Posted on 07/31/2014 1:41:29 AM PDT by markomalley
I loathe the malicious misuse of the word “gender” in place of the word “sex.” People do not have a gender, they have a sex. Male or female. I wish we could close down all the sick universities in this country and send all the kids to shop class.
I'd support that.
Ping!
Yabbut, someone would have to empty the finger bucket every day...
I think most people would learn to be careful after losing the first digit.
I have never ascribed to the I am responsible for what happens in my life mantra which is obviously a complete characterization of the human condition. I ascribe to the steel ball in the pinball machine of life theory.
It’s not the kids who are the problem - it’s their parents and their professors. They can be trained to be intelligent, diligent people with skills or they can be educated to be politically correct robots. And I don’t remember too many lost fingers in my years in high school. And let’s bring back home ec, too!
True, but if you're starting from scratch with teenagers, it might take a few fingers for them to assimilate, "Sharp things cut you."
Let’s let an expert on the left, David Horowitz, explain. In his book Radicals, he devoted a long chapter to Alinsky, containing the following telling excerpts:The focus on power was illustrated by an anecdote recounted in a New Republic article that appeared during Obama’s [2008] presidential campaign. “When Alinsky would ask new students why they wanted to organize, they would invariably respond with selfless bromides about wanting to help others. Alinsky would then scream back at them that there was a one-word answer: “You want to organize for power!” In Rules for Radicals, Alinsky wrote: “From the moment an organizer enters a community he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army.”…Guided by these principles, Alinsky’s disciples are misperceived as idealists; in fact, they are practiced Machiavellians. Their focus is invariably on means rather than ends. As a result they are not bound by organizational orthodoxies or theoretical dogmatisms in the way their still admired Marxist forebears were. Within the framework of their revolutionary agendas, they are flexible and opportunistic and will say anything (and pretend to be anything) to get what they want, which is power.
http://neoneocon.com/2013/05/17/remember-obamas-an-alinskyite/
I guess I have a different take on young people in America. Where ever I go - whether to a suburban mall or a New York City Starbucks, I meet hard-working, smart teens and young adults. Invariably polite and competent. No body parts in buckets. The kids at my local Barnes & Noble are practically literary geniuses - some writing the great American novel in their parents’ basement and the others training to move into jobs in publishing and editing (if there are any jobs in literature after Hillary’s book destroys Simon and Shuster!) Europeans who visit our country are gob-smacked by our brilliant culture of service - generally manned by young, minimum wage kids.
My perspective is skewed by the example of my sons and their friends! Of course, I don’t see them at work.
Wow, what does that mean?
That my sons and their friends do some stupid and dangerous things with sharp implements and flammable substances.
But at work, they get good reviews.
And electricity. They do stupid things with electricity.
This kind of outright stupidity is bewildering even by Slate standards. This isn’t just PC craziness, this is outright denial of reality.
Just recently I filled out a form that asked:
Male
Female
Other
I’m assuming the “other” category is for those who don’t have a clue.
I’ve been saying this is their next step. If Junior can decide to be the opposite sex at age 3 and have Mom, Dad, and Doctor play along, why bother with the pink and blue for newborns? And for people who think gender roles are an evil social construct to be broken, why then do they support these mentally ill people in choosing to be classically masculine or feminine?
This scenario is already playing out in Sweden, where at least one couple has refused to tell even close relatives the baby’s sex, wanting to raise it ‘gender neutral’ or whatever.
Romans 1:21
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
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