"I think the reason why women embrace gender ideology is the power and authority it gives them over these “closed-minded bigots.” They are “putting these children in their place.” "
Exactly. Women who support gender ideology do it for the same reason women join the "morality" patrols in Muslim countries and treat their daughter in laws like slaves in India -- to gain power over other women in a system that doesn't want them to have power.
Progressivism is not an ideology; it is a cult. In any cult, blind obedience is the number one, absolute priority. Cults cannot exist in the clear light of rationality.
In any successful cult, the leaders' first priority is to erase feelings or individuality or rationality from the member's minds. Cult members must accept as truth anything that their leaders tell them. If they are told that there was no election rigging in 2020, they must not examine it, they must accept it. If members are told to not taint themselves by any association with a Trump supporter, even to the extent of not attending family gatherings, then they must stay away.
None of this is any different, in essence, from what Charles Manson did or what Hitler did. Not just anybody can be a cultist. You must have a pathological need to be led, to be a follower.
A cult has to have one leader, and everyone has to agree with him. Your “examples“ all disagree with each other, Gavin Newsom, for example, has already rejected the principal that this article is using as an example of cult behavior (trans women in sports.)
You, apparently, are a cult member. Who put you in charge of deciding how many leaders a cult can have?
Who says all cult leaders have to agree. Are you looking in some cult leader's rulebook or something? Or are you just making it up as you go along, which is sure sign of a cultist.
You’re the one who seems to be making up your definition as you go along. What’s your definition of a cult? A group of people who have a rough agreement about a variety of principles and argue with each other about the details? That’s not a cult that’s democracy.
Well, no, people arguing is FREEDOM, not democracy. Democracy is majority rule. And majority rule means the minorities are screwed. Keep in mind who it is that is trying silence minority voices in this country. It ain't the MAGA folks. They are the on the receiving end of the censorship.
Good question about a cult, though. I think one of the main differentiations is not in what a person believes or in how strongly they believe it. It's in their tolerance of people who don't see, think, and follow as they do. Two words that ae antonyms: Cult and Tolerance.
I am not a follower of anyone or anything. I have repeatedly stated that the two parties who have robbed us of legitimate government can kiss my ass. So, how much of a cultist does that make me? How much of a cultist are you?
This is an important insight. It reminds me of the abusive nuns in some Catholic schools. Wielding power while seemingly attaining virtue is an unfortunate female phenomenon.
Hi Audra; my comment to Anna is; “I went to Catholic school 1-12 and in a place where the Catholic schools enrolled over 40% of the hundreds of thousands of 1-12 students. And I’m 9th of 10 poor kids in our family who all went to Catholic school. I never experienced an abusive nun, never heard my siblings complain of one, and never heard my neighborhood friends, with whom I am still close and in contact, complain of an abusive nun. Quite the opposite, those young women were like us, poor and from big families where you had to move out by 18. Half my family served in the US military, including me. I am sorry if you had an abusive nun but from my extensive experience around them, your experience would truly be an exceptional outlier and thus unfair to stereotype such an honorable group of women that way.”
Oh definitely not. Just like not every teacher is abusive, etc. I’m so glad you had a good experience in Catholic school. I’m not sure what we’ll decide with our children but Catholic school is high on the list!
We sent all three of ours to Catholic school K-12 and never regretted the expense. Plus their dozen cousins went with them. They received a very solid basic education and were well prepared for college. And we’re in one of what is considered the top five school districts in PA. We particularly did not want them indoctrinated into DEI and various gender theories. Most of the parents here who can afford it, send their kids to Catholic private and parochial schools. We’re blessed to have a very substantial system in PA where it includes not just K-8 grades but also high school and colleges (eg Villanova, St Joes, LaSalle, etc). The pro athletes in the area (eg Eagles, Sixers, etc) also often send their kids to these schools. It’s another reason the schools are so good at athletics! Lol. Take care, Audra and best wishes with your choice.
I’m sorry if I inadvertently perpetuated a stereotype. I just watched the series 1923 and the abuse of power in the name of God was on my mind. I have no personal connection with Catholic education.
I have worked in adult and corrections for many years. I’m going to say that this abuse of power is quite common in any situation where people who are not able to use their power over others appropriately they tend to abuse it on those they were perceived to be weak. Bullying is an acceptable corporate management structure.
I went to Catholic school 1-12 and in a place where the Catholic schools enrolled over 40% of the hundreds of thousands of 1-12 students. And I’m 9th of 10 poor kids in our family who all went to Catholic school. I never experienced an abusive nun, never heard my siblings complain of one, and never heard my neighborhood friends, with whom I am still close and in contact, complain of an abusive nun. Quite the opposite, those young women were like us, poor and from big families where you had to move out by 18. Half my family served in the US military, including me. I am sorry if you had an abusive nun but from my extensive experience around them, your experience would truly be an exceptional outlier and thus unfair to stereotype such an honorable group of women that way.
There first started to be a chink in my “woke” armor when I realized most of us weren’t really doing it (even if subconsciously) to build the “beloved community” but just to get and use power for our own gain (even if just for status). The way women, especially, do it is terrifying because it is so wound up in such sincere belief in the righteousness of it. Which is just another version of sanctimonious religiosity, of high school popularity contests… But in the case of trans, it’s a level of insanity I’ve never witnessed.
THEY FORCED GIRLS TO UNDRESS. Even without it having been in front of a boy (which absolutely does make it even worse), FORCING ANYONE TO GET NAKED IS ABUSE. They should be fired, and I think there’s a good case for criminal charges.
(And JFC get this insanity out of schools all together. If I had children now, I’d be homeschooling or Catholic schooling.)
Forced these young girls to undress. Full Stop. A humiliating degrading experience , tyrannical insane behavior by … female school teachers done to their female students. This particular case might be the linch pin that needs to be criminally prosecuted in order to end this depraved insanity .
"When just one man says, No, I won't, Rome begins to fear." I never forgot that line from the movie Spartacus with Kirk Douglas, and that's what these girls need to do, is say, No, I won't. Instead, let the three adult women strip, you know, to set that example.
Because, as an adult woman myself, I know that they wouldn't have done it, because none of them has the body they had 20 years ago. Vanity, vanity. Fight like a woman, girls.
They have no way to make other men yield to them. So they double-down on imposing their power on other women and girls in weaker positions. It also elevate them to the men who give them head pats.
You’re right, this is bullying, power, and control. The fact that they think they’re in the moral right is extra infuriating, but at the end of the day, it’s not as complicated as we tend to imagine. Great piece.
For over 4 years, I have been diving into Neo-Marxist/Continental philosophy after my then high schooler was full in on it, and I was clueless. Fortunately, there are old taped lectures (before things became heated) and interviews with Herbert Marcuse all on YT. Herbert Marcuse was the granddaddy of it all. He wrote the infamous essay Repressive Tolerance on why all speech on the right should not be tolerated. Marcuse also proselytized that women were a social construct - a fake - but, and this is key, our feminine wiles would be useful to advance the agenda. Thus, women would be useful idiots. And it is more than we'd be good marching soldiers, to erase the family because it is unearned privilege, one needed to erase motherhood. In the Catholic Church as well as the Orthodox Church, Mary is revered for being the mother of God. The serpent convinced Eve to take a bite of the forbidden fruit. A covenant was made that a woman would redeem the World as the saviour would come from her. One does not have to be a believer, much less a Christian, to understand the impact these beliefs have had. As for Elizabeth Warren, I originally admired her. But I find her a borderline sociopath. While she screamed My body my choice in the US, she switched tunes in Ukraine, supporting a senseless war where young men had no body my choice.
I think it is about 35 minutes in or so. You have to be on the lookout for it https://youtu.be/U23Ho0m_Sv0?si=6JXzch0zx7OXWnfW. Marcuse was Angela Davis' ph.d. advisor. In the 1960s, 70% of Black families were intact. I haven't done a deep dive into the subject but i suspect there is a connection to the decimation.
They have transformed into Aunt Lydias for the trans priesthood, haven't they? There is something odd about women who enforce the edicts that cater to the desires of men on young girls and women, but it is prevalent throughout history and the world. For example, in countries that practice FGM, it is primarily women who do the cutting, isn't it?
I'm not sure if it is primarily the women doing the cutting... it's the community imams that do it, but it is the women (mothers and grandmothers) that organise this 'women's business' (so I'm lead to believe)
I'm in total agreement with you about criminal charges in this case. Every single school employee and administrator is a mandated reporter of bullying as well as abuse so they know damn well what constitutes both. The fact that they are the perpetrators is abhorrent.
Please keep us posted on updates if they get charged with something; they deserve it. Sadly, this is nothing new, women have been acting like this forever. Especially when they have power, they can abuse it just like any man can.
It is that, in the workplace, churches, families & communities. Media discounts this as a problem & they need to knock it off, we all need to stop calling this mean “girl” behavior, it is straight up abusive & violent. Sure girls engage in it but these are women who sexually abused children & many women partake in violent abuses including sexual ones but honestly most men don’t recognize it because it isn’t involving fists or teeth getting knocked out onto the floor.
💯. Women often times choose psychological warfare and I think the stripping was meant to humiliate the girls. But you’re right about it sometimes going far, far beyond mere bullying.
It was definitely a way to humiliate them I have seen women including teachers & educators do this before & all the adults involved are sitting at home with a nice pension relaxing in old age. I’ve seen women defend this system even when men engage in it look up Mark Berndt if you have time. He was protected & defended by a teachers union run by women, so he is in the joint now but paying for top ramen & good shampoo with my tax dollars. They fought for him to have all that no so much so any kids could read though.
And just like that, another step towards pedophilia has been taken by the officials. If a teacher—man or woman—orders minors to undress in front of them (not to mention the boy!), that’s a criminal act of child sexual abuse. There’s nothing that excuses this behavior. These three women are sexual predators. Whether they’re aware of it or not doesn’t matter. No sane person thinks forcing children to undress in front of a boy while they watch is in any way an option.
I'm beginning to wonder if the distinct status games that women are used to might be disordering our institutions and cultural beliefs more than we realize...
When men imitate women, it lowers their defenses temporarily. The unconscious instinct for empathy and sisterhood kicks in and women feel like they are women being attacked until they are fully conscious they are men.
This happens in many animal species which have sexual competition for mates.
There is also this intense, cloying, aggressive "sympathy" for "the most oppressed." I've been thinking that women buying into this represents a kind of denial/displacement/projection that women use to protect against the gruesome realities of how vulnerable we *still* are. Easier to focus on men pretending to be women than face our own ongoing oppression. What do y'all think?
Yes. Fight-flight-fawn - or for fawn “tend and befriend”. It’s very intense and performative, a public display of masochism, they abase themselves to the gender cult and try to drag other women and girls down with them.
"I think the reason why women embrace gender ideology is the power and authority it gives them over these “closed-minded bigots.” They are “putting these children in their place.” "
Exactly. Women who support gender ideology do it for the same reason women join the "morality" patrols in Muslim countries and treat their daughter in laws like slaves in India -- to gain power over other women in a system that doesn't want them to have power.
I never thought of it that way but that makes perfect sense to me.
Aunt Lydias
You KNOW it.
Like the Mother Superiors in Magdalene Asylums.
That's a result of the fall
What does the season have to do with it? ;)
Right. It's Seasonal Affective Disorder. But no return to their senses when Spring rolls around.
Progressivism is not an ideology; it is a cult. In any cult, blind obedience is the number one, absolute priority. Cults cannot exist in the clear light of rationality.
In any successful cult, the leaders' first priority is to erase feelings or individuality or rationality from the member's minds. Cult members must accept as truth anything that their leaders tell them. If they are told that there was no election rigging in 2020, they must not examine it, they must accept it. If members are told to not taint themselves by any association with a Trump supporter, even to the extent of not attending family gatherings, then they must stay away.
None of this is any different, in essence, from what Charles Manson did or what Hitler did. Not just anybody can be a cultist. You must have a pathological need to be led, to be a follower.
Yeah it definitely gives me cult vibes, especially the slogans. I wonder which of the three women was the “leader” in this incident.
And, university educated white women are the largest cohort of cult members
Wokeism is not a cult because, unlike Trumpism, there is no leader.
That's easy enough to blow out of the water.
Barak Obama
AOC
Kamala
Gavin Newsom
Kathy Hochul
A cult has to have one leader, and everyone has to agree with him. Your “examples“ all disagree with each other, Gavin Newsom, for example, has already rejected the principal that this article is using as an example of cult behavior (trans women in sports.)
You, apparently, are a cult member. Who put you in charge of deciding how many leaders a cult can have?
Who says all cult leaders have to agree. Are you looking in some cult leader's rulebook or something? Or are you just making it up as you go along, which is sure sign of a cultist.
You’re the one who seems to be making up your definition as you go along. What’s your definition of a cult? A group of people who have a rough agreement about a variety of principles and argue with each other about the details? That’s not a cult that’s democracy.
Well, no, people arguing is FREEDOM, not democracy. Democracy is majority rule. And majority rule means the minorities are screwed. Keep in mind who it is that is trying silence minority voices in this country. It ain't the MAGA folks. They are the on the receiving end of the censorship.
Good question about a cult, though. I think one of the main differentiations is not in what a person believes or in how strongly they believe it. It's in their tolerance of people who don't see, think, and follow as they do. Two words that ae antonyms: Cult and Tolerance.
I am not a follower of anyone or anything. I have repeatedly stated that the two parties who have robbed us of legitimate government can kiss my ass. So, how much of a cultist does that make me? How much of a cultist are you?
This is an important insight. It reminds me of the abusive nuns in some Catholic schools. Wielding power while seemingly attaining virtue is an unfortunate female phenomenon.
Yes! It’s almost as if the abuse makes them feel more powerful, so that’s why they do it.
Hi Audra; my comment to Anna is; “I went to Catholic school 1-12 and in a place where the Catholic schools enrolled over 40% of the hundreds of thousands of 1-12 students. And I’m 9th of 10 poor kids in our family who all went to Catholic school. I never experienced an abusive nun, never heard my siblings complain of one, and never heard my neighborhood friends, with whom I am still close and in contact, complain of an abusive nun. Quite the opposite, those young women were like us, poor and from big families where you had to move out by 18. Half my family served in the US military, including me. I am sorry if you had an abusive nun but from my extensive experience around them, your experience would truly be an exceptional outlier and thus unfair to stereotype such an honorable group of women that way.”
Oh definitely not. Just like not every teacher is abusive, etc. I’m so glad you had a good experience in Catholic school. I’m not sure what we’ll decide with our children but Catholic school is high on the list!
We sent all three of ours to Catholic school K-12 and never regretted the expense. Plus their dozen cousins went with them. They received a very solid basic education and were well prepared for college. And we’re in one of what is considered the top five school districts in PA. We particularly did not want them indoctrinated into DEI and various gender theories. Most of the parents here who can afford it, send their kids to Catholic private and parochial schools. We’re blessed to have a very substantial system in PA where it includes not just K-8 grades but also high school and colleges (eg Villanova, St Joes, LaSalle, etc). The pro athletes in the area (eg Eagles, Sixers, etc) also often send their kids to these schools. It’s another reason the schools are so good at athletics! Lol. Take care, Audra and best wishes with your choice.
Currently, your demonstration is being knock down in France with Betharram school and our prime minister.
The whole demonstrate why you feel like you lever encounter an abusive un, while in reality catholic school are were child abuse is the most recurent.
Bad faith, that what your writing yells at me.
You shouldn’t have skipped both English and Logic 101 the year it was taught.
I’m sorry if I inadvertently perpetuated a stereotype. I just watched the series 1923 and the abuse of power in the name of God was on my mind. I have no personal connection with Catholic education.
Thank-you, Anna. And I hope that I did come across too harsh. Have a wonderful Spring!
Meant to say “not come across too harsh”.
I have worked in adult and corrections for many years. I’m going to say that this abuse of power is quite common in any situation where people who are not able to use their power over others appropriately they tend to abuse it on those they were perceived to be weak. Bullying is an acceptable corporate management structure.
I went to Catholic school 1-12 and in a place where the Catholic schools enrolled over 40% of the hundreds of thousands of 1-12 students. And I’m 9th of 10 poor kids in our family who all went to Catholic school. I never experienced an abusive nun, never heard my siblings complain of one, and never heard my neighborhood friends, with whom I am still close and in contact, complain of an abusive nun. Quite the opposite, those young women were like us, poor and from big families where you had to move out by 18. Half my family served in the US military, including me. I am sorry if you had an abusive nun but from my extensive experience around them, your experience would truly be an exceptional outlier and thus unfair to stereotype such an honorable group of women that way.
There first started to be a chink in my “woke” armor when I realized most of us weren’t really doing it (even if subconsciously) to build the “beloved community” but just to get and use power for our own gain (even if just for status). The way women, especially, do it is terrifying because it is so wound up in such sincere belief in the righteousness of it. Which is just another version of sanctimonious religiosity, of high school popularity contests… But in the case of trans, it’s a level of insanity I’ve never witnessed.
THEY FORCED GIRLS TO UNDRESS. Even without it having been in front of a boy (which absolutely does make it even worse), FORCING ANYONE TO GET NAKED IS ABUSE. They should be fired, and I think there’s a good case for criminal charges.
(And JFC get this insanity out of schools all together. If I had children now, I’d be homeschooling or Catholic schooling.)
Yes. It’s 💯status and power driven, in my opinion.
Forced these young girls to undress. Full Stop. A humiliating degrading experience , tyrannical insane behavior by … female school teachers done to their female students. This particular case might be the linch pin that needs to be criminally prosecuted in order to end this depraved insanity .
Really makes me wonder if men have the mental capacity to force a teenage girl to undress like this
"When just one man says, No, I won't, Rome begins to fear." I never forgot that line from the movie Spartacus with Kirk Douglas, and that's what these girls need to do, is say, No, I won't. Instead, let the three adult women strip, you know, to set that example.
Or make it a condition of compliance that the adult women strip, also.
Please. The very thought...
How does that sound?
Because, as an adult woman myself, I know that they wouldn't have done it, because none of them has the body they had 20 years ago. Vanity, vanity. Fight like a woman, girls.
It's often women's job to uphold social norms in traditional societies even those practices which directly harm women and girls. FGM for example.
Interesting. I didn’t know that. But that makes sense.
They have no way to make other men yield to them. So they double-down on imposing their power on other women and girls in weaker positions. It also elevate them to the men who give them head pats.
Yes. It's the women, not the men, who insist on FGM and most often they are the ones who perform it.
You’re right, this is bullying, power, and control. The fact that they think they’re in the moral right is extra infuriating, but at the end of the day, it’s not as complicated as we tend to imagine. Great piece.
Thank you!
For over 4 years, I have been diving into Neo-Marxist/Continental philosophy after my then high schooler was full in on it, and I was clueless. Fortunately, there are old taped lectures (before things became heated) and interviews with Herbert Marcuse all on YT. Herbert Marcuse was the granddaddy of it all. He wrote the infamous essay Repressive Tolerance on why all speech on the right should not be tolerated. Marcuse also proselytized that women were a social construct - a fake - but, and this is key, our feminine wiles would be useful to advance the agenda. Thus, women would be useful idiots. And it is more than we'd be good marching soldiers, to erase the family because it is unearned privilege, one needed to erase motherhood. In the Catholic Church as well as the Orthodox Church, Mary is revered for being the mother of God. The serpent convinced Eve to take a bite of the forbidden fruit. A covenant was made that a woman would redeem the World as the saviour would come from her. One does not have to be a believer, much less a Christian, to understand the impact these beliefs have had. As for Elizabeth Warren, I originally admired her. But I find her a borderline sociopath. While she screamed My body my choice in the US, she switched tunes in Ukraine, supporting a senseless war where young men had no body my choice.
Very interesting I’ll have to do a deep dive into him.
I think it is about 35 minutes in or so. You have to be on the lookout for it https://youtu.be/U23Ho0m_Sv0?si=6JXzch0zx7OXWnfW. Marcuse was Angela Davis' ph.d. advisor. In the 1960s, 70% of Black families were intact. I haven't done a deep dive into the subject but i suspect there is a connection to the decimation.
They have transformed into Aunt Lydias for the trans priesthood, haven't they? There is something odd about women who enforce the edicts that cater to the desires of men on young girls and women, but it is prevalent throughout history and the world. For example, in countries that practice FGM, it is primarily women who do the cutting, isn't it?
I'm not sure if it is primarily the women doing the cutting... it's the community imams that do it, but it is the women (mothers and grandmothers) that organise this 'women's business' (so I'm lead to believe)
I'm in total agreement with you about criminal charges in this case. Every single school employee and administrator is a mandated reporter of bullying as well as abuse so they know damn well what constitutes both. The fact that they are the perpetrators is abhorrent.
Please keep us posted on updates if they get charged with something; they deserve it. Sadly, this is nothing new, women have been acting like this forever. Especially when they have power, they can abuse it just like any man can.
It reminds me of the bullying in middle school.
It is that, in the workplace, churches, families & communities. Media discounts this as a problem & they need to knock it off, we all need to stop calling this mean “girl” behavior, it is straight up abusive & violent. Sure girls engage in it but these are women who sexually abused children & many women partake in violent abuses including sexual ones but honestly most men don’t recognize it because it isn’t involving fists or teeth getting knocked out onto the floor.
💯. Women often times choose psychological warfare and I think the stripping was meant to humiliate the girls. But you’re right about it sometimes going far, far beyond mere bullying.
It was definitely a way to humiliate them I have seen women including teachers & educators do this before & all the adults involved are sitting at home with a nice pension relaxing in old age. I’ve seen women defend this system even when men engage in it look up Mark Berndt if you have time. He was protected & defended by a teachers union run by women, so he is in the joint now but paying for top ramen & good shampoo with my tax dollars. They fought for him to have all that no so much so any kids could read though.
Yeah it’s definitely a broken system.
And just like that, another step towards pedophilia has been taken by the officials. If a teacher—man or woman—orders minors to undress in front of them (not to mention the boy!), that’s a criminal act of child sexual abuse. There’s nothing that excuses this behavior. These three women are sexual predators. Whether they’re aware of it or not doesn’t matter. No sane person thinks forcing children to undress in front of a boy while they watch is in any way an option.
It absolutely is child sexual abuse. Why did not these three undress as well?
I'm beginning to wonder if the distinct status games that women are used to might be disordering our institutions and cultural beliefs more than we realize...
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-feminization-of-politics
Ooo I’ll have to give that a read!
When men imitate women, it lowers their defenses temporarily. The unconscious instinct for empathy and sisterhood kicks in and women feel like they are women being attacked until they are fully conscious they are men.
This happens in many animal species which have sexual competition for mates.
It’s called sexual mimicry.
There is also this intense, cloying, aggressive "sympathy" for "the most oppressed." I've been thinking that women buying into this represents a kind of denial/displacement/projection that women use to protect against the gruesome realities of how vulnerable we *still* are. Easier to focus on men pretending to be women than face our own ongoing oppression. What do y'all think?
Yes. Fight-flight-fawn - or for fawn “tend and befriend”. It’s very intense and performative, a public display of masochism, they abase themselves to the gender cult and try to drag other women and girls down with them.
I’ve never heard the “fawn” one
There are certain people who resent beauty, youth, and innocence because it highlights their own physical, moral, and intellectual corruption.