Naomi Wolf embraces reality
That may sound like Tucker Carlson but—surprise(!)—it’s feminist author Naomi Wolf, in a January 9 essay headlined “Is it Time for Intellectuals to Talk about God?” In this 3,868-word cri de coeur, Wolf calls out “my people, my tribe,” all those “feminist health advocates” who were “silent in view of HHS warnings that the spike protein from mRNA vaccines may accumulate in the ovaries.”
These “luminaries of feminist health activism,” Wolf wrote, failed to speak out and “two or three of us who did were very visibly smeared, in some cases threatened, and in many ways silenced.” And this was all part of the “edifice of evil” now prevailing. As Blanche DuBois might say, this is not the feminist her readers have been expecting.
After graduating from San Francisco’s exclusive Lowell High School, Wolf moved on to Yale (B.A.) and Oxford (D.Phil.). In 1991, Wolf authored The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women, praised by professional feminists Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem. That brand of feminism is the women’s auxiliary of the Left and hostile to women otherwise inclined, whatever their distinction. Consider, for example, Jeane Kirkpatrick, best chronicled in Peter Collier’s Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick.
Kirkpatrick was one of the first women to earn a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University, among the first female tenured political scientists at Georgetown, and the first woman U.N. ambassador to hold cabinet rank. She also stood up to the all-male dictatorship of the Soviet Union, a Stalinist regime Friedan openly admired.
Gloria Steinem called Kirkpatrick a “female impersonator,” and Naomi Wolf once called her “a woman without a uterus,” though Kirkpatrick had three children. Since March 2020, Wolf has shifted her wrath to the feminists who once proclaimed “my body, my choice” but now support government mandates.
“Where were all the responsible feminist health activists,” Wolf wonders, “in the face of this global, unconsenting, uninforming, illegal experimentation on women’s bodies, and now on children, and soon, on babies?” People who had been “up in arms” about eating disorders and such, “were silent about an untested injection that was minting billions for Big Pharma; an injection that entered, according to Moderna’s own press material, every cell in the body, which would thus include involving uterus, ovaries, endometrium.”
For the Yale and Oxford alum, also the author of Misconceptions and Vagina, it’s more than a medical matter.
“This infection of the soul,” she writes, is “not even partisan.” It involves an abandonment of classical liberalism, the “sudden dropping of post-Enlightenment norms of critical thinking” Wolf also decries “this dilution even of parents’ sense of protectiveness over the bodies and futures of their helpless minor children, this acceptance of a world in which people can’t gather to worship, these suddenly-manifested structures themselves that erected this demonic world in less than two years and imposed it on everyone else.”
For Wolf, this “edifice of evil is too massive, too quickly erected, too complex and really, too elegant, to assign to just human awfulness and human inventiveness.” We are engaged in spiritual combat and stand in need of help from a Being, “better armed to fight true darkness than ourselves alone.” And even with that Wolf might be understating the forces of darkness we now face.
At the Wuhan Institute of Virology, controlled by China’s Communist Party, scientists deployed gain-of-function research to make viruses more transmissible, and more lethal. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, funded that research then lied about it. In early 2020, Fauci opposed President Trump’s ban on travel from China and recommended destructive lockdowns that caused untold suffering and loss.
During the AIDS crisis, Fauci authorized trials of the cytotoxic drug AZT on foster children in New York. Children are at low risk for COVID but Fauci wants to vaccinate them beginning in the first grade. Those children are also subject to racist indoctrination that teaches them to hate themselves and their country. If parents saw that as evil, it would be hard to blame them.
“The line separating good and evil,” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn discovered, “passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.”
The line separating good and evil, Naomi Wolf now understands, does not divide progressive feminists from everybody else. Whitecoat supremacy is oppressive and also evil. In this spiritual combat, Naomi Wolf has proved herself a brave ally. To adapt Victor Laszlo in “Casablanca,” maybe this time our side will win.
https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=13970&omhide=true&trk=title
*****************************************American swimming bosses have announced new rules after transgender swimmer Lia Thomas sparked controversy with her incredible results
Weak-kneed response
A transgender American swimmer’s controversial career hung in the balance on Thursday after the collegiate body governing the sport announced new rules, including testosterone limits, that could impact her ability to race competitively.
Lia Thomas has dominated US women’s college swimming as a student athlete at the University of Pennsylvania, where just a few years earlier she had competed on the men’s team.
Now, amid an uproar fuelled by anger among American conservatives who accuse Thomas of an unfair advantage, USA Swimming unveiled guidelines that do not mention the 22-year-old by name but will impact her swimming future — although exactly how remains unclear.
The policy said that because swimming is “an important vehicle for positive physical and mental health”, it remains committed to “greater inclusivity” at the non-elite levels of the sport.
For the elite level, however, the body said it created a new set of guidelines for transgender athlete participation that “relies on science and medical evidence-based methods to provide a level-playing field for elite cisgender women, and to mitigate the advantages associated with male puberty and physiology”.
USA Swimming said that a three-member panel comprised of medical experts and a veteran athlete was being established to implement the new policy and to rule on specific cases.
A key criterion the panel will look for is that “from a medical perspective, the prior physical development of the athlete as a Male, as mitigated by any medical intervention, does not give the athlete a competitive advantage over the athlete’s cisgender Female competitors”.
In addition, a swimmer is ineligible “unless the athlete demonstrates that the concentration of testosterone in the athlete’s serum has been less than 5 nmol/L (as measured by liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry) continuously for a period of at least 36 months before the date of Application”.
Doctors measure testosterone in nanomoles per litre (nmol/L). According to New York’s Mount Sinai hospital, the healthy range of testosterone in a woman is 0.5 to 2.4 nmol/L.
Thomas followed National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules and is eligible to swim, having undergone a year-long testosterone suppression treatment.
But some organisations, such as the Women’s Sports Policy Working Group, have deemed these rules insufficient, especially in cases where an athlete has begun her transition after puberty.
The NCAA, which governs US college sports, said in January it would enforce rules set forth by USA Swimming, which has the authority to bar swimmers from competitions.
A swim meet for the Ivy League of mostly northeastern American colleges is scheduled for February, and the NCAA National Championships are in March.
Thomas said she began her transition in May 2019 with hormone replacement therapy — a combination of oestrogen and testosterone suppressants.
In early December, in Akron, Ohio, she recorded the best performances of the year at the university level, in the 200-yard (183m) freestyle (1 min 41.93 seconds) and in the 500-yard (457m) freestyle (4 min 34.06 seconds).
Her performances have renewed a long-running debate about the fairness of a transgender woman competing against biological females.
Members of the Penn swimming team and diving team issued a statement supporting their transgender teammate.
“We want to express our full support for Lia in her transition,” they said in the statement released late Tuesday, apparently after one teammate spoke out about Thomas.
“We value her as a person, teammate, and friend. The sentiments put forward by an anonymous member of our team are not representative of the feelings, values, and opinions of the entire Penn team, composed of 39 women with diverse backgrounds.”
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Ottawa Police Chief Threatens to Call in Military on Freedom Truckers
Because his cops won't act
“Canada’s military may need to be deployed to clear Ottawa of protesters from the self-described ‘Freedom Convoy’ of truckers and their supporters opposed to coronavirus vaccine mandates,” WaPo reported, citing the city’s chief of police.
Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly said menacingly that “every single option” is being considered to end the “intolerable, unprecedented” protests against immoral vaccine mandates and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The police chief admitted that such extreme action would “come with massive risks.” But he added, without providing credible evidence, that “the range of illegal, dangerous and unacceptable activities is beyond the ability to list.” On Friday, Sloly demanded that the truckers “remain peaceful"
The coordinating actions are being taken to ensure that the draconian and effectively meaningless vaccine mandates remain in place. However, there are signs that the truckers’ pressure is working, as the Toronto Sun hinted in a pre-emptive denial regarding a story that the “anti-vaccine tax” that was being planned may soon be dropped.
A Canadian elected official in Ottawa deleted a tweet on how to target the millions of dollars raised to support the “Freedom Convoy” of truckers who are protesting the vaccine mandate.
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Offence archaeology
Here’s a delightful expression I have just encountered: ‘offence archaeology’. This is the practice of going through the social media history of a public figure to take offence at things they have said in the past. Many millions of social media users at one time or another have posted something about which someone, somewhere will be huffy. And, since the Internet is forever, you can bet an offence archaeologist is digging into it, particularly if you are a public figure.
According to the Urban Dictionary this involves: ‘Examining the digital past of a contemporary public figure to unearth any statements that might be offensive to the ruling class. These offences are best presented devoid of context or intent, which maximizes the potential for self-righteous virtue signalling among the people who are pretending to be outraged.’ And anyone who has ever posted on social media is a potential target.
The late Sir Roger Scruton was a distinguished English philosopher who specialised in traditional conservative views. He became a victim of offence archaeology after he was appointed to advise the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government as the unpaid chairman of a new public body to champion beautiful buildings. The offence archaeologists—who are notably left-wing—began digging. Politically incorrect phrases were unearthed, torn from their original context, and passed around like a shame file. Sir Roger was also one of the most brilliant, articulate, and wide-ranging intellectual figures in the English-speaking world—a man of intelligence, sensitivity, and political courage. In the 1980s, he worked tirelessly and at great personal peril behind the Iron Curtain to help those fighting against the totalitarian jackboot of communist tyranny. Which made his attackers appear ridiculous to everyone but themselves. But where so many other victims of offence archaeology eventually apologise for past statements, Scruton did not, although he did resign from the body to which he had been appointed. Offence archeology wins again. That is the ugliness of the world in which we live.
The Economist ran an article about the over-use of the irritating word ‘like’, except that—strangely—the magazine didn’t seem all that irritated. The article made the point that ‘like’ is used by the younger generation as a ‘discourse particle’. That means it is just a small bit of language used to hold a sentence together. Which is fair enough. But it is the way it’s used that can become annoying. The so-called ‘Valley Girls,’ from the San Fernando Valley in California, are supposed to have started the craze by saying such things as, ‘It’s like five miles away…’ or ‘He’s like a consultant…’. Sometimes ‘like’ is used to introduce a quote. That gives us such deathless prose as, “She was like, ‘You can’t do that’, and I’m like, ‘Yes, I can’”. (That use of ‘like’ was popularised in Australia by the character of Kylie Mole played by Mary-Anne Fahey on The Comedy Company.) It is sometimes thought to go back to the Beatnik era of the late 1950s and early 1960s — the days when Maynard G. Krebbs, played by Bob Denver on The Doby Gillies Show, was saying things along the line of, ‘Like, wow, man’.” All of us use discourse particles from time to time such as ‘so’, ‘but’, ‘then’ and others. The problem with like is that it appears to be the only discourse particle the younger generation knows and so it is like used over and over and over again. I suspect they’ll grow out of it as they grow older.
https://spectator.com.au/2022/01/aussie-language-44/
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