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How The False Promises Of The Sexual Revolution Created A New Religion
Contraception, as much as it has “empowered” women to delay or avoid pregnancy, has also enabled men to avoid the responsibilities of fatherhood through what sociologist Mark Regnerus called “Cheap Sex” in his 2017 book. Economist Timothy Reichart in 2010 examined data from the 1960s onward that showed “the contraceptive revolution has resulted in a massive redistribution of wealth and power from women and children to men.”
How? By creating a “prisoner’s dilemma” in which women are encouraged to “enter the sex market and remain there for as long as possible,” even though the ultimate result of this will be less happiness for them, as well as increasing the likelihood of divorce, infidelity, and the desire for abortion.
The sexual revolution’s promotion of promiscuous sex, pornography, and alternative sexual identities was supposed to uplift women, rescuing them from so-called oppressive, patriarchal norms that had imprisoned them in mundane, soul-crushing nuclear families. Yet promiscuous sex and pornography have more often led to the exploitation of women, exemplified by a consumerist mentality that views sex and sexual encounters as products. Indeed, it’s impossible to even imagine the Me Too crisis without the pill.
I hope I'm no longer walking the earth if/when this comes true.
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Dr. Rachel Levine says changing kids' genders will soon be fully embraced: 'Wheels will turn on this'
U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine promised that medically changing kids’ genders will soon be normalized as an invited speaker at a speaking engagement in Connecticut.
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That freak needs to be run out of town.I hope I'm no longer walking the earth if/when this comes true.
Dr. Rachel Levine says changing kids' genders will soon be fully embraced: 'Wheels will turn on this'
U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine promised that medically changing kids’ genders will soon be normalized as an invited speaker at a speaking engagement in Connecticut.
Audubon Society bucks critics, keeps 'enslaver' name despite criticism: 'Must reckon with the racist legacy'
The National Audubon Society, one of the most powerful bird conservation groups in the country, bucked critics Wednesday and elected to keep its name despite criticism from some groups in the birding community.
CEO of the National Audubon Society Elizabeth Gray defended the decision in a press statement, explaining that the organization’s namesake, John James Audubon, was a naturalist and illustrator who made "an important contribution to the field of ornithology in the mid-19th century and there can be no doubt of the impact of his life’s work and passion for birds."
The decision made by the board of directors, Gray wrote, was that "the organization transcends one person’s name."
Woke culture battle goes digital as publisher tries to force censored e-books on public: ‘Artistic betrayal'
According to the Times of London, "Owners of Roald Dahl e-books are having their libraries automatically updated with the new censored versions containing hundreds of changes to language related to weight, mental health, violence, gender and race."
The Feb. 25 story added, "Readers who bought electronic versions of the writer’s books, such as Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, before the controversial updates have discovered their copies have now been changed."
The Times of London said of devices such as the Kindle: "Puffin Books, the company which publishes Dahl novels, updated the electronic novels, in which Augustus Gloop is no longer described as fat or Mrs Twit as fearfully ugly, on devices such as the Amazon Kindle."
"It feels Orwellian that we are having the updated versions forced upon us and has made me weary of e-books," one reader told the outlet.
Fox News Digital reached out to Amazon, maker of the e-book Kindle, to ask about the company’s policy on this. A representative insisted the responsibility is on the publishers at Puffin: "Publishers control the copyright for the books they publish and so control the content and updating of their Kindle books."
Why sanitizing books is worse than banning them
Meanwhile, the political struggle over book banning rages on. The left insists that it is virtuous to “cancel” content and authors it deems offensive, while the right counters that it is imperative to restrict from schools content it deems age-inappropriate.
For many who cherish classic literature, sanitizing books like Dahl’s (which, for all their iconic prickliness, could hardly be called offensive by any rational person) and Fleming’s (which do reflect racist attitudes that were sadly common at the time when the novels were published) is almost as bad as banning them.
But sanitizing a book is not almost as bad as banning it. It’s worse.
When a book is banned, at least people know whether or not they read it. In fact, banned books often become forbidden fruit, and people have always had an Edenic compulsion to possess whatever is off limits. Banning a book has always served in part as a way to advertise it.
The sanitization process, by contrast, leaves people believing that they’ve read a given work, when in fact they have read an imposter. Whereas banning a book asserts authority over what language and ideas people are allowed to consume, sanitizing literature is an attempt to erase that language and those ideas altogether, as though they never existed. The insidious lie that effectively erases a given work from history is far more sinister than simply hiding that work from view. What is hidden will eventually be found. What is erased is lost forever.
A simple Google search reveals this topic has been discussed repeatedly in media, but it seems the question of seasoning has a complicated history from class differences (as she suggested), food quality and availability (e.g., during The Great Depression), food safety, and even food trends.
In other words, the manner in which people season their food varies over time and culture based on many influences, which brings us back to the problem other Twitter users had with this tweet:
Why do people think white people don’t season their food now? LOL!
This editor is Pope hat white and enjoys him some salt, pepper, habanero sauce, thyme, cilantro, cumin … well, you get the idea.
As you might have guessed, the responses from Twitter were quite flavorful.
I guess the above means that my seasonings near my stove do not exist?
Nor the others within another cabinet by the wall oven?
Nor the others within another cabinet by the wall oven?
I'm sure Rita B learn it from the Black folks. They invented stuffed ham.
Ursula LeGuin estate posthumously changes 7 words across 3 different LeGuin books
All the way back in February 2023, the Internet was briefly aflutter with the news that one of the largest publishing corporations in the world had decided to update some of the nastier language found in beloved children's books by noted anti-Semite and general prick Roald Dahl. To some, this was a clear act of "censorship" — of sensitive snowflakes retroactively inventing offenses to classical works, just as they had "done" to Dr. Seuss. To others, this was very clearly a publishing-based PR initiative designed to bring attention (and sales) to a typically-evergreen IP (just as they had done to Dr. Seuss).
I doubt as many pundits will be decrying similar changes made to the work of the acclaimed anarchist feminist sci-fi author Ursula LeGuin. As LeGuin's son and literary executor Theo Downes-LeGuin explained in a recent article for LitHub, the estate is preparing to publish new editions of her Catwings book series, and was faced with a predicament of exactly 4 words that occur exactly 7 times across 3 books: "lame," "queer," "dumb," and "stupid."