I just can't see Chalamet being the next big male movie star. He's too pretty, looks like he weighs 130 pounds. He's the guy who is hitting on your girlfriend while she attends a poetry workshop.
But in this new world of crushing the patriarchy and toxic masculinity, maybe he is the ideal of Hollywood's Leading Man.
The days of Gary Cooper, Clint Eastwood, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt are coming to an end.
The biggest thing I've learned best from the comments on this site is that modern adult right-wingers talk exactly like left-wing teenage boys.
This is especially true of a tiny handful of extremely verbose right-wingers here, who seem to consider themselves owners of this forum and this conversation conducted in their own living rooms, where everyone is by default expected to bow to their domineering opinions.
Yeah, we get it. You think you know everything about everything--even the side of the political aisle to which you've never belonged. And you use insults and vitriol against people you don't know and would never show the courtesy of listening to.
Welcome to adolescence.
The only difference between you (and you know who you are) and the left is that you're not teenagers. You're not even twenty-somethings. You're old enough to know better than to behave this way toward complete strangers. Supposedly.
My grandparents were hardcore Nixon and Reagan Republicans. My parents and I were hardcore Carter and Clinton Democrats. (And none of us could stand Bush Jr.) Yet, from the time I was a teenage girl in the 1970s, I was able to talk politics with my grandparents, with mutual respect and consideration.
All I had to do was treat them as though they shared my values of being good people and taking care of everyone in our society. I listened to them. I spoke reasonably to them. I didn't take offense, even when they said offensive things. (And they reflexively said offensive things about the left, although my parents didn't talk that way about the right.) I never, ever, ever said anything offensive back. I kept my sense of humor and my desire to get along as my touchstone.
So time and time again, we agreed on our values. And we brainstormed reasonable ways to enact them in government. We had wonderful conversations. And time and time again, my grandparents eventually said they were beginning to understand the left in ways that my parents swore they never would.
Because I--just a teenage girl--held the line at respect and consideration.
So I sure would like to see some of that respect and consideration from the right-wingers here in these comments. I don't come here to see grown adults behave like teenage boys.
I come here to understand what's happening to our world and talk to reasonable people about what we can do to fix it.
Hollywood has succumbed to the rot they push. Good riddance. They stopped being creative many years years ago in favor of indoctrinating the masses, who have fled in droves.
Why does New York keep electing the worst and the clueless, mostly from the Dumocratic party.
As a mother of 3 trying to figure out the California school system (specifically LA schools!), Frannie Blockbuster has my deepest respect and admiration. I am so grateful for the work you do!!
… well I guess I should have stopped before I totally went on a rant!
As I WAS posting, before I lost connection …
I hope Wiesman ISN’T the voice of The Free Press, because I subscribed to support Bari & HEAR HER VOICE! And, NO I’m not threatening to cancel my subscription, but I must say, if I wanted to read Democrat propaganda BS, I’d go back to the New York Times!
It’s obvious Wiesman is “carrying Biden’s water” with his statement about “WE think presidential debates have become a bit of a joke” Duh, how convenient to have the Democrats NOW think debates aren’t necessary! This way they can be united around Biden, who REFUSES TO DEBATE!
Truth is, they ALL know Biden on a stage against Trump, Nikki or RFK Jr. would be a disaster! Any one of them would absolutely clean the floor with him!
Sounds like the cultural revolution of China in terms of tactics. By radicalizing the kids, they get the loyal army of useful idiots, like HJ's to hitler and Mao's youths! Very dangerous, when will America wake up?!!!
I find it interesting that those who benefit from "social justice warrior" actions often speak well of them, and those who help oppress others typically don't. People interested in equal treatment have benefitted immensely from this, including those in the African-American, Latino, disabled, Asian, and LGBTQ communities. Those you deem to label social justice warriors typically gravitate toward groups that are most in need of assistance and support. The Civil Rights movement is one example, as is the support for marriage equality.
A person who looks at the situation currently going on in Gaza, and who wishes to help make things better in the world, would likely see a bully who got punched in the face respond with not fists, but knives and guns, and target not only the one who punched the bully, but all his friends and family, including his children.
It is quite obvious that the Palestinians are those who would naturally receive this support. Thus Bari and her staff mock those who support Palestinians.
Back when the issue was Proposition 8 in California, those interested in equal treatment supported marriage equality. Did Bari and the team criticize efforts by these groups?
I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but please do not conflate the LGB with the transgenderist lobby, much less the homophobic insult "queer."
The transgenderist lobby pushes medical conversion therapy on LGB kids. And the most long-time hard-working opponents of that lobby are left-wing women--especially lesbians.
I'm not well-versed enough to have a firm perspective on some trans topics, including some of the medical things with kids less than 18.
I know a lot of people who identify as queer. It may have been an insult when my sister yelled it at my brother in about 1972, but I don't hear much about it as any kind of insult or slur now.
I'm extremely well-versed in the transgenderist lobby.
And, yes, "queer" is still an insult and slur to many gay people. Anyone old enough to have been gay in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s has heard the word "queer" used against them as a very real threat of violence and/or murder. That's traumatizing. Trauma doesn't go away just because kids these days are indulging in a different fad.
The concept "queer" has only been added to the LGB to include straight people who want to be seen as an oppressed demographic. Similarly, transgenderism itself erases same-sex orientation with the nonsensical concept of same-gender orientation.
Misogynist straight male predators are now legally allowed to invade lesbians spaces as "transbians" and demand sex from women who are turned off by men's bodies. They are stalking young lesbians online and gaslighting them that they must "unlearn their gender fetish." They are raping lesbians who refuse, for being "transphobes." In fear for their safety, lesbians are now forced to socialize in secret "societies," a loss of 70 years of social progress. It is a nightmare for those women.
And what's being done to minors is even worse. Two-thirds of the minors being subjected to puberty-blockers, wrong-sex hormones, and mutilating surgeries are gay kids who are sold the lie that they can become "straight" and thereby avoid a world of homophobia. That's called "transing the gay away." It's what Iran does to gay people on pain of death. At the London Tavistock Centre--the world's largest pediatric wrong-sex clinic--medical staff routinely joked that soon there would be no more gay kids.
However, studies show that over 90% of those kids would be fine if they were simply allowed to mature into their bodies and gay identities.
This is why lesbians like Alison Bailey, Kathleen Stock, Martina Navratilova, etc. are leading the fight against the transgenderist lobby. Gay men could be leading it too, but since they're not physically endangered by straight women who want to be seen as gay men, most of them are not--with the exception of Fred Sargent, one of the founders of the Pride parade.
I don't know who you know who identifies as "queer," but they're buying into an incredibly dangerous medical/pharmaceutical lobby aimed at innocent minors--a lobby that, in legal terms, is destroying the protections of same-sex orientation.
I'm also a bit unclear on your message. Are you claiming that kids who would normally grow up gay are being pushed or influenced to become trans? Like, it you're born a male, and grow up being attracted to males, you could be gay, but someone influences you that you should be trans instead, because as a trans woman, you can still be attracted to men?
I don't buy that at all. I don't have a huge circle of trans people as friends, but those I know transitioned because they did not feel like their birth gender. So if you're born a male and are attracted to males, ok, you're gay, and you can still feel like a male. It's the biological male who feels more like a female who might benefit from transitioning. Those are two VERY different people, and I don't think they should be lumped together.
It doesn't matter if you "buy" it. Two third of the kids who are being brainwashed into thinking they're "trans" are gay. That's a fact. You can look it up.
There's no such thing as a male who "feels like a female." No male knows what it feels like to be a female. All he knows is what it feels like to be a male who wants to be a female. Those are two VERY different things.
And no member of an oppressor group gets to "identify" as the people they oppress. No oppressed group would ever allow that. When white people started claiming to "identify" as Native American in the 1960s, Native Americans shut down down FAST. When Rachel Dolezal became famous for "identifying" as Black, everyone on the left shut her down FAST.
So why are women the only oppressed group being forced into this? Haven't you ever asked yourself?
Because women are the only oppressed group with no men in it. And apparently, in this world, that means we get no dignity or respect for our oppression, from our own left wing.
No man is a woman. It's not possible. And forcing oppressed girls and women to share our hard-won rights with entitled men has reversed decades of women's rights in a handful of years.
We won't accept it. We shouldn't have to fight it. We deserve the same dignity & respect accorded to all other oppressed groups.
I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on at least some of this stuff. I can see you have some strong perspectives, and I sense it's unlikely that I will persuade you differently.
I think you should be careful of assuming things. Like "I don't know who you know who identifies as "queer," but they're buying into..." That shit is just rude. You're correct--you don't know. So don't make ridiculous assumptions about anyone else's beliefs.
What I observe as an ally to the entire LGBTQ+ community is that there are unfortunate riffs within the community, and they're not new. Gay white men were often among the biggest critics of the lesbian community. Now it seems that lesbians are often among the biggest critics of the trans community.
I'm a straight, white, rich male who had two parents and attended a state university. I don't need others looking out for me; society is set up for my success. What will always amaze me is that members of nondominant groups do not support each other nearly as much as I think they should. They're all up against The Man, and could use help, not derision and non-support.
Forcing girls & women to share our female-only spaces with men. Forcing girls & women to compete in sports against boys & men.
That's rude. And dangerous. And bullshit.
Lesbians are critics of the transgenderist lobby because it's DANGEROUS to them.
Transgenderism is not a "community." It's a financial lobby for the medical/pharmaceutical industry funded by a tiny handful of men who stand to make billions of dollars off convincing innocent children that they were somehow magically "born in the wrong body."
There's no such thing. It's all a horrible lie. It's destroying kids' bodies permanently for the profit of those men.
Meanwhile, men who have no respect for women have been turned loose on us in our own spaces and sports.
But you can't acknowledge what you wrote to me is rude? You make assumptions about people you have never met. There's a word for that, but it's not coming to me....
Transgender people think they do indeed have a community. Just like gay men. Just like lesbians. Just like all LGBTQ+ people. The problem comes when one of the parties in the community decides to no longer stand together. Gay men were very resistant to sharing their banner with transgender people at first (just like they were with lesbians); that has mostly evened out.
And if you don't want to support others in your community, or even others who are in nondominant groups, don't come complaining to me when you're upset with something in the lesbian community, or any other subgroup.
My adult son detransitioned about 6 months ago, but still identifies as queer and is still very much part of the queer community (although he is not gay).
“It is quite obvious that the Palestinians are those who would naturally receive this support.” Why? Palestinians hate the west. They cheered 9/11. They hate LGBTQ etc… In fact, hate is their driving force. They hate Jews. They hate Israel… so much so that they advocate for GENOCIDE! They cheered Hamas’ murderous, rape as a weapon, destruction event of October. And you think they NATURALLY should benefit from social justice action by indoctrinated zombies programmed in our public schools??!! 🤣😂
There is a big--no, not big, huge--difference between Palestinians and Hamas. Everything you ascribe to all Palestinians is actually true of Hamas.
It's like saying, instead of the Likud party, that Israel overall feels this way or that way. Or that Republicans or Democrats represent all Americans. It is true that support for Hamas among Gazans has increased since the bombing began. This doesn't mean that the vast majority of Palestinians always support Hamas. Hell, George H. W. Bush polled over 90% approval after invading Iraq in 1990, and got less than 40% of the vote less than 2 years later. We also know that overkill wars, such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Gaza often result in large increases of jihadists. But we never seem to learn that lesson, and it appears Israel has not either.
Palestinians are an oppressed people, like other oppressed peoples around the globe. This group of oppressed groups does not include Jews, as much as Bari would like it to be so. While Jews are sometimes discriminated against, they are hardly oppressed.
And social justice warrior types would typically support those who are oppressed.
If you wish to make the argument that Jews are more oppressed than Palestinians, have at it, hoss.
“Oppressed people” is an invention of the leftist manipulators… So, I can see you bought off on that fake academics… It was the “oppressed people” who cheered at the collapse of the twin towers… The whole oppressor/oppressed thing is so shallow… silly… it’s hard to believe anyone believes such crap. Our institutions of higher indoctrination peddle it… as I saw firsthand…
Terry, it's obvious you've never lived anywhere where freedom didn't ring. Probably haven't even traveled to anywhere like that. Because if you had, you wouldn't say something as massively ignorant as "the whole oppressor/oppressed thing is so shallow."
It’s stunningly stupid to start with a response that is meaningless. I’ve traveled all over the world… You spew a CONCLUSION with no rational argument to back it up. The GENERALIZATION of the silly oppressor/oppressed thing is a tool to manipulate the not very bright… Nothing better to manipulate than convincing people they are victims. This crap is perpetuated primarily in the academic environment… with naive children as the target. Sadly, today’s college age children are 2-3 years less mature than their peers of 25-50 years ago. Then these little dimwits grow up without having learned something as basic as critical thinking… only to spread this child-like level of thought throughout society. I’m guessing you are a victim… 😂🤣
I'm happy you have a lot of frequent flier miles, Terry. Others of us have traveled the world as well, including me, including to Israel. Are you to be more astute because of your travels?
I don't understand the word salad that follows, but I can reassure you that I am not a victim of anything.
Unpopular opinion: I've been irritated for a while now. I used to watch movies to see the pretty people, the beautiful, and the hot. Hollywood was supposed to bring us out of our world and into an imaginary world. I don't want to watch a movie with people that look like a mix of folks I saw at the grocery store. (This isn't about Dune, but bring back the Brad Pitt's of the 90's and the Julia Robert's of Pretty Woman)
I am so depressed by the left. I am liberal. I am against all wars. I do not support the Israeli response to 10/7, BUT why does that mean I should support Hamas terrorists? Why would anyone support Hamas? They don’t care about the people of Gaza. They did this for fundraising, and for all I know the powers that be are profiteering off of the violence! Whenever your protest involves kidnapping or killing 1 person, particularly a kid, then I am all out. There is a blueprint for change. Imagine unarmed Gazans had stormed into Israel and planted flags demanding peace. 1. Likely many Israelis would have joined them or at least would have been supported, 2. Clean hands matters during protests!
So this nonsense that there was no other way is just that: nonsense. I have no doubt many of the people in Gaza are taught to hate Jews from birth. I also believe Netanyahu has not done enough to help the Gazans, focussing instead on new settlements rather than lasting investments toward peace.
In this battle though, one side has Godzilla army and other side does not. Sometimes, just because you are not the more powerful army does not mean you are more morally pure. Hamas has no moral compass.
Dune 2 was remarkable, not in small part because of the direction it could have gone but didn't. I was bracing for lectures on climate change, treatment of indigenous peoples, and Free Palestine but instead got a beautifully delivered, mostly faithful adaptation of an excellent novel. So refreshing!
How about a dive into this group so everyone can see who the players are. Is there anyone who will argue that they are not all about indoctrinating children into a particular worldview?
This group lists its Executive Directors as Yasmine “Yasi” Safinya-Davies and Mauro Sifuentes. Yasi no longer works there as of January per her LinkedIn. Mauro is a distinguished scholar with publications like “Queer-Decolonial Pedagogy: Undoing Binaries Through Intergenerational Learning” published in the Journal of Homosexuality.
The Chairman of the Executive Board is Meredith Fenton who tells her story in Queerspawn Digital Story Project, the first line of which is “Flashback—20 years. I'm slowly dipping my toe into the lesbian waters of my women's college. I have left the expectations and mediocrity of my hometown, and have leapt madly away from the “country's most normal city” and into a sparkly non-binary pile of new normals.”
Another Board member is Jeffrey Winder, who may be this person: “a local man was guilty of assault and battery after punching Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler in the head. That same jury also recommended that the man in question, 50-year-old Jeffrey Matthew Winder, serve zero jail time and shell out a whopping $1 fine for the misdemeanor conviction.
The whole Board is a smorgasbord of freaks that is available on their IRS form 990. Someone really ought to do a whole story about the individuals who are being given access to school children.
It continues to blow my mind that everyone is worried about political violence from Trump voters. January 6th, for all the noise the media makes about it, was barely even a riot. The side that consistently uses ACTUAL violence and destruction while "protesting" is almost always the extreme left: BLM, Antifa (look what they did to Portland) and lately the pro-Hamas demonstrators. I'm not saying there aren't some far-right loonies out there who are prepping for a civil war, but they are TINY in numbers compared to the actual violence that's already been perpetrated year after year by these large and well-funded left wing radicals.
None of this... NONE of this is about reality. The media "noise" is carefully constructed, and will continue to ramp up - what did Biden say about Trump will have our servicemembers's blood running in the streets of Europe? Yes, the ONLY president in forever that DIDN'T get us into some war.. Reality is not only beside the point; it's a threat to their bullshit. The media is an extension of the Biden campaign - they are not there to report on reality. They are there to lie and maniuplate.
I just can't see Chalamet being the next big male movie star. He's too pretty, looks like he weighs 130 pounds. He's the guy who is hitting on your girlfriend while she attends a poetry workshop.
But in this new world of crushing the patriarchy and toxic masculinity, maybe he is the ideal of Hollywood's Leading Man.
The days of Gary Cooper, Clint Eastwood, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt are coming to an end.
The biggest thing I've learned best from the comments on this site is that modern adult right-wingers talk exactly like left-wing teenage boys.
This is especially true of a tiny handful of extremely verbose right-wingers here, who seem to consider themselves owners of this forum and this conversation conducted in their own living rooms, where everyone is by default expected to bow to their domineering opinions.
Yeah, we get it. You think you know everything about everything--even the side of the political aisle to which you've never belonged. And you use insults and vitriol against people you don't know and would never show the courtesy of listening to.
Welcome to adolescence.
The only difference between you (and you know who you are) and the left is that you're not teenagers. You're not even twenty-somethings. You're old enough to know better than to behave this way toward complete strangers. Supposedly.
My grandparents were hardcore Nixon and Reagan Republicans. My parents and I were hardcore Carter and Clinton Democrats. (And none of us could stand Bush Jr.) Yet, from the time I was a teenage girl in the 1970s, I was able to talk politics with my grandparents, with mutual respect and consideration.
All I had to do was treat them as though they shared my values of being good people and taking care of everyone in our society. I listened to them. I spoke reasonably to them. I didn't take offense, even when they said offensive things. (And they reflexively said offensive things about the left, although my parents didn't talk that way about the right.) I never, ever, ever said anything offensive back. I kept my sense of humor and my desire to get along as my touchstone.
So time and time again, we agreed on our values. And we brainstormed reasonable ways to enact them in government. We had wonderful conversations. And time and time again, my grandparents eventually said they were beginning to understand the left in ways that my parents swore they never would.
Because I--just a teenage girl--held the line at respect and consideration.
So I sure would like to see some of that respect and consideration from the right-wingers here in these comments. I don't come here to see grown adults behave like teenage boys.
I come here to understand what's happening to our world and talk to reasonable people about what we can do to fix it.
And so, as always, follow the money.
Can someone please inform Candace that Israel was not invaded? It suffered a terrorist attack.
In 2001, we suffered some terrorist attacks. No one claimed that bin Laden had
invaded" America. The difference is not just nuance.
Bari, did you invite Ann Coulter on purpose, or was that a typo?
Hollywood has succumbed to the rot they push. Good riddance. They stopped being creative many years years ago in favor of indoctrinating the masses, who have fled in droves.
Why does New York keep electing the worst and the clueless, mostly from the Dumocratic party.
As a mother of 3 trying to figure out the California school system (specifically LA schools!), Frannie Blockbuster has my deepest respect and admiration. I am so grateful for the work you do!!
… well I guess I should have stopped before I totally went on a rant!
As I WAS posting, before I lost connection …
I hope Wiesman ISN’T the voice of The Free Press, because I subscribed to support Bari & HEAR HER VOICE! And, NO I’m not threatening to cancel my subscription, but I must say, if I wanted to read Democrat propaganda BS, I’d go back to the New York Times!
It’s obvious Wiesman is “carrying Biden’s water” with his statement about “WE think presidential debates have become a bit of a joke” Duh, how convenient to have the Democrats NOW think debates aren’t necessary! This way they can be united around Biden, who REFUSES TO DEBATE!
Truth is, they ALL know Biden on a stage against Trump, Nikki or RFK Jr. would be a disaster! Any one of them would absolutely clean the floor with him!
Sounds like the cultural revolution of China in terms of tactics. By radicalizing the kids, they get the loyal army of useful idiots, like HJ's to hitler and Mao's youths! Very dangerous, when will America wake up?!!!
I find it interesting that those who benefit from "social justice warrior" actions often speak well of them, and those who help oppress others typically don't. People interested in equal treatment have benefitted immensely from this, including those in the African-American, Latino, disabled, Asian, and LGBTQ communities. Those you deem to label social justice warriors typically gravitate toward groups that are most in need of assistance and support. The Civil Rights movement is one example, as is the support for marriage equality.
A person who looks at the situation currently going on in Gaza, and who wishes to help make things better in the world, would likely see a bully who got punched in the face respond with not fists, but knives and guns, and target not only the one who punched the bully, but all his friends and family, including his children.
It is quite obvious that the Palestinians are those who would naturally receive this support. Thus Bari and her staff mock those who support Palestinians.
Back when the issue was Proposition 8 in California, those interested in equal treatment supported marriage equality. Did Bari and the team criticize efforts by these groups?
I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but please do not conflate the LGB with the transgenderist lobby, much less the homophobic insult "queer."
The transgenderist lobby pushes medical conversion therapy on LGB kids. And the most long-time hard-working opponents of that lobby are left-wing women--especially lesbians.
I'm not well-versed enough to have a firm perspective on some trans topics, including some of the medical things with kids less than 18.
I know a lot of people who identify as queer. It may have been an insult when my sister yelled it at my brother in about 1972, but I don't hear much about it as any kind of insult or slur now.
I'm extremely well-versed in the transgenderist lobby.
And, yes, "queer" is still an insult and slur to many gay people. Anyone old enough to have been gay in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s has heard the word "queer" used against them as a very real threat of violence and/or murder. That's traumatizing. Trauma doesn't go away just because kids these days are indulging in a different fad.
The concept "queer" has only been added to the LGB to include straight people who want to be seen as an oppressed demographic. Similarly, transgenderism itself erases same-sex orientation with the nonsensical concept of same-gender orientation.
Misogynist straight male predators are now legally allowed to invade lesbians spaces as "transbians" and demand sex from women who are turned off by men's bodies. They are stalking young lesbians online and gaslighting them that they must "unlearn their gender fetish." They are raping lesbians who refuse, for being "transphobes." In fear for their safety, lesbians are now forced to socialize in secret "societies," a loss of 70 years of social progress. It is a nightmare for those women.
And what's being done to minors is even worse. Two-thirds of the minors being subjected to puberty-blockers, wrong-sex hormones, and mutilating surgeries are gay kids who are sold the lie that they can become "straight" and thereby avoid a world of homophobia. That's called "transing the gay away." It's what Iran does to gay people on pain of death. At the London Tavistock Centre--the world's largest pediatric wrong-sex clinic--medical staff routinely joked that soon there would be no more gay kids.
However, studies show that over 90% of those kids would be fine if they were simply allowed to mature into their bodies and gay identities.
This is why lesbians like Alison Bailey, Kathleen Stock, Martina Navratilova, etc. are leading the fight against the transgenderist lobby. Gay men could be leading it too, but since they're not physically endangered by straight women who want to be seen as gay men, most of them are not--with the exception of Fred Sargent, one of the founders of the Pride parade.
I don't know who you know who identifies as "queer," but they're buying into an incredibly dangerous medical/pharmaceutical lobby aimed at innocent minors--a lobby that, in legal terms, is destroying the protections of same-sex orientation.
Jennifer Bilek has followed the money: http://www.the11thhourblog.com
I'm also a bit unclear on your message. Are you claiming that kids who would normally grow up gay are being pushed or influenced to become trans? Like, it you're born a male, and grow up being attracted to males, you could be gay, but someone influences you that you should be trans instead, because as a trans woman, you can still be attracted to men?
I don't buy that at all. I don't have a huge circle of trans people as friends, but those I know transitioned because they did not feel like their birth gender. So if you're born a male and are attracted to males, ok, you're gay, and you can still feel like a male. It's the biological male who feels more like a female who might benefit from transitioning. Those are two VERY different people, and I don't think they should be lumped together.
Yes, that is exactly what's happening.
It doesn't matter if you "buy" it. Two third of the kids who are being brainwashed into thinking they're "trans" are gay. That's a fact. You can look it up.
There's no such thing as a male who "feels like a female." No male knows what it feels like to be a female. All he knows is what it feels like to be a male who wants to be a female. Those are two VERY different things.
And no member of an oppressor group gets to "identify" as the people they oppress. No oppressed group would ever allow that. When white people started claiming to "identify" as Native American in the 1960s, Native Americans shut down down FAST. When Rachel Dolezal became famous for "identifying" as Black, everyone on the left shut her down FAST.
So why are women the only oppressed group being forced into this? Haven't you ever asked yourself?
Because women are the only oppressed group with no men in it. And apparently, in this world, that means we get no dignity or respect for our oppression, from our own left wing.
No man is a woman. It's not possible. And forcing oppressed girls and women to share our hard-won rights with entitled men has reversed decades of women's rights in a handful of years.
We won't accept it. We shouldn't have to fight it. We deserve the same dignity & respect accorded to all other oppressed groups.
Why won't you give it to us?
I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on at least some of this stuff. I can see you have some strong perspectives, and I sense it's unlikely that I will persuade you differently.
I think you should be careful of assuming things. Like "I don't know who you know who identifies as "queer," but they're buying into..." That shit is just rude. You're correct--you don't know. So don't make ridiculous assumptions about anyone else's beliefs.
What I observe as an ally to the entire LGBTQ+ community is that there are unfortunate riffs within the community, and they're not new. Gay white men were often among the biggest critics of the lesbian community. Now it seems that lesbians are often among the biggest critics of the trans community.
I'm a straight, white, rich male who had two parents and attended a state university. I don't need others looking out for me; society is set up for my success. What will always amaze me is that members of nondominant groups do not support each other nearly as much as I think they should. They're all up against The Man, and could use help, not derision and non-support.
Do you know what's "just rude"?
Forcing girls & women to share our female-only spaces with men. Forcing girls & women to compete in sports against boys & men.
That's rude. And dangerous. And bullshit.
Lesbians are critics of the transgenderist lobby because it's DANGEROUS to them.
Transgenderism is not a "community." It's a financial lobby for the medical/pharmaceutical industry funded by a tiny handful of men who stand to make billions of dollars off convincing innocent children that they were somehow magically "born in the wrong body."
There's no such thing. It's all a horrible lie. It's destroying kids' bodies permanently for the profit of those men.
Meanwhile, men who have no respect for women have been turned loose on us in our own spaces and sports.
THAT is rude.
And we won't stand for it.
But you can't acknowledge what you wrote to me is rude? You make assumptions about people you have never met. There's a word for that, but it's not coming to me....
Transgender people think they do indeed have a community. Just like gay men. Just like lesbians. Just like all LGBTQ+ people. The problem comes when one of the parties in the community decides to no longer stand together. Gay men were very resistant to sharing their banner with transgender people at first (just like they were with lesbians); that has mostly evened out.
And if you don't want to support others in your community, or even others who are in nondominant groups, don't come complaining to me when you're upset with something in the lesbian community, or any other subgroup.
Case in point, from "The Prodigal Son's Father" on PITT (https://www.pittparents.com/):
My adult son detransitioned about 6 months ago, but still identifies as queer and is still very much part of the queer community (although he is not gay).
“It is quite obvious that the Palestinians are those who would naturally receive this support.” Why? Palestinians hate the west. They cheered 9/11. They hate LGBTQ etc… In fact, hate is their driving force. They hate Jews. They hate Israel… so much so that they advocate for GENOCIDE! They cheered Hamas’ murderous, rape as a weapon, destruction event of October. And you think they NATURALLY should benefit from social justice action by indoctrinated zombies programmed in our public schools??!! 🤣😂
There is a big--no, not big, huge--difference between Palestinians and Hamas. Everything you ascribe to all Palestinians is actually true of Hamas.
It's like saying, instead of the Likud party, that Israel overall feels this way or that way. Or that Republicans or Democrats represent all Americans. It is true that support for Hamas among Gazans has increased since the bombing began. This doesn't mean that the vast majority of Palestinians always support Hamas. Hell, George H. W. Bush polled over 90% approval after invading Iraq in 1990, and got less than 40% of the vote less than 2 years later. We also know that overkill wars, such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Gaza often result in large increases of jihadists. But we never seem to learn that lesson, and it appears Israel has not either.
Palestinians are an oppressed people, like other oppressed peoples around the globe. This group of oppressed groups does not include Jews, as much as Bari would like it to be so. While Jews are sometimes discriminated against, they are hardly oppressed.
And social justice warrior types would typically support those who are oppressed.
If you wish to make the argument that Jews are more oppressed than Palestinians, have at it, hoss.
“Oppressed people” is an invention of the leftist manipulators… So, I can see you bought off on that fake academics… It was the “oppressed people” who cheered at the collapse of the twin towers… The whole oppressor/oppressed thing is so shallow… silly… it’s hard to believe anyone believes such crap. Our institutions of higher indoctrination peddle it… as I saw firsthand…
Terry, it's obvious you've never lived anywhere where freedom didn't ring. Probably haven't even traveled to anywhere like that. Because if you had, you wouldn't say something as massively ignorant as "the whole oppressor/oppressed thing is so shallow."
It's stunningly stupid.
It’s stunningly stupid to start with a response that is meaningless. I’ve traveled all over the world… You spew a CONCLUSION with no rational argument to back it up. The GENERALIZATION of the silly oppressor/oppressed thing is a tool to manipulate the not very bright… Nothing better to manipulate than convincing people they are victims. This crap is perpetuated primarily in the academic environment… with naive children as the target. Sadly, today’s college age children are 2-3 years less mature than their peers of 25-50 years ago. Then these little dimwits grow up without having learned something as basic as critical thinking… only to spread this child-like level of thought throughout society. I’m guessing you are a victim… 😂🤣
I'm happy you have a lot of frequent flier miles, Terry. Others of us have traveled the world as well, including me, including to Israel. Are you to be more astute because of your travels?
I don't understand the word salad that follows, but I can reassure you that I am not a victim of anything.
Unpopular opinion: I've been irritated for a while now. I used to watch movies to see the pretty people, the beautiful, and the hot. Hollywood was supposed to bring us out of our world and into an imaginary world. I don't want to watch a movie with people that look like a mix of folks I saw at the grocery store. (This isn't about Dune, but bring back the Brad Pitt's of the 90's and the Julia Robert's of Pretty Woman)
Even Hitler didn’t pay his Hitler youth… I guess the left wanted to take Adolph’s plan a step further…
I am so depressed by the left. I am liberal. I am against all wars. I do not support the Israeli response to 10/7, BUT why does that mean I should support Hamas terrorists? Why would anyone support Hamas? They don’t care about the people of Gaza. They did this for fundraising, and for all I know the powers that be are profiteering off of the violence! Whenever your protest involves kidnapping or killing 1 person, particularly a kid, then I am all out. There is a blueprint for change. Imagine unarmed Gazans had stormed into Israel and planted flags demanding peace. 1. Likely many Israelis would have joined them or at least would have been supported, 2. Clean hands matters during protests!
So this nonsense that there was no other way is just that: nonsense. I have no doubt many of the people in Gaza are taught to hate Jews from birth. I also believe Netanyahu has not done enough to help the Gazans, focussing instead on new settlements rather than lasting investments toward peace.
In this battle though, one side has Godzilla army and other side does not. Sometimes, just because you are not the more powerful army does not mean you are more morally pure. Hamas has no moral compass.
Hamas could end this tomorrow… The plight of the Gazans rests squarely on Hamas.
Dune 2 was remarkable, not in small part because of the direction it could have gone but didn't. I was bracing for lectures on climate change, treatment of indigenous peoples, and Free Palestine but instead got a beautifully delivered, mostly faithful adaptation of an excellent novel. So refreshing!
How about a dive into this group so everyone can see who the players are. Is there anyone who will argue that they are not all about indoctrinating children into a particular worldview?
This group lists its Executive Directors as Yasmine “Yasi” Safinya-Davies and Mauro Sifuentes. Yasi no longer works there as of January per her LinkedIn. Mauro is a distinguished scholar with publications like “Queer-Decolonial Pedagogy: Undoing Binaries Through Intergenerational Learning” published in the Journal of Homosexuality.
The Chairman of the Executive Board is Meredith Fenton who tells her story in Queerspawn Digital Story Project, the first line of which is “Flashback—20 years. I'm slowly dipping my toe into the lesbian waters of my women's college. I have left the expectations and mediocrity of my hometown, and have leapt madly away from the “country's most normal city” and into a sparkly non-binary pile of new normals.”
Another Board member is Jeffrey Winder, who may be this person: “a local man was guilty of assault and battery after punching Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler in the head. That same jury also recommended that the man in question, 50-year-old Jeffrey Matthew Winder, serve zero jail time and shell out a whopping $1 fine for the misdemeanor conviction.
The whole Board is a smorgasbord of freaks that is available on their IRS form 990. Someone really ought to do a whole story about the individuals who are being given access to school children.
Imagine that. A bunch of freaks and weirdos insisting the world see them as sane. And using kids and public money as a launch pad
Thanks for doing some homework on this
It continues to blow my mind that everyone is worried about political violence from Trump voters. January 6th, for all the noise the media makes about it, was barely even a riot. The side that consistently uses ACTUAL violence and destruction while "protesting" is almost always the extreme left: BLM, Antifa (look what they did to Portland) and lately the pro-Hamas demonstrators. I'm not saying there aren't some far-right loonies out there who are prepping for a civil war, but they are TINY in numbers compared to the actual violence that's already been perpetrated year after year by these large and well-funded left wing radicals.
None of this... NONE of this is about reality. The media "noise" is carefully constructed, and will continue to ramp up - what did Biden say about Trump will have our servicemembers's blood running in the streets of Europe? Yes, the ONLY president in forever that DIDN'T get us into some war.. Reality is not only beside the point; it's a threat to their bullshit. The media is an extension of the Biden campaign - they are not there to report on reality. They are there to lie and maniuplate.
And yet, word is DOJ is ramping up the arrests of J 6ers, even those who weren’t there.
Remember all the rioting that took place after Trump was elected in 2016? If he gets elected again....???
If he does I hope he calls in the military to deal with the leftists summarily. They’re an enemy within.