You know, THAT cuts a little close to the bone, now. What was once absurd SNL humor is now reality…
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Category: Culture
the hard Left now admit that DeSantis was right.
“And people who believe in social justice have agreed this is wrong and this is bad and exposing kids to an adult world of lurid costumes and garish makeup borders on abuse. Now, hurry up and get in the car, we’re late for drag queen story hour. Not that there’s anything wrong with being a drag queen, but maybe it’s time to admit that, sometimes, drag queen story hour is more for the queen than the kids.”
Look, Maher is by no means a Conservative. Not by any stretch. But he seems to, at least at times, say the obvious truth out loud. How very un-Democrat of him!
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In my professional
life, I spend all day every day reading psychological evaluations. Yesterday I ran across a line in a report that really struck me:
Just because he has a disorder does not mean that he cannot engage in some behavior on purpose.
I think that MUCH of the time people (and psychologists, who should know better) talk as if a psychological disorder somehow completely prevents a person from exercising moral agency.
Well, it doesn’t. Not typically. Maybe the more severe a condition is the less moral agency is in play–OK, I can buy that–but to say that the presence of a disorder means that the person can exert no moral agency at all is bull crap!
A good psychologist has to tease apart that which is a choice and that which is a mere reflex.
Denying moral agency also means that there is no way to “decide” to change and get better. Denying moral agency may lead to one feeling “better” and “justified” in the very short term, but it is a damning straight-jacket that actually prevents people from changing and getting better.
There is simply no way to believe in change without also believing in moral agency.
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Always make me
laugh!
L to R: Amy, Mindy, Jennifer, Gorlock the Destroyer, Candi.
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Yes, these medical
fads always follow the same pattern. And if you are wise, you will pay attention to this pattern so you can more quickly spot the fad next time.
In the late Eighties and Nineties, the psychiatric profession became infatuated with “recovered memory”, which was conceived in the US but also captivated Europe, including Britain. Practitioners claimed that patients sexually abused as children would naturally repress any recollection of their suffering as too painful, but therapists could employ specialised techniques to retrieve these terrible experiences and so heal the patients’ trauma. As a profusion of books, articles and documentaries cultivated a larger cultural fascination, the recovered memory juggernaut resulted in countless adults “remembering” early childhood abuse, usually by parents. Patients would exhume recollections of having been subject to parental rape or oral sex when they were babies. Accusations followed. Families were torn apart.
Yes, just as I have been saying for years. THIS shows the model. Unfortunately,
Only from a distance does the sordid psychological dowsing look barmy.
But it happens over and over!
Within the astonishingly short time frame of 10 years, I count four real-life collective crazes: transgenderism, #MeToo, Covid lockdowns (which spawned sub-crazes over masks and vaccines), and Black Lives Matter. I also worry we’re already in the grip of social mania number five.
But there are markers. And you see them in all such fads, Here’s an incomplete list from me, along with the article:
- First and foremost, it never seems like a social mania at the time.
- It feeds off of resentment and it engenders human misery.
- It is aggressively enforced. Anyone who disagrees is a “heretic” that must be burned. Because it is rooted in the narcissism of its cheerleaders.
- There is some sort of priestly hierarchy.
- There’s rarely an identifiable point at which a mania is debunked (barring a world war or counterrevolution). Few will recant, much less apologise to the victims of their excesses. A funny amnesia sets in, as forgetfulness is more palatable than shame… Once manias die down, most people pretend they never believed these things to begin with.
There are indeed some signs of cultural/medical fads. You would be wise to take heed so as not to be taken in in the future…
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Folks,
it’s over. I’ve been telling you that this pig is going to the abattoir of history to take its rightful place among the worst medical malpractice fads of history–and it is finally happening.
Boyish girls, climb the nearest tree and give a Tarzan whoop of victory – girly boys, fashion a floral crown and caper copiously. Thanks to the Cass Report, failing to follow sexist stereotypes (which decree that girls play with dolls and boys play with themselves) will no longer get you marched off to the sex-correction clinic. You’ll no longer be stuffed like a five-bird roast with the best that Big Pharma can tout and later shuttled off to the abattoir to have your perfectly healthy sexual organs hacked off. For the Great Trans Con has been bust as wide open as the space between India Willoughby’s ears.
Unfortunately, there are lots of people who will live with being horrifically sexually mutilated for the rest of their lives. They will never know the joy of parenthood, or even of a loving partnership. They will now be forever a walking, talking freak show–and there’s no way to go back now.
Like the Mitchell and Webb Nazis, the signs that the trans-mob weren’t the good guys – though they were definitely guys – were there all along.
… Now the reckoning has come. With it, the people who were previously vilified will be vindicated. The greatest winner will be JK Rowling, as she generally is – and she has handled her victory with characteristic wit and grace.
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O.J. gets a little
coaching by a guy who is an expert on what will happen:
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DEI is facing
some pretty choppy waters, here.
There has been some terrific news on the college front in recent weeks, such as at the University of Texas and University of Florida, where the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) commissars have been summarily sacked and the programs shut down, but it appears to be occurring in the corporate world as well.
Businesses are starting to clue in…
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The loons’ panic
knobs jump to 11.
As we inch toward Election Day 2024 you will notice the shame-free commie media screechers trebucheting ever greater amounts of fear-mongering bovine feculence. Remember, the left throws anti-Trump dooty against the wall, hoping that even if it doesn’t stick, it might at least leave a stain.
… Lewis’ attempted “re-re-education” is directly out of the Marxists’ playbook. I know several gay men who, like Lewis, truly believed Trump was going to round them up if he won in 2016. Trump was victorious, yet my gay friends and Lewis still walk free. Lewis also ignores the historical data that minority unemployment under Trump was at record lows. Marxists don’t care about reality. In fact, they loathe it. Fortunately for sane Americans, the truth is easy to find for anyone with a phone.
… But pushing such Trumpphobic codswallop today is akin to wearing parachute pants (sans irony) to a party this weekend. It’s like showing “Reefer Madness” at a pot dispensary. Most people know effluvia when they smell it.
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IS there a
cultural reckoning going on? I sure hope so. It is LONG past due…
We have been hearing a lot about a “vibe shift” in American culture recently. The phrase has been around for a while. It gained new currency after the commentator Santiago Pliego wrote an essay about the phenomenon, and Tucker Carlson had him on his show to talk about it.
… I, too, discern cracks in the Narrative. I seem to see the Overton Window being forced open here and there. But I also sense an aroma of panic among the dispensers and enforcers of the Narrative. You can feel it in the arrogant incredulousness of Nicolle Wallace attempting to digest the novel idea that maybe, just possibly, her snotty but ill-informed idea of what happened on January 6, 2021, is completely wrong.
But remember: a cornered rat is a dangerous rat. I have a buddy who is a Veterinarian surgeon. He talked about how dangerous a sweet dog who has been injured is. That dog will bite you when you intervene.
Now if a sweet dog who is injured will bite you, what will a malicious MSM do once they are injured?
My point is this: as evidence of a “vibe shift” grows more numerous and more substantive, so too will the vibe-stiffening reaction among the guardians of the status quo.