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As I’m a little busy, more items from the archives.
How Dare You Not Defer To My Lack Of Self-Possession.
A “queer person and educator” is asked not to swear and scream in the workplace. Loud outrage ensues.
Objections to being shouted at, and sworn at, are framed with great haste as a sign of complicity in oppression: “Tone-policing is rooted in colonialism and white supremacy,” we’re told. In short, then, when a suitably black or gay person shouts at you, you “need to be quiet and listen” – and by implication, you should promptly defer, however wrong or ridiculous, or nakedly opportunist, the shouting person may be. You must “validate” their rage, and any incoherence, with lots of silent nodding, before rolling submissively onto your back. Because, being members of a Designated Victim Group, even if irrelevant or based on nothing whatsoever, they matter, and clearly, you don’t. What with all that “privilege” you apparently have. And because reciprocal courtesies just ain’t woke. It’s the progressive pecking order. Know your place.
You’re A Monster, Just Admit It.
If you aren’t keen to become fat, activist William Hornby thinks you must be racist.
Mr Hornby is, of course, “raising awareness,” a mission that entails steering his followers to a Fat Liberation Syllabus For Revolutionary Leftists, where we learn that, “Fat liberation is a radical anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, anti-state movement that was started by fat Black and Brown disabled queer and trans people.” And where we’re told, quite emphatically, that a reluctance to become fat is “intrinsically entangled with white supremacy, anti-Blackness, settler colonialism, and capitalism.” And therefore, obviously, really, really bad. The goal, then, for all chubby-and-enlightened people, is to “abolish capitalism and settler colonial states like the US,” along with “abolishing prisons and police,” and dismantling the “fatphobic logic of productivity, discipline, and personal responsibility.” One can only hope that this revolutionary project doesn’t involve stairs or significant exertion.
It Says ‘Poison’ In Large Red Letters.
A reminder that the absurd and the sinister aren’t mutually exclusive.
Given the eye-widening content of the educational material, it’s worth comparing the readiness to comply of so many educators, with the reactions of parents, including immigrant and minority parents, who are belatedly discovering what exactly their children are being taught. All in the name of “equity” and “social justice.” It seems to me that if someone – say, a middle-school teacher – doesn’t find the idea of inculcating racial guilt at all troubling and is happy with the prospect of children’s personalities being disintegrated, such that they become estranged from friends and parents, and such that they can’t sleep, then this should be ringing alarm bells. Quite loudly.
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I suggest the term man milk, or would that be too silly?
What?
[ Added: ]
Given sufficiently high doses of female hormones, and given sufficiently zealous pumping, some men can indeed be made to secrete a substance from their nipples, albeit in limited quantities, though the resulting discharge is of no nutritional value to the infant. That this discharge is wholly inadequate and basically an exercise in dysmorphic role-play doesn’t seem to matter much to those who enthuse. As noted by Dr Bowen in the article,
But hey, screw the hungry baby. Let’s focus on affirming the dysmorphic man.
Maybe our Pittsburgh pizza protester was actually trying to get into the Allegheny County Jail. With its beautiful views of the Mon river, health care services, physical fitness equipment, and inmate personal tablet program.
Shhh … you’re revealing my retirement plan. The only question is when I’m ready, who am I taking out to win my three hots and a cot? And let me tell you, I’m going big with this. I’m going . . . federal.
As if consistent tenses and basic proof-reading were outrageous expectations
Well they are outrageous expectations because (a) it’s not cool to be bothered with detail and (b) they didn’t originate in Africa.
“Desexing the language of female reproduction has been done with a view to being sensitive to individual needs and as beneficial, kind, and inclusive,”
De-sexing sex-related language ain’t going to help a biological male get pregnant or make any difference to an XY pretending to be XX.
Maybe our Pittsburgh pizza protester was actually trying to get into the Allegheny County Jail.
Theodore Dalrymple related a conversation he had with a habitual criminal who admitted that he preferred life in prison: Warm place to sleep, clean clothes, nutritious food, lack of violence, etc.
a habitual criminal who admitted that he preferred life in prison
The word is institionalised. A common trait amongst habitual criminals.
The word is institionalised. A common trait amongst habitual criminals.
Give them what they want: Life in prison. But they have to work every day.
I suggest the term man milk, or would that be too silly?
No.
From the article, Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Position Statement and Guideline: Infant Feeding and Lactation-Related Language and Gender in “Breastfeeding Medicine”.
Because nothing says “evidence-based and indispensable” like thinking men can breastfeed, though I am triggered by “…breastfeeding for mother…”, that is bordering on fascist non-inclusion.
given sufficiently zealous pumping, some men can indeed be made to secrete a substance
Steady on.
[ Nonchalant whistling. ]
I don’t know why anyone is making a big deal over this, I remember when George VI staged a photoshoot for Elizabeth during the Blitz.
Like Dugout Doug wading ashore at Luzon?
Texas needs to reconsider what it considers child abuse according to this alleged doctor* because “trans” kids may “unalive” themselves if they are not mutilated.
*(May actually be a weird talking parrot, beautiful plumage, squire)
Like Dugout Doug wading ashore at Luzon?
Exactly like that, minus, of course, the plane that was blown up a couple months back and the all-female security detail.
A lot of our homeless problem would be alleviated by bringing back asylums. I don’t mean the kind that tortured people and did lobotomies, but the kind where non-functional people could be safe and have a routine. There used to be such. People who were crazy or just non-functional could live there with a simple job–most had farms attached and other simple businesses like a laundry. They had dorms and regular meal times. If these were available, you could give people who poop on lawns a choice: get it together or go to the asylum.
I think we suffer from an excess of empathy. If people detect that someone has some disadvantage, they go overboard with empathy and absolve that person of any responsibility.
There used to be such.
Dude. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. It was a movie. It had Jack Nicholson in it. Everyone saw it. It won all kind of Academy Awards and everything. My AP American history (not the common history class they give to the proles) teacher even spoke about it. It exposed how the mental health hospitals were run by a nurse named Rachet in some dirty, utilitarian buildings. It was important. Everyone said so. How much more truth do you need?
the all-female security detail.
Well Putin… I mean Russia…is winning. Or would be were it not for the Ubermench troops that Ukraine is creating in their soooper secret bio labs.
Sooper secret bio labs.
At Isengard?
given sufficiently zealous pumping, some men can indeed be made to secrete a substance
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EW
Hey, don’t look at me. Clam did it.
[ Looks at Clam. ]
[ Everyone looks at Clam. ]
Hey, don’t look at me. Clam did it.
Time for DNA testing, I see.
it’s a far worse culture… voluptuous vixens
It’s a good thing I stay at home. I’d bust out the pepper spray on people like these.
Same with idiots who block traffic and glue themselves to paintings.
Got your DNA testing kits right here.
You knew it was coming, say hello to the Filipinx.
Pst314, could at least one of the female employees go to Human Resources and tell them the shouty accountant makes her feel unsafe? That should straighten things out.
Pst314, could at least one of the female employees go to Human Resources and tell them the shouty accountant makes her feel unsafe? That should straighten things out.
I believe this was a volunteer board for a charity or similar that pst is on. I am beginning to suspect that there is a concerted effort to drive off sane, normal, rational people from such organizations and leave what remains as vulnerable pickings for the lawyers. The very kind of sane, rational people such organizations need do not stick around long due to the insanity or perceptions of legal risk. Or maybe it has always been thus. That much like psychiatry, a disproportional number of nasty and stupid types are drawn to these positions. Either would explain why that in spite of the amount of resources thrown at problems, they just continue to get worse.
I wish our prisons were serving nutritious food and keeping the inmates safe from violence. Perhaps Dalrymple was referring to British facilities.
My son is in prison. He can’t maintain his 150 lbs on prison food. He has been beaten nearly to death. Drugs are brought in by medical providers, guards, and DOC vehicles. Work is considered a privilege, and so most inmates sit idle. We had to go to the Superintendent of the DOC to get our son placed in housing for vulnerable inmates; it was the only course to keep him from being murdered by the black gangs.
As for the “personal tablet…” He has one. It has no general internet connection–i.e., an inmate cannot access Google, etc. The inmates can use them to have video visits or make phone calls. That’s it. It solves the problem of long lines at the phones that keep inmates from communicating with family.
That’s right: this is a small volunteer endeavor, so there is no HR department–just four volunteers.
I don’t think there is any conspiracy involved in our situation, just one person who difficult to get along with. Getting people to volunteer has always been a difficult proposition: I have been told by experienced people that you’re doing well if you can get 5% of the available pool to volunteer. We have a potential pool of about 70 adults, and it has always been difficult to get more than four or five people willing to serve–and for the last six years it’s been three.
I think WTP is correct that these sorts of positions tend to attract people with difficult personalities. I’ve already described the accountant. The president doesn’t yell but she does tend to talk down to people and talk so much that it’s hard to get a word in edgewise, possibly because she is a retired social worker who spent her life helping dysfunctional and low-intelligence people.
My ambition is to get us caught up on all the work that was neglected when a previous key member died suddenly, and to fully document everything that people will need to know: That will tremendously reduce the burden and make volunteering more attractive. [ Gazes in mirror. Sees Dudley Do-Right. ]
Oops: I meant to sign that comment as pst314, not CMOT Dibbler.
Perhaps Dalrymple was referring to British facilities.
Yes, British prisons. Dalrymple is a retired physician who worked for many years in a British prison and in a hospital serving a very poor neighborhood. Look for his books on Amazon, under his pen name Theodore Dalrymple and a few under his real name Anthony Daniels. He has a Wikipedia page which includes a bibliography. He contributes regularly to such magazines as The New Criterion, City Journal, Taki’s, and the New English Review.
My sympathies.
No-one has a problem with violence until the outnumbered innocent White guy pulls a gun.
(Via AoS blogger Darth Odie. This was just a few years ago in Chicago.)
It’s a mystery why blacks are arrested more than whites.
Giving a new meaning to the phrase Your breath smells
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzxj4/pig-breathe-through-anus-study
And if your arguments are contrived and aren’t remotely load-bearing, as is the case with Ms Leventry, then shrieking and arm-flailing would be a handy distraction and a way to prevail anyway. If only because the targets of such bullying don’t care to hang around in order to argue back and point out all of the errors.
That.
That.
Well, if someone – in a school or university – insists on conducting what is supposedly a political exchange in the form of screaming and arm-flailing, and with a determination to prevent a considered reply, or any reply at all, and does so despite requests to behave like an adult, and if that person applauds themselves for behaving in this way, then I think you can assume that they’re not acting in good faith and are more interested in domination than discussion or learning anything new.
Needless to say, such behaviour is now actively encouraged on any number of campuses.
As if it were noble and heroic. As if it were an ideal.
So sorry about your son, Lady Theo. May he be paroled soon.
Finding the right words can be tricky so I will simply concur with what Princess Cutekitten has just said.
Put this:
are more interested in domination than discussion or learning anything new.
together with that:
Needless to say, such behaviour is now actively encouraged on any number of campuses. As if it were noble and heroic. As if it were an ideal.
for the bigger picture.
Diagnosis is a privilege, yo, front the fee because self diagnosing tiktokers have more info than doctors.
Peace out.
“such behaviour is now actively encouraged”–for example, college debate has devolved into shouting matches. Un-fucking-believable but true.
These same people claim to be made “unsafe” by the slightest criticism. Bullies gonna bully.
self dianosing tiktokers have more info than doctors.
Crazy as a bedbug, as the very old expression goes.
Damn wypipo, we could’ve all just vibed…
Damn wypipo, we could’ve all just vibed…
Give her what she wants.
we could’ve all just vibed…
I was conversing with an old friend from elementary school days and he reminded me about a couple of kids in our 4th or 5th grade class who talked like this. I vaguely remembered one of them. Mostly because even at that age we shunned them as immature. He remembered them a bit better as he went to middle school with them. He said that they were praised by his English class teacher or teachers for their “imagination”.
[ Schedules tomorrow’s Ephemera, ponders what to have for dinner. ]
Another “educator” sez we need to talk to preschoolers about sexuality because any later is too late, and not at all about grooming.
…ponders what to have for dinner
Fish and chips on toast with beans covered in a curry?
I was conversing
Did you mean conversating? I think that’s the approved word now.
Well, technically I was typing but that just sounds stupid, so…
Another “educator”
A curiously lop-sided face, almost as if it (appropriate gender-neutral pronoun) has an incipient Bell’s Palsy