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Theodore Dalrymple finds himself denounced:
Apparently, they were protesting the presence of Helen Joyce, who was talking at a meeting in the Centre. She has written a best-selling book against the current transgender orthodoxies. It so happened that she was also a guest at the dinner, and told me that, but for the police presence, she would have felt in danger of physical assault. Anyhow, as my wife and I walked past the protesters as if we had hardly noticed them, somebody called out “Fascist!” I looked round to see who it might be, but saw no one, and then realised that the person referred to was me.
Dalrymple again, on habitual crime and perverse leniency:
He was brought to trial five months later—remarkably swift in current circumstances. He had 28 previous convictions for 69 offenses, including for violence against the police and others (sometimes while out on bail), car theft, and burglary, which means almost certainly, given the rate of detection, that he had committed closer to 690 offenses. He made no secret of his criminal mindset: he proudly showed pictures of knives and drugs on social media and boasted of the “boxing” he gave to his girlfriends.
And Christopher Rufo also finds himself denounced:
The publication in question, Scientific American, and its ideological capture and subsequent downward trajectory, has been noted here before.
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Shoulder reduction surgery: talk about permanent and potentially disfiguring.
That is the thing, all of these “affirming” surgical procedures are.
Shortening a clavicle in some cases of bad fractures (or poorly set) is a legitimate indication, but the lateral end is attached to the scapula, which can cause the whole shoulder to be in an abnormal position after.
Add on that the guy will still have a male rib cage which are generally wider than those of a female so you end up with an odd appearance, and downstream problems from the compromised biomechanics. Same problems with the lengthening procedure for “male affirming”.
Of course there is also hip widening, that doesn’t change the angle of the hip to the femur so one has to pretend to walk like a woman, and toe shortening because big man feet.
It is becoming absurd, Kyle’s knees were not supposed to be a suggestion.
…the lateral end is attached to the scapula…
“Dem Bones” started playing in my head bone after reading that.
For those who missed it, I’ll just leave this here.
For those who missed it, I’ll just leave this here.
Indeed.
“Transwomen are women and transmen are men, and we have the scars and bills to prove it!”
I blame breast implants for all of this. If you can get fake boobs, why not the rest? A slippery slope indeed. Of course fake boobs are a big deception of the men involved so it is lies all the way down.
Of course fake boobs are a big deception of the men involved…
Not really, unless they’re really good, and tastefully (ahem) understated. Most aren’t.
Stochastic terrorism…
They can’t use the word “random” because
…they mean different things? Part of the left’s successful takeover of academia is that they’ve not only destroyed respect for academia, but academics. You end up with a kind of redneck rejection of “book larnin'”. The Bezmenov demoralization proceeds as planned.
it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
That’s a corruption of a Brecht poem.
The problem with Pratchett isn’t so much that he smugly steals from greater thinkers to preach to adolescents; Heinlein does the same thing. It’s that so many of Pratchett’s readers never graduate beyond Pratchett and think he came up with this stuff himself.
Of course fake boobs are a big deception of the men involved…
Not really, unless they’re really good, and tastefully (ahem) understated. Most aren’t.
Have you conducted a scientific study?
Most aren’t.
I’d suggest the reason you think that is because you only recognize the bad boob jobs. The good ones, you can’t tell so you don’t know.
Have you conducted a scientific study?
Suggested methodology.
I blame breast implants for all of this. If you can get fake boobs, why not the rest?
There are many perfectly good indications for breast implants to include, but not limited to, correcting marked asymmetry/agenesis or reconstruction..
Most common plastic procedures, even if done for purely cosmetic reasons, are generally benign, don’t adversely affect function, and are antipodal to making an ersatz johnson out of a hunk of thigh or forearm, shortening bones, or otherwise doing the same as putting a body kit on a VW and trying to pass it off as a Ferrari.
Next up, Kyle’s dad is a dolphin.
That’s a corruption of a Brecht poem.
In fairness, judging by his plays, it’s difficult to stay awake long enough to absorb his pearls of wisdom. I got dragged to Mother Courage and Her Children twice and fell asleep both times.
The good ones, you can’t tell so you don’t know.
What he said, there have been a lot of advancements since the sub-glandular hemispheres (discussed here previously) and tear drop shaped sub-pectoral (or sub-muscular) which are almost indistinguishable, visually and otherwise, from natural.
[ Fetches notepad, pencil. ]
Will this be on the test?
I trust you guys know that I do not oppose boob jobs after cancer surgery or for weird deformations. And of course many of them look great. I was talking about camel noses under tents.
Will this be on the test?
I know, right. I have three plastic surgeon friends in my sphere of influence. So I’m well informed of all that’s new and interesting. Also my wife and her friends have been known to use these services from time to time, so it’s often a topic of conversation.
I learn so much from our little chats.
Will this be on the test?
Yes, 20 multiple choice and choice of 1 of 3 essays.
I was talking about camel noses under tents.
They usually look more like grapefruits and cantaloupes.
I was talking about camel noses under tents.
Though there has been augmentation documented for over a century (though the results less than stellar in the long run), modern implants have been around for around 60 years,. OTOH, the first recorded “male to female” procedure with phalloplasty was in the ’40s so the horse and cart can be argued forever.
Regardless, pinning the recent wholesale “affirming” procedures on the fact that a couple guys got the bright idea to put silicone in bags in the ’60s instead of just pumping it into the breast (a previous technigue) would be a bit of a stretch.
I blame Mae West.
I blame Mae West.
I blame Wagner.
I agree with Iowahawk.
Another variety of defective people destroying our culture.
For too many of my geek acquaintances cannot see what is wrong there.
Another variety of defective people destroying our culture.
Ah yes, the abomination that is the ROM. Toronto has such an inferiority complex, by endeavouring to be “world class” it falls prey to this kind of charlatan architecture. Some of the interior spaces that resulted are ill fit to display the museum’s extensive collection.
Have you conducted a scientific study?
This may bring a whole new meaning to ‘double blind study’.
I’ll get my coat…
Many trials will be required to reach any firm conclusions.
And don’t forget peer review.
Well Porter Wagoner gave us Dolly Parton, so…?
Old and cold: Preferred pronouns.
The hot new thing: Preferred adjectives.
Old and cold: Preferred pronouns.
The hot new thing: Preferred adjectives.
I can’t tell if it’s a piss-take.
We live in unhinging times, so it can be hard to tell. It did occur to me that maybe the parent, the one seeking pre-approval for adjectives, could have been indulging in some elaborate wind-up, one that passed undetected by its target. Or maybe the anecdote is a fiction, a self-flattering fantasy. Again, it’s hard to tell. As the archives here illustrate, a thing being farcical doesn’t mean it can’t happen.
But either way, it must be quite strange to go through every day with your own “identity” foregrounded, forever in mind and endlessly referred to, and always craving an affirmation that is at best a polite lie. And with unending deference and flattery as an aspiration, an ideal.
I think we’ll give that baby a post of its own.
Comments that-a-way.
I’ll get my coat…
I can’t tell if it’s a piss-take.
Isn’t that Poe’s Law?