This article is ripe chum for right-wingers, so please use your judgment (if and when you comment).
The daughter is 19, and "still lives with us, but she often communicates in brief grunts as she scurries down to her basement lair, emerging only to let in friends and forage for chicken nuggets."
Me, I'm just really uncomfortable with anarchists in the basement, and "lair" along with "grunts" is... well, it's intended to yank your chain.
Berlatsky calls himself a "boring cisgender, straight guy," but here he is presenting himself as interesting because of the 2 women who are living in his house with him. He's appropriating and parading their (seeming) coolness. Is that okay?
It reminds me a bit of the male law professors we women law professors used to make fun of for saying they're not sexist, because their wife is a feminist.
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This article is ripe chum for right-wingers, so please use your judgment (if and when you comment).
Here’s the gas and matches, kids — please use your judgment.
what would anarchists do? Without parents to provide chicken nuggets?
Why is it? That i get the feeling, that it's Really ME; that's providing the chicken nuggets?
Do Any of these people pay taxes?
Madness trying to disguise itself as normality.
Noah’s Ark. Never two of anything
Well, I didn't click on it because I've come to realize that this sort of thing is geared to be click-bait for the easily outraged red-staters. It's that one weird trick that seems designed primarily to get you to look. So.....I'm not looking. Who's the Resistance now, hmmm?
So his "daughter" is trans and a lesbian, which means the 19 year old whatever is a biological male who likes women? Did I crack the code?
Relating this to the earlier post on names and aesthetics - doesn't Noah Berlatsky SOUND like the type of person to be in this situation?
>My wife is bisexual and nonbinary<
How nice for him. And he digs it. (From which it follows, as it happens, that he looks pretty much how I thought he would look.)
@Gunner
If you read the essay carefully, I think you'll see that the daughter was assigned female at the beginning and now calls herself trans even as she keeps female pronouns and apparently wants to be called a daughter. In that context, what does "trans" mean? I'm going to assume, for the moment, that it means whatever it means to her and the father it following her directives.
Oy, Noah.
The briefest of searches shows the author has his kinks too. Something exhibitionistic about this; went to the link and started reading, but stopped. This is not promising stuff. I'm sure author can find enough people to yank the chain he offers without this potential reader.
How can someone be both bisexual and non-binary?
Having lived adjacent to this culture back in my school days, despite the surface stylings the counterculture often includes highly traditional conservative 'radicals' and 'anarchists.' There literal 3rd generation hippies following in the hippie stylings of their grandparents, and perhaps follow from Beatniks and the Vaudeville or freak shows before that.
Alternative surface styles are fine by me. Halloween dress up is fine. However, as Darwin explained, breed or die. Nothing else matters.
"Berlatsky calls himself a "boring cisgender, straight guy,"
The pope, strangely enough, is not catholic.
That she is 19 and her diet still mainly consists of chicken nuggets is the most disturbing part
Why is this guy telling the entire world of how his so-called wife is stepping out on him with women? Humiliation.
And the trans thing about his daughter just shows more dysfunction.
I guess the thing now is just to celebrate one’s craziness. Defining deviancy down.
"My wife is bisexual and nonbinary..." So she has a girlfriend instead of a boyfriend? How daring!
Sounds like the anarchist movement falls on its face when no one buys them chicken nuggets.
I wouldn't even know where to begin mocking this guy and his dysfunctional family. I can't work up any pity because he is seemingly bragging about this openly. I am guessing the wife is also cucking him on the side with women and other men.
Why do liberals hate their children?
I disagree that right-wingers would be outraged by this sort of essay. More amusement and schadenfreude than rage.
I do miss the act of casually reading something without having to break the flow to decipher the meaning of the word "their" in a sentence.
The only thing that could make that guy more thrilled with himself would be if his kid cut off her/his (breasts/penis/pick whichever was OEM - I can't really tell.)
Boy, THEN he'd really be cool and transgressive!
@Gunner
As a beloved blogger once explained:
See, whatever happens can be said to have happened for the reason you've already reasoned is the reason for whatever happens to have happened.
This is a tableau that screams HBO series. If only Tom Wolfe were still around. Let's go with a working title "Notional Chromosomes".
"This article is ripe chum for right-wingers ..."
We don't read this kind of garbage.
And not for nothing, but taking a look at Wal-Mart Gabe Kaplan there ... if I was his wife I'd be asexual too.
I read the whole thing. It was definitely “click-baitish”
Not sure where the outrage would come from.
It seems to work for them and they aren’t really harming anyone.
I wonder if they do Chik Fil A nuggets. Bonus points if so.
I am a white, male, conservative/libertarian (and maybe a tad anarchic myself), evangelical, gun toting, 5th gen Texan, btw. To me this is perfectly fine as they are making their own choices and they don’t come off as “Proud and Loud”.
Leave’em alone I say. And stay off my lawn.
I guess he identifies as pan-simp.
He could have simplified that by saying "My daughter is a teenager and so are her friends."
It reminds me a bit of the male law professors we women law professors used to make fun of for saying they're not sexist, because their wife is a feminist.
Why? Because of the polyandry? That's illegal, ya' know.
Defining deviance down.
The father would have been a great role for John Belushi. Even the name, Noah Berlatsky sounds like an SNL skit,
Do you suppose those queer anarchist collectives have rules barring straights?
Ah, yes, this guy. When he's not writing whatever this is, he's defending pedophilia and cursing out J.K. Rowling.
https://4w.pub/pro-pedophile-writer-slam-jk-rowling-for-transphobia/
Not exactly what I would consider a useful source for much of anything.
Language is important. It’s how we communicate! I am constantly flummoxed by the word “queer.” I read somewhere that it means to question everything or to deny the reality of everything. I can never tell what it means in the context of an essay, like this one. Anyone know what it means? How is his family “queer?” I presume he is not using thee word to mean “strange,” or is he?
On a scale of beta males that has to be an 11. Maximum 10.
At some point in the future, after the West collapses and a new society rises from the ashes before the wizards of smart emerge to tell them they are wrong, the scientists will discover that formative event determine the type of person you will become. The presence of fathers in the same house, ceremonies like Quinceañeras, bar mitvas, big scary events like being assaulted by some older dude in a bus station, or achievements like learning how to win at sports, will all play a role in the type of people we become. And once they learn that they will form their society around those ideas and they will build culture to reinforce those ideas and to try and merge everyone into that one culture.
Then the wizards of smart will show up and piece by piece dismantle all that was built while replacing it with nothing.
Then insider.com will write an article about it.
As the boring cisgender, straight guy in the family...
So weird to think of heterosexuality as "boring."
To me sexual opposites are fascinating because we are opposites. The sex is amazing. Men and women are literally built to join together in sexual union. Lesbians use strap-on dildos to mimic heterosexuality. They also use thumbs and fingers and toes to mimic heterosexuality.
I like sodomy. But if my sexuality was limited to sodomy? I would be seriously unhappy.
I haven't even gotten to the baby-making aspects of heterosexuality. Making a child out of nothing is not boring. You want to pretend like it's "boring," okay, but that's not really honest. Reproducing the human race is a very big deal.
At some point, terms like “queer” and “anarchist” lose their meaning when such people are dominating every institution that wields power in our society.
My concern is not with sexual experimentation, but with teenagers and other children using drugs to alter their basic biology. This is a vicious and obvious violation of the Hippocratic Oath. Brought to you by the same people whose hostility to baby-making is so overt that they claim it's right to stab or poison unwanted babies.
It's a good thing to be open-minded and loving to your family. What I would stress, and think about, is not how "cool" your gay family makes you. What you should be paying attention to are the drugs that kids are taking to change their biology. This is a scary and ugly fad.
Loving parents should warn their susceptible kids about cancer and other unintended side effects from sex hormones and corrupt medical doctors who are more interested in novelty (and money) than following the Hippocratic Oath.
Loving your kids doesn't just mean accepting them but also guarding against the liars in their midst who are taking them down a very dangerous path.
[...]the daughter was assigned female at the beginning[...]
At the "beginning" of what? Of life?
That's called being born a girl.
Christ, what a stupid time to be alive.
what does "trans" mean? I'm going to assume, for the moment, that it means whatever it means to her and the father it following her directives.
So,
he (according to him) is 'cis'
his wife is 'non-binary'
his daughter is an XX girl, that is a trans girl
???
Oh! and his 'queer family' helped him understand himself, AND his 'masculinity'
If I'M reading this right; his masculinity consists of buy chicken nuggets, for a bunch of dykes??
"...the queer anarchist collective they're living in"
Which means they're banging each other non-stop and living on the dole.
The ghosts of Bakunin and Kropotkin are shitting bricks right about now. Re-education through labor is what's called for here. Get 'em raising potatoes on an anarcho-syndicalist commune in Idaho, and that'll set 'em straight (metaphorically, if not literally..).
Leora: "Why do liberals hate their children?"
Not so much hate as love to turn them into objects that signal their virtue to other liberals. So, yeah, pretty much the same approach that Hefner had to beautiful young women that liberals used to castigate as "objectifying." (But its different when "we" do it.)
Tina Trent said...
How can someone be both bisexual and non-binary?
she's NOT! he Pretends that she is; because he PRETENDS that she still has sex with him..
In Reality; he's a cuck, living (and supporting) a bunch of (pardon me) Bull dyke lesbos.
They All have sex with each other (including the mom and daughter).. He Provides Chicken Nuggets
If a transwomen has no ovaries to produce ovum, how is she a woman? Transplant a uterus in a man, he's still a man, however disfigured he is. He'll never be a woman, no matter how hard he wishes.
"This article is ripe chum for right-wingers, so please use your judgment (if and when you comment)."
Only because the author and the Left-wing believe that children are ripe for pediphiles:
https://4w.pub/prostasia-normalize-pedophilia/
Cue applause by Brett Blomme!
If trans kids are going to be presented as cool, then we will see more.
The pool boy's name is Roberto, and he's hot AF.
'If you read the essay carefully, I think you'll see that the daughter was assigned female at the beginning...'
She's still female.
Always will be...
"talk about... tattoos"
What exactly, is there to talk about?
"the queer anarchist collectives they're living in."
Ripe for the Golding treatment?
"My queer family helped me better understand myself and my masculinity."
Translation: I'm more progressive than you! Haters!
"This article is ripe chum for right-wingers, so please use your judgment (if and when you comment)."
Yes, nothing's worse than deplorables pouncing, taking the bait, ridiculing the latest manifestation of prog insanity.
"forage for chicken nuggets."
Wait, not vegan?
"it's intended to yank your chain"
And we're sure it's not satire?
"He's appropriating and parading their (seeming) coolness. Is that okay?"
Well, nothing straight white men is do is really okay. But no, virtue signaling by appropriation is not okay.
Array was assigned singular in the beginning but now considers itself plural. Its pronouns are us and we.
It's an article that soothes the minds of the queer varieties who subscribe. Normal people think you're cool, is the message.
These are slightly mentally ill, extremely self involved and self indulgent people that could only exist in a culture as wealthy, safe and tolerant as America. Yet the daughter at least wants to burn it down. Honestly they are all just boring and tedious.
Substitute "mod" (or "rakish" if you're a more old-fashioned type) for "queer" and this all makes sense.
As the boring cisgender, straight guy in the family...
Boring old Noah Berlatsky suffers from a bout of excitement envy, which is related to penis envy but more expensive to assuage. (Strap-ons are cheap. Buy yours through the Althouse portal today!)
Noah should invest in an AR-15. That'll transform him from a boring cisgender straight guy into an exciting ready-to-rock rooftop sniper/clear and present danger to society in about three minutes.
Static Ping said...
“Ah, yes, this guy. When he's not writing whatever this is, he's defending pedophilia and cursing out J.K. Rowling.”
May have changed my mind now that I know this. We don’t really cotton to that line of thinking in Texas. The guy anyway.
The 19 yo is doing what 19 yo’s do. No harm, no foul so let it be.
The wife has an excuse for her predilection.
He likes 'em young.
Link
"He's appropriating and parading their (seeming) coolness"
Dude can't win.
Way back when normal heterosexual couples were the norm any public talk about sex or sexual preferences was considered gauche, rude, something not to be done in mixed company. This specific aspect of our shared national culture was often referred to in shorthand as "squares being uptight" about sex, at least by those who really wanted desperately to talk about sex nonstop.
Now that is the archetype for the public intellectual and the ides of restraint or decorum is so dead that Monte Python would do a skit about it if they were still extant. No we must all be subjected to the unwanted sex talk of others now in the name of diversity, which is bullshit. Actual fucking sex is still a private matter and I don't mind telling motormouths like Mr. I-live-with-2-bi-women to shut up and keep his stupid thoughts to himself.
I lack appreciation for a nation of toddler level self-control and I especially despise their writing. Oh for the days when they looked down and NAVEL-gazed instead of thinking with their gonads.
Yancey Ward said...
I wouldn't even know where to begin mocking this guy and his dysfunctional family. I can't work up any pity because he is seemingly bragging about this openly.
I've noticed a few incidences of this lately. People trying to position themselves as woke and edgy, but coming off as rather pathetic. Maybe wokeness is running out of steam.
Also, Insty posted this today: Chelsea Handler Makes ‘Comedy’ Skit About the Life of a Childless Woman but It Reeks of Sadness.
Althouse red meat.
Queer anarchist collective, you say? Huh. I wonder what Laurie Penny is up to these days.
So he is a wimp. A typical Progressive male. Got it.
"It reminds me a bit of the male law professors we women law professors used to make fun of for saying they're not sexist, because their wife is a feminist."
I'm trying to figure out if there is anything the roosters could have said that would not have been grounds for the hens to peck at them.
Yancey Ward said...
I disagree that right-wingers would be outraged by this sort of essay. More amusement and schadenfreude than rage.
2/14/23, 12:29 PM
THIS^^^
Yet, I am more disturbed by his being pro-pedophilia. He's a freak.
AND...THIS....
FullMoon said...
He likes 'em young.
Link
2/14/23, 2:04 PM
Check out the link of the perv.
Althouse,
You seem to be stereotyping conservatives as sexual prudes.
When I saw that his wife was screwing other women, my first reaction was:
"Yeah! Three way."
"...I think you'll see that the daughter was assigned female at the beginning..."
She was "assigned" female at conception by biological truth.
"They All have sex with each other (including the mom and daughter)." I missed that part of the article.
"Only because the author and the Left-wing believe that children are ripe for pediphiles" Um...spelling. Plus, the article you link to certainly points out reasons for concern about the organization discussed, but the assumption, now an obsession with some on the right, that the left is shot through with pedophiles is just a boring bomb throw at this point.
Doesn't mean I get the article. I understand trying to accept and love a child who comes out. At 19, I don't really know how much a parent can do beyond expressing some concerns. But if my wife was...well, this guy's wife is a few things, I guess. I would have a hard time processing all that. I'm cis and that's what I am. I think the idea that I should bend is silly. I'd release my wife, I hope on good terms, and look for someone else whos also cis. I think my biggest hangup these days is that the only deviant sexuality seems to be heterosexuality and if you like that part of your life and want to hang on to it, something's wrong with you. Guess I'm deviant.
It's a free country. People can live the way they want. Don't bother me none.
As an endocrinologist I have a lot of people who want to transition. Most of them have never seen a therapist, and with very rare exceptions they have markedly elevated PHQ-9 scores. I imagine everyone in this scenario would be in the upper quartile in that test.
https://patient.info/doctor/patient-health-questionnaire-phq-9
Does anyone think it's healthy for large segments of the population to define themselves predominantly by their gender and sexual preferences (and, in many cases, skin color)?
It's a societal level phenomenon of judging or positioning the validity of your own or other ideas based upon how you were born. It's another form of caste system.
"It reminds me a bit of the male law professors we women law professors used to make fun of for saying they're not sexist, because their wife is a feminist."
At what level of subservient emasculation can any cis gender male receive the "non-sexist" blessing from the feminist staff at the University of Wisconsin Law School?
Is there training or any type of pledging and initiation? Blood letting???
Does anyone think it's healthy for large segments of the population to define themselves predominantly by their gender and sexual preferences (and, in many cases, skin color)?
It's a societal level phenomenon of judging or positioning the validity of your own or other ideas based upon how you were born. It's another form of caste system.
“Why do liberals hate their children?”
Why do some conservatives assume all liberals hate their children? I love my children, grandchildren (who are straight, but so what?) and all the liberals in my family, friends, and acquaintances love their children. The one extended family, conservatives, (in laws) I know, no longer have a relationship with their 23 year old daughter who has come out as lesbian and is in a relationship. They have cut her and her partner out of their lives and won’t come to a family gathering if the daughter has been invited.
Yep, anarchists in the basement are way worse than bougies in the belfry.
So the presumption is that left wingers would find this perfectly normal.
A friend of my wife declared that her son was trans. So should she have said her daughter of should we assume that her daughter was now her son. Even for loving parents it has to be challenging.
When you center your whole life around your sex/gender it seems to reinforce the notion that it’s not who you are, but hanging with the ‘cool kids’.
According the this article, the author was referring to his child as “his son” as of 2013.
https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/08/what-my-son-the-thespian-taught-me-about-parenting/278360/
It's a free country. People can live the way they want. Don't bother me none.
But that's the problem. It's not enough to live and let live with these people. They demand the rest of us celebrate their lunacy.
Not only no, but hell no.
I haven't looked at the site "Splice Today" for some time. Berlatsky used to write there, or perhaps he still does.
He had one arrow in his quiver, "You're racist and on account of I call you racist, I'm not."
I haven't looked at the site "Splice Today" for some time. Berlatsky used to write there, or perhaps he still does.
He had one arrow in his quiver, "You're racist and on account of I call you racist, I'm not."
Twitter’s “cool dad”… look at me, I’m a progressive leftist because that’s what my daughter believes is cool… or something.
Although the comments above are somewhat sarcastic, I don't think this is particularly funny. I have a difficult family crisis myself. The Cliff Notes version is my daughter met a poly-sexual necrophiliac at a Democratic Party fund raiser who moved in with her, and I need some advice. Apparently, he periodically drags home rotting corpses and has sex with them until the odor becomes too nauseating and the neighbors complain. This forced my daughter to turn to prostitution in an attempt to raise some extra cash to facilitate the installation of a state of art, high capacity air handler to control the stench. This guy has also molested my grandson and turned him into a meth head, which caused him to drop out of first grade and start selling drugs on the playground. This guy also has been seen having sex with the family pets and barking all the while. There are other perversions involved, but too sordid to describe on this blog. My wife knows none of this. My delimma is: how do I tell her our daughter attended a Democrat Party fund raiser? Only serious responses, please.
Binary sex. Binary gender (i.e. sex-correlated attributes). Transgender spectrum (e.g. cisgender or homosexual).
The left is authoritarian. The right is libertarian. The center is conservative. The far-left is totalitarian. The far-right is anarchist. The left-right nexus is leftist.
Why do some conservatives assume all liberals hate their children? I love my children, grandchildren (who are straight, [sic] but so what?) and all the liberals in my family...
LOL! Abby Normal sticks her head in the logic Cuisinart every time!
"Berlatsky calls himself a "boring cisgender, straight guy,"
An affinity for same-sexual, huh. Trans/homosexual is so conservative by progressive liberal standards.
So the presumption is that left wingers would find this perfectly normal.
DIEversity, yes. Political congruence ("="), yes. Bennies for babies, yes. It's a religious indulgence. Forward!
It's another form of caste system.
DIEversity. Deny our dignity, deny your conscience, deny your value, and you will no longer be human or humane. #HateLovesAbortion
"They All have sex with each other (including the mom and daughter)." I missed that part of the article.
Social progress, and, one of diverse arrangements arbitrarily denied by politically congruence ("=") activists, another "equity and inclusion" scheme (e.g. "Protect Marriage Act").
She was "assigned" female at conception by biological truth.
An inconvenient DNA. Out-out damned phenotype, too. That said, pass the baby... fetal-baby, and make it wicked. Normalize, tolerate, or reject?
You seem to be stereotyping conservatives as sexual prudes.
Yeah, hardly. Conservatives are pro-Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. However, they stopped liberalizing (i.e. diverging) long ago, are not predisposed to to progressive (i.e. one step forward, two steps backward) philosophy, and are, with cause, generally anti-authoritarian. Conservatives subscribe to the three legs of civilized society: normalize, tolerate, or reject.
“ NBC contributor Noah Berlatsky is now he Communications Director for Prostasia, a not-for-profit group that is reportedly attempting to legitimize pedophilia under the guise of helping children. As part of his work with the group, he has written about legitimizing “trans children,” conducted interviews about the positive impact of pornography on children, and how the best way to help children who are trafficked into the sex trade is to “decriminalize the sex industry.“
Just another freak pervert.
It reminds me a bit of the male law professors we women law professors used to make fun of for saying they're not sexist, because their wife is a feminist.
Equal in rights and complementary in Nature/nature. That said, if their wives are feminist, they are either masculinist or masochist.
I think "queer" has gone back to meaning "weird" again.
I suppose he is able to define his masculinity as whatever his wife and daughter are not.
I want to know how his wife is nonbinary AND bisexual. Seems like somebody needs to review their prefixes.
This article is ripe chum for right-wingers, so please use your judgment (if and when you comment).
Not sure what this warning is supposed to mean.
My mother back in the 60's was fond of saying. "as long as you're out to sight of the young'ns, and don't scare the horses, have fun". We had an openly gay band teacher in the 60's. Town of 1000 people in white bread rural IA. No pitch forks or petitions.
I think you confuse our instincts to protect our children from perverts and groomers. With hating on gays, etal.
If this mother was a teacher regaling her Third grade class with her weekend of sex with any thing and everybody, including her own daughter, yea. She would have a big problem from me.
For the life of me, I cannot figure out how fetishes have morphed into protected classes.
My name goes here. said...
Great comment. Reminds me of A Canticle For Leibowitz.
He wins. I'm not sure what the contest is, but there is no way to beat this guy. In order to beat this guy, you'd basically need to move to Guyana with an entire anarcholesbian commune and kill a Senator, and even then, I still think this guy wins.
The family as a costume party. We should be proud of our culture that can afford these fun and games. And it is a great training ground for new Biden Administration appointees to govern us. And no more babies will come from this costume party that will cause Global Warming by being alive. I suggest awarding them all the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Jeff Vader said...
That she is 19 and her diet still mainly consists of chicken nuggets is the most disturbing part
First thing that struck me as odd for that type of family. First- they let their children eat highly pricessed food with unnatural ingredients like chicken nuggets? Second- chicken nuggets are a staple food for pre-teens. Most partake only occassionaly past that point.
If one is nonbinary, yet only bisexual, does that mean one is not attracted to nonbinary people?
The Swedes need to create a new award: The Doctor Mengele Award.
Some of the categories should be in "transitioning" children and surgical alterations that are intentionally done to create freaks.
Ann Althouse said
I think you'll see that the daughter was assigned female at the beginning
I think this may be the saddest thing I've seen in a long, long, time. Not the words. They and the concept are bad enough. What is sad is that someone I think of as extremely smart and level headed could have bought into this stupidity.
Sad, sad, sad
JOhn Henry
The author of this screed has many sexual problems!
Most recently, writer Noah Berlatsky was taken in as a director at Prostasia. Recently, Prostasia began collaborating with an organization it calls the MAP Support Club, an unregistered group which claims to provide “peer support” for pedophiles, and invites “minor attracted people” aged 13 years old and up to participate in online chats about “minor attraction.”
It isn't red meat, it's just all very sad.
Inga says:
“I love my children, grandchildren (who are straight, but so what?)”
Then adds: “The one extended family, conservatives, (in laws) I know, no longer have a relationship with their 23 year old daughter who has come out as lesbian and is in a relationship. They have cut her and her partner out of their lives and won’t come to a family gathering if the daughter has been invited.”
O I love this.
To paraphrase: It doesn’t matter of course but all MY kids, grandkids are straight. On my husbands side of the family (I would NEVER have conservatives on MY side of the family) there’s a conservative couple with a lesbian daughter - not of course that it matters. But did I mention that the conservative couple (on my husband’s side of the family) have a lesbian daughter - not that it matters although of course all of MY kids, grandkids are straight.
You remind me of so many of my relatives, I felt I was back home again.
The former interim Nebraska football coach found his wife in bed with another man. Allegedly. He then beat up and choked his wife. Allegedly. The guy who was allegedly banging his wife was a former Nebraska football player.
If Noah comes home and finds his wife in the sack with a woman or a man, what does Noah do?
Libs/lefties seem to take a remarkable amount of pride and joy in their kids being not-normal (using 'normal' as a piece of data, not as a moral judgment, as in, heterosexual is 'normal' because it is the expected condition with most people.)
Yet, being not-normal is not something that usually makes people happy. It introduces stress in their relationships with others. Perhaps the stress of trying to conform to 'normal' would be even greater for those kids than just accepting being not-normal, but still, not-normal is not ideal. So, why are libs/lefties so excited about their kids being not-normal?
“To paraphrase: It doesn’t matter of course but all MY kids, grandkids are straight. On my husbands side of the family (I would NEVER have conservatives on MY side of the family) there’s a conservative couple with a lesbian daughter - not of course that it matters. But did I mention that the conservative couple (on my husband’s side of the family) have a lesbian daughter - not that it matters although of course all of MY kids, grandkids are straight.
You remind me of so many of my relatives, I felt I was back home again.”
Eva, I love your name. It was my mother’s name and is my granddaughter’s name. Your paraphrase of my comment is off the mark. I added in parentheses “BUT SO WHAT” that should have told you that my children being straight is not the end all be all of loving one’s child. But you missed that I guess. It seems you also missed the fact that hating ones’s child isn’t a liberal thing and it can manifest in bad parents of either political ideology.
Beatniks, hippies, punks, headbangers, preppies, techies, fluids.
The longer it goes on, the shorter it will last.
jaydub at 4:06
wins the St. Valentine's Day thread award
guitar joe said:
Only because the author and the Left-wing believe that children are ripe for pediphiles" Um...spelling. Plus, the article you link to certainly points out reasons for concern about the organization discussed, but the assumption, now an obsession with some on the right, that the left is shot through with pedophiles is just a boring bomb throw at this point.
Awwee... you didn't get any special cuddles from John Weaver today did you? Complaints of all-too-common minor spelling issues from trying to type on androids btw is the last bastion of he who knows that he lost the argument.
Your white flag is acknowledged, groomer.
A different take:
You know how there's been a huge growth in LGBT+&$1, like 20% of kids today say they are. But most of the growth is in young women describing themselves as bisexual. And in that cohort, something like 80% have had only male partners in the last year. They aren't really bi, but they don't want to be boring cishet basic bitches, so they say they are "bi." What are the odds that Berlatsky's wife has ever slept with someone besides him? He doesn't SAY she did. She just changed how she IDENTIFIES. That's nothing. And she only did it when her son the theater geek came home and declared that he was trans. Well what does that mean? Before he was a chubby geek who looked just like his dad. After he was a chubby geek who looked just like his dad in mascara.
Lowering girls' defenses by wearing mascara and painting your nails was the way to bang chicks back in the 80s. David Bowie and Bu=illy Idol led the way. This kid not only is still banging girls, he gets to go in the girls' locker room and ogle them. But he hasn't cut anything off. The sacrifice is minimal. Living the dream.
They're all just faking for clout chasing. And Berlatsky is doing it too. In his audience, you're cooler if your kid is in a anarchist commune living off parental money. You're cooler is you say you're bi. You're cooler is your kid is trans. They're all just desperate for attention. because they have no other identity. They have no religion. No patriotism. But they need something. All humans do. This is their pathetic replacement.
This article is ripe chum ...
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asking fisher persons upthread and downthread >>> how to ripen chum?
I’d say it was amazing he managed to reproduce, but that sort of assumes that he did.
So then….she’s not your wife, right?
Writes Noah Berlatsky, in "My wife is bisexual and nonbinary, and my daughter is transgender. My queer family helped me better understand myself and my masculinity" (Insider).
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Guy's even lower than a girly man.
robother said...
Leora: "Why do liberals hate their children?"
They view them as possessions. Things to be molded to their world view. Conservatives see the m as fellow human beings who need to be taught that there is a right and wrong.
"This article is ripe chum for normal people"
FIFY
"Your white flag is acknowledged, groomer." If you had responded intelligently, I'd probably have moved on. Since you called me a groomer: Fuck Off.
Narayanan was...
asking fisher persons upthread and downthread >>> how to ripen chum?
you just leave the tin full of the chum (fish parts) sitting in the boat, for a few days.
Catfish LOVE ripened chum... Because catfish hunt by smell; and ripened chum STINKS
Also, catfish are DISGUSTING fish.. Not like trouts
Althouse,
It reminds me a bit of the male law professors we women law professors used to make fun of for saying they're not sexist, because their wife is a feminist.
I would rewrite that. Either you say "men law professors," or you say "female law professors." But not "male" and "women." Personally, I'd go for "male" and "female," b/c the adjectival "women" grates on me and always has. The adjectival "men" seems to grate on everyone; see what it does to your own sentence! But we are accustomed to hearing about "woman" or "women" this-or-that.
And don't get me started on "their wife is a feminist." You are talking abought straight men in the plural (not the ultra-new singular use of "they"), so are you trying to say that multiple male law professors are all married to the same feminist? I thought not.
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