FGM

~ Clarissa ~ 7 Comments

Why do you say “parents”, though? Has anybody ever heard of a father doing this kind of thing? It’s always the mother’s initiative. And it’s the same motivation. The mother is repelled by the idea of her daughter growing into a woman and enjoying her own body like the mother never did. So she prevents that by mutilating the daughter.

Have you heard of FGM? It’s always pursued by mothers and in very aggressive ways. The justification is, “this was done to me, and now I’m doing it to her.” They say it completely openly, and the look on their faces tells you everything. These women know they were robbed and they can’t stand the idea of their daughters having what they never could.

Of course, what I’m describing is a completely different phenomenon from when a middle-aged man in a very masculine profession suddenly puts a wig on his balding head and insists that everybody call him Rachel. That’s autogynephilia, and it’s an entirely separate thing. This has nothing at all to do with his childhood. That these very different phenomena get grouped together is unfortunate and confuses everybody.

Symbionese Owens

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I got to the chapters in Days of Rage that talk about the Symbionese Liberation Army, and it occurred to me that the word Symbionese is precisely the kind of moronic neologism that Candace Owens would come up with. I keep getting distracted from the reading by images of Candace gravely explaining why it’s a genius term.

She didn’t actually come up with it, of course. She’s too young. But it’s totally her kind of dumbness.

Watching Movies

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Somebody asked if I watched “One Battle Too Many.” I almost never watch movies. All I ever watch is Matt Walsh and an occasional true crime documentary on Netflix. And then, I don’t really watch them. I listen and almost never look at the screen.

With movies, I just can’t process visual images the way I process words. Most actors look the same to me. I get viciously bored having to stare at a screen. N is responsible for Klara’s movie education, and together they have watched every American children’s classic. But I’m useless movie-wise, and I freely admit this.

I love old Soviet movies but my father was there when I watched them and he explained them to me. By myself, I’m impotent.

Is it a good movie? Has anybody on here watched it?

With Conservatives Like These

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Strangely, it never occurs to anybody to argue that half of the Aztec or Inca emperors or African chieftains and kings were white. The only culture that has to be insistently and counterfactually presented as being the today’s embodiment of diverse is the European culture.

More Days of Rage

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When in the mid-1970s radicalized Puerto Ricans graduated from small-scale terror attacks to the deadliest bombings of the radical era, NYPD couldn’t investigate their crimes. A few years previously, civil rights groups had forced NYPD to destroy all the information it had gathered about these terrorists. Police officers weren’t allowed to track their movements, infiltrate their terror cells, or attend their meetings undercover. When Puerto Ricans switched from limited-range to large-scale bombings, NYPD was caught flat-footed, not because it didn’t want to do the work but because it wasn’t allowed to do it.

Does this remind you of anything?

Everybody who immigrates into the US should have to read Days of Rage and get tested on the contents. The reading and the test should also be a pre-condition on receiving a student visa into the country.

National Book Award

~ Clarissa ~ 6 Comments

I’m trying to read an article about this year’s National Book Award, but the reading is not going well because the article is as follows:

Two of the shortlisted novels, by Washington and Alameddine, explore distance and connection between gay men and their mothers. Rutherford’s and Russell’s books are historical fiction, while Majumdar’s novel spends one tense week with an Indian woman trying to emigrate in the face of a climate crisis.

Several of the nonfiction finalists tackle contentious contemporary issues head-on. Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” is about the response of America and Europe to the destruction in Gaza. In “When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World,” Jordan Thomas digs into a destructive six-month fire season sparked by climate change. . .

The other finalists are Kyle Lukoff’s “A World Worth Saving,” which mixes Jewish mythology and adventure in a story about a trans teenager’s efforts to dismantle a conversion therapy program.

https://archive.ph/0ZeJQ

These might all be talented books, by the way.  They sound moronic because the person The New York Times paid to write the article is a moron who hates literature. She thinks that reading is about familiarizing yourself with “issues.” An intellectual invalid who has no idea how to derive pleasure from reading.

I researched her, and it turns out she wrote a novel. About issues. And fashionable identities.

Therapy Ban

~ Clarissa ~ 11 Comments

There should be a ban on therapy for children, period. Any therapy.

Children are never the problem.

More Leftist Violence

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This is now a daily occurrence. It’s very concerning. If you have any time at all, please read Days of Rage. Or I’ll record a video about the book and bug everybody with it.

Meantime

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Meantime, in Russia: