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Professor Explores How K-12 Education ‘Can Help Kids Turn Out Queer’

Posted on | November 8, 2017 | 4 Comments

 

This news is unsurprising to anyone who pays attention to academia:

A professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) recently argued in favor of using art education to help “kids turn out queer.”
Adam Greteman, who teaches aspiring K-12 art teachers, published an article in the current edition of the peer-reviewed Journal of Studies in Art Education titled “Helping Kids Turn Out Queer: Queer Theory in Art Education.”
“This article explores the possibilities of queer theory in art education, and I playfully, perhaps provocatively, ask how art education can help kids turn out queer,” he writes, adding that there is a “need” for art educators to “challenge fears around queer topics.”
In his efforts to fight against the “heteronormative realities” of most K-12 schools, Greteman argues that art teachers could impart a “queerer agenda” on students that might “actually help kids turn out queer” [emphasis in original].
Greteman, who identifies as a “queer scholar,” lists a few ways teachers could achieve this, such as implementing “queer art lessons,” embracing a “queerer agenda” in class, and using “queer affirmation” strategies to help gay students feel more included.
He also adds that “the inclusion of LGBTQ artists and the need to include LGBTQ students is at this point a rather straightforward approach” to help queer the curriculum as well. . . .
In 2013, Greteman published an article on how bareback sex should be taught in sex education programs . . .
“My work is influenced by an eclectic array of modes of inquiry, including queer, feminist, and trans theories, pragmatism, Marxism, and post-structural ethics,” Greteman writes in his faculty biography page for the SAIC.

You can read the whole thing.

Let me take the opportunity here to praise the reporter, Toni Airaksinen, as one of the best young conservative journalists I’ve seen in a long time. If you know anything about her background, Toni has a unique perspective. She grew up in grim poverty in Cleveland, her parents are recovering drug addicts, and she was quite nearly the only white student at her inner-city high school. Yet she was an excellent student — indeed, a prodigy — and as a teenager attended classes at Cleveland State, where she got a full-immersion experience in Third Wave feminism, taking Women’s Studies classes. However, when she arrived at elite Barnard College (sister school of Columbia University) amid the “campus rape epidemic” hysteria, Airaksinen underwent a sort road-to-Damascus conversion. She has emerged as one of the fiercest student critics of what I’ve called The Cult of Social Justice in academia, and her reporting on the campus Culture War is as voluminous in quantity as it is excellent in quality. You should definitely follow her on Twitter.



 

Category: Education, Gays, Sex Trouble

Gillespie Defeated in Virginia as Huge Democrat Turnout Devastates GOP

Posted on | November 8, 2017 | 1 Comment

Ed Gillespie got more votes (1.18 million) yesterday than any Republican gubernatorial candidate in Virginia history, but Democrats produced a “tsunami” turnout that elected Ralph Northam and wiped out GOP candidates in down-ticket races. The trend was nationwide:

Democrats roared back on Tuesday a year after suffering perhaps the most demoralizing defeat in modern political history, claiming big victories in races up and down the ballot and across the country.
The breadth of the Democratic wins surprised even the most optimistic party stalwarts, who fretted over their own chances in key races Tuesday. But as the results rolled in, those Democrats said they had energized their core voters and capitalized on President Trump’s unpopularity to reach swing voters.
“This is not a wave. This is a tsunami,” Virginia Del. David Toscano, leader of the Democratic caucus, told The Hill in an interview Tuesday night. “This is a huge, huge sea change here in Virginia.”
Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam (D) won the Virginia governorship by a wider-than-expected margin, even with Democrats fretting about his late campaign strategy. Democrat Justin Fairfax won the lieutenant governor’s office, becoming only the second African American to win a statewide post in Virginia since Reconstruction, while Attorney General Mark Herring (D) won re-election.
In New Jersey, former Goldman Sachs executive Phil Murphy (D) easily won the right to replace deeply unpopular Gov. Chris Christie (R), cementing Democratic control in the Garden State.
In Washington, Democrat Manka Dhingra (D) appeared headed for victory in a special election to fill an open state Senate seat. Dhingra’s win, in a formerly Republican district, would give Democrats control of all levers of government in the Evergreen State.
Democrats won at least 14 seats in Virginia’s House of Delegates, with another three likely headed to a recount. They picked up at least two seats in New Jersey’s state Senate, with several Senate and Assembly districts yet to count ballots, and a seat in New Hampshire’s state House.
Georgia Democrats celebrated winning two deep red districts in special state House elections. Two Democrats appear likely to face off in a runoff in a suburban Atlanta state Senate district formerly held by a Republican after finishing first and second in the all-party primary — a result that would break the GOP’s supermajority.

Off-year elections typically go against the party of a newly-elected president, and Republicans tempted to over-interpret these results as an omen of  impending doom should calm down and be quiet. What happened Tuesday was not unprecedented; indeed, it was probably predictable. I’m certain that many Republicans will want to blame all these losses on Trump, and Trump supporters will deny this. But blame is not a strategy. If Republicans want to avoid a wipeout in next year’s mid-term elections, they will have to find a way to use the presidency as an electoral asset, no matter how much they may disdain Trump personally.

 

Category: Election, Virginia

In The Mailbox: 11.07.17

Posted on | November 7, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.07.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


The White House proclaimed today National Day For The Victims Of Communism. Remembering all my brothers and sisters who stood the Long Watch and fought in the hot wars against the last century’s most deadly ideology.


OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #68
Proof Positive: A Common Sense Solution To Illegal Guns
EBL: The Curious Case of Trump, The Media, And The Japanese Koi
Twitchy: Who Has A Problem With The National Day For The Victims Of communism? This Guy.
Louder With Crowder: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW – Texas Hero Steven Willeford Describes Shooting Church Killer


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Malady Of Blue Balls And The Key To Girls
American Power: Scott Adams, Win Bigly, also, Yuri Slezkine, The House Of Government
American Thinker: The Revolution Has Been Postponed
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Row Crop News
BattleSwarm: What The Hell is Going On In Saudi Arabia?
BLACKFIVE: Blaine Harden, King of Spies
CDR Salamander: What The Anti-ISIS Annihilation Campaign Looks Like
Da Tech Guy: Fill The Space of Your Soul Or Something Else Will, also, Donna Brazile Makes You Go Hmmmm
Don Surber: Media Pays For Its Fake News
Dustbury: How Now, Proud Daou?
The Geller Report: Tariq Ramadan Not A Rapist – It’s The Womens’ Fault! And the Jews!, also, French & Swiss Police Arrest Ten In Counter-Terror Raids
Hogewash: I’m Not Making This Up, You Know, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Top Hillary Fundraiser Used Army of Spies To Harass, Intimidate Weinstein Accusers
Joe For America: What Happens When You Call For “Revolution” And Nobody Shows Up?
JustOneMinute: Carter Page Is Becoming A Big Deal
Legal Insurrection: Should We Carry Guns In Church?, also, Media Meme – Fauxcahontas An Undocumented Indian
Power Line: Self Help Texas Style, also, Thoughts About Mass Murder
Shot In The Dark: Election Day
STUMP: Nope, Not #MeToo – But Also Not Surprised By Sexual Harassment In State Legislatures
The Political Hat: Public Schools And The Hajj
This Ain’t Hell: A Fobbit’s Opinion On Guns, also, Vandalized Car Hate Crime Report Was False
Weasel Zippers: Ted Cruz – Democrats Filibustered Legislation That Would Have Stopped Texas Shooter, also, Muslima Who Lied About Trump Supporters Attacking Her On Subway Pleads Guilty
Megan McArdle: How The Republicans’ Tax Plan Threatens Higher Ed
Mark Steyn: Donna E Mobile


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Category: Linkagery

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | November 7, 2017 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

 

How many times do I have to repeat this?

The gunman who opened fire in a church outside San Antonio, killing at least 26 people, escaped from a mental health facility in 2012 after he was caught sneaking guns onto an Air Force base and “attempting to carry out death threats” made against military superiors, according to a police report.
The report said that officers with the El Paso, Tex., police were dispatched to a bus terminal after Devin P. Kelley‘s escape from a behavioral facility about seven miles away in New Mexico.
The officers wrote that they were told Kelley “was a danger to himself and others” at the time and noted that he “was also facing military criminal charges.” The report was first obtained Tuesday by KPRC, a Houston television station.
This revelation came as authorities continued to seek a fuller portrait of Kelley and also probed a breakdown in military protocols that failed to flag a domestic violence conviction meant to keep him from buying firearms.

Once upon a time in America, crazy people were locked up in lunatic asylums, but then liberals decided we needed “reform.” So they turned loose the lunatics and enacted laws to prevent us from “discriminating” against crazy people. (This was just about the time, coincidentally or not, that Democrat George McGovern picked that kook Thomas Eagleton as his running mate.) Deranged and demented people weren’t the problem, according to liberals. “Society” was the problem. All we had to do is to remove the “stigma” from mental illness, they told us, and these wackos and weirdos could live among us in peace and harmony.

Except, no. Turns out there was a reason for the “stigma.” Can we finally admit liberals are just wrong about this? The same way liberals are wrong about economics, foreign policy and everything else? Or do we just sit around and wait for these dangerous kooks to kill us all?



 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 11.06.17

Posted on | November 6, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Kinda stressed out and disoriented last week, so you get your SF author linkagery today instead of Friday. Apologies for any inconvenience.


OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #67
EBL: Ivanka – Big In Japan
Twitchy: Blindsided – Senator Rand Paul Assaulted In His Bowling Green Home
Louder With Crowder: Berkeley Students Accuse Professor Of White Supremacy Over A Midterm Exam
According To Hoyt: They Walk Like Men
Monster Hunter Nation: Brief Update Post
Vox Popoli: The Failing U.S. Military


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Very Real Black Privilege
American Power: Democrats Poised For Complete Dominance In The West, also, Pamela Geller, Fatwa – Hunted In America
American Thinker: The Right’s War On Milo Yiannopoulos
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Deir Ez-Zor Falls
BLACKFIVE: Sally Cabot Gunning, Monticello
CDR Salamander: USS Fitzgerald & McCain Collisons On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: Dear Gun Grabbers – It Was Illegal For Devin Kelley To Own A Firearm, also, Opinion Puppeteering – Also, I Told You So
Don Surber: Gun Control Failed In Texas, also, 20 Who Feuded With Trump – And Lost
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Schedule A Takes A Hit
The Geller Report: Incest In Islam, also, Imam Comments On Harvey Weinstein – Women Need To Wear Hijab So Men Can Control Sexual Urges
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also also, The Cabin Boy Discovers Gab
Jammie Wearing Fools: John Kerry Blames Trump For Giving Norks A Reason To Build Nukes
Joe For America: Stacy’s Crazy Cousin John Blasts U.S. In Annapolis Speech – “No More America First”
JustOneMinute: York On The Steele Dossier
Legal Insurrection: DNC/Hillary Collusion Bombshell Ignored By Major Networks, also, Red Cross Admits $6 Million In Ebola Fight Funds Stolen Through Fraud
Power Line: Fake News About Koi – Why Nobody Trusts The Press, also, More On The Democrat’s Attack On Rand Paul, also also, Is It OK To Be White?
Shark Tank: Big Abortion Backs Gwen Graham For Florida Governor
Shot In The Dark: Buying Popcorn Stock
STUMP: Movember Campaign – Prostate Cancer And Suicide Prevention
The Jawa Report: TweeterGate, also, Sandcrawler PSA – Russian Trolls And You
The Political Hat: Charter Of The Forest – Still Relevant After 800 Years
This Ain’t Hell: Nurse Burner Clifford Currie Gets 20 Years, also, DRG Behind Bars
Weasel Zippers: Actor Michael McKean Attacks Sutherland Springs Victims, also, Venezuelans Now Eating Their Pets To Avoid Starvation
Mark Steyn: V For Vendetta, also, The Triumph Of Amoral Will


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Category: Linkagery

TEXAS CHURCH MASSACRE: ‘Creepy’ Atheist Was Stopped by Armed Citizen

Posted on | November 6, 2017 | 4 Comments

Atheist murderer Devin Kelley (left); Texas hero Stephen Willeford (right).

Crucial facts about the shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, are beginning to emerge. The perpetrator, 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley, was given a bad-conduct discharge from the Air Force three years ago after he assaulted his wife and infant child in 2012. Acquaintances of Kelley told the Daily Mail that he was “creepy,” “crazy” and “weird,” with a habit of posting atheist rants online. In interviews this morning, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that Kelley had been denied a state permit to carry a weapon, and Abbott also said he believes the investigation will show that the Sutherland Springs church was not a target that Kelley chose at random. The Daily Beast reported Sunday that Kelley’s estranged wife’s mother listed a Sutherland Springs address, which seemed to indicate a motive of personal revenge.

The slaughter at the church was stopped by an armed citizen:

Two quick-thinking locals have been hailed as heroes for stopping the man responsible for the worst ever mass shooting in Texas which left 26 dead.
Stephen Willeford, 55, confronted gunman Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, when he was leaving First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, wounding him, before he and Johnnie Langendorff, 27, chased him in a car after he fled.
During the 95mph car chase, Kelley lost control of his vehicle and ran off the road, before shooting himself in the head. He called his father shortly before to say he had been shot and didn’t think he was going to make it.
Texas Department of Public Safety Regional Director Freeman Martin said Willeford ran out his home barefoot with his rifle and ‘engaged the suspect’. . . .
Willeford, a local plumber with no military experience, is however an excellent shot . . . and when he came face to face with Kelley, he shot in between his body armor, hitting him in his side.
At this point Langendorff . . . came across the exchange of fire.
When Kelley dropped his Ruger assault rifle and fled in an SUV, Willeford came up to Langendorff and hopped in his truck.
‘The neighbor with the rifle came to my truck and he opened my door and said, “He shot up the church”, and got in, Langendorff told Good Morning America. ‘He said, “Chase him” so that’s what I did. I just chase him.’ . . .
Langendorff told KSAT 12 that he’d been speeding at 95mph, while on the phone to dispatch, while Willeford kept his rifle trained on the gunman’s car.
As they approached a sharp curve in the road, near the 307 and 539, he said Kelley appeared to lose control and his car swerved off the road.
‘That’s when I put the truck in park,’ he said. ‘The other gentleman jumped out, and had his rifle on him. He didn’t move after that.’
Kelley was already dead when they found him inside his vehicle having shot himself dead. Police revealed during a press conference on Monday that the gunman called his father to let him know he had been shot and he didn’t think he was going to make it.
‘At this time we believe that he had a self-inflicted gunshot wound,’ Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt told CBS News on Monday.

We can expect to learn more about the gunman’s background and motive in the coming days, while Democrats demand new gun-control laws, but the reality here is that the Good Guy with a gun stopped the Bad Guy with a gun, and what Democrats want is to disarm the Good Guys.



 

Category: Crime, Texas

Rule 5 Sunday: Whatever Happened To…

Posted on | November 5, 2017 | 3 Comments

– compiled by Wombat-socho

…the young lady who graced the cover of Playboy with Donald Trump back in March of 1990? Brandi Brandt was named Playmate of the Month in October 1987 and went on to other modeling gigs and small parts in various movies, while being married to Motley Crue drummer Nikki Sixx, with whom she had three kids. Unfortunately, she got busted by the Aussies for cocaine trafficking and spent some time in prison, but she’s been out on parole since 2016, and appears to have aged quite nicely.
As usual, many of the following links are to pictures normally considered NSFW, The management is not responsible for any personal problems caused by your failure to exercise discretion in the clicking. Don’t start none, won’t be none.

Brandi then…

Leading off this week is Ninety Miles From Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #62, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns; Animal Magnetism bats second with Rule 5 Civil War Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes a Fishy Tale, Halloween 2017, Astros Win!, Angharad Rees, Ivanka Trump, Maria Miri Domark, and Happy Birthday U.S. Marine Corps!



…and now (2015)

A View From The Beach graces us with From Austria, Nadine Leopold, Fish Pic Friday – Flatties, The Wisdom of the Hollywood Crowd, Femen Piles On Polansky, Some Halloween Visitors, Happy Halloween!, A Little Hair of the Dog, Yes Virginia, There is a Rape Culture and How to Piss Off a Liberal.

Proof Poisitive’s Friday Night Babe is Rachel Keller, his Vintage Babe is Nina Foch, and Sex in Advertising features a vintage Halloween ad. Also, Women of NCIS and Your Schadenfreude NFL/Niners Report. At Dustbury, it’s Annabella Lwin* and Tabu.

*Formerly of the Malcolm McLaren band Bow Wow Wow, in case you forgot – or weren’t born yet.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! I’m open to suggestions for a topic for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday, if anyone wants to step up and offer one. Links are due no later than midnight on November 11.


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Category: Rule 5

MASSACRE: 26 Killed at Texas Church; Gunman ID’d as Devin Patrick Kelley

Posted on | November 5, 2017 | 1 Comment

A horrific crime was committed this morning when a gunman opened fire at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The gunman is reportedly dead; at least 25 people were killed and 20 others wounded, but we don’t know the killer’s identity or his motive.

UPDATE: The gunman has been identified as Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, a U.S. Air Force veteran. Kelley lived in New Braunfels, a suburb of San Antonio, about 35 miles from Sutherland Springs. According to the Daily Beast, Kelley’s mother-in-law listed an address in Sutherland Springs, which suggests a possible motive of personal revenge stemming from a domestic dispute. While this is mere speculation, of course, it does seem safe to rule out a political or terrorist motive.

UPDATE II: The question of motive is essential to understanding any atrocity like this and, as I often caution in the immediate aftermath of such events, it is important not to jump to conclusions on the basis of our political prejudices. When the news broke that a Baptist church had been attacked, I’m sure some people suspected an anti-religious motive. If the shooter had been identified as a guy named Mohamad or Abdul, this would have suggested Islamic terrorism. If the shooter had been an LGBT activist, this would have suggested a different type of political terrorism. If this had been a church with a black congregation, the motive might have been racial terrorism. As it is, however, we have reason to guess that Devin Kelley was having personal problems, that his marriage may have been unraveling, and that he targeted this church based on motives of personal revenge. This is only guesswork, based on the available information, but we can probably rule out ISIS, neo-Nazis, Antifa or any other sort of terrorism.

UPDATE III: In a press conference, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reports that 26 people are dead, although he did not say whether this total includes the gunman.

UPDATE IV: Kelley “was court-martialed in 2012 for assault on his spouse and their child and received a Bad Conduct Discharge,” NBC News has reported.

UPDATE V: An armed citizen ended the massacre:

A concerned neighbor who heard the Texas church massacre unfolding on Sunday went and grabbed his rifle and tried to stop it — opening fire on the shooter and chasing him down in a stranger’s truck, a report says.
The man, who has not been publicly named, is being hailed online as a “hero” after state officials described his actions during a press conference.
A resident told the local ABC affiliate KSAT that he teamed up with her boyfriend and the two gave chase for several minutes inside his truck before the alleged gunman, Devin Kelley, eventually crashed the car he was in.
Authorities said the armed neighbor may have saved countless lives by opening fire on Kelley and forcing him to flee the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs during his 11:30 a.m. massacre.

Kelley was found shot to death in his vehicles, but authorities said they did not know immediately whether Kelley shot himself or died from a wound inflicted by the rifle-wielding neighbor.

 

Category: Crime, Texas
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