I believe it was Solzhenitsyn who first observed this malady in his own country. Once again I am reminded that this nonsense is not an attempt to redefine any "truth" but rather, to force people to say in public that which they know to be false. It's so much easier to rule a population if they are continually off balance, never knowing what is okay and what is verboten. All the more reason to speak against this evil silliness.
Like Gato said, "it’s rendering everything stupid, unintelligible, and unnavigable." Yeah, I think that's the point and purpose. Who controls the present, controls the past.
The degree to which you profess belief in double-think absurdities is the measure of your subservience to the cult. Those who fail to mouth the shibboleths are clearly dangerous heretics who must be shamed, silenced, and vilified.
I agree that humor is perhaps our greatest weapon for piercing the facade; the problem is the indoctrinated have lost all sense of humor.
Ben Shapiro (love him or hate him) said, "you never debate to persuade the other person, you debate for the audience."
I'm presently having a hilarious time on another stack mocking a guy who thinks we're in this situation because women shouldn't be allowed to vote (really!) or make policy, ever, because of fallopian tubes or something. He keeps coming back.
I've already sent it to my mom who almost peed herself and my (male) mentor has been making incel jokes about it for the past hour.
It's not about him. It's about taking power away from ridiculous ideas.
Great point, Guttermouth. Please share the thread as I’m sure it is hysterical, although I’ll have to savor it later as I’m trying to finish my latest article.
We can only pray! All I’ve got to say about all the BS is that all my life my daddy warned everyone he could against the coming One World Government. Now it’s the New World, but the same. I’m not exaggerating this at all but I guess people thought he was nuts and lots of people avoided him. I’m 65. So from when I was about 7 until he died he fought against it.. he died about a year before start of the Covid malarkey which really helped “them”take hold so well. Even though I’ve heard about it my whole life, I find it hard to believe it’s on the verge of happening. I’m a 65 year old woman. I should not have to be engaging in this stuff for my country. I have lots of old lady friends just like me. We should only have to worry about being a grandmother, but here I am prepping for the end of the world as I knew it. Young men, please step up.
No, There wasn’t. He said it was the Antichrist and the world bankers. He always said the banking system was corrupt and that since there was no gold or silver standard it would fail. He also said, that if interest is charged on money lended, it could never be paid off and if you think hard about this, you can understand why.
Possibly the Trilateral Commission. That was my dad's preferred suspect. The idea that "they," are plotting to impose a World Government which will forever destroy Americn liberty and prosperity has been around for at least 80 or 90 years.
Yes, it’s been here a while and most people laughed or were too scared to consider it. They should have listened. Every year people give up a few more morals or rights. All these years of insidious brain washing has done it’s work. I’m sick of people who just follow the crowd. I truly am.
Research Charlotte Iserbyte. She wrote the Deliberate Dumbing Down of America decades ago and updates it to this day. She is in her 90’s. This plan to Build Back “Better” has been decades in the making.
Your father was very smart. Mine was too. He had a portrait of Lenin on his office wall. Not because he loved Lenin, but as a reminder and lesson for all. Of course, many thought he was nuts. But I’m grateful for the lesson. He died in January at age 97.
Ugh, I'd rather not copy it into other ecosystems. Consider it an Easter egg of dumb ridiculous shit.
Playing devil's advocate with YOUR argument- which was far more substantive than mine, all things considered- while the part about right-wing and Trump-loving fascists is absurd on its face, the "resistance" (which includes YOU and a lot of decidedly non "right-wing-fascists") IS more dangerous than Mr. Global.
We SHOULD be more dangerous. Otherwise this thing is already over.
Haha, another great point, Guttermouth! And thanks for sparing me as I no doubt would be tempted to read the thread and really must stay focused on my article (I’m only here now because I’m waiting for my tea to finish steeping ;-)
...thus demonstrating that this TDS sufferer, like most, has no idea what fascism actually is. If he did, he'd recognize that it's not coming from where he thinks it is.
How did we get here? It wasn't, as the narrative would have us believe, through some natural evolution of society to be more inclusive, loving, and accepting.
Someone or something is doing this to us. The question is why.
when you see someone do something inexplicable, look at the result. The odds are that was the intent.
Now since I have been the sort to confuse and piss people off, I admit that could be a possible goal and you have to take that into consideration, but on the whole, you can bet on finding the intent from the result. I think the intent is to get people so worked up that they can be led, or at least so busy fighting that we are unable to set up a defense to assaults.
However, is wilLIAm Thomas trying to win at women's swimming, is he being insane, is he truly thinking he is trans, or is he trying to turn the entire women's athletics into looking at itself and its hypocrisy and faddish lies?
Having dealt a bit with Men's collegiate swimmers, I have my suspicions that it might be the last.
I've heard someone else make the argument that Thomas is trolling women's swimming. I don't buy it.
I agree that there is a marxist divide and conquer element to the redefining reality, but why are they doing it? I think reduction of the population is behind it. If you have an entire generation of confused kids who are rendered infertile from "treatments", it will help Gates, Schwab, etc. to their dream.
Not calculated ahead of time, more like it is pushed into and the possible gains outweigh the possible danger.
Granted, sometimes the definition of "success" can change during the process. Pol Pot probably intended to kill a full 25% or more of his population to reach "sustainable" levels for his planned Marxist agrarian state, but I suspect that for him and his inner circle, success moved from being "admired and beloved saviours of the Khmer people" to "not being beaten to death in a field with agricultural implements like so many of our victims"
Flexible goals, so many people feel that flexible goals are essential in today's competitive environment.
Could be someone or it could just be an apathetic majority. "The road to Auschwitz was paved with apathy" They didn't need a huge bunch of screaming nazi, anti semites. Look at all the sheeple who conformed to covid bs just because they were told to.
Same. He's been very helpful in examining my own beliefs, and I've learned quite a lot about rhetoric and image management from how he handles himself. If I met him, I imagine we would respect our differences.
Humor replaced with anger. Unity replaced with division. Life-affirming replaced with life-negating. Order replaced with confusion. Facts replaced with falsehoods. History replaced with toxic narrative.
And just as tax-exempt as the church. Not only must we endure the (anti)social toxins spewed by these vile institutions we must subsidize them as well.
That's why the response to everything must be an incredulous belly-laugh. Mean laughter won't do it. Absolutely dumbfounded hilarity is the only way to shrink them into, you know, impotence.
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.”
–Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
They don't want us to seriously believe that the difference between women and men is in contention. It's about coercing us to lie rather than go through the pain they will inflict for challenging them.
I refuse to refer to anyone that is transed by their "new" pronoun. So someone like Bruce Jenner is still a man and a he. Although come to think of it he was involved in a fatal accident after he transed so maybe his transition to a female actually took place.
It’s also about furthering the depopulation agendum. Folks have to think that making babies is normal, natural, and good—given certain qualifiers—and wokist ideology is counter to and negating of life and nature and normalcy. The more confusion youth can be taught at the earliest ages, the fewer of them will produce (well socialized) offspring. The fewer citizens there will be to keep the culture alive and defend the country from invasion and annihilation.
Yet, one of the qualifiers for her appearance in front of the Senate was that she is a woman. Flunking that question should be a disqualifier. The biologist Bret Weinstien could answer it, but she wouldn't like it. Lucky for her the left booted him.
Tbh, that question premises the she *is* a woman. You have to first ask, "Are you a woman?" Part of me likes to smugly imagine that she'd have answered with, "I don't know."
She absolutely would have. With the same deer-in-headlights pause.
Every single answer down that line of questioning would have been "I don't know." It's like having a Congressional hearing with a spy who has people's entrails smeared all over his face and asking him if he killed anyone that day.
Guess X+X= female and X+Y=male is too confusing. But when you have 2+2= whatever you feel it is, then no wonder she can't answer the simple question. Love the gifs! 😎
The truth is the truth, if it causes people to be upset then so be it. If we worry about the "minefield" of upsetting delusional people then we are lost.
Denying reality does not end well. Many of us learned this the hard way and can clearly see the slow motion train wreck happening in front of us.
Simple: Gametes. Mature reproductive cells. Either you produce sperm or eggs (or your body is designed to). It's binary. I don't care abut how you're "wired" or about your chromosomal abnormality or your testosterone/estrogen anomaly. Will you someday or do you now or have you ever produced sperm or eggs?
Fortunately I know of literally no one who talks this way or believes this sh*t. (Vive le South) But the amount of play on airwaves and media (social or otherwise) sure would make you think we’re the minority. I saw a poll and the people who believe this are a tiny number - can’t remember now but 10% or less pops to mind. The rest of us know it’s insanity. Like, you wouldn’t even believe it in a movie insanity.
I think there's several areas to clarify on this topic. Definition of biological men and women has to do with primary sex characteristics - genitalia, penis and vagina (and there are people who have a little of both, hermaphrodites). And then there are secondary sex characteristics like breasts that have the potential to produce milk, voice range, Adam apple size, and muscle size.
Then there are cultural categories and definitions of men and women that I think are important to challenge and break down. Men or women should be able to stay home and raise the kids while women go out and earn a living without being ridiculed, for example. Women should not be shut out of political positions and heads of institutions. I think we are better off as a civilization breaking down cultural defined categories of men and women. But this doesn't mean ignoring biological differences between men and women, that's just silly.
Vitually no one in the West is arguing against that, with the exception of "break down"; trust mewhen I say that "breaking down" societal and cultural definitions are civilisational suicide. Guiding them to hold greater freedom of choice and from choice too, works wonders though. (It may well ba what you mean, but the phrases "breaking don" and "challenging" when used by modern day pomo woke feminists and such really means "destroy".)
Without women forcing men to be men by pointing out unworthy and unmanly behaviour (ganging up on someone in a fight for instance), or men forcing women to value themselves and show their self-worth and dignity, we become perpetual teenagers or even tantrum-throwing four year olds, culturally speaking.
And that has nothing to do with say letting women apply for fireman or marine corps duty - pass the tests, join the club. Doesn't get fairer than that. And historically speaking, men was barred from far more jobs than women (depedning o.c. on place and time, which shows just how nebulous the issue is in reality.)
I think western feminists of any gender would benefit from living in Iran or Morocco or Pakistan for a year or so, get some perspective. So would those obnoxious twits bleating about being alphas and going to the iron temple and so on - it's enough to make a grown man cry, seeing (alleged) men acting like boys. The measureof a real man, or awoman, is getting on with what needs be done and not making a big song and dance routine about it. No "lookee see what an exceptional person I am! Me me me me!", just humbly, quietly and dutifully doing what you know is right, what must be done and doing so in the proper way and manner - setting the table or doing a report on neutrinos doesn't matter.
Like I used to rile my wife's colleagues when she was at the institution for women's studies nigh on thirty years ago: "How do you see if a man or woman hammered the nail in?"
😊👍🏽 Thank you for your comment, I love a lot of what you said and agree with a lot. I enjoyed reading it as well. 💕
I mean both, guiding and breakdown, and I appreciate your distinction. Guiding people towards more freedom of choice if that's what their "design" is, as well as breaking down some things if needed.
I am all for men and women being fully in traditional male and female roles, behavior and senses of self, if that's what they want, if that's who they are. It's a beautiful really to see a person be fully authentic and comfortable with who they are.
Since some roles and definitions are related to power, sometimes those need to be busted up because people are attached to their power, and don't want to feel powerless. For example, beautiful women who use men for money, or who are suddenly interested in an average looking man when they go stand next to a nice car (like those videos I've seen on YouTube, where a beautiful woman totally disses an average looking man, until he walks up to a nice car, and then she's all interested in him). Those women need the power that they have over men to be confronted, and their humiliation felt by it being captured on camera and put on youtube. They use their power to treat men like objects and suck them dry for their money. Women don't give up that power easily, until there's some negative consequence. (I think feminism has brought forth enough examples about men that I don't need to write them here).
Power in and of itself isn't bad. It's when men and women use it cruelly, without heart, or without feeling for the other that's the problem.
Men don't need to give up their masculinity and become beta, castrated men. They just need more role models, men in touch with their masculinity, their true power, their full sexuality AND their heart. I think Joe Rogan is a great example. He'll tell other men he loves them and cry on camera without being ashamed, and he's no beta man.
I think we are in a time of civilization breakdown, and to me woke culture is the least of it. It will be a rocky ride, and hopefully we will develop into more full human beings that are freer to express all qualities, not just the ones attributed to males or females. We may need to do so to survive. 🙏💜
Feminism has always been for and come from one of two groups of women, with the only intersecting interest of gaining privilege and losing obligations:
Upper middle class liberal/bourgeoisie white women (suffragettes and such), and pug-ugly marxist manhaters like Stein and her ilk.
Those two form the two legs of feminism, and all the normal women are un the middle.
When the legs separate and pull in different directions, normal women gets f*cked, which may be good or not so good depending on the f*ck as such; when they squeeze together and co-operate, normal women gets suffocatd and get no action at all, good or bad.
Because to feminists, normal women no matter if they dig ditches or sew stitches, are just tools to achieve or reclaim for both the left and the right leg the status of pretty princess for whom everything just falls into place as if by magic.
Perfectly analogous how the self-same larger societal groups ahve treated workers and no-whites: tools, tokens and means to an end, not people with free will and agency.
And as I said, any western feminist should go live in an African or arabic country for a year or so, living and moving among the actual people there, to get perspective. It is very easy to imagine 'better than now' which has the unfortunate subconscious side-effect of making the now seem bad, but much harder to emotionally and instinctually understand not lived experience, especially if that experience constitutes real risk and effort with no guaranteed way back, and no saviour waiting in the wings.
That goes equally for men of course, but we (as in at least 50+) tend to have had silly notions about such things beaten out of us by our peers when we were boys. Theremight be a female equivalent, but not being one I can't experience it other than intellectually, which is like comparing a windsock to a you-know-what concerning relations.
Funny you mention Pakistan. I lived there for varying lengths of time starting in 1976, and founded a women's center there in 2000, and women were often as vicious to and oppressive of other women as men were. It was often mothers-in-law and sisters-in-law (many of whom were also cousins to the woman in question) who were most obstructive to a woman joining our program.
It's always, at the heart of it, individual character. I knew poor families who invested everything possible in the education of girls and I knew wealthy--or very comfortable--families whose only interest in a daughter's education was to make her a better prize for what they considered a desirable bridegroom.
Should women have to meet the same physical requirements for strength and speed etc. in jobs like firefighting? I really want to know everyone’s thoughts.
I think a person needs the physical requirements for the job. So if there's part of fire fighting that a man or woman can physically do, then they should be able to have the job.
I agree. If they meet the same standard qualifications that everyone must meet, no reason not to have the job. But the requirements should not be lowered if they are necessary for the job.
That’s what I was concerned about. I remember when the military made lower physical standards for women. A man my size, would be considered a very small man. I’m 5’3. But even when I was younger, stronger, and much faster, a man that size would have outdone me physically in almost all cases. I’m thinking severely overweight and slow. He would still win in strength. In fifth grade however, before puberty kicked in for the boys, I beat all but one boy in my class arm wrestling! Lol
(Though the women of my family, on both mother's and father's sides, arethe type to look really hard at the nail and you get the feeling the nail is trying to get in place before the hammer falls.)
Woodworking is one of my hobbies! I love power tools. Power tools are the great equalizer although I’m pretty good at pounding nails, too. I’ve trimmed whole houses buy myself, including hanging doors. I’m happiest in my shop.
"it's rendering everything stupid, unintelligible, and unnavigable."
That's the point. The nomenklatura will decide what words mean and will unperson you if you use them to mean anything other than the definition of the moment.
I would have loved MTG getting her to admit she is a “menstruating person,” a “child bearer, or a “milk producing person.” Let the heads explode with those woke definitions. Woke has lost its collective (literally) mind and our best response is to refuse to accept their version of the world.
The most important result of this exchange is that a future supreme court justice confirms that deciding whether someone is a woman is a matter of biology.
"I'm not a biologist" is an admission that gender may have something to do with biology, rather than a feeling. So she managed to sound incredibly stupid to both camps.
He should have hammered her about this. People who spout this nonsense can easily be made to look like blithering fools. Here are some ideas.
"Do you feel that it would be a good thing to have more women represented on the supreme court? Yes? How did you arrive at that opinion without knowing what they are? How often do you render opinions on matters that you don't really understand?"
"When women's issues come up in court cases, do you just get confused because you don't know what anybody is talking about?"
"Can you name the female supreme court justices that you would be serving with? Did you consult a biologist to be sure about that?"
I'm not a vet but I know what a cat is
I believe it was Solzhenitsyn who first observed this malady in his own country. Once again I am reminded that this nonsense is not an attempt to redefine any "truth" but rather, to force people to say in public that which they know to be false. It's so much easier to rule a population if they are continually off balance, never knowing what is okay and what is verboten. All the more reason to speak against this evil silliness.
If you can get people to accept an absurdity, then you can get them to commit an atrocity
Like Gato said, "it’s rendering everything stupid, unintelligible, and unnavigable." Yeah, I think that's the point and purpose. Who controls the present, controls the past.
I'm not a cat, but I know what a laser pointer is.
I’m not a cat but I know what catnip is...
I’m not a four-star general or military strategist, but I know what asymmetrical warfare is.
My dog identifies as a cat, because he can now go for walks unsupervised.
True, you don't have to be ex-military to know "A malicious woman especially one given to making catty remarks about other women." ;)
No, you have to be a ZOOLOGIST.
You have the wrong specialism!
Therefore we don't care about your point of view.
You lose :-)
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Naughty kitty. I was being tongue in whiskers. So there. Hiss. ; )
Did you know a female (unspayed) cat is called a "queen".
I wish I was a cat among mice... So many silly heads to bite off, yummy!
The degree to which you profess belief in double-think absurdities is the measure of your subservience to the cult. Those who fail to mouth the shibboleths are clearly dangerous heretics who must be shamed, silenced, and vilified.
I agree that humor is perhaps our greatest weapon for piercing the facade; the problem is the indoctrinated have lost all sense of humor.
Laugh anyway. It’s always been the best medicine!
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Do you have a friend page? I’d like to join!
Ben Shapiro (love him or hate him) said, "you never debate to persuade the other person, you debate for the audience."
I'm presently having a hilarious time on another stack mocking a guy who thinks we're in this situation because women shouldn't be allowed to vote (really!) or make policy, ever, because of fallopian tubes or something. He keeps coming back.
I've already sent it to my mom who almost peed herself and my (male) mentor has been making incel jokes about it for the past hour.
It's not about him. It's about taking power away from ridiculous ideas.
Great point, Guttermouth. Please share the thread as I’m sure it is hysterical, although I’ll have to savor it later as I’m trying to finish my latest article.
Speaking of, I have been rather gently engaging with a TDS sufferer who thinks the Canadian truckers were right-wing Trump-loving fascists and just informed me (https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/reinventing-progress/comment/5703598):
“Hint; to me the ‘resistance’ ( Truckers and Trumpists ie, those that are feeling powerless ) are in effect more dangerous than even Mr Global’.”
Once I read that, I realized he was hopeless and simply responded with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztVMib1T4T4
We can only pray! All I’ve got to say about all the BS is that all my life my daddy warned everyone he could against the coming One World Government. Now it’s the New World, but the same. I’m not exaggerating this at all but I guess people thought he was nuts and lots of people avoided him. I’m 65. So from when I was about 7 until he died he fought against it.. he died about a year before start of the Covid malarkey which really helped “them”take hold so well. Even though I’ve heard about it my whole life, I find it hard to believe it’s on the verge of happening. I’m a 65 year old woman. I should not have to be engaging in this stuff for my country. I have lots of old lady friends just like me. We should only have to worry about being a grandmother, but here I am prepping for the end of the world as I knew it. Young men, please step up.
Where did your dad think the One World Government would come from, back in those days? I don't think there was a WEF back then, was there?
No, There wasn’t. He said it was the Antichrist and the world bankers. He always said the banking system was corrupt and that since there was no gold or silver standard it would fail. He also said, that if interest is charged on money lended, it could never be paid off and if you think hard about this, you can understand why.
Possibly the Trilateral Commission. That was my dad's preferred suspect. The idea that "they," are plotting to impose a World Government which will forever destroy Americn liberty and prosperity has been around for at least 80 or 90 years.
Yes, it’s been here a while and most people laughed or were too scared to consider it. They should have listened. Every year people give up a few more morals or rights. All these years of insidious brain washing has done it’s work. I’m sick of people who just follow the crowd. I truly am.
Research Charlotte Iserbyte. She wrote the Deliberate Dumbing Down of America decades ago and updates it to this day. She is in her 90’s. This plan to Build Back “Better” has been decades in the making.
Your father was very smart. Mine was too. He had a portrait of Lenin on his office wall. Not because he loved Lenin, but as a reminder and lesson for all. Of course, many thought he was nuts. But I’m grateful for the lesson. He died in January at age 97.
Ugh, I'd rather not copy it into other ecosystems. Consider it an Easter egg of dumb ridiculous shit.
Playing devil's advocate with YOUR argument- which was far more substantive than mine, all things considered- while the part about right-wing and Trump-loving fascists is absurd on its face, the "resistance" (which includes YOU and a lot of decidedly non "right-wing-fascists") IS more dangerous than Mr. Global.
We SHOULD be more dangerous. Otherwise this thing is already over.
He accidentally stumbled onto an insight there.
Haha, another great point, Guttermouth! And thanks for sparing me as I no doubt would be tempted to read the thread and really must stay focused on my article (I’m only here now because I’m waiting for my tea to finish steeping ;-)
Enjoy your tea. I’ve been enjoying you two, Margaret Anna Alice and Guttermouth’s discussion.
They are both brilliant, are they not? Each her own flavor of great gal.
Haha, thanks, Laura, and cheers! ☕️
...thus demonstrating that this TDS sufferer, like most, has no idea what fascism actually is. If he did, he'd recognize that it's not coming from where he thinks it is.
Exactemundo.
How did we get here? It wasn't, as the narrative would have us believe, through some natural evolution of society to be more inclusive, loving, and accepting.
Someone or something is doing this to us. The question is why.
when you see someone do something inexplicable, look at the result. The odds are that was the intent.
Now since I have been the sort to confuse and piss people off, I admit that could be a possible goal and you have to take that into consideration, but on the whole, you can bet on finding the intent from the result. I think the intent is to get people so worked up that they can be led, or at least so busy fighting that we are unable to set up a defense to assaults.
However, is wilLIAm Thomas trying to win at women's swimming, is he being insane, is he truly thinking he is trans, or is he trying to turn the entire women's athletics into looking at itself and its hypocrisy and faddish lies?
Having dealt a bit with Men's collegiate swimmers, I have my suspicions that it might be the last.
I've heard someone else make the argument that Thomas is trolling women's swimming. I don't buy it.
I agree that there is a marxist divide and conquer element to the redefining reality, but why are they doing it? I think reduction of the population is behind it. If you have an entire generation of confused kids who are rendered infertile from "treatments", it will help Gates, Schwab, etc. to their dream.
I think he's just a fucking narcissist and doing what he's doing because he can.
You really think it's that calculated?
Not calculated ahead of time, more like it is pushed into and the possible gains outweigh the possible danger.
Granted, sometimes the definition of "success" can change during the process. Pol Pot probably intended to kill a full 25% or more of his population to reach "sustainable" levels for his planned Marxist agrarian state, but I suspect that for him and his inner circle, success moved from being "admired and beloved saviours of the Khmer people" to "not being beaten to death in a field with agricultural implements like so many of our victims"
Flexible goals, so many people feel that flexible goals are essential in today's competitive environment.
Could be someone or it could just be an apathetic majority. "The road to Auschwitz was paved with apathy" They didn't need a huge bunch of screaming nazi, anti semites. Look at all the sheeple who conformed to covid bs just because they were told to.
I was having that same argument today. I wonder if there are that many idiots on one day…never mind, there are.
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I'll admit it, I'm a Ben Shapiro fan even though he's more to the right than I. His Biden impression is hilarious.
Same. He's been very helpful in examining my own beliefs, and I've learned quite a lot about rhetoric and image management from how he handles himself. If I met him, I imagine we would respect our differences.
He had Bill Maher on his show recently, I really enjoyed it. I like Maher too, even though he's to the left of me :-)
Sibboleth. Dang… sibboleth. Rats! Sssiboleth!
Sorry. Just can’t say it.
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This.
Sense of humor has been replaced with sense of anger. So much hostility and frank anger.
Humor replaced with anger. Unity replaced with division. Life-affirming replaced with life-negating. Order replaced with confusion. Facts replaced with falsehoods. History replaced with toxic narrative.
God replaced with mankind’s contrivances.
Who is the mastermind behind all this?
The dragon. That’s my take.
You covered the gamut. That pretty much sums it up.
"Who is the mastermind behind all this?"
Academia.
Academia captured by the CCP
Yep. The Cathedral.
And just as tax-exempt as the church. Not only must we endure the (anti)social toxins spewed by these vile institutions we must subsidize them as well.
Ouch. Good point.
The hallmark of all totalitarian regimes.
That's why the response to everything must be an incredulous belly-laugh. Mean laughter won't do it. Absolutely dumbfounded hilarity is the only way to shrink them into, you know, impotence.
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.”
–Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
They don't want us to seriously believe that the difference between women and men is in contention. It's about coercing us to lie rather than go through the pain they will inflict for challenging them.
I refuse to refer to anyone that is transed by their "new" pronoun. So someone like Bruce Jenner is still a man and a he. Although come to think of it he was involved in a fatal accident after he transed so maybe his transition to a female actually took place.
Yes….. males never cause traffic accidents. This is the sort of silly comment that is part of the problem about “beliefs.”
Oh, please. It's a joke.
Excellent quote.
It’s also about furthering the depopulation agendum. Folks have to think that making babies is normal, natural, and good—given certain qualifiers—and wokist ideology is counter to and negating of life and nature and normalcy. The more confusion youth can be taught at the earliest ages, the fewer of them will produce (well socialized) offspring. The fewer citizens there will be to keep the culture alive and defend the country from invasion and annihilation.
Yet, one of the qualifiers for her appearance in front of the Senate was that she is a woman. Flunking that question should be a disqualifier. The biologist Bret Weinstien could answer it, but she wouldn't like it. Lucky for her the left booted him.
The follow-up question should have been, "How do you know you're a woman?"
Tbh, that question premises the she *is* a woman. You have to first ask, "Are you a woman?" Part of me likes to smugly imagine that she'd have answered with, "I don't know."
She absolutely would have. With the same deer-in-headlights pause.
Every single answer down that line of questioning would have been "I don't know." It's like having a Congressional hearing with a spy who has people's entrails smeared all over his face and asking him if he killed anyone that day.
These days, such a question is a bit like asking "When did you stop beating your wife?"
Guess X+X= female and X+Y=male is too confusing. But when you have 2+2= whatever you feel it is, then no wonder she can't answer the simple question. Love the gifs! 😎
She should have answered: Well, since the President said he would only consider a woman of color for the job, I must be a woman.
The truth is the truth, if it causes people to be upset then so be it. If we worry about the "minefield" of upsetting delusional people then we are lost.
Denying reality does not end well. Many of us learned this the hard way and can clearly see the slow motion train wreck happening in front of us.
Simple: Gametes. Mature reproductive cells. Either you produce sperm or eggs (or your body is designed to). It's binary. I don't care abut how you're "wired" or about your chromosomal abnormality or your testosterone/estrogen anomaly. Will you someday or do you now or have you ever produced sperm or eggs?
Yep. Seventh grade ‘sex education’ class, circa 1969.
That's why they want to kill us. We know what biology is.
Fortunately I know of literally no one who talks this way or believes this sh*t. (Vive le South) But the amount of play on airwaves and media (social or otherwise) sure would make you think we’re the minority. I saw a poll and the people who believe this are a tiny number - can’t remember now but 10% or less pops to mind. The rest of us know it’s insanity. Like, you wouldn’t even believe it in a movie insanity.
Yep. Tiny but loud. It gets louder in the blue cities. So I suggest we put some distance between ourselves and the blue cities.
I think there's several areas to clarify on this topic. Definition of biological men and women has to do with primary sex characteristics - genitalia, penis and vagina (and there are people who have a little of both, hermaphrodites). And then there are secondary sex characteristics like breasts that have the potential to produce milk, voice range, Adam apple size, and muscle size.
Then there are cultural categories and definitions of men and women that I think are important to challenge and break down. Men or women should be able to stay home and raise the kids while women go out and earn a living without being ridiculed, for example. Women should not be shut out of political positions and heads of institutions. I think we are better off as a civilization breaking down cultural defined categories of men and women. But this doesn't mean ignoring biological differences between men and women, that's just silly.
Vitually no one in the West is arguing against that, with the exception of "break down"; trust mewhen I say that "breaking down" societal and cultural definitions are civilisational suicide. Guiding them to hold greater freedom of choice and from choice too, works wonders though. (It may well ba what you mean, but the phrases "breaking don" and "challenging" when used by modern day pomo woke feminists and such really means "destroy".)
Without women forcing men to be men by pointing out unworthy and unmanly behaviour (ganging up on someone in a fight for instance), or men forcing women to value themselves and show their self-worth and dignity, we become perpetual teenagers or even tantrum-throwing four year olds, culturally speaking.
And that has nothing to do with say letting women apply for fireman or marine corps duty - pass the tests, join the club. Doesn't get fairer than that. And historically speaking, men was barred from far more jobs than women (depedning o.c. on place and time, which shows just how nebulous the issue is in reality.)
I think western feminists of any gender would benefit from living in Iran or Morocco or Pakistan for a year or so, get some perspective. So would those obnoxious twits bleating about being alphas and going to the iron temple and so on - it's enough to make a grown man cry, seeing (alleged) men acting like boys. The measureof a real man, or awoman, is getting on with what needs be done and not making a big song and dance routine about it. No "lookee see what an exceptional person I am! Me me me me!", just humbly, quietly and dutifully doing what you know is right, what must be done and doing so in the proper way and manner - setting the table or doing a report on neutrinos doesn't matter.
Like I used to rile my wife's colleagues when she was at the institution for women's studies nigh on thirty years ago: "How do you see if a man or woman hammered the nail in?"
. . . It's not about the nail?
😊👍🏽 Thank you for your comment, I love a lot of what you said and agree with a lot. I enjoyed reading it as well. 💕
I mean both, guiding and breakdown, and I appreciate your distinction. Guiding people towards more freedom of choice if that's what their "design" is, as well as breaking down some things if needed.
I am all for men and women being fully in traditional male and female roles, behavior and senses of self, if that's what they want, if that's who they are. It's a beautiful really to see a person be fully authentic and comfortable with who they are.
Since some roles and definitions are related to power, sometimes those need to be busted up because people are attached to their power, and don't want to feel powerless. For example, beautiful women who use men for money, or who are suddenly interested in an average looking man when they go stand next to a nice car (like those videos I've seen on YouTube, where a beautiful woman totally disses an average looking man, until he walks up to a nice car, and then she's all interested in him). Those women need the power that they have over men to be confronted, and their humiliation felt by it being captured on camera and put on youtube. They use their power to treat men like objects and suck them dry for their money. Women don't give up that power easily, until there's some negative consequence. (I think feminism has brought forth enough examples about men that I don't need to write them here).
Power in and of itself isn't bad. It's when men and women use it cruelly, without heart, or without feeling for the other that's the problem.
Men don't need to give up their masculinity and become beta, castrated men. They just need more role models, men in touch with their masculinity, their true power, their full sexuality AND their heart. I think Joe Rogan is a great example. He'll tell other men he loves them and cry on camera without being ashamed, and he's no beta man.
I think we are in a time of civilization breakdown, and to me woke culture is the least of it. It will be a rocky ride, and hopefully we will develop into more full human beings that are freer to express all qualities, not just the ones attributed to males or females. We may need to do so to survive. 🙏💜
Feminism has always been for and come from one of two groups of women, with the only intersecting interest of gaining privilege and losing obligations:
Upper middle class liberal/bourgeoisie white women (suffragettes and such), and pug-ugly marxist manhaters like Stein and her ilk.
Those two form the two legs of feminism, and all the normal women are un the middle.
When the legs separate and pull in different directions, normal women gets f*cked, which may be good or not so good depending on the f*ck as such; when they squeeze together and co-operate, normal women gets suffocatd and get no action at all, good or bad.
Because to feminists, normal women no matter if they dig ditches or sew stitches, are just tools to achieve or reclaim for both the left and the right leg the status of pretty princess for whom everything just falls into place as if by magic.
Perfectly analogous how the self-same larger societal groups ahve treated workers and no-whites: tools, tokens and means to an end, not people with free will and agency.
And as I said, any western feminist should go live in an African or arabic country for a year or so, living and moving among the actual people there, to get perspective. It is very easy to imagine 'better than now' which has the unfortunate subconscious side-effect of making the now seem bad, but much harder to emotionally and instinctually understand not lived experience, especially if that experience constitutes real risk and effort with no guaranteed way back, and no saviour waiting in the wings.
That goes equally for men of course, but we (as in at least 50+) tend to have had silly notions about such things beaten out of us by our peers when we were boys. Theremight be a female equivalent, but not being one I can't experience it other than intellectually, which is like comparing a windsock to a you-know-what concerning relations.
Funny you mention Pakistan. I lived there for varying lengths of time starting in 1976, and founded a women's center there in 2000, and women were often as vicious to and oppressive of other women as men were. It was often mothers-in-law and sisters-in-law (many of whom were also cousins to the woman in question) who were most obstructive to a woman joining our program.
It's always, at the heart of it, individual character. I knew poor families who invested everything possible in the education of girls and I knew wealthy--or very comfortable--families whose only interest in a daughter's education was to make her a better prize for what they considered a desirable bridegroom.
(And married into a family--now divorced out of it--so I've been an outsider/insider for a good part of that time)
Should women have to meet the same physical requirements for strength and speed etc. in jobs like firefighting? I really want to know everyone’s thoughts.
I think a person needs the physical requirements for the job. So if there's part of fire fighting that a man or woman can physically do, then they should be able to have the job.
I agree. If they meet the same standard qualifications that everyone must meet, no reason not to have the job. But the requirements should not be lowered if they are necessary for the job.
Yes. Or do they get to select who they'll rescue?
Those were my thoughts, but I just wondered if that’s how FD work or if they’re woke.
I think in all services the physical requirements are being revised downward to comply with legal challenges. Gonna be grim for awhile.
That’s what I was concerned about. I remember when the military made lower physical standards for women. A man my size, would be considered a very small man. I’m 5’3. But even when I was younger, stronger, and much faster, a man that size would have outdone me physically in almost all cases. I’m thinking severely overweight and slow. He would still win in strength. In fifth grade however, before puberty kicked in for the boys, I beat all but one boy in my class arm wrestling! Lol
I'm with you on every word of that, but I'd put a helmet on right now if I were you. :)
Just to hammer the nail in?
Is that an OSHA requirement for men or women?
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Mathemagicians answer: yes.
(Though the women of my family, on both mother's and father's sides, arethe type to look really hard at the nail and you get the feeling the nail is trying to get in place before the hammer falls.)
Woodworking is one of my hobbies! I love power tools. Power tools are the great equalizer although I’m pretty good at pounding nails, too. I’ve trimmed whole houses buy myself, including hanging doors. I’m happiest in my shop.
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When Ketanji Brown Jackson claimed she couldn't define "woman" because she wasn't a biologist, that should have generated two follow-up questions:
1. Are YOU a woman, and if so how do you know that?
2. If only biologists are qualified to define what a woman is, then are you saying that "woman" is a biological and not a psychological term?
"it's rendering everything stupid, unintelligible, and unnavigable."
That's the point. The nomenklatura will decide what words mean and will unperson you if you use them to mean anything other than the definition of the moment.
https://americanmind.org/salvo/why-tyrants-redefine-words/
I would have loved MTG getting her to admit she is a “menstruating person,” a “child bearer, or a “milk producing person.” Let the heads explode with those woke definitions. Woke has lost its collective (literally) mind and our best response is to refuse to accept their version of the world.
Has she defined “black” for the court yet?
The most important result of this exchange is that a future supreme court justice confirms that deciding whether someone is a woman is a matter of biology.
"I'm not a biologist" is an admission that gender may have something to do with biology, rather than a feeling. So she managed to sound incredibly stupid to both camps.
He should have hammered her about this. People who spout this nonsense can easily be made to look like blithering fools. Here are some ideas.
"Do you feel that it would be a good thing to have more women represented on the supreme court? Yes? How did you arrive at that opinion without knowing what they are? How often do you render opinions on matters that you don't really understand?"
"When women's issues come up in court cases, do you just get confused because you don't know what anybody is talking about?"
"Can you name the female supreme court justices that you would be serving with? Did you consult a biologist to be sure about that?"
C'mon everybody, let's hear yours.
Oh no, I think you are doing just fine. Seriously.