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Happy April Fools Weekend!Breaking News: The first Welsh Dragon born in over 500 years has been successfully hostaed at Bangor University. It seems to me that the news this week has not made much mention of All Fools Day. But the news may have made all of us feel like fools. Just scroll through the archives here. Whew! While we're in Wales, here's another little news item about Welsh dragons: Penderyn Distillery launched a £1 million advertising campaign in New Zealand which has proved somewhat controversial in the southern hemisphere country. The advert appearing on Kiwi Facebook feeds described Wales as the "New Zealand of the North'' but added "only we're 100% open". The NZ Herald described this as: "What can be read as a stab at Aotearoa's [Māori-language name for New Zealand] pandemic border restrictions". The offending dragon: Well, on to more substantive issues. How is queer Theory working out in the UK and the USA? There has been a lot of discussion of queer Theory, etc. here in the USA related to children recently. For example, at Disney: . . . executive producer Latoya Raveneau laid out Disney's ideology in blunt terms. She said her team was implementing a "not-at-all-secret gay agenda" and regularly "adding queerness" to children's programming. There has been some pushback. And remember folks: The term queer is quite plainly the central concept in the branch of the Theory of Critical Social Justice known as queer Theory (see also, applied postmodernism). The use of the term itself in this context is an act of strategic resistance, where the slur "queer" for homosexuals and other gender and sexual minorities has been appropriated as a (somewhat intentionally ironic - see also, politics of parody) term of pride and power for the purposes of activism. . . What it refers to in Critical Social Justice is relatively straightforward and easy to understand and derives from this use while adopting a new activist commitment: queer is that which is disruptive of normativities, which is to say that which rejects both the normal and norms as a matter of principle, particularly but not entirely limited to matters of sex, gender, and sexuality. (Emphasis mine) You may recall that Paulo Freire and his Pedagogy of the Oppressed made an appearance in Ace's epic post yesterday on how the DOJ Threatens States' Attorneys General That Any State Restrictions on "Gender Affirming" Drugs Or Surgeries for Children, No Matter How Young, Violates Equal Protections Laws and Will Be Cause for Federal Action Against Them. Are you feeling affirmed by Disney and your local Schools of Education yet? In the UK, Inaya Folarin Iman brings up some adult "queer" issues centered largely around women. She is a free speech advocate who expresses herself in a way which leads the BBC to sometimes feature her as the token opposition to the elite mainstream: According to a 2019 poll, fewer than a fifth of women call themselves 'feminists' in Britain. She then describes her difficult search for a women's restroom at a pub, followed by a tweet: Frustrated, I took a picture of the sign and posted it on my Twitter with "men get specific toilets, women get gender-neutral apparently" and continued talking with the women at the pub. A couple of hours later, the post had been shared thousands of times with each "side" of the gender debate claiming it as their own. Trans activists were accusing me of being thick, not being able to read, a liar and a transphobe who was on the wrong side of history whereas gender-critical activists saw the post as a vindication that women were being erased, becoming second-class citizens in favour of gender identity hypersensitivity. After 24-hours, the post had been viewed more than 4 million times and had tens of thousands of engagements. She proceeds to summarized her objections to "the corrosive nature of gender ideology" and problems in modern feminism, along with advantages of a more traditional approach to relationships between the sexes. She expresses her openness to dialogue. Perhaps that still works in the UK to some extent. At least for a Black woman. Will threats of death and rape by queer activists start to diminish in the UK? Hard to say. Enthusiasm for "gender-affirming" surgeries for children in the UK is diminishing, so that is a hopeful sign. Back in the USA, Wilfred Reilly: The right should start referring to any legislation dealing with 'gender identity' as the "Don't Say Woman Bill." Short Subjects The Laptop A short essay, A Broken Country Buries a Broken Laptop Why did they have to break the guy who owned the shop where Hunter left the laptop? Inflation Dennis Prager, Inflation helped bring Hitler to power. Less than 4 minutes. From our own Dr_No: Ain't life grand? That being said, here's a li'l sump'm that encapsulates in One Single Image(!) the net effect Inflation is having on all of us. Hobby Thread Prep: Illegal Lego Building Techniques, h/t David Thompson Rule of Law
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