Friday Ephemera (681)
Admit it, your mind went there. || Meet the girls. || Houseguest of note. || Turns out it could go either way. || Quite the grip. || Good to know. || Greetings, fellow women. || Sudden weight gain. || The woodpecker’s tongue. || The Great Chicken War. (h/t, Mark) || Repeat after him. || I have questions, but I hesitate to ask. || Coaster skillz. || Cloaking device. || Eurocrash. || Rainbow. || Beats and blobs, together at last. || Bold strategy. || At least she put down the baby. || The progressive dining experience, a possible series. || Incoming. || Incoming 2. || Vein viewer. || Vending issues. || This is one of these. || On being obliged to compete unfairly: “You kind of, like, smile when you’re uncomfortable.” || And finally, one of the things that dogs can’t do, at least, not terribly well.
Should you be tempted, you can follow me on Twitter.
Repeat after him
No. And the implied violence if us “ladies” don’t accept his lady dick?
Hell, this part of the reason why I moved out of California and to a place where I won’t have too many issues getting a CCW.
On being obliged to compete unfairly:
O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. She had won the victory over herself. She loved Big Brother.
The woodpecker’s tongue.
Perhaps a name change is in order? The woodtonguer? Otherwise, if that’s its tongue, one can only imagine its pecker
Please tell me that’s not Peter Scolari. Yes, I’ve been watching a lot of Newhart reruns lately. Why you ask?
“She loved Big Brother.”
Who’s the biologist?
The swimming community, aside from this young lady and Riley Gaines (no relation to Rowdy) and maybe a Nancy Hogshead here and there, but always in measured tones, have been pathetically quiet on this. Some of these girls like to really talk big. The networks try to tone it down a bit come Olympics time. It’s not like they are all big talkers but a good number of them could match up against that Rapone or whatever soccer nag. Loud, Wa-Hoo! Look at Us! Look at ME! So bold, so brave. But since this Lia BS stuff happened, crickets. They so easily conform to whatever the other girls say.
The way it fits my screen I had no choice! Honest!
He’s afraid? How the hell does he think actual women feel about him?
Do battery powered unicycles exist ?
Morning, all.
If you scroll down for the longer clip, you’ll see that he regards “white cis women” as “the enemy” because they deceive, you see. Which he, of course, doesn’t. (Why brown-skinned women should be exempt is not made clear.) And that’s before we get to the other chap, the one who intimates that he will punish “defiance” from any women who don’t participate in his fantasy.
So, ladies. Surrender your bathrooms and rejoice.
Is there a Scot in there somewhere?
I’ve seen electric unicycles, but that doesn’t appear to be one. Which makes the flames and billowing smoke all the more puzzling.
Captured for posterity in the Eastpoint Tamworth branch of Woolworth’s, New South Wales.
Quite. Another telling moment is the description, about 15 minutes in, of the invitation to write a dissenting view in the student paper, provided it didn’t actually, you know, dissent. And so a polite, factual piece was “edited,” repeatedly, and subject to ludicrous, question-begging conditions, until little of substance remained. And even this small, neutered deviation from orthodoxy was then retracted and deleted within minutes of publication.
As Matt Walsh puts it, “In order to have the conversation, you have to agree with them.”
But this is what will happen when your piety departs so wildly from reality. The more you lie, publicly, the more compromised and dishonest you become, the less you can tolerate anything approaching honesty. Even airing polite concerns becomes a kind of heresy. Everyone must pretend, and be made to pretend. Which rather mirrors the phenomenon being discussed. Or, as it turns out, not discussed.
https://twitter.com/laurasparling/status/1666874550527590415?s=20
It used to be the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Heh.
That. Madness spreads.
Well, the pretensions and dishonesties multiply, and more is staked on them, until any concession to realistic debate, and to some common, observable reality, becomes intolerably perilous – all but impossible without risking a loss of face and in-group status. Hence the passion, I suppose.
And the people who play this neurotic game – the ones who pretend to welcome debate and then ensure no debate of any substance can actually happen, and will in fact be punished – their behaviour is somewhat disturbing. I mean, what else would the pretenders be willing to pretend? And what else would they be so careful not to notice? What precise level of farce, unrealism and dishonesty would be too much?
Laundry is hard.
It did not go entirely to plan.
Best comment: “MMA just seems like Grindr with extra steps.”
With a glaringly obvious way of breaking it 💨.
He can fuck right off.
“The love of God” has nothing to do with what he is demanding.
Thousands of young women suddenly feel a strong interest in engineering the human genome.
Hit ‘post’ too soon…damn, now I’m committed (?)…
That guy, far more so than most of these people like the more attention seeking Dylan Mulvaneys or personally/socially confused Lia Thomas’s, is severely mentally ill. Granted wrong to diagnose at a distance and I’m no trained shrink (which is a fact that likely makes me more qualified than most such idiots) but that guy is in another world. That is scary. A society that allows such lunatics to mix with the general population is itself severely sick. I kinda wonder if he might be Canadian.
Just my ignorant observation but nearly everyone I ever encountered, IRL or otherwise, who rode a unicycle was an attention seeking dweeb. I remember a 60 Minutes story or something from the 70’s where there was some entire school where everyone rode unicycles. I remember thinking…this really seems like a dumb/bad idea. And here we are.
Because you won’t affirm his delusions, repeatedly, on demand, his tears are apparently your fault.
As people note in the replies, genuine distress doesn’t usually make people whip out their phones and film themselves and then share the results with random strangers on the internet, while waiting for likes.
And it has to be said, attempting emotional blackmail – a common behaviour among the dysmorphic – is not the kind of thing a decent person would do. Instead, it calls to mind the behaviour of an abuser. Someone for whom emotional manipulation, which is to say bullying, is a go-to solution.
For those curious, before and after:
Well, they’re not exactly practical modes of transportation…
A clown school?
Thanks for that – I was able to enjoy it three times:
For truly this is the age of Poe.
The pervs are hoping for a “happy ending” to this battle in the trans war.
One look at the “trans rights” activist’s face and you know he’s going to eventually be charged with some sort of violent felony.
Damn….keep hitting post like it’s a return button…
This. A good number of such problems manifest themselves in politics or similar and we accept them as ‘normal’. Though generally ones not this extremely disturbed. This guy, in my mind, has a much bigger flashing red danger sign over his head.
[ Fetches brain fever pills. ]
[ Orders more. ]
A burning question for the ages.
I have no idea what that is, but it needs to get offa mah lawn.
The cut leaves are incredible.
Tossers detected.
One look at the “trans rights” activist’s face
What amazes me is how accurate every single time their cartoony faces are to their actual selves.
[ Fetches brain fever pills. ]
No need, in the world of Alternative Ways of Knowing™ we reject your colonial brain pills.
From the tweets on the One look at the “trans rights” activist’s face link:
This won’t last. She’s writing now. Writing. Well, good then. The Baroness will address it.
Though drilling down, those were in response to another tweet on the UK side that stated:
Why are these things only occurring to people now? If she has any power now, why couldn’t Baroness have stopped this idiocy before it got so bloody far?
OK. I tried. Not sure wtf is with that spacing. Some bloody twitter return characters or whatever.
An autistic trans altar through a queer lens, because all the holy things in the before times were really trans, including, apparently, St. Michael the Archangel, which would probably surprise him.
Shots fired.
Eastpoint Tamworth branch of Woolworth’s
I am fairly certain that is my parents supermarket, industrial side of a country town/city. Despite handing the baby over so she can punch on, she is a lot more ladylike than a lot of the “women” featured here…
No refunds. Credit note only.
Flaming Unicycles would be an interesting album title.
Seeing that houseguest video raises an important question…
How do elephants get into the middle of the room?
[ Rummages under bar, a bin liner rustles. A complimentary peanut rolls along bar. ]
Curious if the kind of doctors at the Mayo clinic are the kind who play golf or not. Well, possibly excepting that specific guy. Are they AMA members too? Not? How many doctors does it take to form a critical mass? How many doctors are just bloody nuts? And who will stand up to this idiocy in the medical profession?
Is shameless opportunism confused?
Might want to purchase in bulk.
Dude. We’re not supposed to talk about it.
Yes. Maybe that is more in line with the point I was trying to make. It’s a bit different from Mulvaney though. More of a variation perhaps. I found this young lady’s description of that Thomas guy’s personality before and after his revelation interesting.
A few broom handles would help solve that problem.
Or one very large dog chasing a ball that just happened to be thrown in their direction.
Lia Thomas: feminists broke ground here. They claimed it was “unfair” that female reporters were not allowed in men’s sports locker rooms, so they got access. I’ve seen video of guys going past in a towel. The precedent is that if you scream “unfair” you can break norms of privacy and decency. Cry me a river.
Mine, too. [ Fills super soaker with hamster urine. ]
It would be highly amusing to hear that those very feminists were now “experiencing” the joys of trans creeps in their private spaces. Turnabout as fair play, and all that.
What is denied here and in every domain is that people can have different values and in a society we must try to balance those values and needs. Many people value “leaving their children alone”. Most women value their privacy (whereas guys will scratch their balls anywhere). Many people value safety over “social justice”. Many people want lower taxes. But we are supposed to be obedient to our betters, whatever they decide (and I do not mean by legislation).
we reject your colonial brain pills.
New glasses required. I first read that as colonic brain pills – maybe more appropriate
Also, obviously, band name.
We really should compile the best of our band names, a couple of hundred or so, and flog them to moody teenagers who’ve just bought a cheap amp.
Given that our ‘betters’ aren’t . . .
Yet very few of those same people want less spending. And there in, on a broader more metaphorical sense, lies the problem.
Usually they buy the cheap amp because they’re skint so there may not be much profit in that demographic.
Think it was Mark Steyn who said Americans love big government but don’t want to pay for it.
And just like that, our dreams lie in tatters.
“autistic” –just making shit up now. Are they non-verbal? Do they head-bang? Do they scream when there are any sounds around them? No no and no? Then not autistic just looking for oppression points. They should not have gotten rid of the Augsberger diagnosis in the DMV5.THAT is a real thing but NOT the same as autism.
The definition of ‘autism’ has expanded greatly over the past decade or so. Most likely to give useless busybodies something to do.
The definition of ‘autism’ has expanded greatly over the past decade or so.
Yep, and as CC says, lumping Asperger and every other thing into it. I recently read an article which claimed 1:30 US&A kids are now “autistic”, a statistic which is patently absurd.
Asperger me, Domine.
Uh oh. Did I kill this thread? Is David out getting a 50 gallon drum of hamster urine?
A couple of things stand out.
Firstly, there is no sex discrimination in trans. There is nothing stopping biological women from going “trans” and entering men’s sports or bathrooms.
Which, just like the mysterious near absence of women dying on the Ukrainian battlefields, shows the limitations of most of “gender equality” theory that has dominated policy over the past decades.
Secondly, everyone seems keen on abusing the minute numbers of possibly mentally ill men. But nobody traces this back to the real source – and that’s evident in the article just before this one on this blog.
You mean the left, which encourages and incites and protects these crazy people?
I think we have discussed the left’s culpability. But I would be happy to, on a daily basis, reaffirm that the left should be treated as an enemy of civilization.
Repeat after him.
“It is immaterial how you feel about someone else’s gender”
The “maddest” MtF’s are the most relentlessly logical and truthful ones, those who don’t apply any tactical sugarcoating in articulating the ruling wisdom that certain groups of people, especially whites, have no right of exclusion and therefore no meaningful right of assembly or group advocacy.
It’s so blatant that you have to hope that the assertion is met with counterassertions: it is immaterial how you feel about your sex/race/nationality, these are what they are independent of what you assert them to be, our group awareness is based on an implicit consensus which is good enough for us, you’re not one of us, and that’s a fact that’s not open to your debate or sophistry or lawyering.
I too would have blown a gasket. The bloody machine will more than likely have far to many “safety” features.
Unrelated to this, but related to another post, there is a good zoo just south of Tamworth. Has rhinos and hippos etc and all the things you want to see at a zoo in what seems to me to be a pretty comfy environment for the animals
What amazes me is how people can somehow not register – or actively enable – what is obviously an act of malice.
Related:
What little sympathy I may have started out with watching that, dropped off a cliff shortly after hitting ‘play’.
I’d just been watching that when you posted it. It is rather sad – until, as you say, the rote victimhood and regurgitated blather about Cis White Demons rather sours everything. At which point, my impression was of someone trapped in the same ideological nightmare they’d sought out and internalised, and have presumably used against others in order to affirm themselves.
And it occurs to me that the tears and apparent surprise would seem to undermine the claim that one can somehow be born in the wrong body, the wrong sex. I mean, to only realise how men and women tend to differ after being drugged and mutilated, and adopting the role of a man, does rather suggest a lack of genuine understanding, a lack of authenticity.
Or put another way, if your approximately male exterior, your costume, achieved at great expense, now feels at odds with your womanly psychology and womanly sensitivities, and now makes you unhappy, maybe it wasn’t the solution to the problem. And maybe you should revisit what, exactly, the problem was.
Speaking of women, well, girls, literally in many cases, who transition over to men, you’d think that height would figure into their decisions more often.
Women in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK are on average about 5’4″.
So as well as the many other challenges transitioning from a woman to a man must surely entail, if and when they do manage to pass as a man, they will still be the kind of man typically looked down on (no pun intended) both figuratively and literally.
One study of 2000 personal ad dating profiles and nearly 400 college students found that:
This one goes further still:
I’m not suggesting these challenges are insurmountable – lived experience shows that’s clearly not the case.
But it does seem odd that having been a girl/woman, or at least spending lots of time around them as one, they might consider that there is a difference between passing as a man and passing as a man between 5’0″ and, maybe, 5’7″.
That.
Even in the depths of despair, they still fear losing the (counterfeit) love and respect of those who have abused them.
The obsession with the oppressor/oppressed distinction appears in a whole new light – more of an instruction manual, than a serious critique.
James, by the way, our weeping trans man, is a “confidence coach,” a “transition expert,” and an all-round lifestyle guru. Being, obviously, so sorted out. A lot of time is spent making videos that tell strangers how “valid” they are, regardless of any discernible criteria, and how “valid” their feelings are, whatever those feelings might be. I couldn’t find any content in which customers and followers are invited to consider why it is they feel alienated from their physical selves.
Indeed. It seems to me that if a decision, or an identity, or an entire worldview, requires continual external affirmation, and being told, repeatedly, by strangers, how “valid” one is, regardless of particulars, then maybe that decision, or that identity, or that worldview, warrants some scrutiny.
Who therefore needs to spend more time in front of a mirror.
(although there is a strong case for suspecting he already spends far too much time in front of a mirror, albeit for entirely the wrong reason).
Not entirely unrelated.
A magnificently brutal letter from the good Baroness.
I imagine stonewall have already penned a response to be signed by the Minister.
And what’s hard is that none of this invalidates how real and raw women and people who are in marginalised groups feel about CIS white men.
We’ll ignore the two obviously false statements right there, but if she was so convinced she knew she was a man and all that entails before the surgery, drugs, and what not, why is this all a surprise? Also – no, men do not kill themselves more often because of lady feelings.
(Why brown-skinned women should be exempt is not made clear.)
If they were lumped in with the the yte devils that would be an ungood racist thought which our enlightened betters are not allowed to have.
As you might imagine, Exulansic takes a different view.
As you might imagine, Exulansic takes a different view.
Also, “…I know how to build friendships…” Apparently not.
It has often been said men have friends, women only have temporary alliances.
Besides, is she is really a man, why doesn’t she just man up and stop the lamentation?
As is the modern custom, the rhetoric seems jarringly inapt, often an inversion. The claims of expressing some “authentic self” seem particularly questionable, when what appears to be happening is something else entirely.
As encouraging as such a pushback is, is this serious? Does this Baroness have any serious leverage here?
Speaking of dangerous delusions:
This cunt, who thinks she is saying something meaningful rather than poisonously stupid, works for Mozilla.
A fair comment:
I’ll just leave this here.
Eight years of ‘transitioning’? ‘Emotionally mature man’? The self-deception on display is frightening, if inherent in the ideation.
Protective? It’s causative for most…whatever the damn word is that is not ‘denominations’…maybe it will come to me…
See this is how it works…if you make contact with other groups, societies, whatever and engage with them in any form, that is ‘colonialism’. The lightest manner of doing so is still ‘cultural appropriation’. If you choose to not have anything to do with such people, that’s racism. I learned this from eating Mexican food. I kid you not.
Perhaps the Sentinelese have a point.
The Sentinelese, band name. The ultimate. First album, “The Name of This Band Is The Sentinelese”. Would make an excellent sports team name as well. When I win that billion dollar lottery…
But you mustn’t laugh.
“trans man is a ‘confidence coach’ ”
Almost. Try: ‘confidence man’
“…we wrote about 2 major undersea cables in Africa owned by Google & Meta…”
Of course not having the two cables would be racist or something by denying vital Facebook services to Africa.
OTOH I am wondering why there would be undersea cables in Africa, not that the ones to Africa appear to mirror transatlantic slave routes.
…works for Mozilla.
Not just Mozilla but Trustworthy AI Mozilla, though I am having doubts about the “trustworthy” part.
Speaking of speaking of dangerous delusions, Science!™.