Oh My Little Sun

Oh my little Sun🤕

Helmet description touched me so much

"The winged snakes were Messmer's constant companions.

They were there when the base serpent was sealed away behind his eye. They were there through his eternity of suffering. They will accompany him yet, in his hideous new form born when he destroyed the grace granted by his mother. They have accepted his fate as much as he."

Walking with Dogs, Cats, Flowers by Kyoung Hwan Kim

I can see your point of view on people getting gender-affirming surgery at a young age and how that could be harmful for some. But how is socially transitioning as a child or adolescent harmful? If I want to be referred to as a he at school, how does that hurt people?

And what are you doing on the queer website if you don’t like queer people, anyhow?

"what are you doing on the queer website if you don’t like queer people, anyhow?"

Well, there was no sign on the door saying that on the way in. Are you sure you don't mean Grindr?

Besides that, your use of that term (which many gay people find offensive) illustrates a problem with the present situation: it used to describe men who desired men or women who desired women - in other words, sex-based sexual preference - but in recent years it has been widened to encompass people with medical conditions like gender dysphoria, and people who have been surgically mutilated, and a thousand other whims and fancies, which is obviously an entirely different thing from the original meaning, and now actively works against sex-based sexual preference, i.e., with trans activists demanding lesbians give blowjobs or else be labeled "transphobes", etc. Which is why so many gay people are now wanting the LGBs to divorce from the TQ+2SJKLMNOPs.

"how is socially transitioning as a child or adolescent harmful?"

There's a bunch of answers to that one, but the previously mentioned story of David Reimer is a good example. Also, many of the people now attempting to detransition as best they can report that once they "socially transitioned" as children / teenagers, they were fast-tracked into hormones and surgery, and because they had made such a public show and built their identities around being trans, they didn't feel able to get off the train that had by then been rolling for years.

Beyond all that, children cannot and should not be making long-reaching, life-altering decisions while they are still growing, changing and lost in play.

If a 6-year-old wants to pretend they're a bear, and the rest of the family go along with it, there's unlikely to be any noticeable harm. But if those parents were to go to the child's school and demand the children and staff there all only refer to their child as a bear, rather than a human, and change the child's passport to an animal passport, and take their child to a vet rather than a doctor, and so forth and so on, a great deal of harm would likely be done to that child's natural development and future life: their education would suffer, along with their health, their social skills, their understanding of actual reality, their work options, etc., and by the time they outgrew that phase, they would in every way be in a worse situation than the other children at their school who had none of that done to them.

One could write a book of all the other reasons to be concerned about the present craze - the massive explosion of social contagion amongst teenage girls, etc., but hopefully that's enough to be going on with.

The World Economic Forum is a (self-anointed) global thought leader on politics, sustainability, innovation and equality.

In fact, I actually know the World Economic Forum quite well, I’ve worked with them professionally dozens of times; we’ve collaborated on important projects, we’ve shaken hands, sat around tables and pretended to laugh at each other’s jokes. I’ve even scaled the icy mountains of Switzerland to spend the week documenting the ultra-VIP Davos conference.

Their Global Gender Gap Report is a highly anticipated and respected annual barometer for how the world is doing on its meandering journey toward equality. But with no sense of irony, the report’s methodology is itself, systemically sexist.

So, let’s turn the beady eye of equality onto those pointing the finger, is the GGGR sexist and how?

It’s time to say GG, to the GGGR

Read it for yourself - https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GGGR_2021.pdf

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Sources

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/aug/13/girls-overtake-boys-in-a-level-and-gcse-maths-so-are-they-smarter

[2] https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/global-study-on-homicide.html

[3] https://www.scielosp.org/article/bwho/2014.v92n8/618-620/en/

[4] https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/mars-vs-venus-the-gender-gap-in-health

being able to interact and coexist with people you disagree with and people who are disliked is a sign of emotional strength and maturity, don’t let people bully you out of it, as if some people are a social contagion and the others are pure. It’s such a middle schooler way of thinking, like “ewww why are you sitting with them? Don’t you remember what they said?” That’s life?

For men, shame is not a bunch of competing, conflicting expectations. Shame is one, do not be perceived as what? Weak. I did not interview men for the first four years of my study. And it wasn't until a man looked at me after a book signing, and said, "I love what say about shame, I'm curious why you didn't mention men." And I said, "I don't study men." And he said, "That's convenient."

And I said, "Why?" And he said, "Because you say to reach out, tell our story, be vulnerable. But you see those books you just signed for my wife and my three daughters?" I said, "Yeah." "They'd rather me die on top of my white horse than watch me fall down. When we reach out and be vulnerable, we get the shit beat out of us. And don't tell me it's from the guys and the coaches and the dads. Because the women in my life are harder on me than anyone else."