Monday 3rd October - Tail Wags Dog BANGOR DAILY NEWS: A university in Portland is providing an alternative class for students who object to a teacher that upholds biological sex. Last month students at the University of Southern Maine (USM) staged a mass walkout after one of their tutors told them there are only two sexes.
These would look strange plotted in a visualisation. Very few degrees of separation. There was another controversy, or another in a series of highly embarrassing ones for the NSPCC a few years back and again when James Esses was not allowed to continue with the NSPCC run Childline. Activists tend to move between these big third sector roles with impunity, often getting mysteriously more senior each time. They've been outraged and cancelling anyone at all critical (let alone gender critical) for a while. And many of them make their careers in advocacy-safeguarding-engagement-campaigning which really do all merge into one.
Be prepared for any comment you make here to be shared and used in evidence of something something by the more rabid activists online. They have their own forums to snigger and poke fun at commenters here. There have been a few trolls who appear from time to time, and those who have a sub to lurk.
Apparently someone used a screenshot of a comment of mine to fundraise for 'trans' people. If they're going to share my comments here, I hope they choose some of my more clever quips ha. But thanks, you make a good point.
Christy Hamer seems to be being targeted by spoilt posh kids, who might want to look up the term “coercive control”. Their behaviour is so close to what happens in relationships where there is domestic abuse. Maybe education needs to be funded in a different way? This can’t continue
Maybe they shouldn't have pissed off so many, many barristers or those with training. Forensic minds are useful. Look at how many TRAs have sent floods of complaints into Inns of Court. Over years and how those individuals have been quietly and discreetly having to fight that off.
I imagine that seeing pictures of young women in frontline roles in The Ukrainian Army, IDF, Kurdish forces…would drive The Globes production and management insane.
Thank you again JL. It's all repellent and one criminal after the next. And the same ones getting madder. Dennis Kavanagh has identified the stages he thinks this retreat from madness might go through and it does seem to be getting rougher and the screeching defence turned attack (and used as attack) that the 'trans human rights' defenders are attempting.
On this about the NHS employed paediatrician, Dr Katie McDowell. I find her explanations and her comparisons odd. As a tall woman, does she think I am one side of a spectrum - is that the male side or female side - and short men are they at the other side of the genderology spectrum - the female or the male side? I've put up with constant comments my whole life. I struggled with feeling feminine enough despite being very obviously female and also tall, very strong and sporty. Decent people don't spout that crap and it reveals an awful lot about those who find it necessary to display their empty mindedness. I can put up with gentle teasing and with a fondness but not from doctors who wield power over our bodies and health. Will she tell the parents of a little girl who is taller 'than an average' that she is probably a he? Get her breasts bound or removed? Or encourage a little boy that as he is shorter, that he is a girl. I know one man who had hormones during puberty and is touchy about his height still in his 50s, and another teen boy who is currently trying to 'grow taller' to be attractive/successful/right (!) and that without protein and bulking crap he won't be worth anything. He screams at his mother for being short and blames his genes and anything he can. That's happening now.
To suggest that tall women are somehow less female, less of a woman is as patently ignorant and offensive as it is to suggest shorter men are somehow less male, or are not men. Variation within one 'category' is not the same as between different types or categories. How did she pass A level biology, let alone pass exams to get into a medical degree and then get employed within the NHS? And what will the NHS do with those employees that push this stuff? We've got many cohorts graduating thinking this and pressurising everyone and their patients to believe it.
Agree.She should be struck off . She's not safe around children if she doesn't acknowledge biological sex. Can't believe that trained doctors can spout this nonsense !!
I don't know what requirements someone with a medical degree in the U.K. has to acquire, but I'll tell you that in the U.S. you're lucky if your doctor has two or three brain cells. "Who got D's all through med school?" "Your doctor!"
I knew a UK hospital paediatrician about twenty years ago and spent some time with him. He was very unassuming, yet I was intimidated as he was so intelligent, so kind, so capable and was so senior, so involved with a lot of training. He was increasingly frustrated with the inability of trainees who applied to work in his team after rotations as they couldn't string a sentence together and fainted under any mild pressure. Obviously unsuited. Our brightest and best? They had to write a short note to explain the reasons why he should pick them. Ok, medics are known for their spidery writing, but they could barely write, gave in crumpled dog-eared paper and had no idea how to politely address someone. That's something major missing and how to respect others, like your patients. It showed a very poor level of general education. And a childish naivety. Medicine is all about social interactions. But was this every generation thinking the next have it easier or are flakier? No, it was a noticeable change. He was genuinely concerned.
Then my school friends who'd gone through Uni then med school ended up in hospitals as consultants. One was absolutely astonished that within five or seven years the students arriving as her students then juniors seemed so oversensitive and incapable of dealing with any tasks or time management without moaning, failing, or randomly crying. Always asking for exceptions.
I have met some brilliant doctors, clinicians and wider health professionals. I have worked in safety, systems and regulation and have talked with them on how training was unsafe, and on shift work, being too junior to make the decisions, being frankly lucky not to kill patients, bullying, the cultures and deflection of responsibility etc. Now it is more regulated like with working hours and to reduce and mitigate human error, but the cultures and Godlike status is still creating problems and failures. The sheer damn arrogance and shock when some meet a patient.
You are fortunate in having met some brilliant medical professionals. They do exist, even in the U.S., but they are often persecuted (as was the doctor in the U.K. who was struck off for prescribing natural desiccated thyroid medication).
Here it is a profession which attracts the criminally greedy and the criminally sociopathic. I cannot identify what is wrong with my sister who is an M.D.; she has a very high IQ but her EQ is zero. She admitted to my other sister that she had "killed a few people" and was no longer allowed to practice, and I wondered if this had more to do with her horrendous personality than her "errors." A nurse told me about calling doctors on the night shift about very sick patients, and basically being blown off rather than the doctors responding to the situations; I can totally picture my sister doing this.
I met the daughter of one senior consultant as she was doing various training and voluntary work to give her some 'life experience' before starting med school herself (read, go away, see a bit of life and be less cocky). I realised who she was as she went on and on about her important family and background. She drove a very flashy car and was remarkably confident and self-assured. I was deemed as passing some test of being 'people like us' as we went to the same school. Her father, after case after case, complaint after complaint, was finally 'let go'. He hung on til the bitter end and she portrayed him as very hard done by, chased out and a loss to the NHS. He 'retired' with his professional reputation intact and very nice pension and investments but still griped and passed that sense of grievance to his children.
We all knew what his reputation was. I never revealed that I knew who he was. The patients had voted with their feet. We all knew. I'd got chatting to a work colleague after one event a few years before, she spoke about her mother, who worked in the hospital and in the same department as him. Staff refused to work with him, patients mysteriously never went to follow-up appointments, complained or asked to see his colleagues. His juniors made complaints. He wasn't just rude, because he refused to listen he made continual errors and had such an ego he missed correcting them. His professional association backed him, seemingly 'unaware' of the 'little local trouble'. No student wanted to train there and the department is still struggling unable to attract staff nearly a decade later.
I don't know how it works for you, but in the U.S. doctors police themselves, something they are not competent to do. And, no, I don't want some professionally paid person -- the sort who sits on endless boards -- doing it either; I would like a mixed group of professionals and ordinary people to look at complaints and decide what merits further attention.
It's very common. Human error or human belief we are infallible or it's always someone else's fault. That ripples out and knowing how to correct is hard.
It's similar in the UK. Self-regulation can work. But oversight of that and any regulation is tough. The volume is hard to manage efficiently. We often have systems that rely on things going wrong to self-correct. A gentleman's agreement that people come in to inspect, see nothing and it's all ok leads to continual failings in a few sectors. Time and time again 'should' and 'but we thought'.
I sit on one group as a 'user' of the service but I work in that sector and in regulation of it (that I sometimes keep schtum about). Figuring out the practical regulatory structure in a few sectors is theory vs practice and that's where gaps appear (like the swiss cheese model). It's interesting how much power you can have depending on which hat you wear and isn't what you think sometimes. A few NHS trusts have patients or patient reps on interview panels and it's not just lip service.
Subject matter experts (SMEs) often are consultants and volunteers and can swing boards to their own benefit very easily. Look at the way trans identified men have got onto medical boards to write medical policy and standards - in the UK it's recently been the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists referencing trans orgs and 'standards' in their recent consultation document. Look who's on the board.
My husband has told me never to bring this topic up with him. It triggers him too much. He thinks I’m a bigot and these things I’m saying aren’t happening much, and they’re just right wing talking points. I’m so angry that a man with 2 daughters would label me a bigot when he’s the one looking the other way.
I don’t want our girls going to schools here (PA in America), even though it’s one of the top school districts in the country. I just don’t trust teachers. But he’s insistent they go because that’s why we moved here and that’s why we pay higher taxes.
Keep your chin up and I suppose keep your own counsel for now. Why would it trigger him if there's nothing up? I hope you can find others, and near you, and other parents you can open up to so you don't feel as alone. I realise it's very hard to continue to parent when you don't have a united front.
It triggers his woke nerve. So because I’m questioning the trans/gender stuff it’s automatically transphobic 🤦♀️ It’s sad because he’s highly intelligent and usually a skeptic, but blinded by the religious woke. Ironically he’s an atheist
I'm not sure it's so ironic. Look at all the 'skeptic' men online who proudly (and very proudly indeed) display their intelligence and logic. I grew up with a few atheists who mocked others in our family for being religious 'nuts' and for decades. It was often a way for misogyny to creep out but thinly veiled. To attack and undermine their wives. With a zealotry and 'logic'. It was sheer nastiness. One then 'discovered' that Catholicism he'd mocked to all, converted and kept exactly the same sectarian attitude to unbelievers, yet from the other 'side'. He was a very determined and successful man so naturally become the best Catholic. Passionately being in the right, with whatever excuse. His way or the highway.
Exactly. Any atheist worth her / his salt is, first and foremost, a SKEPTIC. Otherwise, it's just a stance with which to hit other people over the head.
Well said. It’s unfortunate as well that some prominent atheists have participated in the ideological remake of atheism, & gladly poised themselves at the pulpit’s peak. Men take power where they can.
Your husband, pardon me, needs to grow a set of balls. I have never heard of anyone but these college crybabies screaming that they're "triggered."
I have felt powerless, but never this powerless, and I am severely disabled. I would never let any man talk over me. Are you financially dependent upon him? Please take care of yourself and think carefully about your future.
look on your kids school district website. see who their consultants are. some schools allow you to see whats taught. keep your kids off the internet or monitor as much as possible. maybe spouse will agree with that? use google family app with their phone. it allows you to block apps but you can still see where phone is by sharing location. educate your kids that school managers dont care about them and have been infected by "woke". yes i use that term even tho ive been liberal my whole life. other than orange devil this is the biggest threat we face. i use the example of other parents who allow their kids to use motorized rec vehicles. i dont want my kids using them. i happen to know two people with half their face paralyzed from falls. people telling them to ride these wont be taking them to the hospital wont be careng for them if their permanently paralyzed like chris reeves. school managers and even some teachers are the same way. they have no skin in the game and dont care about your kid only their agenda. sex is not spectrum. women are about as similar to men genetically as we are to chimps. drop hints. if your kids freinds are infected with this i have no idea what to do then. protect your marriage . but men will respond to black and white examples. this net is harming many. there is a lot of disinfo.
I hope Christy Hammer keeps her job. And the trans activist student who cannot accept biological reality gets some karma for trying to destroy Christy's career.
If someone feels under "personal attack" on hearing something she knows to be true, and has to walk out, perhaps she shouldn't be in higher education. The concept of non-binary people as a sex category is fictional. All people are non-binary to some extent, no one is internally entirely masculine or entirely feminine. We understand what we believe both of these things are and have partly enmeshed them.
I don't think it's possible for anyone to really know what being a man or a woman feels like, they know what being treated like either of these feels like. Just as this student does. If she wants to indulge in a fantasy that portrays this as untrue, let her get on with it. But do not let her force others to pretend they share it. The reimagining of what we describe as gender identity, whether it actually exists, is not a biological state. Fuck no.
I thought it was hilarious that she claimed to be under personal attack... after SHE DELIBERATELY BROUGHT THE SUBJECT UP! Desperate to be offended and looking for every opportunity, I think.
Oh yes, desperate to be offended, wounded, triggered, etc. She must be so pissed off when no one takes the bait, and she has to ramp it up...'deny my non-binatarianism, you bastard'!
“I asked [Hammer] how many sexes there were. She said, ‘Two.’ I felt under personal attack.”
So this is free speech? Be careful what you say as you may be “personally attacking” someone?
“the students are refusing to take Hammer’s class and demanding that she be sacked.”
Orwell’s junior spies at the ready!
“Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it… All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.” (1984)
Note that in this case “The Party” is far more nebulous i.e. instead of appearing as a clearly identifiable unit, it works as an insidious ubiquitous propaganda movement which is clearly being massively funded somewhere. And – let’s face it – there is no segment in society more malleably gullible than the young ESPECIALLY when they are bright enough to get into college.
"Elizabeth Leibiger, the student who instigated the walkout, isn’t satisfied with this outcome. She told The Bangor Daily News, “I think that the next step USM needs to take is being clear what accountability will look like for Christy Hammer”."
Look like George Orwell's 1984 was a warning which ,sadly ,was ignored and now it's a complete mess. All the more reason to fight this abhorrent movement 💪
And intelligence has absolutely nothing to do with getting into college. USM is bending over backwards in order to please their CUSTOMERS. All higher education is now just a business, students are customers and can do no wrong. (Just to let you know: I did not attend college despite having a high IQ and being of a scholarly bent.) I live on a small road and my former neighbors all had college degrees though they were born between 1920 and 1931; not one of them was very bright.
I'd say there are different kinds of intelligence. Academia suits one particular kind of intelligence (though it would be unfair to bracket all students together). But in general the tale of the Emperor's New Clothes is very astute in debunking one kind of intelligence - that of the self-congratulating status obsessed self-declared "intellectual" who is actually the most gullible person alive. Some "non-academic" minds are far more perceptive.
It reminds me of a comment made by the Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti about the great guru of the Frankfurt School, Theodor Adorno: that Adorno was "the smartest stupid person I ever met!"
Education and training in whatever setting should also being about setting a basic level of competence to do a job or role. Having SOME LEVEL OF EXPERTISE not this 'I am not an expert' level of blankness. What the hell are they doing then? Talking selfies and dying their hair? Working out what tattoo to get next? Preaching soul glitter?
Breast-binding as expressing 'divinity'. Yeah, sure, we get it. Thank you for telling us 'gender' ideology is a religious cult with barbaric rituals just like medieval sackcloth and ashes, and self-flagellation. Helps us to confront what the hell is going on, and reinforces just why it needs to end.
If you search 'mermaids our staff and trustees' and click images, it appears photos that have been deleted from the Mermaids website are visible.
Do people know that Rosy Rowley who worked for the NSPCC for years in safeguarding joined Mermaids in 2019!?
https://www.oneeducation.co.uk/news-blog/safeguarding-conference-2022-keynote-speaker-krystyna-hebb
If you know how to archive please do so.
These would look strange plotted in a visualisation. Very few degrees of separation. There was another controversy, or another in a series of highly embarrassing ones for the NSPCC a few years back and again when James Esses was not allowed to continue with the NSPCC run Childline. Activists tend to move between these big third sector roles with impunity, often getting mysteriously more senior each time. They've been outraged and cancelling anyone at all critical (let alone gender critical) for a while. And many of them make their careers in advocacy-safeguarding-engagement-campaigning which really do all merge into one.
Archive of page here
https://archive.ph/JeQef
Wow, did you just do that? Thanks.
Be prepared for any comment you make here to be shared and used in evidence of something something by the more rabid activists online. They have their own forums to snigger and poke fun at commenters here. There have been a few trolls who appear from time to time, and those who have a sub to lurk.
Apparently someone used a screenshot of a comment of mine to fundraise for 'trans' people. If they're going to share my comments here, I hope they choose some of my more clever quips ha. But thanks, you make a good point.
How to save a web page to the Internet Archive:
https://www.bitsgalore.org/2014/08/02/How-to-save-a-web-page-to-the-Internet-Archive
Tried it. I "think" it worked.
Christy Hamer seems to be being targeted by spoilt posh kids, who might want to look up the term “coercive control”. Their behaviour is so close to what happens in relationships where there is domestic abuse. Maybe education needs to be funded in a different way? This can’t continue
Today's Mermaids scandal discovered by James?
https://mobile.twitter.com/JamesEsses/status/1579415610853060608?cxt=HHwWgMDT2aiIm-srAAAA
Maybe they shouldn't have pissed off so many, many barristers or those with training. Forensic minds are useful. Look at how many TRAs have sent floods of complaints into Inns of Court. Over years and how those individuals have been quietly and discreetly having to fight that off.
Yup, and this homo has picked up a few tips from Hetty Wainthropp. 😄😁😆
‘I am not a woman. I am a fucking warrior'
I imagine that seeing pictures of young women in frontline roles in The Ukrainian Army, IDF, Kurdish forces…would drive The Globes production and management insane.
Too late, they are already insane.
Of course not. Those women will simply be redefined as trans.
"I am not a woman. I am a warrior"
"I am a woman and a whore"
These two quotes, from totally different countries/cultures/ domains encapsulate the horror show misogyny of this ridiculous movement.
Thank you again JL. It's all repellent and one criminal after the next. And the same ones getting madder. Dennis Kavanagh has identified the stages he thinks this retreat from madness might go through and it does seem to be getting rougher and the screeching defence turned attack (and used as attack) that the 'trans human rights' defenders are attempting.
On this about the NHS employed paediatrician, Dr Katie McDowell. I find her explanations and her comparisons odd. As a tall woman, does she think I am one side of a spectrum - is that the male side or female side - and short men are they at the other side of the genderology spectrum - the female or the male side? I've put up with constant comments my whole life. I struggled with feeling feminine enough despite being very obviously female and also tall, very strong and sporty. Decent people don't spout that crap and it reveals an awful lot about those who find it necessary to display their empty mindedness. I can put up with gentle teasing and with a fondness but not from doctors who wield power over our bodies and health. Will she tell the parents of a little girl who is taller 'than an average' that she is probably a he? Get her breasts bound or removed? Or encourage a little boy that as he is shorter, that he is a girl. I know one man who had hormones during puberty and is touchy about his height still in his 50s, and another teen boy who is currently trying to 'grow taller' to be attractive/successful/right (!) and that without protein and bulking crap he won't be worth anything. He screams at his mother for being short and blames his genes and anything he can. That's happening now.
To suggest that tall women are somehow less female, less of a woman is as patently ignorant and offensive as it is to suggest shorter men are somehow less male, or are not men. Variation within one 'category' is not the same as between different types or categories. How did she pass A level biology, let alone pass exams to get into a medical degree and then get employed within the NHS? And what will the NHS do with those employees that push this stuff? We've got many cohorts graduating thinking this and pressurising everyone and their patients to believe it.
Agree.She should be struck off . She's not safe around children if she doesn't acknowledge biological sex. Can't believe that trained doctors can spout this nonsense !!
I don't know what requirements someone with a medical degree in the U.K. has to acquire, but I'll tell you that in the U.S. you're lucky if your doctor has two or three brain cells. "Who got D's all through med school?" "Your doctor!"
I knew a UK hospital paediatrician about twenty years ago and spent some time with him. He was very unassuming, yet I was intimidated as he was so intelligent, so kind, so capable and was so senior, so involved with a lot of training. He was increasingly frustrated with the inability of trainees who applied to work in his team after rotations as they couldn't string a sentence together and fainted under any mild pressure. Obviously unsuited. Our brightest and best? They had to write a short note to explain the reasons why he should pick them. Ok, medics are known for their spidery writing, but they could barely write, gave in crumpled dog-eared paper and had no idea how to politely address someone. That's something major missing and how to respect others, like your patients. It showed a very poor level of general education. And a childish naivety. Medicine is all about social interactions. But was this every generation thinking the next have it easier or are flakier? No, it was a noticeable change. He was genuinely concerned.
Then my school friends who'd gone through Uni then med school ended up in hospitals as consultants. One was absolutely astonished that within five or seven years the students arriving as her students then juniors seemed so oversensitive and incapable of dealing with any tasks or time management without moaning, failing, or randomly crying. Always asking for exceptions.
I have met some brilliant doctors, clinicians and wider health professionals. I have worked in safety, systems and regulation and have talked with them on how training was unsafe, and on shift work, being too junior to make the decisions, being frankly lucky not to kill patients, bullying, the cultures and deflection of responsibility etc. Now it is more regulated like with working hours and to reduce and mitigate human error, but the cultures and Godlike status is still creating problems and failures. The sheer damn arrogance and shock when some meet a patient.
You are fortunate in having met some brilliant medical professionals. They do exist, even in the U.S., but they are often persecuted (as was the doctor in the U.K. who was struck off for prescribing natural desiccated thyroid medication).
Here it is a profession which attracts the criminally greedy and the criminally sociopathic. I cannot identify what is wrong with my sister who is an M.D.; she has a very high IQ but her EQ is zero. She admitted to my other sister that she had "killed a few people" and was no longer allowed to practice, and I wondered if this had more to do with her horrendous personality than her "errors." A nurse told me about calling doctors on the night shift about very sick patients, and basically being blown off rather than the doctors responding to the situations; I can totally picture my sister doing this.
I met the daughter of one senior consultant as she was doing various training and voluntary work to give her some 'life experience' before starting med school herself (read, go away, see a bit of life and be less cocky). I realised who she was as she went on and on about her important family and background. She drove a very flashy car and was remarkably confident and self-assured. I was deemed as passing some test of being 'people like us' as we went to the same school. Her father, after case after case, complaint after complaint, was finally 'let go'. He hung on til the bitter end and she portrayed him as very hard done by, chased out and a loss to the NHS. He 'retired' with his professional reputation intact and very nice pension and investments but still griped and passed that sense of grievance to his children.
We all knew what his reputation was. I never revealed that I knew who he was. The patients had voted with their feet. We all knew. I'd got chatting to a work colleague after one event a few years before, she spoke about her mother, who worked in the hospital and in the same department as him. Staff refused to work with him, patients mysteriously never went to follow-up appointments, complained or asked to see his colleagues. His juniors made complaints. He wasn't just rude, because he refused to listen he made continual errors and had such an ego he missed correcting them. His professional association backed him, seemingly 'unaware' of the 'little local trouble'. No student wanted to train there and the department is still struggling unable to attract staff nearly a decade later.
That is incredible.
I don't know how it works for you, but in the U.S. doctors police themselves, something they are not competent to do. And, no, I don't want some professionally paid person -- the sort who sits on endless boards -- doing it either; I would like a mixed group of professionals and ordinary people to look at complaints and decide what merits further attention.
It's very common. Human error or human belief we are infallible or it's always someone else's fault. That ripples out and knowing how to correct is hard.
It's similar in the UK. Self-regulation can work. But oversight of that and any regulation is tough. The volume is hard to manage efficiently. We often have systems that rely on things going wrong to self-correct. A gentleman's agreement that people come in to inspect, see nothing and it's all ok leads to continual failings in a few sectors. Time and time again 'should' and 'but we thought'.
I sit on one group as a 'user' of the service but I work in that sector and in regulation of it (that I sometimes keep schtum about). Figuring out the practical regulatory structure in a few sectors is theory vs practice and that's where gaps appear (like the swiss cheese model). It's interesting how much power you can have depending on which hat you wear and isn't what you think sometimes. A few NHS trusts have patients or patient reps on interview panels and it's not just lip service.
Subject matter experts (SMEs) often are consultants and volunteers and can swing boards to their own benefit very easily. Look at the way trans identified men have got onto medical boards to write medical policy and standards - in the UK it's recently been the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists referencing trans orgs and 'standards' in their recent consultation document. Look who's on the board.
My husband has told me never to bring this topic up with him. It triggers him too much. He thinks I’m a bigot and these things I’m saying aren’t happening much, and they’re just right wing talking points. I’m so angry that a man with 2 daughters would label me a bigot when he’s the one looking the other way.
I don’t want our girls going to schools here (PA in America), even though it’s one of the top school districts in the country. I just don’t trust teachers. But he’s insistent they go because that’s why we moved here and that’s why we pay higher taxes.
I feel powerless
Keep your chin up and I suppose keep your own counsel for now. Why would it trigger him if there's nothing up? I hope you can find others, and near you, and other parents you can open up to so you don't feel as alone. I realise it's very hard to continue to parent when you don't have a united front.
It triggers his woke nerve. So because I’m questioning the trans/gender stuff it’s automatically transphobic 🤦♀️ It’s sad because he’s highly intelligent and usually a skeptic, but blinded by the religious woke. Ironically he’s an atheist
I'm not sure it's so ironic. Look at all the 'skeptic' men online who proudly (and very proudly indeed) display their intelligence and logic. I grew up with a few atheists who mocked others in our family for being religious 'nuts' and for decades. It was often a way for misogyny to creep out but thinly veiled. To attack and undermine their wives. With a zealotry and 'logic'. It was sheer nastiness. One then 'discovered' that Catholicism he'd mocked to all, converted and kept exactly the same sectarian attitude to unbelievers, yet from the other 'side'. He was a very determined and successful man so naturally become the best Catholic. Passionately being in the right, with whatever excuse. His way or the highway.
Exactly. Any atheist worth her / his salt is, first and foremost, a SKEPTIC. Otherwise, it's just a stance with which to hit other people over the head.
Well said. It’s unfortunate as well that some prominent atheists have participated in the ideological remake of atheism, & gladly poised themselves at the pulpit’s peak. Men take power where they can.
Your husband, pardon me, needs to grow a set of balls. I have never heard of anyone but these college crybabies screaming that they're "triggered."
I have felt powerless, but never this powerless, and I am severely disabled. I would never let any man talk over me. Are you financially dependent upon him? Please take care of yourself and think carefully about your future.
look on your kids school district website. see who their consultants are. some schools allow you to see whats taught. keep your kids off the internet or monitor as much as possible. maybe spouse will agree with that? use google family app with their phone. it allows you to block apps but you can still see where phone is by sharing location. educate your kids that school managers dont care about them and have been infected by "woke". yes i use that term even tho ive been liberal my whole life. other than orange devil this is the biggest threat we face. i use the example of other parents who allow their kids to use motorized rec vehicles. i dont want my kids using them. i happen to know two people with half their face paralyzed from falls. people telling them to ride these wont be taking them to the hospital wont be careng for them if their permanently paralyzed like chris reeves. school managers and even some teachers are the same way. they have no skin in the game and dont care about your kid only their agenda. sex is not spectrum. women are about as similar to men genetically as we are to chimps. drop hints. if your kids freinds are infected with this i have no idea what to do then. protect your marriage . but men will respond to black and white examples. this net is harming many. there is a lot of disinfo.
Watched the video...
"Maria Clemente, a trans-identified male and trans activist who was elected to Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies last year."
A complete and utter deviant nutter.
I hope Christy Hammer keeps her job. And the trans activist student who cannot accept biological reality gets some karma for trying to destroy Christy's career.
"Half of the trans-identified male prisoners in Scotland only developed a trans identity after their conviction."
My shocked face. Let me show it to you.
Gives new meaning to jailbirds.
Christie Hammer, accountable for telling the truth!!! I'm so fucking angry.
If someone feels under "personal attack" on hearing something she knows to be true, and has to walk out, perhaps she shouldn't be in higher education. The concept of non-binary people as a sex category is fictional. All people are non-binary to some extent, no one is internally entirely masculine or entirely feminine. We understand what we believe both of these things are and have partly enmeshed them.
I don't think it's possible for anyone to really know what being a man or a woman feels like, they know what being treated like either of these feels like. Just as this student does. If she wants to indulge in a fantasy that portrays this as untrue, let her get on with it. But do not let her force others to pretend they share it. The reimagining of what we describe as gender identity, whether it actually exists, is not a biological state. Fuck no.
I thought it was hilarious that she claimed to be under personal attack... after SHE DELIBERATELY BROUGHT THE SUBJECT UP! Desperate to be offended and looking for every opportunity, I think.
Oh yes, desperate to be offended, wounded, triggered, etc. She must be so pissed off when no one takes the bait, and she has to ramp it up...'deny my non-binatarianism, you bastard'!
“I asked [Hammer] how many sexes there were. She said, ‘Two.’ I felt under personal attack.”
So this is free speech? Be careful what you say as you may be “personally attacking” someone?
“the students are refusing to take Hammer’s class and demanding that she be sacked.”
Orwell’s junior spies at the ready!
“Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it… All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.” (1984)
Note that in this case “The Party” is far more nebulous i.e. instead of appearing as a clearly identifiable unit, it works as an insidious ubiquitous propaganda movement which is clearly being massively funded somewhere. And – let’s face it – there is no segment in society more malleably gullible than the young ESPECIALLY when they are bright enough to get into college.
"Elizabeth Leibiger, the student who instigated the walkout, isn’t satisfied with this outcome. She told The Bangor Daily News, “I think that the next step USM needs to take is being clear what accountability will look like for Christy Hammer”."
Spoken like a mafia boss or Nazi leader.
Look like George Orwell's 1984 was a warning which ,sadly ,was ignored and now it's a complete mess. All the more reason to fight this abhorrent movement 💪
And intelligence has absolutely nothing to do with getting into college. USM is bending over backwards in order to please their CUSTOMERS. All higher education is now just a business, students are customers and can do no wrong. (Just to let you know: I did not attend college despite having a high IQ and being of a scholarly bent.) I live on a small road and my former neighbors all had college degrees though they were born between 1920 and 1931; not one of them was very bright.
I'd say there are different kinds of intelligence. Academia suits one particular kind of intelligence (though it would be unfair to bracket all students together). But in general the tale of the Emperor's New Clothes is very astute in debunking one kind of intelligence - that of the self-congratulating status obsessed self-declared "intellectual" who is actually the most gullible person alive. Some "non-academic" minds are far more perceptive.
It reminds me of a comment made by the Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti about the great guru of the Frankfurt School, Theodor Adorno: that Adorno was "the smartest stupid person I ever met!"
Education and training in whatever setting should also being about setting a basic level of competence to do a job or role. Having SOME LEVEL OF EXPERTISE not this 'I am not an expert' level of blankness. What the hell are they doing then? Talking selfies and dying their hair? Working out what tattoo to get next? Preaching soul glitter?
Content Warning (words, but tragic words):
https://twitter.com/IRefuseToSwerve/status/1578873416421019648
Breast-binding as expressing 'divinity'. Yeah, sure, we get it. Thank you for telling us 'gender' ideology is a religious cult with barbaric rituals just like medieval sackcloth and ashes, and self-flagellation. Helps us to confront what the hell is going on, and reinforces just why it needs to end.