Including a rumbled husband; bedlamite shower thoughts; canned cake; covert dog-fussing; and news from the world of woke innovation.
Daddy Issues
When you’re terribly progressive and want to use your baby son to “blur gender lines,” and then you find out he likes tractors:
Given these fevered thoughts, all this tool-induced upset, readers may wish to peek at the photographs accompanying the article, and which may bring to mind the words grown adult, albeit ironically. Readers may also wish to ponder the prospects of a father-son relationship premised on a dogmatic, near-hysterical disdain for maleness, for “anything deemed masculine.”
Oddments For The Weekend
Including scenes of high anxiety; a situation not improving; a snack accepted; motoring mishaps and near-misses; and some magnificent bouncing.
When Resentment Is Currency
Dr Inoue has been mentioned here before, as when telling us that teachers should “dispense almost completely with judgements of quality when producing course grades,” on grounds that a student’s ability to convey their thoughts in writing – and to formulate thoughts by writing – is merely a manifestation of “white language supremacy,” an allegedly lethal phenomenon. And when boasting that a simple 495-word press release for his own “racial justice” Writing Centre took “over a year” to write. As if this reflected some profundity of thought, and not a more prosaic explanation.
You see, if you have brown skin, you don’t need to be articulate. It’s the “anti-racist” way.
Decline Is A Good Thing, You See
It is now illegal to use a math test to make sure that math teachers know the material they would be teaching.
On Seattle’s woke, broke public transport; the steep downward trajectory of Swedish schooling; and, quoted above, on super-progressive Ontario, where “diversity” trumps standards.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including an emotional drama at the dentist; contrasting dunnies; how to turn a health supplement into the smell of death; how to accelerate the ingestion of alcohol; and a special moment caught on camera, sort of.
Headline Of Note
Ex-soldier exposed her penis and used wheelie bin as sex toy in public.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including the thrill of bat genitals; ladies at large; things girls don’t often do; a feel-good ass-kicking; and when your opinions are fashionable but not load-bearing.
When Politeness Becomes Unhinged
Leor Sapir on transgender swimmer Lia Thomas:
The Human Rights Campaign warns that “contrasting transgender people with ‘real’ or ‘biological’ men and women is a false comparison” that “can contribute to the inaccurate perception that transgender people are being deceptive or less than equal, when, in fact, they are being authentic and courageous.” This is a strawman wrapped in a non sequitur. Critics of gender self-identification do not argue that people like Thomas are “being deceptive,” but rather that they are themselves deceived. HRC’s use of “authentic” here really means “sincere”: transgender women are being sincere, not deceptive, when they say they have a strong inner sense of being a woman. But that sincerity is irrelevant unless one first assumes that what makes a belief true is the fact that it is sincerely held, rather than its correspondence to objective reality.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including a tempting offer; an overload of pleasure; a brief history of linoleum; a guide to illegal Lego building techniques; and when you almost certainly need a bigger boat.
The (White) Devil Made Me Do It
And so, Ms Hoskin tells us that she does not condone violence, while insisting that responsibility for violence must be shifted from those who indulge in it, provided they are black, and attributed instead to the insidious, all-pervasive, yet oddly nebulous, power of pallor. Which, in ways never quite specified, compels very rich comedians to tell bad jokes, and makes very rich actors slap the people who tell them. This, we’re assured, is “white supremacist culture.”
A Lively Exchange
Readers may wish to ponder the assumption that Mr Ennis’ transition to an approximation of womanhood is something to applaud, and applaud wholeheartedly, as if brave but never selfish, as if such behaviour could have no hurtful consequences for others. One wonders, for instance, how the actual mother of his children feels about her erasure, her usurpation. Likewise, have his children not lost a father? Have his parents and siblings not lost someone who is, or was, as real to them as any professed identity?
When a feminist and a transgender person argue about public bathrooms.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including a lion deterrent; a high-stakes drama; a high-altitude encounter; the dominant species on planet Earth; and the advice you obviously want during an emergency.
You’re Guilty By Default So Just Stand There While We Scold You
With seemingly unintended irony, employees are also informed that thoroughness and punctuality are “white-dominant” values and products of “white supremacy culture,” and therefore, presumably, bad. As a measure of woke perversity – one might say, unhingement – a pretty good indicator.
On woke Disney; social-justice lingerie; and creepy teachers.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including unrelated people who look quite similar; a nifty secret entrance; a brief history of cardboard; what actual coping looks like; and the game of Almost Pong.
Bravery In The Face Of Overwhelming Odds
On the “queer hikers proving the great outdoors isn’t just for cis, straight, middle class folk”:
Inevitably, “a lack of equality around access” is invoked, but as so often, particulars remain unmentioned or unobvious. Setting aside the advantages of suitable footwear and something waterproof, the nearest we get to crushing issues of unfairness are, “People think it’s for middle class, white, heteronormative families.” A claim that hangs in the air with no obvious support. And, “It always baffles me that outdoor clothing is still so gendered in stores.”
His Pretty Nails
Mr Brassington is, he says – or they says, because pronouns, obviously – that he’s “working to make educational spaces more emotionally honest.” And so, we’re expected to believe that “queer” teachers everywhere are somehow being suppressed and robbed of their energy unless they can start cross-dressing at work and telling small children about how screamingly fabulous they are. Such are the struggles of the modern primary-school educator.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including dancing at 90 degrees; the thrill of wearing women’s knickers; what I’m guessing is a tasty snack; scenes of unblocking; and the kamikaze porn-star scandal that rocked Japan.
Attention, People Of Pallor
Are you unenthused by hip-hop tracks about “police brutality and racialised oppression”? Does rapping about poverty and “the woes of Black Americans as artists” not render you giddy and enthralled? Do you not delight in endless repetition of the word “nigga”? I ask because we’re told, by Dr Jeremy McCool and Dr Tyrone Smith, two enthusiasts of “critical race theory,” that a failure to gush with enthusiasm is a result of “systemic bias and inherent prejudice,” and is suppressing such innovation. It is, they say, “The silencing of intellectuals in music.”
Oddments For The Weekend
Including why ducks don’t rule the Earth; unloading a shoplifter; a test of patience; Japanese custom cars; how to make green fire; and if the Doctor Who theme were Belgian jazz.