The attached article was originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1994. I photocopied it and brought it into a PCC class for critical discussion and analysis that year. The class was exclusively women over 30 or near 30 years of age and taught on-site at Tektronix in Beaverton. By the time it was over I was in front of a dean explaining why I had brought this subversive and inflammatory material into a college classroom for critical analysis.
There's your problem right there, pal. This 2 parter should have hundreds of thousands of likes and at least hundreds of supportive comments. People should be boiling over with rage that this insane and hideous dark medicine is not just legitimated but acclaimed.
Your children. Your children. Your children. The nation's seed corn of our collective future. It, they are in the hands of poorly educated zealots whose chief weapon is to point at you and shout what a bad person you are for rebelling.
There's you problem right there, pal. That's all it takes to make us hide and apologize and pretend that evil progressive grotesquerie is just common sense and not really any of my business. Might offend someone.
I might be label a reactionary, a right winger, a Christian zealot, a white male something or other. And, Christ knows I'd rather destroy the present and damn futurity than allow that to happen
Thanks for the original comment that caught my interest. There's a connection here between medicine and education--schools, in effect, creating customers for gender clinics. New Jersey is now considering lesson plans for fifth-graders that promote puberty blockers. They want the kids.
My undergraduate school was a private Presbyterian outfit whose focus was training teachers. I was the tits-on-a-bull beast known as an English major. I had superb instructors and was avid to know the history and the literature and the nooks and crannies of my subject matter.
I was a high school drop out who went to a North Idaho JC then set my axe and saw down and left the woods to become an undergraduate. This biographical material is to highlight that I was not the most learned ape in the academic forest. However, I was constantly surprised and occasionally shocked by the want of basic information among those training to be teachers.
Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development - yes. When Victoria began and ended her reign and what were its distinguishing attributes, governmental form, imperial efforts, and etc. Nothing. They were nice young people but didn't bring a lot to the intellectual party. This was in the late 80s, early 90s and the rough beast of mad progressivism was slouching towards existence and preeminence.
Though Piaget was Swiss and the oracle of the educator in training, the French critical theorists had come on strong and gained canonical status. A status achieved for little more than none too honest word games.
Anyway, the university business as I look back at it was working hard to render itself meaningless and undermine all that it could touch.
Briefly put, too many of the future K-12 teacher trainees did not belong in the instructor role in a classroom.
The article linked below suggests how my discipline erased itself. The annual MLA conference was the Christmas and Easter and the alpha and omega of English Department holy days. When they were riding high there wasn't any anti-white, anti-male, anti-heterosexual, and all the rest of the anti bullshit they wouldn't spout. English departments led the way in fostering rot in and hate for Western Culture. Aphra Behn? YES. Wully Shakespeare , you mean the guy that wrote Lady MacBeth?
Last I checked my old school was featuring the translated moaning of any old bipoc bellyacher from South and Central America and all other points of the compass. The smug rule of this empty ruling class of scholars called the shots for over 30 years. And, by god they hated the bourgeoise. English departments provided leaders and language that brought us to this societal collapse. Please note that it was driven by women:
"But Doernbecher makes it clear, on every web page, that the Gender Clinic is part of something much bigger than a kid with a problem. They’re part of a movement, a sort of crusade, a 'community,' a step toward a non-binary future."
Queer Theory has not (yet) received as much attention as Critical Race Theory. I suppose that if and when it does, Queer Theorists will be sniffing on mainstream media that Queer Theory isn't being taught in the schools and haughtily tweeting to each others that critics are incapable of saying what Queer Theory is. On this latter point they might not be far off, because the field's principal academic exponent, Judith Butler, is renowned for her obscurantist prose.
But I digress. Having put more time into understanding Queer Theory than most people,* I can say that a non-binary future is precisely what Queer Theoreticians wish for society. From time to time someone actually says it out loud.
Queer Theory is about blowing up notions about sex and gender and replacing them with a permanent state of instability in which every human belongs to a temporary category of one, and so on, ad infinitum. Binaries - male/female, gay/straight, man/woman - are out, and the modern gender bestiary, exemplified by Healthlines inane "68 Terms That Describe Gender Identity and Expression" is the new norm. https://www.healthline.com/health/different-genders
* Do not be fooled into thinking James Lindsay is an expert on Queer Theory. He's as crazy as a bedbug.
I think of Hannah Arendt’s line: ‘One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.’
Extract from Ed Driscoll's contribution to Instapundit:
Jen Psaki, Groomers’ Spokeswoman. “Groomers? Oh hell yeah. I don’t care how loud they howl, this is purely evil, and ordinary people have got to wake up to what schools, the Walt Disney Company, the medical profession, the media, the Democratic Party, and the President of the United States are doing to children and families. They can howl all they want about how mean and demagogic we are for calling them groomers.
I think of Hannah Arendt’s line: ‘One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.’
The attached article was originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1994. I photocopied it and brought it into a PCC class for critical discussion and analysis that year. The class was exclusively women over 30 or near 30 years of age and taught on-site at Tektronix in Beaverton. By the time it was over I was in front of a dean explaining why I had brought this subversive and inflammatory material into a college classroom for critical analysis.
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/politics/family/failure.htm
Good heavens! I just realized that the author of this article is the sister of actor Willam Dafoe
There's your problem right there, pal. This 2 parter should have hundreds of thousands of likes and at least hundreds of supportive comments. People should be boiling over with rage that this insane and hideous dark medicine is not just legitimated but acclaimed.
Your children. Your children. Your children. The nation's seed corn of our collective future. It, they are in the hands of poorly educated zealots whose chief weapon is to point at you and shout what a bad person you are for rebelling.
There's you problem right there, pal. That's all it takes to make us hide and apologize and pretend that evil progressive grotesquerie is just common sense and not really any of my business. Might offend someone.
I might be label a reactionary, a right winger, a Christian zealot, a white male something or other. And, Christ knows I'd rather destroy the present and damn futurity than allow that to happen
Thanks for the original comment that caught my interest. There's a connection here between medicine and education--schools, in effect, creating customers for gender clinics. New Jersey is now considering lesson plans for fifth-graders that promote puberty blockers. They want the kids.
My undergraduate school was a private Presbyterian outfit whose focus was training teachers. I was the tits-on-a-bull beast known as an English major. I had superb instructors and was avid to know the history and the literature and the nooks and crannies of my subject matter.
I was a high school drop out who went to a North Idaho JC then set my axe and saw down and left the woods to become an undergraduate. This biographical material is to highlight that I was not the most learned ape in the academic forest. However, I was constantly surprised and occasionally shocked by the want of basic information among those training to be teachers.
Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development - yes. When Victoria began and ended her reign and what were its distinguishing attributes, governmental form, imperial efforts, and etc. Nothing. They were nice young people but didn't bring a lot to the intellectual party. This was in the late 80s, early 90s and the rough beast of mad progressivism was slouching towards existence and preeminence.
Though Piaget was Swiss and the oracle of the educator in training, the French critical theorists had come on strong and gained canonical status. A status achieved for little more than none too honest word games.
Anyway, the university business as I look back at it was working hard to render itself meaningless and undermine all that it could touch.
Briefly put, too many of the future K-12 teacher trainees did not belong in the instructor role in a classroom.
The article linked below suggests how my discipline erased itself. The annual MLA conference was the Christmas and Easter and the alpha and omega of English Department holy days. When they were riding high there wasn't any anti-white, anti-male, anti-heterosexual, and all the rest of the anti bullshit they wouldn't spout. English departments led the way in fostering rot in and hate for Western Culture. Aphra Behn? YES. Wully Shakespeare , you mean the guy that wrote Lady MacBeth?
Last I checked my old school was featuring the translated moaning of any old bipoc bellyacher from South and Central America and all other points of the compass. The smug rule of this empty ruling class of scholars called the shots for over 30 years. And, by god they hated the bourgeoise. English departments provided leaders and language that brought us to this societal collapse. Please note that it was driven by women:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/03/14/modern-language-association-convention/
"But Doernbecher makes it clear, on every web page, that the Gender Clinic is part of something much bigger than a kid with a problem. They’re part of a movement, a sort of crusade, a 'community,' a step toward a non-binary future."
Queer Theory has not (yet) received as much attention as Critical Race Theory. I suppose that if and when it does, Queer Theorists will be sniffing on mainstream media that Queer Theory isn't being taught in the schools and haughtily tweeting to each others that critics are incapable of saying what Queer Theory is. On this latter point they might not be far off, because the field's principal academic exponent, Judith Butler, is renowned for her obscurantist prose.
But I digress. Having put more time into understanding Queer Theory than most people,* I can say that a non-binary future is precisely what Queer Theoreticians wish for society. From time to time someone actually says it out loud.
Queer Theory is about blowing up notions about sex and gender and replacing them with a permanent state of instability in which every human belongs to a temporary category of one, and so on, ad infinitum. Binaries - male/female, gay/straight, man/woman - are out, and the modern gender bestiary, exemplified by Healthlines inane "68 Terms That Describe Gender Identity and Expression" is the new norm. https://www.healthline.com/health/different-genders
* Do not be fooled into thinking James Lindsay is an expert on Queer Theory. He's as crazy as a bedbug.
https://quillette.com/2022/04/08/im-being-investigated-by-the-british-columbia-college-of-nurses-because-i-believe-biological-sex-is-real/
I think of Hannah Arendt’s line: ‘One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.’
Extract from Ed Driscoll's contribution to Instapundit:
Jen Psaki, Groomers’ Spokeswoman. “Groomers? Oh hell yeah. I don’t care how loud they howl, this is purely evil, and ordinary people have got to wake up to what schools, the Walt Disney Company, the medical profession, the media, the Democratic Party, and the President of the United States are doing to children and families. They can howl all they want about how mean and demagogic we are for calling them groomers.
I think of Hannah Arendt’s line: ‘One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.’