We Can Rebuild Him
From the fun-time world of the sexually dysmorphic:
Wise words, as Transgender Reddit goes, from the replies to this:
According to our height-conscious chappie, it’s all about “just being myself.” And his self is apparently a shorter person than the person he actually is:
And hey, who wouldn’t want a “controlled breaking” of their legs? Which is how his idea of ladylike shortness would be achieved. A procedure that entails an exciting range of possible complications, including limited mobility, nerve damage, chronic pain, and deformity, and for which the success rate is, intriguingly, “not known,” according to the people offering the service.
Update, via the comments:
Twin Cities Teegan adds,
And yet in some quarters, among certain activists and their ‘allies’, anyone suggesting this might find themselves assailed with indignant name-calling. Something I’ve said many times is that it seems we’re not supposed to tease apart the various phenomena currently bundled together as “trans”:
And if we’re not supposed to make any attempt at unbundling those things, insofar as one can, and if we’re not supposed to do anything but affirm and defer, then it’s difficult to remain approved of while saying, however politely, “Actually this thing here – say, men getting their legs broken in a quest to become more ladylike – is unhinged and a recipe for disaster.” And it’s not at all obvious how one might define an upper limit to the pretending that’s expected.
Regarding this undefined upper limit, commenter [+] adds,
But here’s the thing. If observable reality is no longer the measure of things, and if observable reality must actively be shunned in order to be affirming, in order to be an “ally,” – as seen, for instance, here – then where is the threshold? Where’s the point at which it all becomes too bonkers, too big an ask?
When a shirtless, deranged man – a man attacking a breastfeeding mother and her four-month-old baby – is referred to by the Vancouver Police Department, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the Vancouver Sun, as a woman – despite all video and photographic evidence – then we’re in surreal territory. And the mismatch of claim and reality is not neutral or benign. It is corrosive. Not least to any trust in the Vancouver Police Department, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the Vancouver Sun – the probity of which is, necessarily, called into question.
Because the public, including witnesses to the assault above, don’t generally appreciate being lied to about the identity of dangerously deranged criminals.
As I said at the time,
And if you follow the link above, you’ll see this example, this feat of incongruous pretending, is but one of many.
An fyi for those concerned…There’s a Trump-endorsed GoFundMe for hurricane relief. Probably the only one I would trust. The situation in NC is real bad. Yes, like most disasters there’s a lot of BS and idiots making things about themselves and thus making their situation out to be much worse than it is where they are. Where I am people are whining because the local grocer, Ingles, which is based in Asheville, has no electronic payments and had supply issues needing to close some stores. Aside from needing to use cash for groceries or just go to a different store, here it’s really just another day. And as bad as things are in FL and south GA, that stuff is generally to be expected. But in NC roads are washed out, people are still stranded and many are still missing. Terrain is very dangerous. Communication is slowly being restored. Slowly. There’s a touristy pack mule team in our local area that is now carrying supplies up the mountains and around the washed out roads. Pretty sure eastern TN is just as bad.
Althouse in particular. The number of trolls there who are sociopathic liars who continue to hang about despite displaying their pathologies have poisoned the discussions.
More so with Instapundit, although I’ve always found his posts more valuable than the commentary.
There’s also a 2024 Hurricane Relief Fund at GiveSendGo.
Yes. I was a tad disappointed that Trump used GoFundMe instead of GiveSendGo but I do understand it for a number of reasons, mostly political. I was really annoyed when GFM defaulted to a 17% tip. I dropped that down to a dollar. I probably would’ve been ok giving $5 or so but $17? Yeah GFM…GFY.
@BenDavid, who said:
This, I fear, is one of the commonalities of this class of idjit. Across everything in their lives… They are incapable of understanding the “true other“, if you will. Inside the confines of their minds, which they’ve never left and are quite incapable of grasping as a limitation, they are unable to conceive of someone else not thinking precisely as they do.
This vice is endemic across Western Civ, and particularly bad in the monolingual and essentially monocultural United States. The general run of people are unable to form an understanding, at a visceral level, that other people are not “just like them”.
You run into this a lot of the time in the military, overseas. The officer class, particularly… Some form an intellectual understanding, eventually, but they rarely “get it” down in their guts, where they form their initial outlooks and impressions of other people and the situations that those people present. Given the opportunity and reason to think a situation through, they will eventually reason their way to understanding that that gentleman over there does not share their belief or value system, but they will mostly be unable to do any such thing “on the fly”.
This is why you get so very, very many stupidities performed by these numpties. They simply cannot wrap their heads around the idea that those funny-talking people with brown skins and weird customs don’t think just like the guys in the Rotary Club back at home. Of course those funny brown men mean well! Of course they are reasonable and rational men, amenable to the sweet light of reason.
Nope. They are not. This is why the “escalation manager” types fail every time they attempt their “nuanced” bullsh*t. It’s also why they can’t seem to learn; their infatuations with the product of their loony imaginations are far more attractive to them than the cold light of observed reality.
Doesn’t matter where, doesn’t matter when, it’s all the same syndrome: The idjit class believes what it believes, having arrived at it with nothing more than the contents of their minds, and they simply cannot comprehend that other people might think differently. The idea that a transgender male might have more on his mind than going potty in a females-only public restroom is beyond their ken; why, that nice manwoman said he just wanted acceptance!
And, of course, observed reality will be denied, denied, denied until someone finally snaps and beats the ever-loving snot out of the idjit. Or, is driven to excessive action against their rampant stupidity.
The damage these cretins accomplish is truly awe-inspiring. You see it everywhere, an example being with the destruction of the legal system, which they work their way into like so many ticks, where they enervate and inhibit the general workings of the existing system; all in the name of some idealized “justice” that only God could mete out. The fact that the system is inherently imperfect, and only there to do the best that it can? Escapes them; they don’t want to reform it, they want to perfect it. Which ain’t possible…
It’s the bane of our age, this issue. You see it with the Arab/Persian/Israeli conflict; the Israelis are so certain that if they behave in a “civilized” manner, then so will their enemies. Those enemies, however? Not living in the preconceptions of the 20th Century Israeli mind, and actually inhabiting something straight out of the 7th Century, are totally incapable of processing the Israeli actions as anything close to what the Israelis think they’re projecting. To the mind of the 7th Century sort that runs the Arabic- and Farsi-speaking side of that conflict, the mixed messages sent by the Israelis are incredibly confusing: On the one hand, the Israelis kicked their asses, and then, on the other, they came in afterwards and rebuilt things. The Israeli mind says “We’re magnanimous in victory…”, and their opponents are actually thinking “Hey, we won… They’re giving us tribute!!”
This failure of communication is probably something that won’t change until the Israelis do what the Arabs and Persians would do in victory: Utterly destroy their enemies, killing all the adult males, buggering the underage boys, and selling the women and girls off as sex slaves. That’s how you communicate “I won” to those people, and end conflicts. Going in after blowing everything up and repairing the damage out of a sense of humanity? That just confuses them, because if you’d really won, they’d all be dead or on the slave block, somewhere…
I venture to predict that the wars around Israel will continue until the Israelis nut up and actually do that, because the Arabs and Persians do not demonstrate much capacity to learn and/or change. In order to reform their conduct, you pretty much have to do to them what the Mongols did to the Old Man of the Mountain. You will note, I hope, that the remnants of the Assassin’s cult are all now doctrinal pacifists who prefer mystic dancing to slaughter.
Unpleasant fact, but an essentially true one.
But I think much of the problem is in reducing the antagonist – the main attraction – to a silent, generic vampire
It’s the Marvelification of everything. We’re supposed to know that it’s the Count and get all breathy at each teaser until the Final Reveal during which all the 40-something men in the theater lose their shit during the post-credits scene.
What’s that? No one’s actually read the original Stoker in decades? No one even remembers the Universal movie monsters?
Oh.
the Martin Caidin novel, Cyborg, on which they’re based
Tim Zahn made an early career of using SF as an allegory for military experience. His Cobra was an allegory for returning Vietnam troops unable to re-integrate into society, and Thrawn started out as an allegory for being black in the US military. In both cases the topic is dealt with fairly honestly.
Bariatric surgery for the obese is risky
A friend’s wife had it done. She was a poor candidate, under 250lbs, and invoked hitherto unnoticed “body dysmorphia” to get approved. She now fights to keep her weight up, eats only a couple of tablespoons of food at each meal, and has to down fistfuls of supplements to get enough vitamins into her system. She’s cut 20 years off her lifespan.
Child sexual abuse, of one sort or another. It is literally everywhere.
[ lights cigarette, takes long draw ]
[ stares into the middle distance ]
You don’t say.
When this is finally over, the scandal will dwarf the satanic day care scare/fraud.
The number of people who will deserve prison or ruinous lawsuits will be enormous
And like the SRA scandal, the number of people who will suffer any consequences for it is exactly zero. It’s simply too big. Once that first domino falls the result will be catastrophic and destroy every Western institution, so that first domino will not be allowed to fall. No matter what it takes.
It’s amazing how many 40- and 50-somethings I have nothing in common with. 😉
There’s also Samaritan’s Purse, which has already got 20-bed emergency field hospital set up and search-and-rescue teams deployed.
Assumes facts not in evidence…. :-p
When “everyone” is guilty, no one is guilty.
And the ruling class is never guilty.
Which reminds me: Epstein’s client list has still not been released. And never will be. Because the ruling class protects its own. And because the list is kompromat to guarantee that nobody ever defects from the favored policies and talking points.
@Daniel Ream, who said:
Y’know… I hear what you’re saying here. I do. And, I wish I could agree with you about the idea that the people who’re “in control” will act such that the dominoes don’t fall…
However, I’d like to have us all entertain the idea, looking around at the world as it is today, that “these people” are not smart enough or capable enough to unf*ck all that they’ve done. They’ve been playing civilizational Jenga(TM), and really, truly do not grasp that that is precisely what they’ve been doing. Forget Chesterton’s Fence, the current leadership class has been steadily engaged in ripping out the entire field and returning it to a state of nature, all in a fit of absent-minded ignorance.
I am of the opinion that things are currently in a state that should be likened to what happens when a machine goes out of control and self-destructs; the governors and limits are not functioning in our society, mostly because the people who are supposed to be performing that function have abdicated their responsibilities. The whole of things is going out of control, and I seriously doubt that there are any of “these people” who’re either cognizant or capable of preventing the dominoes from falling.
They certainly think they are, but imagine what happens to the entire mess if, say, some low-level FBI person decides enough is enough, and dumps all the secret files contained in the Epstein case? Among others…
[ If I suck up to David enough, maybe he’ll let me try the good hooch. ]
As much as I want to see something like that happen, I suspect it already has happened. Some whistleblowers have come out and been ignored or silenced. It’s going to take more than one. Like maybe an entire office going rogue. Or maybe the kinds of people who were aspiring to be lifetime Secret Service? Something like that. It’s definitely going to take more than one guy.
It has been replaced with watered down, flat cola. Check Cola. Leftover from a hurricane party in 1979. Don’t ask me how I know.
Likely, Seth Rich was who you are referring to. He’s really not what I was suggesting, as he was more a case of a dedicated idealist finding that his heroes were crooked bastards and then doing something really stupid by putting that information out on WikiLeaks, which I suspect is a state-sponsored front acting as a honey pot for the disaffected like Seth Rich.
What I think is more likely to be the trigger for all of this will be someone actually inside the system losing their cool, for whatever reason, and then blowing it all wide open. Seth Rich was, unfortunately, too trusting about what WikiLeaks promised. If the “break the system” moment comes, a large component of the event is going to stem from the fact that an insider committed the act, and they’re going to know how to bypass the security systems in place.
Like as not, it’ll be someone feeling like they got screwed out of their “fair share” of the take, and the whole thing will be an act of petty-minded revenge. The real issue for the powers-that-be is that they’re steadily reducing the ideological commitment of their worker-bee minions, and when those minions become disaffected for whatever reason…? Won’t be anything to stop them from taking their revenge.
Well, no, they’re not. But that doesn’t mean they’re so stupid or incapable as to relinquish their hold on power.
[ If I suck up to David enough, maybe he’ll let me try the good hooch. ]
There’s the good hooch and there’s the gooder good hooch. I have an in (don’t ask) with one of the henchlesbians who made a key from a wax impression made from one of the cheap White Barn Candles (Mahogany, Oud, Sandalwood I think) that’s supposed to hide that smell, whatever that is.
[…] that’s supposed to hide that smell, whatever that is.
Shh. Don’t talk about ‘that smell’. Not if you value your overcoat.
What I think is more likely to be the trigger for all of this will be someone actually inside the system losing their cool, for whatever reason, and then blowing it all wide open
Like Julian Assange? Yeah, we’ve seen how that went.
You’re going to need the intersection of cynicism, access to critical information, no loved ones and a terminal illness to get your info dump.
Like I said: no one will ever go down for this.
I can absolutely attest that women do not share underwear. Sweaters? Jeans? Shoes? Yes.
But knickers? Not for love or money.
No, it wasn’t him. There has been some onsey-twosy stuff by whistleblowers here and there that, were the party in power the GOP, would have gotten huge media attention by now. For something real big to blow, I think it is going to take a department or group of some sort. One guy by himself cannot possibly fight what would come his way. He would need both backup and support by people who had seen what he had seen, who could corroborate what was being exposed. One guy, even the most solid man you can think of, would get steamrolled by the system.
Heh. What is it with subjects here reminding me of things from the year 1980? A long forgotten discussion with my freshman year roommate about borrowing underwear. That wasn’t going to happen. Mostly because I was…uh…considerably bigger guy but it just seemed…kinda…gay.
As far as I can tell, FEMA is nowhere to be found in the Helena aftermath. If it was there, the media would be all over it. It is like Houston where most of the rescue boats were good-ol-boys in their bass boats.
I never imagined in a million years that the US would be backing Hamas and Iran (who hate us by the way) and pressuring Israel to stop. Imagine if rockets were coming to US from Toronto. The elite really do hate this country
Heh. The stinger at the end – a set-up for some unwanted sequel – was the icing on the cake.
Still, as the film is quite dull and unengaging, your mind is free to ponder other things – say, the predictable and terribly modern priorities of the film makers. We may not get much suspense or any meaningful characterisation, or much reason to care about what fate befalls whom, but we do get some girl-bossing and the inevitable reminder that people have at times been racially prejudiced. What these Very Modern Priorities add to the story is not at all clear. In fact, they serve only to undermine any suspension of disbelief.
Which, in a supposedly scary film about supernatural monsters, is an odd choice.
With the people in charge? They’d be falling over themselves rushing to surrender.
Even one bit of THE MESSAGE throws me out of the film/TV show. Spoils it every time.
I have a very low tolerance of it. And it does a disservice, not only to the audience, but to the cast. The lead actor is fine, albeit working with thin material, but as the film starts you can’t help but wonder whether his skin colour will be a pretext for some trite and clunky messaging and, sure enough, minutes later, it is. Ditto the inevitable girl-bossing.
The Demeter is by no means the worst example of this kind of thing. The Very Modern Priorities appear fairly briefly. But they’re still a distraction, an obstacle to immersion in the story. Suddenly, you don’t see the characters – only the writers’ fingerprints. And just when the film should be pulling you into 1897, the Very Modern Priorities shove you out, back into 2024.
It’s the proverbial fleck of faeces in the cheesecake.
Band name.
Ladies, is this true?
EWWW – NO!
Me likewise. And the more I encounter it, the less tolerance I have for it.
There’s a fifteen-second exchange in Spider-Man: Homecoming, in which MJ is gratingly woke, muttering about slaves building the Washington Monument, and it really does throw you out of the film. It also makes it impossible to like the character. (Though being played by Zendaya isn’t a great help on that front.)
Again, the fleck of faeces in the cheesecake.
@ccscientist
This guy concurs. If what he is saying is true, the people responsible for this situation in this administration should be hung. All that BS we heard about Hurricane Katrina that turned out to be lies, this is far, far worse.
I saw a news item earlier today that FEMA is almost out of funds.
If true, where did the money go? Looted for what? Illegals again?
I recall past hurricanes when FEMA and National Guard assets were staged and ready as the hurricane approached.
I think I’m beginning to see why trolls would not fare well here.