She’s Taken It Upon Herself
Not a lady, but a they-dy, obviously:
This is what happens when you hire woke. When they tell you who they are, believe them. pic.twitter.com/gk4EGnahps
— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) September 5, 2023
As an employer, the person paying for this privilege, you’d never tire of that.
Previously and entirely unrelated:
Following which, I added:
Oh, and we mustn’t forget the male teacher who required three months of paid medical leave, supposedly due to emotional exhaustion and “severe burnout” on account of the small children in his class being reluctant to lie about the sex of the person teaching them. The honesty of small children – who used the words mister and he – had rendered him unfit for work.
And every employer would walk over hot coals for an employee who demands validation of his psychodrama from other people’s children. And who, when this bold stratagem fails, retires to his fainting couch for months on end.
Update, via the comments:
Behold, another model employee:
Male teacher who thinks he’s a woman says he had a conversation with a student about growing fake bre*sts and is upset that other students haven’t noticed his “additions” yet.
These are the people teaching your kids pic.twitter.com/i5ouCKHQ5S
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 8, 2024
Just so we’re clear. He’s a teacher who wants the children he teaches to notice – and comment on – his breasts. Or his approximation of breasts.
And surely that’s what every parent hopes for in a teacher.
Consider this an open thread.
I’d say the stapled condoms were worse, because you can see the puncture and the tendency of rubber to tear is demonstrable and frequently seen. Magnetism, on the other hand, is invisible and somewhat mysterious and many people don’t actually know that floppy disks are magnetic and are vulnerable to magnetic fields. The more a phenomenon is physical, hold-in-your-hands, the more readily apprehended it is by anyone.
Band name.
Determination, or weird monomania, or unhappy compulsion. There are broad but fairly obvious personality differences that inform a person’s politics, and the extent to which political agitation consumes a person’s life.
Normal people – people who aren’t desperate to describe themselves as activists and thereby impress their peers – tend to find meaning and pleasure elsewhere. I don’t think normal people regard politics as an end in itself or a good way to pass the time. It’s something done – if at all – briefly, occasionally, when necessary, or in a crisis.
For activists, it’s always a crisis. Because that’s who they are.
And as we’ve seen many times, a crisis, even a manufactured or entirely hallucinatory one, is a pretext to indulge in recreational spite.
My relatives are generally too busy with their families and jobs and whatever to spend days on end obstructing traffic, or harassing random strangers, or vandalising an art gallery.
We’re going to need a cool logo.
Thnaks.
Were you in the 7th Division? You inherited my dad’s old job from right after the war (WWII, the big one). Short Arm Inspection. He and a couple of medics would do exactly that. Inspect the men, inspect the w-houses, declare which were off limits. Did that as part of setting up the post-war police administration in Seoul.
@WTP, who asked:
No, 7th ID was long gone by the time I hit Korea. They were deactivated in Korea in 1971, then reactivated at Fort Ord, CA in 1974. My first Korean tour was during the late 1980s…
The VD Control thing was a lot less fun, and more civilized by the time I was there; no personal inspections of soldiers, just monitoring the VD reports and contact tracing, plus education. Mostly paperwork; I’d heard about the inspections of the whorehouses, but those weren’t being done either time I was there. Very boring stuff, and also highly “touchy”. You don’t want to be the guy telling someone’s commander that the same enlisted chick he was hitting off-duty was also the latest reported contact for the guy said commander wanted to do non-judicial punishment on for having caught a case of VD.
The privacy crap was also pretty much a pain in the ass… You couldn’t name names to anyone who wasn’t supposed to know, but… It was a pain in the ass to try and work around the rules to try and actually solve any problems. “Yeah, we have one primary contact that all seven of these cases, but I can’t tell you who she is or who she works for…”
The other irritating thing was that it was, as always, the 10% making the other 90% look bad. We had a tiny fraction of the female military population living down to stereotype, but they managed to do so well enough that the other 90% had a very hard time convincing anyone otherwise. Same with the male component… Most did not participate in the off-duty shenanigans, but the ones who did? Every Korean I ran into had this image of sex-manic GIs who’d probably engage in intercourse with rocks or farm animals. All due to the 10% that did do things like that.
The average Westerner probably does not grasp how poor their reputations are in the rest of the world… Most natives of places like Sri Lanka or Bali have had experience with Western “sex tourists”, and are quite shocked to find out that the majority of the people who don’t visit them are rather prudish, actually…
@Kirk
Something I have somewhat suspected but figured, well hoped actually, that if it were that bad reputation-wise it would have bubbled up through the sicker end of the pop culture a bit. Though if one did wish to turn such marginal countries against western civilization you would expect there would be an effort to keep it quiet.
In my father’s experience in the 7th ID (17th IR) he was part of the Okinawa campaign just before the Korea thing. He said the locals there were so terrified of Americans, even the men. They took a civilian dentist prisoner and since he spoke sufficient English they were trying to get information from him. They were aware of how horribly the Japanese had treated not just Koreans there, and even native Okinawans for not being “real” Japanese. Dad said the poor guy was absolutely terrified. They had also taken some Japanese nurses prisoner after they overran a hospital. They didn’t search the nurses real closely because they were women and they were only holding them out of the way of battle for their own safety anyway. That night they heard several muffled explosions. The nurses had grenades hidden on them and were committing suicide. It caused quite the security stir as those grenades could just as easily been used against them instead.
It wasn’t long after the war that the Katsuyama incident occurred. Go figure.
See: Arthur C. Clarke and what I believe was the real reason he moved from the UK to Sri Lanka.
@pst314, who said:
In case you ever want to question your own sources and the interpretations of the man that agree with yours, here’s a little data point.
Circa 2003, I was stuck on a base camp in Kuwait after the rest of my unit went north into Iraq. For some ‘effing reason, my bosses had decided I had the ability to operate on my own, unsupervised, so I got left back to serve as the unit rep and guard all the gear we left behind.
In the course of which, that base camp was effectively emptied of US personnel. It was just a skeleton crew, and all the TCNs (Third-Country Nationals) hired to run the infrastructure. The dining facility was all Sri Lankan, and for lack of anything better to do, we started talking to each other. Head guy was actually a bit of a story; he was a fairly high-up lawyer/judge back in Sri Lanka, but since he could make more money working in Kuwait (and, I surmise, because he’d pissed off people in the government of Sri Lanka at the time…) as the overseer of operations, bit of a foreman situation. All the other Sri Lankans were very careful to respect him, and showed great deference to him.
In the course of things conversational, he started delicately hinting around a question he wanted to ask, but did not know how to frame: He’d assumed, before actually seeing how US forces operated, that we were a bunch of sexually depraved psychos, and that he’d likely be seeing boy on boy shagging going on in the mess lines, so depraved were we. When he saw people getting in trouble for so much as hinting at matter sexual, and that the youthful boys and girls were not living in fear of being buggered at all hours by their superiors, as he’d assumed would be the case, he wanted to know why… When he got around to asking the question, I was shocked and dismayed to hear he’d had that expectation.
When I asked the “why” question…? Well, seems he’d had extensive experience of Western sex tourists where he’d lived, and that there was even a famous English author living there, who was very well-known for walking the beaches and “taking in” young attractive boys, who’d he would “care for”. Because “money” and “prestige”, the old pervert was untouchable, but every Sri Lankan boy in the area knew what he was up to and had been warned away from him. The ones he was preying on were usually the ones without families or other networks. He did not remember the guy’s name, but was sure he’d recognize him.
I racked my brain trying to think of someone that might fit his description, remembered Clarke, and found a picture of him online, printed it out, and the next time I saw the old gentleman, I showed it to him and asked the question. He swore that was “the guy”, and was more than a little outraged when I related the fact that the reason he was likely in Sri Lanka in the first place was because he’d basically been exiled from England for doing similar things. It did not make him happy to realize that the English were fine with him buggering little boys in Sri Lanka, but didn’t want him doing the same to good English lads…
Yeah, we have a lot to answer for, I fear. I really do not like how we’ve gotten so lax on enforcing these standards… I mean, I know people who talk about their friends taking tours of Thailand and so forth for the sex, and they’re not even critical of them for it… Just like the mail-order brides from poor countries; they don’t see a moral issue, there. At. All.
Did you mean to post this in the “This is My Shocked Face” comment thread?
That is indeed what I heard from some people in the SF community.
Clarification: Was he indeed notorious in England for seeking out boys? Or just for being gay?
@pst314, who asked:
I have no direct knowledge, but there are sufficient sources claiming that the issues he left the UK for revolved around underage people, out-of-court settlements, and a promise to never step on UK territory again. My Sri Lankan informant told me what he was doing in Sri Lanka before he knew precisely who it was, soooo…
As well, I don’t know that it was quite “pedophilia”, more “ephebophilia”, in that he apparently preferred them pubescent or post-pubescent. Per what my informant told me, and what was in the supposed “scurrilous” reports I found. The English parties going after him were apparently upset because of activities surrounding his “tutoring”, so make of that what you will. The imputation was “underage”.
The amazing number of pedophilic offenses in the rather small genre of science fiction are somewhat hard to wrap your head around… Marion Zimmer Bradley and Walter Breen, for example? Whose activities were apparently common knowledge in the “fan community” of their era? Who are still defended, by some?
With regards to Clarke, I really don’t know the reality, nor would I testify one way or another, but… The encounter I had with that Sri Lankan gentleman leads me to lean heavily on the side of “Yes, he was doing that sort of thing…” It would have been a hell of a coincidence that he’d tell me about the “famous English writer”, describe the behavior, recognize the pictures I showed him, and then have it turn out to be a put-up job. He genuinely had no idea about the who or the why of Clarke’s fame, just that he was an older Englishman with a taste for young Sri Lankans… And, apparently famous enough that the local authorities were willing to look the other way, for whatever reasons.
What all that might actually mean? I leave that as an exercise for the reader.
That’s bad enough: adolescents are notoriously lacking in judgement and easy to manipulate into things that are “not in their best interests”.
I find it impossible to believe that Breen and Bradley’s activities were unknown to at least some prominent people.
There is even an sf author who is reportedly a member of the pedophilia-advocating NAMBLA.
I did read, not that many years ago, about a sf convention organizer who was eventually busted for this.
I’ve been a little uneasy about a some passages in Heinlein’s novels, but I’ve never heard anything about improper behavior.
I cannot think of any other stories, but I circle of acquaintances was not all that wide and was especially sparse on the coasts.
Semi-related: I hear that Trump has vowed to release the Epstein client list. I’ve been wondering how many on the list are powerful insiders–made men, if you will–and how many are influential and famous non-insiders who are now owned by the ruling class due to this kompromat.
@pst314,
I’d love to see the client list, myself. I wager that it would likely answer a lot of questions about the last sixty or so years of history, but… I think the more important question to answer is “Just who the hell was Epstein working for…?”
It is very likely to never, ever come out. I think that the key reason that so many in the government went so nuts after Trump got in was that they feared he’d do exactly that same sort of thing: Name names, when he found wrongdoing. The one thing that’s struck me about Trump is that while he’s a bloviating bombastic P.T. Barnum type, he’s also demonstrated that he’s a fairly strict moralistic type where it counts. He threw Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago when he was found to be recruiting there, per reports I’ve seen.
I really don’t get the whole “Trump is Satan/Hitler/Pol Pot” thing that they went to, across the board. Seriously… If he were running in the 1960 election, he’d be the Democrat, and the far-right candidate would have been Kennedy. That’s how far the positions have shifted in the last sixty-plus years.
So, why the reaction? Why did they pull out all the stops, to “get Trump”? What the hell can there be that they fear that much, that they’ve broken literal centuries of precedence and agreed-upon policies? Why did they not simply do what they obviously could have, rolled with the punches, suborned his policies slightly, and then gone back to business as usual after he left a successful term or two behind? What the hell were they afraid of? I can’t buy them burning all these bridges and expending all these assets because “ego”, but… There’s something to all of this, and I don’t understand it. It’s not like they couldn’t have worked with Trump; he let them salt his administration with all sorts of jackass establishment types, instead of what’s going to happen if he wins in November, which is likely to be a full-scale house-cleaning attempt that’s gonna get ugly as all hell.
Somewhere along the line, someone made some very bad decisions. Either that, or the risk of what might come out is really so bad that they’d have to have done what they’ve done. Not sure which is the scarier, to tell the truth.
Exactly.
I’d heard that Trump threw him out when he learned that Epstein was doing this elsewhere. In other words, the expulsion was not a “not on my property” thing.
My hypothesis:
And I’ve noticed that liberals seem to have been rather quiet about the Epstein coverup, as if they don’t care or fear what might be revealed.
Recalling Watergate: It’s not the crime, it’s the coverup. But if it were to turn out that the FBI and/or CIA were behind Epstein from the start, that would be a “put their heads on pikes” level of scandal. Not to mention a deadly blow to America’s global reputation: “If the Yanks did that, why not believe that every other accusation against them?”