Lie Like We do, Children
And in classroom surrealism news:
A primary school has held up a trans man as a positive example of masculinity in teaching materials for its pupils. Streatham Wells School, in south-west London, said Elliot Page, the Canadian actor who medically transitioned with cross-sex hormones along with gender surgery and now identifies as a man, showed that masculinity “can mean softness and strength.”
The school used the example of Page, along with the singer Harry Styles, to show children how men can be multi-dimensional.
In an article for the online newsletter Teachwire, Sarah Wordlaw, the head teacher… wrote: “It is important to teach pupils about harmful stereotypes about masculinity… It is extremely important to teach about positive masculinities.”
Because a mentally ill, self-harming woman, one seemingly forever on the verge of tears, is now a “positive example of masculinity.” A role model for primary-school children.
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Next week: cutting!
So the kids will learn never to trust teachers…
Well, I’m inclined to wonder what will happen when one of the children raises the obvious objection – i.e., that Ms Page is not, in fact, a man. Given the presumption of the teachers, the ideological overreach and casual arrogance, I’m not expecting much room for realism, or honesty.
Trusting government employees is always dangerous, think of COVID-19, Climate madness and your local school or university.
In other school news, in Brazil a university janitor and paper pusher are nicked for “social racism” because in Brazil apparently “troon” is now a race. I can’t help but think that these bozos would be less likely to be “mis”gendered if they made half an effort actually to look like what they pretend to be.
See also this, also from Brazil, where a sales clerk was saved from charges by CTV.
The typical way things go seems to be that teachers, full of the idiocies of the present day, attempt to impart these upon children at school, who in turn conclude that the teachers imparting idiocies upon them are idiots, and that education in general is nonsense, and who react to their education in a completely different way to which their teachers expect.
So, one wonders, what will be the cultural reaction to the present bunch of kids to this present-day idiocy?
The next few decades are going to be a *wild* ride.
“Computer, end programme”
And then there’s the small matter of what will happen when a parent objects to their child being taught to lie – and being subjected to what one might call ideological molestation.
I expect Chaz Bono would have been a more representative FAKE man …
Not a bad thing. I learned. Never early enough tho.
They’re dismissed outright and, should they persist, subjected to arrest & prosecution. At least that’s how it seems to work in much of the United States.
BTW, ‘ideological molestation’ has to be the most succinct description of the phenomenon I’ve encountered.
Muslim parents will love this.
And not in fact men.
Note that they pick two…two entertainment persons. Fake personality people. Because the administrators, and apparently anyone sending their childrento such a school, have zero appreciation for the kind of man who can actually *do* anything useful. The future for these children cannot be very promising. As prophesied in the Book of Idiocracy.
This happens concurrently with women asking where men are hiding, and why they have “retreated from masculinity“.
The lack of self-awareness would be amusing if it weren’t so sad.
[ Wafts smell of freshly-baked rhubarb crumble. ]
[ Suggestively peels lid from tub of custard. ]
As a sweaty teenager, I didn’t respond well to teachers who presumed their role was to engage in some politically loaded social engineering project.
And it seems to me that if your small children are in a school whose head teacher witters on about the importance of “acknowledging intersectionality,” who thinks the job of primary school teachers is to “undo the deeply ingrained gender stereotypes in our society,” rather than, say, imparting competence in arithmetic and basic grammar, and whose idea of “positive masculinity” is a mentally ill, self-harming woman, then… maybe it’s time to find a more functional school.
One whose teachers know their place.
Everyday misandry – Mr. Webb weighs in.
Just read that for the first time and, on first reading, she almost gets it. There are some thoughts on that page that do hint at realization, but she doesn’t ever get into the real why of so many men’s avoidance of relationships.
I mean she starts with the idea that she “knows” what “cis straight men” want based on her work at Playboy. Really? Really?
I’m going to have to go back and give it another read or two.
Previous generations of 11-12 year old boys were inspired by stories of explorers and astronauts,but since that might discourage girls, the frontiers boys are now encouraged to explore are frontiers of perversion and self-sterilization, with middle-aged role models who had a brief moment as youth icons before these boys were born. What could be the appeal of Andrew Tate to such boys?
And every year that goes by, that classroom of 11-12 year olds has a higher number of boys from demographic origins where fathers tell sons that soon you’ll be a man, female teachers have nothing worthwhile to teach men, and should be treated with polite contempt. What could possibly have given them that idea?
And that’s a damned disservice to girls, too. A lot of us love those same stories! These misandrist teachers hate the “stereotypical” boy, but turn around and enforce some stereotype on girls that we’re only interested in tales of tea parties and fantasy romance? Argh.
Of all the “benefits” brought by feminism, gender confusion is one of the big ones (along with unhappy women). They have insisted for 70 yrs that men and women are just alike, and women can do any male job and anything deviating from that pronouncement is simply cultural conditioning. Thus evidence that little boys and girls are different or that female firefighters will get people killed is simply ignored. This barrage of idiocy laid the groundwork for claims of “I am whatever gender I say I am” (including indeterminate and made up). Consequences, how do they work?
Related: it has been tough to get boys to read for school but it has been found that if you give them adventure and sports books (instead of Wuthering Heights stuff) they dive in. Oh, but we can’t give them role models of masculinity, can we.
And on top of that, fill the class discussion with slogging dissections, interpretations, Fruedian and other BS that many authors never intended. As if everyone needs to grow up to be a literary critic…and thus consequently bore even more people. The schools and our idiotic cultural curators worked very hard to destroy both Moby Dick and Anna Karenina. The former to suck the interest for the book out of boys*. The latter, to gaslight and sell feminism to girls.
*not to mention most literature teachers are either women or soy men who have no understanding of realities of the story itself.
Oh, I think most understand, but they are the people who inwardly seethe because of their own profound lack of talent at writing anything readable. Next best thing is to “rewrite” stories in front of a captive audience. Getting that audience to actively dislike the original story and author is just a bonus.
No … just NO. Don’t even think about it.
Jordan Peterson interviews Scott Adams.
China does not need an army to invade Taiwan. Just look at Taiwan’s population pyramid. If China just waits long enough, there wont be anybody left in Taiwan.
https://x.com/HousatonicLive/status/1940008434180432003
On topic…
https://x.com/Theo_TJ_Jordan/status/1750554047457669139
https://www.dw.com/en/denmark-tries-paying-syrian-refugees-to-return-home/video-73319761
Syrians faced with a choice – “whether to stay or go”. Do Danes get to make a choice – whether to keep their Syrian guests for ever or send them away? Evidently not, given that they revoked some residence permits as far back as 2019, but not one of the affected Syrians has been deported.
Ahmed is disappointed that Syrians have been in Denmark for ten years, and they still don’t have “proper papers”, which presumably means permanent instead of temporary residence. Yes, Ahmed, you can take that to mean that the Danes don’t want you to stay permanently. That doesn’t make them bad hosts – it makes you a bad guest, abusing charity and overstaying your welcome.
The Danes even offer Syrians $38K to go away, but only 120/45,000 (0.3%) of Syrians in Denmark have taken up that offer. You couldn’t pay most people $3.8 million to swap a lifetime in Denmark for a lifetime in Syria if that’s the actual choice refugees think they’re making and seem to be allowed to make. But $38K is reasonable number to use when we’re still pretending that refugees are grateful for temporary respite during hard times and now they want to go home, where that farewell gift from us will go a long way to rebuilding their lives.
0.3% of Syrian refugees have behaved consistently with the latter narrative, which hasn’t stopped it being used to shove even more refugee inflows into European nations, inflows which don’t turn into outflows because of complex push and pull factors, but mostly that they want to stay despite the fact that we want them to go.
4 killed and 14 wounded in drive-by mass shooting at “proudly Black-, Brown-, Queer-, and Women-owned” club which owners described as a “safe space”.
What, in the name of all that is holy, are they proud of?
Woman complains of post-traumatic stress after setting male friend on fire.
AI crosses the line into … well, I’m not sure this is territory we need to go into, but since when did that stop anybody?
And from the world of elite academia and the right, polite opinions:
I suspect the definitions of “empathy” and “kindness” may be somewhat loaded.
I would guess, for instance, that if an applicant’s empathy extends to those whose neighbourhoods have been degraded and made alienating by a rapid influx of incompatible migrants, they will not fare well.
Likewise, applicants whose empathy extends to future generations of their own society, its fading high-trust status, and to the values being eroded, irretrievably, by perverse and suicidal immigration policies.
Indeed, applicants whose empathy extends not just to the fashionable now and some fetishised otherness, but to longer-term consequences and secondary effects, to low-status but justified fears, and who therefore regard immigration as something to approach with care and selectivity, may be regarded as having the wrong kind of empathy.
The kind that doesn’t count.
They think they *own* empathy.
Evergreen chart.
Well, yes. Quite.
But the project above does seem likely to filter out dispassionate thinking. The kind of thinking that might entertain long-term consequences, secondary effects, and unfashionable, neglected variables.
Which is an odd preference for a [checks notes] elite university. A place of learning.
I should add that the above is hardly some esoteric insight. This is – or rather, should be – a pretty obvious concern. A thing that might occur to supposedly clever people and which they might wish to address. That it has seemingly not been registered by the parties responsible – at least not as a problem – possibly tells us something.
Missing/not seeing the bloody obvious *is* a sign of intelligence for these institutions. Thus this development makes perfect sense. I don’t say that to be facetious or ironic, it is literally what they are looking for. Such students are less likely to derail classroom instruction with common sense folderol.
And note the judge said she prefers to not put women in prison–and gave this woman a low sentence–even though this woman has a history of violence and still does not recognize her responsibility.
Feminism: Is there anything evil it cannot do?
Just one sentence like that would set off an alarm. 😂
Heh. Possibly. Though, again, it’s not about lacking empathy or being needlessly unkind. It’s just a much less loaded and selective use of those terms. And it’s informed by an awareness of how even a small number of incompatible, inassimilable people can degrade the lives of a much larger number of people, entire neighbourhoods. That’s how crime and anti-social behaviour works.
Given which, ramping up the numbers of the inassimilable is, shall we say, unwise.
We’ve seen this pattern many times – as, for instance, in Germany, whose leaders loudly announced how caring and empathetic they are, and where extending an indiscriminate welcome to “migrants” resulted in a sudden uptick in the sexual assault of women and children, a rapid evaporation of social trust, alarming levels of tribal friction, and bewildered Germans being randomly assaulted by “migrants” using their belts as whips.
Gratitude, baby.
Easier to ban the implement than the crime.
Speaking of empathy, a empathetic judge blocks another deportation with a plot twist.
Speaking of lying, the article is hard to read what with all the pronoun flummery.
“…positive masculinities.”
This is clearly a term of art, derived from academia. It sounds suspiciously like when Critical Theory people, the type who like Foucault, refer to knowledges in the plural. It’s taking a very normal and straightforward word and redefining it in a peculiar way for political ends.
I hate how these people use language.
Handbook of Studies on Men & Masculinities (Hearn and Connell, 2005) seems to be a source for this topic.
Protest not lively enough? Let the Epping Constabulary help! Free transport for ‘anti-racists’ now available!
Birmingham seems a lovely place.
Schoolhouse world zoom: it is a way to launder racial preferences. POC will get lots of points from other students, as will leftists. This way there is no paper trail. And what does “empathy and kindness” have to do with college admissions? Why does a “kind” student get extra points?
Shot. Chaser.