For Buoyancy, Perhaps
Lifted from the comments, a tale of self-satisfied inclusiveness from Edmonton, Alberta:
The mother and her 14-year-old daughter had visited the Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre for an afternoon in the pool. However, their plans were derailed by an encounter with the incongruous:
For the innocent and unworldly, that’s fake rubber boobs. Generally of ample proportions, as worn by drag queens. And a penis sling, obviously. I’ll let you Google that one.
The mother promptly backed away from the scene of the psychodrama:
A not unreasonable response. At least until about five minutes ago.
You see, when you’re about to get undressed in a women’s changing room and you realise you’re being watched by a balding pervert in an overtly sexual micro-thong, and with fake rubber knockers attached to his person, this is just part and parcel of being sensitive and inclusive. Apparently, we must learn to embrace modernity and its many sophistications. Especially the ladies.
A female member of staff joined the discussion, which the mother recorded. Sisterhood, however, was not forthcoming:
In response, the staff member explains that “It is the city of Edmonton’s policy that you can use whatever changing room you are most comfortable using.” She goes on to defend the man’s attire, saying, “They can wear whatever they are comfortable wearing.”
Again, penis sling, rubber boobs. Lest we forget.
A subsequent exchange with an officer of the Edmonton Police Service proved equally frustrating, and the mother was told that she was free to “stop using the pool.” Because retreating from intrusion and perversity, ceding space to it, is very in right now.
However, a report was filed:
It was a person’s penis, you see. In the ladies’ changing room.
That.
It rarely is, and they are usually even worse than the men.
It’s perhaps worth adding that the leisure centre in question is “right next to a grade 7-12 school and is frequented by young students for swims.” So, schoolgirls may find themselves sharing a changing room with a creepy middle-aged man who spends a lot of time at the centre, including in the ladies’ sauna.
While wearing fake rubber boobs.
As a society we are so far off course.
See also this farcical episode. In which ostentatiously progressive ladies played a decisive role. By screwing over schoolgirls, the daughters of their friends and neighbours, to show how caring and compassionate they are. And how their views are the fashionable ones. The ones to be seen having.
If there’s one thing the last month or so has amply demonstrated, it’s that Canada is too far gone to be saved. Trump’s counter-revolution is working because the majority of Americans agree with him. A plurality – possibly a majority – of Canadians agree with this insanity. They’ll do whatever the government or the TV[1] tells them without thinking.
There’s no saving this country. The sane people are fleeing in droves. What’s left is going to be Cold Venezuela.
[1] Which in Canada are the same thing
Well, you’d think that “Let’s not enable obvious perverts to ogle adolescent girls in the women’s changing rooms” would be an uncontroversial position. Something not obviously open to debate.
Yet here we are.
Smell that progress.
There’s the matter of social motives behind all this. It’s not about reasonable accommodation of transgenders, but about the intimidation and humiliation of the women who are the victims here. It’s about putting “normal” people in their place. (Similar social motive in: COVID over-reach.)
And, as usual, the police are in on it. Whether through shared motives (leadership) or moral cowardice (constables). It’s the UK Rotherham, etc., situation writ small.
Not all that surprising, though, or even that novel — remember the Canadian chap who sued one or more women-run businesses (I think they did Brazilians, or landing strips or whatever the trendy downstairs topiary activity of the day happened to be) and refused to undertake his pruning job because he was not female. (I seem to remember the insanity was given consideration here, in fact.) And wasn’t the metal shop teacher, the one with the double M rubber mammaries, Canadian too? Is it something in the snow, do you think?
As I have said before, the TQ part of the LGBTQ has misogyny as its foundation.
Meanwhile, in the state of Maine (which, coincidentally, abuts Canada) . . .
Horror movie title.
Not entirely unrelated.
There’s your problem.
And those girls will likely not have an adult of any kind who cares about them present at the time. So I’m guessing it very well may have happened at that location many times and thus is somewhat normalized there.
The new term is Snowmexican. Which is kinda unfair to Mexicans. Similarly Venezuela. AFAIK, those countries are stupid but not this stupid.
One of the explanations for Florida Man was the heat. They would be attributing it to climate change but that would make it abnormal. Can’t say that.
On the flip side, think of what this poor chap had to go through – 10 burly men.
Not unrelated, if there is one thing 3rd grade boys need, it is (rereads yet again) tampons.
Indeed, the AP style book states the correct term is frostbacks.
Who, according to our trembling princess, did nothing and said nothing. Nothing whatsoever. They merely sat there eating their lunches, while being bearded and burly. Oh, unforgiving world.
Or, self-dramatising mentally ill man is self-dramatising mentally ill man.
Canuckleheads.
Like virtually the entire left and the “queer community”, she wants thought control:
There is no living in peace with such people. Accommodation is impossible. So don’t try.
Peaceful means are being exhausted.
I love being pedantic, so I’ll say that one reason why Florida Man has become meme-worthy is that (I think, if I remember right, er, IIRR) police news is more readily available on line than in other states.
You want to grab these people by the shoulders and scream WHAT DO YOU THINK A MALE PREDATOR LOOKS LIKE??
But I don’t think that would register anymore. Mustn’t judge. Mustn’t make a fuss. Mustn’t be unkind.
I really don’t understand this parallel universe they live in.
I suppose that’s one of the pitfalls of a worldview, a psychology, geared to the appearance of niceness, to some parties at least – of endless accommodation of the marginal. Social structures depend on boundaries, on the option to say no.
As a somewhat Florida man and somewhat pedantic, I agree. Though generally/broadly speaking, warmer climates attract, or at least enable, such people to exist. Especially being active the full 12 months of the year. There’s a potential to tie this into cold blooded creatures but I’m likely pushing it.
I want to grab virtually every one that I know by the shoulders, make them see this stuff, and scream WTF DID/DO YOU THINK THIS CRAPS IS HEADED? It’s all so bloody stupid that I’m not entirely convinced that it’s not all imaginary and I’m schizophrenic. Either I am or everyone else is.
In the sense that our dollar will likely end up in peso territory this year, I concur.
I’ve said before that there are only two paths forward for Canada: Chile or Venezuela, and there’s no Canadian Pinochet.
Venezuela elected socialist strongman Hugo Chavez, who proceeded to destroy the country’s economy; and after his death elected Nicolas Maduro, who ended up being somehow worse. Allegations of election irregularity aside, both overwhelmingly enjoyed the support of the people. Who apparently decided that the problem with the economy was that they weren’t socialisming hard enough.
And now “they are eating the zoo animals” is a meme.
Oh, don’t limit it to Canada. Never forget those caring and compassionate folk who
rioteddemonstrated outside of Planet Fitness in favour of locker room pervs.It’s a lot safer to tell off mothers & teenage daughters than to, you know, pursue criminals.
Given what happens when you push back, the “niceness” is often a self-protective mechanism. Telling a hulking AGP to get out of the ladies’ is like telling a boom-boxer on the subway to turn it down — your likelihood of being assaulted is pretty high.
And in the case of the AGP, the whole mechanism of the state and half of society comes down on you if you so much as look at them cross-eyed.
I understand people not wanting to run afoul of social opinion. I don’t understand what captured officialdom to such a degree that they defend the indefensible.
It’s a cordyceps fungus. I don’t know how to fumigate it.
Exactly. See also Germany. Not so much in regard to socialism, as bad as it is over there, but the open borders thing. In spite of conservatives wanting to see things otherwise, over 75% of that country is still too afraid to stand up for itself.
More ‘niceness’ on display.
‘Pity about the children but we mustn’t be seen to be censorious about the very apologetic & hurt mentally ill.’
I don’t. Not in a society that pretends to be all stunning and brave. Because Anne Frank and shit.
Anne Frank and Shit. Band name. Beat you to it.
Is the funding for these types mysteriously drying up for some reason?
Elsewhere in Canada.
Magaera:
ahahahaha love the wording.
… over 75% of that country is still too afraid to stand up for itself
The man from the Irish Times recently witnessed two strangers on a German night train tentatively identifying each other as possible allies, timidly introducing non media approved ideas, and eventually having a frank conversation about what they thought of immigration.
Two Germans on a train.
The first German says to the second German:
“Do you mind if I open the Overton window?”
Wow.
Notice that all his comments are about how badly HE is doing and what HE needs to do to heal. Nothing about how his kids were affected.
He slashed open his daughter’s esophagus but only admits to cutting her shoulder.
And yet he’s got custody of the kids instead of their mother. What a piece of work she must be!
There might be actual psychosis in the mix, but it also might be a psychopath trying to pull a fast one.
All the red flags are there, people. Do not be hypnotized by the pink/white/blue flag.
A good start, like that joke about 100 lawyers at the bottom of the sea.
What do you want to bet the mother didn’t ‘affirm’ his ‘womanhood’ and that’s why she (the real one) lost custody.
Call 1-900-NSA-TALK for a good time!
As much as I would like to believe that happened, given it’s from an article in the Irish Times, along with some of the wording, it smells to me like something from the Things That Didn’t Happen Files. Journalist fantasizes about secret Nazi meeting on a train that for some reason he (oooh, lucky he) stumbled onto. And then mustered up the courage to inject himself into. A foreign stranger. Though I am certain that the journalist’s German is very, very good.
I mean, yes I could be wrong. I may have also read too many spy novels. Or perhaps the journalist did. I wonder if there’s a German translation of the Irish Times.
Two seagulls, Gertrude and Heathcliffe…
Just how old are you?
Old enough to know how and young enough to do it again.
The only Red Skelton characters I remember are Gertrude and Heathcliffe and Freddy the Freeloader.
Do you remember any others?
Klem Kadiddlehopper and Sheriff Deadeye.
I’ve been listening to a lot of classic radio shows lately. But I do remember seeing him every where on TV when I was a kid.
Ah, yes. Those two as well. Thanks.
I enjoyed his show. Thanks for reminding me of him. I’m going to borrow a DVD from the library.
It was bewildering at the time to learn that hippies and leftists hated him, as he seemed so sweetly humane. Only later did I begin to understand the pathological and malevolent roots of the left.
Fond memories or watching Red Skelton and also Jackie Gleason as a kid. Being very young and not exactly clear on what was a seagull vs what was a pelican, I imagined Gertrude and Heathcliff as pelicans. Which made those skits much funnier in my mind.
Gleason did his show from Miami Beach and lived in south Florida. Whenever we (rarely) went to Miami or that area I would check every fat guy to see if it was him.
Also, time for a pic…ok, not a dog pic…not even an animal pic, per se. Just ran across this from eight years ago and too good to pass up as it’s even more true today.
I loved Gleason too and Art Carney. I still say homina homina in stressful situations. And I do the fastidious preparation bit from Carney. My kids think I’m crazy.
Also: The snobbish hatred and contempt displayed by urbanites and intellectuals. See the canceling around that time of various shows that were popular but were hated by Hollywood executives.
Helloooooo, ball!
old shows: my wife has started calling my 3 little grand-daughters “the 3 stooges”. I said how about 3 musketeers.
The reason Trump won is that the Left got greedy and reckless. It wasn’t enough to stifle lightbulbs and take away straws–they had to start removing the term “mother” and insisting on men in women’s locker rooms. They had to rub it in that they were in charge and we were dirt. Marching FBI agents around and insisting that we had to believe these were dangerous “domestic terrorists”. Having billions in federal slush funds gave them too much confidence.
People think laws and police are designed to protect citizens from criminals.
That’s wrong.
Laws and police are part of a bargain citizens make to forego vigilantism in exchange for protection. They protect criminals from citizens.
To paraphrase a certain intergalactic supervillain with a fondness for telepathic choking, “Pray we don’t alter that bargain…”
Canada is a largely misogynistic country despite all their “progressive” ideals.
According to our Prime Minister, we’re not misogynistic, we just experience things differently.
How to say you’re owned by China without saying you’re owned by China.
Point of order – we can thank the Republican Fred Upton for that particular bit of idiocy.
Despite? It’s those ‘progressive ideals’ that has Canada touting the importation of the historically & culturally misogynistic.
“Arbeit Macht Frei”
I get that I don’t get a vote but my vote is for stooges. Was teasing my 2 yo great-nephew the Curly finger snap thing. Can’t find Curly doing it but this thing that this guy takes way too long to demonstrate.
Old wine in new bottles.
I just emailed a copy of the initial photograph link to the rec centre as a “comment” on my experience. I used to live in Edmonton, long before this insanity.
“For a typical cartoon, I would supply the animators with perhaps 300 key drawings, but I made almost 500 for ‘[this one]‘ as well as a further 1,500 unused roughs,” – Chuck Jones
You’re thinking of this fragrant fellow
Is this an Instalanche? Glenn links to an Ann Althouse post, and he excerpts something familiar from the comments.
I loved the opening, the shot from a helicopter rushing over the ocean towards the coast. My favorite bit was Joe the Bartender and Crazy Guggenheim.
[ Slurps coffee, compiles tomorrow’s Ephemera. ]
dcardno: Yah, that’s the fella.
Dicentra: Know why they bury lawyers in hundred-foot shafts? Because deep down we’re actually good people.
I’ll be seeing myself out, OK?
AND I DIDN’T BRING A COAT WITH ME, DAVID.
Which might, I think, explain why people who prioritise niceness and ostentatious caring can get quite annoyed if they see that you’re unlikely to play along. People who are being dishonest rarely appreciate reminders of reality and how far and how routinely they depart from it.
A few weeks ago, I accidentally made an ostentatiously nice person splutter with indignation when I mentioned in reply to them that my compassion is a finite resource and not something that can accommodate an endless, ever shifting menu of niche issues. The person in question reacted as if I’d loudly belched during a funeral.
[ Slurps coffee, compiles tomorrow’s Ephemera. ]
Came here to check on that.
She decided not to be marginalised anymore.
Rest in peace, Gene Hackman.
Man, when I think of the NYC of my childhood, it is through the lens of The French Connection, which I think is THE all-time “cop” movie. I mean, surviving a an upside down cruise ship and Shelley Winters is one thing, but the character of Det. Popeye Doyle will always have a place in my heart, especially when picking my feet in Poughkeepsie (that line kept my siblings and I in stitches for years, expanding it to include singing “she picks her nose in Spanish Haaaaaaarlem . . .”
Can’t decide whether to rewatch The Conversation or Superman: The Movie.
Could go either way.
Rest in peace, Gene Hackman.
Him, his wife, AND dog all found dead. Nothing to see here, folks, move on.
Meanwhile over in Blighty, an interesting legal standard:
Well if a Moslem drag queen “who is a trans woman” says so, it must be true, asylum granted.
However, as Mr. Worstall observes:
Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza confirmed the news on Thursday, saying no foul play is suspected.
Natural gas leak? We’ll have to wait for further details.
From a comment on that thread….sick society. At the elementary school and even early middle school age, the only girls I liked being around were tomboys.
Heh. I knew I had previously read that somewhere…
ccsientist:
It was never about the straws, dearie.
It was never about compassion, liberation, justice, or progress – only power.
Only ever power.
Everything else was either a sop or a goad to useful thugs, or flattering misdirection of the chattering classes to get them to abandon (Western moral) principles.
Including the light bulbs and the straws.
Natural gas leak? We’ll have to wait for further details.
Him, his wife, and dog – one thing is certain, it is not natural causes.
Always respect the media.
Woman! Wo-man. Whooooa man!
Gee, look what the Wuhan Institute of Virology ‘discovered’.
And every time this happens, and it happens all but weekly, they burn more of any residual credibility. While simultaneously insulting their viewers and readers. For whom, an obvious question is, “If they’ll lie about something so glaringly obvious, so transparently untrue, what the hell else will they lie about?”
And while imagining themselves the victims of a cruel, unfeeling public.
Trump telling people to drink bleach? Or any of the other items (not a comprehensive list) addressed here:
https://americandebunk.com/
Supposititious pronouns losing their cachet?
Not that I didn’t recognise his talent, but I never liked him as an actor.
And while imagining themselves the victims of a cruel, unfeeling public.
Speaking of “journalists”, meet the recent head of the White House Correspondents Association, recently hired by MSNBC, because of course.
Training mission for Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B is proceeding on schedule.
Great flick. Great scene. And if it isn’t Scottish, it’s crap!
That looks like Jordan Peele.
That looks like Jordan Peele.
I can’t imagine why...
Though it is an observation shared by others…
Heh. Grok.
You might try Enemy of the State
No, Young Frankenstein!
That works too.
Hackman: he is a pretty good actor in the sense of “acting” but my all time favorite is Gary Oldman who disappears into roles so thoroughly that you don’t realize it is him. He is both the bad guy in The Fifth Element and Churchill and Darkest Hour. Amazing. Dwayne Johnson I like but he is always just himself.
Also Oldman in Léon: The Professional.