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Anna Slatz on when an 80-year-old lady encounters the pointy end of transgender ideology:
When [Julie] Jaman asked… why no signs had been posted informing women that males could potentially be in the locker rooms, she says she was told: “‘We post pride signs, and we assume that lets women know what to expect.’”
What is expected, it seems, is that women who are not entirely comfortable with dysmorphic men using ladies’ changing rooms and showers, and watching small girls undress, should simply pretend that it isn’t happening. As is the custom, a kind of farce ensues, including accusations of “hatred,” bigotry, and being “unscientific.”
Heather Mac Donald on the woke capture, and corruption, of medicine:
Medical schools and medical societies are discarding traditional standards of merit in order to alter the demographic characteristics of their profession… Black students are not admitted into competitive residencies at the same rate as whites because their average [second year ‘Step One’] test scores are a standard deviation below those of whites. Step One has already been modified to try to shrink that gap; it now includes nonscience components such as “communication and interpersonal skills.” But the standard deviation in scores has persisted. In the world of antiracism, that persistence means only one thing: the test is to blame. It is Step One that, in the language of antiracism, “disadvantages” underrepresented minorities, not any lesser degree of medical knowledge…
Medical schools use wildly different standards for admitting black and white applicants. From 2013 to 2016, only 8 percent of white college seniors with below-average undergraduate GPAs and below-average MCAT scores were offered a seat in medical school; less than 6 percent of Asian college seniors with those qualifications were offered a seat… Medical schools regarded those below-average scores as all but disqualifying—except when presented by blacks and Hispanics. Over 56 percent of black college seniors with below-average undergraduate GPAs and below-average MCATs, and 31 percent of Hispanic students with those scores, were admitted, making a black student in that range more than seven times as likely as a similarly situated white college senior to be admitted to medical school, and more than nine times as likely to be admitted as a similarly situated Asian senior.
In light of which, claims of being “marginalised” and “excluded” seem somewhat doubtful. See also, the world of woke dentistry, and the third item here, in which would-be maths teachers must be spared any attempt to fathom their competence in mathematics.
And in rampant phallus news, The College Fix reports on an artistic scandal at Imperial College London:
While [Antony] Gormley, “one of Britain’s leading sculptors,” said the piece is intended to evoke an image of a person “balancing on the balls of the feet while squatting on its haunches,” the [student] Union claimed the sculpture looks like “a person baring their erect penis.” It added the piece will tarnish “the image and reputation of the college.” The Union also said the phallic interpretation was “exclusionary” as women (or those who identify as such) comprise only 42 percent of Imperial College’s student body.
Those with nerves of steel can behold said sculpture here.
Feel free to share your own links and snippets, on any subject, in the comments.
the [student] Union claimed the sculpture looks like “a person baring their erect penis.”
The word is ‘man’.
If a sculpture is intended to ‘evoke an image’ rather than actually portraying an image in 3D, then I don’t really class it as a sculpture. I guess that makes me some sort of Philistine…
It added the piece will tarnish “the image and reputation of the college.”
I think “the image and reputation of the college” is damaged far more by the cretinry espoused by the students who believe things like the above, than the artwork in question – a mediocre piece which resembles an industrial accident in a steel beam factory.
I think “the image and reputation of the college” is damaged far more by the cretinry espoused by the students who believe things like the above, than the artwork in question – a mediocre piece which resembles an industrial accident in a steel beam factory.
Yes, one might more credibly object on grounds that the sculpture appears to lack any significant aesthetic qualities.
As an old person myself I think old people should always carry a walking stick or umbrella whether they need one or not. Very useful for accidentally cracking perverts in the lady nuts. “Oh, I’m sorry love, was that your bollocks?”
Right, heading out into the Peak District for an hour or two. Play nicely. Use coasters.
OK Mice, you know the score…
My view is that anyone who has not been surgically topped and tailed is, quite simply, a transvestite (or in the old music-hall style, “female impersonator”) and should be so-regarded and changing room/toilet doors labelled XY or XX only ( or biological males/females only).
The surgically-modified present more of a problem to which the answer may be exclusive facilities marked “Neither/Nor”.
the sculpture looks like “a person baring their erect penis.”
If the “person” is Optimus Prime.
…a mediocre piece which resembles an industrial accident in a steel beam factory…
That, or a two year old with a Lego set.
TBF, it doesn’t look like someone on his* haunches, however, how utterly stupid and/or deranged does one have to be to think something protruding at knee level is a johnson?
*(“his” because there are no breasts, although it could be a “transman” in which case he could be proudly showing off his ersatz wang attached in an anatomically unlikely place, in which case the “sculpture should be celebrated)
Play nicely. Use coasters.
[ Quietly sharpens edges of coasters ]
That, or a two year old with a Lego set.
Much of the contemporary art favored by the “intellectual classes” fits that general description, which is grounds for defunding and dethroning said intellectuals–and most of the ruling class.
Yes, one might more credibly object on grounds that the sculpture appears to lack any significant aesthetic qualities.
To be fair, one can say the same of the campus of Imperial College Lond0n itself. Barring some of the older, pre-WW2 buildings which the institution hasn’t treated very well, it’s a deeply ugly place. So ironically, that sculpture would fit right in.
I think I found one of those new MCAT students.
I used an online writing bot to construct the following:
“By contesting colonialist narratives that are sustained by the suppression of voices with the appropriate cultural background, it is possible to examine the origins of heteronormative attitudes among non-indigenous peoples.
Gender is determined at conception, according to traditional Western science. Deconstructing this mythos promises to unlock indigenous ways of being in the world, which erases the illusory construct of determination by so-called biological factors. It is also possible to analyze queer thought patterns among indigenous peoples who have not been colonized by traditional Western cultures. ”
Tenure-track Ivy League post, here I come.
Peak District: peak of what?
“You will not find any information on the internet about my experience other than what I’ve written on my Patreon site…”, oddly enough, speaking of medical things that didn’t happen.
Much of the contemporary art favored by the “intellectual classes” fits that general description,
As the great unwashed are actually allowed to go into art museums, one will find the ‘contemporary art’ halls and exhibits close to empty. We’re all over in the sections with the Dutch masters and French impressionists. Or even … :::gasp::: enjoying classical sculpture.
Tenure-track Ivy League post, here I come.
If that “sculpture” is actually installed, I want the spray paint and marker concession next to it. Gonna take in the big bucks, I tell you!
(What’s uk-speak for “big bucks”?)
What’s uk-speak for “big bucks”?
Big Bucks
We’re all over in the sections with the Dutch masters and French impressionists.
Next time I go downtown, I will try to count the visitors in the contemporary vs traditional galleries.
The model of the sculpture shows that the artist (?) is just trolling the rest of us. (Besides, it has a hump: it looks like an aroused Lego Quasimodo.)
she was told: “‘We post pride signs, and we assume that lets women know what to expect.’”
I’m a big old lezza and I didn’t sign up for that.
I’m a big old lezza and I didn’t sign up for that.
I doubt you’re alone in those sentiments. Another account of the incident can be found here. What caught my eye, among other things, was the line:
Which, as we’ve seen, is by no means an uncommon phenomenon.
What is becoming clear in the attacks on her, as Jaman wrote to us in an email, “It seems everything is about them. No one else’s needs matter.”
That reminds me of something I’ve been pondering: A number of “smart” people have simultaneously told me:
(1) The “trans” activists demanding access to women’s showers and bathrooms are a tiny atypical minority. The vast majority of “trans” people are quiet folks who don’t want to make waves and just want to live their lives unobtrusively.
(2) We should not object to “trans” men in women’s bathrooms because such “extreme” privacy concerns are not found everywhere in the world and therefore we can change to be more “tolerant”.
This has led me to wonder about the true motives of those “smart” people: Are they merely fools following the latest ideological trend? Are they secret pervs? Are they crypto-leftists like the people I knew in the 70’s and 80’s who pretended to be liberal or moderate but who always found ways to deny or minimize or excuse the tyranny and horrors in communist regimes? And come to think of it, a lot of leftist rhetoric involves a large does of “You’re delusional for thinking it’s happening and it’s good that it’s happening to you.”
“It seems everything is about them. No one else’s needs matter.”
Looks like the LGB had better get with the program or else.
“You’re delusional for thinking it’s happening and it’s good that it’s happening to you.”
It goes along with the typical “No true Scotsman” arguments I encounter with the “trans women ARE women” TRAs.
Assertion: a woman is anyone who identifies as a woman
Me: Sexes aren’t fungible.
A: Sex has nothing to do with gender.
Me: And yet, it is about SEX when trans-id’d males end up in womens/girls spaces. Here are examples … [many links provided]
A: that rarely happens and real trans women don’t behave that way.
Me: Ok, give me an objective test or standard so we can separate out the “sincere” trans from the predators
A: F**k off, terf.
“It seems everything is about them. No one else’s needs matter.”
Again…from late 1970’s/1980’s children’s TV shows:
There were people who tried to point out to adults and such that this was a really, really stupid thing to be telling small, impressionable children. But those people were told to shut up.
people I knew in the 70’s and 80’s who pretended to be liberal or moderate but who always found ways to deny or minimize or excuse the tyranny and horrors in communist regimes
That one. They’re pretty much the same people.
That one. They’re pretty much the same people.
Indeed. As a matter of fact, one of those supposedly conservative-libertarian “trans” apologists has an amazing ability to find value in contemporary visions of the glorious communist future as well as to find reasons to not condemn and turn away from communists who actively work on behalf of Antifa rioters–not just the Antifa loudmouths but the actual rioters. And a number of his friends seem to agree with him.
But those people were told to shut up.
Our society is far too tolerant of pernicious fools.
That one. They’re pretty much the same people.
Via Prager U
Religion tells children they are imperfect and must work on themselves.
Secularism tells children they are perfect and should work on everyone else.
That’s the sort of observation that explains white-hot liberal hatred of Dennis Prager.
Re ‘the people I knew in the 70’s and 80’s who pretended to be liberal or moderate,’ spot on, pst314. Complete dishonesty within that in-group is a clearly established trait. As an aside, and not as schadenfreude, but the all about me mentality that is endemic in the progressive and trans activist culture is also endemic in a large subset of feminist ideology. The ‘sad’ fact is, women are no longer the top oppressed folks in the progressive schema, the leftists have fabricated new victim classes.
Related to something that came up in the previous cycle of comments:
So, the duck flies in ever-tightening circles, round and round, till it flies up its own ass, and disappears, with a resounding Pop!
Pop!: https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/08/06/peak-berkeley-protesters-halt-low-income-housing-construction-to-demand-n487830
women are no longer the top oppressed folks in the progressive schema, the leftists have fabricated new victim classes
Karma’s a bitch.
berkeley-protesters-halt-low-income-housing-construction
This is going to continue until there are brutal, violent consequences for this kind of behaviour. We’ve passed the point where even legal consequences are a deterrent. When every single one of these protestors gets kettled, trampled by horses, charged, summarily convicted and imprisoned for five years then maybe their compatriots will think twice.
@pst314:
You paraphrased Rod Dreher’s Law of Merited Impossibility! “That will never happen, and when it does, you bigots will deserve it.”
I am of the mind now that the only thing that will work against the MtF trannies is society-wide shunning of spaces where they are allowed. These men–the autogynephiles–are aggressive bullies who secretly (or not-so-secretly) loathe women. They hate women for being what they can never be–and their sexual gratification depends on society perceiving them and treating them as women. And men in pursuit of sexual gratification will do almost anything (monkeypox, anyone?).
An acquaintance of mine was married to a man (ex-cop) who decided he was female. He went so far as to have an orchiectomy. Suddenly, with the loss of all that testosterone (and probably libido), he decided he was a man again. Funny how that works.
Anyway–the shunning. When everyone else abandons the spaces these a-holes claim, leaving them alone, then we will win. Sadly, most women lack the courage to sacrifice their own short-term interests in pursuit of this more important goal. See, for instance, the swimmers who got in the pool with the Thomas man. If every female had refused to compete with him, what would have happened?
The real problem with that sculpture is that it is just hideous. How did we get from Michelangelo’s David to that?
“It’s day 4 of law school…”, and this gal has been skipping classes, apparently, though I have a suggestion for where she should go next.
If that sculpture has an erect penis, then the sculptor has no sense of scale. Plus the people complaining have never actually seen a live erect penis.
You paraphrased Rod Dreher’s Law of Merited Impossibility
I haven’t read as much Rod Dreher as I should. Perhaps this will nudge me to do so soon.
If every female had refused to compete with him, what would have happened?
Very good point. That would have been very effective propaganda. Shunning is deserved. Also disrespectful invitations to FOAD and humiliating mockery. But don’t forget the non-trans supporters of these…persons.
The real problem with that sculpture is that it is just hideous. How did we get from Michelangelo’s David to that?
Insufficient mockery and excessive tolerance.
If every female had refused to compete with him, what would have happened?
They’re in good company.
We didn’t love freedom enough.
That describes a lot of my libertarian friends. Or they love holding fashionable opinions more than they love freedom.
We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
That does indeed apply to many “smart” Americans. And they have less excuse than Solzhenitsyn’s friends, because they have had many decades to watch what the Left did here as it acquired power–and how it acquired that power.
If every female had refused to compete with him, what would have happened?
They’d have been censured by whatever their version of the NCAA is, kicked off the team for refusing to compete and subsequently lost their athletic scholarships.
Which I’m okay with. The only reason women’s sports exists at all at the collegiate level is massive Title IX lawsuits that force colleges to redirect funding from sports that bring in money to sports that don’t. As I said, karma’s a bitch.
“It’s day 4 of law school…”
The young lady in question apparently finds it “hard… to figure out why people keep seeing me as a female.” The short answer is that those people probably aren’t dysmorphic, and their perceptions aren’t wildly distorted. And consequently, continual pretending is a bit of a chore, and an insult, and an unfair thing to demand.
I say apparently because the whole thing seems disingenuous, as these things so often are. I suspect our bearer of umbrage knows full well why those around her see her as a woman.
Also, that hair.
I’m discovering that Twitter’s character limit is quite irritating.
#GasBag
“hard… to figure out why people keep seeing me as a female.”
I’ll go with “claiming to be a man but putting less effort into looking or acting like one than some of the Weimar lesbians*.
*(Definite band name)