Posted on 12/23/2021 9:52:59 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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"...
Every year during what the US has designated as "pride month" in June, American embassies around the world fly the rainbow flag in most embassies throughout the globe, including in Moscow and throughout Eastern Europe, where countries like Poland tend to be more conservative that Western Europe.
Of course, there's a notable exception: US embassies in conservative Muslim nations like Saudi Arabia and Iraq did not fly the rainbow flag this year. The Saudis, it should be remembered, is America's closest Arab ally and partner.
USA embassy in Moscow puts up a pride flag. Did the state department do this in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, or any other countries where being gay is a literal death sentence? https://t.co/VhK2fjP8ud — Chris Tomlinson (@TomlinsonCJ) June 30, 2020
As Putin's comments suggested, the whole trans and LGBTQ++ movement seems to be bound up with US foreign policy abroad. In prior months, Kremlin officials have accused US-based NGOs of intentionally trying to influence Russian society with these "new ethics" - resulting in a crackdown on the degree which they can freely operate. This as Russia has laws on the books that make it illegal to propagandize children on these issues outside of parental consent.
Putin is a communist.
The communist manifesto had one of the goals to take down america by promoting perversion.
Putin is a massive hypocrite. he worked all his life to encourage perversion in the united states and then has the hypocritical balls to chide america for the perversion he helped foster as part of the communist manifesto’s goals for the country.
Can we trade Putin for Biden?
Please!?!?!?
We’re so screwed as a society when Putin speaks the unimpeachable truth on this issue and deservedly has the moral high ground.
Gender is a fact.
Putin was a communist. Now he’s a Russian Nationalist. It’s an open question on whether he is religious but he realizes the importance of religion in society so that is why he has worked to reestablish the Russian Orthodox Church’s place in the Russian society.
I think you’re pretty close to the truth there.
Beyond that, the Woke nonsense is merely an expansion of the
propaganda they fed our kids in the 70s and 80s.
Those kids are now running things in our education system
and expanding the kooky ideas into the realm of absolute
absurdity. Chaos is the goal. We’re there.
“A Woman is a Woman, and a Man is a Man!”
That sounds like the English title for a French movie from the 1980’s, a melodrama maybe starring Catherine Deneuve.
If it were to be a parody or farce from that same period;
Gerard Depardieu is your man.
He is right about this.
RE: Gerard Depardieu is your man.
Ironically Depardieu publicly stated he was handing back his French passport in 2013 and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an Executive Order granting Russian citizenship to Depardieu.
Imagine a leader of your country talking common sense and actually having the best interests in its citizens in mind. Its been less than a year...
With Gerard D. I get the impression his primary motivation in becoming a Russian citizen is to avoid having too much more of his money sucked away by French and Euro related taxes.
The French mostly ridiculed the Brits for Brexit.
Some may be having second thoughts about Brussels running everybody’s business life and every body’s borders.
‘Putin was a communist. Now he’s a Russian Nationalist. It’s an open question on whether he is religious but he realizes the importance of religion in society so that is why he has worked to reestablish the Russian Orthodox Church’s place in the Russian society.’
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Yup, but I’d say he’s more a pragmatic opportunist than a devotee of any political order. He just enjoys being the boss of what is now a gangster/capitalist nation. Being a realist, he kind of becomes the power drunk blind squirrel who’s finding a nut of universal truth every now & then. Like most Russians, he does have regret over losing the huge geographic & societal swag the USSR enjoyed.
I don’t know how much of what Putin says he actually believes....but he knows what people want to hear to keep his country united, regardless if we agree or not.
I would substitute Putin for Biden in a hot second
I believe you have personally ordered the execution of political opponents and you have stolen 60 billion from the Russian people you say you are trying to protect. But, on this point, and one or two other’s lately, you are spot on correct!
The only one to say it better than you is Mark Robinson.
“A Woman Is A Woman, Man Is A Man”: Vladimir Putin Vows To Protect Russia From West’s “Gender Obscurantism”
...unless we are talking Olympics. Then we’ll go with the old USSR paradigm that a man is a woman.
Nope, gender is a made up term cribbed from linguistics to obscure the clear definition of biological sex.
Yes, and he is continuing the USSR tradition of using America's idiotic policies against us. In the 50's and 60's it was racism and segregation. Today, it is the tyranny agenda. The problem is he is right. But it still is no basis to accept Russian authoritarianism or hegemony over its neighbors.
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