Not Really Worth The Effort, Love
And in never-happy news:
You are not an ally to the TQ+ unless you affirm every single delusion.
Even if a person goes by all pronouns… using ones that align with their sex is still going to be wrong. pic.twitter.com/7xWXu44v4L
— L G B (@L__G__B) November 6, 2023
She’s “genderfluid,” you see, and “goes by all pronouns.” But if insufficiently pretentious people refer to her as she – i.e., accurately – this simply won’t do and scolding will ensue. And your “ally” status, which you’re supposed to crave and be willing to beg for, will be downgraded to merely “performative.” Despite the claim that she’s, like, you know, totally fine with “all pronouns.”
Because the scolding must never end. The scolding being the point.
Update, via the comments, where Jen adds,
It does seem to be more of a commitment than self-respect – or indeed sanity – would allow. What with the round-the-clock monitoring of pronoun earrings and pronoun bracelets, and double-sided pronoun lanyards, which can of course change, or be combined in absurdly complicated ways, at any point during the day, based on a whim, a mood swing, or a slight change in air pressure.
It would, I think, be simpler to just find some better friends.
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
That. And it’s the point every damn time.
Well, if you poke through the Pronouns Or Else tag, it’s remarkable just how often you’ll find the same obnoxious, narcissistic bullying. The same dynamic crops up again and again. Impossible rules that seem designed to result in stumbles, even among the cowed and obliging, and which offer endless scope for practised indignation and gleeful scolding.
Seems better not to play, I think.
I miss the days when bullies had to show up and put their ass on the line to bully someone. These keyboard warriors and teardrop terrorists are sickening and deserve to meet their physical equivalent in a open field.
These people themselves are not the problem. We have always had such people. Just like school bullies, the problem lies with their “allies” who are willing to co-bully anyone who fights back. Especially those entrusted with social/political/police power but most especially with the general populace who put those idiots in power. The real kicker is at least in school the administrators who punish you for fighting back because “all fighting is wrong” do not necessarily have the support of the other students. Your friends, neighbors, relatives are more responsible for this idiocy than these mental cases themselves. Those are the people who must be told firmly, boldly, and in no uncertain terms to stop being so bloody stupid.
Easier not to be a
sucker“ally”.It does seem to be more of a commitment than self-respect – or indeed sanity – would allow. What with the round-the-clock monitoring of pronoun earrings and pronoun bracelets, and double-sided pronoun lanyards, which can of course change, or be combined in absurdly complicated ways, at any point during the day, based on a whim, a mood swing, or a slight change in air pressure.
It would, I think, be simpler to just find some better friends.
‘ antifa psychotranny’
Via Mark Steyn.
“Whom the gods would destroy…”
Well, quite.
There is so much wrong in so many ways with damn near everything associated with what is going on there I wouldn’t know where to start. The 20+ years long case that he mentions in passing is quite the absurdity. And all through those years the lawyers on both sides, along with the “neutral” court system, the judges, clerks, etc. have kaching-kaching-kachinged themselves an incredible amount of wealth. All that money, which still has yet to produce a result, came from somewhere. Yet everyone pretends like whatever the final judgement is, assuming there ever will be a final judgement, is the only cost being paid out. The judges, the courts, and even to some degree a few of the lawyers have less and less incentive to end this. It’s a slow bleeding of our society. And it happens not just in big cases like this but in many much more below-the-radar instances all across the country.
The District of Columbia Superior Court seems to be the U.S. answer to the Court of Chancery.
The Steyn case…
But The wonderful thing about such processes is that every dollar exchanged over the years counts on the plus side of the official GDP record.
Bear that in mind the next time some idiot claims that the Big Cities are the Source of Wealth in the West.
Meanwhile in a German town, there is a “…new focus on diversity…”, so of course a cancellation is required.
It would, I think, be simpler to just find some better friends.
I’ve had to stop running some of my open-table toy soldier games at the monthly meetup at the Legion because I’ve made it very clear that I simply will not accept any of these attention-seeking mentally ill people at the game. The Legion can’t go along with that or risk an expensive lawsuit, so the only alternative is for me to stop. I only run invitationals now.
Migrants.
There is circumlocution and there is evasion.
She’s “genderfluid,” you see, and “goes by all pronouns.”
However, on the surface she looks almost normal. No purple and green hair, no shrapnel lodged in the face, turkey neck tucked away and praise the Lord; those ugly glasses rife amongst these freaksare safely in their case.
Via Ace, but this isn’t about the mayor and his habits:
Lest he be “misgendered”, of course.
The best thing about this pronoun nonsense is how it clarifies language.
Were I to emigrate to some foreign country in the hope of a better life, it would not occur to me to almost immediately start demanding that things be renamed, or “decolonised,” or simply torn down.
That would strike me as churlish and ungrateful.
I’m not entirely sure how we arrived at this ludicrous fiction that “diversity” is some unalloyed good, a thing to “celebrate.” On practically every measure, “diverse” communities have much lower levels of social trust, and much higher levels of friction, resentment, and alienation.
Seems more a cost than a benefit.
It’s hard to see how one might benefit – how anyone might benefit – from interaction with emotional parasites. Given the importance to such creatures of chiding and browbeating, and continually fabricating excuses to indulge those urges, any exposure seems likely to be negative.
And in “Ooh, Bit Creepy” news:
I’ve often mentioned the progressive tendency to perversely flatten values, such that the habitual violent criminal and their numerous victims are somehow equal in moral worth. It’s a staple of progressive schtick.
Here’s another example.
Well, I hate to be contrarian, but it seems to me that the decision to try to steal someone’s dog is precisely how you know that that person’s wellbeing is of very low importance.
These people sound like the Scientologists when they babble “LRH” and “KSW” and “SP” etc. Very odd way to convince yourself you have value in this world. Well-adjusted people I know actually DO things, possess skills and talents, and are justly rewarded for accomplishing goals.
Oh it’s much worse than that. There has been a growing problem here in the US with coyotes moving in to populated areas east of the Mississippi. Coyote traditional habitats are in the west from Mexico up into Canada. But now coyotes have even moved into Atlantic coast barrier islands and are a problem in places like Cape Canaveral. They will kill pets and have been known to kill small children. A pack of them killed a 19 year old hiker in Canada. This of course got blamed on global warming. But I digress…
Any suggestion that such animals, an invasive species mind you, should be shot on sight brings out howls of indignation from the self-righteous, yet often conveniently abstract animal lovers. They blame people moving into coyote habitats for driving them east. Which makes little sense because the eastern US is much more highly concentrated with humans and civilization/development than the coyotes’ native habitats in the west.
Civilization itself with the readily available food garbage and to some degree the easy prey wildlife like squirrels and ducks, which themselves benefit from being close to humans, who often even feed them directly, that draws the coyotes.
A somewhat similar problem exists with bears, though black bears are native to these eastern locales. The thing is you get a lot of conservatives, so called, blaming outsiders for moving into the bear habitats for this. Even though these newer people are generally moving into currently inhabited areas that are simply increasing in population concentration. Similar to coyotes, the bears are drawn by the garbage that provides easy pickings. But don’t dare suggest killing the bears. Even though it is perfectly legal to go into natural bear habitats and kill them during hunting season.
Modernity is quite a thing.
Well-adjusted people I know actually DO things, possess skills and talents, and are justly rewarded for accomplishing goals.
Most of my friends do hands-on kinds of things: engineers, doctors, dentists, software. In their spare time they remodel their own houses, have a garden, etc. A easily spotted attribute of the wokies is an almost total lack of accomplishments or real skills as well as massive ignorance about the world.
Oddly quiet today.
Is everyone out getting pedicures or something?
Our betters at large.
Turning upside down the usual scheme for assimilation where the school passes the required culture to the first generation children who then pass it on as best they can to their parents.
How many immigrant kindergarten parents are there in a town with a population of ten thousand in former East Germany?
They’re not very bright if they haven’t figured out that the Holocaust being known to every four year old is a moral bludgeon they as immigrants can use against the ethnic Germans.
Quite. Not just wrong, but dramatically wrong. Wrong to a degree one might call perverse.
This is a clear example of just how brainwashed many people, possibly even a majority of people are. They rarely, if ever, encounter ideas from the right and even when they do, their entire perspective is polluted with the nazinazinazi/fascistfascistfacist mindset. This person does not appear to be a particularly unhinged personality and yet he behaves, as he expresses himself, with the mindset that his life is being threatened. He could very easily be my next door neighbor when I lived in FL.
This insanity will not end well and I blame the right more than the left for this. This is what appeasement on subjects like Michael Brown, Covid, diversity training, Jan 6, George Floyd, etc. gives you. These people have lost their bloody minds. The only possible cure at this point is to make very, very clear to them, in no uncertain terms, that they are brainwashed. To point to clear, objective facts (my go-to being the Trump said to drink bleach thing) and not just challenge them, but as forcefully as possible make them face their cognitive dissonance. Don’t give an inch on clear, objective fact. And stick to it. Politeness is not going to cut it. Being polite and understanding and deferential is what has gotten us here.
Jack Klompus,
Yes. In my world, the question is always “What can you do?”. Mostly, nobody gives a damn who you “are”.
The butthurt is strong with that one.
[ Returns from hairdresser, a vision of loveliness. ]
My barber knows the banjo player guy from the movie Deliverance. Just sayin’.
[ Shakes hair in slow motion. ]
“My god, it’s full of stars!”
The history of Sweden, a new TV show from Swedish state TV.
Enough hairspray to make the hair stay in place, no less.
Gender confusion, in two parts.
Part 1: Guy skipped “Human Anatomy” day in high school biology.
Part 2: Same guy tells us he has never seen a nude woman or the contents of his pants.
“genderfluid” has nothing to do with genuine gender dysphoria, which is a real thing (though very rare). In that real thing, the person has an absolutely clear and fixed neurological gender identity – which does not match the body. The almost literally Procrustean answer is surgical mutilation of the body.
What such persons want is to present as ordinary members of the target gender, without intruding into women’s protected spaces or competitive sports, and (if having made good-faith efforts to pass) be politely accepted.
Multiply pierced, heavily tattooed, “non-binary”, “genderqueer”, “genderfluid”, pronoun-flaunting freaks like LGB are just performers pour épater les bourgeois.
Rammer jammer yellowhammer, “transgender woman extraordinaire” has a dire warning and a plea for Alabama parents.
genuine gender dysphoria, which is a real thing
[citation needed]