MoZaic Care, a cosmetic surgery provider in San Francisco, California, offers a “nullification” procedure that “removes external genitalia while preserving a urethral opening and anal opening.” The same company offers a procedure called “phalgina,” or “penile preservation vaginoplasty,” which allows males who identify as transgender or non-binary to install a facsimile of a vagina while retaining the penis.
When you want to be equipped with all of the genitals a human body could possibly have.
Including an exciting proximity to power lines; a display of mighty dad powers; how to impress the ladies; the painted knees of flapper girls; and a trainee pilot dealing with total engine failure.
“In… schools,” we’re told, “the desire to punish is racialised,” and “white people’s feelings often have outsized consequences on People of Colour.” The example given to illustrate this alleged phenomenon is of a white, female art teacher, Dr Stabler’s immediate predecessor, who “was said to have wept at the end of every school day” and who pursued assault charges against a black student who forcibly cut said teacher’s hair. This assault, presumably intended to humiliate the woman and assert dominance over her, is passed over with remarkable ease by Dr Stabler, as if the “white feelings” of the teacher in question, and the implications of such behaviour – and its accommodation by leftist educators – are unworthy of exploration.
Apparently, hearing that your immediate predecessor was assaulted, and reduced to tears on a daily basis – by the same teenagers you’re hoping to teach about art – couldn’t possibly be a warning sign, or have any informational content, beyond a belief that those indulging in the disruption and assault must be steeped in “cultural knowledge,” and are obviously oppressed, and therefore deserving of further latitude.
The woke art teachers are here. Saving us all.
Including bendy ice; an appreciation of Columbo; an unusual highway hazard; a notable feat of strength; and a man versus a mantis shrimp.
A state can ban critical race theory, but if it does, kids are still being taught by the same people who thought CRT for kindergartners was a good idea in the first place.
On the ideological capture of state education, and the dystopian trajectory of “white fragility.”
Including cats in microgravity; some radical handbag relocation; paper drill bits; some aggressive rattling; and an answer to the question “Does anything radioactive actually glow bright green?”
Including a car-cum-helicopter; accelerated herding; some notable hand fashion; robots appreciating K-pop; and a mystery involving cocaine and its location.
Including how to smuggle cocaine; a correction of note; when robbery is routine; some progressive motherhood; and a song about the police and their privileged horses.
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Actively not wanting to be fat is fatphobia, and therefore you’re fatphobic.
We must, it turns out, dismantle the “fatphobic logic of productivity, discipline, and personal responsibility.”
Including a suboptimal translation; some seeing-eye shoes; ladies at large; balloon versus orange peel; and a foot rub to remember.
Apparently, in order to be woke, you mustn’t encourage your friends to accomplish their goals.
Including scenes of woke blathering; a notice of note; some notable cleavage; the invention of karaoke; and an answer to the age-old question, “Will advocaat carbonate?”
Including a keyboard drama; a notable heat conductor; a low-cost scientific demonstration; a present for doggo; and a pig versus a vacuum cleaner.
Boston Public Schools saw fit to endorse this programme of “Re-Evaluation Counselling” for fifteen years. And the counsellors declare that they are “dedicated to eliminating racism in the world,” thereby enabling “deep relationships across racial lines.”
On Olympic cycling and its terrible, terrible “whiteness”…
I’m unfamiliar with Ms Dygert or her views, but the sole, supposedly damning, example of her “transphobia” is her liking of the statement “Men who identify as women are not actually women.” This does not strike me as phobic, or scandalous, or indeed inaccurate. And for a female athlete to prefer competing against other women, i.e., fairly, should not be controversial – in a sane world. As for alleged racism, the only evidence provided is the liking of a tweet that says, “White privilege doesn’t exist; good choice privilege does.” But even to dispute woke conspiracy theories is, it turns outs, itself proof of racism and a basis for “disgust,” which seems enormously convenient, for the accuser, and must save a lot of time. And so, this liking of a tweet is framed as, “an expression of the violent normality of anti-Black racism in the world.”
Which is in no way hyperbolical or ludicrous, obviously.
Once suitably ashamed and disintegrated, the victim – and the word victim is entirely apt – is quizzed on whether their submission to this psychological abuse has resulted in sleep deprivation and broken relationships – these are good signs, apparently. Signs of “change-making” and “solidarity.” Of emerging wokeness.
On the kinds of “microaggressions” that one really mustn’t mention:
Curiously, the terms “black microaggressions” and “microaggressions by black people” yield few pertinent Google results and the phenomenon of, say, overtly contemptuous teeth-sucking, a common enough occurrence in some classrooms, is not, it seems, widely discussed. Except, of course, when exalted as a great accomplishment.
Including the sights of London; if Columbo were anime; love in unlikely places; some rooftop indignity; and a very obliging bird.