Regurgitation Is Heard
Or, “How You Identity.”
A professional educator, Mrs Donna Starkey of Rye College, East Sussex, attempts to impart her new and shiny knowledge. Two schoolgirls prove troublesome:
“Where’d you get this idea that there are only two genders? […] It’s not an opinion you can have… You’re talking about the fact that cisgender is the norm, that you identify with the gender… with the sexual organs that you’re born with, or you’re with. That’s basically what you’re saying…”
“Yeah.”
“Which is really despicable… I’m reporting you to Miss Willis. You need to have a proper educational… conversation… about edu… about equality, diversity, and inclusion. Because I’m not having that expressed in my lesson.”
“Everyone else thinks it. They just don’t say it.”
Threats of further ideological correction ensue. Apparently, the recorded exchange was prompted by a pupil claiming to identify as a cat, and the two girls, heard above, expressing some doubt.
Update:
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
There. Are. Four. Lights.
They only hire the smartest ones.
Well, that’s what struck me. Our professional, presumably credentialled educator is determined to impose on other people’s children an ideology that she herself struggles to articulate, and quite possibly doesn’t understand.
And despite her factual errors and her stumbles with terminology, and despite her struggles with basic grammar, and despite the fact that she appears to have difficulty sustaining any coherent thought, her zeal is fairly obvious, and she will merrily punish any children who dare to demur.
Must not contradict a wokey, they don’t know how to be wrong, that’s why they lose so poorly.
And despite her factual errors and her stumbles with terminology…
That “teacher” is such a rote automaton with that bilge, being born with mixed genitalia is an abnormality, it is no more a “third sex” than conjoined twins are a new species.
An easier to follow version, mainly because it has a running transcript here.
EDUMACASHUN!
I realize that I observed this long ago. It was when my 4 sons reached 2 years old. They were called temper tantrums. Mostly theatre. Entertaining, but I laughed so they quit.
Don’t know how it works in the UK but, in the US, the thought of idiots like this being burdened with massive student debt warms the cockles.
It’s not a showstopper for teachers to be conformist and not very bright, their job being to patiently teach the same basic material year after year to children most of whom aren’t notably bright either. 100IQ teachers are downstream from culture and just pass it along.
A hundred years ago ladies like this would have taught the kids about the divine providence guiding the British Empire and its happy subjects. And now it’s the blessings of the rainbow empire.
School run under the auspices of the Church of England affiliated Aquinas trust. Aquinas treated Aristotle as the best possible pre-Christian approximation of a divine truth. Similarly, Christian values and British values, to the extent that this school believes they’re worth teaching, are cast as pre-rainbow approximations to rainbow values.
They are, of course, “delivering equity.”
To cats.
They only hire the smartest ones.
Perhaps they are the smartest ones, from the available pool of applicants.
If teachers are hired in large part for their willingness to internalise and propagate ‘progressive’ woo, and to denounce as “despicable” those who question obvious absurdity, then the average IQ does seem likely to drop. Perhaps more to the point, educators who are not inclined to participate in farce – and who find such unrealism and dishonesty indigestible – are likely to be filtered out.
We know that such hiring policies exist and are widespread.
This filtering goes on throughout the educational pipeline: Even schoolkids notice the ideological culture of the “educators” and will rightly conclude that anyone who disagrees will be unwelcome.
Universities increasingly demand ideological conformity from all students and faculty. Punishment and ostracism are widespread and applauded by “liberals”.
Departments of education, psychology, sociology, etc openly and formally require allegiance to leftist dogmas. Students who dissent are not even allowed in those degree programs. Any subtle hints of silent disagreement are sniffed out and.
Why? Do you really think that such idiots can provide sufficient productivity to eventually pay for that debt? If they cannot, something I firmly believe, where do you suppose the money will come from to pay for it? It would warm my cockles if I thought the people who loaned the money were actually loaning out, you know, their own money. Which is what the word ‘loan’ would truly mean. The gaslighting actually starts right there. With the word ‘loan’.
Happy Waterloo Day, David.
I love that the teacher’s “go to” move, when she no longer feels she can carry and win the argument, is I’m going to tell the principal on you.
Speaking of people meeting their Waterloo…
Does she identify as someone fit to teach?
Not at all. I just appreciate the discomfort that debt imposes on the idiots. I knew the moment the U.S. government nationalised student loans that the taxpayers would end up with the bill.
I was of the opinion that it made little sense for the Church of England to ally itself with despised extremist protesters, who dress themselves in farcical costumes and march in lockstep whilst chanting liturgical slogans.
But then I saw this, and Orwell’s prophetic words came to my mind –
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
Well, our alleged expert in “Relationships, Sex, and Health Education” – the one who struggles with basic biology – seems accustomed to pretending, and to coercing others to pretend along with her. And so, children are told to “be who you want to be,” including cats, apparently, and told that, “how you identify is up to you.” Because there are “lots of genders.”
And “I identify as” is difficult to distinguish from “I pretend to be.” Except in that the latter is a little more honest.
Akshually “I identify as” is identical to “I demand that you pretend me to be“
DO YOU EVEN IDENTITY, BRO?
That. Is. Awesome.
Yes, we can all wonder how the hell an apparently insane person managed to be put in loco parentis in the first place (”Those who can, do… etc.”, I suppose) but listening to those girls, and hearing stories of pushback elsewhere, I’m beginning to think that maybe there’s hope for the future after all.
Mizz Donna’s sister in spirit.
and
Dear.lord.
Ah, I see Mrs Starkey is “Director of Learning, KS4.” Does this mean that she does some light tidying up?
Dear.lord.
Semi-related hot take of the day, from the “Monkeypox Tsar”
She’s not wrong though. All those differences will equalise away once you’ve identified enough men as “women”.
It’s mirror universe level wrong.
Heh. Yes, it’s not just wrong, factually wrong, but bizarrely wrong. And it’s stated with such adamance. So, people with certain birth defects are now a new gender, and people who are anxious about the prospect of physical intimacy are also a new gender. As are the pretentious.
And not believing such things makes you subject to punishment and “really despicable.”
It’s also a lesson in just how quickly institutions can be corrupted and made ridiculous. I mean, we seem to have gotten here, deep into farce, quite briskly.
Ms Bromwich bemoans the sexual assaulting of women and “threats to women’s safety,” while simultaneously demanding “solidarity” with the demographic of men most prone to said activity. Much more so than the wider male population. A demographic that, she says, should not be “excluded” from women’s intimate spaces.
Needless to say, comments on the piece are not permitted, as if deemed unnecessary. And Ms Bromwich is being, shall we say, selective about who can reply to her via Twitter. Say, to offer factual corrections and statistical evidence.
But hey, it’s the Observer.
“Which is really despicable… I’m reporting you to Miss Willis.
Mrs Starkey and Miss Willis. We seem to be in an identity tangle here with these antediluvian titles.
aka The Grauniad in Sunday best
Ms Bromwich is currently performing the standard manoeuvres of her type: Blocking any attempt at correction, however factual and polite, and framing all dissenting feedback, which she boasts of not reading, as “hate” – “an intimidation campaign.” Needless to say, no examples of such are shared.
Oh, and while cocooned by followers telling her how brave and wonderful she is.
“to allow everyone on the internet to spam my Twitter page with hate” = “to allow disagreement“
Despite the rather glaring logical and factual errors, which don’t appear to trouble her, Ms Bromwich has arrived at the same opinion that, we’re told, is so fashionable among her peers, which is presumably what matters. Now the thought process, such as it was, can stop. Hence, one assumes, the boasts of not reading any replies. You know, the ones that point out those rather glaring logical and factual errors.
See also, a certain, terribly ‘progressive’ editor-in-chief of a once-reputable science magazine.
Well, they had to fix that, didn’t they? People at U. Michigan needs to get thems their PhD’s.
Interesting isn’t it that the kind of hateful sadist who would once have written for the church newsletter exhorting her sisters to dutifully offer their other cheek to abusive husbands “for the team”, whilst secretly enjoying their pain and humiliation, is now writing for the Guardian.
That’s progress I guess.
Sorry I haven’t commented yet today; I’ve been working on a grant proposal for a study to prove that David’s new comment toolbar erases trans identities.
They can claim truthfully that trans women (aka XY fake women) are not a risk…only because they are so very very rare that the average woman will never encounter one.
If “lacking sex drive” was a sex/gender, then most people over a certain age have become that sex/gender. This is jumping on the bandwagon and nothing else. “look at me, I have no interest in sex, I’m a different gender!”
She claims that trans women are at the same risk of rape as normal women (my fingers will not allow me to call them cis)–objection! facts not in evidence! In fact I doubt if they are in any danger of rape.
I’ll just leave this here for no reason whatsoever.
“when you stop thinking words describe reality and you start thinking words create reality.”
Bizarro World made manifest.
I read it more that she was claiming that a tranny was just as likely to rape another tranny as rape a woman, and therefore they should all join together in solidarity as the tranny victim group.
The option of just not letting them in unless they tested positive for fallopian tubes being unavailable.
Sounds like “research”.
‘Specialization’ seems to mean ‘not understanding at all.’
And, should it prove not to, will you be offering suggestions on how to rectify that?
In the true spirit of modern academia, it depends on who offers me more grant money.
Would have liked to have heard the rest of this discussion of religion.
As if on cue, an acolyte appears.
Related, projection, it’s not just for breakfast anymore.
Standard tactc – accuse your opponents of what you’re already doing. Quickly followed by acting offended when that’s pointed out.
There’s not much new there except that the leftism has now infected gender identity. The leftist dogma, in whole or in individual parts, is a substitute for religion. I’m not terribly religious myself (though I have recently developed a certain quirk of saying “God bless you” to people or quoting the Bible just to see people squirm…but I digress) though I have done a significant amount of religious study for a layman. The parallels in general seem very obvious. Not to say that that is my singular observation, just a rather common observation. As people show less and less faith in a God they clearly acquire very similar attitudes toward their government or whatever specific level/manifestation of #science, always the kind with a leftist bent, that they may have stumbled upon. Notice how this gender thing has been picking up steam as they try to distance/distract from the now openly observed failures of the Covid thing. Both are very wannabe/play-God infused. Coincidence?
Already coming to my school.
Leftism as religion: note that in all communist societies and in Nazi Germany, the gov worked to suppress religion. In the current wokeness, not only is there vandalism of churches and catholics called domestic terrorists, but the trappings of religion are so so obvious. There is a liturgy, the saved and the sinners, apostates, rituals, religious symbols (pride flags), and obscure doctrine that only the few can understand. One big difference is that in the woke religion if you are one of the sinners (white male) there is no path to salvation and no one to grant forgiveness–thus the endless public pronouncements of piety.
Curiously, though, there are Christians who embrace the “woke” religion.
Competing religions.
Well, they claim to be Christian.
So did John Shelby Spong, though he rejected most everything about it.
“Children should read Gender Queer at school, a book about dildos and strap-ons and boys giving each other blowjobs, because…black people and the Holocaust“
Remember the Sandinista nuns, back in the 80’s? There are, I think, I a lot of very “confused” Christians.
TIK says it IS a religion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb_tJ59bSzg&t=1860s&ab_channel=TIKhistory
“Marxists share your vocabulary but they don’t share your dictionary.”
The only difference between this teacher and the Catholic nuns who ran my primary school is that my nuns were MUCH more lenient about the orthodoxy of their religion.
She claims that trans women are at the same risk of rape as normal women
I’m guessing she’s deliberately conflating that risk with the risk of severe physical assault. Many male transvestites get involved in prostitution and they’re not always honest about what’s being offered for sale. When you hear people moaning about transvestites being in danger of physical assault just for being transvestites, ask what proportion of those victims were beaten up by their johns who didn’t appreciate the surprise.
[ crickets ]
No, it’s entirely accurate; masculine, feminine and neuter. Though that’s not what she meant.