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Jack Bog suffers from a want of fondness when he comes across my comments. Here is what he refused tonight:

It was bog who first directed me to Fitzsimmons. For that I'll always be grateful. And, she took me to Cheverton.

I admired much on your old site (Jack Bog), but intolerance of dissent gradually became its hallmark, its keynote. The same quality prevails here.

So, thanks to introducing me to the future in Richard, Pam and thence to Taibbi, Schellenberger, Douglas Murray, Bari Weiss, Sharyl Attkisson, and other brave and honest American writers/journalists (well, Murray).

If these people prevail, we'll have a positive and dynamic future. You have clearly found an anchorage suited to your horizon.

Larry LaBeck

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Ms. Fitzsimmons responded to me comment on my email. LOL Anyway I tried to reply but it did not go through. I have no idea why. Keep writing, Pam. But please try harder. There needs to be more, or al least some, evidence .... otherwise like I said "I saw Goody Proctor with the devil [and she's a lesbian!]"

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I have no idea, either. All of your other comments came through -- including this one.

I gave you evidence in my reply. You just didn't agree with it. Some advice to you for the next few years: Get used to people talking back to you.

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This proves nothing. I have no idea how gender and sexual orientation predicts support or lack of support for prison sentences. It's weird to draw such a correlation based upon what exactly? Two cases? It lacks research and date but is long on misogyny and homophobia. The author doesn't even make a case for liberals failing to support lengthy prison sentences. It smacks of those cheesy conspiracy theory things that presuppose some connection between things and then spins a bizarre and ridiculous theory as though it is factual. Not too far from "I saw Goody Proctor with the devil." [Further validated because Goody was a lesbian.]

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According to your bio, Martha Ellen Johnson, you are: “Retired old hippie. Writer. Painter. MFA. I write to process my wild life.”

Here’s what I’ve been doing with my life: Working as a newspaper reporter covering crime and courts (mostly in Southern California); working as Court-Appointed Special Advocate for children in protective custody; working on a Crisis Hotline (occasionally talking to self-absorbed folks like you) and working as a legislative aide in the Oregon legislature.

“The author doesn't even make a case for liberals failing to support lengthy prison sentences.” Put down your paint brush, and do some reading. Spend some time in court. Ever heard of the Partnership for Safety and Justice? Ever heard of the Oregon Justice Resource Center? Ever heard of Aliza Kaplan, Lewis & Clark law professor who takes credit for Gov. Kate Brown’s 1,000-plus commutations?

The two cases presented here are representative. The first case is particularly disturbing but not surprising: The girlfriend lied on several occasions to protect her boyfriend. Nine days before Samuel Rich brutally beat 2-year-old Wyatt, the little boy was in the emergency room for having ingested Suboxone, which treats opioid addiction.

From the court documents: “As she had done with the poisoning just nine days earlier, Katelyn Lawson tried to cover for Rich. She offered inconsistent accounts of the new injuries to (Wyatt) including claiming that (Wyatt) had fallen from a highchair or down the stairs.”

From my work and experience, it isn’t unusual for mothers side with their boyfriends. This also isn’t surprising: The social workers didn’t connect the dots on the Suboxone poisoning and Rich’s criminal history: He already was an adjudicated child abuser in another case involving a different woman’s child.

Also not surprising: The social workers were female. Human services work is dominated by females.

Wyatt, by the way, is now living in Tennessee with his father and extended family. His mom? Maybe someday she will take up writing to help her process her wild life.

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Bias and silly.

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I am a woman and those women do not represent me whatsoever. I want nothing to do with women like that.

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Oregon Democrat female politicians love criminals or every race, color, creed, and sexual orientation. They are atheists so religion was left out of that equation on purpose.

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YUP It was removed after I tried to post it a second time....FROM FB: We removed your post - It looks like you tried to get likes, follows, shares or video views in a misleading way. This goes against our Community Standards on spam. We don't allow people to use misleading links or content to trick people to visit, or stay on a website - Examples of things we don't allow 1) Telling people they must like a page to access content on another site 2) Using irrelevant pop-ups on websites, to prevent people from leaving easily 3) Disguising a link as something on our platform, like a poll or video to get clicks. 😫🤐😮

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I've had the same experience trying to post articles Dr Vanay Parsad critical of some of the protocols around Covid Has absolutely nothing to do with "clicks" or "misleading links" but I suspect everything to do with FB censors political bias and bigotry

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I heard someone's opinion on this yesterday that I found very interesting.. They aren't censoring conservative comments just the truth. That sounds about right...😉

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yup tired to post this; removed "spam"

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🙄😮🤨😛

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This is such a courageous and gusty article. You are a consummate journalist. I could never produce something like this in all my life. This is a great article. I'd like to share it and talk about the censorship issue, on FB and elsewhere, if that's alright...

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"I could never produce something like this in all my life." You already have, Theresa! Just ask Don.

Feel free to go after Facebook. Their censorship is outrageous.

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Toxic Empathy - How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion by Allie Beth Stuckey, available on Amazon

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I was so tempted to begin by digressing because "queer" never fails to set me off. "Queer" is the verbal keffiyeh that marks the committed gender badass.

I will get back to that, but if Emerge Oregon really wants to make "the state better for women and children and families," the women politicians they field should stop thinking of criminals as victims and commit themselves to doing retributive justice instead of letting criminals evade accountability to the people of Oregon through fake "restorative" justice.

Can Emerge Oregon even hear itself? Stuff like "The organization is preparing women who represent “a new American majority — black, brown and Indigenous women, young women, unmarried women and queer women" is so 1970s feminist-bookstore lefty, not to mention downright racist. If they keep this up, they'll get markedly fewer smart, sensible white moderates like Sharon Meieran and attract radicals along the lines of Khanh Pham instead.

There's a way for Emerge Oregon to walk its talk that is so obvious it's astounding they're not already on top of it. One thing that would immediately make Oregon better for women, mothers and their daughters would be to pass a ban on the participation of males who claim to identify as female in women's-only sports. Males' natural physiological and motivational advantage over females even before puberty prevents girls and women from reaping the rewards of their training, dedication and abilities. That includes taking scholarships and other coveted resources away from girls and women. In some sports, the mass of male bodies and sports equipment in motion is a unique threat to the safety of female athletes.

Also, Emerge Oregon could help Oregon's teen girls, their mothers and loved ones with legislation to halt the harmful affirmation model of treating girls who've gotten it in their heads that they're boys. There is an international epidemic of adolescent girls showing up at gender clinics despite never having shown any signs of gender incongruity. Responding to trans activists' pressure to do away with "gatekeeping," medical and mental health professionals have abandoned the once-normal practice of evaluating a gender dysphoric youth's overall mental health, their relations with their family and friends, the presence of autism, their online history, any history of sexual assault and so on. That is a mistake that must be rectified in Oregon law.

The objective of such an assessment is to determine whether the teen girl's desire to transition is a maladaptive response to other adverse events or factors in her life. If so, therapy and other interventions are required, not chest binders, social transition, puberty suppressors, cross-sex hormones and the surgical removal and mutilation of healthy body parts.

The Canadian researcher Eliza Mondegreen has analyzed the problem this way:

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At the turn of the 21st century, girls and young women were rarely if ever seen at gender clinics. But starting in the mid-2010s, everything changed. Now female patients seeking transition outnumber male patients two-to-one across the Western world. This new patient demographic is not well understood on any level. We don’t understand the etiology of gender dysphoria in this population. We don’t yet know the efficacy and safety of transition-related interventions. And we don’t know how many of these patients may change their minds in the future and come to regret the decision to transition.

When I began my studies, I was interested in building upon the work of Lisa Littman, who identified the potential role of social influence in the development of gender dysphoria, trans identification, and the desire to transition among adolescent and young-adult females. My research focuses on the online communities where so many girls and young women have explored and adopted transgender identities in recent years. I have been particularly interested in the attitudes, beliefs, and experiences that contribute to trans identification among adolescent and young adult females. I wanted to understand what girls and young women were looking for—and finding—in the process of coming to identify as transgender. I wish to briefly summarize what I’ve learned for the consideration of the Comité.

Until recently, researchers, clinicians, and parents understood something a lot like gender dysphoria to be a normal stage of adolescent development for teenage girls. Simply put, it is hard to grow up female. It can be hard to accept the changes to one’s body—like menstruation and breast development—and the way society responds to those changes. There have always been girls and young women who sought a way out of the developmental challenges puberty posed. They took off-ramps like anorexia or cutting.

Today, trans identity is a super highway promising an escape from the discomfort of female adolescence. My research suggests that adolescent and young adult females are responding to common developmental pressures and seeking to fulfill basic developmental tasks through trans identification. This is not the same thing as being in any sense ‘born in the wrong body.’

Many of the young females I see in online trans communities are seeking an explanation for the distress they feel over their changing bodies. They often struggle with questions of identity. They may not know how to fit in with their peers. They are looking for a place to belong, a sense of direction in life, a purpose or cause to devote themselves to, and recognition for their uniqueness and for the changes they undergo as they move from childhood toward adulthood. They are also often looking for a scapegoat for difficulties in life.

The belief that one is transgender offers a clear scapegoat: the female body itself, which can be disciplined into compliance with the new identity regime, much the way the anorexic disciplines her body through starvation. A transgender identity can be especially appealing when healthier developmental pathways are blocked, for whatever reason: because the whole world locked down during a pandemic, because a young person has too few friends and opportunities in real life, or a too-compliant personality, or because mental health difficulties and neurocognitive differences interfere with her ability to build a compelling life offline. [1]

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I could go on, but I'll wrap up by suggesting that action by the Democratic majority in the Oregon Legislature, including Emerge Oregon's alumnae, could spare women's spaces in Oregon the trauma that befell the Korean-owned Olympus Spa in Seattle after its women-only policy was challenged by an aggressive and intact biological male who demanded entry on the ground that he identified as a woman. The spa is now in litigation in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, where a judge who must be drunk on progressive self-righteousness has likened the women-only policy to a whites-only rule. Oregon law needs to make it clear that women have the right to create and enjoy women-only without the presence of biological males. [2]

Would Emerge Oregon entertain such a platform? One way to find out is to put it to them in writing or, with just the right sort of gutsy individual, in person at a meeting.

Getting back to the queer thing, "queer" is problematic from the gay perspective for a number of reasons. What is it the BLM types chanted? "Call him by his name"? That's not so if you're gay, lesbian or bisexual. We're all supposed to be queers now. That's rich at a time when genderqueer people enjoy a whole bestiary's worth of labels, and heaven help you if, say, you refer to a demisexual person as genderfluid by mistake. In certain queer fringes, calling someone a "cisgendered white gay male professional" is a severe coded in-group insult.

There are other reasons many gay people don't want to be associated with the term. "Queer" is neither a sexual orientation nor a gender identity. It most certainly is not innate. At its most trivial, queer is a pose, an attitude and the latest annoying urban scene for people with pink hair and piercings - still!

At its worst, queer is doctrinaire and political, a set of learned attitudes and beliefs rooted in nihilist post-War philosophy that got a working over from trickster philosophers such as the reality denying Judith Butler beginning in the 90s and persisting to the present. Gays aren't proper queers because we have stable sexual orientations and operate in a world where there's a stable gay-straight binary. It's hard to be more out of step with queer culture than that.

Queer is no country for old gay men like me gay people of any age.

[1] Mondegreen, Eliza. Genderhacked by Eliza Mondegreen. "My testimony for Quebec's Comité des Sages sur l'identité de genre." 5 June 2024. https://substack.com/@elizamondegreen/p-142436940

[2] Rantz, Jason. MyNorthwest.com/770 KTTH Conservative Talk Radio. "Rantz: Judge claims ‘female only’ Olympus Spa is akin to ‘whites only’ business." 19 November 2024

https://mynorthwest.com/4010975/rantz-judge-claims-female-only-olympus-spa-is-akin-to-whites-only-business/

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CORRECTION: Facebook did post the article....even though I received a notice that it was spam. It is on our FB page part of the way down.

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When did they post it? After there were complaints? A few hours ago, a friend of mine tried posting it on FB, and within minutes it was blocked. I’m leaving my comment up on Twitter/X. FB policies are a mystery.

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deleted my attempt as well labeled spam instead of the true reason of going against FB censors delicate sensibilities

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Earlier I found it. I just went back through our page looking for the article and I can't find it now. So it looks like they did remove it? I went to view the Group Status and 2 posts appear to have been deleted one over 3 months ago and the other 1 month ago. Nothing from today. 🙄 Perhaps I'll post it again and see what happens.

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Once again, Pam treads where no one else dares to go.

Women (as opposed to imitations) are different than men. Pretty simple, as any man will tell you (in private here in Oregon).

Somehow, the electorate was bamboozled with the wholly specious claim that when women got into politics--the "first ever" syndrome--things would be better. The "better" part was never specified, but then progressives aren't much for details.

So now women have assumed control of anything with real power, allied with gay men (another "cannot speak"), we are not supposed to discuss how that turned out. Especially now that the state has pandered to everyone with any claim, however specious, to being underserved, historically (unto the umpteenth generation) repressed, a victim of (fill in the blank), unhappy, triggered, bothered, or a product of their own narcissism and crappy lifestyle choices...well, how're we doing?

All of us.

Of that we cannot speak.

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Thank you. Now we know where all those mean girls went to school.

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If Jabba the Hut had a child...

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Woman politicians are politicians and it is naive to think that they are exempt from the motivations that all politicians have, which is getting elected, and re-elected. As a national voting block, they did not save Kamala from defeat! Ask yourself why. If and when Oregon voters come around to the primary ethical protection of children that has been with us since English common law, voters will bounce whoever is in power, regardless of their gender or assignment in the rainbow spectrum...

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FYI. I posted this to FB and it was removed as they tagged it as Spam. Who says the Overlords aren't watching us. 😏

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Thanks for letting me know. I went over to Twitter/X and posted a link and wrote “Facebook doesn’t want you to read this.” I also posted a link at Threads.net, but I’m not too sure about that site.

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Just amazing. Yeah I'm guessing FB doesn't want people to know about our political corruption in Oregon.

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