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Ever seen parent/child interactions like this?

Abigail Shrier

They call this "Gentle Parenting."

I call it "Battered Mommy Syndrome."

This kid hits, kicks, and slaps his mother, who responds with pleading and tears.

This child doesn't need the "unconditional positive regard" of therapy.

He needs parents - for his sake and ours.

The video and comments in the thread are interesting. Mommy does not seem to understand that her toddler is not capable of abstract thought yet, for one thing.

Battered Mommy Syndrome. This is one of the issues covered in Shrier's book, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

It gets more concerning when schools direct kids to focus on their feelings all day.

How often does something like this happen with weird porn addiction?

Misanthropic Humanitarian found this unusual quote back in November of 2018, from a piece in the NYT:

Next Thursday, I will get a vagina. The procedure will last around six hours, and I will be in recovery for at least three months. Until the day I die, my body will regard the vagina as a wound; as a result, it will require regular, painful attention to maintain. This is what I want, but there is no guarantee it will make me happier. In fact, I don’t expect it to. That shouldn’t disqualify me from getting it. Andrea Long Chu

Since writing this, Andrea Long Chu has stated that children who change sexes have the right to change their sex back again if they want to. Or words to that effect.

Here's some of what Ace found about this same tremendous role model for the Youths of America in May of last year (don't comment on old threads, but you might want to re-read them):

A male academic who identifies as a transgender woman has been awarded a Pulitzer prize for literary criticism, prompting outcry on social media as users draw attention to his history of disturbing comments about how pornography influenced his transition.

Andrea Long Chu, born Andrew, is a 2014 graduate from Duke University and a current doctoral student in comparative literature at New York University. In 2021, he was appointed to the role of book critic by New York Magazine, where his writing has now been granted a 2023 Pulitzer.

In a press release announcing his appointment to the position at the time, New York culture editor Gazelle Emami said, "Andrea has long been one of our favorite writers and thinkers, and we're so excited to publish her incisive criticism in the pages of New York and on Vulture more regularly."

The announcement was not received well on some parts of social media, where women's rights advocates condemned the decision and pointed to Chu's lengthy history of equating womanhood with pornography addiction.

In 2019, Chu's first book, Females, was published by Verso Press. The thesis of the 94-page screed was that anyone can become female, and that being penetrated during sex defines womanhood.

"Getting f*cked makes you female because f*cked is what a female is," Chu writes in the short book, describing himself as once being "a sad, pretentious boy, furious about r@pe, hopelessly addicted to pornography."

Chu claims that it was his obsession with pornography that led him to begin identifying as transgender.

"Almost every night, for at least a year before I transitioned, I would wait till my girlfriend had fallen asleep and slip out of bed for the bathroom with my phone. I was going on Tumblr to look at something called sissy porn. I'd discovered it by accident one night, scrolling lazily down a pornographic rabbit hole," he writes. . .

That's right: "Getting f*cked makes you female because f*cked is what a female is," Chu writes. And in 2021, a time when people in her social circle already thought that using a wrong pronoun was "trans genocide", New York culture editor Gazelle Emami said, "Andrea has long been one of our favorite writers and thinkers".

New York Magazine's culture editor! What culture is she editing? The idea that anyone can become female by being raped makes Andrea "one of our favorite writers and thinkers".

ATTENTION! You will be thrilled to learn that Andrea Long Chu is back in the news.

Activists lobbying to 'morally' allow trans kids to change their bodies are only doing more harm

Opinion by Kirsten Fleming

In this week's New York Magazine cover story - - splashed with the headline "Freedom of Sex" - - Pulitzer Prize-winning trans writer Andrea Long Chu argues the "Moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies."

With the freedom to change things, I'd like to amend that sentence to reflect reality.

The essay is "A disgusting, gruesome, immoral case for child mutilation."

The piece advocates for impressionable and confused minors to be treated as free-thinking adults, capable of making body- and life-altering decisions.

"We will never be able to defend the rights of transgender kids until we understand them purely on their terms: as full members of society who would like to change their sex. It does not matter where this comes from," writes Chu.

Never mind that it's simply impossible to truly change your sex.

But pushing experimental medical intervention, with irrevocable changes, to a population that isn't allowed to legally get a tattoo or vote? Evil.

"If children are too young to consent to puberty blockers, then they are definitely too young to consent to puberty, which is a drastic upheaval in its own right," she writes.

In the piece, Chu shows contempt for powerful journalistic voices including Abigail Shrier, Bari Weiss - - whose The Free Press gave a platform to Washington University Transgender Center whistleblower Jamie Reed - - and Jesse Singal, who started covering detransitioners back in 2018.

Not spared is the New York Times, which has finally started covering this topic with a critical eye.

Children are too young to consent to puberty! Put them all on puberty blockers to prevent the drastic upheaval of puberty! One of the favorite writers and thinkers at New York Magazine gets another cover story!

He attacked the NYT? (Sorry if I chose a gender other than the one Andrea currently prefers there. I saw a photo at the link). Misgendering is bad.

But only a day after the predatory polemic was published, there was a seismic shift in the direction of sanity.

England's National Health Service announced it would no longer prescribe puberty blockers to children under the age of 18, calling it a "landmark decision."

Other countries, such as Norway and Sweden, have also pumped the brakes on medical intervention for minors grappling with gender dysphoria.

But the US is still a nation divided on common sense. . .

Matt Taibbi goes deeper into the New York Magazine piece: The Dumbest Cover Story Ever

New York Magazine has a new cover story, by the trans writer Andrea Long Chu: "The moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies." A jeremiad in support of the idea that children must have absolute political agency, it makes the Unabomber manifesto read like a Shakespeare sonnet. The money passage:

We must be prepared to defend the idea that, in principle, everyone should have access to sex-changing medical care, regardless of age, gender identity, social environment, or psychiatric history.

A lot of the piece is standard-issue woe-is-me fuck-everything cartoon nihilism you'd hear from any laptop-class liberal arts product, arguing for a generalized smashing of the patriarchy, among other things by attacking the biological conspiracy to produce those units of material labor value known as babies. Complete abolition of norms would be an "impossible task," Chu notes sadly, but that doesn't preclude their "collective reimagining" by an alliance of intersectional victims working toward a Marxian paradise free of "oppressive systems," which of course include the nuclear family. This brings us to Chu's big clickworthy idea: child liberation.

Pop quiz: which of the following passages are from Chu's New York piece, and which are from a 2008 NAMBLA-published essay, "A Call for Social Justice"?

NAMBLA.

You may wish to read the rest of Taibbi's piece.

Violent and creepy porn

On Thursday, WeirdDave picked up a horrible story, from which he did not find a pull-quote suitable for the refined main page at AoSHQ: Teen suffers life-changing injury trying to imitate porn

In addition to the central story, featuring group teen sex, several types of injuries are described, particularly to women pressured into imitating practices seen in porn. Porn addiction is mentioned.

From last September:

The third place winner in the Free Press High School Essay Contest:

3. I Had a Helicopter Mom. I Found Pornhub Anyway.

Porn is not content. It's a substance. And it must be controlled like one, argues 16-year-old Isabel Hogben.

I was ten years old when I watched porn for the first time. I found myself on Pornhub, which I stumbled across by accident and returned to out of curiosity. The website has no age verification, no ID requirement, not even a prompt asking me if I was over 18. The site is easy to find, impossible to avoid, and has become a frequent rite of passage for kids my age.

Where was my mother? In the next room, making sure I was eating nine differently colored fruits and vegetables on the daily. She was attentive, nearly a helicopter parent, but I found online porn anyway. So did my friends.

Today I'm 16, and my peers are suffering from an addiction to what many call "the new drug." Porn is the disastrous replacement for intimacy among my sexless, anxiety-ridden generation. . .

If a child ordered three shots of vodka at a bar, the bartender would object. If a child asked for cigarettes at a gas station, the attendant would laugh. But with a quick Google search, a child has access to millions of hours of a dangerous substance.

With that same Google search, children consume dangerous lies about sexual pleasure. A recent BBC study of 2,000 UK men ages 18-39 found that 71 percent have gagged, slapped, choked, or spat on their partner during sex. A third said they don't think to ask for permission before committing these acts.

An Indiana University study shows that the earlier a girl is exposed to porn, the more she will accept behaviors like choking, facial ejaculation, and "aggressive fellatio" from a sexual partner.

Meanwhile, models and female entrepreneurs--women who little girls look up to--are flocking to OnlyFans to sell naked photos of themselves.

In short, most of my friends think this stuff is normal.

Beyond the suggestions of this young essayist, perhaps the actions of the self-mutilating Andrea Long Chu, who became a porn addict as an adult, should lead to some cultural assessments of what porn is doing to our society.

I think there must be a connection between some of this weird and scary porn (often suggestive of pedophilia) and the transgender/bisexuality craze. Not to mention the looming transhumanist ideology we see coming down the pike.

J.J. Sefton picked this up yesterday: Nearly 30% Of Gen Z Women Identify As LGBT: Gallup Poll

Are some of these young women afraid of developing relationships with young men, given what they see in some of the porn making the rounds these days? Many of them seem to be "identifying" as bisexual, which may seem safer than heterosexuality. Of course, many kids are not actually having sex, no matter how they "identify". So, we have a lot of kids avoiding sex, and some participating in scary, violent sex. Great!

I don't think that AI is going to help.

There are no “nonbinary children.” We are creating a generation of lost, confused kids who are promised happiness through ideological pseudo-identities, only to be disappointed and used as political symbols. The gender movement creates delusion, despair, and death. https://t.co/4BIRiPmxtF

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 15, 2024

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NGOs that decide which countries are "democracies" are funded by the US government and staffed by their ex-diplomats and intelligence officials.

They define "democracy" as taking left wing views on everything from LGBT to labor unions.

Richard Hanania

There's an article linked about an NGO which evaluates "democracies".

Weekend

The Babylon Bee is here to tell you the REAL story of St. Patrick:

Most people know the story about how Saint Patrick drove all of the snakes out of Ireland after treating them to a night of heavy drinking. But here at the Bee, our historical scholars dug deep to uncover some fascinating lesser-known facts about his life:

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I got my mind set on you

Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Last week's thread, March 9, Notes on Newsom and the Pax Americana

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

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