‘Gender’ and the Question: Why?

Posted on | February 25, 2019 | 1 Comment

One of the problems that has long handicapped conservative opposition to the LGBT movement is that so many conservatives publicly engage in speculative or theoretical discussions of the “why” of sexual perversion, which is easily caricatured as ignorant bigotry. No matter how well-informed your generalizations may be as to the causes of deviant sexual behavior, such discussions will always be deemed “offensive” by LGBT activists, and there is thus nothing to be gained by addressing questions of etiology. Better to refrain from this and just take your stand on a biblical basis, or else in terms of a general opposition to radical egalitarianism, which is really the larger problem. LGBT activists wish to impose policies which will require us to treat things that are different as if they are equal and, however much we may wish to avoid the accusation of “homophobia” (or “transphobia,” as the case may be), there is an obvious problem with such policies. e.g., “Transgender high school athletes spark controversy, debate in Connecticut.” When high school girls are being cheated out of athletic trophies because of a policy that permits “transgender” athletes who are actually male to compete as girls, it becomes obvious why it is impossible to create “equality” between people who are fundamentally different. This is just plain crazy.

One explanation you’ll sometimes hear about young people engaged in deviant sexual behavior is they’re “just doing it for the attention.” Like, a girl “comes out” as bisexual or whatever, and guys will dismiss this as an attention-seeking gesture. Which may be true, but this doesn’t mean she’s not actually a pervert. In other words, the motives for her behavior are less important than the behavior itself. You’re not her therapist, nor are you a research psychologist tasked with understanding the “why” of sexuality, so your dismissive comment is at best irrelevant, and perhaps prejudicial. Saying that a young person is “just going through a phase” of “experimenting” with homosexual behavior is based on the belief that some category of True Homosexuals must exist and that, because the young person “experimenting” this way does not belong to that category, they will eventually revert to normal heterosexuality.

Wake up — behavior defines “sexuality.” The idea that sexual behavior is a matter of identity, an innate trait which we can somehow separate from a person’s behavior, was a fiction created by LGBT activists in order to make “civil rights” a basis for their legal and policy arguments. Only if “sexuality” was recognized as an identity, analogous to race, could a Fourteenth Amendment claim hope to get past the Supreme Court, and you can read Justice Scalia’s dissent in the relevant cases — Lawrence v. Texas (2003), Windsor v. U.S. (2013) and Obergfell v. Hodges (2015) — to find a sound rebuttal of such claims. Whatever your opinion about gay rights may be, the idea that such rights are guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution is ludicrous. The Framers had no such intention, nor was any amendment to the Constitution ever intended to make such a guarantee. However, as I say, it was for the purpose of obtaining such legal protection that the whole “born-that-way” explanation of homosexuality (as an identity, rather than as a behavior) was promoted by activists. And widespread acceptance of that explanation is having very dangerous consequences. There’s more at stake than just girls losing athletic trophies; young people are making life-altering decisions because adults are increasingly afraid to say “no” to them.

Last February, I introduced you to a Tampa art student (“Your Homophobia Is a ‘Direct Threat’ of ‘Potential Violence,’ Says Queer Feminist”) whose given name is Gabrielle, who had previously called herself “Gabi” before switching to “Ellie,” but who has since then taken to calling herself “Ulie.” As I explained, Gabrielle claims to “have been professionally diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, bipolar type II, and PTSD,” and is prone to posting provocative selfies with pink hair, a nose ring and a dog collar. The question of how and why Gabrielle got so crazy is less important than the fact of her craziness.

Who approved this 23-year-old art student for transgender hormones and surgery? And why? Isn’t it obvious that a young woman who describes herself as “severely mentally ill” might need psychotherapy rather than testosterone injections and a radical mastectomy? Since when did gender reassignment become standard treatment for crazy people?

Meanwhile, Gabrielle’s suicidal tendencies resulted in her speaking to a “disability counselor” at her university, and she was worried that she might be committed under the Baker Act which, in hindsight, probably would have been the best thing for her. That’s what we used to do with crazy people: “Hey, you’re acting crazy. We’re going to lock you up in the looney bin until you learn to stop acting crazy.” But now? Just give them a sex change, and send them on their way. Also, force everybody to play along with the crazy person’s delusions and pretend that this is all entirely normal. What could possibly go wrong?

In case you’re wondering how a “severely mentally ill” art student is going to pay for hormones and surgery, the answer is: You.

Whether through taxes or higher insurance premiums, the cost for all this transgender treatment is being passed along to everyone else, and the doctors who prescribe such treatment simply don’t care how the bills get paid. Once it was decided people had a “right” to be transgender, they quickly proceeded to discovering they had a “right” to make other people pay for turning them into whatever they imagine they are. So now “free” sex-change treatment is a constitutional right, and I’m sure that’s what the Founding Fathers must have intended, aren’t you?

Category: The Transgender Cult

Bee Stings, Cult Violence, and MAGA Hats

Posted on | February 25, 2019 | Comments Off on Bee Stings, Cult Violence, and MAGA Hats

Did you know this? “Seventy-one percent of the 387 ‘extremist related fatalities in the United States’ from 2008 to 2017 were committed by members of far-right and white-supremacist groups, according the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.” That was published in the New York Times, which failed to do the math — i.e., 28 deaths per year, which “is less than half the annual fatality rate associated with bee and wasp stings,” as David Catron explains at The American Spectator.

Catron further explains that even this 28-per-year estimate of “extremist related fatalities” for “far-right and white-supremacist groups” is probably inflated and, while it is wrong to minimize this threat, it is also wrong to exaggerate it. There have already been 31 black people shot to death in Chicago this year, and it’s not “far-right and white-supremacist groups” who are committing those Chicago homicides.

You may have forgotten Ethan Jackson, the green-haired “non binary” person who attacked a teenager wearing a MAGA hat in Seattle last year, because this kind of politically motivated violence doesn’t show up in “hate crime” statistics or get mentioned in the New York Times. Anything that doesn’t fit the progressive narrative is either ignored or forgotten by the liberal media and therefore most people know nothing about, for example, the “Black Hebrew Israelite” cult. Unless you’ve been reading conservative websites, you wouldn’t realize how this bizarre racial hate group played a role in provoking the incident last month where the Covington Catholic boys were confronted by Nathan Phillips. And you’d have to do a whole lot of Googling to realize that the “Black Hebrew Israelite” movement once spawned a cult that killed 14 people.

Hulon Mitchell Jr., a/k/a “Yahweh ben Yahweh,” made himself the leader of a racial cult — “Broadly classified as a branch of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement” — that became a multimillion-dollar empire in Miami in the late 1980s. “Yahweh ben Yahweh” was sentenced to federal prison in a racketeering case where witnesses testified he urged followers to “kill me a white devil and bring me an ear.” We don’t know how many white people the Yahweh cult’s followers killed. In 1999, a New Jersey man named John Armstrong was indicted for one such murder:

An indictment in Essex County charges that Attilio Cicala, a homeless white man murdered 15 years ago in what appeared to be a street crime, was actually sacrificed by the cult, which believes blacks are the true Jews. Armstrong, who also uses the name Yokonon Israel, allegedly stabbed Cicala repeatedly in the chest and abdomen in the early morning on July 3, 1984, about a block from the group’s former Newark temple on South Orange Avenue a few days before ben Yahweh visited the city.

Sydney Freedberg, a Miami Herald reporter who won a 1991 Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the “Temple of Love” case, wrote a book about it called Brother Love: Murder, Money, and a Messiah, but all that knowledge has been memory-holed by the media in the Trump age, when everybody’s freaking out about “white supremacy” and red hats:

Terry Pierce was shocked this month when he found a man pointing a pistol in his face. “All this over a political statement over a hat,” Pierce told WBKO-TV, after a court hearing about the Feb. 16 incident at a Sam’s Club store in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Police say James Phillips was enraged because Pierce and his wife were wearing red “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hats and, after a verbal exchange, Phillips pulled a .40-caliber Glock on Pierce. This was no idle threat. Phillips has a criminal record, including a 2013 charge of felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and there was a round in the chamber of his Glock, police say. The man in the MAGA hat was dismayed.
“Everybody has a right to believe how they believe,” Pierce said Friday of the frightening encounter, “but you don’t have a right to tell somebody they can’t believe a certain way.”
Perhaps the most astonishing thing about that incident is that it happened in Warren County, Kentucky, which President Trump carried by a 30-point margin in 2016. It’s such a Republican stronghold that the local GOP congressman, Rep. Brett Guthrie, had no Democrat challenger in 2016 and won re-election in 2018 with 67% of the vote against Democrat Hank Linderman. If anti-Trump rage can make it dangerous to wear a MAGA cap in deep-red Bowling Green, how much more dangerous must it be to show support for the president in deep-blue Democrat-dominated urban coastal enclaves? . . .

Read the rest of my column at The American Spectator.

Category: Crime, Donald Trump, Racism

Rule 5 Sunday: Ski Bunnies!

Posted on | February 25, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Since most of the country seems to be buried in snow at the moment -well, most of my friends and family, at any rate – it seems only appropriate to pick an appetizer from the ranks of young ladies who like to do it in the snow. Here’s a young Utahn out on the slopes.

Going down!

Ninety Miles From Tyranny hits the slope with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #538, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism serves up Rule Five Fake Doctors Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL brings us Essie Davis, National Drink Wine Day, Lara Logan, Palmyra Delran, The Bayonets “Crash Boom Bang”, Rita Hayworth & Margaritas, The Monkees “Valleri”, and Skating Polly.

A View From The Beach brings the cave girls and the music with Hello Boys, It’s Eva Herzigová, F@ck the Environment!, Science Says Neanderthals Not Morally Evolved (cave girls, of course), “Inner Demons”, Snow Day!, One Brave Lady, In Old Mexico, I’m Impressed, Post Modern Russiagate and It’s Worth a Try, I Suppose.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Ana de la Reguera, and his Vintage Babe is Gloria Talbot. At Dustbury, it’s Jessica Tuck and Meg Myles.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery! Send your bodacious babe pics to the Rule 5 Sunday mailbox!

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FMJRA 2.0: Baby, Whatcha Hiding?

Posted on | February 24, 2019 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Baby, Whatcha Hiding?

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule Five Sunday: Post-Valentine’s Day Pinup
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Aurora Massacre: Convicted Felon Kills Five After Being Fired From Job
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL

Report: Nigerian Brothers ‘Flipped,’ Help Cops in Jussie Smollett ‘Hate Crime’ Hoax
A View From The Beach
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Holiday In The Sun
A View From The Beach
EBL

Violence Against Women Update
EBL

Lynching America: Jussie Smollett and the Prejudice of Anti-Trump Hatred
357 Magnum
A View From The Beacjh

Feds Arrest Illegal Aliens Who Ran Mexican Drug Gang in North Carolina
EBL

Police: Off-Duty ICE Officer O.L. Jones Shot Man in Ga. Wal-Mart Parking Lot
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.18.19
Proof Positive
EBL

Preparing Their Excuses in Advance
EBL

The Media ‘Think They’re Living in a Cartoon and White Men Are the Villains’
Ordinary Citizen
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.19.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Can Nick Sandmann Win? Covington Student Sues the Washington Post
A View From The Beach
EBL

Fear and Loathing: Journalism in the Age of Trump Derangement Syndrome
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.20.19
Proof Positive
EBL

Chicago Police Arrest Jussie Smollett in the Dumbest ‘Hate Crime’ Hoax Ever
EBL

America’s Dog Rape Epidemic
EBL

Chicago PD: ‘Shameful … Despicable’ How Jussie Smollett ‘Smeared This City’
EBL
Pushing Rubber Downhill

What Counts as a ‘Conspiracy Theory’?
EBL

‘There Is No Deep State’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.21.22
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

Is the Bible ‘Hate Speech’?
The Pirate’s Cove
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending February 22:

EBL (22)
(tied) A View From The Beach and Proof Positive (6 each)

Thanks to A Pirate’s Cove, 357 Magnum, and everybody else who linked us this week!

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UNLEASH ‘THE TONE’!

Posted on | February 24, 2019 | Comments Off on UNLEASH ‘THE TONE’!

In 2017, the Southern Poverty Law Center raised $132 million, David Montgomery of the Washington Post noted last November:

That’s a 164 percent increase over the $50 million it took in a year before. The SPLC’s endowment is up to $433 million. SPLC leaders explain the jump as a reaction to the tone unleashed by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and continued by the Trump administration.

So the unleashing of the tone explains why so many idiots gave so much money to the smear-merchants at the SPLC. As I remarked this week (“Fear and Loathing: Journalism in the Age of Trump Derangement Syndrome”), the problem is that the “Trump-is-Hitler-and-Republicans-are-latter-day-Nazis analogy just doesn’t function as a meaningful mechanism to understand the daily news,” but the media won’t let it go.

The depiction of Republicans as Nazis — a deliberate smear aimed at all 62.9 million Americans who voted for Trump — goes hand-in-hand with the “Russian collusion” narrative that Michael Tracey and Scott Adams discuss in the context of fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe’s book tour (hat-tip: Instapundit). There’s a sort of feedback loop in operation, an echo chamber of fear, where the voice of sanity is drowned out by shrieking paranoia. Pardon me for once again citing my own work (“McCabe’s Weird Anti-Russia Paranoia Reveals ‘Deep State’ Cult Mentality,” Feb. 14), but the obsession with Russia runs hand-in-hand with the belief that “the tone unleashed” has driven a surge of hate in America which, in turn, generates incidents like the Jussie Smollett hoax.

What’s going here? Why have so many people gone batshit crazy?

My theory: The shock of the unexpected — Trump’s surprising 18-month campaign to the White House, defying all the “expert” logic — not only traumatized the liberal media, but also inspired fear within the national-security bureaucracy among those people like Andrew McCabe who had bet heavily on Hillary Clinton winning in 2016. Remember, the same people who whitewashed Hillary’s private email server scandal were the ones who launched the “Russian collusion” investigation, based mainly on the Steele dossier. So all the shabby goings-on within the Justice Department during the Obama years, which would have continued to be covered up if Hillary had been elected, were at risk of exposure by the incoming Trump administration. Therefore, when Trump fired Comey (a signal that the status quo at the FBI/DOJ was about to change) McCabe and others pushed for the appointment of Bob Mueller to investigate “Russian collusion” with Trump. The “Deep State” needed to discredit Trump in order to protect its own secrets, especially the extent to which Hillary had gotten special treatment in the email server scandal.

The fears of McCabe and others inside the FBI/DOJ bureaucracy were paralleled by the liberal media’s fears of Trump’s power to undermine their ability to shape the political narrative. No presidential candidate has ever campaigned with an anti-media message like Trump’s. He took them on directly, called them out by name, turned the tables on them and made resentment of media bias a central issue of his campaign. This is why we have seen tech companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter joining forces with the Left to silence dissent, specifically using the SPLC’s “Hate Group” listings to justify their purges. What is this really about? It’s about protecting the power of the legacy media — CNN, the New York Times, etc. — to influence politics. Liberals understand that the proliferation of right-leaning media channels, everything from Fox News to Breitbart to 4chan to Alex Jones, played a crucial role in defeating Hillary in 2016, and they feared the consequences if such dissenting voices were allowed to continue pushing back against the narrative of the Democrat-Media Complex.

All of these forces on the Left, now including Big Tech as well as the legacy media, have refused to accept the verdict of 2016 — a populist revolt against the political, economic and cultural elite — and this has fed into the intensifying climate of fear. Read this list of “hate” hoaxes since Trump’s election and you get an idea of how this constant fear-mongering impacts the feeble-minded. Of course, liberals blame Trump and his “tone” for this, but in reality the media have become increasingly irresponsible, damaging their own credibility, and what we need now is for the grown-ups in journalism to tell everybody to calm down.

Category: Donald Trump, Fear. Loathing., Media Bias

‘Transgender Women of Color’

Posted on | February 23, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Transgender Women of Color’

Gregory Dodds, also known as Deeniquia “Dee Dee” Dodds.

GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) is a propaganda operation that enforces media conformity to the official ideology of the LGBT “rights” movement. With an annual budget of more than $10 million, GLAAD exercises an Orwellian influence over media coverage of such issues, and has recently made this demand to journalists: “Report on the brutal violence perpetrated against transgender people, particularly transgender women of color.”

Well, a journalist must ask, who is perpetrating this “brutal violence”?

Say hello to Cyheme Hall, 23, who along with his brother Shareem Hall, 25, has confessed his role in the July 2016 murder of Gregory Dodds, 22, also known as Deeniquia “Dee Dee” Dodds. The Hall brothers testified in court this month during the trial of their two accused co-conspirators, Jalonta Little, 28, and Monte Johnson, 23:

Defense attorneys for two men on trial in the fatal shooting of a transgender woman attacked the credibility of the government’s key witnesses — brothers who have admitted a role in the crime.
Two friends, Montee Tyree Johnson, 23, of Upper Marlboro, Md., and Jolanta Little, 28, of Southeast Washington are charged with first-degree murder while armed, robbery, conspiracy and other offenses in the July 4, 2016, shooting of Deeniquia “Dee Dee” Dodds.
In an effort to tie the men to the killing, prosecutors put on the witness stand two brothers who testified they participated in the deadly robbery and implicated Johnson and Little. During their closing arguments Thursday, defense attorneys said the brothers played down their roles in the crimes in hopes of receiving lighter prison sentences and conspired to place the blame on Johnson and Little.
Prosecutors say that before 3 a.m. that July morning, Dodds, 22, was walking home in the 200 block of Division Avenue when four men pulled up in a car. Two of the men jumped out and pushed Dodds to the ground. But she fought back, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors say Johnson shot Dodds in the neck and the men grabbed her purse and ran.
Four men initially were charged in the case. Two of them, Cyheme Hall, 23, and his older brother, Shareem, have pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. The brothers agreed to testify against Little and Johnson.
During the past three weeks in Judge Milton C. Lee’s courtroom in D.C. Superior Court, the Hall brothers gave detailed accounts of the night Dodds was shot.
The brothers testified that minutes before approaching Dodds, their group robbed another transgender woman on Eastern Avenue. They then hopped in Little’s white Pontiac and drove a few blocks, where they saw Dodds, the Halls said.
After the shooting, they got back in the car and drove to K Street, where they robbed other transgender victims, the brothers testified. Both said that Little and Johnson orchestrated the night’s events. And both testified that Johnson shot Dodds.
“They killed Dee Dee but they didn’t have any remorse as they decided to do other robberies. They did it just as casually as other men pick up a basketball game,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas N. Saunders said.
By the time the sun was coming up, the men had robbed seven people, leaving one dying, prosecutors said.

Thus was “brutal violence” perpetrated against a transgender woman of color, to employ GLAAD’s phrasing, and I wonder if they approve of the decision by editors at the Washington Post to bury that story inside the Metro section of their paper, on Page B5. As I explained last month (“The Media’s ‘Climate of Hate’ Myth,” American Spectator, Jan. 18), activists claim to know the cause of these crimes: “Many people have asked if the current regressive political climate legitimized by the language and policies of the Trump administration and others could be contributing to the rise of hate violence. Our answer is yes.… Over and over, President Donald Trump and his administration have attempted to erase, demonize and discriminate against members of the LGBTQ community.”

So, according to activists, President Trump is ultimately responsible for this murder committed by Cyheme, Raheem, Montee and Jolanta. But the story still got buried on Page B5, for some reason, and you don’t hear any complaints from GLAAD, do you? It’s so mysterious . . .

Category: Media Bias, The Transgender Cult

Never Trust a Bisexual

Posted on | February 23, 2019 | Comments Off on Never Trust a Bisexual

TV anchor Chris Burrous (right) with his wife Mai (left).

Chris Burrous was the anchor of the morning news at KTLA-TV in Los Angeles. Two days after Christmas, he was found dead in a “seedy” motel in suburban Glendale, California. He was 43 years old and left behind a wife and 9-year-old daughter. Chris Burrous was bisexual:

KTLA anchor Chris Burrous died from an overdose of crystal meth while engaging in vigorous sexual activity with a man he met on Grindr.
According to the L.A. County Medical Examiner, Burrous died from methamphetamine toxicity after being found unresponsive in a Glendale motel on December 28. The manner of death is listed as accidental.
According to the death investigation, officials say Burrous worked his shift at KTLA, and then left early for the day complaining he felt ill.
Instead of going home, he set up a meeting with a man at a motel in Glendale for an afternoon of hardcore sex. The two allegedly met on Grindr and had hooked up multiple times in the past.

(Burrous was living a double life, pretending to be the happily married husband, while repeatedly hooking up with guys on Grindr.)

When the companion arrived, Burrous allegedly answered the door fully nude, and had set up the room with “DJ style” lighting, S&M toys, lubrication jelly and a massage bench. The two men allegedly engaged in various forms of sexual activities.

(Among the “various forms of sexual activities” two men might engage in, which one would require “lubrication jelly”?)

At some point during the meeting, 43-year-old Burrous allegedly inserted a “rock” of crystal meth into his body.

(Care to guess the method of insertion? Exactly what you think.)

He then allegedly gave his companion a syringe full of GHB and a bottle of Gatorade. The two became intimate again, and Burrous allegedly used another “rock” of meth before engaging in more sexual activity.

(What a euphemism — “became intimate.”)

The report states Burrous also used “poppers,” an alkyl nitrite inhaled that produces a euphoric effect.
Burrous allegedly told his companion he was feeling fine until the man noticed him making a strange noise, and flipped him over to realize Burrous had vomited inside his S&M mask.

(So, if he “flipped him over” to discover this, we may suppose that Burrows — wearing an “S&M mask,” whatever that means — was face-down while they “became intimate.” Nudge, nudge.)

The man called 911 and began to perform CPR on Burrous until emergency responders arrived. He was transported to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead in the emergency room.

Did the deceased anchorman’s wife know that her husband was getting boned in seedy motels by a dude he met on a gay dating app? Probably not, but was there never any cause for her to suspect that she was married to a man who might be inclined in that direction? Well, you can watch the on-air tribute to Chris Burrous that KTLA-TV did the day after he died and see if his mannerisms, in hindsight, might not have been enough to trigger your “gaydar” alert. I remember after Ted Haggard was “outed” in 2006, going back to watch videos of his TV appearances and thinking, “Wow, how did nobody ever notice how gay this guy is?”

To say that Chris Burrous was “bisexual” is to say, of course, he was really gay, but just didn’t want to admit it. A guy doesn’t die in a cheap motel with drugs, lube, an S&M mask and a guy he met on Grindr unless he was more or less completely gay. How many random hook-ups with how many different partners before his fatal encounter? We don’t know, but the number of such hook-ups was almost certainly greater than zero.

Category: Gays