Posted on 12/23/2021 9:33:47 PM PST by blam
During his marathon annual year-end press conference Q&A, which this year lasted about four hours, Russian President Vladimir Putin once again vowed to defend Russian society against the intrusion of the corrupted values of the West, in particular blasting the “gender obscurantism” pushed by the United States and Europe.
“I am a proponent of the traditional approach that a woman is a woman and a man is a man,” Putin laid out, which it goes without saying also reflects basic Biology 101 and humans’ self-understanding for thousands upon thousands of years. He continued in the remarks on gender: “A mother is a mother, a father is a father. And I hope that our society has the internal moral protection dictated by the traditional religious denominations of the Russian Federation.”
Throughout the remarks he called it basic “common sense” – which strongly suggested that the opposite is currently the rule of the day in America and the West generally, where people fear being “canceled” in their jobs and during public discourse if they don’t confirm to concepts of ‘gender fluidity’ and Frankenstein reassignment surgeries, which is even increasingly being pushed on children.
Putin was responding to a question form a journalist over recent gender controversies in the West, and also the way it has impacted women’s sports.
“And we learned to treat each other with respect. And what does it mean? That also means treating the foundations of our traditional spiritual culture with respect. All the peoples of the Russian Federation, I would like to stress, all of them have a certain internal moral protection against this obscurantism that you’ve just mentioned,” the Russian leader said.
“If somebody thinks that a woman and a man are the same thing, they’re welcome to [their opinion], but a certain common sense should exist.”
Holding up his country’s traditional values as the “antidote” to the “new ethics”, he also seemed to allude to the “spiritual values” of the Russian Orthodox Church, which has long been dominant in Russian society.
That’s when he likened the West’s attempts to push these things on Eastern Europe to a viral infection… “just like the coronavirus pandemic,” he said…
“Just like with the coronavirus pandemic one can’t escape [non-traditional values coming from abroad]. We need to look for an antidote.”
At his annual press conference, Vladimir Putin is asked about cancel culture and JK Rowling’s anti-trans opinions:
Putin, thru translator: “If someone thinks that a man and a woman is the same thing, well let them think that. But there is common sense.” pic.twitter.com/YT4DB94XNr
— The Recount (@therecount) December 23, 2021
Referring indirectly to last summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo which saw New Zealand transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard – who is a biological man – compete as a woman, Putin described situations where it’s now as simple as someone “declaring that he is a woman and starts competing in weightlifting”.
“And it is necessary to fight this not with direct orders and shouts and accusations but with the support for our traditional values,” he asserted further. Additionally according to a description in TASS of his remarks, he “cited the example of an incident in the US when a criminal serving time for rape declared that he was female and after a transfer to a women’s prison committed the same crime in his cell.”
The remarks also come at a time that multiple sports controversies have erupted in the US regarding trans competitors, particularly the ongoing saga of a University of Pennsylvania “male-to-female” swimmer who’s smashing all records…
Swimming world magazine editor says trans swimmer has same advantage ‘doping’ provideshttps://t.co/H3zGVEj4zP
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 20, 2021
In comments earlier this year Putin called imposing transgender teaching on children a “crime against humanity”…
Fine, we’ll just bio-engineer gender-changing mRNA into your Russian vaccines, then.
Putin appears to believe in science and biology. That won’t set well with the authoritarian dictators here in the US
Putin might want to revisit some Soviet-era Olympic records if he’s serious about this. I bet there’s some ‘splaining to be done in a few events.
The man aint wrong on this one.
As Rush would say, he lives in Realville.
Putin only voiced the obvious. Our country has lost it’s common sense, and it’s moral compass.
May God help us.
It’s a crying shame when I can agree more with a Russian Dictator than I can with our American POTUS. I cannot believe how far we’ve fallen as a nation.
Fun fun fun if America tries to insist some man compete as a female in the Olympics ...
We don’t want the “gender” bullshit here either.
The TQGBL perverts is a tiny minority who have gaslit people into believing they are the majority.
ooooops- now he’s done it- he’s made sleepy very very angry now
Women’s shot put, say.
“A Woman Is A Woman, Man Is A Man”: Putin Vows To Protect Russia From West’s “Gender Obscurantism”
For people wondering why our State Department and Democrats are ready to start a nuclear war with Russia, statements like the above are it. Putin started these policies in Russia in 2014, and almost to the day, Russia went from being our friend to being our mortal enemy (in the eyes of Skunk Cabbage and Obama, at least, along with McCain and many other Republicans).
I agree with Putin!!
So what did Putin have to say about democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc?
Do we have freedom of speech, religion, etc. here in the US?
Only what the government allows us to have, just like Russia.
Please, Putin's been in power for 20 years,and will be for the next 20. To equate Russian freedom's to ours is silly.
Hmmmm.
The Russian President makes sense.
The Resident and his minions have ZERO common sense.
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