I'm super picky about avoiding all didacticism in picture books. Not only are the platitudes odd and unnecessary, but they make reading terrible. Can you imagine adults wanting to frequently read books where the author keeps hitting them over the head with an "Impotant Lesson"?
Alicia M retweeted
Women calling little boys "would-be incels" should be met with the same contempt and disgust as men calling little girls "future whores" or other sexualized insults. WILDLY inappropriate way to speak of children.
People will just get on here and say anything. It is hard for me to fathom how out of touch with reality people can be. I just really don't understand it.
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Alicia M retweeted
Ross Douthat was put on this earth to induce public fitgures to calmly, smilingly, and winsomely confess that they are psychopaths.
.@AbdulElSayed says it’s ok for MEN to be in girl’s locker rooms.
Why?
“Well because they are going to find out about it on the internet anyway”
Completely unacceptable.
Alicia M retweeted
People who want to write about what defines biological sex because they have a political agenda are likely to get it very wrong. As a nerd, I find that intensely annoying. Leave that stuff to the evolutionary biologists who actually know what they are talking about.
Chromosomal variation is perfectly consistent with the existence of two and only two sexes. Crocodiles, for instance, don't have any sex chromosomes and still have two sexes! Some men have XXY--they are still male! Some fish 🐟 change sex--because they change the kind of gametes they produce!
Rather than speaking to geneticists or people with political agendas, read @SwipeWright's papers (linked to in his reply), consult top evolutionary biologists. Eggs and sperm, female and male. It's just about making 👶🏽s. That's all there is to it!
Alicia M retweeted
As I watched the video and listened to the 6-year-old who shot his teacher spew every cuss word imaginable, I thought about the young mother I spoke to the other day. She has a 2 little boys and was worried they’d pick up words like “stupid” and “idiot” from friends and cartoons.
Imagine if her children wound up in a classroom with a child like the one in the video. It happens every day. Very young children from happy, healthy homes, where respect for authority and thoughtful words are the norm, are introduced to the chaos and fear that is bred in homes where dysfunction reigns.
All children deserve an education, but we need to have a serious conversation about our responsibility to protect the innocent, well-behaved children from classroom trauma like this rather than simply reacting to it by increasing “trauma-informed instruction”.
Alicia M retweeted
The reason a male convicted child rapist was allowed into a women’s locker room at a Massachusetts Planet Fitness was that Planet Fitness has a policy to allow any man who says he is a woman into the women’s locker room and a practice of punishing any woman who disputes the inclusion of any man who says he is a woman in women’s private spaces as a hateful bigot. In this, the corporation is enacting the policy that House Democrats have twice voted to impose on every public accommodation in America and that the Biden Administration’s Department of Education imposed on every school that accepts federal funds in America before courts vacated the rule as violating Title IX and the US Constitution. He was there because Democrats are united in treating the inclusion of any man who says he is woman in women’s private spaces as the civil rights movement of the 21st century. When Democrats say “we can’ t throw trans people under the bus,” they mean “we will force your daughter to change alongside a convicted male child rapist and punish her if she protests.”
A convicted child rapist is in custody after sexually assaulting multiple women in an "inclusive" female locker room at a Massachusetts Planet Fitness.
The franchise has previously defended its policies allowing males to enter the women's areas.
reduxx.info/man-arrested-aft…
Alicia M retweeted
The thing that never happens and could never happen and that only evil people predicted would happen has happened again.
A convicted child rapist is in custody after sexually assaulting multiple women in an "inclusive" female locker room at a Massachusetts Planet Fitness.
The franchise has previously defended its policies allowing males to enter the women's areas.
reduxx.info/man-arrested-aft…
Alicia M retweeted
The flydubai terrorist, Hamam al-Hammami, admitted he wanted to crash the plane inside Israel. Oman Air had already barred him from flying over his religious extremism. Social media material linked to him showed Israeli aircraft alongside al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and he was found with 'free Palestine' leaflets and materials in the past. Yet he was handed the controls of an Israel-bound flight carrying 182 people. When he attacked the captain with a crash axe, the wounded Indian captain, crew and Israeli passengers fought back and prevented a massacre.
Israel’s security requirements exist because threats like this are real.
Alicia M retweeted
Which young adults are steering clear of the "happiness crash"?
The married & religious.
☑️ 31% of unmarried, secular adults unhappy
☑️ Among their married, religious peers: just 7%.
"In an age marked by too many screens & too much solitude, faith & family remain two of the strongest bulwarks against loneliness & despair."
Alicia M retweeted
Isn't it interesting? Perhaps the irony is that sexual monogamy was supposed to be one of the constraints from which modernity would liberate us, yet it increasingly looks less like an arbitrary religious prohibition & more like a remarkably sophisticated piece of civilisational wisdom.
The sexual revolution promised freedom through the dismantling of boundaries, but many of the resulting problems, fractured families, commodified intimacy, loneliness, pornography, collapsing fertility and profound confusion about the meaning of sex itself, raise an awkward question: what if those boundaries were not designed to frustrate human flourishing, but to protect it? Christian sexual ethics begins to look very different when the alternatives are subjected to their own stress tests.
Alicia M retweeted
The idea that there’s a 1/3 sex assault rate - higher than war-torn African countries that use rape as a weapon - at Cornell or any American university is so absurd any normal society would laugh it out of the room. Not a single parent would send their daughter to Cornell if this were true. What’s actually shown in these surveys is that sometimes boys try to kiss or initiate things somehow girls who don’t want them, which has happened since the dawn of time.
1/3 of Cornell's female graduates experience unwanted sexual contact or penetration.
Cornell expels/dismisses *one* person a year f sexual misconduct.
Women's pain is a tolerated inconvenience, mens' pain a crisis that must be averted. And so it is.
eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n…
Alicia M retweeted
We all want men to be virtuous. A moral framework in which "c̵o̵n̵s̵e̵n̵t̵" "enthusiastic consent" is the only distinguishing feature between good and evil is not capable of making men virtuous.
Alicia M retweeted
Title IX protections are for girls.
“On the basis of sex” is how it’s written. Not gender identity. Not sexual orientation.
There are no Title IX protections specific to LGBT students. Just for girls.
Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
thehill.com/homenews/educati…
Alicia M retweeted
Cathie is a normal Canadian. She probably recycles and loves animals.
Here, she mocks a cancer patient who has been inappropriately offered MAiD five times.
Cathie is not a bad person. But she is an example of what euthanasia does to societies' moral compass.
Reminds of this piece by @Louise_m_perry linked below. Having a child puts you face to face with reality and can radically reorient your understanding of the way the world does work and the way it ought to work. It's not going to be good for society to lose that feedback.
