Her Teacher Took Great Interest
Miki Lorren, a one-time tomboy, “a gay woman living in the conservative south,” has some thoughts:
If you watch one thing today, make it this.
I’m so glad for this marvellous girl. But it was a close call, as she explains.
“You’re just a Tomboy” pic.twitter.com/GZgXwEDJrO
— James Dreyfus (@DreyfusJames) August 29, 2025
Note the presumption of the keen-to-enable teachers.
Ms Lorren has other thoughts worth sharing, among which this:
Hey, “Teacher Robi,” you’re not “non-binary.” What you are is validation-seeking from literal children… Who needs children to validate your identity? Why do you need a child to make you feel secure in yourself, to validate yourself? If you were truly a secure adult, a mature adult, you wouldn’t seek validation from other people’s children. It’s really weird.
Well, yes. Quite. And not just weird.
Oh, and as Ms Lorren says in one of her other videos,
I’m a gay woman living in a conservative city in the south and, let me be honest with you, the only people who have had problems with me being a gay woman in a conservative city in the south are the liberals.
Via Darleen in the comments. Which you’re reading, of course.
Mansplaining: between men it is a type of sport. Some groups will argue about sports and that includes guys “mansplaining” something about some team or player. Among a bunch of engineers (my friends) it can get pretty technical. If you say something dumb, the other guys will gleefully correct you. But I have also had guys ask me to explain something to them, at length, including mortgages, 401ks, climate change, how to tell if your roof needs changing. I’ve seen guys ask another guy for an explanation of bitcoin or AI. For guys, knowledge is power because it enables you to do things or avoid trouble. It also becomes a status thing. Women should sit in on such a session and see if they would enjoy the sparring and debating–most do not.
The narcissism is hard to ignore.
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All together now: It’s so tiresome.
I jumped in on the Charles Murray thread — well, the thread started by Daisy Dixon — and got some revealing answers:
And speaking of people with whom discussion would not be a thrilling prospect.
She’s an “expert” in philosophy. Those are just about the worst kind.
Someone in that thread said something to the effect that you don’t tell a professional baseball player how to play baseball. Odd coincidence, I had just ran across an interesting video about the physics of throwing a football (not the gay kind but the kind they’re trying to make gay..but I digress) spiral. It was meeting of two kinds of experts. One being Tom Brady, one of the best, most accurate passers in NFL history, and the others being a bunch of physics/cameras geeks. Two kinds of experts explaining how their specific expertise informs the others’ expertise. Trying to imagine how that video would have gone had all the experts been two groups of women discussing any other different forms of expertise that they might be experts about.