Sad that you have to write an article to articulate and convince people of what we really already know….but thankful that you’re so good at it. (Except for giving a “natural” random process credit for something that is so obviously Genius Design.) Thank you.
I have a confession. I have, on more than one occassion, used a screwdriver to hammer in a nail. And used a hammer claw to pull out a screw.
Yep. I've done that. I've even used a pair of pliers to both hammer in a nail and pull out a screw.
When I've used the 'wrong' tool it was because the 'right' tool wasn't nearby and I didn't have time to find it, or was just plain lazy and chose to be resourceful.
Most of the times everything worked out, took a little more effort, but job got done. But on too many occassions the handle of the screwdriver I was using to hammer a nail broke, as the pliers used as a hammer. Or the wood I clawed the screw out of with the hammer was left with a big splintered gash in it.
So in a pinch the wrong tool can be used for a purpose it wasn't meant for. But the results turn out suboptimal, so whenever I use the wrong tool I accept the possibility that I'll end up with a broken tool or damage to the piece I was trying to fix.
There's a corallary to el gato's point. Not able to articulate it yet, but others can help draw it for me.
I have also used the wrong tool on many, many occasions. But when I had the opportunity to use the *right* tool, I invariable choose it. Which is part of why I have an entire *collection* of different hammers. And several hundred different screwdrivers.
My take is you all used your tools at hand for a quick fix.
Having sex hormones added is not a quick fix. One would have to think this out for more than five minutes, make an appointment with a professional, find a way to fund your new way of life, and
Homeschool, that's the sensible thing to do. I never would have said such a thing 10 years ago. Now I think parents are nuts to leave their kids in public or even most private schools. There are some exceptions to the latter but they're tough to find. Well, when I say this the parents look at me like I've turned into a flaming giraffe. Impossible, they say. I say, OK, your call, learn the heart-breaking way.
That is very interesting Jayne… 🤔🤔🤔 I don’t know a single lefty that homeschools… hmmm 🤔 but then I am in a dark red state! Hallelujah praise the Lord! 🙏🏽✝️🙏🏽
It would be very interesting to see the breakdown percentages of homeschooling in each state compared to public and private schools. 🤔
Hmm, interesting. I don't know any hard left homeschoolers. Hard lefties I know are fine with their kids' schools, public or private— though they complain loudly about the other parents.
Who is that Cabarrus County father, and why isn’t he running the County, or the State, or sitting in congress? As anyone can see, he’s smarter than the entire school board.
As always a great article. I wonder what the results would be if the psych test on empathy was more nuanced. Instead of empathy for someone who you believe is your equivalent but has ‘cheated’ you. What if it was not an equivalent, just a random, and they had ‘hurt’ someone close to you. My sense of the world is that women tend to have a very strong sense of loyalty and protection of their kin. I suspect the reward parts of their brains would flare up if they thought the perpetrator of some physical harm against their own were getting punished.
My wife has male-style punishment/reward thinking.
Yes, she really is a woman: I was there when she gave birth (and earlier, too <hint, hint>).
But mothers cannot be infinitely forgiving if they want civilized children.
This gender-related anti-punishment trend is something that has only become prevalent in the last generation or two. So, while there may be some biology factors in play, I think that the cause is mostly social, cultural, and (most of all) ideological.
"... mothers cannot be infinitely forgiving if they want civilized children." A brilliant observation! My mother was incredibly supportive and encouraging, but she wasn't shy about corrective punishment; creative, too! For the longest time I always wondered why she got elected to administer corporal punishment. I FAFO'd with my father once, and suddenly found myself semiconscious on the far side of the room. After I shook it off I thought: thanks for clearing the matter up, Dad.
When my oldest brother was 13 or 14, his adolescence was highly emotional - he had a temper. After one emotional outburst my dad grabbed him by the collar and held him in a cold shower. He pulled him out, asked him if he had cooled off, to which my brother shouted "No", and stuck him under again. The second time my dad asked him that question he asked he answered yes and was allowed to towel off and change.
Mom never had the upper body strength to accomplish that...
A mother's punishment was not always based on wrongdoing. The conditions were different.
When I was a kid, my sister came down into the basement to play with me, and I wanted to play alone. She got mad, hit me in the head with a wooden block, and then started crying. My mom came down and punished me.
Agreed. As much as I hated getting slapped in the face by mom, I only had to get socked in the jaw once by dad to know that a repeat was not something I was willing to risk again.
I agree. The extreme tilt in the last few decades is not solely due to biology, but propaganda designed to exploit the tendency. The introduction of the oppressed/oppressor paradigm and the insistence that wrong-doers are actually victims elevated a more feminine response in personal situations to policy on a societal level.
I am the same Fred, as was my mother. She was the most supportive person I've ever met, but boy howdy, those consequences really caught up with you if you broke the rules. Hardcore. I raised my sons & daughter the same way----you know the rules and if you choose to break them, you will pay the price & I never relented & gave in to the whining and begging.
I don't think Madame LaFarge and her fellow viewers of public execution, the roman matrons who went to the coliseum or any huge swath of women in history 'felt bad' for the criminals. However, their life might have more directly impacted by the criminals and thus they could feel the same catharsis in the execution of same.
In fact, I would posit that the concern for the criminal perpetrator is a modern class thing, a luxury belief that has come with the relative safety of the current age and manifests mostly in women who live in exclusive suburbs and gated communities and have extensive contact with the leftist university system. I suspect most working class women would have no problem with the punishment of those who endanger their lives, families and communities.
I suspect the 'gender' thing also splits along the same class lines.
I too have a very high sense of justice for a woman (I suspect higher than normal T as well) but sometimes there seems to be multiple personalities within my head arguing with each other over whether to be lenient, merciful and kind or to throw the book at my child. Also with some criminality in our society, especially when its young people, because you can see where they didn't necessarily choose to grow up the way they have. The empathy is real and strong. But then reason steps in and asks how being lenient will help in the long run, and the empathy admits it won't, the cycle will continue.
I suspect many women's reason hasn't been as developed due to lack of seeing full fruits from the empathy. That tends to weaken it after a while. Ask any pastor who has worked a mission for more than a few years.
Mother of 5 here, we need to punish or we lose our minds. I see my siblings with "children" in their 20's and 30's still leaning on their parents emotionally and financially. I learned early on to ignore my kids sometimes. They need to panic every once in a while to learn the hard lessons in life. Now I have 5 financially and emotionally independent adults. And, surprisingly they thank me for be tough years ago.
While we only had two (both girls), both married over a decade ago and each has four kids (3 boys and a girl & 3 girls and a boy – they *ahem* planned well).
And all four parents discipline their children, so they’re all still mostly sane.
Pre-agricultural societies were female-led, post-agricultural were male-led. We’re getting close to 50/50 on leadership, which is ideal - the strengths of both share reaponsibility.
Tbf, parents who put limits on their children’s behavior may well be brought up on child-abuse chargers.
Abigrail Shrier’s "Bad Therapy” shows that 21st-century parenting is often controlled by teachers and therapists, and most of them believe that discipline and limits are dirty words.
Once you perform the necessary mental exercise of substituting the term "trans" with "fake", things become a *lot* clearer. Screwdrivers become screwdrivers again.
recently I read an article how in the 60s or 70s a medicine was on the market given to pregnant women to treat morning sickness. this same medicine was used to make male fish female and rooster chicks into hens. Researchers found, that from the male offspring of the women who took this medicine 1 in 5 identified as female. these boys and young men were poisoned in the womb. this should be carefully looked at before one puts the blame... yes it is a sickness, but one can hardly be blamed for being sick or poisoned.
Didnt cross check the claim of "male offspring of the women who took this medicine 1 in 5 identified as female" but even wikipedia admits it causes intersex birth defects.
DES was given to women in the 1940s. Quick definition: Diethylstilbestrol (DES) was prescribed to women in the 1940s to prevent pregnancy complications such as miscarriage and premature labor. It was widely used until 1971 when it was linked to serious health risks, including a rare form of cancer in daughters exposed in utero.
I was born in 1949 and my mother took it while pregnant with me. Due to what doctors later told her, there were a lot of babies like me who later got cancer (ovarian and other reproductive cancers, I think). I lived in fear of that for decades and dutifully got pap tests every single year for probably 35 years. Thankfully, I never got cancer although I knew of women in my age group who did.
My mother may have taken DES when pregnant with my older brother (1945), and he had an odd emotional profile...he would probably be diagnosed on the autism spectrum today, and he got prostate cancer when he was 53. Who knows if any of that was related to the DES, no way of knowing.
Thank you for this update. I am so glad you were able to stay healthy. I read of quite a few who indeed did get sick. I did not know it was used that early, the source I got my info from cited it being used 60s and 70s. Too late to prove anything now, and for most people harmed many years after taking damaging meds (or their parents taking them)
My mother (who took DES when pregnant with me) never got any kind of cancer, and she died at 95, never had any particular health problem at all. She was mentally all there until the end, too. But who knows how many women or their children were affected as it wasn't talked about very openly. That desaction.org site is interesting for anyone who has an interest in the subject, and it mentions that perhaps even grandchildren can be affected too.
One has to wonder why the liberal left is so much more inclined to violence in their opposition than conservatives. What misfiring of low T is going on there?
Low-T people are more likely to feel threatened, and thus get angry. High-T people are less likely to interpret situations as threatening, but when they do, watch out. It makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint. A high-T reaction is much more costly, to the point they will sacrifice their own lives. The most dangerous men are those who have had their threat-sensor tuned too sensitive, from bullying or abuse (High-T, high threat sensing)
Look how Low-T people react when they face consequences for their supposedly brave protests. They act surprised and cry foul when they, for example, get arrested for storming a church service. If they thought they were actually taking a risk, they wouldn't do it.
All really good suppositions. Perhaps its a cocktail. A few more ingrediants: impotence, cognitive dissonance, mental health issues higher on left, happiness lower on left.
He is 100% correct. We have too many women running things. I'm a woman. I am more emotional than a man.....I am not a liberal and think more like a man than many other women I know, but I am still a woman.
I have caught myself having too much empathy......my husband balances this out......another reason to have different sex couples instead of same sex.
Would Renee Good still be alive if she had a man telling her that what she was planning to do in that car was fucking stupid instead of another emotional female egging her on? You decide.
I've heard a great Dennis Prager commentary about these kinds of differences between men and women. He always says a man's greatest challenge is managing his sexual nature, and for a women, it's her emotions. Interesting to watch: https://www.prageru.com/videos/episode-8-differences-between-men-and-women
Maybe empathy for the justly punished is not absent in high-T males (of which I happen to be one), but rather differently applied. Similar to how we react to a child crying from a minor boo-boo. Instead of "poor baby, let me comfort you," it is, "man up, kid, you can handle this. I know you can. I take a stand for your capacity to overcome this." We feel impatient with someone being less than what they can be. Men have always created challenges for each other, not out of malice or desire to punish, but from a generous impulse for other men to fulfill their potential. When a violent criminal is punished, it isn't that we want him to suffer for sufferings sake. It is that we recognize that this is what he needs to undergo to mature.
When my son complains about something, generally speaking my wife's response is sympathy, while my response is, "What are you going to do about it?" or even "Tough." Because I know that it doesn't serve him for daddy to solve his every problem. The empathy is still there though.
I think you could a very similar companion piece to this by swapping race for gender -very similar dynamics. Imagine the resulting negative synergy, or should I say intersectionality.
Who owns the high table that is directing all this subversion?
The people have been brainwashed, it’s like the mops in sorcerer’s apprentice. The useful idiots and the just plain idiots are spinning out of control.
But somebody wants this. Somebody is encouraging this. Why is Obama the face of this? Why is he involved in local, state and international politics? Who owns him? It’s the same person that owns Mamdani, i bet.
Soros, but that’s too obvious. There is another layer here….
If you were the late teen who was sent to live with a Nazi to learn National Socialism and its virtues plus a job from him & his family while your Jewish family left Germany, do you suppose you might have issues?
Personal hypothesis: an Atheist Soros angered by the loss to the Brits and Yanks; decides as (many young men might) to do something about it. An altered Soros goes about his life determined to either destroy the US/UK or cause National Socialism upon the nations.
He has had measures of success. He almost succeeded with Biden Administration. Data Republican did a deep dive and recently published the findings that Soros has funded a team of Ds that ran the Biden Admin. When someone like that gives you a paycheck, he owns you.
Men and women are indeed different....Vive la difference!
When I met my ex, she had a habit of pounding screws into the wall to hang pictures. I absorbed the task of hanging stuff as a couple.
Hormones really control more behavior than we give them credit. Had a business client who was a cancer survivor and business owner. She had to receive periodic hormone treatments to live a normalized life. If they got her hormones out of balance, group business calls (no Zoom back then) could be embarrassing for her as her sex talk would flow! That was wildly out of character for her, and we worked around it..
My late brother was treated for prostate cancer in part with testosterone suppression therapy. He went from being a life long horn dog to totally disinterested in sex. He was shocked and not a little dismayed at how much in his life he had considered to be his identity was merely the result of a chemical mix in his brain.
All that said, we as a people for multiple generations have decided that rebellion for rebellion's sake is somehow a good thing all the time. We need as a people/culture/species to grow up and as EGM notes, acknowledge traits and preferences, but not make them straitjackets either.
There's a reason you must use lots of force to cram round pegs into square holes...
This is hilarious. My wife did similar things, particularly the pounding screws into the wall to hang things. She would also simply cut pieces out of the interior wall in order to hide cables and wires. Problem is it didn’t hide the hole in the wall. She was a great proponent of measure twice, cut once other than actually doing it. I had to stop her because of the level of destruction, glad to know I’m not the only one.
No disrespect intended to your ex, but how could anyone get the idea in the first place, to try and hammer in a screw?
Using the wrong kind of screwdriver, that I can kind of get - people are sometimes too lazy to go get the correct bit. And women not knowing nor understanding how to hold or swing a hammer correctly, that I can understand too.
But a screw? It would as if you'd pick the sledgehammer when trying to chop wood!
I think Gato intended it as a joke, given the other meanings of "ball" and "peen" respectively, given the overall topic of trans-sexualism.
On the other hand, academics who are in Gender Theory and associated areas can write thesis papers and doctorate essays on the "gender" of cutlery, musical instrument and train stations.
All three examples are real. My tax-Crowns at work...
When I looked at the photo of that sissy little purple fingernailed abhorrent travesty of nature having won two sporting events against girls, all I could think of was knocking him to the ground and stomping both of his knees into segmented parts... then looking down at him and saying, "Now compete against girls, Bitch!" Senior Gato's explanation of the innate differences between men and women has caused me to feel better about myself... now I know that my desire to see him punished for his unfairness is the result of an overabundance of testosterone... and it's not my fault.
I could think of no more polite way to describe "it"... :)
And please believe me... I have no animosity nor misgivings toward other's whose "sexual identity" differs from mine... though I can't help but state that it is a fact that prior to the 1980s, the overwhelming number of that mentality had their bathrooms in mental institutions... but I do take issue when one believes and acts as though their "sexual identity" out weights another's biological fact... I could go on... but I'll stop now.
agree but... what about "hell has no fury than a women scorned"? what about figures like von der Leyen, head of the EU, with no empathy at all drives the legal persecution and banning of everyone who does not agree with her under the label.of "hate speech", extremist, etc.? Not to mention her ruthless destruction of the EU under the label of Net-Zero"!? What about the fact that most heads of the NGOs in Germany who's mission it is to denounce online statements they do not like to the authority as hate crimes or insult in order to get the authors punished? Give me a women on a destructive mission and with power and I am more afraid of her than of a men in the same position. Whereas men are sometime capable of yielding to rational assment "who is stronger" women seem to carry on regardless - even with more fury.
Women can be vicious when we want to. Mean girls is real and the women that are like that don't grow out of it, they just get better at it. I always appreciated the company of men more than women for that very reason, they would talk so sweetly to your face but then gut you when your back was turned.
The trans-thing is played out, media-wise. The actual trannies and their cheerleaders are too few to move the needle in elections and cannot create corporate profits, and so are on the way out (has been for 1-2 years now) as politics and corporate capitalism re-align The Message (to be read in the voice of the Critical Drinker).
But the race-culture-ethnicity-thing, is lightning-hot.
*(Nigeria is home to over 200 different ethncities by the way, but none of them are German, or "White" as USAmericans persist in using as a catch-all term, no matter how erroneous it is.)
Sad that you have to write an article to articulate and convince people of what we really already know….but thankful that you’re so good at it. (Except for giving a “natural” random process credit for something that is so obviously Genius Design.) Thank you.
More men like this. This is the answer, just apply the same logic to males competing with females:
https://x.com/i/status/2054576591414382651
What is happening is evil. I appreciate gatos well thought out article, but I'm sorry we're just flat out dealing with EVIL.
And it must be confronted as such.
A hammer, regardless of surgery and all efforts to make it a screwdriver, is still a hammer.
I have a confession. I have, on more than one occassion, used a screwdriver to hammer in a nail. And used a hammer claw to pull out a screw.
Yep. I've done that. I've even used a pair of pliers to both hammer in a nail and pull out a screw.
When I've used the 'wrong' tool it was because the 'right' tool wasn't nearby and I didn't have time to find it, or was just plain lazy and chose to be resourceful.
Most of the times everything worked out, took a little more effort, but job got done. But on too many occassions the handle of the screwdriver I was using to hammer a nail broke, as the pliers used as a hammer. Or the wood I clawed the screw out of with the hammer was left with a big splintered gash in it.
So in a pinch the wrong tool can be used for a purpose it wasn't meant for. But the results turn out suboptimal, so whenever I use the wrong tool I accept the possibility that I'll end up with a broken tool or damage to the piece I was trying to fix.
There's a corallary to el gato's point. Not able to articulate it yet, but others can help draw it for me.
I have also used the wrong tool on many, many occasions. But when I had the opportunity to use the *right* tool, I invariable choose it. Which is part of why I have an entire *collection* of different hammers. And several hundred different screwdrivers.
Hammer was perhaps not the best analogy, because inside EVERY tool is a hammer.
Or...was it intentional?
My take is you all used your tools at hand for a quick fix.
Having sex hormones added is not a quick fix. One would have to think this out for more than five minutes, make an appointment with a professional, find a way to fund your new way of life, and
hold off on that suicidal thought.
You can replace the tool.
Homeschool, that's the sensible thing to do. I never would have said such a thing 10 years ago. Now I think parents are nuts to leave their kids in public or even most private schools. There are some exceptions to the latter but they're tough to find. Well, when I say this the parents look at me like I've turned into a flaming giraffe. Impossible, they say. I say, OK, your call, learn the heart-breaking way.
Finishing 26 years of homeschooling… two more years to go… Homeschooling is getting much more mainstreamed!
It’s been a while since somebody looked at me like I was a “flaming giraffe…” Great word picture! 😆😆😆
All the home schooling parents I know are hard left unless they are associated with a religious group.
That is very interesting Jayne… 🤔🤔🤔 I don’t know a single lefty that homeschools… hmmm 🤔 but then I am in a dark red state! Hallelujah praise the Lord! 🙏🏽✝️🙏🏽
It would be very interesting to see the breakdown percentages of homeschooling in each state compared to public and private schools. 🤔
Hmm, interesting. I don't know any hard left homeschoolers. Hard lefties I know are fine with their kids' schools, public or private— though they complain loudly about the other parents.
Who is that Cabarrus County father, and why isn’t he running the County, or the State, or sitting in congress? As anyone can see, he’s smarter than the entire school board.
Dunno. But hes a stud
Agreeeeee RG .
And that's not only correct, but a polite way of putting it... Kudo & Golf Claps to that man!!!~
"We" know a lot, but we've also forgotten some very important things...
As always a great article. I wonder what the results would be if the psych test on empathy was more nuanced. Instead of empathy for someone who you believe is your equivalent but has ‘cheated’ you. What if it was not an equivalent, just a random, and they had ‘hurt’ someone close to you. My sense of the world is that women tend to have a very strong sense of loyalty and protection of their kin. I suspect the reward parts of their brains would flare up if they thought the perpetrator of some physical harm against their own were getting punished.
My wife has male-style punishment/reward thinking.
Yes, she really is a woman: I was there when she gave birth (and earlier, too <hint, hint>).
But mothers cannot be infinitely forgiving if they want civilized children.
This gender-related anti-punishment trend is something that has only become prevalent in the last generation or two. So, while there may be some biology factors in play, I think that the cause is mostly social, cultural, and (most of all) ideological.
"... mothers cannot be infinitely forgiving if they want civilized children." A brilliant observation! My mother was incredibly supportive and encouraging, but she wasn't shy about corrective punishment; creative, too! For the longest time I always wondered why she got elected to administer corporal punishment. I FAFO'd with my father once, and suddenly found myself semiconscious on the far side of the room. After I shook it off I thought: thanks for clearing the matter up, Dad.
When my oldest brother was 13 or 14, his adolescence was highly emotional - he had a temper. After one emotional outburst my dad grabbed him by the collar and held him in a cold shower. He pulled him out, asked him if he had cooled off, to which my brother shouted "No", and stuck him under again. The second time my dad asked him that question he asked he answered yes and was allowed to towel off and change.
Mom never had the upper body strength to accomplish that...
A mother's punishment was not always based on wrongdoing. The conditions were different.
When I was a kid, my sister came down into the basement to play with me, and I wanted to play alone. She got mad, hit me in the head with a wooden block, and then started crying. My mom came down and punished me.
Agreed. As much as I hated getting slapped in the face by mom, I only had to get socked in the jaw once by dad to know that a repeat was not something I was willing to risk again.
Mama’s favorite was the willow branch… Brought blood running down my legs one time… Very memorable experience! 😵
And no, I did not die… And it was not abuse!
I think it was, but then I'm a low-T woman.
I agree. The extreme tilt in the last few decades is not solely due to biology, but propaganda designed to exploit the tendency. The introduction of the oppressed/oppressor paradigm and the insistence that wrong-doers are actually victims elevated a more feminine response in personal situations to policy on a societal level.
All this nonsense went into high gear under Obama, divider-in-chief.
Also vaccines, food, endocrine disruptors along with the social programming
I am the same Fred, as was my mother. She was the most supportive person I've ever met, but boy howdy, those consequences really caught up with you if you broke the rules. Hardcore. I raised my sons & daughter the same way----you know the rules and if you choose to break them, you will pay the price & I never relented & gave in to the whining and begging.
Good job mama!
A tentative like, since I don't know what your mom's consequences were.
Yes, it is definitely social/cultural.
I don't think Madame LaFarge and her fellow viewers of public execution, the roman matrons who went to the coliseum or any huge swath of women in history 'felt bad' for the criminals. However, their life might have more directly impacted by the criminals and thus they could feel the same catharsis in the execution of same.
In fact, I would posit that the concern for the criminal perpetrator is a modern class thing, a luxury belief that has come with the relative safety of the current age and manifests mostly in women who live in exclusive suburbs and gated communities and have extensive contact with the leftist university system. I suspect most working class women would have no problem with the punishment of those who endanger their lives, families and communities.
I suspect the 'gender' thing also splits along the same class lines.
great points
I believe in capital punishment; I just don't want to watch it.
I too have a very high sense of justice for a woman (I suspect higher than normal T as well) but sometimes there seems to be multiple personalities within my head arguing with each other over whether to be lenient, merciful and kind or to throw the book at my child. Also with some criminality in our society, especially when its young people, because you can see where they didn't necessarily choose to grow up the way they have. The empathy is real and strong. But then reason steps in and asks how being lenient will help in the long run, and the empathy admits it won't, the cycle will continue.
I suspect many women's reason hasn't been as developed due to lack of seeing full fruits from the empathy. That tends to weaken it after a while. Ask any pastor who has worked a mission for more than a few years.
Mother of 5 here, we need to punish or we lose our minds. I see my siblings with "children" in their 20's and 30's still leaning on their parents emotionally and financially. I learned early on to ignore my kids sometimes. They need to panic every once in a while to learn the hard lessons in life. Now I have 5 financially and emotionally independent adults. And, surprisingly they thank me for be tough years ago.
While we only had two (both girls), both married over a decade ago and each has four kids (3 boys and a girl & 3 girls and a boy – they *ahem* planned well).
And all four parents discipline their children, so they’re all still mostly sane.
Very productive 👍🏽
And this is why, in traditional societies, the headship of the family lies with the father. He is nature's break for that.
Pre-agricultural societies were female-led, post-agricultural were male-led. We’re getting close to 50/50 on leadership, which is ideal - the strengths of both share reaponsibility.
Amen
Sometimes I believe that the reason my oldest is not having children is because of the friends around her, whose kids are literally little monsters! 👿
I keep on telling them you don’t have to let your children act like that! I sure didn’t!
Tbf, parents who put limits on their children’s behavior may well be brought up on child-abuse chargers.
Abigrail Shrier’s "Bad Therapy” shows that 21st-century parenting is often controlled by teachers and therapists, and most of them believe that discipline and limits are dirty words.
Once you perform the necessary mental exercise of substituting the term "trans" with "fake", things become a *lot* clearer. Screwdrivers become screwdrivers again.
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. Anybody that would try to convince you otherwise is living deep inside Uranus.
Thread winner!!!
recently I read an article how in the 60s or 70s a medicine was on the market given to pregnant women to treat morning sickness. this same medicine was used to make male fish female and rooster chicks into hens. Researchers found, that from the male offspring of the women who took this medicine 1 in 5 identified as female. these boys and young men were poisoned in the womb. this should be carefully looked at before one puts the blame... yes it is a sickness, but one can hardly be blamed for being sick or poisoned.
Could it be this one?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31975033/
"Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Identity in Women and Men Prenatally Exposed to Diethylstilbestrol"
Found it via a page called DES Action:
https://desaction.org/
It's for people who were treated with or suffered secondary or even tertiary exposure to Diethylstilbestrol.
that is the one. thank you for the links!
Wow, I thought "well no way thats really a thing" but sure was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diethylstilbestrol
Didnt cross check the claim of "male offspring of the women who took this medicine 1 in 5 identified as female" but even wikipedia admits it causes intersex birth defects.
wish I had marked and kept the article - can't find it now
IIRC, it also causes testicular cancer. A friend of my ex lost his fertility that way.
DES.
DES was given to women in the 1940s. Quick definition: Diethylstilbestrol (DES) was prescribed to women in the 1940s to prevent pregnancy complications such as miscarriage and premature labor. It was widely used until 1971 when it was linked to serious health risks, including a rare form of cancer in daughters exposed in utero.
National Cancer Institute bcpp.org
I was born in 1949 and my mother took it while pregnant with me. Due to what doctors later told her, there were a lot of babies like me who later got cancer (ovarian and other reproductive cancers, I think). I lived in fear of that for decades and dutifully got pap tests every single year for probably 35 years. Thankfully, I never got cancer although I knew of women in my age group who did.
My mother may have taken DES when pregnant with my older brother (1945), and he had an odd emotional profile...he would probably be diagnosed on the autism spectrum today, and he got prostate cancer when he was 53. Who knows if any of that was related to the DES, no way of knowing.
Thank you for this update. I am so glad you were able to stay healthy. I read of quite a few who indeed did get sick. I did not know it was used that early, the source I got my info from cited it being used 60s and 70s. Too late to prove anything now, and for most people harmed many years after taking damaging meds (or their parents taking them)
Goes to show how long this plan has been underway to destroy the nations' men.
And women whose mothers took DES were much more likely to get Clear Cell Adenocarcinoma, as my friend did.
My mother (who took DES when pregnant with me) never got any kind of cancer, and she died at 95, never had any particular health problem at all. She was mentally all there until the end, too. But who knows how many women or their children were affected as it wasn't talked about very openly. That desaction.org site is interesting for anyone who has an interest in the subject, and it mentions that perhaps even grandchildren can be affected too.
OMG what a mess! this is just terrible.
One has to wonder why the liberal left is so much more inclined to violence in their opposition than conservatives. What misfiring of low T is going on there?
Simply put:
Hatred.
And not being met by reciprocal violence.
Exactly. Its a trap
Perhaps because they can’t logically defend their positions.
Low-T people are more likely to feel threatened, and thus get angry. High-T people are less likely to interpret situations as threatening, but when they do, watch out. It makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint. A high-T reaction is much more costly, to the point they will sacrifice their own lives. The most dangerous men are those who have had their threat-sensor tuned too sensitive, from bullying or abuse (High-T, high threat sensing)
Look how Low-T people react when they face consequences for their supposedly brave protests. They act surprised and cry foul when they, for example, get arrested for storming a church service. If they thought they were actually taking a risk, they wouldn't do it.
That's my take, anyway.
All really good suppositions. Perhaps its a cocktail. A few more ingrediants: impotence, cognitive dissonance, mental health issues higher on left, happiness lower on left.
Adam Corolla calls it 'Chick Think.'
He is 100% correct. We have too many women running things. I'm a woman. I am more emotional than a man.....I am not a liberal and think more like a man than many other women I know, but I am still a woman.
I have caught myself having too much empathy......my husband balances this out......another reason to have different sex couples instead of same sex.
Would Renee Good still be alive if she had a man telling her that what she was planning to do in that car was fucking stupid instead of another emotional female egging her on? You decide.
I've heard a great Dennis Prager commentary about these kinds of differences between men and women. He always says a man's greatest challenge is managing his sexual nature, and for a women, it's her emotions. Interesting to watch: https://www.prageru.com/videos/episode-8-differences-between-men-and-women
Maybe empathy for the justly punished is not absent in high-T males (of which I happen to be one), but rather differently applied. Similar to how we react to a child crying from a minor boo-boo. Instead of "poor baby, let me comfort you," it is, "man up, kid, you can handle this. I know you can. I take a stand for your capacity to overcome this." We feel impatient with someone being less than what they can be. Men have always created challenges for each other, not out of malice or desire to punish, but from a generous impulse for other men to fulfill their potential. When a violent criminal is punished, it isn't that we want him to suffer for sufferings sake. It is that we recognize that this is what he needs to undergo to mature.
When my son complains about something, generally speaking my wife's response is sympathy, while my response is, "What are you going to do about it?" or even "Tough." Because I know that it doesn't serve him for daddy to solve his every problem. The empathy is still there though.
agree. it's a different emphasis. you see it in a lot of preference and men/women talking past one another.
classic encapsulation:
"do you want sympathy for your problem or a solution to your problem?"
failure to ask this has wrecked many a relationship.
I think you could a very similar companion piece to this by swapping race for gender -very similar dynamics. Imagine the resulting negative synergy, or should I say intersectionality.
I will take solution over sympathy any day and thank you for it.
My answer: Both.
Who owns the high table that is directing all this subversion?
The people have been brainwashed, it’s like the mops in sorcerer’s apprentice. The useful idiots and the just plain idiots are spinning out of control.
But somebody wants this. Somebody is encouraging this. Why is Obama the face of this? Why is he involved in local, state and international politics? Who owns him? It’s the same person that owns Mamdani, i bet.
Soros, but that’s too obvious. There is another layer here….
If you know their name then they are not the one pulling the strings.
very true. sometimes it seems like we are getting awfully close though. Wishful thinking
I agree. I think Trump knows and what can be revealed will be revealed. I think there were a lot of clues in the Epstein files.
Well, maybe not?
If you were the late teen who was sent to live with a Nazi to learn National Socialism and its virtues plus a job from him & his family while your Jewish family left Germany, do you suppose you might have issues?
Personal hypothesis: an Atheist Soros angered by the loss to the Brits and Yanks; decides as (many young men might) to do something about it. An altered Soros goes about his life determined to either destroy the US/UK or cause National Socialism upon the nations.
He has had measures of success. He almost succeeded with Biden Administration. Data Republican did a deep dive and recently published the findings that Soros has funded a team of Ds that ran the Biden Admin. When someone like that gives you a paycheck, he owns you.
But Gato, you forgot the pliers, wrenches, and the 32 piece socket set!
Men and women are indeed different....Vive la difference!
When I met my ex, she had a habit of pounding screws into the wall to hang pictures. I absorbed the task of hanging stuff as a couple.
Hormones really control more behavior than we give them credit. Had a business client who was a cancer survivor and business owner. She had to receive periodic hormone treatments to live a normalized life. If they got her hormones out of balance, group business calls (no Zoom back then) could be embarrassing for her as her sex talk would flow! That was wildly out of character for her, and we worked around it..
My late brother was treated for prostate cancer in part with testosterone suppression therapy. He went from being a life long horn dog to totally disinterested in sex. He was shocked and not a little dismayed at how much in his life he had considered to be his identity was merely the result of a chemical mix in his brain.
All that said, we as a people for multiple generations have decided that rebellion for rebellion's sake is somehow a good thing all the time. We need as a people/culture/species to grow up and as EGM notes, acknowledge traits and preferences, but not make them straitjackets either.
There's a reason you must use lots of force to cram round pegs into square holes...
This is hilarious. My wife did similar things, particularly the pounding screws into the wall to hang things. She would also simply cut pieces out of the interior wall in order to hide cables and wires. Problem is it didn’t hide the hole in the wall. She was a great proponent of measure twice, cut once other than actually doing it. I had to stop her because of the level of destruction, glad to know I’m not the only one.
No disrespect intended to your ex, but how could anyone get the idea in the first place, to try and hammer in a screw?
Using the wrong kind of screwdriver, that I can kind of get - people are sometimes too lazy to go get the correct bit. And women not knowing nor understanding how to hold or swing a hammer correctly, that I can understand too.
But a screw? It would as if you'd pick the sledgehammer when trying to chop wood!
My college roommate was the son of a farmer. He pounded the screws to loft his bed with a hammer.
He's now the VP for Quality Control at Qualcomm.
I think it’s a lack of patience on the part of women.
Dunno the history, can only relay the facts and the solution we agreed upon...
Heh, sounds like me and my wife.
The agreed-upon solution being, I'll do it after she finally decides what it is that needs doing, more or less.
Sayeth the married man!
And happily married, I bet.
Just one quibble; meaningless in itself. Ball-peen hammers are NOT for driving nails.
Just thought I'd mention it.
I think Gato intended it as a joke, given the other meanings of "ball" and "peen" respectively, given the overall topic of trans-sexualism.
On the other hand, academics who are in Gender Theory and associated areas can write thesis papers and doctorate essays on the "gender" of cutlery, musical instrument and train stations.
All three examples are real. My tax-Crowns at work...
A real man here. He knows his tools. Ty!
True, but... they still work better than a screwdriver for that
Came to say this!
Basically, women shouldn't be judges.
I got called to jury duty many times. Second to last time the female judge was exceptional.
There’s always exceptions.
Then there are the majority of smooth brains on the SCOTUS, and the brighter ACB who is a wrecking ball.
When I looked at the photo of that sissy little purple fingernailed abhorrent travesty of nature having won two sporting events against girls, all I could think of was knocking him to the ground and stomping both of his knees into segmented parts... then looking down at him and saying, "Now compete against girls, Bitch!" Senior Gato's explanation of the innate differences between men and women has caused me to feel better about myself... now I know that my desire to see him punished for his unfairness is the result of an overabundance of testosterone... and it's not my fault.
I confess that I enjoyed your characterization of that male in the photo: "that sissy little purple fingernailed abhorrent travesty of nature".
I could think of no more polite way to describe "it"... :)
And please believe me... I have no animosity nor misgivings toward other's whose "sexual identity" differs from mine... though I can't help but state that it is a fact that prior to the 1980s, the overwhelming number of that mentality had their bathrooms in mental institutions... but I do take issue when one believes and acts as though their "sexual identity" out weights another's biological fact... I could go on... but I'll stop now.
agree but... what about "hell has no fury than a women scorned"? what about figures like von der Leyen, head of the EU, with no empathy at all drives the legal persecution and banning of everyone who does not agree with her under the label.of "hate speech", extremist, etc.? Not to mention her ruthless destruction of the EU under the label of Net-Zero"!? What about the fact that most heads of the NGOs in Germany who's mission it is to denounce online statements they do not like to the authority as hate crimes or insult in order to get the authors punished? Give me a women on a destructive mission and with power and I am more afraid of her than of a men in the same position. Whereas men are sometime capable of yielding to rational assment "who is stronger" women seem to carry on regardless - even with more fury.
Women can be vicious when we want to. Mean girls is real and the women that are like that don't grow out of it, they just get better at it. I always appreciated the company of men more than women for that very reason, they would talk so sweetly to your face but then gut you when your back was turned.
@TW- and the meanest girls of all are 8th grade ones. I know. I had two of them. AND an 8th grade granddaughter.
Oh yes yes yes, I agree and same with me!
A Nigerian* is not a German.
Dare to dip your toes in that shark tank too?
The trans-thing is played out, media-wise. The actual trannies and their cheerleaders are too few to move the needle in elections and cannot create corporate profits, and so are on the way out (has been for 1-2 years now) as politics and corporate capitalism re-align The Message (to be read in the voice of the Critical Drinker).
But the race-culture-ethnicity-thing, is lightning-hot.
*(Nigeria is home to over 200 different ethncities by the way, but none of them are German, or "White" as USAmericans persist in using as a catch-all term, no matter how erroneous it is.)