Please Ignore The Sirens And The Flashing Red Light
In other news:
Grown men in children’s clothes hanging around schools is not acceptable.
The lady quoted above is referring to this ongoing adventure in sensitivity and tolerance:
A man in Essex county, England, is causing concern amongst locals, especially parents, after being spotted loitering near children’s schools while wearing a schoolgirl uniform. In response to complaints, Essex Police is insisting the man “does not pose a risk,” and has warned the public against sharing photos of him on social media.
Quite how the lack of risk was determined has not been made clear by the police. And as one might imagine, many parents, and schoolgirls, aren’t entirely thrilled to find said gentleman on the bus used by the girls to get to and from school, and loitering near their school, repeatedly, while wearing their school’s uniform, complete with stockings, a pleated skirt, and what appears to be a wig.
Consider this an open thread.
Oh that’s okay then. Whew.
Well, that sort of brushes against the nub of it, as it were.
It is, I suppose, possible that the man in question has dementia or something and is only inadvertently behaving in ways that overlap almost entirely with how one might expect a deranged predator to behave.
But as noted in the linked piece, regardless of whether the skirt-wearing gentleman does in fact pose a threat – and again, such behaviour is hardly reassuring – there’s also the issue of what is in effect being normalised. I.e., the degree to which conventional, and quite sensible, concerns are being deflected and inhibited, seemingly for fear of causing offence.
How many women need to be victimised before perverts like this are taken seriously?
That.
there’s also the issue of what is in effect being normalised. I.e., the degree to which conventional, and quite sensible, concerns are being deflected and inhibited, seemingly for fear of causing offence.
The Rotherham child rape scandal comes to mind. The UK police seem to be much more worried about offending favored minorities than about protecting the innocent and vulnerable.
It does seem to be a theme, on several fronts. “Turn off the alarm, lower your defences. Everything is fine.”
Despite evidence to the contrary.
Essex Police have come out and said he’s not a risk and no-one is to publish photos (which would presumably identify him as opposed to some other Essex based outdoor over-60 schoolgirl autogynephile).
95% of Twitter comments say f you, it’s our kids safety that’s at stake.
if the police back down it sets a precedent. If they dig their heels in and start inviting parents to attend voluntary interviews it’s really going to kick off. A swift and strongly worded warning might still prevent a really nasty incident taking place.
Whither are thou common sense?
A licensed counselor, who prefers person first language, whatever the hell that is, has thoughts about “pedophiles” (air quotes in original).
If they dig their heels in and start inviting parents to attend voluntary interviews it’s really going to kick off.
Those “voluntary interviews” are an effective way to make enemies.
We are no longer allowed to warn each other of danger, lest criminals get their feelings hurt.
By the way, the movie “The Purge” in which all crimes were legal for a day, was as prophetic as 1984: that is what happened during the riots of 2020 in the US. You could burn down buildings at your leisure with no risk. Also, they prosecute pro-life protesters but not those fire-bombing churches and pregnancy counseling pro-life centers. Not a single arrest in dozens of attacks.
I see little reason to defer to anyone who stipulates their pronouns, or anyone who wears Far Side glasses. The two together pretty much scream Clown Show Incoming™.
On r/trans, “the Reddit home for all things transgender,” a request is made:
Via Eliza Mondegreen, who has some thoughts.
Clown Show Incoming™.
Band name.
All of them. And it still won’t be taken seriously, because feelings. Or some such.
How it all ends, not with a bang, but with a swish…
In an infinite universe anything is possible; it all becomes a matter of probability.
And it seems quite improbable that he’s anything but perverse.
I suppose it depends on whether you think children – in this case, young girls – should be encouraged to accept the sights mentioned above as somehow normal and in no way hazardous.
And if that scenario sounds outlandish and implausible, it may be worth talking to some of the women who’d rather not share their toilets and changing rooms and rape shelters with mentally ill men.
Even massed ranks of semi-literate drag queens and the infamous “Rainbow dildo butt monkey” don’t seem quite so threatening when compared to the old perv in the photos.
Of course it is. I do note that when fat men dressed as women win various “beauty” contests, women are the first, loudest, and longest to applaud.
I do laugh, tho…
As open thread is in effect, I’ll post this here….Republicans, what are they good for? Absolutely nothing…I’ll say it again…
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/woke-agenda-survives-these-house-republicans-are-sticking-with-diversity-and-inclusion/
(via PowerLine)
It does seem like we have a lot of insane clowns forming groups to force their own rules and laws upon the rest of us. There’s a band name…
Not the Balkans but rather Lebanon.
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How many women need to be victimised before perverts like this are taken seriously?
As long as the Trans/Queer cult hold the hierarchal position above women, the captured institutions will always defer to them. Any woman or girl who makes a claim against a trans will be further punished. We’ve seen it before, we’ll see it again.
Best these families starve the school by withdrawing from it completely.
trans affirmation (and other self-congratulations): one should feel good about real world accomplishments like education, work, helping others, overcoming your weaknesses, being on time (oh, I know…), being a good parent. But adults know that even among your friends praise comes rarely. Most of my friends can’t relate to my work accomplishments and make at least as much $ as I do. I have gotten the most praise not for that stuff but for making deviled eggs for parties. ahahaha absure I know. Even people you help will forget after a while. This need for constant praise is really immature and neurotic (can we still use that word?).
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How many women need to be victimised before perverts like this are taken seriously?
This question and Darleen’s response to it made me think of this photo for some reason:
https://twitter.com/ThompsonItIsHe/status/1605490360976711680/photo/1
I’ve never felt very comfortable receiving praise. Most efforts that mean anything to me are generally too complicated to properly discern specifics. One thing that would amaze me at work was how seldom the truly difficult things would be rewarded but the trivial, easy, yet more highly visible things would result in bonuses, etc. I found it rather embarrassing. One thing rather than praise that I would appreciate is when trying to do something, voluntarily, just for general broader purposes at work or in the community would be not having to take crap for it.
Meanwhile, here’s a whole smorgasbord of batshit craziness:
<a href=“https://archive.is/luGr9”>The Edinburgh Trans Manifesto</a>
Oh, bollocks. What did I do there to mess it up?
Oh, bollocks. What did I do there to mess it up?
I think “used html code tags in the comment box” is the answer. The new comment box lets you apply the formatting without using tags, and I think links can be pasted into the comment box directly without any extra formatting (although I’m sure there’s a way to pretty them up – I haven’t played with it yet).
Importunate beggars aren’t they.
“Then they shoved the taco in my mouth while yelling ‘This is ORKIN country!’ “
Meanwhile, here’s a whole smorgasbord of batshit craziness:
Just a little anxious, and a little psychotic then?
OK, let’s see how that works out.
Got it – flint knapping classes first for the anti-colonial scalpels, then feel free to “research” on each other. No using sealing silicone for breast implants, though, that would be colonial, perhaps berry filled beaver bladders?
I think the bozos who wrote this are too anxious, too psychotic, too neurotic, and too narcissistic to make decisions of any type other than whether to inhale or exhale.
Reading the hyperventilating list of demands, I’m not sure its authors and signees should be trusted with keys or scissors.
Apparently, the authors will put “an end to borders, prisons and police,” and “will heal the damage of borders and states, government and authority, capitalism and imperialism.” The word heal crops up quite a lot. And they’ll do all this healing by mutilating themselves, whenever they wish, in any ingenious ways they devise, according to whim, entirely at others’ expense, and then mutilating themselves again, and again, until the buzzing in their heads stops.
…and they will do all this healing by mutilating themselves.
Yes- when I read this screed of utter arsehattery I couldn’t help but be reminded of Clive Barker’s “Cenobites”, and this lot seem about as cuddly.
Trying to fix a software problem by smashing up the hardware.
Yes- when I read this screed of utter arsehattery…
Slightly off topic, but speaking of utter asshattery and body issues;
Ladies and gentlemen of all genders, are you troubled by Fat Fold Funk? Well fear flies when you buy our brand new Fabulous Fat Fold Nappies! (one size fits all, soon to be in mega and infinifat!)
Be sure to visit the Fat Self Care Shop where for a low, low 150 dollars you can have a one-on-one session to reaffirm it is OK to be the size of a barrage balloon.
“mutilating themselves”–they demand the right to surgery to reverse earlier surgery, but once your organs are removed they cannot be put back. Lots of claims to their own skill at healing. Objection! Facts not in evidence!
An awful lot of demands for free stuff too.
No consideration for the rights of doctors not to do irreversible harm to patients who may be mentally ill so they don’t get sued and so their oath (what is left of it) remain intact.
If you need fat-fold-nappies, then fat-fold-nappies are the least of your worries. At my local grocer, they have mobility carts. I have never seen a skinny person using one, not even elderly. Being obese is deadly but they want to focus on social disapproval. FFS. IRL no one cares. No one says anything to an obese person. The fact that they cannot fit in a car or walk is not society’s fault.
…but once your organs are removed they cannot be put back.
There is already talk among the “trans” community about uterus swapping wherein a uterus from a “trans” man is transplanted into a “trans” woman
Given the insanity of the other “demands” (yeah, or what?) for any amount of surgery, I can see this lot wanting to set up a subscription service for pieces parts – “Sure you can rent my uterus but under the EULA, if I want it back or if you fail to pay, I get it back”.
Completely off topic, why have you lot over in Blighty not told us over here of Philomena Cunk?
“Do their heads grow physically bigger?”
Which, as you can imagine, reminded me of this.
“Do their heads grow physically bigger?”
Her delivery and the piss take production of BBC documentaries are perfect.
“Do their heads grow physically bigger?”
Which, as you can imagine, reminded me of this.
And this.
David: This is OT, but it might interest you. (I know nothing about it.)
At long last, no one will take offense at the name of this street.
I too know nothing about it. Reading comics online always struck me as unappealing, even when I read comics.
Look Stan, or Loretta, the best we can do is give you a box for the fetus.
From my non-scientific observations it would seem about 50% of cart users are obese, the rest made up of the skinny (generally handicapped in some fashion) & the elderly.
Philomena Cunk is right about the National Theatre.
our brand new Fabulous Fat Fold Nappies!
Even at healthy weights, human bodies have folds. How do we keep ’em stink-free and un-rashed?
Ms. Pinkhair (of course) should become acquainted with soap, water and daily showers.
Oh look, That Thing That Never Happens™ happens again:
https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1617884873774997509
How do we keep ’em stink-free and un-rashed?
With Freedom Wands™! as recommended at her site.
OK, I can see the point, (except for one tool for both washing and wiping one’s nether region), for actual infirmities that limit range of motion, but not just because one’s chubby arms can no longer reach a Brobdingnagian bum.
That aside, even if these things were made of the finest silk, and given that the chance of their being washed and replaced frequently is nigh nil, they are going to cause chafing and further risk of maceration, infection, and so on.
If someone wants to be so big they need a harbor tug to get out of bed, fine, but, not that anyone asked me, encouraging others to follow suit borders on criminal.
Not the Balkans but rather Lebanon.
@aelfheld
Thanks for bringing this to my attention – I almost certainly wouldn’t have seen it otherwise.
Dalyrymple is on good form in this one (italics added).
And this, too:
It does, however, fit with a fashionable ethos, seen on many fronts, in which one isn’t supposed to acknowledge the obvious root of the problem, but merely accommodate its consequences as they multiply.
It occurs to me that it must be quite surreal to be in court and hear supposedly serious and clever people referring to the man who raped you as if he were a woman. As if no objections – quite vehement objections – could conceivably be raised. As if it couldn’t possibly be taken as a grotesque insult.
But hey, thank goodness it never, ever happens.
https://youtu.be/bEWO1_-2iRU
Hygiene advice for tubbies.
“Be wary of lone policemen, warns London head teacher”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64344935
Just imagine the uproar if a senior policeman was to suggest that parents should be concerned about certain teachers having easily manipulated children in their care.
berry filled beaver bladders
Band name. Obviously.
Sure you can rent my uterus but under the EULA, if I want it back or if you fail to pay, I get it back
Repo: A Genetic Opera was a warning, not an instruction manual.
(I know nothing about it.)
I do. Media companies are increasingly trying to move everything to a subscription-based service where you don’t own independent copies of anything. It’s worked for television, movies and video games and they’re moving on to books.
What’s increasingly happening is everyone is moving to digital piracy. Fed up with localizers inserting their own agenda into subtitles, anime consumers are going back to pirated fansubs (for reasons, this is a massive cultural shift in the anime community). Comic book readers are turning to torrents of scans of old comics rather than read the new stuff. Fans of nerd media are hate-watching by grabbing pirate rips so as to deny the streaming companies money or metrics.
In the case of Comixology, it’s really just corporate cost-cutting. Comixology isn’t where manga fans get their manga, and the average inner-city bodega makes more money than the entire Western comics industry right now. Amazon knows they’re trashing the company, they just don’t care because it’s costing them money anyway.
Well, that was pretty much the extent of my ‘digital comics’ interest, such as it was. Not piracy, just installing an official Marvel app to revisit things I remembered reading as a small child. But the app was pretty awful and I uninstalled it after a few days. The inconvenience of the digital format soon overwhelmed any residual nostalgia.
Reading comics online always struck me as unappealing, even when I read comics.
You do, however, know vastly more than I do.
I own a few old Mobius volumes that I bought in the 80’s. And two comics in ebook form–those Mister Invincible comics that I found about here. Those two ebooks look pretty good on my computer monitor.
That. As the cool kids say.
The inconvenience of the digital format soon overwhelmed any residual nostalgia
You pretty much need a 10″ tablet, and those are heavy to hold for any length of time.
What I enjoy about the pirate scans is that they’re scans of the originals and so have the ad pages and the letter columns. For copyright reasons Marvel & DC can’t reprint those so they leave them out of the colour-corrected hi-res re-issues. It’s charming to see a young E. Nelson Bridwell, or Forrest J. Ackerman[1] writing in to the editors to talk about superheroes.
[1] Or a fifteen year old George R. R. Martin, who of course complained about the lack of realistic violence
Well, should winning the pub quiz ever hinge on knowing who illustrated the last issue of the 1970s Mister Miracle series, I could be of some use.
So I guess there’s that.
The Other Half is amused that I have a Gaming Cushion™ to support my tablet while I’m looting artefacts from alien planets.
Dude is an altruistic inspiration to us all.
It occurs to me that it must be quite surreal to be in court and hear supposedly serious and clever people referring to the man who raped you as if he were a woman.
Thanks for the nightmares. I’ve drawn jury duty for the first time in 63 years starting the second week of February.
“The fart of the dog is CO2, carbon dioxide”, an intersectional climate scientist* has thoughts.
*([cough]bullshit[cough])
In the jury selection process, don’t be afraid to speak up. They hate when you ask reasonable questions. Especially if it might get the others in the jury pool to thinking. Also helps if you have ever been an engineer or in other similar logic/reason based profession, to emphasize that.
In the jury selection process, don’t be afraid to speak up. They hate when you ask reasonable questions.
Or you could keep quiet, lull the lawyers’ suspicions, and become the juror that lawyers hate.
Dude is an altruistic inspiration to us all.
Inspires me to be more intolerant.
I recently heard from a friend that The Society for Creative Anachronism (the American equivalent of the British Sealed Knot) is starting to have trouble with fanatics demanding DEI officers to enforce “greater openness” for “previously excluded” persons. I have no personal knowledge which is less than 30 years old, but my impression was always that all sorts of misfits and socially damaged people managed to find a place there (and in science fiction fandom) so I wonder just what sorts of “excluded” people they are talking about.