Thoughtful analysis and accurate too. What did happen with privacy or keep it private?
Also you made a pointy observation of a phenomena, the degradation of everything that is good and pretty, as how we presents ourselves or as how people have gave up of themselves regarding any aspect of their bodies. Emo has taken another dimension, and transformed black into rainbow. I cant see those rainbow colors anymore like they are nice, I am tired of the purple that it used to be one of my favorites colors.
Now you are lucky in so may ways, first because you realize things so you are smart and because you saw fluffy but I saw SM on the streets of Seattle, and fellatios in the "filthy zone" as they needed to clarify, and the defecation and I have videos because I am a journalist among other things and I have to document evidence specially that things have gone so badly that normal people cannot believe it. BUT I will not share those videos, only if somebody accused me to be lying. And yes, the police did nothing, probably they would like to be there and being doing the same things because they belong to the alphabet club too as they have the symbol in their uniforms and yes there were children present, now what a father or mother have in their mind when they decided to go as a family to watch corrupted people. Do they have a brain? Do they feel pride, pride of what? to expose their sexual organs and do another indecencies? Did we lose it? We are worst that the Romans in their decadency that brought the fall of the Roman Empire, the greatest on Earth. In better times that was considered child abused and their children would have been removed from those parents. The solution? People STOP going to those parades or watching it on TV and boicot movies with all these kind of degeneracy, stop your morbic feelings, they are wrong and sick. Settle was my last one but I had to write an article about it. I will retire this year, I am getting old for this madness (not retiring of speaking up against all these perversities specially the ones that included children but we know that are all connected somewhat). Good analysis, thanks for sharing, this is a wonderful Forum to counter the current culture that we are all part of. And we are all responsible of because we do not react before evil.
This is so honest and I have been craving this kind of honesty. I see exactly what you see. Activists and think-tankers and organizations like HRC, GLADD, etc., have done an amazing job of framing criticism of obesity and sloppy, slovenly attention to appearance as judgmental and hateful. Its genius. We need some open judgement as a reality check for all of us. These people are screaming from the rooftops that they are unstable and deeply troubled.
Frankly never understood the use of "pride" around acceptance of our differences & personalities. Yes, we should accept our lovely bodies/sexual beings, but PRIDE about it seemed a weird term to use. I get that society has tried to shame, humiliate, criminalize & destroy differences but PRIDE as a term always seemed an inappropriate term to be used as a counter to cultural & legal discrimination.
We know the word PRIDE is often defined as arrogance & haughtiness (which straights etc shouldn't brag about either) & this attitude is often represented in scary PRIDE Parade crazy-bad costumes/role-playing/public fetish displays & the arrogant sex-taunting we see during the marches & on the streets.
:/
As a general rule, I don't usually quote the Bible but it seems this quote below is a good fit & goes thru my mind constantly when I hear of the PRIDE Parades' (which I used to support as legal rights marches but don't now since they've become bacchanalian displays of weird behavior, bad taste, unsavory costumes & sexual fetish-flaunting) & their increased devolution into distasteful anarchy-filled events.
“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” - Proverbs 16:18 - King James Version (KJV)
Maybe we can urge all of us to do away w/the term PRIDE Month & PRIDE Parades (yeah, good luck) & substitute the word or concept of DIGNITY Month (or something similar) instead to represent the importance of individual love & respect for unique selves & decent personal behavior w/each other.
Imo no one should encourage messy public displays of any kind of private sexual/peccadilloes/fetishes or encourage bad taste/low-class/raunchy behavior that shocks & stirs up real antagonisms. Having respect for ourselves & others' personal dignity & healthy presentations to the world are such important aspects of good individual physical/mental health as we've learned from life experiences.
You can thank MaineHealth and LLBean for their “proud” sponsorship of PridePortland! Portland, Maine pride parade. Also, members of PridePortland! have been or still are employed at MaineHealth as DEI employees including SebastianeSacerdoti-Ravenscroft and the VP of DEI at MaineHealth Ryan Polly who “identifies as a transman.” Polly was co-grand marshal for the parade a few years ago.
Yeah, the entire DEI movement, which had some good instincts initially re: equal opportunity & work-place rights has now gone totally off the rails & is speeding out-of-control down the mountain of good intentions & crashing into a stinky pile of authoritarian DEI ideas/demands/pronouns & ever-increasing controls on free speech, personal liberties & civil rights. Scary days.
Low class and poor kids aren't the problem. It's the anxiety/depression of young people that drive those who aren't actually trans into the arms of the cult that actively seeks to recruit, and succeeds so easily at manipulating these willing entrants into their secular church it's like throwing a dart at a dartboard make entirely of a bulleye.
That can happen to rich and poor. Status and inclusion are two determinants that keep people out of this cult. If people feel loved and not alone, they'll stay safe and avoid being a new recruit. If they feel lonely and isolated, they're easily captured.
Forget class, focus on an individual's psychological happiness instead.
The tone of this piece is troubling. Lots of assumptions of people's stories and the contempt and disgust for human beings is evident. I thought this group was about critical thinking about transgender health care and youth.
Yes it does seem that these people go out of their way to look as disgusting, ungroomed, and as horrifyingly ugly as possible. Why would you want to do that to yourself.
Pride parades have always been visually dominated by shock troops. This is not new. The predominate message of gay activism to heterosexuals was "we hate you." Parades may have been overwhelmingly wholesome people but a few armpit-faced sadomasochists pantomiming analingus on parade floats were like a jigger of sewage in a bowl of fruit punch.
Newly Out, I marched in 1975. I watched from the sidewalk in 1976. I never went again.
I'm a gay man living in Vietnam with my husband. I have known many transsexual men and been intimate with two of them. They were nothing like today's "trans" cultists, whom I unreservedly despise. Yes, they are repellent. I have no intention of "being kind" or respecting their magic pronouns or magic names.
When marriage equality became the law of the land gay advocacy groups like GLAAD were left without mission and they decided to support "trans."
The early pride events were about 2 things when I was seeing coverage as a kid. First was stop beating us up, second was AIDS matters. But they still had the aptly named "shock troops" out front. It's oddly a shift from the Civil rights movement which strove mightily to have sympathetic figures in the headlines.
Portland, ME native here. I am not shocked by this filth on display downtown.
As a child on the streets in the late 1960s and early 1970s, situational awareness of the presence of homosexual adult perverts in the shadows was necessary for survival. The Central Park of Portland, the Oaks, was full of queers, especially at night. In the daytime, you might come across an old man masturbating under a footpath bridge. Filthy graffiti appeared faster than maintenance crews could erase it. We still thought we were better than and more world-wise than those hayseed potato-pickers out in Aroostic County; little did we know that one day these northern Mainers would be the ones who could save this beautiful State.
The entire point of the contemporary “alphabet soup” movement is to eliminate the sense of “normal”, to remove any notion of “typical”, and delete concepts of “standard” or “traditional”. The Queer political ideology can’t attack hetero-normativity and the nuclear family head-on (at least publicly), so they promote any and every alternative they can possibly envision, while demonizing anyone and everyone who disagrees with their statements. It’s a masterstroke of rhetorical positioning to admit the ideal exists, but promote “acceptable alternatives” until the notion of “ideal” carries no social weight.
The goal is to eliminate the distinctiveness between male and female in order to destabilize culture and society - the ardent agitators believe the pro-male-vs-female-social order is the fault of capitalism, and they seek to replace capitalism with The Marxist Utopia (tm). It may sound ridiculous, but Queer activists genuinely believe Marx was philosophically correct his proposed solutions for social ills: elimination of all private property, including spouses and children.
Yes, cultural Marxism seeks to demoralize and destroy society. The family is their prime target. Until we all recognize the real enemy, and not be distracted by it's many manifestations, we will not be able to defeat it.
As long as I was observing pride, there wes a heterosexual couple majority there always (since 2000s). Open minded, progressive couples with their kids. I know many of them, I was one of these people. now their kids are coming out as trans.
We have been painting ourselves into a corner for decades. In the 60s, kids rebelled by having long hair. in the 80s kids rebelled by having green hair and safety pins through their eyebrows. And so it went. Each generation of parents remove an old boundary, forcing kids to create a new boundary. Let’s get a tattoo, let’s listen to music that the inner city kids listen to. Let’s be trans.
It's interesting that a school district in Alberta, Canada, Los Angeles Unified School District and districts in New York will vote or have already voted to remove cellphones during the day at school for the upcoming 2024/25 school year. I have already heard a small uproar from parents about "how to get hold of our kids during an emergency?" The same way I got hold of my kids before the advent of cellphones. Call the school and the school will reach your kid in the classroom.
My son attended a private high school with a no cell phone policy. No phone use INSIDE the school building from 8:30-3:30. They could use their phones outside while walking to the next class, eating lunch outside, or a free period outside. The boys were allowed to have the phones on them and in their jacket pocket at all times. Get caught (and someone always did early in the year!) and the phone was confiscated, the parents had to come into school to retrieve the phone, and a 6 day in school detention was assessed (Saturday school....think The Breakfast Club). The kids will follow the rules mostly and if consistently enforced, but the parents in public schools will never go along with the fact that their darling little angel isn't allowed to do as he/she pleases.... much like dress codes.
Great overview. I have been watching the hetero men with autogynophelia become the loudest voices for the LGBTQWERTYUIOP+++++++ "community," and many actual LG people completely turned away from the movement. I can see why, these maniacs and disturbed creeps are ruining it for everyone. Thank God.
But many also appreciated other kinds of beauty bedsides the physical/sexual: art, antiques, classical music, high fashion. Many had good jobs. In some ways, it was the opposite of today’s victim culture.
At least there is the possibility that, if your hypothesis is true, the ones left who are attracted to this BS will be sterile due to drugs and surgical interventions. Hoping there is little generational mental illness around these paraphelias.
Thoughtful analysis and accurate too. What did happen with privacy or keep it private?
Also you made a pointy observation of a phenomena, the degradation of everything that is good and pretty, as how we presents ourselves or as how people have gave up of themselves regarding any aspect of their bodies. Emo has taken another dimension, and transformed black into rainbow. I cant see those rainbow colors anymore like they are nice, I am tired of the purple that it used to be one of my favorites colors.
Now you are lucky in so may ways, first because you realize things so you are smart and because you saw fluffy but I saw SM on the streets of Seattle, and fellatios in the "filthy zone" as they needed to clarify, and the defecation and I have videos because I am a journalist among other things and I have to document evidence specially that things have gone so badly that normal people cannot believe it. BUT I will not share those videos, only if somebody accused me to be lying. And yes, the police did nothing, probably they would like to be there and being doing the same things because they belong to the alphabet club too as they have the symbol in their uniforms and yes there were children present, now what a father or mother have in their mind when they decided to go as a family to watch corrupted people. Do they have a brain? Do they feel pride, pride of what? to expose their sexual organs and do another indecencies? Did we lose it? We are worst that the Romans in their decadency that brought the fall of the Roman Empire, the greatest on Earth. In better times that was considered child abused and their children would have been removed from those parents. The solution? People STOP going to those parades or watching it on TV and boicot movies with all these kind of degeneracy, stop your morbic feelings, they are wrong and sick. Settle was my last one but I had to write an article about it. I will retire this year, I am getting old for this madness (not retiring of speaking up against all these perversities specially the ones that included children but we know that are all connected somewhat). Good analysis, thanks for sharing, this is a wonderful Forum to counter the current culture that we are all part of. And we are all responsible of because we do not react before evil.
This is so honest and I have been craving this kind of honesty. I see exactly what you see. Activists and think-tankers and organizations like HRC, GLADD, etc., have done an amazing job of framing criticism of obesity and sloppy, slovenly attention to appearance as judgmental and hateful. Its genius. We need some open judgement as a reality check for all of us. These people are screaming from the rooftops that they are unstable and deeply troubled.
Frankly never understood the use of "pride" around acceptance of our differences & personalities. Yes, we should accept our lovely bodies/sexual beings, but PRIDE about it seemed a weird term to use. I get that society has tried to shame, humiliate, criminalize & destroy differences but PRIDE as a term always seemed an inappropriate term to be used as a counter to cultural & legal discrimination.
We know the word PRIDE is often defined as arrogance & haughtiness (which straights etc shouldn't brag about either) & this attitude is often represented in scary PRIDE Parade crazy-bad costumes/role-playing/public fetish displays & the arrogant sex-taunting we see during the marches & on the streets.
:/
As a general rule, I don't usually quote the Bible but it seems this quote below is a good fit & goes thru my mind constantly when I hear of the PRIDE Parades' (which I used to support as legal rights marches but don't now since they've become bacchanalian displays of weird behavior, bad taste, unsavory costumes & sexual fetish-flaunting) & their increased devolution into distasteful anarchy-filled events.
“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” - Proverbs 16:18 - King James Version (KJV)
Maybe we can urge all of us to do away w/the term PRIDE Month & PRIDE Parades (yeah, good luck) & substitute the word or concept of DIGNITY Month (or something similar) instead to represent the importance of individual love & respect for unique selves & decent personal behavior w/each other.
Imo no one should encourage messy public displays of any kind of private sexual/peccadilloes/fetishes or encourage bad taste/low-class/raunchy behavior that shocks & stirs up real antagonisms. Having respect for ourselves & others' personal dignity & healthy presentations to the world are such important aspects of good individual physical/mental health as we've learned from life experiences.
You can thank MaineHealth and LLBean for their “proud” sponsorship of PridePortland! Portland, Maine pride parade. Also, members of PridePortland! have been or still are employed at MaineHealth as DEI employees including SebastianeSacerdoti-Ravenscroft and the VP of DEI at MaineHealth Ryan Polly who “identifies as a transman.” Polly was co-grand marshal for the parade a few years ago.
Yeah, the entire DEI movement, which had some good instincts initially re: equal opportunity & work-place rights has now gone totally off the rails & is speeding out-of-control down the mountain of good intentions & crashing into a stinky pile of authoritarian DEI ideas/demands/pronouns & ever-increasing controls on free speech, personal liberties & civil rights. Scary days.
These PRIDE parades have been too perverse for too long.
Low class and poor kids aren't the problem. It's the anxiety/depression of young people that drive those who aren't actually trans into the arms of the cult that actively seeks to recruit, and succeeds so easily at manipulating these willing entrants into their secular church it's like throwing a dart at a dartboard make entirely of a bulleye.
That can happen to rich and poor. Status and inclusion are two determinants that keep people out of this cult. If people feel loved and not alone, they'll stay safe and avoid being a new recruit. If they feel lonely and isolated, they're easily captured.
Forget class, focus on an individual's psychological happiness instead.
The tone of this piece is troubling. Lots of assumptions of people's stories and the contempt and disgust for human beings is evident. I thought this group was about critical thinking about transgender health care and youth.
Yes it does seem that these people go out of their way to look as disgusting, ungroomed, and as horrifyingly ugly as possible. Why would you want to do that to yourself.
Pride parades have always been visually dominated by shock troops. This is not new. The predominate message of gay activism to heterosexuals was "we hate you." Parades may have been overwhelmingly wholesome people but a few armpit-faced sadomasochists pantomiming analingus on parade floats were like a jigger of sewage in a bowl of fruit punch.
Newly Out, I marched in 1975. I watched from the sidewalk in 1976. I never went again.
I'm a gay man living in Vietnam with my husband. I have known many transsexual men and been intimate with two of them. They were nothing like today's "trans" cultists, whom I unreservedly despise. Yes, they are repellent. I have no intention of "being kind" or respecting their magic pronouns or magic names.
When marriage equality became the law of the land gay advocacy groups like GLAAD were left without mission and they decided to support "trans."
That was a mistake.
The pot calling the kettle black
The early pride events were about 2 things when I was seeing coverage as a kid. First was stop beating us up, second was AIDS matters. But they still had the aptly named "shock troops" out front. It's oddly a shift from the Civil rights movement which strove mightily to have sympathetic figures in the headlines.
Respectability politics has a bad name on the left--but it's so much more persuasive than giving offense and looking terrible.
Portland, ME native here. I am not shocked by this filth on display downtown.
As a child on the streets in the late 1960s and early 1970s, situational awareness of the presence of homosexual adult perverts in the shadows was necessary for survival. The Central Park of Portland, the Oaks, was full of queers, especially at night. In the daytime, you might come across an old man masturbating under a footpath bridge. Filthy graffiti appeared faster than maintenance crews could erase it. We still thought we were better than and more world-wise than those hayseed potato-pickers out in Aroostic County; little did we know that one day these northern Mainers would be the ones who could save this beautiful State.
The entire point of the contemporary “alphabet soup” movement is to eliminate the sense of “normal”, to remove any notion of “typical”, and delete concepts of “standard” or “traditional”. The Queer political ideology can’t attack hetero-normativity and the nuclear family head-on (at least publicly), so they promote any and every alternative they can possibly envision, while demonizing anyone and everyone who disagrees with their statements. It’s a masterstroke of rhetorical positioning to admit the ideal exists, but promote “acceptable alternatives” until the notion of “ideal” carries no social weight.
The goal is to eliminate the distinctiveness between male and female in order to destabilize culture and society - the ardent agitators believe the pro-male-vs-female-social order is the fault of capitalism, and they seek to replace capitalism with The Marxist Utopia (tm). It may sound ridiculous, but Queer activists genuinely believe Marx was philosophically correct his proposed solutions for social ills: elimination of all private property, including spouses and children.
Yes, cultural Marxism seeks to demoralize and destroy society. The family is their prime target. Until we all recognize the real enemy, and not be distracted by it's many manifestations, we will not be able to defeat it.
As long as I was observing pride, there wes a heterosexual couple majority there always (since 2000s). Open minded, progressive couples with their kids. I know many of them, I was one of these people. now their kids are coming out as trans.
We have been painting ourselves into a corner for decades. In the 60s, kids rebelled by having long hair. in the 80s kids rebelled by having green hair and safety pins through their eyebrows. And so it went. Each generation of parents remove an old boundary, forcing kids to create a new boundary. Let’s get a tattoo, let’s listen to music that the inner city kids listen to. Let’s be trans.
It's interesting that a school district in Alberta, Canada, Los Angeles Unified School District and districts in New York will vote or have already voted to remove cellphones during the day at school for the upcoming 2024/25 school year. I have already heard a small uproar from parents about "how to get hold of our kids during an emergency?" The same way I got hold of my kids before the advent of cellphones. Call the school and the school will reach your kid in the classroom.
My son attended a private high school with a no cell phone policy. No phone use INSIDE the school building from 8:30-3:30. They could use their phones outside while walking to the next class, eating lunch outside, or a free period outside. The boys were allowed to have the phones on them and in their jacket pocket at all times. Get caught (and someone always did early in the year!) and the phone was confiscated, the parents had to come into school to retrieve the phone, and a 6 day in school detention was assessed (Saturday school....think The Breakfast Club). The kids will follow the rules mostly and if consistently enforced, but the parents in public schools will never go along with the fact that their darling little angel isn't allowed to do as he/she pleases.... much like dress codes.
Great overview. I have been watching the hetero men with autogynophelia become the loudest voices for the LGBTQWERTYUIOP+++++++ "community," and many actual LG people completely turned away from the movement. I can see why, these maniacs and disturbed creeps are ruining it for everyone. Thank God.
Great article. Pride is not for the cool kids anym0re
But many also appreciated other kinds of beauty bedsides the physical/sexual: art, antiques, classical music, high fashion. Many had good jobs. In some ways, it was the opposite of today’s victim culture.
At least there is the possibility that, if your hypothesis is true, the ones left who are attracted to this BS will be sterile due to drugs and surgical interventions. Hoping there is little generational mental illness around these paraphelias.