Posted on 06/30/2017 5:18:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
Some of the most aggressive cultural propaganda today is coming from magazines for teenagers. The biggest crusade is about sex (yes, as soon as possible) and gender, where biology is completely negotiable, and incorrect or bizarre pronouns are nonnegotiable.
Teen Vogue Digital Editorial Director Phil Picardi declared: "For the past year or so, we've made a concerted effort to limit (and, eventually, banish) heteronormativity from all of our content ... we use gender neutral pronouns in almost all contexts. Our readers have appreciated the shift, and often help police our language."
Likewise, Seventeen magazine Executive Editor Joey Bartolomeo announced, "We want Seventeen to be a magazine where all girls feel represented and included, regardless of their sexual identities." The new orthodoxy was installed when the magazine posted a video on June 26 headlined "Trans Students Explain Why Pronouns Are Important."
First, a girl named Leah Juliett announces, "Just because I present more femme, doesn't mean I'm any less they/them." Another girl with the name C Mandler -- let's guess that using a period after C is a troglodyte move -- recounts telling her family over snacks: "Hey, guys. I'm non-binary. I don't have a gender."
Then the Facebook video stops -- for an ad break. Who says these propaganda lessons for children can't make a few bucks on the side? The advertisers included Hewlett-Packard, New York Life and WP Engine.
This is an "education" campaign Seventeen organized with GLAAD, and C Mandler is a GLAAD campus ambassador. CARTOONS | Bob Gorrell View Cartoon
Juliett explains gender deconstruction in astrological terms: "In my opinion, gender is a universe. It is a broad spectrum of planets and stars and sky that truly cannot be contained into a binary. ... So when someone identifies with a pronoun, they're essentially taking their little piece of that broad universe and identifying with that." By using the "correct pronouns," you are "validating that yes, you are right in your identity, and you are important, and we are respecting you."
Validation of this nonsense is mandatory. Gender identity can change on a whim, but it must be deeply honored at all times. The transgender and "genderqueer" humans seem to live in a higher universe, a self-selected class of victims of pronoun-abusing "society."
Mandler continues the tale of snack time with family. She proclaims: "My pronouns are they, them, theirs, and that's a nonnegotiable, and they were all kind of like, 'OK.' ... I know, personally, when I get misgendered by strangers, it's one thing, but it's especially painful when it's people who are close to you. So when my parents misgender me, it's a knife in my heart because they're the people whose opinions matter more to me than anybody else's."
Obviously, the family's opinions do not matter. Only her opinion matters, and only validation is acceptable. She cannot imagine the possibility that parents who brought home a baby daughter might feel pain at this rejection of biology.
Juliett even takes exception to the term "preferred pronouns." They're not a preference; they're like a vital organ! She says: "It's also not a preference; it's who they are. You need to use those pronouns! It's literally an extension of my arm or my leg. It's just as much a part of me as a vital organ. My identity, although you can't see it, still needs to be validated just as much as you would validate the fact that I have five fingers or five toes."
The last metaphor the gender deniers should use is body parts to suggest that their pronouns are as defining as fingers and toes ... or breasts and genitals.
Yes, because the youth aren’t stupid enough.
>>It’s a fidget-spinner of the mind. One more thing to obsess about as an angst filled youth<<
The proper response to “I feel gender confused” is to say “yes, I understand. It is a mental illness, similar to Anorexia. We will seek treatment for you.”
NOT “You need to coddle your confusion which will get worse the more you give into it by dressing and acting like a freak and demanding societal acceptance of your problem. You will probably commit suicide at a very young age*. Sorry, kid.”
*https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/AFSP-Williams-Suicide-Report-Final.pdf
That was a very long post.
I mean really long.
Did I mention it was long? Really long.
They already stole “gay” from us. Likewise “niggardly”
the loss of gay was bad enough; it already feels so strange to use it in some other context; but I’m drawing a damn line at ‘niggardly’...carry on niggards, I say...
and what about the novelist Carla Neggers...? Hmmm....
Great image for the article: “We Don’t Care”. People who claim they “don’t care” sure put a lot of effort into talking about the issue.
Seems like a trans “he” should be a “she”. And vice-versa. Still only need 2 pronouns unless you DO care. There was no epidemic problem until the people who “don’t care” decided we need more than 2 pronouns. And those who think “gender is a choice” decided that anyone who disagrees with them should not allowed (by law) to choose what they feel is right.
I’ve known and been around a few trans individuals (including a close relative) and many other LGBT for about 4 decades now. There weren’t any systemic problems until the people who “don’t care” started trying to make other people care.
Sure there are parts of the city and bathrooms LGBT people should stay away from - but I can say the same as a straight white male. I’m not claiming discrimination just because there are a few blocks in the city where I am guaranteed to be harassed and likely to be assaulted if I enter. It is discrimination based on my skin color - but I don’t care and just stay away from people who hate me. If there was a systemic problem around the city (for me or LGBT) then simply staying away is not enough - change is needed. But, when it’s isolated areas that I or they should stay away from, it’s easy to be smart rather than for laws on EVERYONE (even those who are otherwise allies/friends) knowing the laws won’t change the people who are the real problem.
Reading on your phone?
IOW, if you're NORMAL, you're unwelcome.
Normal- the new "N" word.
>> I’m drawing a damn line at ‘niggardly’..<<
There is no substiute word. “Gay” has happy, carefree, and many more.
“Niggardly” has no easy substitute. “Miserly” isn’t the same. Likewise “cheap,” “tight,” “stingy” or any other similar word.
“He gave his compliments out in a niggardly fashion, as if each one came out of a very limited bag infrequently refilled.”
None of the substitutes really works in that sentence.
Sadly, no.
I just ran out of gas around PPh 10 :)
I'll bet they do.
I equally enjoy a sunny day, and relaxing in a hammock under cover while it pours rain outside...:)
Fake title. Should start out “Female Teen Magazines”.
These magazines are basically corporate propaganda designed to turn our daughters into sexually confused sluts (to be fair, some of the single moms are doing a job of that as well). Don’t let your daughter become a thot!
He, he, he, he, he, he!!!!! She, she, she, she, she, she!!!!!!!
I feel better already.
Throw it right back at them I say. For instance, it is extremely narrow-minded and hetero-normative of them to assume that I am referring to a human male when I use the pronoun ‘he.’ If you ever happen to get into a conversation with one of gender language extremists, you can tell them that the word ‘he’ should be usable to describe a male, female or non-gender person, and that the word ‘she’ should likewise be usable to refer to a male, female or non-gender person. And to think otherwise is, by definition, to be hetero-normative.
Young lady, when you "misgender" yourself, it's a knife in their heart. Make no mistake about it, your parents damn sure know your correct gender.
It’s OK to play at this, people, but when you take it seriously you are insane.
C.I. = Cis Idiots
5.56mm
Exactly. Just how many teens actually read this tripe?
Now they do want to be called its? Used to be derogatory.
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