each other.
Only a coincidence, certainly.
The warship was on its way home to Haakonsvern naval base after travelling around the fjords for navigation training.
Questions remain as to why the well-equipped warship could not avoid hitting the slow moving, 62,557 ton, 250-metre-long oil tanker. The KMN Helge Ingstad is one of the five Nansen-class frigates billed as “unsinkable” due to its construction with water-tight zones designed to keep the warship “intact and operable”.
All the crew escaped and only eight of the 137 on board were hurt. According to CNN, a joint Norwegian and Maltese investigation is now underway to try and determine the cause of the collison.
The crash and the subsequent sinking of the frigate has given rise to discussions on gender politics and political correctness in Norway.
Sound recordings and radar logs have revealed crude, almost incomprehensible, human errors made by the crew. According to experienced naval officers, the mistakes make the crew look amateurs. This, too, seems to have supported the claim of sceptics who have wondered about the role of women in armed forces.