Judeo-Christianity has such strong rules about sex not because Control Women or No Fun or Oppress the Gays or whatever midwit nonsense people try to claim. It's because disordered sex destroys lives, destroys stability, destroys families, destroys innocence, destroys idealism, destroys relationships, destroys intimacy, destroys trust, destroys cultures. It's possibly the most destructive force there is, really.
Properly ordered sex creates all of those things: love, intimacy, pleasure, trust, commitment, discipline, unselfishness, and oh yes BABIES. FAMILY.
My children have grown up in a soup of disordered sex -- not just Rainbow World but rampant promiscuity and ubiquitous iPhone porn -- and what has it led to? My oldest daughter, 21, regularly receives filthy propositions from men and boys she barely knows. A verbatim example: she asked a tall friend of a friend to stop by and hang a picture in her apartment that she was too short to get on the wall where she wanted and he apparently construed this as interest in sexual congress on her part as he texted her afterward I'D LIKE TO SLIDE MY DICK INTO YOUR TIGHT PUSSY. Evidently in Porn Land this is acceptable behavior. My second daughter, 19, was sexually harassed so severely in high school NJROTC ("I bet you can crack my head between your thighs like a watermelon") that she maintains that she is a lesbian (I don't buy it) and almost won't even be friends with men. My third daughter, 17, claims to be "queer" and is active in theater circles where basically everyone is gay or "nonbinary" or "trans" (quotes because I don't believe those last two actually exist in anything but a false and reactive way) and the coin of the realm is scorn, disdain and rejection of anything related to traditional family, heterosexuality, marriage, and children.
So given what society has wrought on my three eldest children -- which I was too slow on the uptake to realize was happening until it was too late to intervene -- are any of those girls on a path to marrying men? To staying within the faith they were raised in? To having children? To rootedness in our heritage, in our traditions, in our beliefs? To loyalty to their families and wilingness to protect them and the values they contain against incursion by the state or other bad actors? Or are they on a path to being emotionally damaged free radicals bouncing around society ready to be filled with anger and aggression against whomever or whatever The Show wants to use social media and social conditioning to program them to attack?
Now this is not to say I think all is lost with my girls. They are smart and skeptical and they see some of the absurdity of Pride and Porn Land. They do have parents who strive to set an example and be a haven in this crazy ass disgusting world. My oldest does not have anything to do with guys who proposition her and she's a virgin who goes to church in the city she lives in and hopes to eventually meet a good man there and have kids. My second has a carefully screened two or three male gym buddies that have become dear friends showing her some men are honorable and I do think eventually in her military service she will meet a man who captures her heart. My third despite her teenage "queer" silliness adores her baby sisters and still cheerfully volunteers at our church and is absorbing that culture. I am hopeful for the three of them long-term and we are also older and wiser with the younger kids in our family and they will grow up MUCH more sheltered in their formative years and will be brought up to understand that there are many people in our culture who believe and live some sad things about sex and our job is to understand that but make our own right choices.
But how many children are being raised in this cesspool without any life raft at all, but rather are being taught that the cesspool isn't a cesspool at all but a refreshing fountain?
This is comment is worthy of a whole Substack on its own. It sounds to me like your kids will be ok, a lot of youthful angst works itself out just with age. They are lucky to have you.
Thank you for your kind words. We made so very many mistakes without knowing better but the best I can do is, to paraphrase Elisabeth Elliott, just do the next right thing. Lecturing and preaching doesn't work but their dad and I can make our home and our reality an island of truth and sanity and be the example we'd like to see more of in the world. The Lord is my rock and my redeemer and I try to reflect that truth to them. And to let them -- and their friends -- see a committed, loving and passionate marriage full of laughter and joy so that they have something to compare the joyless libertinism in the world around them to.
I recently read Jonathan Rosen's terrific "The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions" and it was much better and wider ranging than it sounds like it would be. Alongside and supportive of the main narrative, the author offers a calm, well-reasoned criticism of postmodernism and how it has affected the way culture views reality, mental health and the role of the family. Reflecting on his own family's Holocaust experiences, he writes the following which rocked me back on my heels for its truth and beauty:
"A version of this idea was at the center of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, published with a preface by Foucault, which saw the family not only as the incubator of mental illness but as the symptom of a sick society. One of the book's co-authors, the radical therapist Félix Guattari, had worked with mentally ill patients at an experimental clinic where he organized "erotic kamikazes" tasked with destroying relationships among the staff by seducing one or the other of the partners. Smashing the bourgeois family, and the monogamy that helped sustain it, was a blow against the oppressive hierarchies that Capitalism and Schizophrenia was written to explode.
I'd wanted to get away from my family, not rid the world of "the family," much as I'd wanted to step outside the long shadow of my parents' library, not banish literature or the possibility of meaning. My father's family had been smashed as part of a plan to wipe out an entire people, including my sister and me, before we were born. My father had only survived because he was sent as a child into exile. His father was stolen from his family, enslaved in a concentration camp, and killed by murderous conditions even before the death factories began to operate.
That early in the war, the Nazis still sent their victims' ashes home from the crematoria. My grandmother buried her husband's ashes but was so focused on life and family that she asked the young tombstone cutter she hired to come to her apartment for the last payment so she could introduce him to her daughter, my father's sister Fanny. They were married six weeks later and escaped via an arduous route through Russia, leaving my grandmother, at her insistence, to find another way out. She did not find another way, and my aunt never forgave herself for her mother's murder.
In other words, I knew the family wasn't a bourgeois impediment to progress, or a tool of capitalist oppression, but a life raft of resistance in a sea of tyranny. It was how you preserved and passed on values worth dying for, and was itself one of those values. My grandparents had died trying to save what my father and mother had created for my sister and me."
Some bad people who believe bad things are trying to destroy families through perversion and if families are destroyed they can do whatever they want and we can't let them do that. Saddle up!
Ever since Pelosi and her fellow Congresspeople "took the knee" in Kwanzaa garb in front of a camera, I have become immune to whatever idiotic gestures and shows the Government here puts on. It's all one. They don't represent me. And increasingly I fail to be able to identify anyone they do seem to represent.
I found it ironic that the Kente cloth they chose to don was the traditional garb of the tribe in west Africa who got rich selling African slaves to Europeans. That's how they could afford the silk from which the cloth is traditionally made.
Actually, since it’s an exercise in demonstrating compliance and adherence to CoReCt tHiNkiNg, nothing will ever be enough.
You must “celebrate” children being taught how to perform oral sex on a dido (“Gender Queer”). (You’re not a book banning Nazi, are you?)
You must “promote was” seething psychotics like Jeffery Marsh, openly and vindictively threatening parents with the indoctrination of your young children.
You must be very wary of what you (or your child) say to your child’s pediatrician (especially if you live in California or Canada) because the slightest hesitation to feed your child into the (literal) castration meat grinder could cost you custody (and cost your child far more.)
Every day there’s another requirement, so keep an eye on social media to keep current - don’t want to inadvertently forget to throw a couple of bags of those white “trans skittles” in your cart at the grocery store.
It's a nightmare that I fear many families will never wake up from. I keep seeing this Tweet about how the CA family court system is trafficking children (!!!) and I just can't bring myself to look into it, it's too dark. Leaving the US was the best decision I ever made.
I am now, as a resident of California, officially extremely nervous about taking my perfectly normal 12 year old daughter to a pediatrician appointment. In this state, at the age of 12, the pediatrician now takes the child into an exam room alone to “ask them some questions “. My close friend took her 12 year old daughter for a checkup about 2 weeks ago. The doctor was wearing several pride flag buttons on her white doctor’s coat. The doctor refused to tell my friend what this private discussion was going to include. My friend said “well, since you won’t tell me what you are going to discuss with my daughter and I can’t help but notice the buttons on your jacket, I’ll go ahead and make an educated guess. So, we are getting out of this office and will never be back”. My daughter’s upcoming appointment is with the same doctor. I’m canceling the appointment on Monday. So, that’s where things stand for a couple of conservative Catholic mothers in California. We are on our own and just hope our daughters stay healthy. Absolutely ridiculous. And dangerous.
OMG, I’m literally shaking, thinking about having my child taken away, even regardless of my child’s wishes, utterly dismissing me with that level of disgust. By some arrogant indoctrination agent wearing multiple grooming pins, clearly signaling their power and intention to take your child from you - for a few minutes, or for good.
This is absolutely beyond comprehension. Thank God your daughters have strong mothers - although you’ll have to be clever as well as strong, since the laws are clearly against you.
I would go to the American College of Pediatricians for a recommendation - they are conservative in their views - they state as a policy that they specifically oppose what happened to your friend. “Adolescent Confidentiality.“
I don’t know if there are any in California - they don’t list their doctors (because they’ll be targeted by the LGBTQIA+ mafia. The group already has been.)
I know you must have a stunning reason to be there, so I won’t plead with you to get out before they take your child, but for God’s sake be careful.
I agree with you, Jenny. I think trans folks are being used as "tools" by our global elites, whom I often refer to as the Puppet Masters. I may be wrong, but here's my hypothesis: When the Puppet Masters have finally decided that it's time to come out from behind the curtain and fully reveal "We Are Now Completely In Control of This Planet and You Must Comply ... or Else," I think they may begin to put to death all of their "human tools," claiming at that point that they're doing so in order to promote "morality." And, yes, I think it's also true that the Puppet Masters want to drastically cull our human population (and the current Trans Movement helps with that plan, too), but I think their human trans "sexual tools" are akin to pigs who are currently being fattened for slaughter. The trans community needs to wake up and recognize they're being used for a nefarious purpose, and once they have served that purpose the Puppet Masters won't need them anymore because you can't have complete control over a population while there's still a massive amount of chaos in the world. The Puppet Masters no longer want females having babies because they want to be in complete control of human reproduction. This is why women's rights are being eroded (in large part by the Puppet Masters' "trans tools" who are shouting down protesting women in public, entering women's safe spaces to show off their erections, raping women in prisons, etc.). This is also why the Puppet Masters want as many girls as possible to transitioning into "becoming a man." Each transitioning female is one less female who may get pregnant in the future. The saddest thing of all, to me, however, is what the Puppet Masters have done to the trans community. I had two transgender friends, back in graduate school, and I applauded their efforts to transition. I told them they were very brave to transition, and I would have done anything to defend them. But now, sadly, whenever I think of the word "trans" my mind goes to this definition: "People who are being manipulated by the Puppet Masters in order to increase chaos and to promote sterilization across humanity." I'm sure my two transgender friends from graduate school would be very, very disappointed in me; but if that's the case, they need to recognize that transgender folks are no longer what they used to be. There was a quality of sweetness, humility, and great depth of character to my transgender friends of old that seems to be missing in the new breed of trans. But it's the Puppet Masters who have created this change. Transgender individuals need to regain their personal power and separate themselves, in a very public way, from the Puppet Masters' socially-engineered Trans Movement.
JENNY = I am a VERY senior citizen living in Mexico where most of us are just hoping we are able to hobble to the next meal BUT, even here, it is dangerous to speak ill of Pride or Democrats . Many have brought their "progressive" agendas with them and are holding on for dear life for fear,I suspect, that their grandchildren in the states or Canada will think grandma is an old fuddy duddy if they don't know what non-binary is.
The biggest disappoinntment for me - a retired pastor in a very progressive denomination - is how far down the Pride donut hole my church and its pastors have fallen. One took off a whole week in order to attend a Pride event in another city ,only to return to tell us all the wonderful things he learned.
. A chuch I attended in the midst of the 2020 riots in my city, put BLM on the front board in front of the church. I had read the BLM website and knew what they were about which wasn't exactly Christian. I wrote to the pastor and suggested that the book of Micah, for instance, had similar ideas aboout acceptance, etc and might be more appropriate, but got no response and the sign stayed until replaced by Pride flags. Christian Education in that church is now centered on all thngs from the alphabet soup of Pride Ithink often of what Jesus said - they know not what they do.
I would love to send this article to friends both in and out of the church, but given that I come from Portland,I would lose the few friends I have left. .
I have a theory about why this toxic ideology has found a foothold in some many supposedly conservative places. I think a lot more people than I realised have secret fetishes and/or other shameful desires and they so they feel safe and accepted by this movement that is trying to make us all deviant. They therefore have a powerful incentive to then support it. Instead of conquering their compulsions - which is something we all must learn to do, in one way or another, in order to mature -- they get to green light to indulge them. It's frighteningly powerful, this twisted acceptance.
It's VERY easy for a person living with religious restrictions at home to use "nonmember" friend-time as an excuse to ignore those restrictions. At first, it even feels liberating, and it's convenient to justify that feeling by telling yourself that the restrictions you were taught are all backward and old and just don't encompass all this other stuff you have now "discovered." That's a crock, but it's a tasty crock for a while.
Bullseye. I have to wonder why so many mature (by age) adults revolve around their fetishes. I'm a 1960 female baby and grew up through the sexual revolution. I was stupidly crazy in my teen and young adult days, but the frontal lobes finally matured by around 23 and I realized my actions were self-damaging and dangerous. One thing I never felt was a sense of nihilism, and I never gave up on a sense of commitment and purpose in life. Big Trans rests on pillars of nihilism and a turn away from the guidance and meaning attained through religion, and a shattering of committed family relationships. The climate hysteria feeds into this nihilism. There are very few articles about landfills and other types of pollution, other than CO2. Why work on cleaning up and making things better if we're doomed? Why have children if we're doomed? Why try and improve insect and pollinator populations if we're doomed? The plan is to keep everyone focused on their genitals, including children, so we can go down in one big Roman orgy.
I also think that it's that fear of being seen as 'conservative/right wing' (which now equates as 'far right/nazi') or as Dorothy above mentioned, being seen as a 'fuddy duddy' by the younger generation, especially as we get older. Like when an old person dresses like a 25 year old, gets botox and just doesn't want to look their age, maybe this is the ideological version of wanting to stay young and relevant. Learn all the correct terminology and opinions and you may well pass for a young person, or at least 'young at heart/cool/radical' Maybe some of it is down to ego, and trying to prove something. It's sad, because really we should be the ones teaching THEM, not vice versa. That's not to say we can't learn from younger people, who are generally more progressive (I know I was at their age!) But when they are the ones dictating the norms, and everyone is cowed into silence, it gets harder to turn around. I'm really hoping younger people start to question the speed of this increasingly more radical ideology. I have some hope. My daughter is 22 and very liberal, but even she is wary of indoctrination. When looking for universities in the U.K, she briefly considered Sussex university, but decided against it after I told her what happened to Kathleen Stock.
And I think that you are right - many people are probably convinced that if they don't support the gender ideology, they will be mocked or even rejected by their own children or grandchildren.
This attitude is happening within other ideological bubbles, too. A friend of mine who voted for Brexit told me he was treated like a social pariah by his nephews and nieces.
This is so depressing. Hopefully one day these young people will realize that they should not treat their family members in this way. Even if one disapproves of the views of a family member, it is not a reason to treat this family member like a pariah. But to be honest, I think that if one is rejected by such judgemental people, it is not a bad thing, even if they happen to be one's family members.
I personally have very few friends, but I have made it clear to them that I don't support transgenderism. Fortunately they don't support this nonsense either (and probably no one supports it in my family). Many people don't support it, but are afraid of saying what they really think.
YES!!! This is exactly my experience of this June phenomenon. “A show of power.” We’ll take it, and we’ll like it. It’s a motte and Bailey, isn’t it? The Bailey is the queering of default social norms. The upending of the norm part of heteronormativity. The motte is “Center the poor suffering marginalized!”
Well done, Jenny! Those pushing this have no idea what they want to build atop the rubble of what they're tearing down. Their rough awakening is slouching toward Bethlehem, waiting for the Chinese to take over.
There's a fun slide into colloquial dick jokes happening here that mirrors the whole Pride slide. It started sort of almost respectable, and has degenerated into MAH BUSSY!
Back in the 80’s research was being done to see the effect of violence and porn on viewers and on gamers. Unsurprisingly, if violent sexual activity is portrayed, humans become more violent. Springer and Oprah normalized aberrant sexuality.
Thank you Christine! Back when I was was covering the Middletown zoning board for ProJo East Bay I never in a million years thought I would write a piece like this one! 🤣🤣🤣
Judeo-Christianity has such strong rules about sex not because Control Women or No Fun or Oppress the Gays or whatever midwit nonsense people try to claim. It's because disordered sex destroys lives, destroys stability, destroys families, destroys innocence, destroys idealism, destroys relationships, destroys intimacy, destroys trust, destroys cultures. It's possibly the most destructive force there is, really.
Properly ordered sex creates all of those things: love, intimacy, pleasure, trust, commitment, discipline, unselfishness, and oh yes BABIES. FAMILY.
My children have grown up in a soup of disordered sex -- not just Rainbow World but rampant promiscuity and ubiquitous iPhone porn -- and what has it led to? My oldest daughter, 21, regularly receives filthy propositions from men and boys she barely knows. A verbatim example: she asked a tall friend of a friend to stop by and hang a picture in her apartment that she was too short to get on the wall where she wanted and he apparently construed this as interest in sexual congress on her part as he texted her afterward I'D LIKE TO SLIDE MY DICK INTO YOUR TIGHT PUSSY. Evidently in Porn Land this is acceptable behavior. My second daughter, 19, was sexually harassed so severely in high school NJROTC ("I bet you can crack my head between your thighs like a watermelon") that she maintains that she is a lesbian (I don't buy it) and almost won't even be friends with men. My third daughter, 17, claims to be "queer" and is active in theater circles where basically everyone is gay or "nonbinary" or "trans" (quotes because I don't believe those last two actually exist in anything but a false and reactive way) and the coin of the realm is scorn, disdain and rejection of anything related to traditional family, heterosexuality, marriage, and children.
So given what society has wrought on my three eldest children -- which I was too slow on the uptake to realize was happening until it was too late to intervene -- are any of those girls on a path to marrying men? To staying within the faith they were raised in? To having children? To rootedness in our heritage, in our traditions, in our beliefs? To loyalty to their families and wilingness to protect them and the values they contain against incursion by the state or other bad actors? Or are they on a path to being emotionally damaged free radicals bouncing around society ready to be filled with anger and aggression against whomever or whatever The Show wants to use social media and social conditioning to program them to attack?
Now this is not to say I think all is lost with my girls. They are smart and skeptical and they see some of the absurdity of Pride and Porn Land. They do have parents who strive to set an example and be a haven in this crazy ass disgusting world. My oldest does not have anything to do with guys who proposition her and she's a virgin who goes to church in the city she lives in and hopes to eventually meet a good man there and have kids. My second has a carefully screened two or three male gym buddies that have become dear friends showing her some men are honorable and I do think eventually in her military service she will meet a man who captures her heart. My third despite her teenage "queer" silliness adores her baby sisters and still cheerfully volunteers at our church and is absorbing that culture. I am hopeful for the three of them long-term and we are also older and wiser with the younger kids in our family and they will grow up MUCH more sheltered in their formative years and will be brought up to understand that there are many people in our culture who believe and live some sad things about sex and our job is to understand that but make our own right choices.
But how many children are being raised in this cesspool without any life raft at all, but rather are being taught that the cesspool isn't a cesspool at all but a refreshing fountain?
This is comment is worthy of a whole Substack on its own. It sounds to me like your kids will be ok, a lot of youthful angst works itself out just with age. They are lucky to have you.
Stable, thoughtful, loving parents like you can, over time, undo much of the ill today's society has wrought. My admiration to you as you carry on.
Thank you for your kind words. We made so very many mistakes without knowing better but the best I can do is, to paraphrase Elisabeth Elliott, just do the next right thing. Lecturing and preaching doesn't work but their dad and I can make our home and our reality an island of truth and sanity and be the example we'd like to see more of in the world. The Lord is my rock and my redeemer and I try to reflect that truth to them. And to let them -- and their friends -- see a committed, loving and passionate marriage full of laughter and joy so that they have something to compare the joyless libertinism in the world around them to.
I recently read Jonathan Rosen's terrific "The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions" and it was much better and wider ranging than it sounds like it would be. Alongside and supportive of the main narrative, the author offers a calm, well-reasoned criticism of postmodernism and how it has affected the way culture views reality, mental health and the role of the family. Reflecting on his own family's Holocaust experiences, he writes the following which rocked me back on my heels for its truth and beauty:
"A version of this idea was at the center of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, published with a preface by Foucault, which saw the family not only as the incubator of mental illness but as the symptom of a sick society. One of the book's co-authors, the radical therapist Félix Guattari, had worked with mentally ill patients at an experimental clinic where he organized "erotic kamikazes" tasked with destroying relationships among the staff by seducing one or the other of the partners. Smashing the bourgeois family, and the monogamy that helped sustain it, was a blow against the oppressive hierarchies that Capitalism and Schizophrenia was written to explode.
I'd wanted to get away from my family, not rid the world of "the family," much as I'd wanted to step outside the long shadow of my parents' library, not banish literature or the possibility of meaning. My father's family had been smashed as part of a plan to wipe out an entire people, including my sister and me, before we were born. My father had only survived because he was sent as a child into exile. His father was stolen from his family, enslaved in a concentration camp, and killed by murderous conditions even before the death factories began to operate.
That early in the war, the Nazis still sent their victims' ashes home from the crematoria. My grandmother buried her husband's ashes but was so focused on life and family that she asked the young tombstone cutter she hired to come to her apartment for the last payment so she could introduce him to her daughter, my father's sister Fanny. They were married six weeks later and escaped via an arduous route through Russia, leaving my grandmother, at her insistence, to find another way out. She did not find another way, and my aunt never forgave herself for her mother's murder.
In other words, I knew the family wasn't a bourgeois impediment to progress, or a tool of capitalist oppression, but a life raft of resistance in a sea of tyranny. It was how you preserved and passed on values worth dying for, and was itself one of those values. My grandparents had died trying to save what my father and mother had created for my sister and me."
Some bad people who believe bad things are trying to destroy families through perversion and if families are destroyed they can do whatever they want and we can't let them do that. Saddle up!
Ever since Pelosi and her fellow Congresspeople "took the knee" in Kwanzaa garb in front of a camera, I have become immune to whatever idiotic gestures and shows the Government here puts on. It's all one. They don't represent me. And increasingly I fail to be able to identify anyone they do seem to represent.
It's all theatre, part of politicians' continual panderdemic.
Panderdemic! Yes. Pandering, fawning -- it's all techniques of falsehood.
"Panderdemic". Thanks for that.
I found it ironic that the Kente cloth they chose to don was the traditional garb of the tribe in west Africa who got rich selling African slaves to Europeans. That's how they could afford the silk from which the cloth is traditionally made.
Actually, since it’s an exercise in demonstrating compliance and adherence to CoReCt tHiNkiNg, nothing will ever be enough.
You must “celebrate” children being taught how to perform oral sex on a dido (“Gender Queer”). (You’re not a book banning Nazi, are you?)
You must “promote was” seething psychotics like Jeffery Marsh, openly and vindictively threatening parents with the indoctrination of your young children.
You must be very wary of what you (or your child) say to your child’s pediatrician (especially if you live in California or Canada) because the slightest hesitation to feed your child into the (literal) castration meat grinder could cost you custody (and cost your child far more.)
Every day there’s another requirement, so keep an eye on social media to keep current - don’t want to inadvertently forget to throw a couple of bags of those white “trans skittles” in your cart at the grocery store.
It's a nightmare that I fear many families will never wake up from. I keep seeing this Tweet about how the CA family court system is trafficking children (!!!) and I just can't bring myself to look into it, it's too dark. Leaving the US was the best decision I ever made.
I am now, as a resident of California, officially extremely nervous about taking my perfectly normal 12 year old daughter to a pediatrician appointment. In this state, at the age of 12, the pediatrician now takes the child into an exam room alone to “ask them some questions “. My close friend took her 12 year old daughter for a checkup about 2 weeks ago. The doctor was wearing several pride flag buttons on her white doctor’s coat. The doctor refused to tell my friend what this private discussion was going to include. My friend said “well, since you won’t tell me what you are going to discuss with my daughter and I can’t help but notice the buttons on your jacket, I’ll go ahead and make an educated guess. So, we are getting out of this office and will never be back”. My daughter’s upcoming appointment is with the same doctor. I’m canceling the appointment on Monday. So, that’s where things stand for a couple of conservative Catholic mothers in California. We are on our own and just hope our daughters stay healthy. Absolutely ridiculous. And dangerous.
How absolutely horrific!!!
OMG, I’m literally shaking, thinking about having my child taken away, even regardless of my child’s wishes, utterly dismissing me with that level of disgust. By some arrogant indoctrination agent wearing multiple grooming pins, clearly signaling their power and intention to take your child from you - for a few minutes, or for good.
This is absolutely beyond comprehension. Thank God your daughters have strong mothers - although you’ll have to be clever as well as strong, since the laws are clearly against you.
I would go to the American College of Pediatricians for a recommendation - they are conservative in their views - they state as a policy that they specifically oppose what happened to your friend. “Adolescent Confidentiality.“
https://acpeds.org/position-statements/adolescent-confidentiality
I don’t know if there are any in California - they don’t list their doctors (because they’ll be targeted by the LGBTQIA+ mafia. The group already has been.)
I know you must have a stunning reason to be there, so I won’t plead with you to get out before they take your child, but for God’s sake be careful.
I feel sure you must have been one of those girls we gay boys confided in in high school. You speak and write "gay" (read: freakin' hilarious).
It's a serious piece about a serious thing, and I'm with you on it . But it's also damned fun prose.
Josh, thank you so much! I'm a fan of your podcast so I'm particularly pleased you enjoyed this! (And yes, I was one of those girls in high school🤣)
I agree with you, Jenny. I think trans folks are being used as "tools" by our global elites, whom I often refer to as the Puppet Masters. I may be wrong, but here's my hypothesis: When the Puppet Masters have finally decided that it's time to come out from behind the curtain and fully reveal "We Are Now Completely In Control of This Planet and You Must Comply ... or Else," I think they may begin to put to death all of their "human tools," claiming at that point that they're doing so in order to promote "morality." And, yes, I think it's also true that the Puppet Masters want to drastically cull our human population (and the current Trans Movement helps with that plan, too), but I think their human trans "sexual tools" are akin to pigs who are currently being fattened for slaughter. The trans community needs to wake up and recognize they're being used for a nefarious purpose, and once they have served that purpose the Puppet Masters won't need them anymore because you can't have complete control over a population while there's still a massive amount of chaos in the world. The Puppet Masters no longer want females having babies because they want to be in complete control of human reproduction. This is why women's rights are being eroded (in large part by the Puppet Masters' "trans tools" who are shouting down protesting women in public, entering women's safe spaces to show off their erections, raping women in prisons, etc.). This is also why the Puppet Masters want as many girls as possible to transitioning into "becoming a man." Each transitioning female is one less female who may get pregnant in the future. The saddest thing of all, to me, however, is what the Puppet Masters have done to the trans community. I had two transgender friends, back in graduate school, and I applauded their efforts to transition. I told them they were very brave to transition, and I would have done anything to defend them. But now, sadly, whenever I think of the word "trans" my mind goes to this definition: "People who are being manipulated by the Puppet Masters in order to increase chaos and to promote sterilization across humanity." I'm sure my two transgender friends from graduate school would be very, very disappointed in me; but if that's the case, they need to recognize that transgender folks are no longer what they used to be. There was a quality of sweetness, humility, and great depth of character to my transgender friends of old that seems to be missing in the new breed of trans. But it's the Puppet Masters who have created this change. Transgender individuals need to regain their personal power and separate themselves, in a very public way, from the Puppet Masters' socially-engineered Trans Movement.
Very interesting, and I share your concern.
I think you are onto something, Shelley.
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JENNY = I am a VERY senior citizen living in Mexico where most of us are just hoping we are able to hobble to the next meal BUT, even here, it is dangerous to speak ill of Pride or Democrats . Many have brought their "progressive" agendas with them and are holding on for dear life for fear,I suspect, that their grandchildren in the states or Canada will think grandma is an old fuddy duddy if they don't know what non-binary is.
The biggest disappoinntment for me - a retired pastor in a very progressive denomination - is how far down the Pride donut hole my church and its pastors have fallen. One took off a whole week in order to attend a Pride event in another city ,only to return to tell us all the wonderful things he learned.
. A chuch I attended in the midst of the 2020 riots in my city, put BLM on the front board in front of the church. I had read the BLM website and knew what they were about which wasn't exactly Christian. I wrote to the pastor and suggested that the book of Micah, for instance, had similar ideas aboout acceptance, etc and might be more appropriate, but got no response and the sign stayed until replaced by Pride flags. Christian Education in that church is now centered on all thngs from the alphabet soup of Pride Ithink often of what Jesus said - they know not what they do.
I would love to send this article to friends both in and out of the church, but given that I come from Portland,I would lose the few friends I have left. .
I have a theory about why this toxic ideology has found a foothold in some many supposedly conservative places. I think a lot more people than I realised have secret fetishes and/or other shameful desires and they so they feel safe and accepted by this movement that is trying to make us all deviant. They therefore have a powerful incentive to then support it. Instead of conquering their compulsions - which is something we all must learn to do, in one way or another, in order to mature -- they get to green light to indulge them. It's frighteningly powerful, this twisted acceptance.
It's VERY easy for a person living with religious restrictions at home to use "nonmember" friend-time as an excuse to ignore those restrictions. At first, it even feels liberating, and it's convenient to justify that feeling by telling yourself that the restrictions you were taught are all backward and old and just don't encompass all this other stuff you have now "discovered." That's a crock, but it's a tasty crock for a while.
Bullseye. I have to wonder why so many mature (by age) adults revolve around their fetishes. I'm a 1960 female baby and grew up through the sexual revolution. I was stupidly crazy in my teen and young adult days, but the frontal lobes finally matured by around 23 and I realized my actions were self-damaging and dangerous. One thing I never felt was a sense of nihilism, and I never gave up on a sense of commitment and purpose in life. Big Trans rests on pillars of nihilism and a turn away from the guidance and meaning attained through religion, and a shattering of committed family relationships. The climate hysteria feeds into this nihilism. There are very few articles about landfills and other types of pollution, other than CO2. Why work on cleaning up and making things better if we're doomed? Why have children if we're doomed? Why try and improve insect and pollinator populations if we're doomed? The plan is to keep everyone focused on their genitals, including children, so we can go down in one big Roman orgy.
I also think that it's that fear of being seen as 'conservative/right wing' (which now equates as 'far right/nazi') or as Dorothy above mentioned, being seen as a 'fuddy duddy' by the younger generation, especially as we get older. Like when an old person dresses like a 25 year old, gets botox and just doesn't want to look their age, maybe this is the ideological version of wanting to stay young and relevant. Learn all the correct terminology and opinions and you may well pass for a young person, or at least 'young at heart/cool/radical' Maybe some of it is down to ego, and trying to prove something. It's sad, because really we should be the ones teaching THEM, not vice versa. That's not to say we can't learn from younger people, who are generally more progressive (I know I was at their age!) But when they are the ones dictating the norms, and everyone is cowed into silence, it gets harder to turn around. I'm really hoping younger people start to question the speed of this increasingly more radical ideology. I have some hope. My daughter is 22 and very liberal, but even she is wary of indoctrination. When looking for universities in the U.K, she briefly considered Sussex university, but decided against it after I told her what happened to Kathleen Stock.
And I think that you are right - many people are probably convinced that if they don't support the gender ideology, they will be mocked or even rejected by their own children or grandchildren.
This attitude is happening within other ideological bubbles, too. A friend of mine who voted for Brexit told me he was treated like a social pariah by his nephews and nieces.
This is so depressing. Hopefully one day these young people will realize that they should not treat their family members in this way. Even if one disapproves of the views of a family member, it is not a reason to treat this family member like a pariah. But to be honest, I think that if one is rejected by such judgemental people, it is not a bad thing, even if they happen to be one's family members.
I personally have very few friends, but I have made it clear to them that I don't support transgenderism. Fortunately they don't support this nonsense either (and probably no one supports it in my family). Many people don't support it, but are afraid of saying what they really think.
It is so sad that you feel that you would lose your friends if you sent them this article!
Brilliantly written and spot on.
Thank you!
YES!!! This is exactly my experience of this June phenomenon. “A show of power.” We’ll take it, and we’ll like it. It’s a motte and Bailey, isn’t it? The Bailey is the queering of default social norms. The upending of the norm part of heteronormativity. The motte is “Center the poor suffering marginalized!”
The western world has become Sodom and Gomorrah. Look at what happened to them.
Well done, Jenny! Those pushing this have no idea what they want to build atop the rubble of what they're tearing down. Their rough awakening is slouching toward Bethlehem, waiting for the Chinese to take over.
I fear that those pushing this do have an idea of what they want to build in place of the old ways, and it's terrifying.
Possibly the biggest "pushers" are the Pritzgers and their scary amounts of dough. Long trip down another rabbit (or glory) hole:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers
Then they sink from Willfully Ignorant to Evil. The former are like perverse rug rats; the latter are simply vermin.
It is well overtime that we remind ourselves of Psalm 33:12, "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord..."
It is always so good to tune in to your sanity! Thanks for your well stated and thoughtful essay which I will be sharing.
Thank you!!
There's a fun slide into colloquial dick jokes happening here that mirrors the whole Pride slide. It started sort of almost respectable, and has degenerated into MAH BUSSY!
It's absurdist satire. Only real.
Back in the 80’s research was being done to see the effect of violence and porn on viewers and on gamers. Unsurprisingly, if violent sexual activity is portrayed, humans become more violent. Springer and Oprah normalized aberrant sexuality.
Once again, you have nailed it. Thank you!
Thank you Christine! Back when I was was covering the Middletown zoning board for ProJo East Bay I never in a million years thought I would write a piece like this one! 🤣🤣🤣
Well said.