Another poorly-written garbage "article" attacking the food, the venue, the speakers, etc. but offering nothing substantive in return. If she did vomit it was likely a visceral response to seeing the results of gender affirming surgeries for the first time.
It was the most information free article on a secret meeting I’ve ever read. She didn’t feel the need to describe in detail anyone’s arguments or what was going on on TikTok.
So sorry, Ex! But glad you shared your insights and wisdom with more people, even at a "secretive anti-trans dinner" at a restaurant with huge windows and one that obviously tolerated the presence of an adversary. That Ho person is a real twit but obviously being a twit didn't disqualify her from getting her opinion published in the SF Chronicle. How to protect ourselves from twits, that's an age-old question. I'm still working on the answer fwiw. Don't know if there is one.
Back in the 70s in a college journalism class my professor, an old professional with years experience working for Time and the NYTs & etc., always used the SF Chronicle as an example of what a really bad daily newspaper looked like. --- & that was back before the current mania for yellow journalism. So they haven't changed much--- but the other papers have.
I don't know what their problems are; they haven't the remotest clue about transgenderism for starters and have puke for dessert. Shows they ought to occupy their minds at a more adequate level to them.
that's some serious 'aren't i special and edgy???' going on! clue, dear. you're just another girl with a chin-length uncombed bob and what looks like a kind of cute shirt with little squirrels on it. she doesn't look particularly quirky, by bay area and gen-Z or whatever she is standards. does she think she looks 'queer,' or think she is 'trans'?
she did not vomit. food 'critics' are healthy people who don't suffer from food sensitivities. by definition. but she does know how to damage the reputation of a restaurant needlessly, bringing business ire to her employer.
The notion that "Marxism" could possibly be related to queer theory is beyond absurd... It's as stupid as saying someone has a girl dick. Marxism is based on historical materialism--one might disagree with Marxism, dismiss its anslyses, whatever, but tying it to queer theory is, again, akin to transbianism.
Also Marxism abhors any ideology that promotes consumerism. I can't imagine a worse consumerist philosophy than "you need to purchase your authentic self."
It has nothing to do with Marxism, BUT, since its adherents claim to be "anti-capitalist" and to use "critical theories", and Marxism is, indeed, a "critical theory" (a theory that assumes that there are hidden structures or processes in society that one must understand and reveal in order to understand and transform those social processes and institutions that are, visibly, "wrong"), then folks tie these things together and call the extremely consumerist, individualistic, neoliberal, hedonistic, and nihilistic notions of queer theory, "marxist" or "neo-marxist". It is neither--it is merely self-identifying as such! And we know that self-id is bull!
And thanks for this explanation because I've never understood linking Marxism to a bunch of academics wanking over their unintelligible gibberish. And their tossing Marx into the mix is doing a huge favor for the predatory capitalists who pay their salaries.
Do my own research? I've read Volume I of Capital. Why would you assume I don't know what I'm saying? My partner is now on Volume III. At age 69 I'm really not fond of being patronized.
Yesenia has a Ph.D. in Latin American history and a BA in Economics (during which she studied different economic theories, including those of political economy--that term INCLUDES Marx and Adam Smith--and those of more recent liberal economics) and has extensively read critical historical theories, including marxist, feminist and those grouped as "subaltern studies" and "coloniality studies". She agrees that people should read and do research, @Nicole, but always looking at the sources, and never at what "detractors" say the sources say. I do not agree with Marxist principles entirely, because I do not adopt a single theory in its entirety, yet I do not conflate all those that I disagree with as if they all said the same thing.
To understand queer theory, I have read what queer theorists say. And I have found their arguments and ideas to be entirely lacking in anything that would usefully transform society--queer theory is a critical theory that misdiagnoses the problems of our society by focusing on sexuality and extreme individuality. Identitarian critical theories (into which some antiracist arguments now in vogue in the US fall) based on individual feelings and desires of recognition, representation, etc., that leave structures of inequality in our societies untouched, are useless because they do not transform society for the better.
I'd argue that there were elements of Christian theology that are "critical theories"--they seek underlying structures behind the negative and horrible in our society, and offer ways to transform or destroy those structures. I happen to disagree with the Christian diagnoses--but I wouldn't say that Christian theories are nazi or queer, lumping all three of these different ideological systems together.
Thank you so much for this comment. Marxism is fully grounded in reality as Marx was trying to get people to think beyond "It's God's will." And, guess what? We still haven't gotten beyond God's will because it's now God's will to be true to yourself by poisoning and mutilating your body.
Everyone here who is a Marxist (or Leftist in general), please consider communicating with my friends at News and Letters about this. I've been explaining to them why transgenderism is harmful, but they need to hear from many more people than just one. They have only had negative responses from transactivists when they have articles in their newspaper and on their website about detransitioners- so they no longer run anything critical of transgenderism because they want to have readers.
Sorey, transgenders are not normal. All synthetic with huge side effects on the medication and plastic hormones. It ia just logic the body will reject these hormones or turn out as a freakish frankenstein show. But, then again, i am sure there are people who need these transformation badly, but they are few, and does not form part of this religious, screaming, freakish cult. They do it calmly without publicity as it should be. So stop acting this show out, biologically it is freakish and abnormal. Next thjng there will be an alphabet political party, or alphabet clothes to wear, alphabet privilege, alphabet slogans funded by soros the other freak. I am not afraid of your antrums, carry on with, lets see what it does to your pladtic hormones or the ones still intact. The way you carry on, is freakish, and psychotic about a synthetic transformation, but it must be the hormones in conflict. Your original body will rebel, sooner or later and who is makibg the monwmey here, thisefreakiah oharma grouos don't give a toot about qmwhat is left of your trembling rhyroid. They will just pump you with more poison.
What's the big deal about hunting for special clothes? Doesn't that idiot realise women can wear anything they want nowadays, from prom dresses to ripped jeans and DMs? I don't seek out special GC clothes every day, I just open my wardrobe and put something on. 🤦♀️
The only thing that might give her politics away is a trans badge, but GCs attending a meeting might even choose to wear one of those ironically. What an thicko.
The visibility is still good, some crunchy parents reading this article will see “parental rights” and google search, and find out that there are a lot of people having the doubts and feeling the feelings that they do.
That article sounds as slanted as we would expect from a 'gender' zealot. I wonder if the hetero autogynephiles/transvestic fetishists who according to Helen Joyce, the author of the book, "Trans," are the drivers of the 'trans' movement were mentioned.
Guilt by association makes the writer a terf on the far right doesn’t it? Attending these kind of secret meetings. Got to laugh at her sneaking about in disguise. My hair colour is a mix of platinum and orange, so I suppose that makes me one of the 2slgbtqia+. Or does it have to be blue? Helen Mirren looked fab in the blue dress with the blue hair, I prefer reds and oranges for mine, but blue and purple is good too. They can sod off, I’ll do what I like. They’ll grow out of it. Hopefully.
“Queer” just means “quirky”
i've been shaving the back of my head for 20 years .. that's how i became a "terf" (my daughters labeled me) .. i looked up the term & liked it!
You don't get to rehab a slur that was never aimed at you. All the gay men I grew up with want to take a hammer to these idiots.
Another poorly-written garbage "article" attacking the food, the venue, the speakers, etc. but offering nothing substantive in return. If she did vomit it was likely a visceral response to seeing the results of gender affirming surgeries for the first time.
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It was the most information free article on a secret meeting I’ve ever read. She didn’t feel the need to describe in detail anyone’s arguments or what was going on on TikTok.
Correct me if I'm wrong but reading the short SF Chronicle name game, is there some hatred towards biological women that de-transition❓
YIKES 😳
I don't understand what name game you mean?
I called it a "name game" for not using your entire name in the Introduction.
That's why I called it a name game for not giving you your proper name and Title.
Perhaps I misunderstood. If so put me on the right track.
Didn't mean to cause confusion Exulansic. Thanks
Ah got it, thank you!
So sorry, Ex! But glad you shared your insights and wisdom with more people, even at a "secretive anti-trans dinner" at a restaurant with huge windows and one that obviously tolerated the presence of an adversary. That Ho person is a real twit but obviously being a twit didn't disqualify her from getting her opinion published in the SF Chronicle. How to protect ourselves from twits, that's an age-old question. I'm still working on the answer fwiw. Don't know if there is one.
I'd say being a twit is a likely prerequisite for publication in that rag tbh.
Back in the 70s in a college journalism class my professor, an old professional with years experience working for Time and the NYTs & etc., always used the SF Chronicle as an example of what a really bad daily newspaper looked like. --- & that was back before the current mania for yellow journalism. So they haven't changed much--- but the other papers have.
I don't know what their problems are; they haven't the remotest clue about transgenderism for starters and have puke for dessert. Shows they ought to occupy their minds at a more adequate level to them.
that's some serious 'aren't i special and edgy???' going on! clue, dear. you're just another girl with a chin-length uncombed bob and what looks like a kind of cute shirt with little squirrels on it. she doesn't look particularly quirky, by bay area and gen-Z or whatever she is standards. does she think she looks 'queer,' or think she is 'trans'?
she did not vomit. food 'critics' are healthy people who don't suffer from food sensitivities. by definition. but she does know how to damage the reputation of a restaurant needlessly, bringing business ire to her employer.
The notion that "Marxism" could possibly be related to queer theory is beyond absurd... It's as stupid as saying someone has a girl dick. Marxism is based on historical materialism--one might disagree with Marxism, dismiss its anslyses, whatever, but tying it to queer theory is, again, akin to transbianism.
Also Marxism abhors any ideology that promotes consumerism. I can't imagine a worse consumerist philosophy than "you need to purchase your authentic self."
Indeed, what could be more 'authentic' than fake names, fraudulent, deceptive pronouns, exogenous, cross-sex hormones, and cosmetic/plastic surgeries.
Then this is NEO-Marxism....
It has nothing to do with Marxism, BUT, since its adherents claim to be "anti-capitalist" and to use "critical theories", and Marxism is, indeed, a "critical theory" (a theory that assumes that there are hidden structures or processes in society that one must understand and reveal in order to understand and transform those social processes and institutions that are, visibly, "wrong"), then folks tie these things together and call the extremely consumerist, individualistic, neoliberal, hedonistic, and nihilistic notions of queer theory, "marxist" or "neo-marxist". It is neither--it is merely self-identifying as such! And we know that self-id is bull!
And thanks for this explanation because I've never understood linking Marxism to a bunch of academics wanking over their unintelligible gibberish. And their tossing Marx into the mix is doing a huge favor for the predatory capitalists who pay their salaries.
OK, but do your own research too, don't just believe what @Yesenia is saying.. or anyone for that matter.
Do my own research? I've read Volume I of Capital. Why would you assume I don't know what I'm saying? My partner is now on Volume III. At age 69 I'm really not fond of being patronized.
Yesenia has a Ph.D. in Latin American history and a BA in Economics (during which she studied different economic theories, including those of political economy--that term INCLUDES Marx and Adam Smith--and those of more recent liberal economics) and has extensively read critical historical theories, including marxist, feminist and those grouped as "subaltern studies" and "coloniality studies". She agrees that people should read and do research, @Nicole, but always looking at the sources, and never at what "detractors" say the sources say. I do not agree with Marxist principles entirely, because I do not adopt a single theory in its entirety, yet I do not conflate all those that I disagree with as if they all said the same thing.
To understand queer theory, I have read what queer theorists say. And I have found their arguments and ideas to be entirely lacking in anything that would usefully transform society--queer theory is a critical theory that misdiagnoses the problems of our society by focusing on sexuality and extreme individuality. Identitarian critical theories (into which some antiracist arguments now in vogue in the US fall) based on individual feelings and desires of recognition, representation, etc., that leave structures of inequality in our societies untouched, are useless because they do not transform society for the better.
I'd argue that there were elements of Christian theology that are "critical theories"--they seek underlying structures behind the negative and horrible in our society, and offer ways to transform or destroy those structures. I happen to disagree with the Christian diagnoses--but I wouldn't say that Christian theories are nazi or queer, lumping all three of these different ideological systems together.
Thank you so much for this comment. Marxism is fully grounded in reality as Marx was trying to get people to think beyond "It's God's will." And, guess what? We still haven't gotten beyond God's will because it's now God's will to be true to yourself by poisoning and mutilating your body.
Everyone here who is a Marxist (or Leftist in general), please consider communicating with my friends at News and Letters about this. I've been explaining to them why transgenderism is harmful, but they need to hear from many more people than just one. They have only had negative responses from transactivists when they have articles in their newspaper and on their website about detransitioners- so they no longer run anything critical of transgenderism because they want to have readers.
I see that Mark Minor-lover has left a rather tedious "love note" for you underneath the video...
Sorey, transgenders are not normal. All synthetic with huge side effects on the medication and plastic hormones. It ia just logic the body will reject these hormones or turn out as a freakish frankenstein show. But, then again, i am sure there are people who need these transformation badly, but they are few, and does not form part of this religious, screaming, freakish cult. They do it calmly without publicity as it should be. So stop acting this show out, biologically it is freakish and abnormal. Next thjng there will be an alphabet political party, or alphabet clothes to wear, alphabet privilege, alphabet slogans funded by soros the other freak. I am not afraid of your antrums, carry on with, lets see what it does to your pladtic hormones or the ones still intact. The way you carry on, is freakish, and psychotic about a synthetic transformation, but it must be the hormones in conflict. Your original body will rebel, sooner or later and who is makibg the monwmey here, thisefreakiah oharma grouos don't give a toot about qmwhat is left of your trembling rhyroid. They will just pump you with more poison.
What's the big deal about hunting for special clothes? Doesn't that idiot realise women can wear anything they want nowadays, from prom dresses to ripped jeans and DMs? I don't seek out special GC clothes every day, I just open my wardrobe and put something on. 🤦♀️
The only thing that might give her politics away is a trans badge, but GCs attending a meeting might even choose to wear one of those ironically. What an thicko.
The visibility is still good, some crunchy parents reading this article will see “parental rights” and google search, and find out that there are a lot of people having the doubts and feeling the feelings that they do.
"Everyone who disagrees with my child sterilizing Moloch cult is right wing!"
TEN MINUTES LATER
"Gee why am I surrounded by right wingers"
I would definitely be fangirling if I got to see Exulansic speak live. But I would try to restrain myself from rushing the stage.... don't worry!!
That article sounds as slanted as we would expect from a 'gender' zealot. I wonder if the hetero autogynephiles/transvestic fetishists who according to Helen Joyce, the author of the book, "Trans," are the drivers of the 'trans' movement were mentioned.
Guilt by association makes the writer a terf on the far right doesn’t it? Attending these kind of secret meetings. Got to laugh at her sneaking about in disguise. My hair colour is a mix of platinum and orange, so I suppose that makes me one of the 2slgbtqia+. Or does it have to be blue? Helen Mirren looked fab in the blue dress with the blue hair, I prefer reds and oranges for mine, but blue and purple is good too. They can sod off, I’ll do what I like. They’ll grow out of it. Hopefully.
I haven't even read the article yet, but how "secret" is the meeting if it's held in a room with a wall of windows on one side?