Althouse: Much as he hates to side with conservatives, Bill Maher worries about the sexualization of children in schools and entertainment media.

April 20, 2024

Much as he hates to side with conservatives, Bill Maher worries about the sexualization of children in schools and entertainment media.

Watch the whole thing to see what I mean:

50 comments:

holdfast said...: Maher is only about 1,500 days late and a few $billion short.

And of course, DeSantis is not longer in the running for the 2024 election.; 4/20/24, 5:44 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Leftists turn on and off their outrage - not based on things that are outrageous - but based on the political equation, and the hivemind group-think approval rating.

That is why it is easy for leftists to mock DeSantis - all while pretending to care about Nickelodeon.; 4/20/24, 5:57 PM
gspencer said...: Maher ain't no friend of conservatives. It's simply that from time to time he sees common sense. Like the blind squirrel which occasionally finds an acorn.; 4/20/24, 6:04 PM
Birches said...: Some people know what's coming and want to make sure they aren't on the wrong side. Thank goodness!; 4/20/24, 6:06 PM
Political Junkie said...: That is a powerful 8 minute clip. Everyone should watch it.
IMO, his most powerful comment is, "at a certain point, inclusion becomes promotion".
Although at the very end, he says The Left should just tone it done until the election is over.; 4/20/24, 6:12 PM
Joe Smith said...: When you've lost Bill Maher...

Now do the part about government schools grooming your kids.; 4/20/24, 7:04 PM
EdwdLny said...: Yes, Bill was almost there, almost. But then his truth slipped out, " at least until after the election ". So actually he isn't bothered by the rape and buggering of children, he's okay with child abuse as long as it doesn't endanger the fascist left winning elections. He as vile and evil as the rest, he just said the quiet part out loud . What a bunch of fucking pigs.; 4/20/24, 7:18 PM
The Real Andrew said...: Maher is a flirt. But he’ll never commit.; 4/20/24, 7:24 PM
Big Mike said...: gspencer said...

Maher ain't no friend of conservatives. It's simply that from time to time he sees common sense. Like the blind squirrel which occasionally finds an acorn.

+ 1; 4/20/24, 7:24 PM
michaele said...: I wonder why he trivialized what was an important message by adding that last sentence. He sold the kids out by making it more about political expediency.; 4/20/24, 7:51 PM
gilbar said...: England is against child mutilation
as of This Week.. Even Scotland is against child mutilation
Most of the WORLD.. is now not just against, but OUTRAGED by child mutilation.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch.. The DNC has bet the farm ON Supporting child mutilation.

Some people might think that i'm skewing things up..
But, i want to point out; i've used TWO ag cliches in a single sentence.. So THERE!; 4/20/24, 8:05 PM
Goldenpause said...: Maher will still vote the Democrat ticket come November no matter what he says right now.; 4/20/24, 8:11 PM
Jimmy said...: Maher cheered on policies and politicians that promote lowering the age of consent, sexualizing kids, and giving them terrible drugs.
He likes to be edgy-that is what common sense and common decency is now.
when payback comes, and it will, it will come from normal people who have had enough. Hollywood, government, and universities are trying to normalize what is clearly wrong, and evil.
Maher will, in the end, stand with his epstein island friends. Its a big club, and most of us will never be in it, or would want to. What they don't understand, is that there is a terrible price to be paid to bring back normal. normal being you don't have sexc with kids, you don't give them drugs, and you don't tell them they were born in the wrong body. Enough; 4/20/24, 8:35 PM
RideSpaceMountain said...: Fuck you Bill. You helped make this. Try your pilpul shit on someone else and put your clown nose back on. The world that made you is ending. What comes after you is anybody guess...but it won't be funny.; 4/20/24, 8:51 PM
Drago said...: Hardest hit: Dumb Lefty Mark, Field Marshall Freder, Howitzer Howard, LLR-democratical And Violent Homosexual Rage Rape Fantasist Chuck, victoria from pasadena, et al.; 4/20/24, 8:51 PM
holdfast said...: “I wonder why he trivialized what was an important message by adding that last sentence. He sold the kids out by making it more about political expediency”.

That was just a joke making fun of politicians doing that sort of thing.; 4/21/24, 12:17 AM
MacMacConnell said...: I once read a report that said more California students are sexually abused by teachers in the public schools than the student population of all California private schools.; 4/21/24, 1:11 AM
MayBee said...: This is 100% what I think too; 4/21/24, 1:24 AM
Mark said...: Bill Maher is the David Brooks of liberals, only with a career because the other political side keeps them afloat pretending they are somehow representative of opposing views.; 4/21/24, 5:56 AM
Leland said...: When you have to side with people you “hate” against others you dislike more, perhaps you should reconsider all your beliefs and behaviors.; 4/21/24, 6:03 AM
Heartless Aztec said...: Trannies will come out and give an elementary school or kindergarten a show at the drop of a cock ring. But they never seem to do shows for assisted living for elders. Why is that?; 4/21/24, 6:37 AM
Tank said...: Can’t quite bring himself to admit that he was wrong his whole life.; 4/21/24, 6:42 AM
exhelodrvr1 said...: But he will still vote Democrat.; 4/21/24, 6:47 AM
iowan2 said...: Don't even discuss adults working together to sexualize Children. Is it wrong? Something to be concerned about? Good? Bad? Varies by degrees? There is a whole stew of variables to tear into.

Can we ask a simple Question?
Why is our Government, from the smallest school district in Iowa, all the way to the Federal Department of Education, are in sync with teaching 10 year old Johnny how to give adults blow jobs? Can we talk about this weird synchronicity?

Better yet. What is the structure in place that allows this to take over every phase of our lives?; 4/21/24, 7:13 AM
rhhardin said...: Maher's father was news director at NBC NYC, and occasionally little Bill showed up visiting dad at Rockefeller Center. Imus and McCord claimed they used to set him up with NBC page girls.; 4/21/24, 7:27 AM
gilbar said...: MacMacConnell said...
I once read a report that said more California students are sexually abused by teachers in the public schools than the student population of all California private schools.

Let's find out!
more California students are sexually abused by teachers in the public schools than the student population of all California private schools

Parent Nightmare: Public Schools Sex Abuse 100x Greater Than in Catholic Church - Report

California ‘Teacher of the Year’ faces 14 charges in child sexual abuse case

How Common is California Public School Sexual Abuse?
The Children’s Bureau of the Department of Health and Human Services recently reported that at least 9.2% of all children have been sexually abused.

California Department of Education Releases 2021–22 Statewide School Enrollment Data
2020–21 Public:6,002,523 Private: 471,653 percent Private/Public7.3%

SO IF we believe the government* about 540,000 public students molested.. which is MORE than total private enrollment

believe the government* ALWAYS believe the government.. or they will KILL YOU!; 4/21/24, 7:51 AM
Iman said...: If Maher understands some important truths about the situation we find ourselves in and the path these Democrats are knocking down walls to take America down and he still votes the way he does, well… just how stupid and malevolent is he.

Do yourselves a favor and listen to Adam Corolla’s recent excellent podcast discussion with Tulsi Gabbard. I just did and was left impressed by the clear thinking and common sense.; 4/21/24, 7:51 AM
Oligonicella said...: Remember that slippery slope I put up here last year? If you don't want it to go way further than I plotted, don't let people get by with pretending they didn't support that slope by applying handfuls of grease to it themselves.

Can I draw cartoons of these people? Or is it too 'harsh' and 'disrespectful'?; 4/21/24, 8:04 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Yeah - he returned to his progressive self at the end.

He is merely asking the left to hide their pedophile trans-insanity lunatic ways - unit after the election.; 4/21/24, 8:30 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Shorter Mark -

Maher is a heretic and should not have a career.; 4/21/24, 8:31 AM
Jamie said...: I used to be all in with the idea that what was taking place was grooming, actual sexual grooming.

I've backed off that position. I still think there's grooming taking place, but not necessarily - in fact, I think probably not primarily - with a sexual goal. Instead I've come to believe that once you commit to medicalizing yourself permanently and for the rest of your life as the solution to the feelings, perhaps really distressing feelings, of unease that come with dysphoria (I assume all kinds, not just gender dysphoria), you have a strong interest in convincing others to do the same, to validate your own actions.

But Maher's use of the word "entrapment" struck a chord with me. And his pointing out that children will normalize whatever is happening to them - all the way up to terrible abuse - is something we would all do well to keep in mind.

So why is this subject, transgenderness, so fraught and so widely discussed when, really, it affects such a small number of people (even now)? It has to be because its sufferers, for whom we can properly feel compassion, have the option of taking what seems to be an "easy" way out of their distress, but that if they do so, it doesn't magically resolve that distress and instead saddles them with a whole regimen of medical treatments they have to follow forever.

So in order to believe that they haven't made a terrible mistake, they want to see more and more people following the same path, and the people easiest to convince to do so are children, who normalize whatever they see.

And children, some of them now pushed into normalizing Gay Pride parades involving street sex and strip shows aimed squarely at them, but more often just forced to normalize a constant valorization of sexual behavior - any sexual behavior - for which they have no context, are no longer normalizing the pathway, THE pathway, that leads to happiness, success, and peaceful civil society for the vast majority of people: a stable, committed, two-parent dyad (a heterosexual dyad is most effective) raising multiple children together.

(The valorization of single motherhood - which, no matter how heroic any particular single mother may be, is suboptimal for raising kids - has a similar result, but because it doesn't focus on the sexual, it's not as breathlessly interesting.)

And because that lack of normalization is happening to a lot of kids, kids will grow up not seeking it out, and while most will still stumble into it or something like it through biology alone, they won't recognize how important it is to society's continued functioning, so they won't teach it to their own single child if they produce one, and voila, we're in the death spiral, eventually to auger in.; 4/21/24, 8:36 AM
natatomic said...: I’m surprised Althouse hasn’t mentioned the complete gutting of Title IX yet.; 4/21/24, 8:40 AM
Georgia Lawyer said...: I foolishly thought that Maher would segue into J6 when he discussed entrapment. Alas, he did not. Maybe next time.; 4/21/24, 8:47 AM
hawkeyedjb said...: Jimmy said...
"when payback comes, and it will..."

No, it won't. People are busy with their lives, and mostly pay no attention and will simply allow this degrading slide to continue.

I remember when gay marriage was a far-out idea. It came to pass, and didn't seem to cause any problems. Next comes tranny acceptance. Then tranny adoration. Then removing children from their parents for transing. And forced pronouns. And men in women's spaces. And now, thanks to Biden, the elimination of women's spaces. Next will be normalization of pedophilia. There has been no "payback" for any of this; there has been mute or reluctant acceptance, but in the end we just keep sliding down that slippery slope, past all the things the "alarmists" told us about.; 4/21/24, 8:48 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Natatomic -
I noticed.

Corrupt pedo trans-madness puppet masters running the Husk Biden sh*t show - created 1500 pages of trans-madness to smother the rights of women and girls in sports.

Starling news- ignored by the hack-D press.; 4/21/24, 9:12 AM
Caroline said...: @jamie, I appreciate your reasoning. Spot on.; 4/21/24, 9:24 AM
Drago said...: Dumb Lefty Mark: "Bill Maher is the David Brooks of liberals, only with a career because the other political side keeps them afloat pretending they are somehow representative of opposing views."

Dumb Lefty Mark is quite upset fellow leftists are criticizing those things Dumb Lefty Mark claimed did not exist!; 4/21/24, 10:07 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: "The Biden administration’s Department of Education unveiled a sweeping set of rules on Friday that effectively erase protections for sex-based spaces by expanding the Title IX prohibition against sex discrimination to include “gender identity” — a term that’s never mentioned in the original law.

A majority of Americans agree that males who claim to identify otherwise should not be allowed to infiltrate girls’ and women’s sports teams. As of now, some 25 states have laws or regulations aimed at keeping boys and men out of female-only spaces, on and off the field."

https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/19/biden-admins-title-ix-rewrite-obliterates-female-spaces-free-speech-and-due-process/; 4/21/24, 10:28 AM
Butkus51 said...: He just noticed.

He so smart.; 4/21/24, 10:29 AM
wildswan said...: This is another example of a voice from the unrepresented 30% - the Rejection Front which is the group of voters who have no representation in the political system as it now exists. They do not understand Trump so they reject him and they do understand Biden so they reject him.
Here we see Bill Maher, one of the 30%, recognizing what DeSantis was saying. That's Maher's real liberalism asserting itself. It may or may not lead to a vote for Trump but intrinsically it has no connection with that. Intrinsically, it comes from a commitment to a free mind, a free conscience and expressive, free speech as the attributes of an American citizen.
I am sure myself that if such people could see in the darkness at noon which the media has become, they would see Trump as a rational political actor. For example, they would see that economically Trump is proposing in relation to China the solutions proposed and implemented in the Eighties in relation to Japan's economic challenge - well worked out trade deals. Socially, Trump is proposing advancement based on merit. The black community does not want this according to the media but that doesn't make Trump a racist. By opposing merit the black community is putting itself at odds with the Hispanics and the Asians and the real liberals - as shown especially in the case of the Jews.
This is a moment in history, not an eternal reality but at this moment, he black community is locked in a bizarre embrace with the zany wing of the Dems who reject religion and family and common sense, the strongest elements in the black community, They only support its antisemitism, its bitterness toward whites, and the calls by some for a more affirmative affirmative action, for more abortion and for the adoption of a stance as permanent victims throughout history into the present. Trump would wish to call on the better angels of our common human nature.
Economically Trump wants to restore manufacturing by using US access to cheap, clean energy available through fracking. We will not win wars without this.
In terms of foreign affairs Trump wants us to rely on our friends, not our enemies. This is hard for some to understand because some think we have no enemies, just people we've injured because we're whitemalepatriarchChristiansucks. Some think we could win over the whitemalepatriarchChristiansucks abused with sufficient groveling and pallets of cash. This is not so as can be known by paying attention to what our real enemies who are calling for death to America are saying about such topics as decolonization and Islam.
Biden wants those calling for Death to America as his voters; he is pandering to them. And yet Our Betters say that Trump is crazy and Biden is normal.; 4/21/24, 10:33 AM
Night Owl said...: "Although at the very end, he says The Left should just tone it done until the election is over."

Yeah, that soured it for me. It made it seem like he's just afraid Democrats will lose votes over this issue.

But still, I'll give him some credit for shining a light on this.; 4/21/24, 10:43 AM
Night Owl said...: "I foolishly thought that Maher would segue into J6 when he discussed entrapment. Alas, he did not. "

So did I. But maybe he knows his audience's heads would have exploded. Only so much they can take at one time.; 4/21/24, 10:45 AM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: Maher’s a stooge but there is a glimmer of hope there.

There seems to be a significant increase in the expression of common sense lately. With the tribe-mandated qualifications, natch, but the ranks of the Woke goose-steppers seem to be thinning. In my daily life, this manifests itself as an increasing number of people openly mocking any kind of Facebook preening.; 4/21/24, 11:06 AM
lonejustice said...: Steven Hayward over at Powerline Blog wrote

"So I’m just going to come right out and say it: in the privacy of the voting booth in November, Bill Maher is going to vote for Trump."; 4/21/24, 12:28 PM
Bruce Hayden said...: Cognitive Dissonance again.; 4/21/24, 1:09 PM
nbks said...: Note that Bill's mostly concerned with Dem chances in November.

He says at the very end that they should stop "...at least least until the election is over."

That's a tell.; 4/21/24, 1:15 PM
Tina Trent said...: When the election is over, we can molest children and mutilate their bodies again -- Bill Maher. Or Obama chatting with Putin?

I wanted to like this, but if he's this cynical, he is the problem.; 4/21/24, 2:26 PM
Narayanan said...: So did I. But maybe he knows his audience's heads would have exploded. Only so much they can take at one time.
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why not have netting drop down to catch all the shards? [for ZAKA volunteers collecting remains.]; 4/21/24, 4:00 PM
Josephbleau said...: Tell Putin that after the election I will have more flexibility.; 4/21/24, 6:46 PM
Tom said...: Bill Maher is working his way up to writing a booked called “I hate to Say But the Conservatives were Right”; 4/21/24, 6:53 PM