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Is notion of a genderless humanity going too far?
We don’t even have pronouns for this.
That’s what accounts for the clumsy grammar of the statement parent Kori Doty issued about Doty’s newborn baby, Searyl Atli Doty. For that matter, it also accounts for the clumsy grammar of the sentence you just read.
Anyway, Kori Doty’s statement read: “It’s up to Searyl to decide how they identify, when they are old enough to develop their own gender identity. I am not going to foreclose that choice based on an arbitrary assignment of gender at birth based on an inspection of their genitals.”
As noted, the English language is not ready for this. For all its splendors, English offers no gender-neutral singular pronoun except “it.” Who wants to be an “it?”
If the language is not ready, well, truth to tell, neither is your humble correspondent. It’s a jarring realization.
Is notion of a genderless humanity going too far?
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'I wanted to blow up the internet'
How it's fashionable in modern Britain to believe there's no difference between men and women
Imagine a group of time travellers transported from the 1950s to today. The way the world has changed would astonish them.
They would marvel at the technological innovations which have transformed our lives. And they would be amazed by the material prosperity enjoyed by so many.
But they would also be surprised at how much of the old moral framework they knew had disappeared.
For example, they would be startled to learn of the soaring divorce rate and the massive increase in every kind of crime.
They might also be taken aback to find out how obsessed with sex Western society has become.
But of all the changes, nothing would puzzle them more than the preoccupation with what is now known as ‘gender’.
On discovering it was now fashionable to believe that, psychologically and biologically, there is no difference between men and women, our time travellers would stare in open-mouthed disbelief.
Although they would see males and females looking as different from each other as ever – with most people pushing baby buggies being recognisably female and most construction workers recognisably male – were they really to believe these differences were not rooted in nature, but were all just a ‘social construct’, the result of ‘gender stereotyping’?
How it's fashionable...
MAN ARRESTED FOR WALKING WIFE AROUND ON DOG LEASH AT PENNYSLVANIA FAIR
A man walking his wife around on a dog leash at an annual Pennsylvania fair was arrested and charged with simple assault.
Newsweek
Gay porn studio under fire for using a didgeridoo as a dildo
A gay porn studio is being called disrespectful after using a didgeridoo as a dildo in a new scene.
Entitled ‘Didgeridoo Me’ (because of course it is), the Men.com scene sees two roommates with one having recently gotten back from Australia.
While they do not go into detail of the frustrations of getting it through customs, his playing wakes his roommate up.
Frustrated, his roommate decides to take out his frustration by penetrating his roommate with the instrument.
Gay Star News
This naked man was too hot for Facebook
Facebook’s “nudie police” are out of control — again.
The social network has apologized for taking down a photo of a Renaissance statue of the sea god Neptune after an initial crackdown that cited the artwork’s “explicitly sexual” nature.
Art historian Elisa Barbari had posted a photo of the 16th-Century statue in Bologna, Italy — which shows Neptune naked and holding a trident — to illustrate her page “Stories, curiosities and views of Bologna.”
But Facebook took it down, telling Barbari it violated Facebook’s guidelines on advertising.
“It presents an image with content that is explicitly sexual and which shows to an excessive degree the body, concentrating unnecessarily on body parts,” Facebook told Barbari, according to a screenshot posted by Barbari on her page.
Even more prudishly, Facebook declared that “the use of images or video of nude bodies or plunging necklines is not allowed, even if the use is for artistic or educational reasons.”
Barbari responded defiantly: “Yes to Neptune, no to censorship.”
NY Post
I wasn’t prepared for life after coming out, and my mental health paid the price
Catching your breath after a deep dive; that’s what coming out feels like.
Finally getting to a place where you are ready to show the world your sexuality is an absolutely amazing achievement. It is infinitely liberating, there is no taking away from that.
However, the obvious is overlooked: Coming out isn’t the end of the race, it’s the beginning of a marathon which will test your endurance, character and very definition as a person.
I’m lucky, my coming out to my parents was relatively stress free. And while I endured bullying and felt unsupported during my school days, I came to terms with my sexuality and grew happy having that part of myself open to the world.
As a newly out and proud gay man I submersed myself in gay culture and enjoyed its bounty of self expression.
But I wasn’t prepared for bathing in a pool of open sexuality with other out men, stewing in self-inflicted insecurity, stereotypes and expectations.
Not all gay men act the same way to each other or to the wider LGBTI community. But I found most of the stereotyping I faced was from other gay guys.
Gay Star News
Gay traffic lights turn pavements to mince
Transport for London have overstepped the mark by introducing gay traffic lights according to Rochdale father of two, Arthur Branesell.
“Its outrageous! There’s one with two women holding hands. How am I supposed to know if I can cross the road or not or if it’s just my wife and daughter?”
Mr. Branesell, 39, added “There’s one with all sorts of weird symbols on it. I thought it was a Muslim thing to start with, but now I know it’s about the gays I’m not sure what to think. It’s wrong, I know that.”
TFL introduced the seven different replacements for the traditional green man lights in the area around Trafalgar Square during June to show solidarity with London’s lesbian, gay, bi and transexual community during the capital’s annual Pride festival.
“It’s an outrage” said tourist Woddeck Hunt of Cleckhuddersfax. “I blame the immigrants.” Asked why he replied “Sorry, I didn’t hear the question.”
Gay Traffic LightsBeardy hipster Quentin Kensington-Pratt told me “I have loads of LGBT friends. They’re not my “gay friends” they’re just my friends. That’s why I had to mention them. I mean, this sort of blatant support for the LGBT community is going to create a modern ghetto. People shouldn’t feel they have to be open and honest about who they are just because TFL bandies a few green dykes around. If everybody accepted the gays where would that leave those of us who have nurtured friendships in the interests of Hipsterism?”
Rochdale Herald
John Travolta: Caught Kissing Another Man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do we have another John Travolta gay scandal on our hands?
Simply put: No.
But it's worth explaining why some people are under this impression.
Travolta was recently in Butler County, Ohio to shoot scenes from the movie The Life and Death of John Gotti.
At some point, he decided to drop the office of Sheriff Richard K. Jones, posing with the law enforcement official for a photo that went semi-viral on Twitter.
Because Travolta is shaking hands with Jones? Not exactly.
It's because Jones captioned the image as follows:
"Unexpected visit, unexpected kiss.. Awesome meeting Mr. John Travolta!!"
The Hollywood Gossip
Straphangers go berserk after woman tosses bugs in subway car
A crazed woman trying to sell crickets and worms on a D train suddenly threw them all over the crowded car, sending it into chaos during the evening commute.
The woman walked into the train car at about 6 p.m. Wednesday and made a pitch to passengers to try to get them to buy the chirping insects and wrigglers.
A group of teenagers pushed her, prompting her to freak out and toss the box of pests into the air, said witnesses. Straphangers then started screaming and crying, and all ran down to one end of the car.
“It was pandemonium,” said Chris Calabrese, 29, who was on the train with his girlfriend. “It was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen on a train.”
Someone then pulled the emergency brake and the train skidded to a stop on the Manhattan Bridge.
NY Post
Crazed Conservative Calls DNC’S Gender-Neutral Bathrooms “Rape Rooms”
Today, or at least for the next half hour before slithering onto something else, the Internet is intent on dissecting the DNC’s “gender-neutral bathrooms,” with many praising their presence as “a sign of the times,” while inkier voices suggest the whole thing is a nefarious publicity stunt, or a very real danger to society at large.
One writer goes so far as to refer to these bathrooms as “rape rooms” and “unrest rooms.”
Related: Anti-Trans Activist Encourages Men to Chase Women into Bathrooms
Let’s start with him. We hadn’t heard of Matthew Vadum up until today, but all good things come to an end. Some exceedingly light Google research reveals he’s “an award-winning investigative journalist at a conservative watchdog group in Washington, D.C.”
In his op-ed piece published today in The Canada Free Press, Vadum spills bottles of ink on the “all-gender” restrooms at the Wells Fargo Center, which he claims are indicative of the “Left’s crusade to include ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE in everything everywhere at all times without regard to public safety, appropriateness, decorum, or common decency.”
Throughout the piece, he refers to the W.C.’s as “unrest rooms,” “everything-goes facilities” (!) and “rape rooms,” since they allow “big, strong men… to relieve themselves alongside little girls and women.”
Queerty