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Municipal Speech Enforcement
“Gendered language like ‘manhole’ will soon be banned from Berkeley’s city codes,” CNN, July 18

Source:https://www.wsj.com/articles/conversati ... opin_pos_1

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Jul 18, 2019 3:22 pm

Municipal Speech Enforcement
“Gendered language like ‘manhole’ will soon be banned from Berkeley’s city codes,” CNN, July 18

Source:https://www.wsj.com/articles/conversati ... opin_pos_1

I guess "personhole" kind of works. What's the "non-gendered" version of "midwife"? Mid-person?

The etymology of mid- in this case is ‘with’, like German mit, so that would work. However, mid-person sounds like non-gendered, period. Haha

Xan wrote: ↑Thu Jul 18, 2019 4:07 pm

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Jul 18, 2019 3:22 pm

Municipal Speech Enforcement
“Gendered language like ‘manhole’ will soon be banned from Berkeley’s city codes,” CNN, July 18

Source:https://www.wsj.com/articles/conversati ... opin_pos_1

I guess "personhole" kind of works. What's the "non-gendered" version of "midwife"? Mid-person?

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Jul 18, 2019 4:55 pm The etymology of mid- in this case is ‘with’, like German mit, so that would work. However, mid-person sounds like non-gendered, period. Haha

Another weird one is "fishwife". A "fish-person" sounds like a character from a bad sci-fi movie.

Edit: Oh! And what should we call maid service? "Unmarried person service"? Kinky.

fishwife, I had to look that up. What an interesting word!

This is the face of the New Left. God bless 'em, they deserve one another.

Trans Activist Sues Brazilian Wax Business after Owner Refused to Shave Her Balls

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/0 ... her-balls/

This thread used to upset me. Now it makes me laugh.

Maddy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2019 12:05 pm This is the face of the New Left. God bless 'em, they deserve one another.

Trans Activist Sues Brazilian Wax Business after Owner Refused to Shave Her Balls

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/0 ... her-balls/

Holy smokes.

Of course this is just the logical next step after forcing bakers and flower arrangers to participate in weddings. Forced ball shaving! It's like eHarmony being forced to make homosexual matches, even though the decades of research the guy did was only into heterosexual relationships.

Laws like this are big hammers, and completely unnecessary in these situations. There's no shortage of bakers or flower arrangers happy to work whatever event, and there are plenty of ways to find matches, as well as to have your balls shaved.

But now some little Vietnamese hair & nail lady is going to be forced to shave guys' balls. Well great.

I don't know if there as an official name for this sort of bigotry yet but apparently you can get in a lot of trouble for denying that a man can get pregnant, as the doctor who was the leader of Planned Parenthood just found out.

Maybe somebody should come up with a registry of terms so people on the left will know exactly what to accuse someone of. Or maybe Communist China already has one they can borrow and translate into English.

Sometimes I wonder if this sort of nuttiness is as widespread as it seems to be or is it just something that makes headlines in the news? I only hope it's the latter.

Edit: I think maybe the word is "transphobic" but I don't want to offend anybody by using the wrong word.

OMG. I had always thought of Planned Parenthood as serving a useful role for underinsured or uninsured women, but this latest move is beyond ridiculous. It would be hilarious if it weren't so sad!!!

So is the next step to throw the cast of Monty Python in jail for this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBOQzSk14c

As a donor, my dad complained years ago that Planned Parenthood was too politicized. When they called he told them so and said why don’t you focus on health services? Seems like the new president was doing just that. Of course,she got fired for it!

English usage: are we still allowed to talk about segregated storage?

sophie wrote: ↑Sat Jul 20, 2019 11:20 am OMG. I had always thought of Planned Parenthood as serving a useful role for underinsured or uninsured women, but this latest move is beyond ridiculous. It would be hilarious if it weren't so sad!!!

So is the next step to throw the cast of Monty Python in jail for this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBOQzSk14c

I think they'll get a pass for now, at least, but I can hardly imagine them not being drummed off of TV with howls of outrage for this kind of skit nowadays.

I'm sure I could think of a few more examples but one that comes to mind is the "I'm a Lumberjack" song.

Edit: Guess I should provide a link for those unfamiliar : https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... shU58nI0Ts

Whenever there's a debate about whether or not "men" can get pregnant, it's worth asking what the definition of "man" is. One side of the debate will have a very clear definition, and the other side will be totally unable to define the word "man".

Without being able to define "man", they really can't say what it means for a "man" to be pregnant.

This exchange between Matt Walsh and a doctor illustrated this quite well:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/49589/wa ... matt-walsh

left-wing gender theory can be entirely dismantled and debunked with one simple question: What is a man? All of the talking points, all of the sermonizing, all of the stuff about "transgenderism" and "gender fluidity" and "gender spectrums" — all of it is blown to pieces by a question that my six-year-old could answer. No leftist who espouses gender theory can provide a coherent answer to this question. Few will even attempt it.

Via Tim Pool, Bernie Sanders' campaign workers complain that he isn't paying them the $15/hr he champions. He cuts their hours instead. He also laments that they went public with that information.

Maddy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2019 12:05 pm This is the face of the New Left. God bless 'em, they deserve one another.

Trans Activist Sues Brazilian Wax Business after Owner Refused to Shave Her Balls

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/0 ... her-balls/

On the ball-shaving news front, apparently this guy is obsessed with children's tampons, and tried to organize a "parents-free" pool party for children. Color me surprised.

Perhaps it’s unfair to put this item in this thread as it’s more “world gone crazy.” I’m tempted to put it here because of the left’s obsession with race, and because of their anti-white slant (my personal perception).

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/07/us/afrof ... index.html

Grocery Store "Go Back Where You Came From" Hoax via Tim Pool

Black Georgia state representative claims a white guy told her to go back where she came from when she tried to check out too many items in the express lane. He shows up at her press conference to let everyone know she was lying, that he's Cuban, and that he's an Anti-Trump Democrat. Now she says he might not have exactly said to go back where she came from

I'm sure this isn't the first case of TDS that has manifested in auditory hallucinations. Fascinating stuff.

Now "she" is boasting that she got a cosmetics store shut down. https://www.infowars.com/transgender-ac ... shut-down/

There's a name for this mindset and behavior, and a DSM diagnosis to boot. They're flaming BOR-DER-LINES.

Not sure it's too helpful to focus on the antics of a crazy person, because nut jobs have always and will always be with us independently of any sort of politics.

However, I take the point that this crazy person was able to exploit the basic illogic of transgender politics for greater effect & publicity than might otherwise be possible. Not too long ago, what you did if you wanted to be transgender was to quietly go for it, maybe join a reddit forum, but otherwise keep it to yourself and your circle of friends. I know a number of transgender people who hold responsible positions and are well respected in their fields, and the fact that they're transgender doesn't even register with most of their colleagues. Now, being transgender is a political statement and is even being held as something to aspire to. Sort of like how being Hispanic apparently makes you morally superior.

However, I don't see this as a phenomenon at all unique to the "transgender" crowd. It's become emblematic of the New Left.

It's not only transgenders who have adopted the familiar "you're either my persecutor or my savior" mentality characteristic of BPD, or who have acquired the knack for "triangulating." Or who spend their days actually creating situations that foment conflict and that feed the control issues and persecution complexes they experience in their heads.

Once upon a time, it was the province of disturbed 14-year-old girls in psych wards to exert control over other people by setting in motion a conflict and watching from a distance ("Who, me?") when the two projectiles collide in a massive firestorm somewhere down the road. Now, we've got an entire political movement that has embraced deception, provocation, gaslighting and other forms of manipulation as the antidote to whatever form of emotional turmoil these self-styled victims happen to be experiencing.

These people are no longer content to simply live their lives as they choose. When they feel distressed or powerless, it's not enough to work through their issues in the privacy of their homes with the support of friends and professionals. They actively project their issues onto other people, demanding that society at large become an unwitting prop in their never-ending psychodrama.

I wonder how long it will be before we have "Human Rights Tribunals" for this sort of thing like they have in Canada.

If this ever does come to the U.S.A I think they are going to need a lot of judges because those courts will be very busy.

jacksonM wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2019 10:14 am I wonder how long it will be before we have "Human Rights Tribunals" for this sort of thing like they have in Canada.

If this ever does come to the U.S.A I think they are going to need a lot of judges because those courts will be very busy.

Your statement reminds me of something I heard recently: If the people in the US continue down the road of no external authority, whether God or civil law, is valued, i.e "self is all important, to hell with those who disagree with me" and morality goes by the wayside, it is not possible to have sufficient numbers of police to maintain order. Chaos will reign supreme.

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2019 12:59 pm

jacksonM wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2019 10:14 am I wonder how long it will be before we have "Human Rights Tribunals" for this sort of thing like they have in Canada.

If this ever does come to the U.S.A I think they are going to need a lot of judges because those courts will be very busy.

Your statement reminds me of something I heard recently: If the people in the US continue down the road of no external authority, whether God or civil law, is valued, i.e "self is all important, to hell with those who disagree with me" and morality goes by the wayside, it is not possible to have sufficient numbers of police to maintain order. Chaos will reign supreme.

I think I know what "external authority" you have in mind and frankly I don't think it has much guidance to offer in these troubling times. Re: the most troubling and chaotic time in our nation's history - the civil war. Of what help was the external authority in resolving the question of slavery? None, I think. Both sides quoted it with equal fervor. I think you could say the same thing about the controversy of scrotum waxing. We know the almighty is against boiling a kid in it's mother's milk but we don't really have any specific guidance on this subject.

I do agree with your basic point however. I don't view it in the context of End Time Biblical prophecy as you probably do but yes it's troubling. When I hear the Dems say "nobody is above the law" when talking about Trump I think immediately of illegal immigration. And that's another issue where you can quote scripture and make your point either way.

jacksonM wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2019 2:00 pm

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2019 12:59 pm

jacksonM wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2019 10:14 am I wonder how long it will be before we have "Human Rights Tribunals" for this sort of thing like they have in Canada.

If this ever does come to the U.S.A I think they are going to need a lot of judges because those courts will be very busy.

Your statement reminds me of something I heard recently: If the people in the US continue down the road of no external authority, whether God or civil law, is valued, i.e "self is all important, to hell with those who disagree with me" and morality goes by the wayside, it is not possible to have sufficient numbers of police to maintain order. Chaos will reign supreme.

I think I know what "external authority" you have in mind and frankly I don't think it has much guidance to offer in these troubling times. Re: the most troubling and chaotic time in our nation's history - the civil war. Of what help was the external authority in resolving the question of slavery? None, I think. Both sides quoted it with equal fervor. I think you could say the same thing about the controversy of scrotum waxing. We know the almighty is against boiling a kid in it's mother's milk but we don't really have any specific guidance on this subject.

I do agree with your basic point however. I don't view it in the context of End Time Biblical prophecy as you probably do but yes it's troubling. When I hear the Dems say "nobody is above the law" when talking about Trump I think immediately of illegal immigration. And that's another issue where you can quote scripture and make your point either way.

Actually I meant "external authority" in the broadest sense (like what I described in the i.e. " "). In the case of the Civil War, the soldiers followed the external authority of their commanders or were likely shot. If one chooses to operate only on what they personally think is right (they themselves being THE source of authority) all we are left with is chaos. A society, in order to function, must have some commonly held source of external authority be it police, civil laws, a dictator, a tyrant, or God's law. I see the US slipping away from that external authority - e.g. hooligans who dump water on police and laugh; drivers who run red lights, stop signs and cut others off in traffic; illegals who swarm to cross the border with little consequence; and lastly those who boil their kids in its mother's milk (just kidding - pun intended - on that one since we don't live in the Jewish theocracy of a couple thousand years ago). AFWIW, I'm not really in to End Times stuff; that's more for the fundie TV preachers who are looking to buy a new jet.