“America is gradually waking up to the madness that overtook the middle class Left while everyone was distracted by the antics of Donald Trump.”
It’s a cult. The same people aren’t interested in the antics of Joe Biden and the establishment pundits like it that way.
The rest of this story is horrifying. Everything about the Loudoun school board saga is horrifying. The head guy who denied knowledge of this attack is paid close to $300k. Wtf?!
I’ve been so upset about this since it was first reported. I hope the story does reach far and wide. Those poor girls and their families.
Those people on the school boards are evil. The mentally of not understanding sexual assault because the reality of it is too horrible to comprehend so they sweep it under their mental rugs and pretend it doesn’t happen. Then collude with others because it’s just too difficult a problem to solve, so we use mental gymnastics to pretend it doesn’t exist there’s no problem we have to expend any energy in solving.
Women and girls are always the collateral damage of this institutional laziness.
I hope in this case that doesn’t happen and the enablers are publicly pilloried, they lose their jobs and go to prison.
If there are no consequences for actively enabling sexual assault nothing will change.
I feel sick from reading this story. Young girls being abused because they are told by authorities that their boundaries are less important than the feelings of boys. And this abuse is being facilitated by the police, teachers, and school board. I am so angry about this, it is very wrong.
I can barely think straight after reading this as my reaction is so visceral. I'm disgusted in so many ways: that this poor man was treated this way and is having to defend himself as his daughters rape was covered up, that he was not listened to and I suspect the arrest and trial are all an effort to discredit him; that this boy could get away with this and then was set free in another school of victims where he re-offended; that girls' safety is being compromised so effortlessly and wilfully; that these governors are not fit to be in such a position and are in effect enablers for predators (for what reasons one can only guess at but I'd be willing to bet it has to do with money and/or power); that so many people in power are willing puppets to the whole process. This story should be bigger than it is, but I have a horrid feeling that there will be many more such rapes and sexual assaults before anyone actually does anything.
If this was Afghanistan and the Taliban, there would be world wide condemnation. Because it is America, it is covered up and not reported on. How is this right? How can Biden remain as President? We thought Trump was bad, Biden is worse if he allows this on his watch.
This is as shocking as it is horrifying, and I really hope that the story spreads far and wide. This time we're living through is one of those situations where "it'll only change for the better when somebody gets hurt". Well, people have been being hurt for a long time, but this particular story has an emotional pull that cuts through all the bullshit people internalise to excuse the horrors, and forces them to confront damned reality.
One thing though, I do object to the framing of this as a scandal "the Left" cannot ignore. I'm about as far Left as you can go - I can barely even see the middle - but I'm here waving the flag for truth, and have been for a long time.
This isn't a political argument, as much as those on the Woke Side would wish it to be.
We don't need to fall into their framing of it as such - doing so only grants them further power, as the Left vs Right war is yet another thing that turns peoples brains off and prevents them from doing any thinking.
Soooooo appalled that women, girls, mothers, and now even fathers are NEVER heard when we speak about our concerns about trans ideology. I marvel that ANY women actually trust ANY man these days. It did not have to get this bad. So much suffering. All because a few predatory billionaires and transhumanists are determined to make money and gain power by destroying what it means to be human. Despicable, vile creatures. I desperately hope that this wakes the rest of the people up. Ashamed that I once considered myself a leftist.
I live in the next county over, and I'm just speechless. That whole board, maybe the prosecutor, should all be sued to hell and back for violating that girl's and her father's civil rights, child endagerment, failure to notify of injury, and about 7000 other violations. They're lucky though, my dad would have razed the fucking building. But, you know, it's just a girl, so this is not the end of this bullshit. She's just one of the many sacrifices needed to maintain the the cult's power. I hope he gets some crowdfunding going, no way a plumber has the pockets to sue the school board of one of the richest counties in the country.
Utterly horrific. If only a more so called reputable news source than the Daily Fail would write about it. This cannot be swept under the rug. I will never forget how the boys were at high school when I was a teenager, I once had a group chase me home on their bikes screaming at me to undo buttons on my school dress. I was 13. Daily I would be groped in the halls. These girls are going to be traumatised for life.
Anyone who has spent time around teenage boys knows that there is a small but significant percentage of them that will do anything to get to see girls undressed. Making it easier for them to do so will increase the percentage, and give opportunities for those who won't stop at just looking (as in this case). If people in charge of educating adolescents don't know this, and put very strong limits on accessing girls areas, then they are not fit to hold office.
And send it especially to the members of the former skeptic movement who have refused to employ their critical thinking skills on this one issue. They are to be especially shamed and they - especially the ones who still have big platforms - are especially complicit.
PZ Myers, Rebecca Watson, David Gorski, Hemant Mehta, Neil deGrasse Tyson ... the list of prominent skeptics who've abandoned their skepticism on this issue is long and I'm sure some of the people here could add to it.
Then there are those skeptics who should be speaking out but haven't (or haven't enough). Brian Cox, Ben Goldacre, Tim Minchin, Dennett, Dawkins, Diamond...
There are a few notable exceptions (Ophelia Benson, Andy Lewis...) who have been right all along about this and ostracised and lied about because of it.
We need people with scientific and critical thinking credibility to attack the disinformation from gender identity extremists. People see these confident lies and in the absence of equally confident voices doing what those people are supposed to do best - communicate science and rational thinking - they swallow it whole.
I know the former skeptic movement is in pieces for a variety of reasons and even as a former member myself, I'm not especially sorry to see it go. But there's still a lot of knowledge, skill and media charisma out there if we can goad, beg or shame some of those people into action.
I want to tell someone this story about the 30-somethings my husband works with. They are all of course trans supporters and utterly ignorant. The one young woman is lecturing everyone about what the 1960s in the U.S. were like, this to my husband who is 69 years old (and who told her that what she was saying sounded like how the 1960s were presented on TV shows). She then told him she lived through the 1960s because her mother told her in a previous life she, the daughter, had been alive then and had overdosed. I am not kidding you. How do you deal with complex issues such as feminism with someone like this? I told my husband I would rather be run over by a tractor.
So disgusting on every level. Don't know how any of these people live with themselves and keep defending the indefensible !! That's criminal and ,you're absolutely right Graham ,the board members should ALL be jailed ,alongside everyone else who promotes these dangerous and damaging policies ,the impact of which will be felt for years by women and girls !! I've donated to the crowdfunder for that poor man's court case and I hope that lots of other people do the same !! America has gone completely bonkers and unfortunately infected many other countries ,including our own !! When ,oh when will people wake up and see this ideology in all its horror ? Governments especially and particularly the Scottish Government which has obviously lost its ability to think rationally and cares nothing snout the safety and privacy of women and girls ! Shame on them all but the tide surely will turn but sadly only after a lot more damage has been done. Totally DISGRACEFUL .
I felt ill reading this story. One of the vilest stories I've read.
It reminded me of Catholic priests being moved around parishes after sexual offences, only to offend again.
The enablers on the education board are beyond contempt.
“America is gradually waking up to the madness that overtook the middle class Left while everyone was distracted by the antics of Donald Trump.”
It’s a cult. The same people aren’t interested in the antics of Joe Biden and the establishment pundits like it that way.
The rest of this story is horrifying. Everything about the Loudoun school board saga is horrifying. The head guy who denied knowledge of this attack is paid close to $300k. Wtf?!
I’ve been so upset about this since it was first reported. I hope the story does reach far and wide. Those poor girls and their families.
Those people on the school boards are evil. The mentally of not understanding sexual assault because the reality of it is too horrible to comprehend so they sweep it under their mental rugs and pretend it doesn’t happen. Then collude with others because it’s just too difficult a problem to solve, so we use mental gymnastics to pretend it doesn’t exist there’s no problem we have to expend any energy in solving.
Women and girls are always the collateral damage of this institutional laziness.
I hope in this case that doesn’t happen and the enablers are publicly pilloried, they lose their jobs and go to prison.
If there are no consequences for actively enabling sexual assault nothing will change.
I feel sick from reading this story. Young girls being abused because they are told by authorities that their boundaries are less important than the feelings of boys. And this abuse is being facilitated by the police, teachers, and school board. I am so angry about this, it is very wrong.
I can barely think straight after reading this as my reaction is so visceral. I'm disgusted in so many ways: that this poor man was treated this way and is having to defend himself as his daughters rape was covered up, that he was not listened to and I suspect the arrest and trial are all an effort to discredit him; that this boy could get away with this and then was set free in another school of victims where he re-offended; that girls' safety is being compromised so effortlessly and wilfully; that these governors are not fit to be in such a position and are in effect enablers for predators (for what reasons one can only guess at but I'd be willing to bet it has to do with money and/or power); that so many people in power are willing puppets to the whole process. This story should be bigger than it is, but I have a horrid feeling that there will be many more such rapes and sexual assaults before anyone actually does anything.
If this was Afghanistan and the Taliban, there would be world wide condemnation. Because it is America, it is covered up and not reported on. How is this right? How can Biden remain as President? We thought Trump was bad, Biden is worse if he allows this on his watch.
This is as shocking as it is horrifying, and I really hope that the story spreads far and wide. This time we're living through is one of those situations where "it'll only change for the better when somebody gets hurt". Well, people have been being hurt for a long time, but this particular story has an emotional pull that cuts through all the bullshit people internalise to excuse the horrors, and forces them to confront damned reality.
One thing though, I do object to the framing of this as a scandal "the Left" cannot ignore. I'm about as far Left as you can go - I can barely even see the middle - but I'm here waving the flag for truth, and have been for a long time.
This isn't a political argument, as much as those on the Woke Side would wish it to be.
We don't need to fall into their framing of it as such - doing so only grants them further power, as the Left vs Right war is yet another thing that turns peoples brains off and prevents them from doing any thinking.
Soooooo appalled that women, girls, mothers, and now even fathers are NEVER heard when we speak about our concerns about trans ideology. I marvel that ANY women actually trust ANY man these days. It did not have to get this bad. So much suffering. All because a few predatory billionaires and transhumanists are determined to make money and gain power by destroying what it means to be human. Despicable, vile creatures. I desperately hope that this wakes the rest of the people up. Ashamed that I once considered myself a leftist.
I live in the next county over, and I'm just speechless. That whole board, maybe the prosecutor, should all be sued to hell and back for violating that girl's and her father's civil rights, child endagerment, failure to notify of injury, and about 7000 other violations. They're lucky though, my dad would have razed the fucking building. But, you know, it's just a girl, so this is not the end of this bullshit. She's just one of the many sacrifices needed to maintain the the cult's power. I hope he gets some crowdfunding going, no way a plumber has the pockets to sue the school board of one of the richest counties in the country.
Utterly horrific. If only a more so called reputable news source than the Daily Fail would write about it. This cannot be swept under the rug. I will never forget how the boys were at high school when I was a teenager, I once had a group chase me home on their bikes screaming at me to undo buttons on my school dress. I was 13. Daily I would be groped in the halls. These girls are going to be traumatised for life.
Anyone who has spent time around teenage boys knows that there is a small but significant percentage of them that will do anything to get to see girls undressed. Making it easier for them to do so will increase the percentage, and give opportunities for those who won't stop at just looking (as in this case). If people in charge of educating adolescents don't know this, and put very strong limits on accessing girls areas, then they are not fit to hold office.
Shocking shocking shocking.
And send it especially to the members of the former skeptic movement who have refused to employ their critical thinking skills on this one issue. They are to be especially shamed and they - especially the ones who still have big platforms - are especially complicit.
PZ Myers, Rebecca Watson, David Gorski, Hemant Mehta, Neil deGrasse Tyson ... the list of prominent skeptics who've abandoned their skepticism on this issue is long and I'm sure some of the people here could add to it.
Then there are those skeptics who should be speaking out but haven't (or haven't enough). Brian Cox, Ben Goldacre, Tim Minchin, Dennett, Dawkins, Diamond...
There are a few notable exceptions (Ophelia Benson, Andy Lewis...) who have been right all along about this and ostracised and lied about because of it.
We need people with scientific and critical thinking credibility to attack the disinformation from gender identity extremists. People see these confident lies and in the absence of equally confident voices doing what those people are supposed to do best - communicate science and rational thinking - they swallow it whole.
I know the former skeptic movement is in pieces for a variety of reasons and even as a former member myself, I'm not especially sorry to see it go. But there's still a lot of knowledge, skill and media charisma out there if we can goad, beg or shame some of those people into action.
Trans ideology is patriarchy on steroids.
I want to tell someone this story about the 30-somethings my husband works with. They are all of course trans supporters and utterly ignorant. The one young woman is lecturing everyone about what the 1960s in the U.S. were like, this to my husband who is 69 years old (and who told her that what she was saying sounded like how the 1960s were presented on TV shows). She then told him she lived through the 1960s because her mother told her in a previous life she, the daughter, had been alive then and had overdosed. I am not kidding you. How do you deal with complex issues such as feminism with someone like this? I told my husband I would rather be run over by a tractor.
So disgusting on every level. Don't know how any of these people live with themselves and keep defending the indefensible !! That's criminal and ,you're absolutely right Graham ,the board members should ALL be jailed ,alongside everyone else who promotes these dangerous and damaging policies ,the impact of which will be felt for years by women and girls !! I've donated to the crowdfunder for that poor man's court case and I hope that lots of other people do the same !! America has gone completely bonkers and unfortunately infected many other countries ,including our own !! When ,oh when will people wake up and see this ideology in all its horror ? Governments especially and particularly the Scottish Government which has obviously lost its ability to think rationally and cares nothing snout the safety and privacy of women and girls ! Shame on them all but the tide surely will turn but sadly only after a lot more damage has been done. Totally DISGRACEFUL .