"I am about as qualified to determine how to treat gender dysphoria as I am to edit a national newspaper or pilot a starship."
One doesn't have to be qualified to treat a disorder in order to recognize it as one.
Do you acknowledge that anorexia exists and that it is a disorder? A disorder with an enormous psychological component? And that no matter how the anorexic feels, no matter that she "feels fat," she in reality is NOT fat and she requires help for her obviously distorted sense of self? And that you by "affirming" her, by going along with her delusion that she's fat, you would be harming, not hurting her?
You don't have to be a physician in order to recognize these things.
Same with the delusion of "transgender." It is a delusion, a fantasy -- at best a belief akin to religious belief, at worst a dangerous delusion causing harm to its adherents and to society at large. Men can't become women. Women can't become men. Nobody can morph into the opposite sex. Liberty allows you to pretend whatever you like about yourself, but not to compel others to do so as well.
We talk about the few brave people who stood up and incurred serious professional damage. But not only will there be no punishment for the villains who visited this on them we need to recognize that these professions are dominated by shriveling cowards who let these kids be abused and the truth tellers destroyed because they feared retribution.
I get lifetime free electronic subscription to WaPo. Truly trash reporting. The last article I read (5 Jan?) was about was how Trump was affecting university diversity hires. The whole article was about race; not one word about the diversity that really matters on campus - thoughts and ideas and abilities. Race is the only thing matters in the article. Practically every article I see has similar single-minded focus, usually how bad Trump is. Just plain garbage reporting…won’t be missed if it folds.
The Room replaced Ishtar as the worst movie ever? Woah!
I pretty much stopped watching Star Trek after Next Generation. I want to keep those great memories in my head, not to be soiled by wokeness.
Yes, the godless Marxists had a good run, but the men who just want to be left alone are finally taking notice. The tide is turning. I’d like to think the evil ghouls who promote all things transgender will get their comeuppance, but they’ll probably skate just like Fauci. All I can hope for is that karma gets them in some heinous way in their everyday life, out of the spotlight.
So well written. Just a simple "Amen" to the entirety of it. My only additional thought might be... "This outcome, at least in hindsight, was easily foreseen by anyone pausing to consider history while applying a basic understanding of humans." Liability claims will cease all medical support. The official turn of the AMA marks the end. The transgender movement is dead.
From your mouth to God's ear. But it will die kicking and screaming, because the transgender movement is led by narcissists and Cluster B types (not saying that they're all Cluster B, some of them are autists and dupes) and those sorts never go quietly.
I've read the same thing about episodes of mass madness, of which woke is of course one. I haven't studied the history enough to know if it is true, but I've read that not all of these movements burn out on their own, and perhaps many had to be defeated by armies.
You as your children’s father have every right to say, “no, sorry, orchiectomy will not be performed on my son because orchiectomy doesn’t change him to female!”
Those who insist you don’t have that right are incredibly dangerous.
This is one of those cases in which the lack of “education” is a blessing.
"Characters were no longer written to be admirable, they were written to be relatable."
Reminds me of the Lego study that found differences in how boys and girls play: Boys play with figurines in the third-person, while girls project their identities on their toys.
The Star Trek implosion is a 'meh'. All franchises have their end. This one lasted longer than most. The complete meltdown of the Washington Post was perfectly trolled by the ever-annoying Matt Walsh. But the trans fad is a real crime for which many should pay. Children were given unbelievably life altering drugs and surgeries which will haunt them for the rest of their lives. It was our job to protect them. And the entire medical establishment failed because they chased money instead of upholding their Hippocratic Oath. The AMA reversal is a cowardly act simply because it came only after a huge lawsuit. These are the same people who said it was unsafe to go to church, the local store, Thanksgiving with Gramma, but you can go into the streets and protest. Charlatans - all of them. I trust not a single one.
Wokeness is a sad mental disorder. It’s practitioners seem to be searching for meaning I their lives. A need to help/ fight for something important. The first thing we should all fight for is truth and the examples here demonstrate the destruction caused by lying to yourself and pretending to care as a form of virtue signaling. Leftist don’t want to help they want validation and to feel that they are doing good. They truly are selfish people who care not about what or who they destroy.
I saw a clip the other day of a comedian boasting about how she just got her breasts chopped off. The audience applauded her. Tell me how this is not the end of civilization.
Everyone who promoted the mutilation of children should be impoverished for life through withering lawsuits. The worst of them should be shot on live TV. For 99% of our history as a species we meted out appropriate punishment for truly evil acts. Even the Bible firmly supports the role of government to wield the sword against evildoers.
I dont know if the new star trek failure can really be blamed on the trend. Star Trek had always had a very progressive social message, the new shows just aren’t good, other than snw
"I am about as qualified to determine how to treat gender dysphoria as I am to edit a national newspaper or pilot a starship."
One doesn't have to be qualified to treat a disorder in order to recognize it as one.
Do you acknowledge that anorexia exists and that it is a disorder? A disorder with an enormous psychological component? And that no matter how the anorexic feels, no matter that she "feels fat," she in reality is NOT fat and she requires help for her obviously distorted sense of self? And that you by "affirming" her, by going along with her delusion that she's fat, you would be harming, not hurting her?
You don't have to be a physician in order to recognize these things.
Same with the delusion of "transgender." It is a delusion, a fantasy -- at best a belief akin to religious belief, at worst a dangerous delusion causing harm to its adherents and to society at large. Men can't become women. Women can't become men. Nobody can morph into the opposite sex. Liberty allows you to pretend whatever you like about yourself, but not to compel others to do so as well.
https://diagdemocrats.substack.com
We talk about the few brave people who stood up and incurred serious professional damage. But not only will there be no punishment for the villains who visited this on them we need to recognize that these professions are dominated by shriveling cowards who let these kids be abused and the truth tellers destroyed because they feared retribution.
This continues to this day.
I get lifetime free electronic subscription to WaPo. Truly trash reporting. The last article I read (5 Jan?) was about was how Trump was affecting university diversity hires. The whole article was about race; not one word about the diversity that really matters on campus - thoughts and ideas and abilities. Race is the only thing matters in the article. Practically every article I see has similar single-minded focus, usually how bad Trump is. Just plain garbage reporting…won’t be missed if it folds.
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, the truth." The Buddha
The Room replaced Ishtar as the worst movie ever? Woah!
I pretty much stopped watching Star Trek after Next Generation. I want to keep those great memories in my head, not to be soiled by wokeness.
Yes, the godless Marxists had a good run, but the men who just want to be left alone are finally taking notice. The tide is turning. I’d like to think the evil ghouls who promote all things transgender will get their comeuppance, but they’ll probably skate just like Fauci. All I can hope for is that karma gets them in some heinous way in their everyday life, out of the spotlight.
Their comeuppance is their inability to hector young men into submission anymore. They just get laughed at and made fun of.
The Room? Ishtar?? Has everyone forgotten Plan 9 from Outer Space?
Youngsters today.
Karma is bullshit.
What is not bullshit: the endgame of cancel culture is not cowering conservatives. It's Mutually Assured Destruction.
So well written. Just a simple "Amen" to the entirety of it. My only additional thought might be... "This outcome, at least in hindsight, was easily foreseen by anyone pausing to consider history while applying a basic understanding of humans." Liability claims will cease all medical support. The official turn of the AMA marks the end. The transgender movement is dead.
From your mouth to God's ear. But it will die kicking and screaming, because the transgender movement is led by narcissists and Cluster B types (not saying that they're all Cluster B, some of them are autists and dupes) and those sorts never go quietly.
I've read the same thing about episodes of mass madness, of which woke is of course one. I haven't studied the history enough to know if it is true, but I've read that not all of these movements burn out on their own, and perhaps many had to be defeated by armies.
You as your children’s father have every right to say, “no, sorry, orchiectomy will not be performed on my son because orchiectomy doesn’t change him to female!”
Those who insist you don’t have that right are incredibly dangerous.
This is one of those cases in which the lack of “education” is a blessing.
"Characters were no longer written to be admirable, they were written to be relatable."
Reminds me of the Lego study that found differences in how boys and girls play: Boys play with figurines in the third-person, while girls project their identities on their toys.
"You can have a live son or a dead daughter"
How about a broke doctor?
Love this idea to the moon and back.
The Star Trek implosion is a 'meh'. All franchises have their end. This one lasted longer than most. The complete meltdown of the Washington Post was perfectly trolled by the ever-annoying Matt Walsh. But the trans fad is a real crime for which many should pay. Children were given unbelievably life altering drugs and surgeries which will haunt them for the rest of their lives. It was our job to protect them. And the entire medical establishment failed because they chased money instead of upholding their Hippocratic Oath. The AMA reversal is a cowardly act simply because it came only after a huge lawsuit. These are the same people who said it was unsafe to go to church, the local store, Thanksgiving with Gramma, but you can go into the streets and protest. Charlatans - all of them. I trust not a single one.
Wokeness is a sad mental disorder. It’s practitioners seem to be searching for meaning I their lives. A need to help/ fight for something important. The first thing we should all fight for is truth and the examples here demonstrate the destruction caused by lying to yourself and pretending to care as a form of virtue signaling. Leftist don’t want to help they want validation and to feel that they are doing good. They truly are selfish people who care not about what or who they destroy.
I saw a clip the other day of a comedian boasting about how she just got her breasts chopped off. The audience applauded her. Tell me how this is not the end of civilization.
Tumblr-brain ruins everything it touches...
Everyone who promoted the mutilation of children should be impoverished for life through withering lawsuits. The worst of them should be shot on live TV. For 99% of our history as a species we meted out appropriate punishment for truly evil acts. Even the Bible firmly supports the role of government to wield the sword against evildoers.
Fad? Or deliberate cultural revolution?
I dont know if the new star trek failure can really be blamed on the trend. Star Trek had always had a very progressive social message, the new shows just aren’t good, other than snw