Dems torn over transgender issue: Centrists worry that party is ‘reading the public wrong’.
https://x.com/politico/status/1856638729194012747?t=kJ7Nk1A5LRRRlqyUZWlLWg&s=19
Wait, so they though that the public actually wanted this? And they were following the lead of the public opinion? Can anybody be even more out of touch?
This utter incapacity to understand reality is widely spread on the Left. Among academics who believe that Trump supporters should be banned from voting (true story) the strangest myths about teaching proliferate. I sit with colleagues at a conference, and they try to outcompete each other on whose teaching is more touchy-feely and less demanding.
“I don’t grade anymore! Instead, students decide for themselves which grade they deserve!”
“I don’t do exams or assign essays because it’s too stressful for students!”
“I don’t assign presentations or group projects because students with mental health issues suffer!”
“I don’t do lectures because students get too bored.”
“I tell students I’m not the authority in the classroom, I don’t have the right to say if they are doing well or not and we are completely equal in the classroom.”
“I’m against hierarchy! Merit is racist! If students miss a lot of class it’s probably because they are underprivileged!”
Then it’s my turn to speak and I say, “I do traditional teaching. Lectures, exams, tons of assigned readings, harsh grading, I fail people easily and with gusto, everything is graded strictly on merit, I’m the authority in the classroom, when I speak, everybody else is silent.”
Colleagues stare at me in confusion but I haven’t had an underenrolled class since my first year of teaching and my evaluations are invariably spectacular.
Students actually love rigor, merit, clear expectations, hierarchy and a professor who is authoritative and in control. The Left is making assumptions about human beings that are completely baseless. Its ideology is based entirely on hubris.
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off topic, but also related to being out of touch with the public:
https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1857133601432785227
The FL AG is suing FEMA for discriminating against Trump supporters. I kind of don’t care if they win or lose the case, as long as they get as far as discovery, and the fetid guts of that organization are dissected and laid out for everybody to see.
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LOL, talking about being “out of touch”… apparently Whoopi Goldberg is publicly threatening to join the 4B movement ;-D
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I like how the 4B movement explicitly makes the case for women to use their bodies as bargaining chips and underscore the importance of using their sexuality to achieve political goals. Feminism in 2024.
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What’s the 4B movement? Some pundit I am, completely lost and out of touch.
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That’s the whole women shaving their heads and pretending to boycott sex for the next four years.
Same women for whom unrestricted access to abortion is the #1 issue galaxy-wide, for all time. Something tells me they’re not serious about celibacy.
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Oh, I know! I saw videos of them online. My main question was whether massive offerings of sex were really a huge problem for them because it didn’t look like it.
I also saw a video of a hysterical woman screeching that her 17yo daughter now had to install an IUD because of Trump. I’m not sure what the plan was if Kamala won. Have the kid do unprotected sex and then abort? If that was the plan, they should be mega grateful for Trump.
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There is something seriously wrong with women out there.
The one head-shaving video I ran across was a clearly post-menopausal woman. I mean, she dyed her hair and wore a lot of makeup, but the neck wattles don’t lie. Why does she think her attractiveness to men is valuable enough at this point that she’s punishing anyone by shaving her head??
Personally, I think she looked less fake post-shave (minus the obviously-artificial raven locks), and she had a really excellent bone structure under that, and could definitely pull off the rad-granny look if she let her natural gray come out, and kept the hair closely cropped, like this style:
Like, this style makes total sense if you’re over sixty, single, want to look striking without looking like your sexually-attractive glory days have left you in a ditch and you’re still pining for them because you’ve not developed any other parts of your self. Practical, confident, etc.
But, um, if you’re adopting that look to erase your sexual identity to punish men… and you’re over sixty… uh. That seems a wee bit delusional.
For the younger ladies… if they actually follow through with the celibacy part it’ll be extremely healthy for them, IMO. They could learn a lot about themselves, about self-control and healthy self-respect, not to mention avoiding some unnecessary herpes suffering. I don’t think it’ll happen, but here’s hoping, right?
So, you know, to all the single ladies out there participating in the current Lysistrata movement: cheers! You’re doing great! If they want sex, make them commit to you and your kids first, amiright? Keep it up! You can do it!
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It’s really strange how it’s specifically menopausal women who freak out the most about abortion. Is it a way to somehow pretend they are still in the age of fertility? Is it an imaginative erasure of the unpleasant reality of aging?
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I really think so.
I think a lot of women, especially pretty women, bank on their looks until they’re over forty and fail to develop other parts of their character/personality. When old age inevitably comes for them, what have they got?
Well, they can pretend they’re still sexy…
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They backward engineered themselves into conservative behaviors. Or claim the societal headwinds made them do it. There’s a lot of manosphere paleo pussymacroeconomists who can explain this.
Is this more or less funny if they didn’t post videos doing this for attention?
Would these women be posting these shaving head videos if they didn’t already know they have great bone structure?
I knew a couple of women who’d shave their head every other for St. Baldrick’s or chopping off most of their hair to donate it and they’d be surprised at how people read it. Shaving your head as a sacrifice or in mourning or to help children is very traditionally feminine.
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My sister has crazy thick fast-growing hair. Every couple of years, when she’s grown it out long enough to sit on, she goes and gets a short bob and donates the length.
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We need to congratulate them on supporting Israel by imitating what Orthodox Jewish women do. That will cure them fast.
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But *do* they need curing?
I think four years of celibacy would do them all a world of good.
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Clarissa do you mean women who are fully through menopause or perimenopausal women? Because those are two different freak-outs.
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I’m perimenopausal. Finally, off the birth control pills and so happy. The doctor asked if I have any symptoms and I said that yes, I now sometimes feel irritable. She said it’s probably part of simply being human but I’m attached to my symptom and insist that this is what it is.
Completely off-topic but I crave talking to normal people here at the conference.
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