Answers On A Postcard, Please
A question regarding this, and many others like it:
I wonder whether this absurdity is going to continue indefinitely, stretching into the future, beyond my lifetime. Or will it peter out, like any fad, and then be remembered with some embarrassment?
Via Karl.
Consider this an open thread.
“That’s ma’am!”
All these questions are best answered by your local Harvard graduate. /sarcasm
8 uses of ‘she’ and not a woman in sight.
All these questions are best answered by your local Harvard graduate.
Wowsers, we are talking about a diligent and productive student here.
I guess this was an applied practices field trip then?
My wife identified him as Compo straight away.
I also note that the Harvard Doctorate student has spent 7 years on the programme so far. Did he have to learn to read first?
It’s worth pondering the subtle differences between the BBC’s original post and their updated version.
Why it’s almost as if they were ashamed of their comic gaslighting.
They breed women tough in Yorkshire.
I hope that when it fades it is met with much more than embarrassment, but with very costly lawsuits.
Farnsworth: He is a Harvard graduate, which I take to mean an undergraduate degree.
Which group appears to consist of himself.
Farnsworth: He is a Harvard graduate…
Yes, harvard undergraduate, seven years a
slave“PhD candidate” at CUNY.Meanwhile, back to the original question…
Yes, indefinitely, beyond your lifetime, unknown, depends on how old one is. It will go away, as they all do, the question is how.
Best case it dies down, along with climate hysteria and all the rest, and people look back at it like avocado appliances and shag carpeting with embarrassment and wonderment how it happened.
Worst case, not unlike the Wiemar Republic, it goes out with a bang taking large swathes with it.
Worst. Best.
Potehto. Potarto.
Potehto. Potarto.
Sorry – like the demise of the Wiemar Republic, taking large swathes of the civilized world with it.
It will go on until people take an active effort in ending it. The first step in such an active effort when confronted with such idiocy is to speak up in no uncertain terms.
The first step in such an active effort when confronted with such idiocy is to speak up in no uncertain terms.
On that note…
No reason to think it will anything but peaceful.
If my trans daughter suddenly said she wanted to visit after living for about a year now in Coloardo, as she has been . . . I would discourage her. For my own safety. I would like to think she wouldn’t go this far but honestly? I don’t know. I ahve seen her Tumblr account where she has reposted others’ posts about “punching a TERF.” She knows my position.
Good Lord. My sympathies. I would not trust her, either.
I prefer to have nothing to do with such people, but it’s harder when they are kin.
It is possible to push back. A few years ago in the US the head of Goya foods (mostly mexican foods) did something like contribute to Trump or say a nice thing about trump and the Left went nuts, boycotting his foods. Conservatives set out to buy more Goya, and overall sales went up 40% (or such). When some Target stores initiated all-sex restrooms (and not single user either) moms initiated a punishing boycott. In a school district that has actual child porn in the libraries (illustrations of sex involving kids) some parents plan to file police reports. but you can’t be passive
From the link:
And there you go. This is how it’s done. One man says “No.” Were many other men/women before him defeated? Yes. But they weren’t destroyed? Not like countless others of previous generations who sacrificed much, much more on whose backs we now stand…ok, we grovel but we could stand…if we tried. History isn’t like in the movies or like some ABC After School Special. Things don’t just work out for the best because someone took a stand. It never works out for that first guy. Or the guy after him. Or the guy after that. But somewhere, at some point down the line some guy who does take a stand gets the attention such that the system caves and they write the book and make the movie about that guy…or gal…or whatever. Whoever him/her/them/it/xeself was never the point. Most of the real heroes who made that day necessary, as the wise Yogi might say, are never known.
“Why are you nervous?”
I would imagine that the boy is nervous because, like the other children, he’s probably been levered into a bizarre situation by pretentious, needy parents who are desperate to signal their own fashionable pieties. The boy may also be nervous because on some level he’s registering what is commonly a warning sign. The spheres of transgenderism, drag queens, and paedophilia do frequently overlap.
Danger, Will Robinson.
We’re living in an actual clown show.
I don’t think they want an honest answer.
This is how it’s done.
Also this, sue the bastards because it it totally normal for “women” to sport wood while watching other women in dressing rooms and the like.
Also this, humiliate them. More on this over at Reduxx.
Well, indeed.
Some people really do need to relearn shame.
If, for instance, I were to publicly exult in the fact that I can beat my niece in arm-wrestling or a test of grip strength, and insisted that she submit to being beaten in this way, repeatedly, in public, and if I insisted that onlookers should applaud my mightiness… well, I think that would make me a colossal wanker.
To say the very least.
“Jade, who the court heard was transitioning”.
And will the worlds most trusted broadcaster be revealing exactly when this transitioning process began. Was it at the knock on the door or during the drive to the police station?
P.s. Why are they never called Edna or Doris?
A pediatrician speaks, “…there is no such thing as a right to a mental illness…”, whereupon some rando quotes a “scientist” who says having a small penis, large clitoris, chromosomal abnormality, or that a male seahorse carries the female’s eggs proves human sex is a spectrum.
I’m sorry, but the Link-O-Matic 9000™ is an utter POS as it randomly does this
to links that both display and work correctly in preview, and one can’t even remove the “link” now, so don’t bother trying to click whatever the mess that is the Link-O-Matic 9000™ barfed up.
Here is the link, copy and take out the spaces because who the hell knows how it will get mangled if just plain posted. It is worth listening to what the doc has to say.
https: // twitter.com / WokeArchive / status / 1641224585197633538
It’s never done that for me. Are you wearing a lot of nylon?
It’s never done that for me.
Of course not, the henchlesbians sort the electrons for you, I don’t have that luxury, nor nylon, just homespun silk.
Well, if it’s not an excess of nylon and a consequent build-up of static charge, it must be that your current location is built on ancient native burial grounds.
Obviously.
…your current location is built on ancient native burial grounds.
That is “ancient LOCALS burial grounds”.
Please see this updated inclusive language link from the other day:
https: // %20herevv%20nssgi%20kker%20ݧᴥᴋۢ%20ⱣЖ♠▒Я
[ Puts down rubber matting under Mr Muldoon. ]
When I view the source for your “there is no such thing as a right to a mental illness” link, I see that same text inside the html where the link should be.
That has happened to me a few times, when my fingers (or was it my brain?) slipped and I failed to actually paste the URL into the wizard.
[ Puts down rubber matting under Mr Muldoon. ]
I don’t think that will work, for ancient locals burial grounds I think I’ll need some eagle feathers to waft burning sage to appease the spirits.
Can you check the storeroom in the third basement, maybe behind the hump fat reserve?
That has happened to me a few times, when my fingers (or was it my brain?) slipped and I failed to actually paste the URL into the wizard.
Except it both displayed the link correctly and linked correctly in the preview, it got banjaxed in the posting.
Clearly you too are cursed, or the wizard is occasionally drunker than Cooter Brown.
I mean, it’s not like I’ve got lots of suspicious electronic equipment in there, the kind of thing that might cause random interference.
What?
Seen below, the Muldoons trying to use the new-fangled internet.
“Have you tried switching it off and on again…?” “”Aaiiiieee!”
Huh. I’ve never seen that symptom. Hope I never will. Are you on a phone, or PC, or tablet, or Mac?
Video of the Link-O-Matic 9000™ in action.
Maybe, it works in preview on a computer, don’t know about a Mac or phone…
“I think I’ll need some eagle feathers to waft burning sage to appease the spirits”.
And a government grant.
A BiG one.
Per Muldoon’s link problem…this might be a clue but I’m too anti-tech anymore to dig into it….I copied Muldoon’s Twitter Archive link at 12:34pm and this interesting thing happened. While I was able to remove the other inserted spaces, the very last space kept getting replaced with a ‘%20’. There is something rather familiar about this sort of problem that I think is specific to Muldoon’s configuration, probably having to do with a somewhat obscure cut/paste configuration but wtf that is has disappeared between my ever expanding brain synapses. If it occurs to me I’ll let you know but maybe this will trigger a thought with pst or Daniel Ream or one of the other (ex)coders here.
Note, I’m on an iPad using Chrome right now.
In the interest of ‘open thread’, not to distract, but wife and I went out to the Canaveral National Seashore for a beach day and were somewhat surprised to see a sign posted saying that they didn’t take cash. The National Seashore. “All debts public and private”. So as I was saying a few days ago about the redefinition of words, note this pile of BS from what my wife found in answer to a question on the Federal Reserve’s web site:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm
Words mean what the Feds say they mean. Nothing more. Nothing less. Humpty Dumptyism is not a good look for a bank.
On the weightlifting thing: I looked up the records for US women, and for my weight class in college I beat most of the records for bench press. I often did 220lbs and once 240lbs. I weighed 140. I did not train properly or intensely. Sure, trans “women” don’t have an advantage in sports…
Thus wrote Jonathan Kay. Not on a postcard. In October 2019.
Three and a half years ago.
Does it help answer your question?
It’s not clear to me what scope there is for compromise. Say, in terms of whether dysmorphic men should be allowed to compete against, and beat, women in women’s sports. Or in terms of whether dysmorphic men and autogynephile perverts should have socially affirmed access to women’s toilets, changing rooms and other intimate spaces.
As for the rest of us, will we be expected to lie only some of the time?
The BBC is hoping for the kind of compromise that involves desperately pretending there’s nothing to see here at all.
…the very last space kept getting replaced with a ‘%20…I think is specific to Muldoon’s configuration…
That would be the case if it happened all the time which clearly it does not, however,
So what appears to be happening is that the wizard, pictured here performing for David in sub basement 2, gets confused when encountering a %20 and throws them into the text thus creating hosed links. Where the random %20s come is anyone’s guess, but I suspect the wizard is getting into the hump fat antifreeze again.
Edit – if you don’t specifically break bogus links as in the above example, the wizard awakens from his drunken stupor and tries to make them.
I never cease to marvel at how quick liberal journalists are to talk about “compromise”.
This.
Or in terms of whether dysmorphic men and autogynephile perverts should have socially affirmed access to women’s toilets, changing rooms and other intimate spaces.
Or in The Netherlands, children’s television shows.
Well, it is very much at the heart of the issue.
Regrettably,
So it might be some time before this particular madness dissipates.
Scientist now seems to mean anyone who can don a lab coat & speak pretentiously.
Good grief. “Zara Jade: Halifax woman” – they aren’t even trying anymore! This kind of thing makes me think this is all a shit test to see how far they can go before people start being sufficiently brave to say “Enough.”. But the trans activists are doing their damndest to make everyone afraid to be the first to stop clapping. And then on top of that you get do-gooders like Kay trying to find the Compromise.
I had someone ask me if a mutual friend (who happens to be gay) decided he was female, and requested I use she/her pronouns, would I do so. I said no, mainly because in that friend’s presence, I’d use his name, or “you”, and no one gets to tell me how to speak when they are not around. I am also not on Twitter, avoid most everything on Facebook, frequent this fine establishment under a pseudonym, and am a hermit most of the time, so I can maybe get away with that. Coward? Possibly. I don’t want to be forced to lie, so I avoid humans as much as possible. I also don’t “people” well, so this is probably the best for everyone.
to waft burning sage to appease the spirits
Just make sure you’re using North American white sage and not Baltic sage. As I recently discovered here, I’ve been using the wrong sage all this time.
That would explain why I can’t get that bloodstain off the wall in the bathroom, now that I think of it.
As for the URL thing: A lot of Operating Systems, browsers and even web sites won’t just copy and paste raw text any more. If they detect that you’re pasting a URL, they’ll go grab the URL, try to find the title of the page, and use that as the link text with the actual URL as the link data. That process ****ing up is likely why you’re getting spurious URL-encoded spaces (%20) in your post links. I expect that if you’re pasting from a proxy or web privatizing service it’s more likely.
Speaking of mental illness… “Black lives matter! My pussy matters!”
Compromise: Some of the recent demands seem to preclude compromise and only surrender is acceptable. For example:
mass looting of stores being ok
disorder and assaults on streets and trains
trans in women’s sports and locker rooms
sexualization of children
totally open borders
allowing the homeless to camp anywhere and do whatever (sex pooping and needles in the street)
gov agencies suppressing political opponents/unpopular views (UK and US and Canada…etc) instead of just criminals.
The blm lady with the important cat was taking a big chance.
Being white she is not automatically protected from her lawlessness. I was disappointed not to see her getting a well-deserved slap from Walmart security.
As for the rest of us, will we be expected to lie only some of the time?
And no good deed will go unpunished. We want to believe it when we’re told that they’re just the conventional lies required by politeness and hospitality (it’s no trouble at all, it’s always a pleasure to see you, your children are delightful, come whenever you like, make yourself at home in my home), which are very nice things as long as the guest plays his part by not interpreting it as our literal and binding consent to include them unconditionally, enthusiastically, and for ever, a commitment which would make it impossible for us to have a home or a normal life. If a guest does take the lies literally and overstays their welcome, the resulting chilliness or hesitancy on our part becomes evidence for the prosecution of our hypocrisy/implicit bias/systemic hate, which requires us to prove our moral legitimacy by telling even bigger lies, and so on until who knows when, probably until these particular guests are outvibrancied by other guests, or a miracle occurs and we stop believing that our moral legitimacy requires these repeated, escalating, pedal-to-the-metal gestures of non-discrimination.
A number of leftists have told me that this is all merely about politeness and hospitality. They are lying, of course.
This is the left weaponizing politeness and hospitality for malevolent purposes.
The ancient Greeks regarded hospitality as a sacred duty: Violations of the rules of hospitality–by host or by guest–were sins of impiety and invited divine retribution. I have no problem with secular retribution. These people are not our friends. They are not even our countrymen.
While poking through the high-security wing of transgender TikTok, I’ve seen dozens of videos in which some dysmorphic misfit scolds those “allies” who have been compliant with earlier demands and mouthed the expected pronouns – referred to disdainfully as “the bare minimum.”
The reason for the scolding, indulged in with visible glee, is that those “allies” had failed to actually perceive what they are told to perceive. The “allies” had been cowed and played along politely – they had pretended to see a man as a woman, or to see a psychologically damaged teenage girl as a man, and had affirmed and flattered on demand, but this wasn’t enough.
Actual hallucination was now the bar to be met.
Satisfaction being impossible, it seems – and unwanted. Presumably, because the game of domination must go on, forever.
That’s because it’s your humiliation which triggers their endorphins. Not your mere compliance.
Exactly. It’s about as far from reason as one can get. That’s the point. Further attempts to use even more logic and reason will only amplify their satisfaction. It furthers the humiliation.
I have witnessed some “amusing” attempts to reason with such disturbed people. One must instead call them on their bullshit, confront them with their bad faith, and tell them to shape up or ship out. No arguing, no negotiation, no accommodation. Just ultimatum.
I’ve decided blame #wokery on the lack of lead paint chips in their diet.
But who has postcards anymore?