i wish there was a way i could stick it to these men. I hate bullies, i hate entitlement, i hate these horrible bastards with their masks, i hate the press for turning a blind eye, i hate the people who meddle in children’s anxieties, manipulating them. Lets hope
all this stuff with self id will bring it to people’s attention. We got to move on. Biology over identity. Pronouns are for wankers. Identity is a private matter. Its nothing more than an indulgent hobby. Stop campaigning for things that aren’t yours you f-ing men. Its pathetic
Jordan Peterson made a comment on identity .. describing it as socially negotiated. Exactly. If it wasn’t I would have been Debbie Harry thru my teen years .. or maybe Bowie .. point is I would have been so cool.. along side all the other ‘avatars’ (had enforced identities been the-thing!) Argh. Identity politics is so bad for everyone. I really hope we can all get past this vacuous and aggressive totalitarianism!
So vulnerable women are forced to suffer intimate ‘care’ by men because of governmental support of certain men being allowed to enact IRL their hopped up pornographic fetish? Oops -- I meant to say their holy soul call to ‘womanhood’.
Another great montage of misery from the irrepressible JL. There should be awards for service to this cause, and one of them should go to JL forthwith. Thanks, JL. I depend on your meticulous curation of this tragedy for my information; I'm sure I'm not the only one. I can't imagine how soul-destroying it must be to uncover depressing story after depressing story. Please take comfort from the knowledge that you're doing a great social good by chronicling this ongoing disaster and communicating to those of us who are unable to chronicle it for ourselves. The tide will turn, one day. Take solace from the fact that when it does, you will be the first to know.
The sections on the way schools are socially transitioning children is extremely concerning to me. This is where we need to really focus attention. Teachers are a safeguarding risk if they choose to ignore parents and transition children. These teachers think they are putting right the wrongs of the past. This is not a repeat of Section 28 under Thatcher. I have no idea how we can get through to schools to prevent this utter child abuse.
keegan is delaying the advice to schools, she’s the same new minister who didn’t think 16 was too young!!! . The advice should have been out by end of 2022. I fear the worst! And I agree, it REALLY matters.
Could they be waiting for the next iteration of the Cass report? I'd like to think so. But they do need to issue the guidance ASAP. It's so long overdue.
Leave them aged pedophiles alone. If an older man wants to wear a pony-tailed wig and a schoolgirl outfit and hang around schools, so be it. Don’t be an uptight prudish dinosaur stuck in the dark ages of decency. We need to move forward as a society.
There is something very odd about the modern incarnation of all 'care' services 'in the community'. Everyone is lumped into the same category of 'vulnerable' and with 'mental health needs'. Victims are assumed to be violent and violent offenders are assumed to be victims. So is that the old man who raped the young care worker or is it the young woman care worker? It's because he'd been labelled as that, that decision made that young woman incredibly vulnerable. We can't risk assess. Then they find the history after they look and that woman was hurt. All these community interest companies and organisations, in 'housing and support services'. A mish mash of what used to be council and social services, mental health services, probation, addiction, housing and health services where responsibilities are blurred and gaps are created. They bid for new contracts and seem to have little clue what they are doing.
Learning disabilities, mental ill health/wellbeing, chronic illness, physical disability, male criminals and sexual fetishists all now put under the ‘vulnerable has care needs' umbrella alongside children. And the police determining that man hanging around in schoolgirl uniform, he too is now most marginalised with 'mental health needs'. And the parents and children? Children that were in that school and on a bus with him getting his jollies? The police are acting as care and mental health providers.
We've made everything and nothing mental health. Where is the reality and admission of the actual harm this causes - people who need help and support don't get it and no one can structure how this can be delivered.
In a bookshop at Christmas. Looking for teen stuff. Shelves and shelves of self-help books for youngsters, telling them, basically, that they're victims. You are right. Everything is about mental health. We have created a snowflake generation.
Life is a bitch - for almost everyone. Not even money can protect you from the real bad stuff. Some children do suffer horrendous childhoods and, yes, they need protecting and nurturing. I'm not belittling real trauma. However, it was obvious that most of these books were aimed at middle-class kids with too much time to think and too great a social media presence.
Sociologists and psychologists have pinpointed the Robert Black case as the turning point for parenting, when we refused to let our kids develop normally around their own peer groups, with parental and adult input being responsibility, morals, decency, a sense of societal obligation, and so on. It was for good reason, but, perhaps it was misguided.
We stopped saying no to our kids and pandered to their every whim, with consumerism rampant, so that, now, too many of them have no respect for anyone or anything. That is why this cultural Marxism and nihilism is so infectious and contagious. The lockdown did not help our young folk either as they did not see friends for months on end. I just do not know how we turn the clock back or if we should.
It's called the human condition. Everyone has to deal with it -- somehow a coddled generation just cannot cope with being an imperfect human being living on an imperfect planet. I love Rumi's quotation -- "Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird." I think the answer is presenting children with purpose. They are taught that they are mere cogs in a thoroughly material creation. Such a depressing world view.
I've had an obvious insight (and you might be amused that self-help books in the U.S. sell at the same proportional rate as cookbooks in the U.K.) realizing that "self-help" is just another way of encouraging narcissism. I'm not saying that people cannot have insights reading "self-help" books, just that they don't. They read them and do nothing to change their outlook or their lives; the books falsely make them think they are improving themselves.
I'm actually really struggling with this (but thanks to JL for your coverage again) - it's the deep underbelly that allows all this to flourish. I have read a few cases today where it's exactly the same contracted out lack of consistency and failure to work together which means some people are being left in situations with highly dangerous people and without any knowledge of how at risk they are. The HSE are careful about what they include in their remit as there would be an avalanche otherwise. And other regulators are supposed to be covering much of this.
We have non-violent but very distressed kids with autism locked in, being abused, trapped through inaction for years and dying in mental health units as everything is termed 'learning needs' and 'disabilities' or 'mental health' or 'safeguarding' which can mean anything and the opposite depending on which 'service', 'assessment' and 'pathway' pick it up. Or where you live. Who the hell is this helping. It's not an anxiety disorder to fear the intervention of education &/or health services attempting to trans your children behind your back then using all sorts of intimidatory excuses to withhold information and then them refusing to work with other services.
Another depressing read JL. I look forward to the day when you stop reporting. Hopefully because we have finally prevailed against this evil and not because you have retired.
Thank you, Stroppy. I, too, look forward to the day I run out of stories! (I've been writing the War on Women in some form or other for nearly 4 years now!) But that day certainly seems closer than it used to. I really feel great progress is being made. Chin up!
yes when this is all over- or we have all been hunted down like dogs and thrown into prison for thought crimes, JL needs to continue writing, but something nice and uplifting. JL will most likely need to debrief after reporting all this. thanks JL, must be exhausting putting this together
Sounds great, as it happens i have an inflatable dingy that you are welcome to borrow, i used it to row out to an island in a lock a bit ago, it housed no gin but several cans of lager which granted tasted of piss- but it was still a valuable experience.
I'm a decent rower as it happens so I may take you up on that kind offer, thanks, CB. Never been a lager drinker (and, to be honest, you're not selling it to me) so I'll fetch my own bottle of grog.
my only thought is that you’ll need to have vessel you can easily clamp between knees whilst rowing JL. So i guess if you’re talking about a whole bottle of gin- i can fully endorse this, that would work.
SNP politicians are so fucking stupid they can’t see past the ends of their noses. If they could they’d have noticed all the hateful placards and masked men at the trans rally in Glasgow. Lynn Short, and equally stupid Dundee SNP councillor, at a rally in that city likened women concerned about self-id and lowering the age of it to 16 to the Nazis. Lynn, pay attention, the majority of Scots are against this crap.
Aye, if ye fly wi the craws, ye get shot wi the craws, Elizabeth. We Scots are as horrified as everyone else. We did not ask for this and nor do the vast majority support it. It was bulldozed through and the SNP/Greens never once talked about self-ID. Most of us could see that it would affect the 2010 EA and all the other women's legislation, and we started to warn people in England. Most of us who had voted SNP or Green in the past did not vote for this, we assure you. Be careful, folks in the south, because this could overtake you, too, even though the Scottish Bill has been kicked back. Be vigilant. People like Graham and Stu Campbell and all the women's groups and brave female warriors have done wonders in educating the public, but there is still a ways to go.
I keep asking, where is the saturation point? Meanwhile, Dr. Stephen B. Levine, expert witness in the malpractice cases in the States, has posted many of his affidavit testimonies, complete with his signature, on webpages--easily found by searching his name and the words "expert testimony." This means there are cases which are not reported in the press. As a result of the following clip I put up reading Stephen B. Levines cogent paragraphs, a troll writes "You misogynist!" with 30 childish emojis. Gone from Ute Heggen channel now, back to troll-land under their bridges, waiting for those billy goats.
It is the fetish aspect of all this that we need to concentrate on. A Pride March in your area? Take photos of the fetishists: the men in nappies, the grown men in little girls' clothes, the furries, the frilly knickers and bra lot, the rainbow dildo monkeys. Anywhere you see them. Disseminate each and every instance of incursions into female spaces for 'lady feelz' that you come across on line-line.
This is what they can't actually face up to and get angry about, because it demolishes the 'I'm so special, vulnerable and marginalised" narrative and shows them to be nothing other than men with fetishes. That is what the majority of them are. It is the sexologists and psychologists who have studied this stuff for decades who are saying this, not women.
They even out themselves: Multiple Paraphilic Diagnosis among Sex Offenders - Abel, Becker, et al., a study of sex offenders (transvestites/transsexuals). These men outed themselves by admitting to overlapping and multiple paraphiliac disorders. No one is claiming that all 'trans' identified men are predators or that they are willing to display their fetishes in public, but even those who are autogynephiles get a kick out of validation while they tell us they just want to live quiet lives. Third spaces. Third spaces. Third spaces.
Let them campaign for these. In over six decades, they have been happy to piggyback on women's spaces. No more. They have their own funding. They can start funding their own spaces and services. We have had more than enough of this creepy misogyny and entitlement. We need to start telling it like it is and stop feeling sorry for men who would happily trample over us to get into our spaces, rights, jobs, sports, hospital wards, health care, etc. They can live their lives without involving women and children or publicly displaying their fetishes with impunity. Protect everyone and everyone's happy. If they are not, then they can start answering questions on the real reasons they want access to our spaces, etc.
The SNP representatives happy to sport their rictus smiles in front of banners calling for the decapitation of women should be drummed out of the party ignominiously and banned from ever representing another human being in any capacity ever again. They should also be arraigned for being complicit to incitement to violence. Examples need to be made of these cultural Marxist dullards. Of course, nothing will happen and the train of horrors will trundle on along its dystopian trajectory into hell.
I read Capital Volume I and my partner has read Volume II and is now on Volume III. (It's little wonder Marx had carbuncles from sitting in the frigid British Museum!) Marx was a proponent of material reality as opposed to the use of God and religion by the capitalist (or feudal) class to tell people God had planned that they be poor and downtrodden. His writing about people's actual circumstances is painful to read; his research is overwhelming and superb. Marx would never have supported the idea that there are not two sexes, he was committed and grounded in material reality rather than delusions. You come to understand when reading his work why it was so important that women and children not be forced to work in mines and factories (which they were, as their labor was cheaper than that of adult males).
What I see now is people throwing around the word Marxist who have obviously never read Marx nor subscribed to his ideas of a decent society built on people's abilities and their needs. I don't even know what they mean by Marxist, but it clearly has nothing to do with Marx. I am so fed up with academia, especially when I realized its adherents spend all their time with their colleagues and classrooms full of children. My nephew is a chemical engineering professor and thinks he knows everything, pooh-poohing me whenever I told him something interesting I had read or heard. And then it dawned on me that his life is extremely narrow and he isn't forced to face reality very often.
i wish there was a way i could stick it to these men. I hate bullies, i hate entitlement, i hate these horrible bastards with their masks, i hate the press for turning a blind eye, i hate the people who meddle in children’s anxieties, manipulating them. Lets hope
all this stuff with self id will bring it to people’s attention. We got to move on. Biology over identity. Pronouns are for wankers. Identity is a private matter. Its nothing more than an indulgent hobby. Stop campaigning for things that aren’t yours you f-ing men. Its pathetic
Jordan Peterson made a comment on identity .. describing it as socially negotiated. Exactly. If it wasn’t I would have been Debbie Harry thru my teen years .. or maybe Bowie .. point is I would have been so cool.. along side all the other ‘avatars’ (had enforced identities been the-thing!) Argh. Identity politics is so bad for everyone. I really hope we can all get past this vacuous and aggressive totalitarianism!
i think identity BS is an extension of consumerism. In the sense that people believe they can have everything they want. Its pathetic. And rude
I would call it an extension of predatory capitalism and guess who's supporting it? Predatory sociopathic billionaires.
So vulnerable women are forced to suffer intimate ‘care’ by men because of governmental support of certain men being allowed to enact IRL their hopped up pornographic fetish? Oops -- I meant to say their holy soul call to ‘womanhood’.
Another great montage of misery from the irrepressible JL. There should be awards for service to this cause, and one of them should go to JL forthwith. Thanks, JL. I depend on your meticulous curation of this tragedy for my information; I'm sure I'm not the only one. I can't imagine how soul-destroying it must be to uncover depressing story after depressing story. Please take comfort from the knowledge that you're doing a great social good by chronicling this ongoing disaster and communicating to those of us who are unable to chronicle it for ourselves. The tide will turn, one day. Take solace from the fact that when it does, you will be the first to know.
Thank you so much for your kind words, Colin. That's great to hear. So nice to be appreciated!
Among all the horror stories, it looks like trans activists in the UK are beginning to get arrested for their bullying.
Finally! Are we witnessing a subtle change?
The sections on the way schools are socially transitioning children is extremely concerning to me. This is where we need to really focus attention. Teachers are a safeguarding risk if they choose to ignore parents and transition children. These teachers think they are putting right the wrongs of the past. This is not a repeat of Section 28 under Thatcher. I have no idea how we can get through to schools to prevent this utter child abuse.
keegan is delaying the advice to schools, she’s the same new minister who didn’t think 16 was too young!!! . The advice should have been out by end of 2022. I fear the worst! And I agree, it REALLY matters.
The worse Education Secretary we could have had at this exact moment. She's a shocker.
Could they be waiting for the next iteration of the Cass report? I'd like to think so. But they do need to issue the guidance ASAP. It's so long overdue.
It's incompetence. The Ed Sec may also think it isn't a priority. They need pushing.
Leave them aged pedophiles alone. If an older man wants to wear a pony-tailed wig and a schoolgirl outfit and hang around schools, so be it. Don’t be an uptight prudish dinosaur stuck in the dark ages of decency. We need to move forward as a society.
There is something very odd about the modern incarnation of all 'care' services 'in the community'. Everyone is lumped into the same category of 'vulnerable' and with 'mental health needs'. Victims are assumed to be violent and violent offenders are assumed to be victims. So is that the old man who raped the young care worker or is it the young woman care worker? It's because he'd been labelled as that, that decision made that young woman incredibly vulnerable. We can't risk assess. Then they find the history after they look and that woman was hurt. All these community interest companies and organisations, in 'housing and support services'. A mish mash of what used to be council and social services, mental health services, probation, addiction, housing and health services where responsibilities are blurred and gaps are created. They bid for new contracts and seem to have little clue what they are doing.
Learning disabilities, mental ill health/wellbeing, chronic illness, physical disability, male criminals and sexual fetishists all now put under the ‘vulnerable has care needs' umbrella alongside children. And the police determining that man hanging around in schoolgirl uniform, he too is now most marginalised with 'mental health needs'. And the parents and children? Children that were in that school and on a bus with him getting his jollies? The police are acting as care and mental health providers.
We've made everything and nothing mental health. Where is the reality and admission of the actual harm this causes - people who need help and support don't get it and no one can structure how this can be delivered.
In a bookshop at Christmas. Looking for teen stuff. Shelves and shelves of self-help books for youngsters, telling them, basically, that they're victims. You are right. Everything is about mental health. We have created a snowflake generation.
Life is a bitch - for almost everyone. Not even money can protect you from the real bad stuff. Some children do suffer horrendous childhoods and, yes, they need protecting and nurturing. I'm not belittling real trauma. However, it was obvious that most of these books were aimed at middle-class kids with too much time to think and too great a social media presence.
Sociologists and psychologists have pinpointed the Robert Black case as the turning point for parenting, when we refused to let our kids develop normally around their own peer groups, with parental and adult input being responsibility, morals, decency, a sense of societal obligation, and so on. It was for good reason, but, perhaps it was misguided.
We stopped saying no to our kids and pandered to their every whim, with consumerism rampant, so that, now, too many of them have no respect for anyone or anything. That is why this cultural Marxism and nihilism is so infectious and contagious. The lockdown did not help our young folk either as they did not see friends for months on end. I just do not know how we turn the clock back or if we should.
It's called the human condition. Everyone has to deal with it -- somehow a coddled generation just cannot cope with being an imperfect human being living on an imperfect planet. I love Rumi's quotation -- "Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird." I think the answer is presenting children with purpose. They are taught that they are mere cogs in a thoroughly material creation. Such a depressing world view.
I've had an obvious insight (and you might be amused that self-help books in the U.S. sell at the same proportional rate as cookbooks in the U.K.) realizing that "self-help" is just another way of encouraging narcissism. I'm not saying that people cannot have insights reading "self-help" books, just that they don't. They read them and do nothing to change their outlook or their lives; the books falsely make them think they are improving themselves.
"We've made everything and nothing mental health." Brilliant.
I'm actually really struggling with this (but thanks to JL for your coverage again) - it's the deep underbelly that allows all this to flourish. I have read a few cases today where it's exactly the same contracted out lack of consistency and failure to work together which means some people are being left in situations with highly dangerous people and without any knowledge of how at risk they are. The HSE are careful about what they include in their remit as there would be an avalanche otherwise. And other regulators are supposed to be covering much of this.
We have non-violent but very distressed kids with autism locked in, being abused, trapped through inaction for years and dying in mental health units as everything is termed 'learning needs' and 'disabilities' or 'mental health' or 'safeguarding' which can mean anything and the opposite depending on which 'service', 'assessment' and 'pathway' pick it up. Or where you live. Who the hell is this helping. It's not an anxiety disorder to fear the intervention of education &/or health services attempting to trans your children behind your back then using all sorts of intimidatory excuses to withhold information and then them refusing to work with other services.
Right, a cup of tea, that's the answer! :-)
Another depressing read JL. I look forward to the day when you stop reporting. Hopefully because we have finally prevailed against this evil and not because you have retired.
Thank you, Stroppy. I, too, look forward to the day I run out of stories! (I've been writing the War on Women in some form or other for nearly 4 years now!) But that day certainly seems closer than it used to. I really feel great progress is being made. Chin up!
Oh do stay hopeful. We are winning. This past year has seen so much progress and its gathering momentum.
yes when this is all over- or we have all been hunted down like dogs and thrown into prison for thought crimes, JL needs to continue writing, but something nice and uplifting. JL will most likely need to debrief after reporting all this. thanks JL, must be exhausting putting this together
Ah thank you for your kind words, CB! Much appreciated. Perhaps I should write my memoirs while glugging back large gins on a yacht in the Adriatic?!
Sounds great, as it happens i have an inflatable dingy that you are welcome to borrow, i used it to row out to an island in a lock a bit ago, it housed no gin but several cans of lager which granted tasted of piss- but it was still a valuable experience.
I'm a decent rower as it happens so I may take you up on that kind offer, thanks, CB. Never been a lager drinker (and, to be honest, you're not selling it to me) so I'll fetch my own bottle of grog.
my only thought is that you’ll need to have vessel you can easily clamp between knees whilst rowing JL. So i guess if you’re talking about a whole bottle of gin- i can fully endorse this, that would work.
Oh it will. I speak from experience. (Not my first rodeo...)
There is an image on Google ,if the three wise monkeys were Scottish ( I can’t post it ,iCloud wants to download my whole photo library )
But monkey one ‘dinnae talk shite’
Monkey two ‘didnae see fuck all ‘
Monkey three ‘bolt am no listenin tae yer pish ‘
And this folks is where we are with the Scottish govt , scary times indeed
"Christynne" Wood …the state on that bloke! Disgusting man.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-64374606
Puts the men over here to shame.
and those tossers pretending be women.... so offensive.
A brave and principled man.
Thanks JL. Scotland is developing a public image problem. At this rate Visit Scotland is foxtrot November bound :-D
My goal to have a family trip up to Edinburgh is most definitely on hold. But I feel so sorry the very many sane and frustrated Scottish people.
There are many beautiful places in Scotland that have not, yet, been infiltrated . I’m 15 minutes away from Edinburgh but avoid it like the plague
Glasgow too has been destroyed and it used to be the best city in the world for both banter and culture , now a complete cesspit
SNP politicians are so fucking stupid they can’t see past the ends of their noses. If they could they’d have noticed all the hateful placards and masked men at the trans rally in Glasgow. Lynn Short, and equally stupid Dundee SNP councillor, at a rally in that city likened women concerned about self-id and lowering the age of it to 16 to the Nazis. Lynn, pay attention, the majority of Scots are against this crap.
Aye, if ye fly wi the craws, ye get shot wi the craws, Elizabeth. We Scots are as horrified as everyone else. We did not ask for this and nor do the vast majority support it. It was bulldozed through and the SNP/Greens never once talked about self-ID. Most of us could see that it would affect the 2010 EA and all the other women's legislation, and we started to warn people in England. Most of us who had voted SNP or Green in the past did not vote for this, we assure you. Be careful, folks in the south, because this could overtake you, too, even though the Scottish Bill has been kicked back. Be vigilant. People like Graham and Stu Campbell and all the women's groups and brave female warriors have done wonders in educating the public, but there is still a ways to go.
perverts are living their pest life
I keep asking, where is the saturation point? Meanwhile, Dr. Stephen B. Levine, expert witness in the malpractice cases in the States, has posted many of his affidavit testimonies, complete with his signature, on webpages--easily found by searching his name and the words "expert testimony." This means there are cases which are not reported in the press. As a result of the following clip I put up reading Stephen B. Levines cogent paragraphs, a troll writes "You misogynist!" with 30 childish emojis. Gone from Ute Heggen channel now, back to troll-land under their bridges, waiting for those billy goats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKOicaZZ_kg&t=8s
It is the fetish aspect of all this that we need to concentrate on. A Pride March in your area? Take photos of the fetishists: the men in nappies, the grown men in little girls' clothes, the furries, the frilly knickers and bra lot, the rainbow dildo monkeys. Anywhere you see them. Disseminate each and every instance of incursions into female spaces for 'lady feelz' that you come across on line-line.
This is what they can't actually face up to and get angry about, because it demolishes the 'I'm so special, vulnerable and marginalised" narrative and shows them to be nothing other than men with fetishes. That is what the majority of them are. It is the sexologists and psychologists who have studied this stuff for decades who are saying this, not women.
They even out themselves: Multiple Paraphilic Diagnosis among Sex Offenders - Abel, Becker, et al., a study of sex offenders (transvestites/transsexuals). These men outed themselves by admitting to overlapping and multiple paraphiliac disorders. No one is claiming that all 'trans' identified men are predators or that they are willing to display their fetishes in public, but even those who are autogynephiles get a kick out of validation while they tell us they just want to live quiet lives. Third spaces. Third spaces. Third spaces.
Let them campaign for these. In over six decades, they have been happy to piggyback on women's spaces. No more. They have their own funding. They can start funding their own spaces and services. We have had more than enough of this creepy misogyny and entitlement. We need to start telling it like it is and stop feeling sorry for men who would happily trample over us to get into our spaces, rights, jobs, sports, hospital wards, health care, etc. They can live their lives without involving women and children or publicly displaying their fetishes with impunity. Protect everyone and everyone's happy. If they are not, then they can start answering questions on the real reasons they want access to our spaces, etc.
The SNP representatives happy to sport their rictus smiles in front of banners calling for the decapitation of women should be drummed out of the party ignominiously and banned from ever representing another human being in any capacity ever again. They should also be arraigned for being complicit to incitement to violence. Examples need to be made of these cultural Marxist dullards. Of course, nothing will happen and the train of horrors will trundle on along its dystopian trajectory into hell.
I wish people would stop misusing the word Marxist. Read Marx and throw the ersatz academics into the dumpster where they belong.
Tell us more, Susan.
I read Capital Volume I and my partner has read Volume II and is now on Volume III. (It's little wonder Marx had carbuncles from sitting in the frigid British Museum!) Marx was a proponent of material reality as opposed to the use of God and religion by the capitalist (or feudal) class to tell people God had planned that they be poor and downtrodden. His writing about people's actual circumstances is painful to read; his research is overwhelming and superb. Marx would never have supported the idea that there are not two sexes, he was committed and grounded in material reality rather than delusions. You come to understand when reading his work why it was so important that women and children not be forced to work in mines and factories (which they were, as their labor was cheaper than that of adult males).
What I see now is people throwing around the word Marxist who have obviously never read Marx nor subscribed to his ideas of a decent society built on people's abilities and their needs. I don't even know what they mean by Marxist, but it clearly has nothing to do with Marx. I am so fed up with academia, especially when I realized its adherents spend all their time with their colleagues and classrooms full of children. My nephew is a chemical engineering professor and thinks he knows everything, pooh-poohing me whenever I told him something interesting I had read or heard. And then it dawned on me that his life is extremely narrow and he isn't forced to face reality very often.