"Both sex and gender exist on a spectrum" - Reddit gays on trans people

JulienMayfair · 2024-04-15T01:25:39+00:00

More like "Reddit Mods on Trans People."

It's well known that there's pretty much only one gay subreddit where you won't be banned by a TRA mod for wrongthink on trans issues. This is how they maintain the illusion of consensus -- the active suppression of dissent.

JulienMayfair · 2024-04-11T21:35:43+00:00

The problem is that she is a star's kid. Mommy & Daddy get all the attention. Who knew she existed until now?

JulienMayfair · 2024-04-09T20:51:02+00:00

We gave smartphones to kids, and now we wonder why it's driving them crazy. Mentally deranged people were never before able to network with other mentally deranged people around the world to turn their maladaptive coping behavior into an "identity." Now, they can.

JulienMayfair · 2024-04-09T20:42:42+00:00

Former classroom teacher here (of older kids): Yes, too much freedom is actually bad for kids. It makes them anxious. They want guidance, not all this bullshit about being whatever they want to be.

JulienMayfair · 2024-04-08T02:06:31+00:00

I'm 95% sure that this guy was performing a deliberate parody, especially when he started talking about how furries were unable to obtain veterinary care.

JulienMayfair · 2024-04-05T01:37:42+00:00

how many privately-funded universities and colleges run DEI clown shows

Some universities are officially private schools, but they pretty much all take some public/government funding, especially in the sciences in the form of research grants.

I went to a well-known private university, and it's now a major DEI clown show. They're constantly virtue-signaling. I can't remember when I saw any kind of press release that didn't picture a POC. And the administration goes along with any claim of racism, no matter how flimsy or fraudulent.

JulienMayfair · 2024-04-05T01:29:59+00:00

Another sign of the ever-larger gap between ordinary gay and lesbian people and the wacko queer activist fringe. It's like they're competing with Drag Queen Story Hour to see who can be the biggest public relations disaster.

JulienMayfair · 2024-03-31T16:22:59+00:00

They're already visible every day . . . just not as they imagine themselves to be in their fantasies.

JulienMayfair · 2024-03-29T01:42:57+00:00

" . . . and my gender is a special internal feeling that happens to match up with totally traditional gender role stereotypes that feminists spent decades trying to escape."

JulienMayfair · 2024-03-25T13:23:23+00:00

Gender is definitely a neo-religion, and not the first wherein some of its adherents castrate themselves.

The speaker here "holds a Master of Education in Social Justice Curriculum," basically a degree in Woke. He now makes his living as a corporate trainer.

Grifters gotta grift.

JulienMayfair · 2024-03-25T13:16:43+00:00

The ones not happy about trans medical treatments are the malpractice insurance companies. I heard some are charging higher rates or refusing to cover doctors who perform these procedures.

JulienMayfair · 2024-03-24T21:14:10+00:00

The LGB would be "glad" for them to stop pretending to care about us.

JulienMayfair · 2024-03-23T13:43:05+00:00

PBS News ran this segment examining declining support for LGBTQ+ rights and blames it all on political polarization. They do no granular examination of the various subsets of LGBTQ+ and fail even to mention the extreme pivot towards the TQ+ over the last decade since same-sex marriage. There's no mention of the controversy over gender ideology and how that has inflamed the situation.

And, of course, comments are turned off -- because they know people will point this out.

JulienMayfair · 2024-03-23T01:42:29+00:00

Remember the Evergreen State College trans POC?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vMmKC6gKkw

JulienMayfair · 2024-03-19T00:45:17+00:00

GLAAD erased the gays a while back. It's been on the trans-train for years, and it's the same all across the board in these organizations.

My undergraduate university used to have an LGB Resources Office. Now, it's the "Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity." It's run by a trans-man, and all their programming relates to gender transition services and pronouns. Gays and lesbians are hardly mentioned on their website.

I've likened it to building a house and coming home one day to find someone else living there. They've changed the locks and now insist that they own the house. In fact, they've always owned it because they really built it. That's the level of gaslighting you get from these people. They will look in your face and tell you that without trans people, you wouldn't have any gay rights.

JulienMayfair · 2024-03-19T00:37:41+00:00

Organizations like this have acquired a not-insignificant amount of power and influence and are (understandably) loathe to just give it up.

And, specifically, it's the career activists who still want to have a career after achieving what they set out to achieve.

After same-sex marriage, career activists faced a crisis. What shall we do now? Their answer was to latch onto all the gender stuff.

JulienMayfair · 2024-03-19T00:29:48+00:00

Wow.

JulienMayfair · 2024-03-17T14:30:40+00:00

None of your archive links ever work for me.

JulienMayfair · 2024-03-11T17:27:21+00:00

Have you ever seen the TV show Botched?

JulienMayfair · 2024-03-10T13:03:51+00:00

If you've ever personally dealt with a pathological narcissist, you'll know that there is really no way to remind them that they are delusional that would be perceived by them as "polite." The key to understanding narcissistic identity is that they experience any challenge to that identity as an attack on their very existence; it's as if you are literally trying to murder them. It causes them that much distress. It's one of the reasons they are so angry all the time. Reality already chews at them all day long.

JulienMayfair · 2024-03-05T01:24:20+00:00

shittiest faculties

CRT originated at Harvard, Columbia, and UCLA.

JulienMayfair · 2024-03-04T22:33:28+00:00

His current diagnosis is severe personality disorder with predominantly narcissistic and histrionic traits.

And why are we not surprised?

JulienMayfair · 2024-03-03T20:46:14+00:00

how they have managed to infiltrate the highest levels of the academy

That's where they originated . . .

JulienMayfair · 2024-02-29T18:36:01+00:00

As a former academic, I'm not surprised. I'm just glad these people are finally being exposed for what we've all known they were doing for years.

All they do is regurgitate the same ideology. We should hardly be shocked that they have no original contributions to make to the sum total of human knowledge. They were never trained to be critical thinkers; they were trained to promulgate a very specific set of ideas to go along with the color of their skin. They were indoctrinated and passed along through a system, the same system that then gave them jobs.

JulienMayfair · 2024-02-27T17:26:27+00:00

Irony depends a lot on point of view. In this case, I think it's the contrast between their historic homophobia and their current claims that they were always at the center of the gay rights movement, which wouldn't have happened without them doing all the work.

JulienMayfair · 2024-02-27T04:29:34+00:00

I doubt porn did it, since he's married

You think married men don't look at porn? What planet have you been living on? If you read their own posts on Reddit, these guys will tell you explicitly, "I discovered my trans identity by watching porn." And, specifically, it's sissification porn.

I've started to become glad that when I was growing up, the closest to porn you could easily get was watching R-rated movies if your parents had Showtime cable.

JulienMayfair · 2024-02-27T04:27:04+00:00

The irony is that most of the AGP cross dressers were heterosexual men with a fetish who wanted NOTHING to do with gay rights from the 1960s through the 1990s. Then, once gay rights started making strides in the 2000s, they decided to hijack it for their own ends. And they decided the way to do it was to rewrite the history of gay rights, putting themselves at the center. That's really a big part of what peaked me, the overwhelming, deliberate dishonesty of it all.

JulienMayfair · 2024-02-25T22:32:45+00:00

Yes, but I can't fathom that such an obscure disease is becoming more and more common.

You know what else is becoming more and more common, to the point where it's ubiquitous? Pornography. It's everywhere. You need to get out of this strange mindset of a sharp distinction between psychiatric issues and "free will." Pornography is a technology, and technology creates feedback loops in its users. It conditions them and changes the reward systems in their brains. And lots of AGP men have self-reported "discovering" their trans identity through the consumption of pornography. Their presentation of their new-found identity tends to be in the form of the most clichéd porn caricatures of women. They want to become the object of their own desire.

Trust me. You are reinventing the wheel here.

JulienMayfair · 2024-02-20T00:17:38+00:00

As the caretaker of a 90-something parent, all I can say is that incontinence underwear is expensive. Imagine having to wear it for the rest of your life because of a surgery you didn't need, but decided you had to have.

JulienMayfair · 2024-02-17T05:37:03+00:00

Actual journal article or one of James Lindsay & Co.'s pranks?

Can you tell the difference?

JulienMayfair · 2024-02-17T05:35:05+00:00

Are they referring to breast reductions or mastectomies for cancer patients?

I'd assume the latter. I knew a woman with a small frame and very large breasts who got reduction surgery because they were causing her chronic back pain.

Maybe the hospital can respond that they'd be happy to treat this patient's mental illness without chopping her breasts off.

JulienMayfair · 2024-02-14T03:13:07+00:00

This is what happened to a friend and classmate of mine who transitioned FtM in the 1990s, and that was back when they actually still carefully vetted people. "He" didn't try to foist any of the gender ideology stuff on us. He just told friends that he was changing his name. Fast-forward 20 years, and his(her) body developed bad reactions to testosterone, so he had to stop it. He told me that he thought transition had been a mistake and that he was still dealing with the same issues he had before. But he was known academically as a trans-male and knew he would be hated if he detransitioned, so he ended up committing suicide.

JulienMayfair · 2024-02-04T17:43:43+00:00

Good advice worth repeating: Don't stick your dick in crazy.

JulienMayfair · 2024-02-03T14:19:30+00:00

"Gay voice" is an accent, and accents are learned, period. Any sane linguist would tell you that. Now, learning accents is mostly subconscious, but it can also be conscious, as in the case of actors or people who decide to change their native accent for various reasons.

If you listen to what we call "gay voice," it's a mixture of Valley Girl California and African-American Vernacular English, with some likely additions from the speech patterns of female Golden Era movie stars, like Bette Davis, Judy Garland, or Rosalind Russell. Stage voices feature those peculiar exaggerations. It's possible that a subculture of gay men in metropolitan areas acquired those vocal mannerisms from theater or film, aping their favorite stars.

I know plenty of gay men who don't speak with the gay accent at all, so, to me, the idea that it's innate is absurd/ridiculous.

JulienMayfair · 2024-01-21T17:25:52+00:00

I think it's more about the porn than necessarily about the sexuality. We know that things like porn provide a neurotransmitter reward to the brain, but with repeated use of the same kind, the reward dwindles. The brain wants novelty. So these guys start to look at trans porn. And maybe these guys haven't tried man-on-man sex at all. It's just a fantasy to them. Or maybe this is a gradual way for men to discover their bisexuality.

Think of what Marsha P. Johnson said -- that he dressed in drag as a prostitute because it attracted more clients.

But AskGayBros is the wrong place to ask about stuff like that. There are a lot of guys on there for whom sexuality is purely binary. They have no patience with someone who's in a process of discovery. You're either gay or straight or maybe bi, but there's a contingent there that barely believes in bisexuality.

We also know that for many AGP transwomen, sissy porn has been a kind of gateway drug into their "becoming a woman."

JulienMayfair · 2024-01-20T21:54:35+00:00

that's why the raddest fems got so barmy: like, "before the Indo-European invasion in 2000 BCE the peaceful Matriarchy reproduced by parthenogenesis until monotheism and PIV rape were imposed by war daddy why did you leave us DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD"

It's just another reiteration of the Garden of Eden, filtered through Jean Jacques Rousseau. It's an overall narrative that surged in popularity in academia in the 1990s. It was all perfect until [insert oppressor's name here] arrived.

JulienMayfair · 2024-01-19T17:56:07+00:00

I honestly thought that the mafia angle was pushed a bit too hard in the article. The real story of Rivera is how a narcissistic self-promoter's aims ended up dovetailing with the needs of people trying to push a particular identity politics narrative, resulting in Rivera's accomplishments getting amplified, while the work of others who did more is muted.

JulienMayfair · 2024-01-19T16:31:59+00:00

she was too ugly to rape

It is vile, but it's also hilarious to me how much feminists talk about "body positivity," but then, when the gloves come off, it's right back to junior high school level hierarchies of female status based on who's the prettiest.

It's the paradox of feminism. They all talk about "sisterhood," but then they're as vicious as possible to one another.

JulienMayfair · 2024-01-19T16:07:15+00:00

I spent 20 years working in academia. The nastiest fights, by far, I ever witnessed in person were between female professors around feminist topics. They would rip each other to shreds. You'd go to a talk, and after the talk, during the question and answer session, one of them would stand up in the audience and go after the speaker. They'd start yelling at each other. I never saw two male professors behave this way.

A friend of mine used to joke about the bullshit feminist fantasy that "magic peace rays" would shoot out of women's vaginas and turn the world into a matriarchal paradise.

This is also where we started to lose the ethos of principled disagreement and rational discussion of controversial ideas at universities. It was a male intellectual tradition that you could argue things out while still abiding by rules of conduct and mutual respect. The more women, especially feminists, that entered academia, the more anyone who disagreed with you became evil. Women have a lot to do with how we lost freedom of speech on campuses.

JulienMayfair · 2024-01-18T17:13:48+00:00

We've all seen this Star Trek The Next Generation episode.

JulienMayfair · 2024-01-15T17:35:00+00:00

Yes, kids, puberty influences brain development along with the rest of your body, something we all used to understand before the rise of gender ideology.

JulienMayfair · 2024-01-15T16:52:22+00:00

One thing I've learned over the last 30+ years about civil rights work is that the people who do the work and the people who claim to have done the work are often two quite different sets of people. For example, in college, I and three others co-founded the first public Gay & Lesbian organization on campus. We advertised our meetings, and a successor to that organization still exists (although now taken over by TQ+). I had my picture on the front of the school newspaper protesting ROTC's policy of kicking out students if they found out they were gay.

But when the school started doing an LGBT history project ten years ago, no one knew our names at all. All the paperwork related to us had been lost.

One thing that Sargeant fails to mention is the story that when Rivera learned that people like Duberman and Carter were rigorously researching Stonewall, he tried to get others who'd been there when it started to lie and say he'd been there -- because it was Rivera who'd gradually been inflating his own activist résumé over the intervening decades. He knew he'd be caught.

Rivera does deserve some credit for trying to help gay street kids, but, as Sargeant points out, it was a short-lived shit-show. And there were other people in the gay community helping street kids at the time who don't get any credit.

Add to that the fact that Rivera was obviously mentally-ill. He couldn't even take care of himself. Anyone who's seen any film footage of interviews with him should be able to suss that out pretty easily. All the relatively normal, average people with jobs who worked for Gay Rights . . . we're just not interesting enough.

But Rivera checks the right boxes, so the current generation will give him credit. It's the story they've been told is the right kind of story.

JulienMayfair · 2024-01-15T02:39:02+00:00

consider backing off.

When your whole project is to be "transgressive," where do you stop? You can't admit to having gone too far because that would mean that there is such a thing as going too far.

I read Queer Theory in the 1990s. I attended two Judith Butler lectures. I had a flirtation with it in my own scholarship, but then I began to see that there was something wrong with it.

JulienMayfair · 2024-01-14T16:19:15+00:00

Queer Theory has always been fundamentally oppositional, opposing all taboos and boundaries. As such, there's nothing built into it as a way to signal going too far. It's no surprise that age of consent laws became a target for them. They don't care about what it means to live a good, rewarding life; they simply want to smash anything that gets in the way of their appetites. And I say that as a gay man.

JulienMayfair · 2024-01-12T02:50:24+00:00

And who first started threatening to "punish caregivers" if they didn't bow down before TQ+ dogma?

JulienMayfair · 2024-01-09T16:37:30+00:00

The unwritten rule for a long time in academia has been that you are not allowed to question the conclusions of a person of color without opening yourself up to charges of racism, but we seem to have reached a tipping point where the sacred protected status of people like Claudine Gay is starting to crumble. The thing is that there are a LOT more Claudine Gays out there in academia.

JulienMayfair · 2024-01-05T13:36:49+00:00

No, your cousin was laughing her ass off because of how preposterous it is that you are pretending to be a woman and probably not doing a very good job.

JulienMayfair · 2024-01-05T13:34:44+00:00

If you're a DEI professional, there's no reason to try to reduce racial tensions since that would eliminate the need for your job. It's generally a mistake to allow a profession to proliferate that depends on the existence of an ongoing problem that they are employed to "solve." If they solve it, they put themselves out of business. Much better to make it worse.

JulienMayfair · 2024-01-05T04:28:06+00:00

Plain old gay hardly counts anymore, especially if you're white. You have to be trans, non-binary, or some other flavor of the alphabet brigade to matter.

JulienMayfair · 2024-01-04T16:27:10+00:00

Also, Gay is said to have been one of the people behind the cancellation of Roland Fryer, another black professor at Harvard whose research debunked some of the Defund the Police narrative.

JulienMayfair · 2024-01-04T16:16:50+00:00

protest foreign policy

Yeah, but college students have been protesting U.S. foreign policy for decades with minimal reaction from the government. And if those college presidents had been able to defend their actions on principle instead of giving non-answers to direct questions, it wouldn't have gone so badly for them. Everyone watching could tell that they were being evasive. They embarrassed themselves by being so clumsy about it, and we expect better from presidents of prestigious universities.

JulienMayfair · 2024-01-03T17:17:27+00:00

Rufo will now expose a whole international network of grifters

Rufo hardly needs to "expose" any of these people. James Lindsay and his cohorts have been doing it for years. The problem is not so much plagiarism as shoddy scholarship and a system of hiring professors whereby existing faculty will ONLY hire people who check the right boxes and who already agree with them. The takeover of academia by the woke was not so much planned as a conspiracy as it was a natural consequence of the way the tenure-track professor hiring process works. At this point, at most universities, if you don't explicitly endorse woke principles, you'd have to be very good at hiding it until you get tenure, or you might as well burn your CV.

JulienMayfair · 2024-01-03T16:16:46+00:00

Congress is hauling university presidents in to demand they shut down free speech.

More broadly, it's become a tit-for-tat game. It was leftist academics who started calling for safe spaces and speech codes in the 1990s. (I know because I was in graduate school with them.) What's become rather glaringly obvious is that speech codes and their applications have become extremely biased in favor of some groups and against others. The point behind Stefanik's questioning was really that the decision has been made that Jews aren't the right kind of minority they would need to be to qualify for the same protections as "BIPOC" and TQ+.

The best outcome would be for universities to have a reset back to the less restrictive campus speech rules of the 1980s, and that's where the university presidents fell into the trap set for them. They were deliberately placed in a position where they couldn't both defend freedom of expression and defend restrictive campus speech codes. And we could all seem them trapped and stuttering, unable to articulate principled, coherent answers.

From what I've seen, Gay's failure to cite some sources is probably minor, so they got her on technicalities. The bigger problem is how campuses privilege the sensitivities of some students over others in an attempt to perform social justice while stifling freedom of speech.

JulienMayfair · 2023-12-30T00:48:16+00:00

Academic publishing today: An industry run by useless theoreticians to give other useless theoreticians a place to get published so they can get tenure and continue to clog the university system with bullshit.

JulienMayfair · 2023-12-29T20:31:15+00:00

Objective reality is a bitch.

JulienMayfair · 2023-12-29T16:35:19+00:00

Yes, explain to me why, as a gay man, I am considered part of the same "community" as severely mentally-ill men who want to cut their genitals off. Drop the T, the Q, and the +++++.

JulienMayfair · 2023-12-28T18:10:26+00:00

. . . totally not a mental illness.

JulienMayfair · 2023-12-23T22:13:48+00:00

" . . . I'm a firm believer that sunshine is the greatest disinfectant."

It would take a supernova for that.

JulienMayfair · 2023-12-23T17:35:49+00:00

It's almost like there's a pattern of this kind of thing . . .

JulienMayfair · 2023-12-23T17:30:26+00:00

And, don't forget our namesake, Tumblr.

JulienMayfair · 2023-12-22T16:42:29+00:00

Champion of what?

Ticking the right diversity boxes and repeating the appropriate script from the ideology machine.

JulienMayfair · 2023-12-22T14:39:24+00:00

So, this is an FTM dating an MTF. It's a heterosexual couple with extra steps. The next complaint will be about how, when she becomes pregnant, people don't take her seriously as a man because she's having a baby.

Please explain to me why I am considered part of the same community.

JulienMayfair · 2023-12-22T03:14:02+00:00

She's half Jamaican and hates white people, but imagine if she'd grown up in Jamaica, one of the most violent and violently homophobic places around. She might not have grown up at all . . .

JulienMayfair · 2023-12-21T13:40:38+00:00

How did ancient societies deal with gay people again?

How does Iran deal with gay people in the 21st C.?

JulienMayfair · 2023-12-13T21:25:15+00:00

The thing that gets me about a question like this is how all these people seem to have agreed to live in a self-imposed police state where you have to get group approval for any thought or opinion you might have.

If I like something, I like it. If you don't, that's fine, too, but I don't really give a shit.

I'm a gay man in his 50s. If I had needed everyone's fucking approval in the 1980s and 1990s, I would have been shit out of luck. I learned to have a thick skin and to have boundaries about how my business wasn't your business. I'd like to take today's LGBTQIA2S+++ back to the 1980s and watch them crumble under the strain.

JulienMayfair · 2023-12-12T15:58:16+00:00

On trans subreddits, if someone came forward and announced they were detransitioning, and that it truly was the right course of action, I know for a fact we would affirm them and encourage it

Sure, honey.

JulienMayfair · 2023-12-12T14:24:43+00:00

I witnessed all this start to snowball at universities in the 1990s. The problem is that what Zakaria calls for is not going to happen because the ideologues are too deeply entrenched at all levels of the university system in faculty, administration, and admissions. They will protect their careers. Faculty will only hire new faculty that support their ideology. Only pressure from outside the existing university system can correct this.

JulienMayfair · 2023-12-08T16:47:07+00:00

This is a textbook example of pathological narcissism and the rage that results from the gap between desired self-image and reality.

This is why the guy whose girlfriend is trying to leave him decides to kills her. It's because he needs to be seen as someone who "has" a woman. The idea that she doesn't want him is perceived by him as a deadly threat to his self-image, so he kills her in retaliation.

That's the thing you have to get about pathological narcissists; they perceive threats to their self-image as someone literally trying to kill them, and they respond accordingly. To them, it seems like self-defense. This is why you get mobs of angry trans activists trying to attack people who refuse to validate them.

JulienMayfair · 2023-12-08T00:48:49+00:00

One of the problems with transition is that the transitioner still knows who and what they are, and they know that, for the most part, everyone else knows, too. For example, did anyone not notice the transwoman on Jeopardy yesterday, the one who was taller than everyone else in the studio and had obviously male shoulders, a male voice, and male facial bone structure? They know they're pretending. They know that everyone else knows they're pretending. It's corrosive to one's state of mind over the years.

JulienMayfair · 2023-12-05T21:23:43+00:00

Researchers at Johns Hopkins started tracking sex-change patients in the late 1970s-1980s and discovered the same thing: It wasn't really curing their mental distress, and outcomes were poor. They shut down their clinic.

I had a friend in grad school who transitioned FtM. Years later, he told me that he was having to quit taking testosterone because his body was finally rejecting it, causing health problems. He also said that he still suffered from the mental health problems he thought transition would cure. He ended up committing suicide.

JulienMayfair · 2023-12-04T02:46:04+00:00

"I'm going to beat my head against the wall until you buy me that new video game I want!!!"

JulienMayfair · 2023-11-29T14:01:49+00:00

Brainwasher admits brainwashing can be hard.

JulienMayfair · 2023-11-29T13:31:44+00:00

I agree with you that Doctor Who had largely run out of plot ideas. The thing they forgot from the classic Who like Troughton - Baker was that a big part of the charm of the show was its quirky British-ness. The modern writers decided to take the Doctor from being an eccentric space wanderer to being a superhero who always has to be running around like a maniac. People didn't watch Doctor Who for flashy Sci-Fi; they watched it for how Tom Baker or David Tennant could deliver a witty line.

JulienMayfair · 2023-11-27T16:24:16+00:00

I can't watch Doctor Who anymore. I quit when Jodie Whittaker (who was never a great actress to begin with) took over. All watching it now does is ruin the memories of it I had from the times the show was good.

There was always some wokeness coming from Russell T. Davies, but he's now gone off the rails, along with much of the BBC. It's descended into ever-increasing over-complication and the rewriting of characters, all the worst of modern screenwriting where every character is resurrected and modified to fit the latest so-called plot and the latest diversity agenda demands.

JulienMayfair · 2023-11-26T18:52:31+00:00

The thing is that if you read between the lines, they still see cis women as authentic women from whom they can be granted validation, which is the real point of the whole project. They seem to think it's not obvious that that's what they're after.

JulienMayfair · 2023-11-19T15:17:24+00:00

Severe personality disorders are like that.

JulienMayfair · 2023-11-15T15:44:22+00:00

And, of course, only good things come out of Serbia . . .

JulienMayfair · 2023-11-09T16:21:39+00:00

"Hi, I'm an overweight, conventionally-unattractive woman who's decided to become non-binary because I'm otherwise of little interest to anyone for any reason."

JulienMayfair · 2023-11-07T19:59:41+00:00

I am under no illusion that they would be OK with gays and lesbians either.

I taught college classes for 20 years, starting in the 1990s when people were more open about expressing their beliefs. Some of the most anti-LGB students I had were women of color who had religious objections to homosexuality.

But maybe encounters like this will wake them up to the fact that although Muslims may be a minority in the West, that doesn't mean that they'd be all warm and cuddly if they achieved serious political power. On the contrary, they'd become more enthusiastic oppressors than the current ones.

JulienMayfair · 2023-11-07T16:45:08+00:00

Yes, you can be quite rational and understand the consequences of your actions and be a sociopath at the same time. You just have no empathy for others. As I understand it, the shooter attended this school herself, so it became a target because she knew the layout.

JulienMayfair · 2023-11-06T20:06:12+00:00

disjointed slop

She was reportedly 28 years-old, and it reads like something from the mind of a psychotic 12 year-old. It seems to me less like she had any particular motivation and more like she just wanted to kill some people and was trying to make up a story of why she hated this particular group she'd chosen to talk herself into doing it -- if that makes any sense.

JulienMayfair · 2023-11-06T17:37:34+00:00

I think 'manifesto' is a bit of an exaggeration. This is just a spew of animosities. There's no attempt to justify any of it in terms of some larger cause, which is what someone might attempt in a manifesto. She sounds to me like someone who hated the world and her insignificance in it and wanted to kill some people to spread her own misery around. This is what it's like inside the mind of a frustrated narcissist.

JulienMayfair · 2023-11-06T03:59:32+00:00

For me it started as a sissification kink...I would look at them and imagine being them.

Who would have guessed?

JulienMayfair · 2023-11-01T17:13:14+00:00

In academia, specifically, prestige carries a lot of weight, and in the 1990s, the gender theorists like Butler and others seen to be on the cutting edge of something, even if they were just selling a line of bullshit wrapped up in sophisticated-sounding jargon.

I once attended a lecture by Fred Jameson, probably the highest-paid Marxist theorist at the time. All the professors were there. Afterwards, I heard them joking amongst themselves that they hadn't understood a thing he'd said. It was all about being seen to be at a Fred Jameson lecture.

JulienMayfair · 2023-11-01T14:21:54+00:00

what happened to Judith Butler

What happened to Judith Butler is that she caught an academic wave and used it to turn herself into a highly-paid academic superstar. I've met her. Butler is not some lesbian feminist struggling to keep a failing Womyn's bookstore afloat; she's a cold, calculating career opportunist.

JulienMayfair · 2023-11-01T14:11:17+00:00

Good post. I worked in academia from 1990-2010, and one of the strangest things I witnessed was how Women's Studies departments surrendered -- sometimes enthusiastically -- to gender theory and became Gender Studies departments in the 2000s. The radfems sounded alarms, but it seemed to make no difference. (As far as I could tell, true radfems never had that much power in academia.) I think part of it was that second wave feminism had accomplished many of its goals and was worried about becoming moribund, a movement without an objective. At the same time, gender theory seemed to be the cool, new, hyper-intellectual thing, so they embraced it without considering the outcome. It was a true Trojan Horse moment.

It is a strange thing to consider that women calling themselves feminists were both the biggest enablers and biggest critics of the rise of all things trans.

And it continues. At my alma mater, the vocal advocates for trans women in female sports are all women.

JulienMayfair · 2023-10-31T18:19:50+00:00

telling people not to fetishise troons

See, if you're attracted to trans women, you shouldn't date trans women. You should only date trans women to prove how virtuous and right-thinking you are.

JulienMayfair · 2023-10-26T18:44:03+00:00

so i pass aside from my height and the fact that i haven’t had any surgeries

"So, I pass, aside from my vagina and breasts."

JulienMayfair · 2023-10-25T13:46:08+00:00

To condense that, imagine you've always had problems fitting into the ordinary social world. You find it baffling and frustrating. Suddenly, someone comes along and tells you that your whole problem is that you're trying to pretend you're the wrong gender and that transition will fix it all for you. When you transition, you instantly get a community that love-bombs you in a way you've never experienced before.

It's the perfect trap for people with autism.

JulienMayfair · 2023-10-25T13:39:42+00:00

"When people show you who they are, believe them."

JulienMayfair · 2023-10-25T13:34:19+00:00

I tend to see it all as a lot of Recycled Rousseau and The Noble Savage, living in a State of Nature without all the pesky rules of Western Civilization. The thing is, that was always a European fantasy. Native Americans were as human and as given to all human characteristics as anyone else. Tribes fought wars with one another, killed their enemies, and harbored deep prejudices about the culture and habits of those "other people" (members of other tribes). But all that gets in the way of the fantasy that they all lived in a gender-diverse, progressively-minded Garden of Eden. Especially since the 1990s, Native American identity has been constructed by progressive academics to suit their needs. Those same people are deeply inconvenienced when they find Native Americans not playing their assigned roles. The only recourse of those academics is to explain any failure to play that role as the result of colonization. They must have learned all that bad behavior from The White Man.

I think I saw an article somewhere else about the problems Canadians ran into when they decided to look into the homicide rate among indigenous women, which they were calling "genocide." The inconvenient part was when their investigations revealed that these women were being killed by indigenous men.

JulienMayfair · 2023-10-15T20:30:46+00:00

so Marxists can take over.

Or Islam.

JulienMayfair · 2023-10-15T17:05:34+00:00

I need this because I understand that trans liberation and Palestinian liberation are linked.

Yes, they are linked. They're linked because Hamas is a proxy for Iran where they force gay people to get sex-change surgery or die.

JulienMayfair · 2023-10-09T02:36:25+00:00

I saw a video of a former Shakespeare professor of mine delivering a paper where he tried to make Shakespeare relevant to the whole George Floyd/BLM/Defund The Police hysteria. I felt embarrassed for him. It was such a transparently desperate attempt to make his scholarship "relevant," and it fell flat.

JulienMayfair · 2023-10-09T01:09:32+00:00

This is what happens when reading Edward Said and the rest of the postcolonial guilt-trippers has completely rotted your brain.

JulienMayfair · 2023-10-06T02:06:27+00:00

My question: Why is it always the same fat, unattractive, moon-faced white woman with weird hair playing this part? I've seen it for 30 years now. It's like they come off an assembly line.

JulienMayfair · 2023-10-02T23:41:27+00:00

Isn't it just biology leading us there?

Biology? That's heresy!

Seriously, when I was in grad school surrounded by a whole bunch of blank-slate believers, citing biology as the cause of anything would generate angry denunciations in response.

The truth is that, yes, some things are hard-wired. Like temperament, probably.

JulienMayfair · 2023-10-02T13:40:53+00:00

Yes sure, bullying was invented to maintain heteronormativity. THAT'S THE FUCKING CONCLUSION YOU COME TO?

It's back to Foucault and the idea that everyone is a blank slate and would be pansexual and non-binary if not beaten down into submitting to the cis-heteropatriarchy.

JulienMayfair · 2023-10-01T23:31:07+00:00

You're not alone. I suspect that more people think all the gender stuff is nonsense in private, but they're afraid of the social consequences of being honest. It's a case study in how a relatively small, but very loud minority can leverage apparent compliance with their demands.

JulienMayfair · 2023-09-30T17:39:53+00:00

It's time to cue up all the woke fantasists who'll claim that prior to the boogeyman of "Western Civilization," human culture was all a great, big gender wonderland where trans people were "shamans" or "priests" or otherwise leaders of the tribe, based on virtually no evidence whatsoever other than having read Rousseau and lived through the Rebirth of Romanticism in the 1990s.

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