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Mar 3, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

The reason TRA artists all have that god-awful art style is because cartoons are the best media to communicate with children. It's grooming.

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Mar 2, 2021Liked by mole at the counter

In this latest email you show a tweet from strangio re a michelle goldberg piece in American Chronicles. I can find no such publication. There is a chroniclesmagazine.org on line that bills itself as a chronicle of american culture. It is reactionary. Goldberg writes for The New Yorker. I find nothing by her from a cursory search. I couldn't find the piece under goldberg or by title at either publication. TNY has an American Chronicles section with 85 pages of search items. I couldn't take the time to go through the list. Back to chroniclesmagazine.org, some articles seem relatively inoffensive and worth reading, but a closer will reveal their reactionary cast of mind in many cases. Conservative publications never critique conservatism alas, that's a given. And that applies equally to Liberal, Neoliberal, Left publications as well with respect to their own beliefs and traditions. Everything must be critiques if for no other reason to illustrate its efficacy and worthiness of support. One can find in the major literary journals critiques of almost everything, but they are not receptive to critiques of the age old and current sexual arrangements and certainly not of transgenderism. Searching for this particular article by name called up a number of articles on feminism at chroniclesmagazine.org that should be read even though they can be critiqued on the grounds of missing the point as usual. One particularly offensive one is A Woman's Dreams by Bryce J. Christensen from 1985 quoting the famous line of Alexander Pope on the contradictions of womanhood, which Christensen avers will never be fully solved but has generally been considered manageable within marriage and family. The condescension, the superiority, the sense of entitlement fairly drips. Other searches turn up quite a few pieces on feminism, all of which should be read by feminists and males who respect women, if for no other reason than to understand what we are up against if there is still any doubt on that score. There may even be found the occasional genuine insight, which nonetheless has already been made by feminists themselves. Others are bizarre. I haven't looked at the dates for these other pieces but some of them look to be on matters radical feminists have been writing about for some time, with somewhat different conclusions. An article on Effeminate Cruelty is on the first page as of today. I haven't read it yet. On perusal, it seems to be the standard rejection in quarters such as these of anything "soft" and is based, as early as paragraph one, in stereotypes of male and female cruelty.

As usual, thanks for all the splendid videos, Graham. I am looking forward to watching your interview with DeeDee. And thanks also for the wonderful parodies. Your comic genius will out every time.

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If you *haven't* listened to the interview with deedee, you really should. She's so impressive and so much fun to listen to.

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Re Trump and the open goal. He's had four years to convert the pass so what the fuck was he doing? Probably monitoring shit. That's all the Orange Man ever did ; monitor and procrastinate 😠

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