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I suspect they realize on one level or another that they will be pilloried as the modern equivalent of Klansmen if they raise an objection. It’s not that there’s something on TV. It’s that they don’t want to get a call from HR because they tweeted an objection, got doxed, and had a brigade attacking the company that employed them.
Moloch was a jerk
Yes, James, very true. I was a bit harsh on this in the OP. There are some things I will not post on Facebook and Twitter for those reasons, though I’m slowly migrating off of Facebook and perhaps soon off Twitter as well. I also learned from a Rico member offline of consequences even more extreme that what you’ve sketched out for someone who challenges the popular transgender narrative. Such is the nightmare we’re living and careful not to offend or fight back for fear of loss of a job, being hounded, or censored on social media. I’m growing increasingly pessimistic about the future and I’m afraid the first steps to a thousand years of darkness that Reagan spoke of may have already been taken.
So did our junior high PE teacher. Who later came out of the closet.
Parents are probably keeping their mouths shut for a number of reasons: they don’t know about it (although they probably do now); they don’t care; they don’t want to be seen as a “hateful person”; they don’t want their son(s) called out; they don’t want to be called out and seen as a prude. I could go on, but I’m sure they have lots of excuses. So much for parenting.
Gobsmacked. But it makes sense (not that it is sensible) that if you twist yourselves up intellectually as this school has that you will have these kind of results.
Moloch was/is a non-entity created by jerks, to justify evil, no?
Only the feelings of the oppressed are to be protected. Oppressors deserve no such consideration.
First of all, we have no idea what these parents have done to challenge the orthodoxy. All we know is that they haven’t succeeded – we don’t know what their efforts have been.
Secondly, it’s impossible to exaggerate the pettiness of administrators and teachers. We all saw how Duke treated the players who were wrongly accused. I’ve witnessed first hand a similar situation where my brother (a college coach) had to fight tooth and nail to get passing credits for some of his players who had been similarly wrongly accused. And that was after Duke – no lessons learned from that debacle.
Thirdly, parents are reeling trying to deal with a thousand issues that previous generations have no experience with. Disagree with your pediatrician’s advice? I tell all young mothers to nod and smile in an agreeable fashion. Do not disagree. And if you get a second opinion, pay cash and don’t inform the original doctor.
Do you know that parents have been threatened with a call to CPS for missed dental appointments?
Someone earlier mentioned that parents’ voices are listened to. Not the case in California. Not even close.
My experience is that parents are trying to do their best under very trying and frankly terrifying circumstances. The power of the state, and the amount of people willing to abuse it, is legion.
Nanda,
Well, Nanda, you are most certainly correct. However, the Torah is very explicit about the danger from Moloch. It is your duty to resist Moloch and his followers in every way.
Obviously, the jerk is quite a threat and needs your direct attention whenever he shows his ugly face.
Regards,
Jim
I think it has more to do with having the same sort of body oneself, rather than with the sex one is attracted to. At least, that’s how I see it: after all, straight men and straight teenaged boys have been dressing, undressing and showering with gay men and boys for millennia. How would one know? Whereas a transgender “boy” is…obvious.
No disagreement here, Jim; just surprised that Moloch would be acknowledged as some sort of equivalent.
Meanwhile, if he was caught with images of naked 30 yos on his computer he’d be thrown into prison for a very long time and his name would be forever stored on the sex offender registry. We live in incoherent times.
By the way, when I was touring the University of Georgia’s new baseball facility in an otherwise all-male group, we went into the (men’s) locker room. Had I not been present, the group would’ve walked in unannounced. As it was, someone went in first to make sure all the boys had clothes on and were okay with a woman coming into their private space. As we went through, guys called “female present! Female present!” to anyone who might not have been alerted.
In other words, the mere presence of a female—however motherly and romantically uninteresting—was understood to be an issue and so directly and sensibly handled. And, by the way, if any of the young men had said “I don’t want a woman in here at all, even if I am dressed” I would’ve been fine with that.
Which shouldn’t seem strange or even worth mentioning.
Oy vey.
Nanda,
That is the lunacy of multiculturalism. Whether it’s jihadist genocide or cannibalism, or Moloch once you’ve dispensed with your ability to judge one set of “values” higher than another, then anything goes.
Regards,
Jim
Depends on who you ask. Lots of people on Ricochetti believe in demons and ghosts. Moloch could have been a particularly vicious fallen Angel.
I don’t think that’s true. I’ve never heard of a teacher being booted out for looking at pornography.
There are demons occasionally here on Ricochet. That’s why we have
exorcistsmoderators.My view, in fact. Another resemblance to the real Augustine, as well as Milton.
Paul supports the idea that false gods are demons when he talks about meat sacrificed to idols. For that matter, there’s a lot of Old Testament support for this idea, covered in the appendix to Brian Godawa’s Noah Primeval.
Finally, don’t forget Star Trek’s theory!
Penile plethysmography?
Thank you for the vocabulary challenge.
Nonetheless, the potential for sexual attraction (plus the reality that a disproportionately large percentage of the child sexual abuse cases involve abuse by an adult of the same sex as the child) are among the reasons some of us old buddy-duddies continue to have a problem with the “LGB” push to gain access to children.
Even without touching, imagine what’s going to happen to the teacher when the girl outgrows her “gender unclarity” (as statistically she almost certainly will) and then as a grown woman brings up legal and other claims over the fact that this (male) teacher “spied” on her. He can offer the defense that the school district made him do it, but that defense is likely to be buried well below the headlines, and thus not get him much credit. He will be ruined.
That’s just the thing — apart from biology, one’s sexual identity is completely subjective. If I weren’t burdened with female parts, I might “identify” as a male — after all, I have an engineering degree!
Oh, but that’s stereotyping, you say! Yes, have you noticed there are no MtoF transgenders who like to roughhouse or quote baseball stats out the yazoo? They base their female identity on wearing dresses and stiletto heels and makeup. Lots and lots of makeup. They’ve probably spent more time in pantyhose than this fifty-mumble-mumble year old woman has in the course of my entire lifetime! It’s all stereotyping!
My dad fathered seven children and shaved his armpits every day of his life after serving in WWII and learning field hygiene. My mother used to say, “your father’s masculinity doesn’t depend on his armpit hair.” But, that’s exactly what the transgender agenda depends on! All these superficialities of what it means to be a “man” or a “woman.”
As a society, we cannot be expected to treat people according to such individual, subjective measures. Sorry, but if you have female parts, you’ll be treated like a female, no matter how you feel. Deal with it.
It’s a long time since I trotted out one of my standard quips: The goal of the left is to make everything 1) mandatory
,and 2) illegal.May I amend? “The goal of the left is to make everything 1) mandatory, 2) illegal, and 3) subject to prosecutorial discretion.” Reward friends, punish enemies. Exert maximum control.
I thought that part went without saying. :-) But yes, that’s what it means.
That would make him de facto gay and he would therefore be celebrated.