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From 1970s-Era Academic ‘High Theory’ to Transgender Bathrooms on Campus
National Review ^ | May 16, 2016 | Heather Mac Donald

Posted on 05/16/2016 7:03:03 AM PDT by detective

One take-away from the transgender-bathroom wars is that the public ignores arcane academic theory at its peril. For two decades, a growing constellation of gender-studies, queer-studies, and women’s-studies departments have been beavering away at propositions that would strike many people outside academia as surprising — such as that biological sex and “gender” are mere ideological constructs imposed by a Eurocentric, heteronormative power structure. Even though skeptical journalists have regularly dived into the murky swamp of academic theory and returned bearing nuggets of impenetrable jargon and even stranger ideas, the public and most politicians have shrugged off such academic abominations, if they have taken note at all. (Senator Marco Rubio’s deplorable jab at “philosophy majors” during his presidential run demonstrated how clueless your typical politician is about the real problems in academia.)

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: academia; feminism; highereducation; homosexualagenda; leftismoncampus
This is a very interesting article. It traces the culture war to the Communist feminism ideology that became entrenched in academia in the 1970's. The 1970's feminists were communists who wanted to destroy America by destroying patriarchy. They found a place in universities and used their attacks on America to advance their careers.

Women's Studies departments led to Gender Studies and Queer Studies. The ideology of gender as capitalistic oppression was pushed on naïve impressionable young people for decades.

The politicization of gender has now infiltrated the government bureaucracies and the courts.

Confused and impressionable teenage boys are encouraged to change their gender, mutilate their genitals and take massive amounts of hormones to achieve gender reassignment.

Teenage girls are now told they must be required to have any man who identifies as a female watch them when they undress or use the bathroom.

This agenda is quite simply an evil attack on our society. It is deliberate and coordinated and meant to destroy us.

1 posted on 05/16/2016 7:03:03 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

I could ache for some accuracy. There are very annoying moral problems lurking in the new bathroom brouhahas, but making it sound like reefer madness is going to plant the seeds of doubt towards traditional ideas long after the country has, in practice, capitulated.

Women don’t “watch each other going to the bathroom” now. Stalls are de rigueur for them. Men can, indirectly, at urinals and that’s as close as it gets. Impostors don’t get any closer unless we are talking camera operators, which can be of either sex.


2 posted on 05/16/2016 7:09:15 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: detective
Wading Into Left-Speak: The Closing of the American Mind.
3 posted on 05/16/2016 7:14:42 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: detective

Heather Mac Donald is always a must read.


4 posted on 05/16/2016 7:15:44 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: detective

When I was a kid, growing up in the Deep South during the 50’s and 60’s, every public building, bus station, gas station, department store and restaurant had three sets of restrooms, Men - Women and - Colored. Sometimes there were men and women ‘Colored’ separated.

Some restaurants, not all, had separate dining facilities for blacks and whites, if they served blacks at all.
I remember the Greyhound bus station in our local small town had two complete and totally separate snack bar / restaurants for whites and blacks, and two separate waiting room areas for passengers waiting for the bus.

Even as a child I thought this was extremely stupid, if just from an economic standpoint. Building extra restrooms was an expensive proposition, and completely unnecessary and immoral as well.

‘Separate but Equal’ should have died in 1965, but I guess the ‘smart people’ in our universities have resurrected it from the dead.

What will these idiots in ‘academia’ want next? Separate drinking fountains?............................


5 posted on 05/16/2016 7:21:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: Red Badger

drinking fountains are passe.

Bottled water is in

store bought or brought from home in your own container


6 posted on 05/16/2016 7:23:53 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

The government forcing schools and other institutions to allow biological males into women’s locker rooms, changing rooms and bathrooms is just one small part of an agenda to destroy America.

It should not be looked at by itself. It is a part of a larger agenda.


7 posted on 05/16/2016 7:31:37 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

Those other problem areas shouldn’t be lumped in with it, but addressed separately, or again we get a situation of accusing reefer madness because some smokers also took LSD with it.


8 posted on 05/16/2016 7:33:36 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

You are being “obtuse”. It is the culture. The culture shapes all attitudes and beliefs in the children.

Sane, moral Common Sense, Reality is being erased for children so they remain as Fichte WANTED in 1810——for children to grow up to be so irrational they “think” “snow is black” and Slavery is Freedom.

This is ALL to destroy Common Sense in children—to normalize the idea that males and females are interchangeable (pure Marxism) and to destroy ‘privacy” instincts in humans—esp. the dignity and respect (mystery) of “the Other” (the most diverse (male/female)-—is being ERASED in the minds of children.

They are being brainwashed as I speak to believe that a man sodomizing other males is “Good” and this is in kindergarten (to destroy Logic/Meaning and Chrisitan Worldview). Same with baby-killing, little girls being taught to “kill” their OWN genetic offspring is a RIGHT (destroys Common Sense and Logic and Christian Worldview). They teach 3rd grade boys how to masturbate and show children porn-—to destroy innocence, to pervert desires/flip good and evil/normalize Vice-—becuase it WILL destroy civil society and moral formation and make the State control (outer control) necessary when all inner control (virtue) is destroyed in children.

The Cultural Marxists invented Sex Ed (Lukacs) to collapse Hungary—destroy Virtue in children to force a dependency (slavery) in the minds of children. Our schools intentionally puke out Bernie Bots because they embed irrationality—the inability to be a critical thinker (it is intentional—they removed Classical Christian Curricula in the 30s to destroy the ability to “think” coherently (to collapse Western Civ and reduce our children to “tribal” (irrational) minds (easily enslaved).

Vice creates Slavery. (Aristotle/Socirates). Now our “Justice” System promotes Vice 24/7-—and we allow the unconstitutional “Just” Laws to destroy moral formation in the masses (to promote Satanism/Paganism and Marxism).

The Age of Reason, Common Sense (Reason/Logic/Virtue)-—the most REASONED religion always has been Christianity. No contest. The ONLY perfect Virtue system got rid of Slavery, baby-sacrifice/killing, pederasty, homosexuality, bestiality, misogyny—all normal in all other cultures.

That is why the Cultural Marxists in Germany with Gramsci, Adorno said to get the children and condition them to “think” like a Malthusian, Marxist (Sociallist)-—all irrational-—all tribal worldview where sodomizing boy (Afghanistan) is “normal” as is killing/raping children (Jimmy Savile/Satanism) (Franklin Cover-Up.

The elites have been evil psychopaths/Malthusians and they need to “kill God” (Christianity)-—and they do it by controlling all the images and words little children hear (on TV/Movies/Schools—all promote Satanism; and paganism and “hate” and “vice”. (Watch the culture some time—a children’s show had add of two males kissing in a obscene way in a commercial embedded in youtube-—what embedded “idea” will that insert into a child?

All this homosexuality “talk” does is normalize it for young children-—innocence is essential of learn being “the Other” with dignity and mystery so “Love” and appreciation will occur. All homosexual cultures in the past and present were extremely hateful of “the Other”-—like the homosexual Afghani “hate” women and think they are filthy-—why they sodomize even the girls.

True Love between male and female is a Christian concept ONLY. It takes treating the opposite sex with dignity and respect ALWAYS-—ESP. in childhood.

Teaching children it is GOOD to mutilate and drug and hate God’s Design of the body is paganism and teaching Vice is Good (paganism/Satanism).

Destroying the Christian Worldview is the point and you have to corrupt the little children and destroy Common Sense and Reason and Flip Good and Evil.

My brothers-—all moral, good males never even “HEARD” or “Knew” about sodomizing little boys/males/goats-—(all is being normalized in little boys now to flip culture to a pagan, evil one.

Aristotle: Without Virtue embedded in young children, they will NOT grow up to be virtuous. They will be evil and without virtue, civil society and Freedom can’t exist. That is the Marxists point....to collapse morality to create slaves for the State.

Fichte’s wet dream where children have no “Free Will” (choice) (1810)—they will be so irrational, they will “think” “Snow is Black” and the belief will be unshakable so that the State will need no army for total control of the minds of the masses. “Prussian school system was created for mass indoctrination (operant conditioning to make immorality, unnatural “normal”. It created the minds of the Hitler Youth.


9 posted on 05/16/2016 7:38:45 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: savagesusie

If attending to knotty facts makes me obtuse, then obtuse I will be.

Where were the big conspiracy theorists decades ago, Susie? This looks painfully self centered.


10 posted on 05/16/2016 7:41:04 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: detective

Obama’s Coed Bathroom Madness (links)including possible crimes

http://townhall.com/columnists/mattbarber/2016/05/15/obamas-coed-bathroom-madness-n2163090?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
The operative phrase here is, “does not have the force of law.” This is a cynical exercise in pure propaganda on the part of the Obama administration.

Next on 0’s agenda females in men’s rooms. Not to mention the danger the use of is to small boys to old to use the women’s facilities with their mom’s. Are you MOM’S going to make sure your small sons are “SAFE”? Or are you going to keep your eyes and ears closed as you’ve done for decades?

Neither place is safe any more.


11 posted on 05/16/2016 7:46:22 AM PDT by GailA (any politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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To: GailA

Mothers would sometimes bring little boys into the privacy of ladies room stalls to help them do their business, and everybody understood. Less common, but possible, was for a father to bring a small daughter into the privacy of a men’s room stall.

As you seem to hint, nobody was really safe anyhow; the sense of safety was a fig leaf that depended on good manners being observed in the rooms.


12 posted on 05/16/2016 7:54:22 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
If you would like to learn more you can read this.

http://www.bookwormroom.com/2016/05/13/sex-and-state-power-whats-behind-obamas-transgender-push/

The transgender agenda being pushed by the media and the government is just a small part of a larger movement to undermine and destroy our culture.

13 posted on 05/16/2016 7:57:03 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

Yes, I hear a lot today about conspiracies or accused conspiracies.

But oddly, thinking people insist on looking at facts and treating situations case by case as their needs arise. The treatment doesn’t depend on whether or not there is a conspiracy.

Going too deep into conspiracy fears can lead to things like Prohibition, or today’s expensive and largely vain drug wars, in which many prophecies become self fulfilling because nobody looks at the roots of the problem, which is a voluntary loss of the love of God.


14 posted on 05/16/2016 8:00:29 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: detective

What will we have gained if we guard our bathrooms, but not our own hearts, jealously?


15 posted on 05/16/2016 8:02:08 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: detective

And in a sense the conspiracy theorists are right, but they don’t finger the correct dramatis personae. The ultimate enemy is unseen; popularly known as the devil. That’s where God makes the buck ultimately stop. People can be forgiven; the devil can’t, and would refuse it if he could.

And the devil is more powerful than any other than God. God never told anyone to allocate bathrooms in a certain way; God told everyone to refrain from adultery and observe the holiness of matrimony where applicable. We might take a look at His primary priorities before we get all exercised about secondary, derivative human artifacts.

Trying to re-explain God’s plan in human terms is simply iniquity. It is not being fair to God.


16 posted on 05/16/2016 8:11:00 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: detective

>>biological sex and “gender” are mere ideological constructs

Meanwhile in reality land...

http://www.google.com/search?q=Sex+Evolution+and+Behavior+Daly+Wilson

Got Fitness?

If there’s an “ideological construct” involved - it’s more likely to be observed in the deliberate manufacture of environmental stress and the resulting socio-bioligical dysfuntion being concocted by the post-modern analogues of the Pharaoh’s state-establishing, self-worshiping, fellow royally inbred eunuch/perverts.


17 posted on 05/16/2016 8:30:05 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: detective

bump


18 posted on 05/16/2016 8:31:06 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

The large malls have solved that issue with a ‘family’ bathroom, that is in between the 2 regular gender bathrooms.

I have mental scars from the ‘Butch’ PE teacher I had to endure in HS having to check/look that 13 year old girls had showered after PE. Girls that age are very sensitive to smelling bad, there was no need for her to check we took showers, it was her way of getting her jollies before they came out of the ‘closet’.

But then we were a more moral society back then than we are today. 70’s era High Theory to Transgender bathrooms on campus HISTORY LESSON
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435419/transgender-bathroom-college-campus-feminism-poststructuralism-academic-theory-modesty


19 posted on 05/17/2016 7:21:39 AM PDT by GailA (any politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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