This is a superb article. It really is. You lay out the reality of the situation in clear and concise language. A measure of how good your writing is, is that I became angry while I was reading it. Indeed, you are a much better writer than I am. Thank God I'm not in the workforce any more.
That's very kind of you, thanks Perry! 🙏🏼 I hope to publish a new piece soon (I'm always out(side) in summer, barely on my laptop).
Oh yes, it's absolutely infuriating what happened to Vollbrecht and all those academics who basically had their careers ended for stating obvious biological truths. I just hope we will be able to come back from this madness...
What I don't understand is why a university wouldn't back up their scientists and faculty members in the face of unscientific social dogma. Universities are supposed to be a bulwark against ignorance. In my opinion, institutions of learning will have more success if they fight back against the dogma. They need to be the adults and, figuratively speaking, put their foot down and say, "No, this isn't science." They need to be uncompromising.
I'm still trying to figure out how and why transgender ideology gained so much traction in western societies.
Same here. It took me a while to understand it. It's quite a complex development: cultural and moral decline, social instability, the destruction of the family unit and of social cohesion in general, egocentricism and constant navelgazing, the ubiquity of sex and porn, and multi-million dollar businesses/millionaires pushing their agenda in the background, leading to the ideological capture of institutions such as universities. Rufo just released quite a good segment on the latter:
Now, you may not like this, but I am going to defend pornography. I agree that it is a vehicle for misogyny when women are involved, but gay pornography is a different animal. I am very visual, and I have not had many relationships in my life, meaning that I've been alone for most of it. Being visual, looking at a porn picture or video while masturbating became the norm for me. It helped me to imagine the sex I was missing. I always preferred pornography that showed loving acts. Since the models are all men, there is equality among them (although there is usually a top and a bottom -- but those are the roles the models WANT to be in). There is enough pornography out there that I can choose the mild, loving stuff, and I don't feel I'm doing anything wrong by using it. However, I'll say again that straight pornography is a very different matter, and I agree with feminists that it harms women. But to make straight pornography illegal would mean making gay pornography illegal, and I would miss it.
One thing I've noticed is that a lot of trans people are going into porn. From my perspective, they are ruining porn just as they ruin everything else. I neither want to look at women with male genitals, nor do I want to look at men with vaginas.
Adults can watch what they please, as far as I'm concerned. I do think, however, that many people vastly underestimate the impact of porn on children and teens. Kids as young as ten or eleven years old might nowadays already get in contact with it: older siblings, a wrong click on the internet... it's easy. And we're not talking about Playboy photos of nude models here. Kids have infinite access to all kinds of pornography - from romantic to violent to disgusting - at a much too young age and this is simply desastrous. In my job (I'm a teacher) I have overheard conversations about this topic in groups that are much too young to be knowing about this stuff.
Ms. M, I didn't answer this note because I didn't get a notification that you sent it.
Yes, I agree with you in all respects. Just as I feel that drag queens are not suitable for pre-pubescent kids, I agree that pornography is not suitable for anyone under the ages of 16 or 18 (18 would be better). A teenager may see one person slapping another during a sex act (something I never did myself and don't like to watch), and not understand that either the person being slapped wants to be slapped, or the producer of the film thinks that's what the viewer wants to see.
The internet is a huge problem in this regard. Preventing kids from seeing ridiculous-looking drag queens in a show doesn't do much good if they can go right onto a porn site and see all kinds of stuff that is much, much worse.
I get a little nervous when women talk about the danger of pornography because early feminists were committed to expunging pornography from society altogether -- but there was no way to expunge the misogynistic stuff without taking away my personal porn.
You have to understand some things about me. I was an attractive-enough fellow except I had a weight problem until I entered Overeaters Anonymous at the age of 27. Starting around the age of 28, I had five to seven years of being slender enough to attract mates, but then I started to regain my weight. Once I started to regain it, I never got it off again. So porn was a substitute for the lovers I didn't have. But I've always been "vanilla" in my tastes. I wanted to see mostly mild, loving stuff, because it was love that I wasn't getting in real life.
In any event, I think we agree on this topic pretty much down the line. Children have to be protected. Straight pornography depicts women as objects, and that is very bad for society, not to mention women.
This is a superb article. It really is. You lay out the reality of the situation in clear and concise language. A measure of how good your writing is, is that I became angry while I was reading it. Indeed, you are a much better writer than I am. Thank God I'm not in the workforce any more.
That's very kind of you, thanks Perry! 🙏🏼 I hope to publish a new piece soon (I'm always out(side) in summer, barely on my laptop).
Oh yes, it's absolutely infuriating what happened to Vollbrecht and all those academics who basically had their careers ended for stating obvious biological truths. I just hope we will be able to come back from this madness...
What I don't understand is why a university wouldn't back up their scientists and faculty members in the face of unscientific social dogma. Universities are supposed to be a bulwark against ignorance. In my opinion, institutions of learning will have more success if they fight back against the dogma. They need to be the adults and, figuratively speaking, put their foot down and say, "No, this isn't science." They need to be uncompromising.
I'm still trying to figure out how and why transgender ideology gained so much traction in western societies.
Same here. It took me a while to understand it. It's quite a complex development: cultural and moral decline, social instability, the destruction of the family unit and of social cohesion in general, egocentricism and constant navelgazing, the ubiquity of sex and porn, and multi-million dollar businesses/millionaires pushing their agenda in the background, leading to the ideological capture of institutions such as universities. Rufo just released quite a good segment on the latter:
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1679143593238462464
Now, you may not like this, but I am going to defend pornography. I agree that it is a vehicle for misogyny when women are involved, but gay pornography is a different animal. I am very visual, and I have not had many relationships in my life, meaning that I've been alone for most of it. Being visual, looking at a porn picture or video while masturbating became the norm for me. It helped me to imagine the sex I was missing. I always preferred pornography that showed loving acts. Since the models are all men, there is equality among them (although there is usually a top and a bottom -- but those are the roles the models WANT to be in). There is enough pornography out there that I can choose the mild, loving stuff, and I don't feel I'm doing anything wrong by using it. However, I'll say again that straight pornography is a very different matter, and I agree with feminists that it harms women. But to make straight pornography illegal would mean making gay pornography illegal, and I would miss it.
One thing I've noticed is that a lot of trans people are going into porn. From my perspective, they are ruining porn just as they ruin everything else. I neither want to look at women with male genitals, nor do I want to look at men with vaginas.
Adults can watch what they please, as far as I'm concerned. I do think, however, that many people vastly underestimate the impact of porn on children and teens. Kids as young as ten or eleven years old might nowadays already get in contact with it: older siblings, a wrong click on the internet... it's easy. And we're not talking about Playboy photos of nude models here. Kids have infinite access to all kinds of pornography - from romantic to violent to disgusting - at a much too young age and this is simply desastrous. In my job (I'm a teacher) I have overheard conversations about this topic in groups that are much too young to be knowing about this stuff.
Ms. M, I didn't answer this note because I didn't get a notification that you sent it.
Yes, I agree with you in all respects. Just as I feel that drag queens are not suitable for pre-pubescent kids, I agree that pornography is not suitable for anyone under the ages of 16 or 18 (18 would be better). A teenager may see one person slapping another during a sex act (something I never did myself and don't like to watch), and not understand that either the person being slapped wants to be slapped, or the producer of the film thinks that's what the viewer wants to see.
The internet is a huge problem in this regard. Preventing kids from seeing ridiculous-looking drag queens in a show doesn't do much good if they can go right onto a porn site and see all kinds of stuff that is much, much worse.
I get a little nervous when women talk about the danger of pornography because early feminists were committed to expunging pornography from society altogether -- but there was no way to expunge the misogynistic stuff without taking away my personal porn.
You have to understand some things about me. I was an attractive-enough fellow except I had a weight problem until I entered Overeaters Anonymous at the age of 27. Starting around the age of 28, I had five to seven years of being slender enough to attract mates, but then I started to regain my weight. Once I started to regain it, I never got it off again. So porn was a substitute for the lovers I didn't have. But I've always been "vanilla" in my tastes. I wanted to see mostly mild, loving stuff, because it was love that I wasn't getting in real life.
In any event, I think we agree on this topic pretty much down the line. Children have to be protected. Straight pornography depicts women as objects, and that is very bad for society, not to mention women.