Well, just this past week, there was another school shooting, this time in Canada. The weird thing is, just the day before I was on a thread that asks what does Canada have that America doesn't have. Several people mentioned no guns. And now, there is this shooting that happened in Canada. I haven't seen that thread in a few days. I kinda wonder what they're saying now. Of course we know this is an isolated incident in Canada as guns are supposed to be illegal to own there.
The shooting took place in a small town called Tumbler Ridge, and 8 people died in the shooting, all of them between the ages of 11-14. Tumbler Ridge is in British Columbia. Kindof a hop, skip and a jump away from where I lived in Washington. The shooter was a 18-year old boy, who became trans (at his mother's behest) when he was 15. His name was Jesse Van Rootselaar. He first killed his mother and step-brother. Then he went to the middle school he dropped out of, and began shooting students there at random, then he killed himself. This is one of those school shooting cases where I don't blame the shooter, I blame the mom.
I've always said, there is no such thing as "trans kids", and there isn't. This kid Jesse was a victim of circumstance. His mother forced him to become trans. Apparently, she wanted a trans child so bad she forced Jesse to believe he was trans. I'll never understand some parents. Why would anyone want a mentally disturbed child??? That's why I'll never understand the concept of "trans-kids". This kind of thing is what happens when you force an ideology on a child. It's like vegan cats. I tell vegans all the time they can't complain about people eating animals if they have cats in their home. Cats are the greatest at showing who the real hypocrites are in the vegan world. Because one way or another, it's animal abuse. Either you are feeding your cat real meat products, which they need, or you're withholding something they need because of your own beliefs.
The same thing with "trans kids". There are no trans kids. There's only parents who want to trans their child. Children are not born knowing about sex or gender or any of that stuff. They are not aware of who or what they love. A child may say they are the opposite sex, but that doesn't mean anything. And people now want parents to take that seriously! No way! By the time the child does become aware of who they are, the desire to be the opposite gender usually fades. Unless it is upheld by one of the parents (usually the mother). That is what I believe happened with this kid Jesse. His mom forced the trans lifestyle on him, and it made him angry, so he took it out on a bunch of middle school kids he didn't know. That's probably why he killed his mom and step brother too. He was mad at them because they would not let him lead a normal life. This is why, in this case, I blame the mother of the child.
Well, my heart goes out to the family and friends of those killed in this incident. I feel bad for Jesse too, because he felt he had to do this to make people listen to him. It's not right though. I don't want to see anymore kids get hurt. Parents need to give up this idea that a 4-year old knows whom he is. It's not true! If he or she is pretending to be the opposite sex, it's just part of that child's imaginary world. Don't play along too much. My grandma told me about when my aunt Pat was a child, she had a little friend that lived in their oven named "Bushy". She didn't have a real little friend that lived in the oven. But she would pretend she did. But Bushy disappeared when Aunt Pat started knowing she was a young woman and started seeing that boys are more interesting than an imaginary Bushy friend. Grandma did not fight it, she didn't encourage it, and she didn't demand Aunt Pat keep it going even after she outgrew Bushy. Parents today need to learn how to just step back and let nature take it's course.
I saw the episode of I Am Jazz where Jazz was saying he wanted to be a boy again, and his mother talked him out of that. I felt bad for Jazz! I really did. From that moment on, we all knew who was keeping the fantasy going. It wasn't Jazz. It was his mom. It would serve her right if Jazz completely turned on her. But it's too late now. He's already had his "manhood" chopped off, which is the saddest part of it all. He can never get that back again.
Well, in other news, I hear the Trump administration has released all the Epstein files now. It has also been noted that Trump turned Epstein in to the authorities in 2006. Some names I'm surprised were in the files. Like Elvis Presley. But just because his name is in the files, it does not mean he was on the island. The feds are even counting people who were mentioned in emails addressed to Epstein. And this must be one of those cases where someone wrote to him about Elvis Presley. I even heard Eminem was on the island. But again, it does not mean he did anything bad. Now, these Epstein files was all the leftists had to cling on to incriminate Trump. But it really did not work, and the leftists are FUMING!
Trump is mentioned about 30,000 times in the files they say. But again, it could be Epstein talking about Trump in emails. After Trump got Epstein arrested, I'm sure Epstein was pissed. So my guess is, he talked about Trump, bashing him, talking shit about him, calling him every name in the book, to anyone that would listen to him. That's probably why Trump is mentioned so many times in the files. I don't believe Trump did anything. Most of the people accusing Trump of sexual harassment have been deemed uncredible. It's going to be hard now to take any leftist seriously since they've been making things up ever since Trump has even been in office. I can't believe anything they say about Trump. They lied more times about Trump than they think Trump lies about everything.
The worst thing I've heard so far about the Epstein files is the thing about hot dogs and jerky. Apparently, those were the code words for little boys and little girls. And I don't even want to talk about this here, or anywhere, because it is so disgusting! I wanted to puke when I heard about them.
Continuing from the conversation we were having on your last post, I'd like to address this point you made. Keep in mind, I'm not trying to start a fight.
ReplyDelete"Even gay men do not have the "feminine factor" that makes a woman a woman. I think it's that factor that makes it hard for me to see trans "women" as real women. It cannot be copied. Even tomboys have that factor, it's just something that is specific for women."
Is it, though? In one of my last comments I mentioned a friend of mine who transitioned because she never felt quite right as a man. And she-- again, I'm calling her "she"-- was telling the truth. Even back when she considered herself male, there was something, for lack of a better word, off about her, and when she transitioned, it all sort of came into place. Her body was biologically male, yes, but her mind was feminine, it always had been. All she was doing was making her body closer to what her mind had been from the very start.
To someone like you, who thinks of gender purely in terms of biology, this probably sounds confusing and even flat-out wrong, so let me explain.
Think of a computer. It has hardware (the keyboard, the monitor, the hard drive) and it has software (the programs that it runs). Our bodies are similar. We have hardware (our bones, muscles, organs, and nervous systems), and software (our thoughts). And while our hardware is limited by our biology, just as a computer is limited by how it's manufacter, our software sometimes experiences unexpected changes. Yes, normally men and women think differently. That's the whole idea of gender as a mental concept.
But like computer software, sometimes our mental software develops abnormally. Sometimes a male is born with the thought processes we consider more typical of a female. It is not something they can control, or something they can will their way out of. When that happens, the software (the gender) is incompatible with the hardware (the body). That's what happened to my friend. She was born male, but she didn't think or act like a boy, even as a child. Her body was biologically male, but she felt uncomfortable in it, and puberty only made that worse. By the time she was in her teens, she felt as though her mind was being rejected by her own body.
Since she couldn't change her mind to accommodate her body, she did the next best thing, and changed her body to accommodate her mind. She transitioned-- and she did this while she was still in her teens. This was entirely her decision. Her parents were OK with it, but it was her idea.
And since my friend (who I won't name for the sake of privacy) now feels much happier as a woman, who am I to deny her the right to identify as one?
Well, I'm not going to ask you to divulge your friends name, but would you mind if I ask a personal question about your friend? Did your friend have a father figure growing up? One who did boy things with him like play catch? Baseball? Things like that?
DeleteThe feminine factor thing, I've never, to this date, seen a transgender "woman" who was really able to pull it off, because males are just males. It's not something you can see. It's something that is within a woman's soul. It's a certain gentleness that no man has. Even transgender "men" have that feminine factor.
My friend-- who, if you'll recall, was born as a boy-- did have live with her father growing up, but he wasn't very into sports or things like that. He was an English professor at a nearby college.
Delete"It's something that is within a woman's soul. It's a certain gentleness that no man has. Even transgender "men" have that feminine factor."
Maybe that's true, I don't know, but I don't see how that invalidates the right of trans people to identify themselves however they wish.
I will say this though-- when I met this friend, we were both adults already. She had already transitioned several years before I met her. However, she didn't tell me she was transgender until she'd gotten to know me much better. I didn't ask her; she decided to tell me on her own. I mention this because, before she disclosed that fact to me, the idea that she was transgender never even crossed my mind. She looked, talked, and acted just like any other woman.
Once more, with feeling: I had no idea she was transgender until I was told. I'm sure you've talked to at least a few people like that too without even realizing it. This is what the majority of transgender people are like. They aren't fakers, they aren't criminals, they're just people.