Saturday Miscellany

First, out in Wyoming, a federal judge decided to allow a biological male to join the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority at the University of Wyoming. 

Six sisters had filed suit saying that he was engaged in sexual harassment whenever he visited the sorority house. 

The judge decided that he could not rule on the case because he could not define a “woman.” 

Apparently, sexual harassment no longer matters when it is committed by a male who thinks he is a woman.

Second, Megan Fox offered a solution to the problem on Twitter: 

All the other girls should quit the sorority. Leave him alone to be by himself.

Unfortunately, the other alternative is illegal. That is, film him in his naked male splendor and post the video on Pornhub.

And yet, Fox is on to something. Can’t the resourceful sorority women find a way to make the man feel so uncomfortable that he will choose to leave.

Third, Mia McCarthy has some opinions about transmania, via Twitter-- @CryMiaRiver:

The dark truth is a small group of powerful people turned a psychiatric disorder into a civil rights movement and made failure to validate the sufferer's delusion a hate crime. Vulnerable teens being sterilised and having healthy body parts amputated are the collateral damage.

Also from McCarthy:

What do you think happens when you repeatedly tell a vulnerable group of young people they are at risk of suicide? That's right. You put them at a greater risk of suicide. Because you plant the idea into an already distressed mind. Suicide is socially contagious. We've known that for many decades.

Fourth, just in case you thought it was all a right wing plot, we read this about transmania in the decidedly leftist newspaper, The Guardian.

In a review of a new book about the history of the gender identity service at the Tavistock Clinic, Rachel Cooke writes this:

Hannah Barnes’s book about the rise and calamitous fall of the Gender Identity Development Service for children (Gids), a nationally commissioned unit at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in north London, is the result of intensive work, carried out across several years. 

This is the story of the hurt caused to potentially hundreds of children since 2011, and perhaps before that. To shrug in the face of that story – to refuse to listen to the young transgender people whose treatment caused, among other things, severe depression, sexual dysfunction, osteoporosis and stunted growth, and whose many other problems were simply ignored – requires a callousness that would be far beyond my imagination were it not for the fact that, thanks to social media, I already know such stony-heartedness to be out there.

Fifth, since we abhor all manner of sexism, we do not want to single out Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer for her overly intimate relationship with Botox. After all, her face has not moved in ten years. 

Now, we can add President Biden to the list of those who have had work done on their faces. According to a plastic surgeon, Biden has had a lot of work done. As reported in The Daily Mail:

A popular Beverly Hills plastic surgeon has claimed President Joe Biden has had a slew of cosmetic tweaks, including a face and brow lift.

Board-certified surgeon Dr Gary Motykie alleged on his TikTok that the president has spent the equivalent of $100,000 throughout his political career to tighten and lift the skin on his face using what Dr Motykie has called ‘outdated techniques’.

Some of the tweaks Dr Motykie claims Mr Biden has received include a face and brow lift, eyelid surgery to reduce bags, Botox, and fillers.

Dr Motykie said: ‘It left him with pixie ears and unnatural forehead lines. His hairline has also been restored but the transplanted hair doesn’t appear as natural as it would if it had been done with modern technique.'

Now you know why Biden’s face always looks somewhat askew.

Sixth, speaking of politics, Matt Margolis compares and contrasts Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump on Pajamas Media:

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) has once again been faced with a natural disaster in his state, and once again, he is crushing it. He didn’t hesitate to leave the campaign trail to take care of business, demonstrating once again what competence and leadership look like. Not only is DeSantis effectively managing the disaster response, but he’s also refusing to let the media politicize the situation.

Of course, that’s not stopping Donald Trump from taking shots at him. Trump is keenly aware that Ron DeSantis is his most formidable challenger. Despite Trump’s substantial lead in the polls, DeSantis has been his favorite target — even more than Joe Biden. With DeSantis off the campaign trail, Trump isn’t pulling any punches, even making an unfounded claim that DeSantis was on the verge of dropping out to run for the U.S. Senate.

Or, as the Wall Street Journal editorialized:

This seems to be Mr. DeSantis in his element, examining the figures, the emergency response plans, the Covid-19 statistics, and then synthesizing it into government policy. Everyone knows an introvert like this, and the flip side of the personality type is that Mr. DeSantis, now a 2024 presidential candidate, has proved less than adept at making small talk with Iowans.

And yet, Republican primary voters are allowing Democratic prosecutors to manipulate their minds. They are also supporting a candidate who has violated Ronald Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment-- Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican.

Seventh, just in case you were not sufficiently afraid of climate change, the New York Times reports on the latest research from China:

Researchers in China have found evidence suggesting that 930,000 years ago, the ancestors of modern humans suffered a massive population crash. They point to a drastic change to the climate that occurred around that time as the cause.

Not to belabor the obvious, but said climate change was not caused by burning too many fossil fuels or by human beings exhaling too often.

Eighth, the Bari Weiss Substack, called, The Free Press ran a contest to give a prize to a high school student for writing the best essay. The winner, one Ruby LaRocca, withdrew from public high school in order to be homeschooled. 

In her essay she described why she did what she did and showed why she deserved the award:

When people ask me why I sacrificed the sociable, slightly surreal daily life at my local school for the solitary life of a homeschooled student in 2021, I almost never reveal the reason: an absence of books.

For many students, books are irrelevant. They “take too long to read.” Even teachers have argued for the benefits of shorter, digital resources. Last April, the National Council of Teachers of English declared it was time “to decenter book reading and essay writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education.” 

But what is an English education without reading and learning to write about books? 

Many of our English teachers instead encouraged extemporaneous discussions of our feelings and socioeconomic status, viewings of dance videos, and endless TED Talks. So five days into my sophomore year, I convinced my mother to homeschool me.

Impressive, don’t you think? 

Ninth, in the good news category, Caroline McCaughy reports in the New York Sun, that job applicants who note their preferred pronouns on their job resumes are less likely to receive a call back, or an interview. Those who are transgender are twice as likely to be unemployed. Are you surprised?

Tenth, a word from David P. Goldman, from his Twitter:

A senior statesman of an Asian country that still is counted as an American ally told me recently: "Kissinger is a bastard. But he looks like a giant compared to the people running American foreign policy today, because even if he's a bastard, he is sane. They are not."

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