The book Born Ready... follows the story of Penelope, an apparently biological female who asserts “ ‘I AM a boy.’ ” Id., at 458a. Not only does the story convey the message that Penelope is a boy simply because that is what she chooses to be, but it slyly conveys a positive message about transgender medical procedures. Penelope says the following to her mother:
“ ‘I love you, Mama, but I don’t want to be you. I want to be Papa. I don’t want tomorrow to come because tomorrow I’ll look like you. Please help me, Mama. Help me to be a boy.’ ” Id., at 459a.
Penelope’s mother then agrees that Penelope is a boy, and Penelope exclaims: “For the first time, my insides don’t feel like fire. They feel like warm, golden love.” Id., at 462a. To young children, the moral implication of the story is that it is seriously harmful to deny a gender transition and that transitioning is a highly positive experience....
A child's "insides" described as feeling like fire or, alternatively, warm, golden love! Quite aside from the topic of transgenderism, that is — if not blatantly sexual — too closely approximate to sexuality to belong in reading material for children. If I say I'm amazed that school authorities would adopt such a book for classroom instruction, I am sure commenters will scoff at me for being too naive to perceive the deliberate "grooming."
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"Quite aside from the topic of transgenderism, that is — if not blatantly sexual — too closely approximate to sexuality to belong in reading material for children ..."
They want to fuck children.
This is how they groom them. And us.
I am sure commenters will scoff at me for being too naive to perceive the deliberate "grooming."
School authorities are raping the kids, Ann. Don't you read the paper?
The NEA is the world's largest pedophile organization.
Elizabeth Colorado: the explicit sex in books found in the public school library - make most adults gasp.
Not even a reality-based anecdote. If a child really did say that, - a real caring parent would handle it better than - "hey jump in the car kiddo - lets get you chemically castrated right now."
Compared to the ai-generated elf harem porn kids are accessing these days, "Born Ready" seems rather tame.
This is grooming and child abuse.
The United States succeeded in making child rape taboo. This is unique in the world. Every where else child rape is the norm.
Large numbers of people are attracted to children sexually. This is double digits. We act like it is abnormal but it isn’t.
The only way to stamp this out is ruthless enforcement of age limits in societal rules.
"They want to fuck children.
This is how they groom them. And us."
Tranzgenderizm is a two-fisted combo. If they can't groom them for sexual gratification, the damage it does eventually tombs them.
No. You're good. It's grooming.
Not so long ago, one boy murdered another because "Dexter," the television show about a serial killer, convinced him that he could only find "release" by killing someone. He thought murder would make him feel better about himself and about life. Should we really be meddling with children's internal feelings? If we must, shouldn't we do it responsibly?
You can be amazed at how unsurprising it is that school officials treat their students as test subjects for their own crazy ideas and at how crazy those ideas sometimes are.
Dan Caplis read some of the public school library sex books excerpts - out loud on his radio show. (Elizabeth, Colorado)
Sick stuff about a male parent forcing his young daughter to prove her love to daddy. I'll let you figure out what that meant.
It was very explicit.
Proving once again - that the sex in children's books is there to push sex with children acceptance into the mainstream.
The sad joke - the ACLU fought to keep such books on the shelves in Elizabeth.
The problem for the gay and lesbian community is that they are on the same spectrum of sexual deviancy as pedophilia. Everything that is not biologically meant to procreate and continue the species is deviant from biological norms.
The people who should be the biggest opponents of this abomination are the gay Lesbian bisexual community.
If they do not draw the line then the majority will. If you want a level of sexual deviancy tolerated then you need to recognize that as soon as you start going at people’s children you cross a line. You are getting in between momma bear and her cubs.
The LGB are being put in harms way by malicious actors.
They better make good choices here and be loud about it. I say this as someone who likes homosexuals and has a lot of friends in that community.
Who are these people? Where did they come from? What made them this way?
How do we get rid of them?
The same people pushing men in women's sports and spaces - are all A-OK with highly inappropriate sex in books found in the Public School library.
THEY all lie about it, too. Hiding behind BS democrat party Maddow-media "book banning" lies.
Because this nonsensical shit will NOT stop.
Achilles said:
"The problem for the gay and lesbian community is that they are on the same spectrum of sexual deviancy as pedophilia."
Not true at all. Some, sure. A majority of homosexuals are not OK with sex child abuse.
"Gays against groomers" is real.
Even discussing this topic encourages children to hate themselves.
Gays against Groomers
So no tomboys grow up to be very feminine women? Become wonderful wives and mothers? Just thought I’d ask.
Hey leftists - leave. them. kids. alone.
Leftists - they ruin everything - including the innocence of childhood.
Peachy said...
Achilles said:
"The problem for the gay and lesbian community is that they are on the same spectrum of sexual deviancy as pedophilia."
Not true at all. Some, sure. A majority of homosexuals are not OK with sex child abuse.
"Gays against groomers" is real.
Did you read my post at all?
Can you understand words?
"Elf harem porn"? (RSM)
Why was I not told about this sooner?
Achilles - I did read your post - but his is not correct:
"The problem for the gay and lesbian community is that they are on the same spectrum of sexual deviancy as pedophilia."
@Achilles, since men think about Rome all the time, your comment reminded me of a specific Roman practice to protect freeborn Roman boys and girls from pedophilic predation: the Bulla & Lunula.
Rome was in certain aspects pederasty-friendly - unfree youth were considered "fair game" for any freeborn Roman male to do what they wanted with, excepting their owners permission. The only way to signal specific children were off limits was for their freeborn parents to warn others as such with amulets.
In other words a "red line" exists and has existed in all societies, even pedo-adjacent ones, that excludes sexual predation of most or all children. Homosexuals would do well to familiarize themselves with the historical allegories of the bad things that have happened when that line was crossed and police their deviancy and that of some of their members.
The word is out and the line has been found. Keep testing it at your peril.
"Why was I not told about this sooner?"
Internet Rule 34 needs not be told, it is simply understood.
Rule 34: "If it is on the internet, there is porn of it."
The first order of business is to stop feeding teens the term "gender-affirming care".
Bisexuality and homosexuality are common among social species, especially primates. There are sound evolutionary explanations for it.
Any argument built around "biological norms" has to recognize homosexual behaviors as normal at a species level even if not at an individual level.
I am sure commenters will scoff at me for being too naive to perceive the deliberate "grooming."
We aren’t scoffing by the way.
We are pointing out that you are trying to misdirect and assign good motives to people who have bad motives.
We don’t think you are naive. We think you are wrong to give monsters the benefit of the doubt.
On Amazon, the kid looks to be about 6 years old. Does any kid say things like, "I don't want to be you, I want to be papa"?
If this book were about anything else, we would call it propaganda. If the kid said that she wanted to kill a deer, and the parents were confused, but supportive, would the Progressives love this book?
I read James Baldwin, Gide, and Jean Genet in high school. Dislike book banning but perhaps acceptable for high school, 16+, on a high shelf, not promoted. But perhaps restraint is unrealistic today.
btw - Achilles - I do agree that the homosexual community need to do a much better job on this issue. Sadly - it's political! Many homosexuals are on team D- and as with most people on the cult that is team D - their loyalty to leftist causes trumps the safely of children.
Queer eye for the confused girl and MIC, PIC, SIC, and DIC with forward-looking profits. Levine's Dreams of Herr Mengele.
Gender (e.g. sexual orientation). Trans- a state or process of divergence. Transgender spectrum. #NoJudgment #NoLabels
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Peachy said...
Achilles - I did read your post - but his is not correct:
"The problem for the gay and lesbian community is that they are on the same spectrum of sexual deviancy as pedophilia."
Anything not specific to the act of procreation is deviant from biological norms.
Start at masturbation and oral sex and you slide right into homosexual sex and anal sex. As you keep going on that scale you descend into pederasty and pedophilia and bestiality and rape.
Societies have regulated and discussed sexual this spectrum for millennia.
Children are innocent until an adult takes that away.
These behaviors are the norm around the world. Not addressing reality will lead to outcomes that are unsatisfactory.
Restricting age-inappropriate books from certain grades in public school libraries is not "book banning". But the Left screams loud. If we disagree about the appropriateness of certain books, let's put them out there for public debate.
+1 to Jamie.
"If we disagree about the appropriateness of certain books, let's put them out there for public debate."
When they've done that with whichever one of these books has young boys giving blowjobs to adult men, the people running the public debate have tried to shut the debate down.
Wonder why.
Anything not specific to the act of procreation is deviant from biological norms.
Yes, dysfunctional. The only known fitness function is procreation. Other behaviors may be tolerated, but there is no rational cause to normalize. Morality tempers or moderates our more liberal proclivities.
tim maguire said...
Bisexuality and homosexuality are common among social species, especially primates. There are sound evolutionary explanations for it.
Any argument built around "biological norms" has to recognize homosexual behaviors as normal at a species level even if not at an individual level.
It is a biological norm to seek dopamine release deriving from sexual pleasuring of sex organs. Every animal wants dopamine.
Humans have higher level cognitive functions. We can think about how we want society to function and outcomes we want.
Most of the world rapes their children particularly the poor. Every country in the world has some sort of institutional child rape.
The United States deviates from this.
In order to find the right societal balance and move towards outcomes you want you need to be able to properly define the terms of the discussion. Churches have banned masturbation before. The priests in Afghanistan have rules for the use and procurement of pocket boys. Gay men have mostly been killed if they were indiscreet.
Really most of this subject has been muddied by a deliberate attempt to obscure descriptions of all of these activities.
I will point out that institutional child rape has been taboo in the US.
But Joe Biden “lost” hundreds of thousands of children at the border and made no attempt to find them.
The people using Biden as a puppet were the largest sex traffickers in history. There are thousands of kids being used as sex slaves in the US because of the Biden administration.
The purpose of criticizing masturbation is to normalize individual self-moderation and a functional relationship between the sexes.
Pedophilia is licit under Democratic law. It follows progressive principles in states with liberal license to abort, sequester the "burden" of evidence in darkness.
Does any kid say things like, "I don't want to be you, I want to be papa"?
Maybe, but no kid says something like, “For the first time, my insides don’t feel like fire. They feel like warm, golden love.”
Librarians curate their book collections. Choosing not to include some books, for whatever reasons, is not "banning." If some twisted parents want their kids to see books like this, they can purchase the books themselves.
""The problem for the gay and lesbian community is that they are on the same spectrum of sexual deviancy as pedophilia."
"Not true at all. Some, sure. A majority of homosexuals are not OK with sex child abuse."
I agree that a majority of gays and lesbians are "not ok with child sex abuse" ('not ok' is a nice litotes).
That doesn't invalidate the previous point because of the way a "spectrum" works.
At one end you've got red and over at the other you have violet, but the colors all seamlessly blend into each other along the way so that we are obligated to draw some arbitrary lines. There's no way to perfectly divide yellow from green, but if we put the line in the right place we can be sure we don't get any blue in with the yellow.
Achilles' point is that it is in the best interests of the L, G, and B to make certain that the line 100% excludes children so as to avoid the risk of the majority moving the line back where it used to be as recently as a couple decades ago.
"I don't want tomorrow to come."
Spoken by a child that age, it is a temper tantrum or a sign of mental illness. Written by an adult, it is perverse terrorization of its intended child audience.
Pedophilia is transsocial, not transgender (e.g. homosexual).
Correction: Pedophilia is transsocial and may be transgender (e.g. homosexual).
Ah, the book is by Jodie Patterson, a fashion influencer who realized she could monetize her brand by writing books about her daughter, who allegedly told her at age three that she wanted to be a boy. And boy, has Patterson's cash flow exploded. She has served at the top of the Human Righs Campaign; her books are required reading in NYState public schools; Family Circle named her mother of the year; the UN has given her awards, and she partners with Lord and Taylor, Lincoln Cars, L'Oreal, The Gap, Dell Computers, and Mt. Sinai Hospital, which advocates with her for sex changes for youth. Check the list of her corporate sponsors.
This is not the way books work.
"I am sure commenters will scoff at me for being too naive to perceive the deliberate "grooming."
No scoffing here. Your comments prior to the quote eliminate any perception of naïveté.
"Any argument built around "biological norms" has to recognize homosexual behaviors as normal at a species level even if not at an individual level. ...."
No. You've gone from first characterizing homosexual behavior as 'common', to defining it as 'normal'. No, it's not normal. You could also argue that it's 'uncommon', since homosexuality historically accounts for less than 10% of the population, although more recently the societal focus on sexual deviancy has resulted in young people tending to identifying in higher numbers as being either homosexual, bisexual, or transgender. I would expect this fad to pass, as normalcy comes back into fashion. I think it's fair to say that across society, awareness of these issues has become 'common' where it once was a taboo, a topic that was avoided in polite society.
Homosexuality, bisexuality, transgenderism are, by definition, 'abnormal' behaviors. Ms. Althouse's assessment is spot on.
And classifying the availability of school library books by age, is not the same as 'banning books'.
Actually, Aggie, the NYState school board requires children to read this book. Burn Children, Not Books.
Homosexuals and the purer mode of bisexuals are transgender. So are the simulants.
Tina, why do you assert that this book is required reading in NY schools? Can you provide a reference for that?
Males killing and devouring their own or another male's progeny is also very common in nature.
The Left hasn't really started down this road yet, but if they get pedophilia normalized, all bets are off.
Peachy writes of what "the homosexual community" has to do.
As a gay conservative, I do not consider myself a member of "the homosexual community," a term that is a leftist trope employed in service of its relentless tribalization drive.
I have had many run-ins in the course of my life and career with "the homosexual community" and I can attest it does not speak for me.
I can't wait until the two 2 year-olds regularly visiting my house get to 3 years old and can answer the complicated questions of gender I often ponder helplessly as an adult without their special insight.
"How do we get rid of them?"
Pedos? Woodchipper.
Pinocchio wanted to be a real boy. That was a fantasy story. Even small children know the difference between dolls and real people.
Today, some real boys want to be real reals, and some real girls want to be real boys. They are gaslighted by corrupt predators with either financial or quasi-religious goals.
Even small children know that girls grow boobs and are mommies. Even small children know that boys have something extra between their legs. Grooming? These are compliant, ignorant trend followers and very likely lack a functional form of intelligence. Evolutionary dead ends. Enjoy the party before you join the history books along with the Shakers and other failed experiments.
@Marty, although I don't understand your lifestyle I am interested in your perspective on this issue. I would imagine that you are not alone, so who are these people that are controlling the conversation? I would assume many of them are the trans? The angry bottoms? The mainstream media? Who are the people that are trying to "relentlessly tribalize" your lifestyle?
I only ask this because it seems to many outside observers that "the homosexual community" is all in on deviancy-maxxing, hyper-child-focused, and obsessed with transgenderism to the exclusion of literally everything else. Who is giving us that impression, or is the perception of the straight community completely skewed, in your opinion?
How is it possible that we allow people like this to run our schools and care for our children? Why? Why not go to school board meetings screaming and then run the perverts out of town on a rail? Imagine this was 1960 - how long would the perverts be running our schools back then?
'If I say I'm amazed that school authorities would adopt such a book for classroom instruction, I am sure commenters will scoff at me for being too naive to perceive the deliberate "grooming."'.
Where do you think "school authorities" come from?
You're doing better, Althouse, but you still have the knee-jerk liberal presumption that the State is somehow able to construct itself entirely from "good" people, and the inclination to do so.
"The problem for the gay and lesbian community is that they are on the same spectrum of sexual deviancy as pedophilia."
What exactly is "the gay and lesbian community"? A dyke needs a homo like a fish needs a bicycle.
@Ne exeat: "How is it possible that we allow people like this to run our schools and care for our children?"
Because their parents grew up on 1970s and 1980s sex comedies like Weird Science or Porky's or Revenge of the Nerds. And many Harvey Weinstein movies. Oscar winners! Don't judge.
Because their grandparents grew up on Playboy magazine, Penthouse magazine, hippies and Woodstock. Some stretch back to Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Tayor -- with a random husband of the week, or the drunken Rat Pack party boys. Don't judge.
The 20th century USA was often a land of freedom, and hedonism, and minimal moral/ethical training. After a few generations this (always) becomes a functional dead end and they die off, to be replaced by fertile and devout religous people such as Mormons and Catholics and Amish...and then the cycle repeats... Don't judge.
"Quite aside from the topic of transgenderism, that is — if not blatantly sexual — too closely approximate to sexuality to belong in reading material for children. If I say I'm amazed that school authorities would adopt such a book for classroom instruction, I am sure commenters will scoff at me for being too naive to perceive the deliberate "grooming."
help us Out! please explain:
ARE you amazed that school authorities would adopt such a book?
or DO you think that it ISN'T deliberate "grooming"?
Democrats want to kill children before they're born. And for the ones who make it out alive, they want to sterilize them and fuck them up in the head so badly they'll (the kids, not the Democrats) want to kill themselves.
Nice.
lefties Hate America..
because lefties Hate People..
because lefties HATE themselves..
Also,
Lefties Hate children because (see above)
According to Lefties..
NO ONE should have kids (over population?)
Young people CERTAINLY shouldn't have kids (would get In The Way?)
If someone DOES get pregnant..
Abort that kid!!!
If you (for some reason, DIDN'T abort it)...
Chemically Castrate and Surgically Mutilate that kid!!!
WHY? (see above)
I have had many run-ins in the course of my life and career with "the homosexual community" and I can attest it does not speak for me.
Marty, I'm certain that you have, and I applaud your persistence in fighting for your right to think for yourself!
Meanwhile... my (typically long) comment disappeared, apparently. First time that's happened to me that I can think of.
Who in their right mind could possibly think that this is appropriate?
I am sure commenters will scoff at me for being too naive to perceive the deliberate "grooming."
There she goes, getting all smeagol on us!
If my child's insides "felt like fire," I'd be taking them to a gastroenterologist!
Babysat my year old grandson the other day. Reached for a book, and noticed a whole series with suspiciously woke titles like « family is love » etc… browsed through one … definitely grooming. In the book I saw, the default option for what is meant by “ family” was two guys in bed. Dad and dad. My heart raced. A friend of my daughter’s sent those as a baby gift. They are not radicals. This crap is mainstream virtue signalling, and heavily promoted.
RideSpaceMountain writes, "I only ask this because it seems to many outside observers that 'the homosexual community' is all in on deviancy-maxxing, hyper-child-focused, and obsessed with transgenderism to the exclusion of literally everything else. Who is giving us that impression, or is the perception of the straight community completely skewed, in your opinion?"
My first point is that the use of the word "community," as in your term "the straight community," is a bogus and empty rhetorical device. The left loves it because they want to imply that all people within any given "community" are the same. Do all straight people assume the things you do in your post? Given that 97-98% of the world's population are straight, that's impossible.
The left's game in the US since the days of Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Croly, and the other Progressives, has been to replace the individual sovereignty that is the basis of our democracy with group rights. Thus they feel the need to round us all up into little groups or "communities," the better to divide and conquer. They use their little "intersectionality" game as a whip to keep us on our separate plantations.
Gays are just one of the many "communities" that the left would like to isolate from the American nation. By identifying with how we are all different we are coerced into overlooking all that unites us. Our national motto is "E pluribus unum," while the left prefers "ex uno multi."
No, thank you.
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