Marking Their Territory
And in totally-radical-toilet news:
Female students at one of Latin America’s top Universities say trans activists staged a coup of a single-sex washroom on their campus,
It started, you see, with feminist students painting a lesbian pride symbol on a wall near a campus library. As one does. This act of fearless self-involvement apparently inflicted nerve-shredding trauma on the trans activist contingent, who promptly denounced the lesbians as “TERFs, colonial fascists, and transphobes,” before announcing that lesbians are only permitted to use symbols of lesbianism that they, the trans activists, find congenial.
Shortly after, as a result of the lesbian symbol that had been painted, the trans students reportedly declared that they “did not feel safe” on the campus and went to administrators to demand a gender-neutral washroom be established in that area. While administrators agreed to create one, the students did not wait for it to be designated. Less than 24 hours later, the activists took over the largest female restroom, which was on the second floor of the Faculty of Philosophy.
Ah, the life of the mind.
Naturally, the first task was to give the toilets a makeover via the uplifting medium of graffiti, thereby communicating the life-enhancing qualities of prostitution:
“Less abolitionism, more whoring,” and “less TERFs, more sex” were among the slogans painted outside of the washroom. The “female” bathroom designation was also erased and replaced with “gender neutral.”
Needless to say, the conflict has escalated.
In response to the bathroom putsch, some feminist students on campus attempted to mark the washroom with their own graffiti.
With the facilities now being used by rival tribes, all gorged on intersectional compassion – and with so much graffiti to be written and responded to indignantly – students are reporting queues and “lengthy wait times.” The situation is particularly fraught due to the space’s history of radicalism and, naturally, sexual assaults:
Sexual assaults at UNAM are so common that the University recently had to install emergency buttons inside of the cubicles of women’s washrooms.
The emergency buttons have, it seems, inspired ever-loftier politics:
Photos snapped inside show violent threats have now emerged, directed at the women. One, which was menacingly placed near an assault crisis button, reads: “rape and death for TERFs.”
Because nothing says ‘We only want to pee’ quite like threats of rape and murder.
The author of the quoted piece, Ms Nuria Muíña Garcia, has more on the saga.
Oh, and if the National Autonomous University of Mexico sounds familiar, you may be thinking of this odyssey of radicalism.
fearless self-involvement
That.
The wee “love is love” inscribed over the door is a sweet touch.
The wee “love is love” inscribed over the door is a sweet touch.
I’d imagine the dissonance of “love is love” with promises of “rape and death” is only one of many.
And hey, why would women have reservations about allowing mentally ill men into their private spaces?
You would expect that prospective students with a modicum of intelligence would cease regarding it as “one of Latin America’s top universities” which sounds remarkably like the self-aggrandisement our own country specialises in (the worlds favourite airline, the envy of the world etc etc) when describing native institutions which are clearly anything but.
However our own experience where substantial parts, maybe even a plurality, of the population continue to worship the nhs shows that such delusions are probably irreversible.
Goodness, a button. I wonder what it does.
I am not pushing no emergency button until I see the surrounding graffiti.
[T]he trans students reportedly declared that they “did not feel safe” [ … ] Less than 24 hours later, the activists took over the largest female restroom, which was on the second floor of the Faculty of Philosophy.
There’s a pub not that all that far from where I live that has always struck me as the kind of place where it’s just possible I might “not feel safe”.
So as anyone would, I’m thinking of storming the doors and spraying the inside with graffitied threats of rape and death towards all the regular punters.
Because, you know, what choice do I have if I want to feel safe when I’m out and about?
The LGBTQ “community”…
I just know I wouldn’t feel safe in Harrods food hall. Would a lengthy period (i.e. until the cheese runs out) of occupation be ok if I promise to go easy on the graffiti?
I’ll wear a frock if it helps.
Calling someone a TERF is a reliable sign that you are at best a fool and probably far worse than a fool.
I am not pushing no emergency button until I see the surrounding graffiti.
Put on a latex glove, too.
the activists took over the largest female restroom, which was on the second floor of the Faculty of Philosophy.
Philosophy department. Seems appropriate.
Oh, and if the National Autonomous University of Mexico sounds familiar, you may be thinking of this odyssey of radicalism.
“In 2013, for instance, self-proclaimed anarchists drove other groups out of the building, according to local news accounts. Three months later, however, a band of rivals stormed the auditorium and ejected the anarchists. Later the anarchists — armed with metal rods, fire extinguishers and sticks embedded with nails — violently retook control of the building.”
Anarchists tell us that theirs is the way to live in peace and freedom. I do wonder how stupid you must be to sincerely believe that–although it seems virtually certain that most are not sincere.
I just know I wouldn’t feel safe in Harrods food hall.
Had to look that up on the internet. Stunningly beautiful!
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Pst314,
I was waiting for someone to remark on the perfect association of facility and location, but concluded that this bunch (that is to say, us bums) is too sophisticated to pluck at such low hanging fruit. “Sophisticated”, I think that’s the mot juste?
From all appearances they’re quite sincere – they offer to the peace of the grave to those who hinder their freedom to do as they please.
History is full of civilizations that function well with multiple ethnicities living within a single dominant culture.
Conversely, history conclusively demonstrates there are no civilizations that function well with two or more dominant cultures (even within one shared ethnicity). One culture ALWAYS dominates the other.
Bottom line: If you replace a dominant culture that values tolerance and respect for individual liberty with one that rejects those values, you will reap what you sow. Good and hard.
I was waiting for someone to remark on the perfect association of facility and location, but concluded that this bunch (that is to say, us bums) is too sophisticated to pluck at such low hanging fruit.
I’m “unsophisticated” enough to laugh at the idea of pranking the philsophy department by changing the names on the doors to Majikthise and Vroomfondel and other satirical names.
Naturally, the first task was to give the toilets a makeover via the uplifting medium of graffiti, thereby communicating the life-enhancing qualities of prostitution
Bedlamites gonna bedlamite.
Are there no helicopters in Mexico?
Bedlamites gonna bedlamite.
Quite. But once you defer to the dubious premise – that a dysmorphic man is somehow a woman – errors will rapidly accumulate. Best, I think, not to give away the store in the first place, as it were.
Illinois just passed a no-bail law for the whole state. Even 2nd degree murder and kidnapping no bail. OMG. There is plenty of evidence out there about how this turns out, and they did it anyway.
Added: the purpose of bail has always been to make sure you show up. If you don’t have $, the bail bondsman will loan it to you but he has bounty hunters to find you if you jump bail. Now crooks can just vanish with impunity.
Illinois just passed a no-bail law for the whole state.
We’re going to see more of this: Two thugs, out on bond for murder, murder again
The CWB blog has been keeping track of person accused of killing or shooting—or attempting to kill or shoot—someone in Chicago while awaiting trial for a felony.
Added: the purpose of bail has always been to make sure you show up.
But there are also reasons for denying bail, such as the likelihood that the accused might offend again. Murder, for instance. I suppose that terroristic threats against witnesses and victims has traditionally been another reason.
More evidence to support my assertion that male trannies are mostly autogynephilic men who want to bully and abuse women as retribution for the men’s inability to actually BE women. Since their sexual gratification depends on that delusion, those nasty real women are interfering with their pleasure.
Lesbians really piss them off–since their existence rams home the reality that women don’t have cocks.
“Sexual assaults at UNAM are so common”
Really? I wonder what definition of “sexual assault” is being used here.
I wonder what definition of “sexual assault” is being used here.
Una/o persona/o nombrada/0 muerta o malentendida/o.
Farnsworth, Given the care to detail that the CA legislature puts into writing statues, it wouldn’t surprise me to wake up one day to find that sexual assault had been redefined to be that, and only that.
(From the land of “Oops, we accidentally classified bees as fish for regulatory purposes”)
(I used to spend a fair bit of time reviewing contracts for investments, and the absolute illogical, illiterate garbage the lawyers would put in them was jaw dropping. And the rationale was always the same: “That’s standard language and the courts have ruled on it”. It was literally a cryptogrammar, meaningful only to the anointed and their enforcers.)
…it wouldn’t surprise me to wake up one day to find that sexual assault had been redefined to be that, and only that.
I am sure it would only be Subsection XVIII, Article 2467, Paragraph h), subparagraph iii, 3, “Aggravated Deadnaming and Misgendering With Sarcastic Intent and Mopery” – particularly when we have nonsense like this going on.
Rocketpoweredmohawk, in his roundup of the latest F1 race, ends with this heartfelt tribute to the Queen.
You have been warned.
Best, I think, not to give away the store in the first place, as it were.
That.
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Well, if – in order to seem polite or nice or fashionable – you publicly affirm the first delusion, above, then your ability to deal realistically with any subsequent delusions – i.e., your probity – will have been fundamentally compromised. If your public position on the subject is based on a lie, an absurdity, however well-meaning it may have been, then the whole thing is rickety. And you can most likely be bullied into agreeing with any number of additional lies in order to hide the first one.
If you’re a woke straight man, you may, for instance, find yourself being browbeaten into agreeing, in bad faith, that a reluctance to have sex with a trans woman – i.e., a dysmorphic man – is because you’re a bigot of some kind, or because you’ve been “socially conditioned” not to want surprises in the underwear department. In other words, that you don’t know your own mind or what it is you want. (See the deranged blatherings of Riley Dennis or Jeffrey Marsh.) You may even mouth a promise, again in bad faith, to overcome such “bigotry” and “conditioning,” albeit at some unspecified later date.
When in fact you may not wish to have sex with a trans woman – i.e., a dysmorphic man – because you find them both tragic and physically grotesque and you know that they’re likely to have a range of obnoxious and insufferable comorbidities, including serious personality disorders. But being woke and publicly committed to the first lie, and by extension to everything that follows from it, you can’t say that.
Not a good path to be on, really.
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This is why we can’t have nice things.
So “Let us in your bathroom or we will rape and murder you” works like a charm. Duly noted.
Personally I thought their message needed some nuance—a little more on the harmony and unity, a little less on the rape and murder threats—but I was wrong. Violence works if you’re on the top of “approved” victim group list.
Shame on the university for caving in.
Just to be different, “Zeus” is a man and goes on a date with all his girl parts intact.
Related, Katy has an odd idea also.
And you can most likely be bullied into agreeing with any number of additional lies in order to hide the first one.
That.
largest female restroom, which was on the second floor of the Faculty of Philosophy
Yeah, noticed that as well… speaks to something, I’m sure.
Just to be different, “Zeus” is a man and goes on a date with all his girl parts intact.
Interesting choice of names. Even knowing nothing about the individual, it betrays a unhealthy obsession with being seen as male and manly.
Also: What are the odds that “Zeus” will eventually be arrested for rape?
That.
It may help explain why some so-called trans ‘allies’ – people who aren’t dysmorphic themselves but who insist that the rest of us accept that “trans women are women” – are so prickly and irrational. Many seem to behave as if they’re caught in a lie, because, well, they are.
A consistent thread runs through everything the Left touches: it is conceptual rather than linked to reality. If you point out that wind and solar don’t do anything on windless days or at night, you are harshing their buzz and the US sec of energy wants you to be canceled. If you point out that castration doesn’t turn you into a woman, you are a hater. It is an aversion to reality in favor of fantasy: if we wish it, it will be so. Things have to become extreme to overcome the fantasy. For example, insane power bills in the UK have led your new PM to lift the ban on fracking and embrace new offshore drilling. But note that the Germans are going to go ahead and shut down their last 3 nuclear plants in spite of the gas shutoff. The power authority was told to keep the power plants in standby in case of emergency but the power authority rightly said you can’t just switch on a nuclear plant like that. Leaving the power grid to engineers worked well for 100 years but now loonies are in charge. I read the green energy plan for New York state and their entire plan hinges on a future technology (that doesn’t exist yet) coming online in coming decades. That is not a plan.
A consistent thread runs through everything the Left touches: it is conceptual rather than linked to reality…
Agreed!
it betrays a unhealthy obsession with being seen as male and manly
Don’t know what’s going on there. She’s not aping macho mannerisms like a butch lesbian, she’s aping the mannerisms of a nerdy teenage boy. Mannerisms that nerdy teenage boys usually learn to tone down because (despite what the media and their mothers told them about being who you are and sharing your passion, and even after a couple decades of nerds being presented as cool) it lessens their romantic chances with girls.
Enthuses about Dungeons and Dragons because she can roleplay as somebody she’s not. So is her roleplaying as a man to be taken in the same category? Except that you can tell a D&D player that he’s not actually a 7ft tall steppe warrior without a hate crime taking place.
Why in general do people who believe that sex is socially constructed take an interest in Dungeons and Dragons, Game of Thrones, all that sword and sandal stuff? It’s a brutish, Darwinian, biologically determined, sexually differentiated world. Why don’t they LARP as a Norwegian couple negotiating the housework rota? Why do their armies only have swordsmen and cavalry but not HR/compliance officers or social media specialists?
Leaving the power grid to engineers worked well for 100 years but now loonies are in charge. I read the green energy plan for New York state and their entire plan hinges on a future technology (that doesn’t exist yet) coming online in coming decades.
Let’s send a colonization starship to a destination which may not have any habitable planets! But we will publish papers “proving” that those planets exist.
Let’s send a colonization starship to a destination which may not have any habitable planets! But we will publish papers “proving” that those planets exist.
And let me be the first to suggest naming that starship “Golgafrincham Ark Fleet, Ship B”. The first because I am sure I’m not the only one thinking it but I’m out of xanax and my OCD compels me.
Why don’t they LARP as a Norwegian couple negotiating the housework rota?
And then there’s the SCA people, LARPing as Lord This and Lady That (with an occasional cleric or wandering merchant or steppe barbarian). And note that a lot of these people role-playing as top dogs in extremely hierarchical societies (or as evil middleman merchants or as evil bloodthirsty barbarian conquerors) are liberals obsessed with egalitarian politics/policies.
Related, Katy has an odd idea also.
? Is anyone familiar with Kobo Abe’s science fiction novel Inter Ice Age 4? It’s been 50 years since I read it, but as I recall it postulated radical surgery being used to allow humans to breathe underwater with the clear implication that their children would thus also be underwater breathers. (Which is absurd, of course: Their children would be normal air-breathers.) But Wikipedia says the novel is about genetic engineering, which contradicts my memory. Can anyone offer insights from a more recent reading?
Jordan Peterson talks with Helen Joyce about trans ideology.
Why in general do people who believe that sex is socially constructed take an interest in Dungeons and Dragons, Game of Thrones, all that sword and sandal stuff?
Do you want the lengthy essay, or the short, pithy meme version?
D&D role players: I would bet that an awful lot of those people also want guns taken away and criminals released, while fantasy playing in a world dominated by brute violence. Consistency? What is that?
Do you want the lengthy essay, or the short, pithy meme version?
[ Fetches snacks, pulls up chair. ]