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A Progression of Madness

Posted on | June 11, 2018 | 2 Comments

‘James’ in 2015 (left) and in 2018, after ‘top surgery’ (right).

 

“James Waters” is a 22-year-old self-declared Marxist who uses the pronouns “he/xe/it.” She used to have breasts, but had them amputated (double mastectomy, known as “top surgery” in the jargon of the transgender cult) earlier this year, after two years of testosterone treatment. You can watch a 2016 YouTube video of “James” mumbling about her/“his” hormones, but did I mention “he/xe/it” is schizophrenic? And has a Tumblr blog? Yes, “James” is “a gay schizophrenic indigenous artist,” as she/“he” explained in a January post soliciting donations:

 

You see the transgender 22-year-old schizophrenic Marxist had “just moved out of an unhealthy home situation” last year, but then began having problems with a “homophobic landlord” who wanted to evict her/“him” and her/“his” roommate. You also see that “James” had been “working full time hours and trying to get on disability,” although she/“he” found it was “really hard . . . to save anything for the cost of living let alone the surgery i have to pay for,” as if getting a double mastectomy was necessary. But you can’t expect a transgender schizophrenic Marxist to be able to prioritize expenses, right?

Remember, however, that “James” is Canadian, which is relevant, for reasons explained in her/“his” online fundraiser for “top surgery”:

I’ve been trying to be approved for surgery for quite some time — I came out and began transitioning in 2011, but I was made unable to pursue surgery for years because of my disability. At the time, candidates for trans related surgeries had to be approved through CAMH, but I was unable to go that route as CAMH’s policies didn’t allow them to approve patients with some mental health conditions (like mine) for government funding. I tried for some time to raise money myself to pay for surgery privately, but I was unable to consistently work at the time because of my condition.
Thankfully, the government changed their protocol last year and trans related surgeries in Ontario can now be approved by other qualified medical professionals. My endocrinologist and I discussed the pros and cons of surgery, and the potential risks, and we both came to the firm conclusion that I am totally ready for the procedure and everything it entails. . . .
This surgery would be huge for me. I’ve struggled with dysphoria and a lot of related difficulties since childhood — I spent most of my life dealing with an eating disorder and severe self harm problems, as well as other mental health and social issues because of my gender. Coming out as trans was the best thing I’ve ever done for my mental health, and over the past couple years I’ve been happier and more comfortable in my own skin than I ever thought I would be. This surgery is the biggest step I need to take right now to work on recovering and finally feeling like my body is my own.

There is a lot to process here. How old was “James” in 2011, when she/“he” first “came out and began transitioning”? She was a 15-year-old girl, with “an eating disorder and severe self harm problems,” which is not surprising because gender dysphoria has high rates of co-morbidity with other mental illnesses. However, an American reader might ask, what’s this stuff “James” is talking about the Ontario CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health)? This June 2015 article may help:

The Ontario government will expand the number of places where transgender people can obtain approvals for publicly insured sex reassignment surgeries, The Globe and Mail has learned. . . .
The government is not planning a formal announcement, the source said. The news comes on the eve of Friday’s Trans Pride March in downtown Toronto, part of the city’s Pride festivities.
The Globe first drew attention to the bottleneck at CAMH in April when it wrote about the case of Chrystofer Maillet, an Ottawa trans man who paid almost $7,500 out of pocket for a double mastectomy.
The Ontario Health Insurance Plan would have covered the procedure if Mr. Maillet, now 36, had first obtained an approval letter from the CAMH clinic. But he could not endure the wait. . . .
The NDP’s health critic wrote an open letter to Dr. Hoskins on Wednesday chiding his government for moving too slowly to solve the problem at CAMH.
“Far too many trans Ontarians continue to experience elevated risk of depression and suicide in the face of ongoing discrimination, harassment and violence,” France Gélinas wrote. “It is heartbreaking and it is wrong that vulnerable individuals should be confronted by barriers to care that make it more difficult to access the health-care services they need.”
CAMH’s president and the psychiatrist who leads the facility’s small Adult Gender Identity Clinic have both said the rule limiting approvals to CAMH should be scrapped.

Yes, transgender surgery in Canada is funded by taxpayer-provided “insurance,” but the excessive demand for the government gender-identity clinic’s services created a waiting list, so under political pressure, the government expanding the list of who could approve such surgery. As “James” explained, the government clinic would not approve transgender surgery for people with certain mental illnesses, but the change in policy meant that her/“his” endocrinologist was deemed qualified to approve a taxpayer-funded double mastectomy for the 22-year-old schizophrenic.

Canadian taxpayers are being required to foot the bill for this bizarre “treatment,” as if a girl with schizophrenia can be cured by injecting her with testosterone and lopping off her breasts. She is so mentally disturbed that she’s applied to get disability payments — too crazy to work, but sane enough to decide to undergo surgical mutilation.

Socialism is always doomed to fail. Once government makes something “free” (i.e., billing it to the taxpayers), the demand will always exceed supply. The number of crazy people in Canada seems to be infinite, whereas the number of skilled surgeons is limited, and if every wacko and nutjob in Canada has a right to sex-change surgery . . .

It’s the Cloward-Piven strategy, you see: Overwhelm the welfare system with demands, deliberately causing a fiscal crisis, which radicals then blame on capitalism, thus bringing about a revolution.

Whatever government subsidizes, it also thereby incentivizes. By compelling taxpayers to foot the bill for this kind of madness, Canada is ensuring that the madness will become more common. Injecting crazy women with testosterone and amputating their breasts is now the Canadian government’s official definition of “health care,” and anyone who criticizes this policy will be accused of transphobia.

Canada has become a vast insane asylum, and the lunatics are running it.

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Progressive Perversion: Poet’s Daughters Describe ‘Brothel Without Payment’

Posted on | June 11, 2018 | 2 Comments

Australian poet Dorothy Hewett in 1982.

Shocking news from Australia:

Stunning revelations of an Australian paedophile ring involving celebrity arts figures have been laid bare by the daughters of a prominent playwright.
Rozanna and Kate Lilley, the daughters of playwright and poet Dorothy Hewett, say they were forced into sex aged 15 by men including the late Bob Ellis and Martin Sharp, The Australian reports.
Sharp, Australia’s foremost pop artist, designed record covers and posters for Bob Dylan, Donovan and Eric Clapton and wrote songs for Clapton’s band, Cream.
Ellis was a political commentator, writer and film maker who penned 22 television and screenplays.
The Lilley sisters, who each have written new books, say their mother encouraged underage sex between her daughters and famous men she entertained at her Sydney house.
The sisters say the men enjoyed having young girls around and their mother, considered a left wing radical and admired feminist, encouraged their joining in the libertine sex scene of the times.
“We were these nubile girls … jailbait,” Kate Lilley said, describing her mother’s house as “a brothel without payment”.
Other men included a local film producer who is still alive and a poet who raped Kate Lilley when she was underage, plus renowned British erotic photographer, David Hamilton.
Known for his soft-lit images of prepubescent young girls, 83-year-old Hamilton took his own life in 2016 after a former model accused him of raping her in 1987 when she was 13 years old.
In the Woollahra terrace Hewett shared with her husband, writer Merv Lilley, a queue of famous men attended parties in the salon-like atmosphere where the sisters spent their early teens.
Sex was facilitated by Hewett who also slept with some of the men, while her husband had sex with other women.
When she turned 16 years old, Kate Lilley had already slept with six men and her younger sister Rozanna had slept with a dozen men by the time she reached the age of consent. . . .
At the age of 13, Rozanna Lilley was cast in the lesbian-themed film Journey Among Women about female convicts living in the bush.
Her mother, Dorothy Hewett, wrote the script.

You can read the whole thing. The “liberated” attitude of Dorothy Hewett — an “admired feminist” — sounds very much like what Moira Greyland has described growing up in the home of a famous novelist:

The daughter of famed science fiction author Marion Zimmer Bradley has written an autobiographical account revealing the horrors of growing up in a home raised by LGBT parents who repeatedly sexually abused her and her brothers.
“I have heard all the customary protestations. ‘Your parents were evil because they were evil, not because they were gay,’ but I disagree,” writes Moira Greyland in her new book, The Last Closet: The Dark Side of Avalon.
“The underlying problem is a philosophical one that is based on beliefs that are not only common to gay culture but to popular culture. And this is the central belief: All Sex is Always Right No Matter What, she wrote. . . .
The book recounts Greyland’s life with her mother, who was the author of The Mists of Avalon and many other famous works of science fiction and fantasy, and her father, Walter Breen, who was a world-renowned authority on numismatics. Both identified as “gay,” both abused drugs and were involved in occult practices, and both were pedophiles, Greyland says, a claim that has been confirmed by her only surviving brother.
The couple’s LGBT ideology was constantly imposed on the children by both parents. . . .

You can read the rest of that, too. It is wrong to suppose that the “liberated” beliefs of the cultural elite will affect only “consenting adults.” Two years ago, I wrote about the worldview Bradley represented:

[E]vidence of Bradley’s bizarre perversion had been hidden in plain sight. Not only was she married to a bisexual pedophile, Walter Breen, who was rather notorious for his interest in young boys, but Bradley wrote lesbian pulp fiction under pseudonyms, including I Am a Lesbian (as Lee Chapman, 1962) and The Strange Women (as Miriam Gardner, 1967). Furthermore, Bradley quite pointedly rejected Judeo-Christian morality:

Bradley . . . professed a lifelong interest in the occult and in the early 1980s described herself as “neopagan,” explaining her faith as one that “rejects the Christian belief in man’s dominion over the earth.”
She said she also believed in clairvoyance, extrasensory perception and reincarnation. . . .

Marian Zimmer Bradley was a monster whose occult beliefs and deviant sexuality were widely viewed as “progressive” among leftist bohemian avant-garde intellectuals. . . .
Nudists, feminists, “swingers,” pedophiles, lesbians, witches — every kind of madness was unleashed from Pandora’s Box in the 1960s, and justified as a rejection of Christianity and sexual “repression.”

If there is no God, there is no moral law, and it is certain that many people who reject God’s law will act upon their godless beliefs.

 

 

“I Said: ‘Cut Back On The Tariffs. Your Economies May Do Better Than Keith Richards Trying To Sell Face Cream.'”

Posted on | June 10, 2018 | Comments Off on “I Said: ‘Cut Back On The Tariffs. Your Economies May Do Better Than Keith Richards Trying To Sell Face Cream.'”

by Smitty

Another Reason to Avoid Massachusetts

Posted on | June 10, 2018 | 2 Comments

 

Nobody wants to live in Massachusetts. which has the lowest total fertility rates (1.54 average lifetime births per woman) in the United States. The total fertility rate in Tennessee is 1.82, almost 20% higher than Massachusetts. This has political consequences, as Massachusetts has watched its number of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives decline significantly in the past several decades. When John Kennedy was elected President in 1960, Massachusetts was the 10th most populous U.S. state, and had 14 seats in the House. Today, Massachusetts is the 14th most populous state and has only nine seats in the House, the same as Tennessee, which ranks 17th in population. Because the Massachusetts delegation is all-Democrat, the feeble birth rate in the state is a factor in the declining fortunes of the Democrat Party. Massachusetts is aborting itself into political irrelevance, but doesn’t seem to understand this.

They have superior institutions of higher learning in Massachusetts, such as Northeastern University, a private school where the annual cost of attendance is $65,737 including room and board. What are parents paying so much for their children to learn at Northeeastern? Well, they have a department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, which offers such courses as “Gender, Social Justice, and Transnational Activism” (WMNS 3100) and “Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression in Practice and Policy” (WMNS 2800). Among the top-notch feminist scholars at Northeastern is Professor Suzanna Danuta Walters.

 

Dr. Suzanna Danuta Walters’ work centers on questions of gender, feminist theory and politics, sexuality, and popular culture and she is a frequent commentator on these issues for the media. Her most recent book, The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality (NYU Press), explores how notions of tolerance limit the possibilities for real liberation and deep social belonging. This book has been the subject of numerous radio and press interviews and discussions . . . Walters’ previous book, All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America (University of Chicago Press, 2001), examined the explosion of gay visibility in culture and politics over the past 15 years and raised pressing questions concerning the politics of visibility around sexual identity. The book was a finalist for several literary awards (including the Lambda Literary Award). Her other works include books on feminist cultural theory (Material Girls: Making Sense of Feminist Cultural Theory), mothers and daughters in popular culture (Lives Together/Worlds Apart: Mothers and Daughters in Popular Culture) and numerous articles and book chapters on feminist theory, queer theory and LGBT studies, and popular culture. She is currently working on a book examining the state of both feminist theory and politics in an era of “call-out feminism” and intense social media attention.

Professor Walters will teach your kids about “gender, feminist theory and politics, sexuality, and popular culture,” for $65,737 a year. However, you can read the work of Professor Walters for free:

Why can’t we hate men?

That’s the headline on a column that Professor Walters wrote for the Washington Post. Permit me to quote her concluding paragraph:

So men, if you really are #WithUs and would like us to not hate you for all the millennia of woe you have produced and benefited from, start with this: Lean out so we can actually just stand up without being beaten down. Pledge to vote for feminist women only. Don’t run for office. Don’t be in charge of anything. Step away from the power. We got this. And please know that your crocodile tears won’t be wiped away by us anymore. We have every right to hate you. You have done us wrong. #BecausePatriarchy. It is long past time to play hard for Team Feminism. And win.

This inspired me to look around my home office here in the basement and ask: Where are the benefits of “all the millennia of woe” I’ve produced? Where is this power I should “step away from”? Certainly, I can’t afford $65,737 a year to send my kid to Northeastern University, and it’s unlikely that the Washington Post would ever publish anything I wrote about “gender, feminist theory and politics, sexuality, and popular culture.” On the other hand, I would never want my byline to appear in that thoroughly dishonest newspaper, nor would I want my children to go anywhere near Northeastern University.

Professor Walters is a liar. Northeastern University, like the Washington Post, is an institution devoted to satanic wickedness. No honest person would be associated with such manifestations of evil, and Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It.

There are many reasons to avoid Massachusetts. Now you have one more.



 

 

FMJRA 2.0: Lost In America

Posted on | June 10, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Overall Beauty
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

‘Dickie Rebellion’ Gets Fired
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Letters From Home
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

NY Times: ‘Motherhood Is Hitler’
A View From The Beach
EBL

Florida Child Pornography Suspect Resists Arrest, Which Proves to Be a Bad Decision
EBL

A Narrow Victory for Liberty
EBL

Not Exactly News: Democrats Are Lying
EBL

‘Gender,’ Nature and Sexual Economics
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.04.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

The Democrat Football League
EBL

‘Doxxing’ and Secondary Boycotts
Rotten Chestnuts
Proof Positive
EBL

On Courtesy and ‘Gender Equality’
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.05.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Melinda Gates, SJW
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.06.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 06.07.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

TV Shows I Never Watched
EBL

NY Times Reporter and Senate Staffer Caught in Sex-for-Leaks Scandal
357 Magnum
American Digest
A View From The Beach
EBL

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
EBL

Another Dead Cishet White Male
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.08.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers this week:

  1. EBL (20)
  2. A View From The Beach (10)
  3. Proof Positive (7)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!


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In The Mailbox: 06.08.18

Posted on | June 8, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.08.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Deadline to submit links for the FMJRA is Saturday at noon; links for Rule 5 Friday are due by midnight on Saturday. All times Pacific. Remember that links to posts before last Saturday and after today don’t count, though I’ll probably hold over the June 9 links until next week’s FMJRA.


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Anthony Bourdain, RIP
Twitchy: Daily Caller Scoop On Ali Watkins & James Wolfe Could Spell Big Trouble For Buzzfeed
Louder With Crowder: Transwomen Win Girls’ Track Meet – The Looks On The Girls’ Faces Say It All
According To Hoyt: Awards, Money, And Writing, Oh My
Monster Hunter Nation: Sign David Weber’s Petition In Support Of Free Speech At Cons
Vox Popoli: DC To Marvel – “Hold My Beer”


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Links & Chicks – The Douchebag Planet Edition
American Power: Charles Krauthammer, Things That Matter
American Thinker: Tommy Robinson “Disappears” – Free Speech In England Is Dead
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Government Theft Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For June 8
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: The Obvious Question On The Philly Teacher Case
Don Surber: Suddenly The Media Cares About Privacy
Dustbury: Close-In Orbit
First Street Journal: The Silliness Of The Libertarian Party
The Geller Report: Austria Plans To Shut Down Mosques, Expel Foreign-Funded Imams, also, France To Set Free 50 Convicted Terrorists, 450 Radicalized Prisoners Next Year
Hogewash: Blognet, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Legal Insurrection: Charles Krauthammer Shares Dire Prognosis, also, Former Co-Workers Allege Joy Reid Threatened Violence, Was Homophobic
Power Line: Charles Krauthammer – My Fight Is Over, also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shark Tank: Marco Rubio, The Amigo’s Amigo
Shot In The Dark: Toxic Feminization
STUMP: Social Security & Medicare Trust Funds – What’s Real?
The Jawa Report: Iran Confesses Its Facilitation Of Al-Qaeda
The Political Hat: UK Labour Party Suspends Member For Pointing Out Party’s Insane Transgender Policy
This Ain’t Hell: Guard Lieutenant Claims He Was Ordered To Drive M577 Through Richmond, also, Former Sailor Pardoned By Trump Says He’s Suing Comey & Obama
Victory Girls: The Death of Anthony Bourdain, And Thoughts On Mental Health
Volokh Conspiracy: DOJ Rejects Salvadoran Woman’s Asylum Application For Providing “Material Support” To Terrorists – As A Slave Laborer
Weasel Zippers: Country Time To Pay Fines When Bureaucrats Target Kids’ Lemonade Stands, also, Gay Democrat Aims To “Piss Off” President Who Supports Gay Marriage By Kissing Husband In Campaign Ad
Mark Steyn: Trailer Trash Sexbots


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Another Dead Cishet White Male

Posted on | June 8, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

If you are a heterosexual white man, feminists want you to die. So you can be sure that Jessica Valenti, Amanda Marcotte, Jaclyn Friedman and all their man-hating supporters are cheerfully celebrating the suicide of CNN’s celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain:

Chef Anthony Bourdain was found dead in his hotel room in Paris, by a close friend. CNN has reported that the cause of death was suicide. He was 61 years old. . . .
The announcement of Bourdain’s death, so soon after the suicide of Kate Spade, follows a report from the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) that the U.S. Suicide Rate has increased over the past twenty years. According to the study, not only have the rates of suicide “increased in nearly every state over the past two decades” but in half of those states, the rates have gone up “more than 30 percent.”
Suicide has accounted for 45,000 deaths in 2016, according to the CDC, which is what prompted the CDC division in Atlanta to investigate the rates of suicide from 1999 to 2016. . . .

Consider this: From 1992 to 2012, Democrats won four of six presidential elections, controlling the White House for 16 out of 24 years, interrupted only by the eight-year tenure of G.W. Bush. If many people now feel that life in America is not worth living, maybe there’s a reason why. It’s not just a matter of who wins or loses elections, or which party possesses the governing majority. What has happened is that the remorseless expansion of the bureaucratic Welfare State slowly drains meaning and purpose from the private lives of individuals. An idolatry of power takes hold in the public mind, so that government replaces God as the source of moral value, and the individual is diminished to insignificance.

Does any of this explain the suicide of any particular person? Probably not, but there is a social trend, you see, that can be traced by many different metrics — more divorces and fewer babies, increasing numbers of fatherless households, drug addiction, sexually transmitted diseases, etc. — indicating a downward slide into decadence and depravity.

We do not know why Anthony Bourdain hanged himself at the luxurious Le Chambard hotel, while so many other people without fame and fortune choose every day to keep living amid poverty and obscurity, struggling to survive against the odds. What inspired Bourdain’s despair?

While accepting the Peabody award in 2013, Bourdain described how he approached his work.
“We ask very simple questions: What makes you happy? What do you eat? What do you like to cook? And everywhere in the world we go and ask these very simple questions,” he said, “we tend to get some really astonishing answers.”
Bourdain was twice divorced. He was married to Ottavia Busia from 2007 to 2016 and Nancy Putkoski from 1985 to 2005.
He leaves behind one daughter, Ariane, whom he had with Busia.
The celebrity chef was dating Italian actress Asia Argento — who has accused movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault and has since become one of his most vocal victims.
Bourdain recently gushed over Argento’s explosive speech about Weinstein and sexual harassment in the film industry at Cannes Film Festival, according to Vulture.
“It was absolutely fearless to walk right into the lion’s den and say what she said, the way she said it. It was an incredibly powerful moment, I thought,” he said. “I am honored to know someone who has the strength and fearlessness to do something like that.”

“What makes you happy?” Bourdain asked, but apparently nothing ever truly made him happy. He had everything, but it was not enough.

He was a heterosexual white man — a possessor of “privilege” — and his death will no doubt bring happiness to the wicked hearts of feminists.

There is something about being hated by bad people that should give us hope, and inspire our determination to survive just one more day. When evil people quite literally want you dead (and that’s what feminism’s anti-male agenda is about) every day you keep living is a victory.

Y’know, if you can just hang on until Nov. 6, it’s possible Donald Trump and the Republicans can turn back the “red wave” in the mid-terms. This would break the hearts of every feminist who wants Nancy Pelosi to take back the Speaker’s gavel so Democrats can impeach the President.

Consider that in late December, Democrats held a 13-point edge (49.1% to 36.1%) in the so-called “generic” congressional ballot. By June 1, that advantage had faded to barely 3 points (43.0% to 39.8%), and the economic news lately is so good as to defy all expectations. There is every reason to hope that the evening of Nov. 6 will be a crushing disappointment to Jessica Valenti and her hateful allies, and don’t you want to live to see them crying the tears of unfathomable sadness?

Your satanic enemies want you dead. Therefore defy the Devil, and live.

 

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | June 8, 2018 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

He looked at the youthful photo his sister had taken.
He recalled staring into the lamp at dusk, prayerfully pondering Providence.

* * *
The recruiter had come swiftly, taking him off to join the military.
War; carnage; promotion followed.
Decades later, nominally the same but radically altered, he stood in that field, peering back at his youthful self.
“You’ve acquitted yourself well,” the rock did not say.
Striving for the good,
mercy where you should,
peace where you could,
strength where evil stood.

Now you know that rarest thing for a warrior: rest.”
Long after his memory passed, that rock would remain.

via Darleen

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