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Posted on 06/07/2026 7:39:27 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Has Kathy Hochul, the Governor of New York, finally caught up with Aldous Huxley? We’ll find out very soon. A bill passed by the New York House and Senate just made it to the governor’s desk. She has ten days to sign it into law. The bill would require proceedings in state family court, child custody cases, and other domestic concerns scrap the words “mother” with the phrase “gestating parent” and “father” with “non-gestating parent.”
This little piece of linguistic insanity is a sop to the pathetic coven of woke sexual exotics who place biology high up on their list of impermissible intrusions into their narcissistic claims of unfettered autonomy. The whole machinery of reproduction, with its tiresome “binaries” and static gender roles, is something they regard with a mixture of resentment and horror.
Huxley predicted some such rebellion in his novel Brave New World. That book might be second-rate fiction—its characters wooden, its narrative overly didactic— but it has turned out to have been first-rate prognostication. Although published nearly a century ago, in 1932, it touches everywhere on twenty-first-century anxieties. Perhaps the aspect of Huxley’s dystopian—what to call it: fable? prophecy? admonition?—that is most frequently adduced is its vision of a society that has perfected what we have come to call genetic engineering.
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Calling the woman who gave birth to you “mother” may soon be verboten. Cheering as sexually exotic freaks prance, twerk, and gyrate at an official city government colloquy is not just OK, it is something we must celebrate. “O brave new world, that has such people in’t.”
I guess New York gangstas are going to have to adjust their most common profanity.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire
The Democrats are pushing a lot of absurdities on increasingly uneducated and low functioning constituency and we seeing the increase in extreme and violent behavior that is rapidly reaching the point of atrocities
This is not new. Names (placeholder) have been used for a long time. It’s just a fashion. Past uses include:
A. N. Other - used as a pseudonym by a person wishing to remain anonymous.
Alan Smithee - used by film directors who wish to disown a project.
Babyboy and Babygirl - used as placeholder names by medical personnel for unnamed or unidentified infants placed in their care.
Fred Bloggs or Joe Bloggs - used primarily in the United Kingdom to represent an average man.
G.I. Joe - is an informal term which refers to members of the United States Armed Forces.
J. Random Hacker - an arbitrary programmer.
Joe Shmoe - meaning “Joe Anybody”, or no one in particular.
John Doe and Jane Doe - are multiple-use placeholder names that are used in the British, Canadian, and American legal systems.
John Q. Public - is a generic name and placeholder name, especially in American English, to denote a hypothetical member of society.
Nomen nescio - is used to signify an anonymous or unnamed person.
This is just a selling point for the power they perceive they have and want to flex using nothing as a source to pull someone’s chain. In New York, they can do what they want to try to con the public that they are so all powerful they can change anything at will. But it means nothing in reality. They are their little hole in the wall state and can be the big fish in their little pond.
The words “mother” and “father” do not appear in the text of the U.S. Constitution. The founding document does not explicitly define these family roles. However, the U.S. Supreme Court interprets the 14th Amendment’s Due Process Clause to protect the fundamental rights of parents to direct the care, upbringing, and education of their children. And that can’t be changed in most cases by calling someone by another name.
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When I see an XY person give birth, then I'll call a mother a gestating parent. That is a statement from my wife, the gestating parent of our kids. The non gestating parent wanted to post something else, but wife said I might be banned.
Dig those dystopian novels. This one would make a great flick. Don’t know of one.
I take that back. Kaer Dullea-1980.
I think there was a made for TV UK film done. 2001’s Keir Dullea i think was the lead.
I have been posting all over how we have arrived a the BRAVE NEW WORLD of Huxley as the word “Mother” in the book was so vile it was printed as “M****r”.
I read it back in the 1960s and never forgot how they changed the words after test tube babies no longer needed a “M****r”
Just another ridiculous assault on fatherhood, as well as motherhood.
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