Land Of Mandatory Make-Believe
Canada, I mean.
Following this eye-widening farce, in which a mentally ill woman claimed to be crushed and psychologically violated by a haircut booking form, I bring you a vision of things to come:
And thus a pretext for legislative punishment and financial ruin.
Because you must defer to the claims of people whose perceptions are wildly unreliable, at least regarding themselves. And because you mustn’t notice the overlap of cross-dressing and unsavoury phenomena, as Mr Neufeld did. Lest it bruise the egos of the Officially Downtrodden, who must be spared any whisper of contradiction or exposure to statistics.
“A person does not need to believe in Christianity to accept that another person is Christian. However, to accept that a person is transgender, one must accept that their gender identity is different than their sex assigned at birth.”
And so we arrive at compulsory question-begging. No other possibilities being permissible, it seems.
Oh, and gloating, vaguely threatening cross-dressing men:
Threaten me all you like. I still won’t pretend to believe in gender identities. https://t.co/xkPFJZTGWL
— Mia Hughes (@_CryMiaRiver) February 21, 2026
Mr Oger, quoted above, spends his time campaigning to financially cripple women’s rape shelters, on grounds that said shelters don’t also cater to cross-dressing men, i.e., men much like himself. A preoccupation that possibly tells us quite a bit about the kind of man he is.
Presumably, absurd and sweeping rulings of the kind seen above will inhibit questioning of the motives in play, and will deter people from acknowledging distinctions between autogynephiles, transvestites, opportunists, and people with sexual dysmorphia, and deter them from considering the possible causes of that dysmorphia, including, quite often, childhood sexual abuse.
Which is to say, it will stupefy. It will make dishonesty mandatory. Because you mustn’t be allowed to determine for yourself what it is you’re looking at.
It will also give enormous leverage to spiteful bedlamites.
Which doesn’t strike me as an entirely utopian scenario.
Oh, that’s hilarious. “You rainbow alphabet people jinxed it for us!”
I’m betting no Canadian citizen applied for refugee status in Tennessee last year. Yet here in my city of London, Ontario I know personally of one family of American citizens (husband, wife and five children) who arrived at the Canadian border in March of last year and requested refugee status.
Before they were even here for four hours they had used our health care system twice for free. They regularly make use of the local food bank and last month they were begging for food on the NextDoor App. Their kids are also attending school at no cost and the parents multiple prescriptions are free. Oh, and the father is allowed to work while the refugee claim is being investigated.
Maybe we Canadians should be the ones building a wall.
Try this one: someone who claims to see the future, and so we have to do what they say because they’re always right.
On that topic, bint and “partner” who “fled” the US&A discover there are immigration rules.
I’m still processing: “I’m a scholar of the far-right who has fled the United States to Canada.” And then there’s the displacement of responsibility for making ludicrously bad choices, and the expectation of being given a two-bedroom apartment “for free.” Oh, and the seeming imperviousness to irony.
Not so much people as LARPing cartoons.
Brightest and best.
Apparently, we’re to be lectured on how the world is by people utterly unfamiliar with how the world is.
Absolutely. People with sexual dysmorphia exist. Ditto cross-dressing perverts and attention-seeking misfits, and combinations of the above. One can register this fact with bewilderment or curiosity or pity or whatever. One can be civil, if appropriate. But acknowledging the existence of these phenomena doesn’t oblige one to embrace some metaphysical and ectoplasmic claim about the causes.
I’m betting no Canadian citizen applied for refugee status in Tennessee last year.
Thankfully, no.
On that topic, I am not sure why they are laughing with him.
Laughing. Not sorry.
The thought process is boggling. These people must go through life endlessly bemoaning their bad luck, or – perhaps more likely – imagining that they’re terribly oppressed, systemically downtrodden. Rather than facing the fact that they just insist on making bizarre, catastrophically bad choices.
It’s rather like saying, “Oh no, the candidate I don’t like won the election. I must therefore saw off my own feet.”
Yet ‘lectures’ are just words. Our tolerance of those lectures is one thing but our not lecturing back, pushing back, our allowing them to lecture to our children and young adults without providing effective opposition to those views, the less harmful of those views, is on us.
However, our tolerance of the most dangerously ridiculous lectures, the not knowing what a woman is, canceling the police, tolerance of porn in our school libraries, the grooming of children, is unforgivable.
Don’t know about their citizenship applications, but they are still mighty thick here in Florida. Even north Florida.
Average Albertan vs. average denizen of, say, Massachusetts – easy choice.
I know a couple one of whom is Canadian and slightly to the right of Reagan. A Canadian refugee* would likely be fleeing the Trudeau/Carney carnage, similarly to the right, and would be a far better swap than the ilk of the aforementioned “scholar” that Canada is stuck with, or at least until her no apparent benefit to society self gets deported.
*(Offer does not apply to snowbirds** who come for the weather and beaches and do nothing but beetch)
Where “scholar” means merely “took a few bullshit classes”.
I, too, am laughing at this deluded bint.
I’m curious: What are their chief complaints? Wondering if your answer will fit my from-1000-miles-away perceptions.
Islam seems to be pathologically prone to childish magical thinking.
Which is why the get along so well with the Left . . . right up until they behead the latter.
Is it too much to expect our fine betters know English?
I’m not sure if that’s windmill tilting or dead horse beating or banging one’s head upon a wall but I can’t not see that.
The bigger issue is that sex is not “assigned” at birth, it is determined at conception.
The ruling’s other implicit conceit – that civility or coexistence requires deference to some transgender metaphysics – is also nonsense. It’s entirely possible to be civil with someone who claims to be, or wants to be, the opposite sex without believing that they actually are or could ever be the opposite sex.
If being civil with someone entails surrendering one’s judgement in that matter – and if it entails unilateral entitlements – say, men being allowed to falsify legal documents and barge into women’s changing rooms – then we’re no longer talking about civility. Instead, we’re talking about some kind of weird prostration.
An insulting and fundamental unrealism.
A different Canadian take.
Don’t criminologists usually dismiss the notion of crime?
Does being determined by the male invalidate the result?
Our beloved state broadcaster.
The BBC angle.
The actual story, non-BBC version.
The rest you can probably guess.
Research shows under-representation* of leftists in prisons and asylums.
* Less than 100%.
Clearly it’s misogyny and toxic masculinity, male colonization of female bodies, and probably yte supremacy, regardless of race.
Our beloved state broadcaster.
https://archive.is/QcIOj
The BBC reporter does mention in passing 17 paragraphs later that our hero stole a quarter of a million from a care home he managed. Then a minor aside with no followup – “including from residents”.
So when his friends took him to the casino after his first time at the gay bar, they said listen Benny, we know that this glamorous nightlife venue with its atmosphere of conspicuous consumption and escalating risk taking really isn’t the kind of place that’s compatible with your sensibilities or ours. But when your grandmother asks you when a nice boy like you is going to get married, you’ll find that betting client funds at the roulette table is the only coping mechanism that society allows you. And by the way, your grandmother probably puts a fiver on the Grand National every year, so she’s just as much a gambler as you are, but has society made her homeless or put her in prison?
https://archive.is/1qfpb
Risk management frameworks like don’t give Benny access to the bank accounts. Very respectable though. Would the NGO sector give you a chance to reenter the LinkedIn class if your resume included a prison sentence for theft? Discrimination and limited representation.
I’m amazed they didn’t manage to squeeze some drag queens in there.
Drag-queen stories do seem to make up at least 32% of BBC news coverage.
And you’d think that if you really felt it necessary to push a piece about the supposed vulnerability and downtroddenness of gay men who are also gambling addicts – a feat of contrivance in itself – then at least you might try to find an example who hadn’t stolen a quarter of a million pounds from actual vulnerable people.
It’s like the BBC exists in some moral universe at right angles to our own.
Content-free blather.
And in arts funding news.
In other words, they have no actual evidence at all. Only wishes.
Everything’s bigger in Texas.
Would that I could not.
Forbidden pattern recognition.
Not at all. It’s just a round-about way of saying he’s a useless, nattering, jobsworth who’s too much of a bother to sack.
“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.”
They misspelled “disgusting outfit” as “daring outfit”.
And yet we know the host would abandon his “principles” if faced with someone dressed in a style he’d associate with “right wing”.
I forget: Which letters in the LGBTQetc alphabet are for this?
Barn doors, horses, &c.
I forget: Which letters in the LGBTQetc alphabet are for this?
Z, maybe, although N might work if it is not species-specific, but since I don’t recall there being a Z in the offical BLTGQWERTY++ alphabet soup, I am going to say it’s the +. Covers a multitude of kinks..
If only it had been a dead horse, and he was caught beating it: 3 letters!
But don’t neglect to check for families Podicipedidae and Rallidae and the occasional Laridae.
Wow. It’s sad to watch because it’s so starkly evident that Warren is a good 30 IQ points ahead of his interlocutor. The guy wasn’t even grasping the categories Warren was proposing — he was just reacting with his pre-programmed talking points whether they were a propos to what Warren said or not.
It’s not just sad but difficult to watch, because seeing people engage in such brutally stupid thinking drives me to despair.