The Bedlamite Contagion
Quoted below, extracts from a conversation that in many circles would result in much hissing and flailing of limbs, but which, it seems to me, very much ought to be had:
It’s captured everything. This ideology – this crazy, insane ideology that has no grounding in reality – has captured… every institution. It’s in schools, it’s in mainstream media, it’s everywhere… and it’s utterly absurd… Denying the existence of the mental illness doesn’t help those who suffer from the mental illness. All it does is prevent them from getting the necessary care.
It’s not a sign of good mental health for a man to want his penis inverted and turned into an open wound that he has to dilate for the rest of his life. That’s not evidence of a sound mind…
The reason that we’re forbidden – the reason they went on this de-psychopathologising campaign – which was WPATH, the organisation I wrote the report about – the reason that they did that is they wanted to destigmatise transgender identities. I understand that… But the answer is not to deny the existence of the mental illness… Let’s say there’s a stigma attached to being schizophrenic. The answer is not to deny the existence of schizophrenia. That would not help schizophrenic people at all. And the same thing goes with gender-related issues…
In any other branch of medicine, doctors would ask why. If you saw a sudden, 5000% increase in young people with bipolar disorder, the mental health world would investigate immediately… If you saw a 5,000% increase in girls suffering from anorexia, immediately we would want to know – what was that trigger, what is causing this? And yet, with gender, the 5,000% increase happens and nobody says a thing. Everybody’s pretending that it’s perfectly normal and healthy. Why? Because… it’s gender. You’re not allowed to question anything. You can only celebrate.
It’s almost as if we’re supposed to celebrate a 5,000% increase in teenage girls showing up at gender clinics and wanting their breasts cut off.
From the following video, in which Andrew Gold talks with the formidable Mia Hughes, author of The WPATH Files, about pseudoscience, malpractice, and experiments on children.
It’s a forty-five-minute watch, but there’s plenty to chew on. Much that could be quoted. I should point out that the later sections of the interview, which explore surgical affirmations, or as one surgeon puts it, “creating body types that do not exist in nature,” does get a little vivid, and indeed surreal.
The not-so-friendly skies:
Yes. How most people tolerate this bloody stupidity is beyond me. It’s like the vast majority of people have their heads buried so deep in the sand…or more likely, piles of BS…that they just don’t know what is going on. Or are they just cool with it because lol you mad bro? This is just nuts and it’s not going on in some backwater and it didn’t just begin five minutes ago.
This is the problem. The left launches its minions into outrage if someone misgenders someone or …TRUMP!!!!…but absolutely idiocy like this gets exposed in a Senate hearing and it’s mostly crickets from the right.
Nothing has had the effect of the original Star Trek, and the farther from the original subsequent forays have gotten the less interesting they are.
Haha. That.
Speaking of surgery …
That standard deviation can really bite you on the ass.
I don’t think I’m being unfair.
As I said at the time, when you’re three hours into the story and faced with another episode in which nothing really progresses, and the story, such as it is, feels both convoluted and simultaneously inert, it’s not a sign of top-notch writing.
The eighty-year-old-discovers-he’s-a-father thing didn’t work at all, and so what followed from that didn’t hit the mark, and whenever the whiny Raffi appeared on screen, you could feel your heart sink. And given the importance of pacing to good storytelling, you’d think it might deserve at least a little attention.
Though they did manage to finish ruining one of the series’ best villains. So there’s that, I suppose.
Could be. BUT: I know (or knew) a lot of fans who also accepted all sorts of woke bullshit in other walks of life. The number of lies they would accept (and even regurgitate) was astounding.
As I have said before, a lot of fans have very bad taste–crude, childish, etc.–and will accept the most clumsy pulpish drek. I have, over the years, pointed out specific examples of differences in quality in stories, movies, music, etc., and they just couldn’t perceive the difference.
In large part because it was the first.
Sadly true.
Long ago, my buying habits were guided by book reviews in Locus and the NY Review of SF and other semi-intellectual sf magazines. Until I figured out that the reviewers were nearly all dishonest hacks, lying for profit or for ideology.
Anybody remember the 1970’s TV show The Paper Chase? As I recall, there was much popular horror at the stress put on young students to learn as much as possible and learn it perfectly. Never mind that when a lawyer screws up his client can lose their savings, their livelihood, their freedom, or even their life.
[ Finishes compiling tomorrow’s Ephemera, considers sausages for tea. ]
“Ram it in, jam it in, students’ heads are hollow. Ram it in, cram it in, plenty more to follow.”
—Cosm by Gregory Benford
Most people don’t encounter it. They may hear of it happening elsewhere but they’ve never had to deal with it ‘up close and personal’.
The quality of the writing in the original series was, certainly for the first two seasons, fairly high.
I understand the legal defence being argued by American Airlines is that “If you fly with us you should expect“:
The airline will employ perverts and sexual deviants in the interests of ‘Social Justice’. These employees will be watching and filming you as you go to the toilet.
The pilots hired by the airline will be diversity hire tokens and may be utterly incompetent to fly a plane.
The aircraft utilised by American Airlines will be built by a company which hires diversity tokens based on their race and/or gender and certainly not on their competence. Your aeroplane’s doors and/or wheels are liable to fall off in flight.
The traffic controller in charge of the airspace your plane is passing through may be a diversity hire token and utterly incompetent to manage your plane’s safety.
The flight you have booked is subject to arbitrary cancellation because the airline doesn’t employ enough pilots of any kind to fly all the bookings it takes during busy holiday periods.
The baggage staff hired by the airport will be illegal aliens who will rifle through your luggage and steal anything they fancy.
The baggage collection area will be infested with Government diversity trolls who travel widely at public expense and often make off with other people’s suitcases.
Have a nice flight!
They said it to find out who won’t go along with the slogan
Ah, this is a woman speaking
A sense of jeopardised social status
the Grand Universal Shit Test
X is the thing that All Good People Say
“Stop trying to make heteronormativity happen, Gretchen.”
It’s high school mean girls jockeying for position within the herd. It’s always been.
#RepealThe19th enters the chat.
Sooner or later, everyone comes around to patriarchy.
As for the Labradoodle…you all know dog breeds are the result of intensive selection for specific characteristics, right? There are no wild Labrador Retrievers or Standard Poodles. A Labradoodle is closer to the natural canis lupus than either breed individually.
It’s the ridiculously overbred breeds like spaniels, with their near-universal ear infections, hip dysplasia and tendency to canine leukemia that are the Frankenstein’s monster in this scenario.
Also the airline’s website’s comment widget will have a list-creating function written by illiterate spastics and any attempt to use it will make you cry.
Probably.
I’m not sure it’s entirely proper to laugh at the words illiterate spastics, but that’s what happened.
Cadaverous Picard and the Face-Lifted Ladies
Band name.
I’m assuming that, following some on-tour scandal, the Face-Lifted Ladies would leave to do their own thing on a major label.
The retreat into perverse, insulting euphemisms continues.
Related thoughts.
This should turn out well.
There was no surgery involved in the creation of the Labradoodle, no stitching together of decaying flesh, no hoping for a fortuitous thunderstorm. Just a few doggy treats and a few naturally supplied hormones.
Related thoughts.
That. Plus, something I’ve always maintained, it forever taints the individuals of whatever ‘oppressed’ minority is fetish-du-jour even if they are outstanding in merit of their own accord.
AND that’s a feature, not bug, of the race-mongers. So when a melanin-enriched individual goes off the reservation, then their achievements are called into question as “you benefited from AA/DEI/CRT, how dare you dissent now!”
See: Justice Clarence Thomas
What ‘offender’ v ‘justice-impacted individual’ does is erase agency. The perp isn’t really responsible for the rape, assault, burglary or murder. Getting arrested and convicted isn’t the result of something they did, just something that happened to them.
That was going to be one of my contributions to the Friday Ephemera.
If only the Left would make itself ephemeral.
And the bestest most well trained lawyers doing their finest work can take your savings, your livelihood, your freedom, or maybe even your life.
Again, how most people tolerate this bloody stupidity is beyond me.
One of the many variations on the fascist thinking behind Obama’s “you didn’t build that”.
ICYMI
I did listen to him discuss this, but it bears repeating. An evil, evil man.
when you’re three hours into the story and faced with another episode in which nothing really progresses
I find it interesting that once streaming became the standard delivery channel we no longer had to suffer through episodes that had to be 47 minutes and come in sets of 20-22, which meant a lot of time-wasting filler and B plots. Episodes and series were exactly as long as they needed to be, and we got some nice, tight story arcs.
And now we seem to be unable to fill even ten hours with plot and we’re back to time-wasting filler and B plots again.
a lot of fans have very bad taste–crude, childish, etc.–and will accept the most clumsy pulpish drek
There’s an interesting divide between people who grew up with the Star Wars trilogy and those who came along a scant seven to ten years later. The various books, specials, cartoons, etc. post RotJ were awful. Terrible, hackneyed crap; Lucasfilm would hand a license to anyone if they thought they’d get a few points out of the deal. And yet that cohort truly believes the Star Wars “EU”, Admiral Thrawn and all, is some kind of great body of work and they’re furious Disney is ignoring it. Don’t get it myself. I had a passing acquaintance with a couple of the authors and they were quite candid that outside of gaming novels it was the only work they were ever going to get because Lucasfilm just didn’t care.
There was no surgery involved in the creation of the Labradoodle
I don’t think most people are aware of the routine docking of ears and tails and other “surgical” modifications made shortly after birth on many pure breeds to give them the appropriate appearance.
Looks like there was a Community Note that claimed the legislation was to protect innocent people from being prosecuted while they tried to report abusive material, but the note is gone.
Looks like Germany’s going ’round the twist again, 100 years later, and I hate to see what this century’s Weimar decadence resolves into.
Another, longer interview with Mia Hughes can be found here.
After watching it, if the words that come to mind are jaw-dropping medical scandal, then you’re probably not alone.
Some authors can be quite interesting to talk with.
How about those of us who grew up before Star Wars? I was barely in my teens when 2001: A Space Odyssey was released. Started out on authors such as Andre Norton, Alan E Nourse, Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein.
Sounds like one of those old Doctor Who episodes.
Oh, I think it’s more of a Quatermass vibe.
1:15 “sneaks up on you.”
In an alternate universe, I see a “Far Side” comic of a pseudovagina sneaking up on someone.
(x-posted from my tweet there.)