Vote For The One With The Mental Health Problems
Canada’s interim Green Party leader, a dysmorphic woman who expects everyone else to refer to her as “he” and “they,” but also sometimes “she,” apparently at random, was recently rendered tearful and distraught by an electronic caption:
On Saturday, September 3, at a public media event kicking off the Green Party of Canada’s leadership contest, the wrong pronouns were presented beside my name in a way that I could not change myself. I acknowledge that mistakes can happen and the need to learn from them. What happened here impacted me much more than a slip of the tongue. It made me feel hurt and isolated at a moment that should have been filled with inspiration and anticipation.
You see, a captioning oversight – or if you prefer, an accidental acknowledgment of reality – is part of a “system of oppression” and therefore a basis for a grand project of social correction. One that must address the seemingly bottomless sorrows of “Black, Indigenous and racialised people and 2SLGBTQIA+ people,” and thereby prevent a fearless politician from feeling “hurt and isolated.” “I am assumed male nearly always by strangers,” says Ms Kuttner, which, frankly, seems a tad implausible. We’re also told that perceiving her as a man, not a woman, requires “effort,” an effort that is expected by Ms Kuttner – which would appear closer to the truth, if not entirely consonant with the previous claim.
In earlier interviews, Ms Kuttner made it clear – if clear is the word – that while “they/them” are generally safe bets, pronoun-wise, “There are days that she/her is accurate. There are days that he/him is accurate.” And,
I sometimes write all of them: they/them, she/her, he/him, because I don’t care.
And also,
Honestly, my relationship of my gender identity is really between me and myself, and I don’t find different pronouns very grating, so it’s perfectly fine if people say anything about me… For me in particular, I don’t really mind.
Sentiments somewhat at odds with the press release quoted above. And because complications must multiply:
There will be days where I’m not always even aware of what my gender is.
The writers of on-screen captions are doubtless taking notes.
“I don’t like when politics is focussed on identity,” says Ms Kuttner. While informing the nation, via YouTube videos, about her own list of identities, her pansexual appetites, her PTSD, her variable pronouns, and the need to “look at pretty much every piece of policy from a gender-diverse lens.”
Via Jonathan Kay.
Update:
In the comments, Das adds,
These people are engaged in a Civilisational Shit-Test.
There is, I think, an expectation of deference and indulgence – of even ludicrous claims being left unpoked – on account of belonging to a Designated Victim Group, which, among the woke, is something close to a sacred status.
Via Twitter, Ms Kuttner is still claiming that her being “misgendered” by an onscreen caption – i.e., being identified correctly, albeit unintentionally – is “oppression” and an issue of “safety.” And she frames even the merest particle of pushback – the tweet by Jonathan Kay, linked above – as evidence of her victimhood and proof of “patriarchy.” Apparently, even one slightly mocking tweet constitutes being “singled out” and “hated.” “Dealing with hate… shouldn’t be necessary,” says she.
Given Ms Kuttner’s, shall we say, sensitivity to any sign of demurral – even a single tweet – and given her willingness to frame what was essentially eye-rolling as some inexcusable act of “hate,” as if she, a mere politician, were being assailed from all sides, one does have to wonder what she would do, or try to do, if given the power of the state.
[ Thumbs through Bible fruitlessly ]
Pst,
Probably you have the wrong bible. Here, let me help.
Book of Daniel, chapter 15, verse 33: The first shall be last, and the last shall be first, and the middle permuted artistically. And thus it shall be, as it always was, and will be forever.
Sadly, verse 34: Until shouts be heard, and long tradition abandoned, and the right order be found.
Hope that helps.
Ccscientist, so, you don’t live near San Francisco, do you?
Daniel, sheesh. You can’t write your own holy book. It just isn’t the done thing.
In case all y’all are wondering, I’m ill today, and wasting my time with all you lowlifes. By rights I should be looking at 1099s and K-1s.
Daniel, sheesh. You can’t write your own holy book. It just isn’t the done thing.
“And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, “O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade…”
You can’t write your own holy book. It just isn’t the done thing.
Worked for Joseph Smith.
Doctors have long had members who were indifferent to the impacts on patients. They infected (black) men with syphilis and didn’t tell them or treat them to find out what would happen back in the 60s (?). They performed way too many lobotomies. Forced sterilization was a big thing for tens of thousands of low IQ and mental patients. Gastric bypass surgery is dangerous (I know someone whose large intestine died and is on special food paste for life) and patients often don’t realize it. Abortion can lead to sterility. For a long time if someone was old and had cancer they told the family but not them.
The infecting men with syphilis was more a function of racism, akin to Nazi experimentation which obviously itself was horrible but in the context of such a mindset not as bad. But I would say those people were part of a mentally ill society. Yet something even in its context was kept hidden from the greater part of society. The forced sterilization is wrong but well within the limits of a society struggling to deal with a real problem. Lobotomies were an honest attempt to try to help the mentally ill. Overused, as you say, if a justifiable method at all, but in the realm of consideration. Gastric bypass, I was not aware of the consequences you describe. While I do know two people that have had it done, one was becoming considerably overweight. I thought it was a stupid treatment and an extreme action but for some people, as with lobotomies, it’s within the realm of reasonable debate. Abortion is another issue that comes down to where one believes the line is in regard to when human life begins.
All of these treatments you describe, aside from the obviously wrong syphilis thing and abortion, are treatments for people with very clear cut problems or conditions. I may not agree with all of those arguments but they are for the most part made in earnest. Cutting otherwise healthy bodies up, butchering even children and/or chemically assaulting their growth potential, in a manner that is irreversible and knowing full well that the end result will be nothing like the presumed goal requires a much greater disassociation with reality. Putting the hermaphrodite issue aside, if these butchers had the potential to come anywhere close to truly converting a sexually functional man into a sexually functional woman, or vice versa, I could see an argument here. But not only is the resulting person not who/what they expect to be coming out of surgery, but the process is quite obviously irreversible. Anyone capable of performing such surgeries should understand these things. Unless they’re mad.
As a Canadian, I’d consider voting for her. The other choices after all are more Trudeau, the NDP (socialist), and the Conservatives who are not really conservative at all.
I learned when Rob Ford was my Mayor that having a complete lunatic in charge is at least amusing. Might as well be entertained as we steam for the iceberg.
No, Daniel. To be authentically holy, your book has to be dictated by the lips of God, direct to your pen. Not “invented” like Smith’s, or an epistolary novella like that poseur, Saul of Tarsus.
But since I’m a trusting guy, if you tell me that’s how your book happened, I’ll believe you completely. It would be churlish to doubt your word.
I’ll even help launch your religion, for, say, a 10% cut? Like the Big Guy?
Do we have a deal? You write, I market? It’ll be the next Amazon, for sure! Have your people call my people.
These people are engaged in a Civilizational Shit-Test
On Twitter, Ms Kuttner is still insisting that her being “misgendered” by an onscreen caption – i.e., identified correctly, albeit unintentionally – is “oppression” and an issue of “safety.” And she frames even the merest particle of pushback – the tweet by Jonathan Kay, linked above – as evidence of her victimhood and proof of “patriarchy.” Apparently, even one slightly mocking tweet constitutes being “singled out” and “hated.” “Dealing with hate… shouldn’t be necessary,” says she.
Clearly, this is someone who should be given political power and lots of taxpayer money.
Apparently, even one slightly mocking tweet constitutes being “singled out” and “hated.” “Dealing with hate… shouldn’t be necessary,” says she.
Mockery will be banned under a Green government.
Mockery will be banned under a Green government.
Heh. Well, given Ms Kuttner’s, shall we say, sensitivity to any sign of demurral – even a single, slightly mocking tweet – and given her willingness to frame what was essentially eye-rolling as some inexcusable act of “hate,” as if she, a mere politician, were being assailed from all sides, one does have to wonder what she would do, or try to do, if given the power of the state.
I see your UK health minister with unsure pronouns
I don’t think there’s any doubt about Therese’s womanhood; she’s getting stick for being a big lass who likes a drink and a cigar, thus not “healthy” enough to be Secretary of State for Health. That the sneers come mainly from supporters of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, many of whom would in other cases be at the forefront of denunciation of “body shaming” speaks volumes. Unlike most of her Parliamentary colleagues, she has a PhD in Chemistry, so hopefully is better equipped to recognise woo.
I just came out on social media as “3S” because I like Negronis.
And here’s yet another member of our vibrant “T” community just trying to share the love. Don’t judge, people!
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/transgender-freak-caught-trying-to-have-sex-with-13-year-old-girl/
I believe everyone loves having a whiny little bitch leading their government. I know I do.
her willingness to frame what was essentially eye-rolling as some inexcusable act of “hate,”
That.
That.
The whole thing is bizarre. It’s not just the narcissism of it, or the shameless dishonesty. It’s the replies from her followers, all cooing and dutifully credulous.
[ Thumbs through Bible fruitlessly ]
Daniel 15:33: Gather up your plowshares, and beat them into helicopter blades
Revised version: thing big
Daniel 15:33: Gather up your plowshares, and beat them into wind turbine blades
ThinK big
[ Sounds of tomorrow’s Ephemera being compiled. ]
[ Also, potatoes being peeled. ]
Daniel 15:33: Gather up your plowshares, and beat them into wind turbine blades
You can’t throw Commies off of wind turbines.
Heretic.
To paraphrase what our host has said on several occasions, there is something terribly wrong with a teacher who feels it necessary to expose their captive audience of students to sexual perversion.
And THIS quote from grooming teacher “Flint”:
Argh.
[ Sounds of tomorrow’s Ephemera being compiled. ]
And I was about to call 999.
You can’t throw Commies off of wind turbines.
But you can chain them to pedal powered generators.
The Queen is dead. Long live the King:
https://twitter.com/RoyalFamily/status/1567928275913121792
The Queen is dead.
My deepest condolences to my cousins across the pond. Elizabeth was a remarkable woman.
Sure you can throw commies off wind turbines. There’s even a poetic appropriateness to it.
I DID call. But I called 911, and they were not helpful. Apparently they don’t operate on the right-hand side of the pond. Lame.
My deepest condolences to my cousins across the pond. Elizabeth was a remarkable woman.
Seconded. They don’t make leaders like her anymore, to our detriment.
A good sheila, as a commenter at Insty opined.
*doffs cap in salute to our cousins across the pond*
God save the king, because he needs the help.
Sorry to hear about the Queen. Even sorrier when considering the next in line. Pity y’all can’t vote on that or something. Not that we over here should talk…
“I’ve been wondering lately why it’s so hard for so many people in the general public to trust educators about education – the thing that we studied and do every day. It’s been so long since they were in school, I’m wondering if they have extreme or outdated views about what’s happening in the classroom,” Flint said.
I am so bloody sick of these people. And many of them are friends and relatives. Conservative…”conservative” friends and relatives. Saw a story earlier today where teachers are upset that Florida is making an effort to hire people without education degrees and this is getting played as ignorance. Yet these teachers are so bloody ignorant as to how the real world works , what real world employers are looking for, and even fundamental economics. Some cannot even balance their own checkbooks.
My deepest condolences to my cousins across the pond
Hey, she’s our Queen too, although her passing will affect us even less, I suspect. The Office of the Governor-General isn’t even answering questions about what we’re going to do. We probably don’t know.
Florida is making an effort to hire people without education degrees
As someone who has to do it a fair bit to junior employees, I’ll acknowledge that teaching is a distinct skill and not a simple one to acquire. And I only have to do it to people who are highly motivated and getting paid to be there. Of course, education degrees don’t teach teaching skills so it’s a bit of a moot point. I do hope that these prospective teachers are getting some kind of six month program in classroom management and where the limits of their ability to discipline the brats are, because any scandal will be jumped on as a way to protect the guild monopoly.
Since DeSantis has proved so good at punching back, he should announce that any attempt to interfere with this program will be met with a state-level investigation into sexual abuse of students by teachers in public schools, and a sentencing law that any female teacher found guilty must be sentenced in line with other similar statutory rape cases.
I do hope that these prospective teachers are getting some kind of six month program in classroom management and where the limits of their ability to discipline the brats are, because any scandal will be jumped on as a way to protect the guild monopoly.
On one or two points I do sympathize with teachers. The complete breakdown in discipline being a big one. But many teachers, especially those we have today, are significantly responsible for this situation. Way too tolerant of the kids who create problems, trying to befriend them, get on their good side, even schmoozing them. But the worst was disciplining children who fight back under the “all violence is wrong” BS belief. The other point of sympathy is their workload. But as someone who has made considerable effort to assist teachers, either via mentoring or volunteer tutoring, only to be met with disinterest or avoidance, combined with the undeniable fact that teachers are overwhelmingly women, I get the impression that this overworked thing is more a function of the typical female martyr complex than a real issue. They do not honestly want any help and this objection to brining non-education majors into the profession is a big indicator to me. I may have mentioned here in the past that a friend/ex-coworker engineer of mine, very sharp guy, very good teacher and son of science teacher has had a hell of a time trying to break into the profession. The administrators and such keep throwing up roadblocks or fail to return messages or IMNSHO purposely obfuscate the process.
It’s absolutely guild behaviour, yes. Here in Ontario the teachers’ unions effectively own the government, so it manifests differently; there are constant demands to hire more teachers, reduce class sizes, create new junior kindergarten grades because more teachers means more union dues means more loyal footsoldiers for the lefter-wing parties.
My deepest condolences to my cousins across the pond. Elizabeth was a remarkable woman.
Mine, too.