Wow. I’m pretty blown away right now. What an incredibly concise and direct sum up of the absolutely insane, dangerous, and manipulative situation that we are now expected to swim around in. Thank you Jenny. Please, keep it coming.
Jenny I have a deep appreciation for your style of simple direct responses to the nonsense that is swirling around us. Really, I love it. I’ve now got it all written down on a little index card. I’m memorizing all the short phrases on this Friday morning. It’s calming my nerves.
My God, what a freeing essay for those of us with a shred of sanity and decency! Can I say here safely, I'm tired of being told I'm bad for being straight and white? I'm a female orthopaedic surgeon - a 7% minority in a vast sea of men - and no fake self righteous guilt riddled woman gets to call ME out for being a supremacist of anything. Thank you for giving so many of us the support we need to carry on, without feeling like we are the bad guys.
Thanks again for making Friday morning even better.
I sure as hell don't need these "deranged neo-Maoists" lecturing me about how I have to use their stupid gender prefix to avoid hurting their feelings. I'm a man, period. F 'em if they can't take a joke. They can suck an egg, shit in their hat, piss up a rope, pound sand, or whatever it is entitled morons are being directed to do these days.
The older I get, the more I embrace the philosophy of "just say no". In the Age of Lunacy in which we live, the word gets a lot of exercise.
"They show signs of having been universally fawned over, as if they grew up with parents for whom the word no was verboten..."
I see the exact opposite, of people who were denied something very basic from a young age, perhaps a sense of safety or security, who never got something they really needed (I don't mean the pseudo-needs of the consumer culture my generation enthusiastically embraced, but of an emotional/spiritual succor), and they're determined to spend the rest of their lives making the rest of us pay for their deprivation.
Well kids who are fawned over have been denied something very basic and crucial- healthy boundaries, which keep us all safe. Little kids whose parents don’t act like adults and instead try to kiss their ass are terribly harmed by that, because they are robbed of a benevolent guardian and protector. That said, I think you are correct that a lot of these people were harmed by actual abuse as well. Obviously we are generalising quite a bit in both directions.
"Little kids whose parents don’t act like adults and instead try to kiss their ass are terribly harmed by that, because they are robbed of a benevolent guardian and protector. "
100% I always felt like my mother was a 40 year old body being piloted by a toddler, and it was *terrifying.*
I do feel we have an entire generation who grew up in situations like that.
How awful, and I fear you are correct. I genuinely believe that the collapse of our culture is a result of parenting. That may seem reductionist to some, but it's how I see it.
Women screwing up other women. Crazy shit that should be laughable but in this Alice in Wonderland world where words can mean whatever you want them to mean it’s all fair game. I’m a male. I have a wife and daughters. We all feel the same. Pity those women whose distrust of their sisters has driven them to this end.
Wow. I’m pretty blown away right now. What an incredibly concise and direct sum up of the absolutely insane, dangerous, and manipulative situation that we are now expected to swim around in. Thank you Jenny. Please, keep it coming.
Thank you for reading!
Jenny I have a deep appreciation for your style of simple direct responses to the nonsense that is swirling around us. Really, I love it. I’ve now got it all written down on a little index card. I’m memorizing all the short phrases on this Friday morning. It’s calming my nerves.
Ann, I'm very very glad to be of service!
My God, what a freeing essay for those of us with a shred of sanity and decency! Can I say here safely, I'm tired of being told I'm bad for being straight and white? I'm a female orthopaedic surgeon - a 7% minority in a vast sea of men - and no fake self righteous guilt riddled woman gets to call ME out for being a supremacist of anything. Thank you for giving so many of us the support we need to carry on, without feeling like we are the bad guys.
THANK YOU.
Thanks again for making Friday morning even better.
I sure as hell don't need these "deranged neo-Maoists" lecturing me about how I have to use their stupid gender prefix to avoid hurting their feelings. I'm a man, period. F 'em if they can't take a joke. They can suck an egg, shit in their hat, piss up a rope, pound sand, or whatever it is entitled morons are being directed to do these days.
The older I get, the more I embrace the philosophy of "just say no". In the Age of Lunacy in which we live, the word gets a lot of exercise.
ok that was hilarious- agreed
One more line for your response: “And you are no woman, cis or otherwise”
Seriously, I think that’s a dude. Sick, but a dude.
The TikTok-er? She's a woman -- at least I think she is?!? Who can tell anymore!? 😬😬😬😬
Exactly. Why are we calling this person a woman? It’s a man in a dress. With my granny’s haircut.
Which person do you mean? The TikTok lady? She is an actual woman.
Oops! But that’s even worse!!
Indeed. Evil handmaiden of sickos and creeps.
Brilliant. A lovely, intelligent response to pure horse poopies.
"They show signs of having been universally fawned over, as if they grew up with parents for whom the word no was verboten..."
I see the exact opposite, of people who were denied something very basic from a young age, perhaps a sense of safety or security, who never got something they really needed (I don't mean the pseudo-needs of the consumer culture my generation enthusiastically embraced, but of an emotional/spiritual succor), and they're determined to spend the rest of their lives making the rest of us pay for their deprivation.
Well kids who are fawned over have been denied something very basic and crucial- healthy boundaries, which keep us all safe. Little kids whose parents don’t act like adults and instead try to kiss their ass are terribly harmed by that, because they are robbed of a benevolent guardian and protector. That said, I think you are correct that a lot of these people were harmed by actual abuse as well. Obviously we are generalising quite a bit in both directions.
"Little kids whose parents don’t act like adults and instead try to kiss their ass are terribly harmed by that, because they are robbed of a benevolent guardian and protector. "
100% I always felt like my mother was a 40 year old body being piloted by a toddler, and it was *terrifying.*
I do feel we have an entire generation who grew up in situations like that.
How awful, and I fear you are correct. I genuinely believe that the collapse of our culture is a result of parenting. That may seem reductionist to some, but it's how I see it.
I say no to them and yes, Jenny, yes to you!!!!
I’m gonna use some of these bullet points!
Please do! And share! 🤣🤣
Out the park. Well said Jenny.
Bravo.
A tranny could no more steal me from my wife than he could fly in the clouds by flapping his dick up and down at high speed. Rock & roll JH.
🤣🤣🤣
Women screwing up other women. Crazy shit that should be laughable but in this Alice in Wonderland world where words can mean whatever you want them to mean it’s all fair game. I’m a male. I have a wife and daughters. We all feel the same. Pity those women whose distrust of their sisters has driven them to this end.
💥✅👍🏻👌🏻👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Always like your Substack Jenny, thanks. I’m working on my first published essay.
Cis and Trans are both nonsense words.
Supercalifornicationpornographiocious. 🤮
The best line-I am under no obligation to agree with you.
I say that because leave all else aside, these people are absolutely convinced you must agree with them.
That's because they think like children!
The list of “I’m not obligated to’s” was a real banger.
Thank you!