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Friday Ephemera (702)

November 24, 2023 73 Comments

All the fun of the fair. || All the fun of the fair 2. || Today’s word is fulsome. || It has its own tracking ID. || Yeah, screw those ambulances trying to get to an emergency, says she. || The thrill of can openers. || Incoming. || When you’re getting married and you want glamour and spectacle. || He went exploring. || “She’s more of a woman than I am.” || Modernity is a helluva thing. || Inadvisable. || Impression made. || Parking dispute. || We put the clever ones in reality shows. || “Use your eyes. This isn’t rocket science.” || Always respect the media. || The progressive retail experience, parts 517, 518, 519, 520, 521, 522, and 523. || Erotic bathroom scenes. || Today’s other word is tool. || Love and fentanyl. || The last thing that will ever happen. || And finally, a matter of some urgency.

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Free-For-All History

Mashed Potatoes And Gravy

November 23, 2023 63 Comments

I gather today is some kind of national holiday over yonder, beyond the sea. I shall therefore wish American readers a jolly time. I’ll also share an educational lecture on the topic by Professor James O’Flannery:

 

Among Professor O’Flannery’s other lectures is this one, on the Chinese Revolution, and which I strongly recommend.

Also, open thread.

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November 21, 2023 52 Comments

As I’m pushed for time, some items from the archives:

This Little Red Light Keeps Flashing.

Bewigged pervert takes an interest in the panties of schoolgirls. Progressive women rush to his defence.

When subsequently challenged, Mr Yates invoked “discrimination” and insisted that he is entitled to use “any bathroom.” The school is currently weighing the views of parents against the prospect of legal action and accusations of “transphobia,” with another meeting on the matter scheduled for September. Mr Yates is, he says, “completely overwhelmed with how the community is coming out and supporting me.”

At which point, readers may wonder whether such overwhelming support, largely from progressive women, is actually part of the problem.

It’s interesting to see how Mr Yates’ supporters – again, largely progressive women – will merrily elevate themselves with the airing of modish views, their displays of compassion and inclusivity, while in effect screwing over the girls. Girls, who, by disapproving, even politely, become low-status.

They Call It “Queering” History.

Tudor history, as seen through the welding goggles of wokeness.

Because when you look at a sixteenth-century mirror salvaged from a warship belonging to Henry VIII, the first thing you want to know is how it might induce psychological crises in the sexually dysmorphic.

Sudden-Onset Womanhood.

On sex-swapping Bond and other cultural projects.

We’re also told, “A gendered spin on the character can open up more potential for exploring Bond’s individuality.” And this exploration of the character’s individuality will apparently be achieved by erasing a rather fundamental aspect of the character – his maleness – and replacing him with an entirely different person of a different sex.

Readers are invited to ponder whether similar transitions might enrich the character of, say, Miss Marple, who, via similar logic, could be depicted as male, and as always having been male. Thereby exploring her individuality. Answers on a postcard, please.

A Testing Of Boundaries.

On provocation, restraint, and the malice of the activist class.

We do seem to be witnessing an upsurge in such sly provocations, and almost always from the same kinds of people with the same kinds of views – an eerie uniformity. And so, Narcissistic Glitter Bint can invade someone’s personal space and shower them, and their children, with some substance – in this case, glitter – and do it repeatedly, against their wishes, while saying, rather triumphantly, “I’m not touching him.”

The dynamic is basically, “You, unlike me, have some self-restraint, which gives me an advantage, therefore I shall test it and see how far I can go.” It’s the psychology of a child unaccustomed to consequences. 

Yet Prompt Payment Is Expected.

On chronic tardiness as a progressive credential.

I think we can assume that madam’s professed “time blindness” – which apparently precludes the use of the reminder function on her phone – doesn’t result in her turning up for work early, or accidentally working extra hours. Or being in any way more useful or helpful, or less self-involved.

I think we can assume that with some confidence.

Punctuality is, among other things, a gesture of recognition, of empathy. You’re acknowledging the other person as mattering, as someone whose time is as finite as your own and no less valuable. And if someone exempts themselves from such reciprocal expectations – having been encouraged to do so by supposedly grown-up educators – then it seems likely they will do less well in life, whether socially or materially.

To pick a humdrum example – if a schoolfriend’s mom invites you to join them for tea, and you turn up an hour late, unapologetic, and still expecting to be fed, this is not an obvious basis for congratulation. Or a second invitation.

From this childhood example, you can, I think, extrapolate.

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Bad Language

November 19, 2023 39 Comments

From the Telegraph, some healthcare news:

Cambridge University Hospital Trust under scrutiny for using the word in maternity leave policies, losing points in NHS diversity assessment.

Can you guess the offensive, verboten word?

The Cambridge University Hospital Trust, which manages a maternity hospital called the Rosie, lost points because staff use the term “mother” when referring to the policies it had in place regarding paid leave, instead of broadening it to include gender-neutral alternatives.

One might think that the employees having babies and therefore on maternity leave are, in fact, by definition, mothers. One might even think that a hospital, and a maternity hospital in particular, is a place where physical realities of this kind would be difficult to avoid. And yet.

While none of the hospitals’ current staff classified themselves as confused about which of the two sexes they are, it is, I suppose, possible that at some point one of the mothers taking maternity leave may, potentially, be sexually dysmorphic – i.e., mentally ill. But mental illness, even fashionable mental illness, isn’t generally something that one should affirm. Nor should it be a basis for the coercion of others. Farce, after all, soon loses its charm.

The scheme is commissioned by NHS England but run by trans rights groups, including Stonewall and the LGBT Foundation, who carry out the grading.

And these grifting monomaniacs appear to have their feet firmly under the taxpayer-funded table. Such that, even in hospitals regarded as doing nowhere near enough, rainbow ‘Pride’ lanyards swing freely around countless employee necks, “painted rainbow walkways” already assail the eye, along with innumerable rainbow-adorned posters and rainbow staff badges, and at least one “LGBT+ progress flag” flutters gaily from a dedicated flagpole.

In the same hospitals, unused tampons are abundant in the men’s toilets, and the womanhood of expectant female patients is being dutifully downplayed – one might say marginalised – lest the pretentious and unhinged feel in some way anomalous. Hospital staff are expected to introduce themselves to patients by gratuitously announcing their pronouns. As if their sex might otherwise be difficult to fathom.

The “diversity” assessments also insist that gynaecology services must “take… additional action to support trans and non-binary patients.” Specifically, dysmorphic women – women who wish to be perceived as men – should be spared having to sit in “a busy, gendered waiting room,” where the presence of other women may induce psychological discomfort and feelings of “dysphoria.” Instead, such women should be provided with “an adjoining waiting room that matches their affirmed gender.” In short, a waiting room for men in need of gynaecological attention.

We’re also told that gynaecology departments should remove “gendered names (e.g. ‘Women’s Health’),” as this may also make transgender visitors feel unhappy. The words “mother” and “woman” should, we learn, be replaced with the word “client.” The feelings of other, non-dysmorphic female patients on this matter, or on any of the matters raised, are not explored and are seemingly of zero interest.

Regarding the demanded erasure of the words mother and woman, another complaint is aired by our “diversity” overlords:

This change is only happening slowly across the service due to an already existing backlog.

A backlog of other “diversity” demands, that is. The ones being churned out at a boggling rate and with manic enthusiasm.

Among which, a demand that the term “heterosexual partnership” be replaced with “opposite-sex partnership,” on grounds that “bisexual people in opposite-sex partnerships” may “not classify themselves as being in a heterosexual partnership.”

Despite actually being in one.

At which point, readers may wish to imagine a bisexual chap, one in a relationship with a woman, arriving at a hospital with a fractured wrist and having the time to complain that his paperwork doesn’t allow him to stipulate that his heterosexual relationship with said woman is merely conditional and doesn’t preclude other, more manly entanglements at some future date.

Because when you’re fixing a chap’s fractured wrist, you obviously need to know about his bisexuality. And hey, priorities.

As part of the “diversity” assessment, feedback from hospital staff is solicited, presumably to determine the exact level of ideological conformity. However, much of this feedback has been denounced as “transphobic,” or “homophobic,” or insufficiently affirming of “pansexual” or “asexual” people. Examples of such inexcusable wickedness are included in the sixty-eight-page assessment report. For instance,

The sexuality or gender identity of my colleagues is not relevant to the job they do. Like everyone else, they should come to work and focus on their patients.

And,

I feel like I am surrounded by LGBTQ+ too much.

For readers on the verge of hyperventilated gasping, paper bags can be found under your seats.

Other supposedly scandalising staff comments are offered:

It gives me the impression that the hospital is prioritising trans rights over all other protected rights. Sex is a protected characteristic… and yet I am afraid the hospital will not protect the rights of female patients… Might a woman find a fully intact man who claims he is a woman in the next bed?

And,

If a patient asks for a female healthcare practitioner for an intimate procedure, can they be sure that person will be a woman?

The feedback quoted above is of course deemed worthy of a “content warning” and is prominently flagged as both bigoted and a “cause for concern.” One warranting “further investigation” by the employee’s superiors. Apparently, for Stonewall and the LGBT Foundation, and by extension the NHS, these are questions that needn’t be answered – and indeed one mustn’t ask.

Behold the new unsayable.

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Ephemera

Friday Ephemera (701)

November 17, 2023 89 Comments

“I am not a cat.” || Nommy-nommy-nom. || Nude descending. || “Can you give me your phone, please?” || “This weird phenomenon.” || Big fellah. || Mastering a foreign tongue. || Maybe the melting is a bad thing. || Intriguing object. || “It brings them a sense of peace.” || Utopian scenes. Related. || Andromeda is approaching. || New dance sensation. || Novel experience. || Penny drops, but takes a while. || Cooling chair, 1786. || Soho, London, 1956. || Quality time. (NSFW) || I have questions. || Short quiz. || She’s “cute” and she’s “nice,” but she expects you to lie on demand, or she’ll kick you in the teeth. || Jake used to be a trans woman. (NSFW) || Today’s word is gratitude. || And finally, a guide to megalasers, relativistic missiles, and other means of waging interstellar war.

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