Just because the men in your home country have been fully emasculated, don’t expect the men in the countries you visit to act the same, ladies. Two Scandinavian women were raped and murdered while backpacking through Morocco, leaving behind memories and teachable moments:
Maren Ueland and Louisa Jespersen, two Scandinavian tourists who were backpacking in Morocco, were accosted and murdered in their tent in what authorities are investigating as a terrorist attack. A horrific video has circulated online that appears to show the gruesome murder of one of the two women, and a second video shows the suspects pledging allegiance to ISIS, authorities say.
I’m guessing an opportunistic rape & murder rather than organized Islamic terrorism. Those chuckleheads probably pledge allegiance to ISIS with every visit to the post office.
Louisa left, Maren right. The effects of Feminism has been catalogued almost to a timetable. These women are young, cute and long-haired, meaning they’re probably college students being taught women can do it all while selecting from an endless sex buffet of Scandinavian Fabios.
The next phase is graduating and getting tramp stamps to show they’re tough and can handle life as an officer of a major company… having skipped to the front of the line for management because they’re visibly too weak to do any actual work yet the company is required to hire them. But they wanted to “travel” first and “experience new cultures”.
Cue the beheadings.
Both women . ages 24 and 28 . were discovered with knife wounds to the neck (although that doesn’t begin to describe the attack shown in the video), and the Danish prime minister has declared the slayings .bestial,. according to BBC. Moroccan government spokesman, Mustapha El Khalfi, described the killings to the Guardian as a “criminal and terrorist act.” The women were remembered by loved ones for their adventurous and caring spirits. Jespersen’s full name is Louisa Vesterager Jespersen.
Criminal, yes, but what political point would the attackers have been making about Syria? “Our organization’s goal will be best met by killing unescorted Scandinavian tourists in the middle of nowhere with deniable assets! Aloha snackbar!”
It’s a VERY safe bet that ISIS wasn’t involved because these chicks were tourists. You don’t hurt tourists. They’re the primary source of income for a lot of these impoverished countries. An entire village of local Christians could disappear overnight and the police would only investigate when the world runs out of donuts, but whack one fat, obnoxious Westerner with a fat, happy wallet and you won’t live to see the dawn. Local lowbrows will be that dangerously stupid if the tourist does dangerously stupid first but not an actual organization that wants to be tolerated by the gov’t.
A French hiker found the bodies, telling the Australian news site, .It was horrible. They were broken. We warned everyone we saw in Imlil not to go up there. I did not want more to see what we had seen.It was a big shock, we’re thinking about it all day. It makes you think about what’s important in life..
Strong&Independent! I’m sure those college coeds fought like the US Marines at Tripoli.
The women were “knifed and beheaded on camera while camping in the Atlas Mountains,. News.com.au reports, adding that one woman’s body was decapitated and the other had severe wounds to the neck.
Or not.
The New York Post reports that, in addition to the ISIS ties, the attack might be sexually-motivated, and the men were camping in a tent nearby the women.
The women met their fate in Imlil, .a popular tourist destination at the foot of Mount Toubkal, the highest peak in North Africa,. according to Daily Star.
Two nubile, defenseless young women chose to camp in an isolated mountain range next to young men whose life ambition was being noticed by an ISIS recruiter so they can at least get laid after they’re dead. Could there have been a different outcome?
Maren and her… boyfriend? As a general rule in life, you don’t want a pet that’s bigger and stronger than you. Get a real husband, girls.
.The footage shows a blonde woman screaming while a man cuts her neck with what appears to be a sharp kitchen knife,. according to News.com.au, which also reported that this woman was Jespersen. The awful video, which is still circulating on sites like 4Chan… Horrifically, someone posted that video in the comment thread of one of the backpackers. mother’s tribute post to her daughter on Facebook. It’s easily one of the most disturbing things a person could ever watch. If you’re considering trying to watch it . don’t. You.ll have nightmares for days.
Ah, 4Chan. Keepin’ it stylish as always.
In 2017, an Australian woman posted a photo of Jespersen on Facebook and wrote, .A couple of days ago Cody and I were travelling down the coast when we saw this girl hitch hiking on the side of the road ! We picked her up and have travelled together the last couple of days ! Such a breath of fresh air having her around . We talked about our countries we lived in and the sites that have been visited.
“We picked her up.” Unbelievable. Even in tame America, that’s a great way for a young woman to disappear forever. “Hey, pretty girl, I’ll give you a lift to wherever you’re going.” “Okay!” Stupid stupid stupid!
This is how young women today expect to be treated. The world is so nice to them! By the time they learn that not all men are pussy beggars, she’s literally lost her head.
Hey, it’s Scandinavian Fabio with Louisa! At a frat party with alcohol. Don’t be sad for her, be happy that dumb luck carried her almost all the way to 2019 and a college degree.
Speaking to Denmark’s BT, Jespersen’s mother described her as “always happy and positive. She got the best in everyone..
No mention was ever made about Jespersen’s father.
According to VG, police arrested multiple men in connection with the slayings. The suspects. names are Abdessamad Ejjoud, Younes Ouaziad, Rachid El Afati, and Khayali Abderrahmane, ABC News reports, with Abderrahmane alleged to be the main suspect with ties to the Islamic State.
Swift police work. I doubt they actually cared about those overly entitled wimminz but hey, tourism.
Women these days are like train wrecks: spectacles gone off the rails, flying from puberty to reality with beautiful, curvy arcs. And noise. So much noise.
And a final note, why where these women spending the holidays far from home? Do they not celebrate Christmas in Scandinavia?
Keith, from what I have seen, I would describe the Dalrock route as over-realized patriarchy. This is not the same thing as extreme patriarchy (the toxic kind), and it is not the same thing as my own version of (amazingly balanced) patriarchy. I speak as a man, as Paul might say, and that’s the problem, as RHE might say. Over-realized patriarchy has a tendency to assume that the complementarians who gave away the store (and I agree with Dalrock that many of them did give away the store), did so on purpose. In other words, what they tend to describe as conspiracy, I would describe as a mix of conspiracy from some and confused foolishness from others. This also has had an impact on how Dalrock has interacted with some of my stuff, looping me as one of the conspirators to feminize everything. Since I know that he is persistent in reading me incorrectly, eventually I quit reading him.
Translation, I can’t prove he’s wrong but we should be careful to not be too correct. A typical Churchian statement. Wilson would get more points from me if he’d named some of the complementarians who gave away the store as examples of “the real bad guys”. But the only specific person he criticized was Dalrock.
I.ve been through this argument, “all sins are the same,.with churchmen more times than I care to remember. I gave up arguing some time ago. Now I simply ask, if all sins are the same, why does God assign different penalties to different sins throughout the case laws of Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy? And leave it at that. In my time I’ve run with the wild bunch and the church bunch both, and I’m afraid I’ve met just about as many idiots in church as I ever did at the beer joint.
James
James, yes. But at the beer joints they can always blame the alcohol.
That flippant not-answer was a badly missed opportunity for a professional theologian. Given the chance to explain the nature of sin and punishment, Wilson cucked out, so let this amateur blogger do the job instead:
God assigned different punishments to different sins, not different consequences. All sin is rebellion and all sin leads to death… but if all sin was punished by death then we would have no opportunity to learn better and confront our inner darkness.
Therefore, God scaled the punishments in proportion to the specific sin, for the purpose of modifying people’s behavior. That is the purpose of punishing bad behavior, after all: behavior modification.
Today, the modern Church has fallen into the two crimes against justice: punishing the innocent and excusing the guilty. They are actually the same crime. It’s no coincidence that the Church excusing the evils of feral women has led to false accusations by those same women against innocent men.
I.m a brother in Christ from the Minneapolis area that is greatly enriched by your Blog. I enjoyed your article, .The Sin of Flattening Sins.. I’m struggling with the lack of clear messaging from the elders of my church (Bethlehem Baptist Church Minneapolis MN; John Piper/Jason Meyer) as it relates to how Christians should respond when invited to a doctrine of demons ceremony (sometimes called a wedding associated with a gay mirage). The obvious answers to me are: 1. Attend and intensely and vociferously rebuke the evil proceeds (of course almost nobody will do this). 2. Respectfully, kindly, and discreetly decline attending.
A Godly response would be 3. Vociferously refuse the invitation. “What the hell is wrong with you, that you are planning to do this?” I don’t object to #1 except it leaves the opportunity for repentance too late. #2 is not appropriate because you are seeing someone you care about engage in a terrible and self-destructive crime against God and nature.
I was in a small group setting related to our church which was led by an elder. I suggested it was a sin to attend a doctrine of demons ceremony as a silent participant. The elder, visibly upset with me said, .I wouldn’t go either, but it is a conscience issue which we must respect.” At the same moment a couple of members rolled their eyes at me for suggesting such a thing.
I like this guy. He is where I’ve been, not only wondering why there is much evil in the world but why his fellow “believers” are so shy about confronting it. And like me, he decided to speak up about it in public. Education came swiftly to us both, it seems.
“While it is recognized that there are a multitude of conscience issues and we have to be careful we don’t impose our convictions on others…”
Bullshit. We have a God-given duty to impose our convictions upon others, not to mention the practical concern that if we don’t, our enemies will. Faith in God cannot be compelled but you shall not lie, you shall not steal, you shall not murder and don’t even think about putting a Satanist exhibit next to the nativity scene in the name of equality. God’s name is not Equality. You don’t want to follow Christ, fine, but if you choose to defy Him then get the Hell out of my society. We got no use for liars, cheats and perverts.
The marketplace of ideas is a false metaphor. What Christians believe is that Truth exists objectively and is knowable, at least in part. Therefore, when you have a group of people with different ideas about how things should be done, first assume a correct answer exists (with the help of Scripture, prayer, etc.) and then test the various ideas to determine which comes closest. Do not pretend that all ideas are equally valid.
…I.m inclined to think this scenario is not a conscience issue, that is, it is a sin for a Christian to attend a doctrine of demons ceremony as a silent participant.
Conscience issues are for the grey areas of Christian life. Scripture is very open-ended about how a society should function. This is how Protestants and Catholics can disagree vocally, even violently at times, yet both be devoted to Christ.
It should go without saying that a Sodomite mockery of marriage is not a gray area.
I’m curious your thoughts on this. It would be refreshing to know that as it relates to the subject matter you have stated from the pulpit in the most severe way possible (with outstretched arm and finger; flushed red face, and veins popping in your temples and neck) .how dare you think of attending such an evil proceeding!. Please let it be so. God bless,
Doug
Doug, I agree with John Piper that we should not attend, full stop. I also agree that we should do what we can to maintain our personal relationship with people trapped in this sin, but that is only done because we want to help them. If we start attending their ceremonies in silent acquiescence, we are no longer in a position to help.having become part of the problem.
You don’t help people who are going off the deep end by pretending they’re “trapped” in voluntary, public depravity. I don’t keep friendships with open homosexuals and within family, relations would be badly strained… they had better not bring their lover to Christmas at Grandpa’s.
Once again, we see Wilson trying to oppose someone without going on record opposing them. He opposed the event of Sodomite marriage but not the participants.
Could you share your thoughts on .Pedogate/Pizzagate.? It has been going around the Internet the last couple years or so. It was the subject of a discussion about so-called “fake news” with the Google CEO at their most recent congressional hearing. It makes me sick even thinking about what is alleged but it also troubles me how quickly people get shadow-banned or kicked off platforms for mentioning anything related to it. There are certainly some outlandish fringe theories around it, but there are also the Podesta emails (specifically from Tamera Luzzato), Tamara’s website, Jeffery Epstein,and James Alefantis’s creepy friends, and his Instagram antics. These seem to get light or no acknowledgement from the press. It seems like when anyone brings it up, they are immediately shouted down and called a .flat-earther,.wearing a tin-foil hat. Thankful for your clear thinking through crazy times.
Joshua
Joshua, I haven’t said anything about it because I am not up on it at all. I only know enough to know (hazily) what is alleged, and also to know that the received wisdom says that it is bogus. But I can say two things. On the one hand, I do believe that there are many in our ruling elites who are capable of such things, and are capable of crushing anyone who wants to bring it all to light. On the other hand, I believe that there are many enemies of the ruling elites who are capable of lying about such things in order to damage or bring down the bad guys. I believe Washington is a dirty town, which means that people live dirty and they also fight dirty. So I just don’t know enough to say anything particular.
Wilson is blowing smoke. Even Christ our Savior was capable of harming little kids. That was not Joshua’s question.
Also, notice his attitude towards the abuse of State authority is not one based on my above concept that Truth is objective and knowable. “Eh, they all fight dirty. Who knows who’s right?” At least try to seek the Truth, Wilson you uninformed fool. Truth is only your deity of choice that you’ve spent a lifetime studying.
Hmm, sounds like a few of the laity are waking up to the Matrix’s existence.
In closing, leaders of a community do not have the luxury of ignorance about the outside world. Priests of God do not have the luxury of pretending that good people can live together with the wicked. The power, status and authority of leadership comes with the price that it must be used for the benefit of God and country… not esoteric theological discussions. Example, only highly placed leaders like Wilson has the resources to face lawfare and entrenched perpetrators of antichristianity. But he won’t fight. He only gives advice calculated to not offend anybody. He spends his time playing with terms like “complementarianism” while not even trying to be informed about systemic child molestation in the halls of power.
This in addition to Wilson’s support for Original Sin that Dalrock has exposed at length.
Wilson, if you don’t want to be a leader then you don’t have to be a leader. Step down, find a sinecure and let somebody willing to fight evil have your position, because you are too busy complaining Dalrock is overly correct about patriarchy to care about the rulers of your society purchasing children from sex slave traders.
By Ashley Scoby writing for the Huffington Post, 20 December 2018
This Christmas will be the third one I haven’t spent in my hometown. It’s a small town in southern Kentucky filled with more than its fair share of Donald Trump bumper stickers and Confederate flags. But even before Trump was elected president, it always made me feel claustrophobic.
The end of this holiday season will also cap the second calendar year I’ve gone without speaking to my parents, and by extension, the rest of my family. My holidays are no longer spent at my grandparents. house with my parents, sister, uncle and random cousins. My parents helping to put Trump in office was the final nail in the coffin of a relationship that had long been rocky.
And despite people’s well-intended (but unnecessary) sympathy, life has never been happier for me.
One of my regular stops on youTube had bad family too, Barbie. She kicked his father out of the home, spent the chilamony money on herself, fed her kids expired twinkies fished out of a 7-11 dumpster for a treat and when he was no longer useful as a meal ticket, abandoned him so traumatically that he ended up with a false memory. That’s why he doesn’t talk to family.
You ungrateful piece of Wimminz Studies work.
My parents are passionate conservatives and attempted to raise me as a Baptist (I knew early on that wasn’t going to work for me). My parents complained about everything from interracial marriage and rap music to women going for summer jogs in shorts they believed to be too short. My mother literally highlighted Bible passages she claimed “proved” Barack Obama was the Antichrist. When NFL draft pick Michael Sam kissed his boyfriend on live TV, I nearly cried. I grew up in a house full of sports fanatics and this was a beautiful . and groundbreaking . moment. My parents only talked about how “gross” it was.
It’s not natural for a girl to be that opposed to her parents’ beliefs. She either had young love with Tyrone or Daddy gave her a slutphone… not much difference, really.
Because of my family’s beliefs, I spent most of my life hiding my politics, my interests, my dating life and my friends from them. For decades, they didn’t know the real me, only the fa?ade that I put on for them. My parents had no idea that when I left the house on a typical high school weekend night, I was probably spending time with my gay best friend. They didn’t know I voted for Obama (shocker . he didn’t turn out to be the Antichrist). They didn’t know I donated to Planned Parenthood. Almost everything I love or am proud of in my life would probably make them cringe.
It’s extremely not natural for a girl to be that extremely opposed to her parents’ beliefs. One thought is Daddy was a massive hypocrite but that seems unlikely. Child violators like to hide among the Left, not among Baptist Trumpers waving the Dixie.
For a fact, Ashley was shamelessly promiscuous.
Holidays always seemed to exacerbate the canyon that yawned between us and, for as long as I can remember, my anxiety has spiked during November and December. A chronic eye-roller, I had to siphon every bit of self-containment I could to make it through Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners . and daily life, if I’m being honest . with my family.
This is 100% on her. One of my close relatives still donates to the Carter Foundation. We get along.
Eventually I came to realize our vastly different beliefs had little to do with .politics,. a blanket descriptor often used in situations like this that greatly oversimplifies the rift between my family and me. Our differences have to do with vastly opposing views of what every human being deserves (health care, LGBTQ rights, a world without Confederate flags, etc). Trump being elected . and my parents helping him with their votes . was more than I could take. It was the wake-up call I needed, and it finally shook me free from the society-imposed guilt that kept me hanging onto my family ties for years.
The day after the 2016 election, my mother and I had a heated discussion on the phone . the first extensive one we’d had about politics in years. She proudly declared her support for Trump and said my dad had voted the same way. I hung up. I always knew my parents were wildly conservative, but in my heart of hearts, I didn’t think it would go this far.
Trump Derangement Syndrome. I still haven’t grokked it. Somehow, a sexy, masculine conservative being in charge is emotionally traumatic unto psychosis for bitter women who hate unsexy men. Do feminists hate themselves for wanting to be Trump’s domestic love slave? Did they expect the Lizard Queen’s ascendance to herald the literal castration of all men everywhere? Is Satan merely venting his frustration at this eight-year delay through his weaker minions?
I let the anger linger in silence for a couple of weeks. By the time my parents realized I wasn’t contacting them anymore, I had gathered all my thoughts. My dad finally called, wondering why I was freezing them out. I was on my way to Kansas City at the time and had an uninterrupted 45 minutes while driving to deal with the situation. After that? I knew I would be done. I was at peace.
Leftoids need to live in a bubble. It’s not just their ideas are indefensible, it’s that they’re badly damaged human beings who cannot tolerate the healthy.
So I drove down Interstate 70, my phone to my ear, and finally let 23 years of differences bubble up into speech. I was the most open I’d ever been with either of my parents. I told my father, for the first time, about how I’d been groped on a New York City street. How could he vote for a man who had admitted to doing the same to other women?
Did you tell him about your underage bisexual experiences? No? Seems that being “groped on a New York City street” would not be as sexually traumatic. What was a Kentucky girl doing in NYC anyway?
Can you imagine if Bill Clinton had ever groped a woman? *snicker*
I brought up our differences when it came to topics like race, religion and women in leadership positions. It probably wasn’t a complete shock to them . I’ve often slipped throughout the years and said “liberal” things. But I don’t think my parents ever knew our differences were this severe or would signify the end of our relationship.
Why should they have? None of those are legit reasons for breaking a family.
In most arguments I engage in, my temper comes quickly. I get flustered, and I often cry when I’m frustrated. But this was the calmest I’d ever been during a confrontation. I never cried. I never yelled. I didn’t have to. We knew it was over.
Since that day, I’ve spoken to my parents only once. I showed up at their door with two boxes a couple of months later and went straight to my old room to collect whatever I might someday want to keep. My mom followed me down the hall, berating me about how “ridiculous” I was being. The entire interaction lasted about 10 minutes as I grabbed photos off the wall and old books I thought I’d want. I took what I could because I knew I wouldn’t be back. The saddest goodbye was to the family dog, Zoe. Every other separation was a long time coming.
Many young people these days would kill to have had happily married parents. But Ashley’s only concern was “You didn’t vote for First Female President when you had the chance”.
It.s strange . with romantic attachments, we’re taught to recognize the red flags and act accordingly. We’re told, .Remember your worth. and “Being alone is better than being in a bad relationship.” We’re told, .Get out if someone doesn’t respect you or your beliefs..
That’s advice for battered spouses and it doesn’t work.
But with our family relationships, we’re often guilted into staying no matter how toxic the situation. We’re pressured into trying to make it work with people who are often viscerally at odds with everything we believe in . because it’s the “right” thing to do.
Intact families please God, who is working hard to form a permanent, eternal family. Ruined families please Satan for the same reason: God is working hard to form a permanent, eternal family.
It’s Christ worship, not guilt, to do right by obnoxious family members.
What.s more, we’re told that if we decide to leave or distance ourselves from our family, it’s “immature.” .Can.t you just talk it out?. we’re asked. Or better yet, we’re told, .Can.t you just not talk about politics?.
But what use is that?
Seriously, Ashley? Of what use is not talking about irreconcilable politics? Your father did you no wrong, you rebellious bitch. You tried to control him, failed and abandoned him to live “free” in a cesspit of sex, drugs and the politics of envy. There’s a spiritual metaphor in that.
Why would I want a relationship that needs to constantly be policed to avoid fighting or the realization that we have nothing in common? Why would I want a relationship limited to surface-level conversations about work and sports in order to steer away from discussing topics that truly make us who we are? I know I can’t change the way they think or feel. They’re not changing my beliefs. How valuable is a relationship where you have to hide or lie about who you really are?
The Converged cannot understand that family is more important than politics, that not every aspect of life must be bent to fuel the Narrative… and that most of our side’s opposition to Convergence is founded on exactly that principle. We want to go play, they want us to wave the freak flag. #Gamergate
So, after years of dreading the holidays, I finally took control of my life and created my own version of home . of family.
Last year, I crammed 15 of my friends into my tiny living room and hosted my first Friendsgiving in my own place. Some of my friends were gay. Some were black. One had parents who immigrated from Mexico. It was a hodgepodge of characters and identities, a mosaic that illustrated what already makes America great.
Free tampons! Easy sex with fags! No borders! No white men! No families! No God! Everybody united in political loyalty to my tender feelings! That’s what makes America great!
And I knew that no one there would make racist or sexist comments while digging into their turkey. No one would claim Jay-Z was a devil worshipper (I actually witnessed this at a family gathering). No one would (unironically) talk about how nice of a guy Ted Cruz seems to be.
Says the girl who was careful to include homos and coloreds in her holiday.
Note, Jay-Z is a famous rapper who is married to Beyonce and in retirement, became a major supporter of Barack Obama and sodomy. He’s a devil-worshiper but not because of his music.
I didn’t have to feel anxious and I didn’t feel anxious. It was the first time on a holiday I’d ever truly felt at home.
This year, I took a week before Thanksgiving and drove eight hours back to the region where I grew up. Toggling between Kentucky (Louisville and Lexington) and Indianapolis, Indiana, I crashed in my friends. studio apartments and spare rooms, drinking wine and revisiting old college haunts.
A lot of women who reject family life end up drinking wine… socially, alone and for a hobby.
But at the end of the week, I turned south. I drove back to my hometown, rolled down the main bypass and straight through the traffic light that, had I turned left, would have taken me to the house I grew up in. I wasn’t there to see my parents. I wasn’t there to silently sit on a couch surrounded by relatives I had nothing in common with but my genes. I drove back there not to see relatives, not to fight a losing battle, but to spend time with those who actually felt like family.
Family is not defined by feelings.
My best friend from high school and her husband hosted me for two days and made me an early Thanksgiving dinner. We sipped Kentucky bourbon and talked into the night about politics and old friends. I tried to explain all of Drake’s rap beefs, and we laughed in a way I wasn’t used to laughing during the holidays. This was the kind of Thanksgiving I’d been missing all those years: no anxiousness, no bitter fighting, no quiet resignation to just keep my head down and find a way to get through the meal.
When people find out I’ve cut my family out of my life, they often apologize and ask if I’m sad. But I’m not sorry, and I’m even less sad. My parents, unfortunately, brought me more stress and grief than anyone else in my life. Naturally, there are days I mourn the absence of strong family ties. But I certainly don’t mourn the loss of my own toxic family ties.
Avoiding Trump voters was the impetus for me to finally break away. But the journey was building my own happiness . free of an arbitrary obligation to a family I not only had nothing in common with but whom I actively disagreed with on fundamental issues that illustrate who we are as people.
Satan himself couldn’t say it better. Go build your OWN happiness instead of enduring the “arbitrary obligations” of people who love you regardless of political loyalties.
It.s not a situation I would wish on someone . of course, there are times I wish I had blood relatives I was close to. But the peace of mind and the happiness I’ve found these past couple of holiday seasons without my family? I would wish that joy on everyone.
And you legislate us accordingly, dividing wives from husbands and children from parents, because Gloria Steinem forbid that we be permitted to not make the same mistake you did.
Ashley Scoby is a native Kentuckian, a University of Kentucky graduate and a recovering sports writer. She’s now a freelancer living in Kansas City, Missouri.
Her father’s only clear mistake was sending Ashley to college. He was also ignorant of her young promiscuity but that’s hard to hold against him—fathers are generally the last to know. But if Ashley now being a “freelancer living in Kansas City” is any indication, he was manly enough to cut off support after she hated him for voting Right.
Dead career, no longer welcome in her home lands of Kentucky and Indiana, writing for Huffington Post about how she disowned her family for voting Trump and remembering their roots. What should we get her for Christmas, a cat or a bottle of cheap wine?
It’s not often one encounters so pure a specimen of Feminism’s endgame.
My guess upfront will be that the cost/risk of female sterilization has dropped thanks to improved surgical techniques.
In discussing female contraception, the general assumption is that you’re talking about the Pill. But new findings released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that another method has surpassed oral contraceptives in popularity: female sterilization.
According to the data, which was released Wednesday and gathered between 2015 and 2017, nearly 65 percent of the 5,500 women aged 15 to 49 who participated in the survey said they had used some form of contraception in the month before they were interviewed. The most common methods used were female sterilization (18.6 percent), oral contraceptives (12.6 percent), long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), such as intrauterine contraceptives (10.3 percent), and male condoms (8.7 percent).
The last time the survey was conducted (between 2011 and 2015), only 14 percent of women reported they were relying on female sterilization, i.e. tubal ligation, a surgical procedure in which the fallopian tubes are closed to prevent future pregnancies. Today, more women are opting for this method, the older they get. About 4 percent of women between the ages of 20 and 29 choose this method, compared to nearly 22 percent of 30- to 39-year-olds, and 39 percent of 40- to 49-year-olds. The researchers also found that rates of female sterilization declined and the use of the Pill increased with higher education.
My guess is wrong. It’s women giving up on having kids, perhaps because egg-freezing & in-vitro is intolerably expensive. In hindsight, mine was a very male guess.
Clearly, this isn’t a hugely popular choice among younger women, but it’s an important one for some. Life coach and hypnotherapist Bri Seeley tells Yahoo Lifestyle that she’s “known pretty much my entire life that I don’t want to be a mom. I feel like it’s just part of who I am.” After being on birth control for years, Seeley asked her doctor about getting a tubal ligation when she was 24, and her request was denied. Even though she repeatedly asked, her doctor wouldn’t even give her a referral to have someone perform the procedure on her until she was 30, which Seeley says was hard to take.
Her doctors were either very wise or very lawsuit-averse. Same thing?
.It was frustrating because I know myself. To have someone tell me that I don’t know myself well enough to make this decision was super-frustrating,. Seeley tells Yahoo Lifestyle. Seeley ended up finding a doctor herself and had the procedure done six years ago. .I went from being worried about getting pregnant all the time to now it’s something that hasn’t crossed my mind over the last six years other than “Thank God,’. she says. .I’ve seen female friends have to fight to get birth control, and I always think, .Thank God I don’t.’.
High-testosterone ugly sex freak. *checks*
Crazy eyes, the high cheeks-jutting jaw combo I’ve covered recently. She’s not as fat as I’d expected while her chest is flatter than expected. She couldn’t have gotten too much male attention as a teen. Maybe flat-chested is associated with high testosterone in women? Her haircut screams New York City. Hmm… briseeley.com has offices in Los Angeles, Minneapolis and yep, New York City. Raging SLUT!
In general, though, Greves says she usually performs this procedure on women who already have children, who have had difficult and high-risk pregnancies, who have tried and failed to use a LARC like an IUD or implant, or who have a partner who doesn’t want to get a vasectomy. “But as physicians, we’re supposed to counsel patients to consider other options, including a vasectomy, which is less risky,. she says.
The Chad-ectomy is even less risky.
Experts recommend that women just be certain this is a step they definitely want to take before undergoing the procedure. .It’s irreversible, so it’s vital to be 100% sure,. Wider says. Greves agrees. .If you’re unsure at about this at all, it shouldn’t be done..
I don’t mind women refusing to have kids as much as I mind them refusing to become wives. Men have legitimate sexual needs and young women who refuse monogamy despise men… no matter her “N=her zip code” lifetime achievement.
There’s been discussion lately in the Christian Manosphere about how to address homosexuality in the wake of Russell Moore and cronies dropping the Church’s defenses to welcome sexually depraved, unrepentant child molesters into the pews and families of their dupes.
My answer, informed by a life spent in urban Commiefornia during its queering, is absolute zero tolerance for homosexuality. Normal masculinity only. There is no such thing as a “Christian with same-sex attraction”. Nobody gets to identify as “gay” or any permutation of that debased term. You choose to be either “Christian” or “homo whatever” not both. The reason for this dogmatic intolerance is not just the safety of current Christians. It’s that not allowing any chance for sexual confusion or perversion is the medicine that homo-oriented people need.
They need to see what normal, healthy, God-approved human sexuality looks like. Nothing more. Nothing less. If they want it then they will come to us, not the other way around.
The following is testimony from an ex-gay in the charismatic community. I won’t source it because he’s put this past behind him.
I experienced every kind of abuse growing up, including sexual abuse. I started experiencing same-sex attraction and grew up being called gay, ridiculed by people close to me because of it. I was actually attracted to girls as well, but no one affirmed that in me. I decided to identify myself as a gay male when I was 17.
No one affirmed his being attracted to girls. That would include happily(?) married church elders as well as the schoolyard kids. “It’s okay for a guy to like girls” is an honestly counter-cultural idea. Especially in the Church, men aren’t supposed to want a girl until she first wants him… probably to fertilize her last egg at age 39.8 while her hair falls out from rage at missing her Bridezilla moment.
Many masculine guys were interested in me and flirted with me, although I didn’t have sexual relationships with them. Some of them wanted to keep their relationships with me a secret, which I hated. One day, I was going with a guy to the beach. He touched my back, and I felt my body lock up, and I started having tremors. I realized, .I don’t actually want this..
This is standard behavior for homosexuals. They will groom, rape and confuse young men into joining their perversions until the damage becomes permanent. White knights assist them by shaming the victims for what could be healthy sexual attraction. Barbie doesn’t want you, normal healthy guy!
I was also in anger management, had a restraining order against me, and had threatened to kill three of my roommates. I was consumed by anger. At age 18, I had been addicted to pornography for 11 years and was watching it six times a day. It wasn’t even fun for me, but it was something I felt I needed to get me through each day.
Starting porn at age 7? A standard indicator of abuse. Had he started “porn addiction” at 15 or so, it would probably not have been an actual addiction. Not that a Churchian would ever make that distinction because unsexy men aren’t supposed to be interested in his daughters at any age.
At my lowest point, I felt that I needed God to change my life because I was helpless on my own. I said, .God, everyone who ever told me about you was a hypocrite. But I want to know you for who you truly are.” This began my journey of healing.
Many can relate to this sentiment.
I began listening to Christian teachers every time I wanted to watch porn or do something destructive. I had six different counselors for trauma and PTSD. And I attended a ministry school, where I learned how to have healthy relationships with men.
In truth, he’s fortunate he came out okay, going to the formal Church for help. But this helps explain his recovery:
All the men I had known were abusive, so I was terrified of men. When I started going to ministry school, I had to live with guys. For the first time, the guys in my life were affirming me and my masculinity in a healthy, genuine way. They didn’t treat me differently even though they knew about my past. I also learned in the ministry school that my feelings don’t define me, and I don’t have to live by them. These experiences were extremely healing for me.
The devil wouldn’t target healthy masculinity if its existence wasn’t a threat. It must be emphasized, young men & women often don’t know what healthy human sexuality is these days. We can best correct that by modeling healthy sexuality, not by “reaching out” to a community of child molesters because headcount is down.
There is no such thing as a homosexual community. Gangs, yes, one could use the term syndicate or voting bloc, but nobody builds a community on sexual perversion. Active homos are moral cancer and rot, and the only reason they work together is to escape justice.
Notice conservative homosexuals are becoming a thing these days. That’s because conservatives have lost the spine to condemn sodomy at all and as a result, Sodomites don’t need the protection of the group anymore. The Churchians that abandoned undesirable young men to them now see new conservatives to be “brought into the fold”. Results will be predictable.
The same-sex attractions I used to have weren’t just physical, but also emotional. I don’t experience emotional attraction to men anymore, and I don’t really have a physical attraction to men anymore, either. At my lowest, I saw myself as a woman. Now I see myself as a man and enjoy being a man. The night terrors that used to plague me nightly are completely gone. I no longer wear lipstick or nail polish. I had an eating disorder. Now, I love to eat. My anxiety that used to be through the roof is entirely gone. Whereas I used to feel filthy and full of shame, I now live feeling clean and entirely shame-free.
-Chris
Here’s anecdotal evidence that homosexual tendencies are curable, particularly if addressed at an early age. The California queers fear our success in this direction enough that they’ve banned all attempts at curing gayness.
Do you want to help homosexuals escape their sexual confusion? If you’re a Red Pill Christian and outspoken then you’re already helping.
If you’re Christian with a drug habit then you’re a Christian who faces temptations. Not a “Christian with opioid attraction”.
If you’re Christian with a porn problem then you’re a Christian who faces temptations. Not a “Christian with digi-sexual attraction”.
If you’re Christian with a homosexual past then you’re a Christian who faces temptations. Not a “Christian with same-sex attraction”.
We all face temptations. None of us define our identity by those temptations.
For similar reasons, an ex-homosexual should not be allowed in Church leadership. It’s not a punishment, it’s that one should not expose oneself to his particular temptations. Also, there’s a coming purge of malicious homosexuals from Church leadership. The repentant ones won’t want to end up as false positives.
Fear God, hate what is evil and cling to what is good. This is the correct path for all Christians. But the Church has forgotten all three.
Pastor John Gray is an associate pastor at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. He and his wife have their own show on the Oprah Winfrey network, and Gray has just signed his second book deal.
Further research identifies him as the current head pastor of Relentless Church in Greenville, SC, so that’s an old affiliation. But the book deal and Orca Winfrey are confirmed.
In other words, Gray is not a poor man. That’s what the 45 year old pastor tried to explain during a Facebook live post he made, after he got lambasted for buying his wife a Lamborghini. You can watch Gray’s Facebook Live post here.
Gray.s critics were worried about the “optics” of the gift, with many suggesting that it would look bad to have a Christian leader shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars on a luxury car. But Gray shrugged off their criticism, saying that he didn’t use a penny of church funds on the Lamborghini. (.May God take my life on this feed if I did,. he added.) He also said that he didn’t buy the gift as a pastor . he bought it “as a man,. looking to make his wife happy.
On the one hand, I fully agree with Gray. His dollar, his choice. But on the other hand, buying a $200k car to make his wife happy is a big red flag. The “optics” are indeed worrisome because Pastor Gray does not present himself like a Lamborghini Man:
Picture is from the Relentless Church directory. Pastor Grey has a pear-shaped head, indicating a personality that insists on treating others kindly and being treated kindly in return. The beard is probably compensation for a fat neck. Not a DODO, that’s good.
He affects a watch that might or might not be expensive but for sure, that is not an expensive suit he’s wearing in this professional photograph for his church’s website. Even allowing he’s dressing down to not flaunt his wealth, a self-confident millionaire accustomed to the nice things in life would at least still wear a tie.
His wife has strongly upward-slanting eye canthus, indicating a personality that is optimistic, risk-taking and aggressive. Aggression is confirmed by her sharp, jutting chin and prominent cheekbones. A forceful personality and notice, she even posed with arms akimbo… a dominant posture.
She cut her hair short: doesn’t want to look pretty for her husband.
If Gray’s wife is driving a Lamborghini then he better be driving a Ferrari, but something tells me a Toyota pickup is a better guess. She’s nagging Pastor Gray into all kinds of concessions. He capitulates because of Male Guilt:
During a long Facebook Live post, Gray quoted Bible verses from the Book of Ephesians to explain why he spent $200,000 on a Lamborghini for his wife, Aventer. The couple celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary on December 11. You can watch Gray’s talk, explaining his purchase, right here.
On her wedding anniversary? A spontaneous gift, it was not. In the video I’m about to link to, Pastor Gray references Mosaic law that the number 8 is special to God; for example, Jewish boys were circumcised on the eighth day.
Wow. That’s the most tragic Freudian slip ever. Looking back at that family picture, his hands are protectively on his son’s shoulders. His subconscious knows the truth: his kids are the right age for her to trigger a frivorce.
Gray talked about the importance of a “good marriage,. explaining that he had never seen a succesful marriage when he was a boy growing up. And he said that, since he had never seen a happy marriage, he used to worry that he’d never be able to be a good husband. He mentioned men in his family who had abandoned their wives and family, leaving the women alone to raise their children. .I grew up with those stories,. he said. .I grew up seeing physical abuse, seeing domestic violence.” Gray talked about seeing men in his family abusing drugs and threatening their families with wives. .I swore to God I’d never perpetuate that,. he said. .I swore I’d be more..
This man’s home is not in good order, which makes him unfit for Church leadership. The hot car itself is not the problem, it’s the symptom. Aventer’s loyalty to her husband should not come with a price. Why does he bend over for her?
The relevant stuff begins at 3:30. Partial transcript: “My mother’s dad was a preacher, had five children. He walked away. So, you can be saved and preaching and walk away from your family. My grandmother got remarried and had three more kids, and then he walked away. So, my grandmother who loved God was stuck with eight kids, two ex-husband, none of them gave her one dollar. I grew up with those stories. I grew up seeing physical abuse, domestic abuse, domestic violence, saw my aunt’s boyfriend threaten her with a knife… and he came after me… he was high on drugs, or whatever…”
Sigh, multigenerational matriarchy in the ghetto. He was raised by women teaching him that everything wrong with family life is caused by the men, when it’s actually the women choosing bad men. As for that preacher, I’d guess he found out Grandma was a shameless skank having other mens’ babies. Don’t be too hard on the guy without a trip through the family photo album.
Start at 5:30 to reach his comment about circumcision and the number 8. (I can’t confirm the significance he attaches to the number 8 despite having studied Christian numerology. In addition to circumcision, the eighth day of ritual cleanliness from skin disease is the day on which livestock are sacrificed per Leviticus 14, which again is not promising in this context.)
Gray turned to the importance of being a good husband, taking a verse from Ephesians. He said, .Here’s the truth, husbands love your wives like Christ loves the Church. Even giving himself a ransom. That means give everything. Sow everything. Give the best of everything. And that’s where I’m at,. Gray said.
Dude, no. You’re living the feminist lie, that men exist to martyr themselves for women and give Pussy everything she ever wants. That is NOT REPEAT NOT how Christ loves the Church! He gives commands and expects to be obeyed, He gives punishments when He isn’t, He tests us to know our character whenever He is pleased to do so, He ruins us when it suits His purposes, He gives us advice that is not to be ignored. God is not our bitch and not our butler!
You’ve been killing yourself to make your wife happy and it’s a safe bet it hasn’t been working. How often does she do her part? How often does she obey you, does she stay loyal when it hurts, does she speak admiringly of you to others, does she ask your opinion and work to please you? I know the answer from her mutilated hair and drill-sergeant pose.
And here are the consequences of Pastor Grey’s internal unwillingness to control women: his church’s external unwillingness to control women:
“Pastors” Trevor & Aime, Young Adults
“Pastors” Byron & Mariah
“Pastors” Anzeo & Lauren. Dear God, the body postures in these photos!
“Pastor” Paola
“Pastor” Tasha Cobbs-Leonard, space alien who didn’t take her husband’s name.
“Pastor” Falon
“Pastor” Lacey
Pastor Herpes.
I can’t even guess at his problems.
This isn’t the complete directory, there are male-only pastor pictures, but the correct number of female pastors for any church is zero.
Pastor Gray’s inability to tell his wife “No” has led to Relentless Church becoming a den of rebellious women, manginas and probable homosexuals. The misery of his home life is righteous punishment for spreading that misery to innocents.
He can repent at any time but at this point in the game, repentance will cost him everything.
It was just last night that I went to bed and stared at the ceiling, wondering where I’d gone wrong. A career professional in his prime, living alone in a crackerbox apartment with nothing to show for his life’s work but a modest car and enough pay saved up for the next job loss. No close family, few friends, no social status, no retirement, not even a pet to welcome me home.
And then I read the next morning about a successful pastor bribing his wife with six-digit gifts in return for enough time for his son to grow up and follow his idolatrous example. It does provide a certain perspective.
If you’re debt-free, right with Christ and not beholden to parasites then you’re living better than Pastor Grey with his book deals on the Oprah Network.
While checking up on Barbara Greenberg in my previous article on Assemblyman Not-White Arambula’s spanking, I made the wonderful discovery that Psychology Today has many advice pundits! Some of whom are white knights obviously in possession of red-pill truths that cause severe internal distress. Delicious angst! I have free backup material into eternity!
No, that’s not a pen name. We begin with the author’s cringe-worthy background:
Guy Winch, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, keynote speaker and author. His books, Emotional First Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure, and Other Everyday Hurts (Plume, 2014) and The Squeaky Wheel: Complaining the Right Way to Get Results, Improve Your Relationships and Enhance Self-Esteem (Walker & Company, 2011) have been translated into twenty languages, and his TED Talk Why We All Need to Practice Emotional First Aid has been viewed over 5 million times and is rated among the top 5 most inspirational TED Talks of all time on ted.com.
He literally wrote the book on how to complain for results!
He received his doctorate in clinical psychology from New York University in 1991 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in family and couples therapy at NYU Medical Center. He has been working with individuals, couples and families in his private practice in Manhattan, since 1992. He is a member of the American Psychological Association.
Incredibly, he’s not a pedoface. I thought that was mandatory for a Manhattan-dwelling family therapist specializing in low self-esteem.
Although there are shared features. Heavy lines around the eyes obviously have broader implications:
And now, our feature presentation:
Would you be able to spot sexist attitudes in the man you’re dating?
Consider that most men are on their best behavior in the early stages of a relationship and are unlikely to express blatantly sexist opinions (although remarkably, many still do). Instead, sexist men often display negative beliefs about women in subtle ways, ones that are easy to miss in the early stages of excitement and romance.
Spoiler, he doesn’t mention any subtle ways in this article. Almost as if sexy men don’t try to be Nice…
Further complicating matters, some men hold beliefs they don’t even realize are sexist, as do some women. For example, a man who believes a woman should be protected, cared for, and admired might not seem sexist except such men are unlikely to feel comfortable with a woman who significantly out-earns them. Sure, some women might want a partner who protects them, cares for them, and admires them but they would probably also want the option of being successful without it causing him to feel resentment, insecurity, and hostility.
Mr. Guy, if you were a healthy man then you’d be angry at the idea that women want to replace men while keeping us around to defuse the consequences of women ruling the world. It’s as insulting and patronizing as a California handgun being locked up until it’s needed faster than it can be released.
Here’s an autoinjector loaded with testosterone. Try it, you wimp, you’ll like it. The first one’s free. The second one costs a gym membership and not at Planet Fatness.
Most women would probably want to know if the man they’re dating is potentially sexist and the following tips should help them do so. However, these signs should only be considered red flags or issues that warrant further attention.not grounds for immediate condemnation. Some men might not have thought through their attitudes sufficiently and others might not be aware their behavior or opinions are problematic.
Here’s an example of that low self-esteem he specializes in. Come on, dude, use that autoinjector. You’ll stop feeling the need to apologize for everything you say, WHICH YOU DO ON EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOUR FIVE POINTS:
1. He orders you a drink or dinner without asking want you want. When someone orders for you they’re assuming they know what’s good for you or what you would like. Unless your date is a renowned mind reader with his own Vegas spectacular, he should always check with you first.
It might not be sexist if: He had mentioned his favorite drink/meal earlier and you indicated you would be open to trying it. Even then, he should have checked with you but hopefully his unilateral move is more a reflection of over-enthusiasm than it is sexism.
If he’s paying for your meal, Barbie, then he can order you whatever he wants. Especially if you visibly need help with your diet. Oink oink!
2. He asks you questions about your child-rearing goals but not your career goals. By doing so he’s assuming you should be more focused on motherhood than on your career.
It might not be sexist if: You had clarified your preference to be a stay-at-home mom previously, if he discussed his role as a father with equal enthusiasm, or if he happily mentioned his company gives paternity leave.
Women should be more focused on motherhood than their career. They’re hardwired for babies, need to do it young and nobody sane expects men to do the lactating. Sexist pigs assume the reason Barbie is interested in him is to have his babies because men produce sperm and money, not winsome resumes. Reality is sexist.
Don’t date your sexist pig of a boss, Barbie, unless you want to lose your career for a home.
3. He calls you babe, sweetie, toots, or other pet names on a first date. Pet names should reflect feelings of love or affection and as such, they should be earned. If he’s doling out pet names after knowing you for all of two hours, it more likely reflects feelings of superiority on his part.
It might not be sexist if: You called him a pet name first or if he works as a waiter in a greasy diner (“What can I get fer ya, toots?”).
Shut up, Barbie.
4. He resorts to name calling when referring to a previous girlfriend or ex-wife. Using derogatory terms about another woman when on a date is not just bad judgment but likely a reflection of his feelings about women in general.
It might not be sexist if: He’s getting over a really bad and really recent divorce in which he sustained significant emotional or financial wounds and you were the one who (unwisely) asked him about his ex. Regardless, he’s definitely not ready for a new relationship, so give this one a pass.
Translation, if he calls his ex crazy then you should investigate his past and find out whether he’s a sexist pig or Psycho Sweetie actually was psycho. Tip: check the medicine cabinet for old prescriptions, just like you were planning to do anyway, Toots.
Hmm, how does a female EARN a nickname like Toots? Perhaps Barbie would prefer being assigned a sexist pet name to being called Blowjob or Happy Sack in public. Or Toots! Take one guess, just one, why greasy diner chefs call the women who eat there Toots. She earned that!
5. He finds it necessary to share his “philosophy of women.” The fact that he even has a philosophy of women is a problem as it assumes all women are alike and want the same things which smacks of sexism even if his “beliefs” sound positive (e.g., I think women should be put on a pedestal!).
It might not be sexist if: You asked him about his views “on women,” offered your own manifesto about your views on men, or criticized an ex for how they viewed women.prompting your date to make the point that he’s not “like that.”
Also, it might not be sexist if it’s documented that all women are alike in basic, predictable ways. But wait, it’s okay for women to have their own philosophy about men? SEXIST!
Remember, if the man you’re dating fits any of these criteria it should warrant further discussion not immediate dismissal. It might also be a good idea to think through your own opinions and attitudes…
Gimme that autoinjector back! *Gunner Q stabs himself* Oh… ohhhhh… yeah… feel… better… *slumps down in soy overdose shock*
…about the differences between men and women…
which you just claimed in #5 don’t exist and are sexist unless she signals approval
…to assess whether your own beliefs are sexist in some ways. Having sexist beliefs is usually a product of our upbringing and social context so we might have such opinions but our attitudes can and should be updated if we take the time to think things through.
The Guy got a PhD in his own psychiatric problems. This will save him a lot of money but perhaps the emotionally damaged shouldn’t be the ones to help the emotionally hurting.
Why does the APA have the most “mentally nonconforming” membership of all professional organizations? They’re supposed to be the experts on mental health.
Tell me if I’m being oversensitive here. While scrolling through the daily headlines, I saw a headline for a California State Assemblyman who was arrested for spanking his 7-year old daughter.
Photograph taken from the Fresno Bee’s original article on… Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula?
A recent photo of Mr. Arambula per Yahoo! News. Mexican, as expected by his name… but wow, what a Photoshop job to create the first pic, which even lacks his mustache. Somebody worked hard on the George Zimmerman treatment. Curious.
Physiognomy indicates a masculine, rules-oriented personality–strong brow, flat ears, thin nose. He seems to have some jowls forming, indicating anger as well as determination, but not to the point of personality-defining. The tops of his ears being turned make me wonder if he often wears glasses.
I’m loath to use that first image but one reason men adopt the basic mustache is to make their upper lip look bigger, hence more masculine. The upper lip is often considered masculine while the lower lip is considered feminine. But the ‘stache is so common in Mexican culture that it could simply be a choice of conformity.
California Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula Arrested on Misdemeanor Child Abuse Charge in Fresno
California state lawmaker Joaquin Arambula was arrested Monday on suspicion of misdemeanor child cruelty, Fresno police Chief Jerry Dyer said.
The arrest came after officials at Dailey Elementary Charter School discovered an injury on a child who came into an office Monday afternoon, Dyer said. He did not describe the injury or Arambula’s relationship to the child. He was cited for willful cruelty to a child,
Arambula, a Democratic state assemblyman, is married with three young daughters.
A Mexican DODO.
Officials at the elementary school reported the child’s injury to child protective services, which called Fresno police, Dyer said. Officers called Arambula and his wife, Elizabeth, who both arrived at the scene.
The child described how the injury occurred and said Arambula inflicted it, Dyer said. The police determined the injury happened Sunday evening. Arambula was cooperative and cordial, but he did not provide a statement to officers based on advice from his attorney, Dyer said.
Indicating he got a lawyer before answering the summons. That was fast moving; must be nice to have legal representation on retainer while making a living off thwarting due process for everybody else.
Officers were “confident that a crime had occurred” and arrested Arambula on suspicion of willful cruelty to a child, Dyer said. He was taken in a patrol car to police headquarter, finger-printed, photographed and then released because his crime is a misdemeanor. The injury did not rise to the level of a felony.
Arambula was arrested on Monday night and accused of willful cruelty to a child. As of Wednesday, CPS and the Department of Social Services declared Arambula and his wife, Elizabeth, fit to bring their three children . aged 3, 6 and 7 . who had been staying with Arambula’s parents, back home.
Fast moving by CPS.
.It was us disciplining . normal discipline to our child,. Arambula said. “And I’m in the midst of a process that is playing out as we speak..
The Fresno Bee additionally reports, “Arambula thanked his daughter’s teacher, Fresno police and Child Protective Services for “doing their jobs” and “following the process… Family psychologist Barbara Greenberg tells Yahoo Lifestyle that the incident was “handled beautifully..
Yeah, Barbie, having a lawyer present and advising at every step is how things get “handled beautifully”. If you can afford it. On the surface, Arambula handled things the way I would: go through the motions, be courteous at every point, imply this was all an unfortunate misunderstanding. Not hard to imagine that his kid was having a 24-hour temper tantrum and told a teacher in order to get Daddy in trouble.
If this Democrat has any sanity, he’ll begin pushing back against the feminist-industrial complex that came this close to ruining his family. But more likely, he’ll just lawyer up tighter and be surprised when his time comes for real. Not to mention being DODO.
.Anything that hurts a child physically and emotionally, in my opinion, is abuse and should be reported,. Greenberg says. .Too often kids go to school looking for help and they’re not taken seriously. The school took this very seriously, as they should, and they did what they were supposed to do..
As for the assemblyman’s actions, however, Greenberg says, .Nothing good comes from [spanking]..
.There are much, much better ways to teach your children, and losing control and putting your hands on a child, there’s nothing good that comes from it,. she says. .You don’t create kids with self-esteem and with the ability to handle frustration by spanking them..
Greenberg is a published author of a book on teenager psychology and a pundit with an advice column at Psychology Today.
Surprisingly normal physiognomy. She’s definitely more of a care-based moralizer than a CPS battleaxe.
Arambula told the publication that he has no plans to resign. If convicted, the assemblyman could face up to six months in jail and possible probation.
On a closing note, however, Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer has gone on record that the injury to the child was not located on the buttocks and is not consistent with the practice of spanking. The possibility exists that this isn’t merely a case of Leftoids getting the treatment they give others but an actual case of child abuse… in which case, CPS swiftly returned the kids to a known abusive parent because he was a VIP. This could explode.
The fact that the first picture of Arambula being circulated was heavily, obviously doctored to make him look white instead of Latino indicates somebody in media thinks the matter WILL explode.
For now, however, the story ends here until charges are filed… caught between child-crime confidentiality and Assemblyman Arambula’s legal defense team.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) . A Mississippi judge will decide whether a death row inmate who says he wants to be executed is mentally competent to waive all his appeals.
His face being more guarded on the right side, as normal, indicates he’s at peace with this decision. No internal issues of major significance. Both physiognomy and Christianity could have saved the Mississippi gov’t beaucoup bucks.
The state Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the examination in the case of David Cox.
Cox wrote to Mississippi Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. in August saying he wanted to fire his lawyers, give up all his appeals and have the state Supreme Court set his execution date.
“I seek in earnest to (waive) all my appeals immediately, I seek to be executed as I do here, this day, stand on MS death row a guilty man worthy of death . please grant me this plea,” Cox wrote in an Aug. 16 letter.
Cox pleaded guilty to shooting his wife Kim in 2010 in the Union County town of Shannon, raping her daughter in front of her, and watching Kim Cox die as police negotiators and relatives pleaded for her life. He also pleaded guilty to seven other crimes without making a bargain with prosecutors that precluded the death penalty. A jury sentenced him to death.
He has my respect for accepting responsibility without needing a bribe.
In another letter in July to Union County District Attorney Ben Creekmore, Cox wrote that “if I had my perfect way and will about it I’d ever so gladly dig my dead (sarcastic) wife up whom I very happily and premeditatedly slaughtered on 5-21-2010 and with eager pleasure kill” her again.
Cox’s lawyers argue that he is mentally ill and isn’t competent to waive his appeals, and that it’s unconstitutional for the state to execute him.
He could be judged mentally ill based upon… his waiving his appeals? Is accepting righteous punishment evidence of mental illness? That is the opposite of what Christ taught.
“There is no reliable evidence that Mr. Cox has a free or unrestrained will necessary to lodge a permanent, voluntary waiver of his right to continue pursuing post-conviction remedies,” wrote Benjamin H. McGee III of the state Office of Post-Conviction Counsel.
In support of that, he cited Cox himself. In a Nov. 7 letter to McGee, Cox wrote that he’s divided between “skin 1” which wants to continue appeals and “skin 2” which wants to be executed.
“Skin 1 is not willing, while Skin 2 is willing to surrender all counsel & all appeals . still. David Cox as a whole is not a single unit, but two . David Cox within David Cox is a living division of separated matter within the same vessel of life,” Cox wrote in the Nov. 7 letter.
If both “skins” had been willing to die then Trust Fund Baby McGee III could argue that he was suicidal and therefore mentally ill. There’s no winning here.
McGee has filed a fresh petition with Mississippi’s justices seeking a new sentencing hearing. The lawyer says Cox’s trial lawyers didn’t adequately lay out the history of abuse that Cox endured as a child, including poverty, neglect, parental abandonment, chronic exposure to pornography and witnessing his father sexually abuse his sister. Cox’s sister, in a sworn statement, said he dropped out of school and huffed gasoline “all day,” later becoming addicted to methamphetamine. Lawyers argued the substance abuse permanently injured his brain and that it would be unconstitutional to execute him, just as the Supreme Court has ruled it unconstitutional to execute someone with mental disabilities.
None of that excuses raping your daughter in front of your wife to spite her before murdering her.
“Mr. Cox’s rage, violence and impulse control problems are product of brain dysfunction, not a reflection of choice or character. He has a severe psychopathology – that is, a severe mental disorder or mental illness – but he is not a psychopath.” Forensic psychologist Robert Stanulis wrote in a report for the defense.
Billable hours-seeking quacks, the lot of them. Does law school not teach morality? Hey, that one made even the lawyers chuckle. Bad sign.
Mississippi hasn’t executed anyone since 2012, amid legal disputes over lethal injection procedures and difficulty procuring execution drugs.
Can anybody suggest a humane, constitutional, Leftoid-approved form of State execution? Me, I don’t see how a 12-gauge to the base of the skull can possibly be slow or incomplete enough to hurt.
It’s a slow news day when I notice what the Kardashians are doing but in my defense, they crossed paths with my hobby of true-crime stories. (As I always knew they would.) Behold their latest celebrity cause du jour and my false positive, a violently psychotic crack whore, whore and murderess who should have been hung years ago but now just narrowly escaped another brush with care-based morality. She should not be more than a statistic but instead is slated to be a display “victim” for the Womens’ March 2019 next month.
Cyntoia Brown Will Serve 51-Year Sentence For Killing Her Alleged Assailant
Cyntoia Brown was 16 and a victim of sex trafficking when she was arrested for killing the man who allegedly solicited her for sex, Johnny Allen. In her defense, she says she believed he was reaching for his gun to kill her. However, Tennessee’s Supreme Court clarified an earlier ruling that she must remain in prison for 51 years before she is eligible for release.
Sounds like a system out of control, eh? An underage sex trafficking victim killed her rapist in self-defense but somehow got railroaded by The System? Tennessee must be a cesspit of toxic masculinity!
The state Supreme Court’s response comes after a lawsuit was filed claiming Brown’s life sentence is unconstitutional based on a previous Supreme Court ruling that said sentencing a minor to a mandatory life sentence was against the Constitution. Only 20 states and the District of Columbia have banned life without parole for minors. Tennessee is not one of those states; there, people convicted of first-degree murder can only be released from prison after serving at least 51 years of their 60-year sentence. A U.S. District Court in Tennessee noted that her sentence was different because she received a “life sentence, not a sentence of life without the possibility of parole..
What’s this about first-degree murder? That’s premeditated murder, as in, she was planning to murder that john from the start. The article immediately head-fakes:
The Women’s March, Kim Kardashian West, Rihanna, and LeBron James have all publicly supported Brown’s release, funded legal support, and used her case to shed light on a larger need for prison reform and the systematic racism ingrained in our justice system. .The system has failed. It’s heartbreaking to see a young girl sex trafficked then when she has the courage to fight back is jailed for life! We have to do better & do what’s right. I’ve called my attorneys yesterday to see what can be done to fix this,. Kardashian tweeted.
But we are not fooled. We want answers about how this first-degree murder charge got hung on a sex trafficking “victim”.
In 2004, Brown was forced into prostitution by a pimp known as “Cut Throat” who she believed was her boyfriend. According to court documents, Allen allegedly brought Brown to his home and paid her to have sex with him. She was under the state’s age of consent at the time. In her testimony, Brown said that Allen showed her multiple guns in his home. When she believed that he was reaching under his bed to grab a gun and shoot her, she grabbed a gun out of her purse and shot him. She was tried as an adult and convicted of first-degree premeditated murder, first-degree felony murder, and especially aggravated robbery. Brown has already served 14 years in prison.
Aggravated robbery, too. He showed his gun collection to an underage prostitute, after which she shot him… with the gun in her purse? Was this a child rape or an arms deal gone bad?
In response to the court’s decision, the Women’s March tweeted in support of Brown and other sex trafficking victims, adding that the next Women’s March on January 19, 2019 is for them as well. The organization asked their supporters to contact Tennessee’s governor, Bill Haslam, to demand Brown’s release. “Gov” Haslam has the power to #FreeCyntoia. Every day she remains in prison, he is actively choosing not to,. they tweeted.
The article stops here, dizzy from the head-faking. But I followed the links… and found her appeal briefing! Let’s get inside the brain of this either-a-victim-or-a-perp.
IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT NASHVILLE March 11, 2014 Session CYNTOIA DENISE BROWN v. STATE OF TENNESSEE Direct Appeal from the Criminal Court for Davidson County
The Petitioner, Cyntoia Denise Brown, appeals the Davidson County Criminal Court’s denial of her petition for post-conviction relief from her convictions of first degree premeditated murder, first degree felony murder, and especially aggravated robbery and resulting concurrent sentences of life and eight years. On appeal, the Petitioner contends that she received the ineffective assistance of counsel, that she is “entitled to relief under error coram nobis,. that her mandatory life sentence is unconstitutional, and that she was denied due process.
Translation, she wanted to be relieved of the consequences of her convictions on the grounds her lawyer was incompetent for not letting her take the stand. A Catch-22 if there ever was one. This goes long because fisking the quack celebrity doctors trying to make a victim of her just keeps getting funnier. Feel free to skip to Conclusion at any time.
Petitioner.s convictions: On the evening of August 7, 2004, police officers from the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department responded to a 911 call and found the body of the victim, Johnny Allen, in a bedroom of his home. State v. Cyntoia Denise Brown, No. M2007-00427-CCA-R3-CD, 2009 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 301, at *4 (Nashville, Apr. 20 2009), perm. to appeal denied, (Tenn. 2009). The nude victim was lying face-down on the bed in a large pool of blood, and his “hands were beneath his face, his fingers “kind of partially interlocked,.. as if he had been sleeping. Id. at **4, 15. An autopsy revealed that he had been shot in the back of the head and that he did not have any defensive wounds.
According to other sources, Cyntoia called 911 hours after the murder because she was tired of waiting for the story to break on the television.
Id. at **28-29. In the early morning hours of August 8, 2004, officers found the victim’s white pickup truck in a Walmart parking lot and arrested the Petitioner at a nearby hotel. Id. at *6. At the time of Petitioner’s arrest, she was sixteen years old and staying at the hotel with a man she referred to as ..Cut… Id. at **6, 8.
I bet Walmart is the first place cops look when they hear “stolen vehicle” on the radio. Even before the liquor stores. Or does Walmart sell liquor now?
The Petitioner waived her Miranda rights and gave a statement to police in which she said that on the night of August 6, 2004, she was walking near a Sonic Drive-In when the victim, whom she did not know, picked her up in his truck. Id. He drove her to the Sonic, they ordered food, and the victim offered to let her spend the night at his home. Id. The Petitioner accepted the victim’s offer, and they went to his house. Id. at *9. There, the victim showed the Petitioner some guns, and they got into bed together. Id. The victim whispered to and touched the Petitioner and reached underneath the bed. Id. The Petitioner thought the victim was reaching for a gun, so she pulled a .40 caliber handgun out of her purse and shot him. Id. at *10. She took money out of the victim’s wallet and two of his guns, drove his truck to the Walmart parking lot, and had someone drive her to the hotel where she was later arrested. Id. The Petitioner denied that she was a prostitute or that she had sex with the victim. Id.
Bullshit she wasn’t a whore. “Hey there, stranger lady, do you want to share my bed tonight after I buy you dinner? But no sex, okay? I just want to do a random favor.”
And his corpse’s position was not consistent with reaching for a gun.
The Petitioner was tried as an adult, and the jury rejected her claim of self-defense, finding her guilty of first degree premeditated murder, first degree felony murder, and especially aggravated robbery, a Class A felony. See id. at **34-35. The trial court merged the murder convictions and sentenced the Petitioner to life. Id. at *35. After a sentencing hearing, the trial court imposed a concurrent twenty-year sentence for the especially aggravated robbery conviction.
Justice done. She went home with a john, murdered him for fun & prizes and when the police caught up, was too strung out on drugs to do better than “we weren’t having sex, I was scared and he didn’t need his truck no more”. (Not an exact quote.)
Id. On appeal, this court affirmed the Petitioner’s murder convictions but modified her conviction of especially aggravated robbery to aggravated robbery, a Class B felony, and remanded the case for sentencing as to that offense. Id. at *3. On remand, the trial court sentenced her to eight years and ordered that she serve the sentence concurrently with the life sentence.
Pussy pass #1.
After our supreme court denied the Petitioner’s application for permission to appeal, she filed a timely pro se petition for post-conviction relief based, in pertinent part, on the denial of the effective assistance of counsel and newly discovered evidence “that Fetal Alcohol Syndrome played a part in [her] actions on the night in question.” The postconviction court appointed counsel, and counsel filed an amended petition, maintaining that the Petitioner received the ineffective assistance of counsel and alleging that her life sentence was unconstitutional.
The postconviction court listened to that sack of lies? “I murdered him because my Fetal Alcohol Syndrome was acting up” is worse than the Twinkie Defense.
Pussy Pass #2
The record reflects that “counsel” and .co-counsel. represented the Petitioner at trial. At the post-conviction evidentiary hearing, counsel testified for the Petitioner that she and co-counsel began representing the Petitioner after the Petitioner’s transfer hearing in juvenile court. The Petitioner had testified at the transfer hearing, and trial counsel reviewed tapes of the hearing. Counsel said that she and the Petitioner had many discussions about whether the Petitioner should testify at trial and that “there were parts of her [transfer hearing] testimony that were worrisome for us if they came out at trial.” Counsel thought that if the Petitioner’s trial testimony differed from her transfer hearing testimony, the State would be able to impeach her on cross-examination. Counsel stated, .I, apparently, was wrong, but I do recall having that conversation with her.” Counsel said that there were other reasons why she did not want the Petitioner to testify but that she assumed that particular reason “played a factor” in the Petitioner’s decision.
That’s not incompetence. I wouldn’t let Cyntoia even ask to use the bathroom after what she said to the investigating police.
Counsel testified that the Petitioner had received a mental evaluation for juvenile court and that trial counsel had her re-evaluated. Counsel received three bankers boxes from the Petitioner’s juvenile court attorney, and one of those boxes was full of the Petitioner.s psychological and medical records. Counsel reviewed everything in the boxes and did not seek an expert in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Regarding the disorder, counsel stated, .I am sure I had heard of it. . . . I became much more familiar with it after Mr. [Dan] Birman found or interviewed some people..
*checks* FASD manifests mainly as congenital organ defects and poor attention span/concentration. Sounds treatable by Ritalin, frankly. Unpredictable bursts of homicidal rage are not associated with the disorder. It’s not like Cyntoia accidentally drove his car home instead of hers.
On cross-examination, counsel testified that she became licensed to practice law in 1992 and that for the first sixteen years of her practice, including the Petitioner’s 2006 trial, she practiced criminal law exclusively. Counsel estimated that at the time of the Petitioner’s trial, she had tried fifty to sixty cases. The Petitioner had given a videotaped statement to police, and trial counsel filed a motion to suppress the statement. Trial counsel also gave Dr. William Bernet, a forensic psychiatrist from Vanderbilt University, the results of the Petitioner’s previous mental evaluations. Dr. Bernet re-evaluated the Petitioner and testified at the suppression hearing about whether the Petitioner knowingly and intelligently waived her Miranda rights prior to giving her statement to police.
Give it a rest, legal beagle. The “my client is too stupid to understand her Miranda rights” is a played-out mine. Spoiler, they’ll also argue that Cyntoia is IQ 134 in this same document.
Counsel described the Petitioner as “brilliant” but said that “her personality was all over the place and you didn’t know who you were going to be talking to from time-to-time, but it wasn’t competency issues, it was more like there was something wrong that we couldn’t figure out what it was..
She chose a life of drugs, prostitution and violence, that’s what was wrong with her. You can have high IQ and still be dumb enough to park your victim’s stolen vehicle in view of store surveillance cameras where the cops can see the license plate while driving past.
Counsel testified that she and co-counsel considered using a mental health defense but decided against it because “unless you have some sort of objective evidence to go with it such as a brain scan that showed damage or something that juries seem hesitant to really give a lot of weight to psychological testimony..
Yes, I myself once refused to award damages due to a lack of objective evidence. Jurors can be so unreasonable like that.
I do not understand the insanity defense. It should be something the prosecutor argues in order to prove the necessity of a humane execution, not something the defense argues in order to get the perp back in circulation. For the truly insane, a quick death would be God’s own mercy. Don’t make them live with their minds like that.
Trial counsel also decided not to use a mental health defense because many of Dr. Bernet’s opinions were based on “bad things” about the Petitioner that trial counsel did not want revealed to the jury.
Again, that’s not incompetent representation. What are “bad things”, you ask?
…Counsel was worried that the Petitioner would lose her temper on cross-examination because the Petitioner had lost her temper in meetings with trial counsel, had lost her temper with guards, and “had an inability at times to control her emotions..
Brown, who has seen support from celebrities in recent days, laughed after she killed a man who’d paid her for sex and later threatened to kill nurses after she was arrested.
…About a week after she was booked, Brown was transported to the Western Mental Health Institute for an evaluation. She wanted to call her adoptive mother, Ellenette Brown, and a nurse didn’t let her. So she attacked the nurse, according to The Scene.
“I shot that man in the back of the head,” she allegedly screamed, “and bitch, I’m gonna shoot you three times in the back of the head and would love to see your blood splatter on the wall.”
Yahoo argues that her laughing about the sex and violence was only a coping mechanism. True or not, such behavior is not something a competent defender wants the jury to know about. To say nothing of confessing to the murder while threatening to murder the psych ward nurse restraining you for post-arrest mental evaluation.
Back to the appeal,
…If trial counsel had presented a mental health expert at trial, the State could have cross-examined the expert about the Petitioner’s attempt to escape from Western Mental Health Institute (WMHI), her drug use, her asking someone after the shooting to take her back to the victim’s house so she could take the rest of his property, her lengthy juvenile history, and her disciplinary issues at the juvenile detention center and jail. She also acknowledged that in a pretrial jailhouse telephone call to her adoptive mother, she told her mother that she “executed” the victim. The Petitioner had understood the charges against her and received a transcript of her statement to police before trial. In the statement, she told the police that she bought the gun off the street. She said she lied in the statement about where she got the gun in order to protect Cut because she was afraid of him. She acknowledged that in the statement, she told the police that she did not know what happened to the gun after the shooting. She said she was telling the truth because she gave the gun to Cut and did not know what he did with it. The Petitioner stated that even though the State could have cross-examined her about all of those things, she still had wanted to testify at trial.
Sure, that sounds like Fetal Alcohol Syndrome to me. I’ll guess she also refused a plea deal to testify against Cut, her “abuser”, because FAS.
Dr. Richard Adler, a clinical and forensic psychologist from Seattle, Washington, testified that FASD encompassed five different disorders, including FAS and Alcohol Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder (ARND), all of which “relate to the fact that alcohol is a particularly heinous poison to the developing fetus.” Dr. Adler explained that the “primary disability” in FASD was damage to the baby’s brain. As a person with FASD grew up, the person also experienced “secondary disabilities” such as having trouble with school, behavior, obtaining employment, and the law.
Dr. Adler testified that the Petitioner had a “remarkable” I.Q. of 134 but that she did not function like a typical person with such high intelligence. He stated that “her functional abilities are terrible and they are so terrible they are equivalent to a person with mild mental retardation..
Thereby proving that intelligence is not wisdom.
Dr. Adler testified that he found evidence of childhood psychosis in the Petitioner’s medical records. For example, during an episode at Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute, the Petitioner had “appeared to be completely out of touch with reality.” A test administered to the Petitioner the next day found that she ..might be becoming psychotic, but she is able to control her thoughts some of the time… He stated that in 2000, “among the diagnoses in her records was that she might have bipolar disorder with psychotic features or they were concerned about psychotic disorder not otherwise specified.” He said that a test administered to the Petitioner in 2002 found her to have .dissociation, which is a very primitive mental defense mechanism. and that dissociation was a “rare and worrisome psychiatric symptom..
Now this is plausible. But “bipolar disorder with psychotic features” doesn’t play on the heartstrings as well as “her mommy drank too much”. Safe bet, alcohol wasn’t the drug(s) they should have been asking the birth mother about. “They” not meaning Adler. He wasn’t there.
On cross-examination, Dr. Adler acknowledged that he was retained by the Petitioner’s post-conviction attorneys and was being paid for his work and appearance in court. He stated that he was going to be paid “in the 10 to $12,000 range up to this moment, some things haven’t been billed yet. and that the amount did not include the work of his two colleagues.
More important than “how much” is “who” is paying his bills. I hope a Kardashian gets Cyntoia for a cellmate.
Dr. Adler said that although FASD was not specifically mentioned in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), .the negative affect of alcohol is mentioned in the section of mental retardation because fetal alcohol is the number one cause of mental retardation, so its in that section.” His actual diagnosis of the Petitioner was “cognitive disorder not otherwise specified 294.9,. which was in the DSM. Dr. Adler acknowledged that he never met or spoke with the Petitioner’s biological mother and that he learned about her alcohol consumption from an affidavit in which she described the amount and frequency of her alcohol consumption during her pregnancy. He also acknowledged that the Petitioner received previous mental evaluations and was never diagnosed with FASD.
While diagnosing her with just about everything else. On to a new doctor!
Dr. Paul Connor, a clinical psychologist specializing in neuropsychology, the study of brain function, testified about his extensive background in fetal alcohol research. …
Dr. Connor testified that the Petitioner’s I.Q. was 134, meaning she was “very bright,. and that in order to make a diagnosis of FASD, the CDC required three domains of deficit. The Petitioner’s evaluation showed “absolute deficits” in five domains. First, she had deficits in visual/spatial understanding and reasoning, which was being able to take in complex information from the environment, reason through it, remember it, and reproduce it later. Second, she had deficits in motor coordination. Third, she had deficits in attention, particularly impulsivity. Dr. Connor observed that the Petitionerstarted tasks quickly, talked quickly, was .a little fidgety,. and became distracted fairly easily. Fourth and fifth, the Petitioner had deficits in two areas of adaptive functioning: communication skills and socialization skills.
Yes, Doctor Connor, we already know that the crack whore who emptied her victim’s brainpan with a .40 automatic has poor communication/socialization skills, if not a lack of motor coordination. She could drive a vehicle, after all. Let’s try a third doctor!
Dr. Natalie Novick Brown, a clinical and forensic psychologist, testified that she began working in the area of FASD in the mid-1990.s and regularly collaborated with Drs. Adler and Connor because .it’s the standard of care in FASD assessment to have multidisciplinary practitioners involved in the diagnosis..
Translation, FASD closely resembles other disorders of impulsivity, motor control and poor communication. None of which might justify premeditated murder.
Dr. Brown testified that she evaluated the Petitioner in June 2011. The evaluation consisted of an interview, additional testing, and a review of all of the Petitioner’s documented information, including her medical records, school records, juvenile court records, mental health institute records, and statement to police about the shooting. Dr. Brown explained that normal teenagers “do kind of crazy foolish bazaar things sometimes” because their “executive function processes are not fully formed yet and they are not thinking as efficiently as they ultimately will be when they reach their 20.s..
Dr. Brown noted that despite the Petitioner’s high I.Q., she exhibited “foolish” behavior during the event by taking items from the victim’s home that could be traced back to her, driving his truck, leaving his truck in a well-lit Walmart parking lot with cameras, telling Cut that she had killed someone, and using the victim’s cellular telephone to call 911. Dr. Brown said that although the Petitioner had been on a cocaine “bender” for the two weeks leading up to the victim’s death, her drug use did not explain her behavior.
When you’re bringing in three psychiatrists to testify that Barbie’s two prior weeks of cocaine binging didn’t alter her mental disorders enough to understand that murder was wrong, it’s time to give up. No matter how much money the ACLU is throwing at you.
On cross-examination, Dr. Brown testified that she could not say the Petitioner’s cocaine use affected her judgment on the day of the shooting. She acknowledged that if she had testified at trial, the State could have cross-examined her about the Petitioner’s escapes from custody and a detailed letter the Petitioner wrote from WMHI, asking someone to help her escape. Dr. Brown said the letter was not inconsistent with someone with FASD because writing it was “foolish” and “fits in” with the Petitioner’s other foolish behaviors.
Being stupid is not a crime but acting stupid sure can be.
The Petitioner may have been trying to cover up what actually happened, or her tendency to confabulate may have caused her to fill in fabricated information. Although the Petitioner appeared to be lying, she was actually confabulating.
Dr. Brown acknowledged that some of the Petitioner’s behaviors associated with the shooting were not foolish. For example, the Petitioner gave the gun to Cut and wiped fingerprints off the victim’s truck as Cut had instructed.
To claim insanity, a defendant must act as though he doesn’t understand that what he did was wrong. Cyntoia telling the cops what happened when they asked is consistent with that. Her cleaning up the crime scene afterwards is not.
Cut was murdered several months after the Petitioner’s arrest and, therefore, was not available to contest anything she said.
I missed my guess about Cyntoia refusing a plea bargain to rat out Cut. But only on a technicality!
On redirect examination, Dr. Brown testified that by not hearing about the Petitioner’s FASD, the jury did not have .a clear picture. of the Petitioner or her mental state. Dr. Brown thought the Petitioner could function well in society and would be a low risk to reoffend if she lived in a structured environment and received support and treatment.
Hey… Doctor Barbie… you just argued that she was too young and mentally incompetent to not commit murder. I don’t think her problem is lack of a safe space. But if “structured environment” means “life in prison” then the State of Tennessee agrees with you.
On recrossexamination, Dr. Brown acknowledged that extensive efforts were used to treat the Petitioner prior to the shooting and that the Petitioner was uncooperative.
On re-recrossexamination, Dr. Brown didn’t lie, she confabulated.
Conclusion
The Petitioner claims that she is entitled to post-conviction relief because trial counsel were ineffective for giving her erroneous legal advice that resulted in her decision not to testify at trial; for failing to interview or investigate her biological mother; and by failing to investigate the case adequately, which resulted in their failing to present a defense based upon her severe mental disease and defect. The State argues that the Petitioner has not shown that she received the ineffective assistance of trial counsel. We agree with the State.
Boom! Pussy Pass #3 DENIED.
But the celebrities are planning to bring up Cyntoia again in January 2019 as part of Women’s March 2019. Along with illegal immigration and the UN Charter.
Marching for women means marching for #CyntoiaBrown. But the #WomensWave can do more than march, and we can do it NOW: Contact Gov. @BillHaslam and demand he pardon her.
Move over, ban-happy YouTube & Twitter. Social Justice Warriors have been deplatforming organizations and people in meatspace, too, using the power of the State. The World Surfing League based in California was ready to stand its ground on pay “inequality” until entryists opened the door.
Background
Mavericks Challenge California Surf Contest: What You Need to Know
The Mavericks Challenge California surf contest gives the world’s best surfers a chance to test their skills against monster waves that can rise as much as 60 feet high. It all sounds simple enough, but this contest has an interesting twist. It doesn’t have a fixed date. In fact, no one knows precisely when it will be held until just 24 hours before it starts.
The big waves at Mavericks near Half Moon Bay, California that are the reason for this contest of big wave surfing control the calendar. Just off a rugged, rocky point along the coast, winter storms and underwater geography combine to create some the biggest and most dangerous waves in the world. …
Late each year, contest organizers announce the official waiting period for the Mavericks surf contest. This year, the competition window opens on November 1. When conditions look like they are going to be right, the organizers call a group of pre-selected surfers to let them know when the Mavericks Challenge will begin. The contestants have just 48 hours to get there. That’s all the time you’ll have to prepare to watch them, too.
The first Mavericks surf contest was held in 1999. The name and the group running it has changed every few years. In fact, Mavericks may be one of the unluckiest events in the entire surfing world, with a long tale of things gone wrong. The World Surf League whos was its sponsor in 2017-18 renamed it the Mavericks Challenge. They held an opening ceremony for the 2018-2019 contest in October 2018.
The bad luck appears to be continuing:
The Story
California just forced equal pay for female surfers. Could that change other games?
Bianca Valenti conquered 20-foot waves at a surfing competition in Mexico this summer, winning first place in Latin America’s first big-wave contest to include women. Her prize: $1,750. The surfer who won the men’s division at the same competition walked away with four times as much prize money: $7,000.
Bianca Valenti, age 28 and hitting the wall early due to manjaw and Million Cock Stare. The Internet has no bikini pics of this professional female surfer! The mind boggles at the implications.
But when Valenti, of San Francisco, competes on the shores of northern California in the famous Mavericks surfing challenge this winter, she.ll be eligible for the same amount of prize money as the men. Why? Because the state of California insisted on it.
Behold the face of equality: George Orwell’s boot heel.
Like Hollywood, tech and many other industries, the sports world is being forced to confront its historic practice of paying women less than men. Though the ranks of female athletes have grown dramatically since 1972, when federal law, through Title IX, began prohibiting gender discrimination in schools and colleges, pay gaps remain huge in most sports. Basketball and golf have struggled for years with pay equity issues, and female players have sued U.S. Soccer for wage discrimination, arguing they’re paid 40 percent of what their male counterparts earn, despite outperforming them on the field.
The wage gap has been debunked so many, many times already. It would be curious if women are paid less than men in an activity that gives women a chance to show some skin but remember this is professional surfing in dangerous conditions and cold water, not a swimsuit modeling contest. I did find some wetsuit pics of Bianca:
Boner test: FAIL.
What.s unusual with the Mavericks surf competition is that the government.a state commission, in this case.preemptively stepped in to compel equal pay as a condition of holding the event. Experts said they couldn’t think of a similar situation in another sport.
They helpfully included a link to the actual document. Relevant excerpt:
Staff Report C36 dated 8/23/18
While safety concerns make it infeasible to open up this area to all surfers, the Commissions consideration includes whether authorizing exclusive use to this Applicant is in the best interests of the state. This includes considering how the Applicant intends to run the competition and ensure equity among its participants. Staff believes it is in the best interests of the state to require the event to implement certain measures to promote equity by requiring that the amount of compensation awarded to any participants does not depend on gender for the reasons described below. Staff has received inquiries expressing concern about the lack of equity in the competition between female and male athletes.
Doubtless the lawyers I’ll soon be talking about.
Staff has independently evaluated the issues raised relating to equity among athletes participating in the Mavericks Challenge. The Public Trust Doctrine at its foundation is a common law doctrine that requires the state to protect and manage its tide and submerged lands for the benefit of all the people of California. A core principle of the Commission’s draft Environmental Justice Policy is to promote the fair treatment of people of all races, cultures, national origins, genders, gender identities, gender expressions, religions, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status concerning the implementation and enforcement of laws and regulations within the Commission’s jurisdiction.
A perfect example of unequal enforcement of partiality allows SJWs to simultaneous claim they’re respresenting everybody while issuing agenda-driven ultimatums. Are they going to prohibit beach pageants until men are allowed to participate and given an equal share of the purse?
The Maverick’s Challenge is unique among surfing contests around the world due to its popularity and intrigue. The Mavericks Challenge relies solely on the exclusive access to and use of public lands and resources to ensure a successful contest.
In fact, the core element and major draw of the Mavericks Challenge are the waves, a public resource on public lands. The waves do not discriminate. Male athletes are surfing and competing on the same waves as the female athletes. While, according to staff’s understanding, the prize formula is based on the number of female and male athletes competing…
There it is. Women are paid less (assuming they are participating) because there’s fewer of them. No systematic bias until the bureaucrats saw a chance to correct that.
…the Applicant has sole discretion in determining the standards participants must meet in order to qualify for the event. So other than the participation evaluation process which is controlled solely by the Applicant, there doesn’t appear to be any reasonable justification to treat prize compensation differently for female athletes versus male athletes.
Back to the previous article.
[This] Mavericks case could set a precedent for local governments to demand equal pay in any sporting event held on public property, said David Berri, a professor of economics at Southern Utah University who researches gender in sports.
.In any event where you are going across public land, then any government entity could say “You have to make this equal,.. he said.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it agreed to equality with the wolf.
Following the lead set by some tennis and cycling competitions, the World Surf League, which runs the Mavericks contest near Half Moon Bay, announced a new plan this week to pay men and women equal prize money starting on October 1. It came after an obscure three-person state panel indicated last month that it would only lease the public beach for Mavericks if women and men are awarded the same prize money.
The World Surf League. Remember that name for later in this post.
The commission.which includes prominent Democratic politicians Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Controller Betty Yee.hasn.t yet voted on the issue because the league pulled its application for the lease when the report came out. But the panel was likely to approve the equal pay requirement.
.We believe there ought to be gender equity with respect to the purposes of any use of our state lands,. Yee said in an interview.
Newsom also supported the requirement, said his chief of staff Rhys Williams: .A lease application that doesn’t reflect equal pay isn’t going to fly with him..
Yay, State coercion on private enterprise! I love these precedents the wicked are setting and intend to remember every one of them. God willing, we’ll regain power while they’re still alive to be on the receiving end of the shit they shovel at us today. Hmm, do you think Newsom gives as money to Father God as he does to his wife? I think Sacramento should force Newsom to build Christ a new cathedral, at his personal expense, that costs at least as much as his wife’s movie career. This is an urgent State priority because some people think Newsom is Christ-O-Phobic! He must prove himself innocent! And who gave him permission to use public roads? Those are public lands! He’s not under house arrest but he’s trespassing if he leaves home without a permit.
But wait, the WSL pulled its application?
Under the original plan, the prize purse for women was set at $44,400 while the prize purse for men was $106,600. The purse was to be divided among all competitors in each division, with $15,000 for the woman winning first place and $25,000 for the man earning first place. Second- and third-place prizes were to have even greater gaps, with the women earning less than half of what men would. The league previously defended the plan as fair because the men’s division included more competitors.
The league did not specify the prize purse or number of competitors under the new plan, saying only that it involved “equal prize money” for male and female athletes. It declined to answer questions for this article and, in a press release, cast its new arrangement as part of a .long-planned strategy to elevate women’s surfing..
A long-planned strategy of feminist lawyers on retainer. I’m getting to it.
But women who have been advocating for equal pay for surfers said the change never would have come about without the government taking a stand.
That’s right. Most men won’t pander to Ugly Barbie and give her free money without State thugs breathing threats at us. Is this how you want to do business, women? Think VERY carefully because whatever game you pick, we men will play it.
The Convergence Tactics
Said Sabrina Brennan of the Committee for Equity in Women’s Surfing: .It’s what gave us leverage..
Brennan is not a surfer but she sits on the board of the San Mateo County Harbor District, so she knows a little something about government approval processes. Her fight for women surfers began in 2015, when she learned Mavericks could only take place with a permit from the California Coastal Commission. At that time women weren’t allowed to compete in the event.
Brennan discovered a male space! Three years later, Mavericks is pozzed by State decree.
.That.s when I initially realized there was an opportunity to ask a state agency to intervene and add a condition on the permit that would require women be allowed to compete,. Brennan said.
The commission agreed, and in 2016 required Mavericks to include a heat for women. But the event hasn’t been held since then, due to a lack of ideal surf conditions and a change of ownership in the management of Mavericks. So this winter was set to be the first time women would compete at the event.
As the surf league sought a new round of government permits, Brennan began to focus her lobbying on the issue of equal pay. She organized some of the world’s top female surfers.including Valenti.to send letters to the Coastal and State Lands commissions asking that they require Mavericks to pay equal prize money. A lawyer volunteered to beef up their letters with citations to relevant civil rights cases.
.It.s unfortunate that it took a tiny group of women athletes, an activist, an attorney and a couple state agencies to get them to do the right thing,. Brennan said after the league announced its new pay plan.
.But, whatever. I’m just glad it happened..
Barbie whistled and the white knights came.
Sabrina Brennan, probably lesbian because she’s a high-powered lawyer in the Gay Area, isn’t trying to attract male attention and has eyes like that.
The Rest Of The Story
Remember the World Surf League mentioned above?
Finally, World Surf League offers equal prize money for women and men
Of the many permits needed to hold the Mavericks contest, the most crucial are approved by the California Coastal Commission, which has recommended equality for years, and the State Lands Commission. When the [State Lands Commission] announced in August that it would require equal pay for women before issuing approval, the WSL withdrew its permit request . a sign that it had no intention of altering its policy.
…The event’s previous owners, Cartel Management, balked at the notion of including women until finally agreeing last year to a six-woman heat that would accompany the men’s competition (poor conditions prevented the contest from being held).
There was never a pay gap at Maverick’s because there were no women competing at Maverick’s. Re-read the previous article, above the first pic of Valenti. The pay gap it mentioned was in Mexico… and maybe that pay gap existed because that was the first womens’ big-wave event ever in Latin America, as reported?
NO SOONER DID WOMEN GET IN THE DOOR OF PROFESSIONAL BIG-WAVE SURFING THEN THEY BEGAN DEMANDING MORE MONEY, USING THE GOVERNMENT TO BACK UP THEIR DEMANDS.
Cartel arrogantly excluded Valenti from the entry list…
Ooh, hardball. I approve. Wasn’t Valenti doing this for the sake of global gender equality and not her personal career? She was content to see her sisters get in the door, right?
*crickets*
And to finish this post, why Cartel, or at least the World Surfing League part of it, gave in to this evil after trying to fight it:
Hangin’ With … World Surf League CEO Sophie Goldschmidt
SOPHIE GOLDSCHMIDT is the CEO of the World Surf League. She began her career with adidas and has since held positions with the WTA, NBA and Rugby Football Union. Goldschmidt brought her experience helping organizations enter new markets and developing sports in various global regions to L.A. five months ago when she took over the reins at the WSL.
Sophie is the first female CEO of the World Surfing League.
Five months age from February is October 2017 or so. That explains much of WSL suddenly knuckling under to Commiefornia gov’t demands of helpin’ da wimminz. It ceased being a private vs public issue and became private-public collusion against men and profits.
Under Goldschmidt’s leadership, the organization recently agreed to an exclusive distribution partnership with Facebook. She spoke with SBD Global about that deal, the WSL-owned Kelly Slater Wave Company, which develops man-made wave facilities, and the league’s ambition to play a role in surfing’s inclusion at Tokyo 2020.
That’s the Tokyo Olympics 2020. Corruption up the wazoo, in only six months of (((Goldschmidt’s))) leadership. Indicating Jewishness like that is lame but damn if that particular group doesn’t keep turning up in this kind of suspicious circumstance. Not to mention how Sophie could have collected all these high-level contacts. There’s always the old-fashioned way of pressing mattresses except she isn’t pretty enough to have pulled it off. (See the post’s end.)
On the recent partnership with Facebook … Sophie Goldschmidt: We were delighted that they chose us as their first top-tier professional sports organization to partner with exclusively on a global basis. It’s really transformative for us to be able to tap into the biggest distribution platform in the world, with over 2 billion users. Our audience is growing fast but our relationship with them certainly helps to further accelerate that. We love what they stand for. They’re about community. The surfing world is a very tight global community, so right back to that main value, we’re very symbiotic.
Facebook’s audience is shrinking from what I’ve heard so maybe they’re rebranding themselves in preparation for social media’s well-deserved collapse.
On the appeal of Facebook … Goldschmidt: We are able to be very nimble, very flexible. We want to be innovative, we want to be pioneering. Because of how we’re structured and we centrally control all our rights, it means that we can maybe afford to be a bit of a guinea pig, unlike some other leagues. So we really want to push the boundaries. … Another key criteria for us was that our content, for the most part, would still be accessible free of charge and Facebook allows us to do that. We didn’t want to go behind a paywall, we didn’t just want to be available on pay-TV platforms. So, the fact that the majority of our content is still going to be available for free around the world is hugely important for us.
As annoying as paywalls and pay-per-view can be for the consumer, Goldschmidt is throwing away bushels of money here. This does not strike me as a good business decision, which again raises questions about how she became a well-connected CEO outside of ingroup preference.
Which in turn, raises questions about how she expects to pay men and women the same amount of prize money. The professional tier of any sport needs financial compensation because there are costs associated with performing at that level. You may not win every event but you need to win a few in order to fuel the machine. Goldschmidt is reducing incentives while making the profitable content “accessible free of charge and Facebook allows us to do that”.
On the league’s conservation efforts … Goldschmidt: We just relaunched our ocean conservation arm at the end of the year, which is called P.U.R.E. — Protect, Understand and Respect the Environment. It’s absolutely front and center of what we’re doing as an organization, heavily supported by the surfers. We’ve repositioned it to be much more inclusive. Previously, we were very much about sustainability but a lot of our focus and attention went toward research, which is still very important to us. But we really want to use our platforms to help amplify all the great work that’s out there. We felt that the world didn’t really need another ocean conservation charity and we wanted to see how we could just better support all the work that’s out there, which will involve financial investment, partnering our commercial partners with important NGOs and local projects and highlighting through our social channels all the great work that is happening.
Is she Deep State? Environmentalism is a notorious front for dirty politics and globalist economic initiatives. She really is connected… and none of her interests appear to be surfing. She’s converging the surfing world to the globalist agenda via social media.
Sophie. All these women have flat chests, manjaws, thousand-cock stares and no hair. Well, Sophie has a little hair remaining but it looks like it’s dying on the vine.
Envy and hatred of men turns women ugly inside and out. The cock carousel doesn’t help and how strange they all end up devoted to globalism and Convergence as a result.
I wonder how many female surfers are going to die in 60ft waves near Santa Cruz this winter? Used to be zero because women weren’t allowed… maybe there was a safety reason they weren’t allowed? We’ll find out.
Dalrock has recently drawn attention to efforts of Matt Chandler (and various other name-level Prot leaders) to infect Protestant churches with unrepentant homosexuals. Time for a physiognometric reading! I should say that I don’t know what most celebrities look like because I never had a reason to care for most of my life. We were never going to meet, after all, and so it was only their ideas that mattered. And properly so, I suppose, but the ability of physiognomy to give advance indication is valuable.
One of the first things I check is which side of the eye/face is more guarded. In nearly every picture I looked at, Chandler is more guarded on the left side of his face. This strongly indicates he is more troubled by his internal life than his external life. I do not trust that in a Christian leader. Such a man ought to have his internal life well in order before assuming the station.
His ears stick out a lot, indicating a non-conformist attitude. Not unusual in a professional public speaker who’s done a lot of work to “build his own brand”, as a marketeer would say. This nonconformity is confirmed by the backward slant of his ears:
The ears also have large inner ridges, indicating a focus on his inner world and personal intuition. If he had conformist/logical features to combine with that then I’d expect a stalwart Bible-thumper. Instead, we see that intuitive focus combined with external social focus, predicting an unwillingness to be unpopular.
Thin lips indicate a guardedness about his personal life. The nose is concave in profile, indicating a need for appreciation. The combination of these two suggests Chandler is needy for external validation.
Large nostrils mean high social energy.
If the lines at the edges and bottoms of his eyes were constant then it would indicate sexual perversion or other dysfunction but they don’t seem to be constant throughout the pictures I sampled. It’s hard to rule out the effects artificial lighting, sleep deprivation or other stressors upon the vision.
Eyebrows are curved and widely spaced, meaning socially oriented and “not a detail person”, respectively.
Summation, a very energetic and social person, craves social approval, has skeletons in his closet. His personality is definitely not a rules-oriented one and his forehead lacks determination lines. A very malleable public speaker.
Of course, physiognomy can’t tell us what specifically is wrong with his internal life, only that something is. Possible reasons can be self-doubt, a quarrelsome wife, heavy debts or secret sin. My guess, and it’s a guess made on his behavior and teachings rather than facial features, is that Chandler has ceased to believe in Christ, if he ever did. He works for the status, being in the limelight, a sought-after speaker whose opinions shape peoples’ lives, and if he needs to pretend Christianity to continue that gravy train then he’ll do it. But he fears exposure, hence a relatively enjoyable external life and not-enjoyable internal life.
He’s not the vampire. He’s the Renfield opening the window and giving invitations because the alternative is getting off the stage. Whatever his internal problem is, he won’t risk his external life to address it, and his external life is “trustworthy Christian leader”.
3. AB 2657: Student Restraint and Seclusion in Schools. Prohibits the use of restraint or seclusion on any student except when behavior poses a clear and present danger to the student or others. It also prohibits using for the purpose of coercion, discipline, convenience or retaliation, and requires data collection and reporting on the use of restraint and seclusion to the California Department of Education.
This is the current law of California and here is the first “by way of not-the-example-we-wanted” article making the rounds.
13-year-old student with autism dies after being physically restrained at school
Oh noes! The big bad male guards crushed him to death! Toxic masculinity! Now as a blogger, I know that a headline must communicate what’s most significant about an article. This headline sounds as though a teen with mild cognition issues was forcibly restrained in such a way that the act of restraint was the cause of death.
A 13-year-old boy with autism died in Northern California last week after becoming unresponsive at school while staff physically restrained him, authorities said.
The boy became violent and needed to be restrained by staff at Guiding Hands School in El Dorado Hills on Nov. 28 to “prevent the injury of staff and students,” Sgt. Anthony Prencipe of the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Thursday.
Guiding Hands is a private, K-12, “special needs” school with an incredible staff:student ratio of 1:5. “Special needs” in this context means “brain-damaged” or “uncontrollably violent” and the two often appear together. A child in an adult’s body is like a toddler driving a car: mayhem is guaranteed.
The unidentified student, who was described as being 6 feet tall, 280 pounds and having “severe autism”…
Holy shit. 13 Years old, 6′ tall, 280lbs? That is not most people’s mental image of “autistic child”. “Thick-headed teenage Neanderthal”, maybe. That body mass would be mostly fat but y’know, cars don’t know martial arts, either. Try holding one back when it wants to go.
…became unresponsive while being restrained. A teacher then began administering CPR until a medic arrived, Prencipe said.
A prompt First Response. This is not the brutality case the headline suggested.
The boy was taken to Mercy Hospital of Folsom in critical condition and later transferred to UC Davis Medical Center, officials said.
Cause of death isn’t given but if security’s restraint had caused the fatal injury then the first hospital would have been able to stabilize him. Broken bones and interrupted circulation, any ER can handle that. Cerebral hemorrhaging or organ failure, not always.
The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office was informed two days later that the student had died.
“EDSO deputies and detectives interviewed the parties involved and are completing a full investigation,” Prencipe said. “At this time, there appears to be no evidence of foul play or criminal intent.”
A full investigation that was required by Assembly-Person Weber’s man-hate-motivated law, which didn’t start with any criminal suspicion. It started with the fact of “security used restraint on a child”.
What was security supposed to do? Let a brain-damaged kid the size of a football linebacker face-smash a glass window or punch a classmate one-third his size? Incredibly, the answer is “yes until proven necessary after the fact”. The police didn’t start this investigation because they had “evidence of foul play or criminal intent”. They started this investigation to see if what security did could be justified after the fact.
This time, it’s easy to prove security’s innocence because the violent moron was a circus freak. Next time, the truth might not be so physically obvious… and men will be more afraid to punish disorderly conduct until blood gets spilled. And that’s what security is paid to prevent!
People with masculine faces are perceived to be more competent than those with feminine features, which could adversely affect our choice of world leaders, according to a new study.
“Our” choice of world leaders, how optimistic. If the selection process ain’t nepotism & cronyism then it’s “Vote for Freebie” democracy.
Published in the journal Psychological Science, the study examined the “visual ingredients” of a person’s appearance that could convince others of their capability to be efficient and/or successful.
Locked behind a paywall, sadly.
Researchers at Princeton University used data from previous studies, where participants had rated a variety of different faces on how competent they thought the person was based on appearance alone.
By presenting these same faces to 33 volunteers as part of a new online experiment, and asking them to identify them as either male or female, the study’s authors identified a clear gender bias: people rated the more competent faces as male and the less competent ones as female.
They also found that the competent faces were generally perceived as being more confident and “masculine.”
This is going to sound awkward: I wish the book came with pictures so I could understand it. I’ll make a wild guess instead, that competence looks like Han Solo smirking.
In a second experiment, the researchers manipulated photorealistic images of male and female faces so that they appeared more masculine and asked 250 online volunteers to rate how competent they thought these people might be based on appearance.
Now a masculine appearance, we know what that is thanks to sexual dimorphism. AKA heteronormative biology.
It transpired that the most masculine faces were also viewed as the most competent.
The study’s authors have said the findings are significant because they reveal how gender bias may cloud our judgement when it comes to choosing world leaders.
A more competent female than this author would wonder why “masculine” is instinctively correlated with “competent”. Genetics? Experience? Both? But instead, penis envy strikes again. “Why do only boys get to look competent?”
A murder-themed exercise at a British elementary school has some parents bloody mad.
Flowery Field Primary School staged a murder for 8- and 9-year-old students to solve as a writing exercise, according to the Manchester Evening News. The victim and suspect were elves, which could be scary for kids, since Santa’s helpers are usually portrayed as cute and carefree creatures in Christmas tales.
Billy: KEWL! Murder! Let’s find the bad guy!
Sally: Is he okay? The poor doll is going to be okay, right?
Billy: DEAD! Bang bang!
Sally: *cries*
One parent told the Manchester Evening News that the activity left her child traumatized.
.There was a crime scene in one of the classrooms,. the mother, who chose to remain anonymous, said. .There was police tape and a table had been knocked over, and there were blood smeared on one of the tables..
A tweet from the school matches this description, with photos of fake blood droplets on tables, caution tape blocking off areas of the school and police evidence reports filled out in kid scribble.
.The idea was Elf had been murdered by another Elf,. the parent explained. .My daughter came home and she was absolutely traumatised.” And she insisted that there are others who are upset with this gruesome writing lesson. .I.m not the only parent who felt like that. A lot of the kids in Year 4 were unsettled by it..
While children are bound to learn about gruesome events in history lessons at least, the level of involvement has shaken some students. .I am very open with my children and I understand you can’t protect them from everything. But my child was very upset last night and had to sleep in my bed,. the mom said.
What a waste of a teachable moment. Does Mommy think girls should be sheltered from a harsh reality? By who, one one wonders?
She claims “a lot of the kids” were unsettled yet she’s the only one on record complaining.
The school, on the other hand, doesn’t see any issue with it and tweeted multiple enthusiastic updates on the fake investigation Wednesday.
HAHAHAAA! Now there’s some Christmas cheer! I bet the boys had fun. When I was that age, I sang “Deck the Halls With Gasoline” because I had to go caroling. “Light a match and watch the gleam…” “Go home, Gunner.” “YAY!”
.The children were all excited and they really did buy into it,. Ian Fell, head teacher of Flowery Field, told the Manchester Evening News. .One of the children said to me .I am definitely being a detective when I grow up… As for the rest of the students, he claims they were all as excited. .Of all of the 90 children who took part, none of them showed anything but full engagement,. he boasted.
.I have been a teacher for 30 years and this is, in my judgment, an appropriate, engaging and exciting thing that children aged eight and nine have done. They have been so up for it,. he shared. He’s not worried about upsetting any other parents. .I am really looking forward to see the quality of the outcomes. We are not trying to keep this a secret and we will be Tweeting about the rest of exercise today..
On social media, it seems there haven’t been any other complaints; all of the tweets regarding the lesson are supportive.
It seems there’s hope for Merry Olde England after all. ‘Tis the season for that kind of thing.
ST. ALBERT, Alta. . A man in Edmonton who made international headlines for holding onto a wrapped Christmas gift from a high-school girlfriend who dumped him nearly 50 years ago finally learned what it was on Thursday when she travelled to the city and opened it for him.
Adrian Pearce, now a married father of two, received the small present wrapped in shiny, purple paper shortly before Christmas 1971 from Vicki Allen, who was his very first sweetheart at George S. Henry Secondary School in Toronto.
But when she handed it to him, she broke up with him. Dejected, Pearce returned to his family’s home, threw it under the Christmas tree and vowed never to open it.
The story last December about the unopened gift appeared on TV, newspapers and websites around the world. And as Allen stood on a stage in a packed cafe northwest of the city and peeled away the paper with Pearce standing beside her and his wife, Janet, in the audience, she herself didn’t know what she’d see because it was so long ago and she’d forgotten.
“Oh no!” Allen exclaimed when she finally saw. “I can’t give that to him!”
It was a small book called “Love Is: New Ways To Spot That Certain Feeling” with a cartoons and sayings about love.
“The irony is extreme,” Allen cried.
Oh, God, please make the pain stop.
Adrian Pearce, new holder of the World’s Record for Longest Time Pining For A Cold-Hearted Skank. If the lines around his eyes are any indication, his current wife is a piece of work, but I don’t want to go too hard on Janet Pearce:
For years, even after he’d married, Pearce still placed the dog-eared gift under the tree every Christmas. He enjoyed the mystery of it, but eventually his wife put her foot down when their daughter, then five, wanted to open it.
The poor wife, watching her husband pine for that lost love… for THIS lost love:
They learned the reason Allen dumped Pearce all those years ago.
It turned out that while Allen was shopping for Pearce’s gift at the mall, she met another boy and he kissed her on the spot.
“It wouldn’t have been so bad, but I kissed him back,” Allen said.
You held a torch… for half a century… for THAT.
Pearce has since written a book about the whole experience, and his wife and Allen contributed chapters.
“The Swinger Life in Alberta”, I’ll guess.
“I think it’s absolutely fantastic that we’re friends. My wife is friends with (Vicki),” Pearce told the crowd.
“We’re in a fantastic place where all you can feel is love.”
Or as the New York Post put it:
Wife stays with moron who put unopened gift from ex under the tree for 47 years
Theodicy is on hold thanks to a magnificient find by Hmm. It’s so awkward to defend porn use. On the one hand, it’s sexual immorality in the eyes of God. On the other hand, the people wanting to ban porn are the people who have already, and shamelessly, banned marriage, the only permitted alternative. It’s fascinating to watch feminists and Tradcons unite on this topic while I find myself defending pornographers because they’re the only people left who respect basic male needs.
Combining the energy of the #MeToo movement with a moral fervor, students at universities across the country told The Daily Beast they are working to get pornography off their campuses.
The effort started at Notre Dame University in October, when 80 male students penned an open letter requesting a porn filter on the campus WiFi. Since then, lead letter-writer Jim Martinson said, he’s received emails from more than 40 students at other universities who want to install a filter on their own campuses.
Per his LinkedIn, Jimmy is an Eagle Scout whose project was transitional housing for homeless veterans, high school swim team captain, National Honor Society, Studeny Body Vice President, economics student at Notre Dame… and an intern for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
A proto-Deep Stater. I know the type, high perfomers who line up one accomplishment after another without realizing what a bubble is forming around them. You can’t be taught to think for yourself; you have to get kicked out of the System you grew up in. I could have ended up a high-achieving midwit myself, although I was never so far gone as to wear business suits as an undergrad. Thank God, in hindsight, that after graduating I got double-slammed by women scorning me while potential employers were too busy hiring H1Bbies to interview me. I got to learn about reality. Jimmy is unlikely to be so lucky; why would Mister “G-Man since college internship in the Ivy Leagues” ever oppose Globalism? They’re such nice people and their agenda is so personally rewarding!
Face shape is similar to typical SJWs, although his mouth suggests more optimism than normally found in that group. Wide eyebrows are “visionary”, implying interest in ideas over details. Majoring in economics means he’s not that interested in logic systems.
Edit: Wide eyebrows are managerial, not visionary. I got it backwards.
Georgetown senior Amelia Irvine, a conservative firebrand, told The Daily Beast that Martinson’s letter inspired her to push for something similar at her Catholic university. She plans to recruit support over the winter break and start an open letter or petition in the spring.
Before going to Georgetown
After. Amelia doesn’t look to be settling down as a housewife anytime soon. Conserving womens’ liberation!
Students at secular schools like Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania also said they were excited by the idea, but were still figuring out how it could work on their campuses. At Princeton and Penn, students said they were already tabling and handing out fliers about the dangers of pornography on campus.
.I.m excited and I think we can really get this done,. Martinson said. “And I’m also confident that if we do get it done at Notre Dame, that other universities will follow suit..
It’s a red flag when your agenda is popular with Christ’s enemies. Also a red flag when forcing people to obey excites you.
Martinson.s open letter in the Notre Dame Observer claimed that pornography teaches men to objectify women, normalizes sexual assault, and exploits the men and women involved. The men of Notre Dame were calling for a filter, he wrote, .in order to stand up for the dignity of all people, especially women..
The letter was quickly followed by a response from more than 60 .women of Notre Dame,. who argued that pornography’s prevalence on campus was “preventing men and women from encountering the full personhood of one another in friendships and relationships..
Men do not want friendships with hawt chicks unless they come with benefits. These fools think banning porn will convert horny hetero men into eunuchs, not realizing that women agree because they want unsexy men to disappear. Not because they feel threatened about being desired.
The proposal’s popularity made headlines in the conservative National Review and the frat-boy favorite Barstool Sports. The student senate discussed it at a recent meeting, according to the Observer, and Martinson said he broached the idea with administrators at the “top of the university..
I didn’t make the meme but the pic is eerily accurate.
Whether porn is actually a problem on campus, however, is debatable. Martinson said he began advocating for the filter after hearing from male classmates who were struggling with pornography addiction.
If only there was an alternative sexual behavior to porn use!
But a 2013 study found that the average college student engaged in .arousal-oriented online sexual activity. less than once or twice per month. A 2014 study of students across four countries found that 76 percent had viewed online “sexual entertainment” in their lifetimes, but showed “relatively infrequent experience” with the subject matter in the previous three months.
Those study results could not be less credible.
There’s also little evidence that porn consumption leads to negative treatment of women. A 2007 study from the Queensland University of Technology in Australia found that the amount of pornography viewed did not predict negative attitudes toward women. And as some experts have pointed out, the rate of sexual assault has decreased in recent decades, even as porn use has soared.
Japan has the most extreme porn usage with very low actual sexual misconduct. Maybe it’s less “addiction” than “letting off steam”?
So, porn is “rare” and doesn’t lead to violence but Jimmy wants it banned anyway. One day, he’ll make an excellent Secretary of Health and Human Services.
It.s no surprise then, that the push for porn filters comes from a religious segment of campus. The Notre Dame letter, for example, was part of a yearly anti-porn campaign by a campus group called the Students for Child Oriented Policy (SCOP). The group advertises itself as nonpartisan and nonsectarian, but has hosted several anti-abortion talks on campus and once circulated a petition asking Notre Dame to take a “clear stand” against same-sex marriage. Irvine, meanwhile, is president of a pro-heterosexual-marriage campus group that has been accused of promoting intolerance against LGBTQ students.
Let’s segue to the linked article about Irvine’s hetero group.
Georgetown students vote not to take action against pro-heterosexual-marriage campus group
A panel of Georgetown students decided not to take action against a pro-heterosexual-marriage campus group that had been the subject of a complaint accusing it of fostering hatred and intolerance.
After deliberating behind closed doors until after midnight Friday, the Student Activities Commission voted 8-to-4 that no sanctions should be imposed on Love Saxa, which advocates for marriage as .a monogamous and permanent union between a man and a woman,. the group states in its constitution.
Student leadership. Proof that the administrators either fear their students or lack the courage to be unpopular.
In their complaint filed last month, Jasmin Ouseph, a junior from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Chad Gasman, a sophomore from Los Angeles, argued that Love Saxa’s definition of marriage . which aligns with that espoused by the Catholic Church . excludes and dehumanizes people in the LGBT community. They charge that Love Saxa violates university standards governing sanctioned student groups and demand that it be defunded and removed as an officially sanctioned student group.
It’s not dehumanizing to have a different definition of marriage. The Sodomites could not be more wrong on their topic yet I fully accept them as human. So does God, although that will not work in their favor on Judgment Day.
In a statement, the student-run activities commission said that while it.acknowledges and respects the concerns put forth by the complainants, the Commission did not find Love Saxa’s purpose or actions to be in violation of the Student Organization Standards.. The commission added that “it strives to create an environment among student organizations where ideas can flow freely in a civil and respectful manner,. and where there is a diversity and difference in opinion.
Georgetown is Catholic/Jesuit. Why does it tolerate the existence of LGBT students who disrespect Catholic principles of moral conduct?
Rachel Pugh, a university spokeswoman, reflected a similar sentiment.
.We strongly support a climate that continues to provide students with new and deeper contexts for engaging with our Catholic tradition and identity,. Pugh said in a statement. .Love Saxa is one of many groups operating on campus with positions that affirm the teachings of the Catholic Church. We also support a climate that is welcoming to all students and supporting of our LGBTQ communities..
That is blatantly hypocritical.
In the view of Ouseph and Gasman, the commission’s vote in favor of Love Saxa was an insult and demonstrated total disregard for their complaints against the very nature of the Love Saxa’s stated mission and activities. They said that they will now take the issue up to the university administration on appeal.
.And at the end of the day, it was eight straight people deciding that being pro-heterosexual-marriage-only doesn’t also mean that you’re anti-same-sex marriage, which I find a little ridiculous,. Ouseph said. .Saying that I’m pro-white-supremacy would also indicate that I’m against racial justice. It works literally the same way no matter how you spin it..
The lesbian is right. You cannot be pro-marriage and pro-LGBT.
Back to the original article,
Martinson said the religious aspect was important to him personally, but that he preferred to focus on the issues of addiction and objectification of women. .It’s really important to frame things from a secular perspective because you just appeal to more people,. he said.
Jimmy is such a white knight that he probably didn’t recognize this statement as open disloyalty to Christ. I hope he gets utterly ruined by a false rape accusation, for his own good, because but for the grace of God I could’ve been him: dangerously insulated and thinking I was doing the work of God by reenacting Original Sin.
One wishes that the price of wisdom wasn’t suffering.
Every student who spoke with The Daily Beast mentioned the levels of violence against women displayed in modern pornography. (A third of all porn scenes showed perceived physical or psychological harm to another person, one recent study found.) While the students never claimed that porn directly caused sexual assault, several said they felt it contributed to the current cultural moment.
I hear one the latest trends in porn is marital porn, watching actors roleplaying husband & wife enjoying themselves amidst a middle-class life. Most men simply don’t get off on harming the women who put out for them. It’s one thing to oppose porn for religious reasons, I do that myself, but these supposedly religious people are inventing lies in order to justify opposing porn.
Isn’t that interesting? Why don’t they simply say, “that’s not what God wants”? These are nominally, originally, Christian institutions. In fact, the article has this quote:
.It.s really important to frame things from a secular perspective because you just appeal to more people.. . Will Long, Harvard student
Making arguments that will convince the listener rather than oneself is a valid tactic but there is no atheistic case for porn being bad. There is a case for violent porn that hurts innocents to be bad and so these kids… destined by Ivy League membership for the halls of power… are making up lies about porn in order to serve Christ and more importantly (to them), prevent unsexy men from learning online that dicks go in chicks.
Jack Whelan, an anti-porn advocate at Princeton, pointed to a recent video asking men to distinguish between porn scenes and stories of sexual assault.
.It.s not hard to draw a connection between men viewing that type of pornography and men acting in similar ways towards women,. Whelan said. .I think that it’s much easier to objectify women and to not see them as people when you’re simply viewing them as objects of sexual pleasure..
Normal male hormones are going to make women objects of sexual pleasure anyway. What do they teach these kids in biology class? Not “testosterone”, else they would know that “girls are sexy” is not a social construct.
The words could have been taken from the mouths of second-wave feminists like Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, who mounted protests against the burgeoning porn industry of the 1980s. In fact, [Will] Long [quoted above] said he thought he could partner on this fight with the women’s center or “other left-leaning women’s groups..groups he said he usually would not count as allies. (The Harvard women’s center did not respond to a request for comment.)
There is merit in the concept of guilt by association. African pagans and Christians partnering to defend their communities from Muslim persecution is one thing, voluntarily partnering with feminists to prevent undesirable male students from any sexual activity except sodomizing each other is quite another.
Today.s feminists, however, seemed largely unexcited by the porn filter proposal. In a response to the men’s letter, Notre Dame student Jackie O’Brien wrote her own letter to the editor calling the idea “patronizing” and “degrading” to sex workers.
The Great Feminist Debate continues! Are prostitutes emancipated women free to monetize their bodies if they wish or victims of oppressive male objectification? Still unanswered after forty years.
Anne Jarrett.a Notre Dame gender studies major and self-described “obvious feminist..urged the letter-writers to call their legislators or work for a campaign around sexual assault, rather than wasting their time banning porn.
.Rather than judging these consensual acts, let’s celebrate that people are practicing consent and communicating openly with their partner (on screen or off),. she wrote.
She’s right for the wrong reasons. The way to get rid of porn is to green-light normal relations between the sexes… which would drop college enrollment by 70%, now that young, fertile, desirable women are 70% of the student body. Until that happens, I’m not wasting my time telling men to not do porn. No alternative to offer means no point.
The women weren’t alone. The original porn filter proposal sparked six letters to the editor against the idea, as well as one satirical column calling for a filter on food porn and a rebuttal entitled “Give Me Pornhub or Give Me Death..
Ah, nuts. Another cuck! He opens with this quote by a woman:
.[I]t is the state . not free speech . that has been the oppressor of women. It was the state, not pornography, that burned women as witches. It was 18th and 19th century law, not pornography, that defined women as chattel . 20th century laws that refused to recognized rape within marriage . It is the state, not pornography, that has raised barriers against women. It is censorship, not freedom, that will keep the walls intact.. . Wendy McElroy
You women were made by God to be oppressed by men. Save your ridicule for the men who freed you to rebel against the natural order, encouraging you to become false men instead of beloved wives.
It ends with:
If you want to combat the alleged ill-effects of exposure to pornography identified in your letters, engage in counter-speech. Persuade your fellow students to join your holy abstention from pornographic consumption. Convince our community that you are right, and that we should willingly and voluntarily disengage the pornographic industry. But do not demand that you should make that decision for all of us, and certainly do not do it in my name. As a fellow man of Notre Dame, I must respectfully dissent.
It’s reasonable dialetic but he entirely misses the point of the porn ban. It has nothing to do with porn corrupting youth and everything to do with hypergamous hamsters wishing 98% of men would off their little buddies.
I made that mistake, too, thinking people were listening to my arguments because they thought I might have had a point.
Female nature is very hidden and hard for men to recognize, let alone classify as evil. No wonder God saw fit to use that as the Original Sin, to drive home the lesson of how each sex prefers to self-destruct in rebellion against Truth. The Ivy Leagues being feeder schools for the high school locker room clique called “senior-level government”, there is little hope that the men will come to their senses without being knocked off the insulated conveyor belt from high school student body president to U.S. Civil Right Commissioner.
Cause and effect. Here’s the cause: a puff piece (slightly dated) celebrating the latest in solar energy, which is such a good idea that the State of California is now coercing its usage.
California to require solar panels on most new homes
There’s no question that solar power is entering the mainstream, but California is about to give it a giant boost. The state’s Energy Commission is expected to approve new energy standards that would require solar panels on the roofs of nearly all new homes, condos and apartment buildings from 2020 onward. There will be exemptions for homes that either can’t fit solar panels or would be blocked by taller buildings or trees, but you’ll otherwise have to go green if your property is brand new.
Free unicorn rainbow farts! To be stored in hideously expensive, hideously toxic nickel-metal-hydride-hybridized-lithium-polymer jars.
The plan doesn’t require that a home reach net-zero status (where the solar power completely offsets the energy consumed in a year). However, it does provide “compliance credits” for homebuilders who install storage batteries like Tesla’s Powerwall, letting them build smaller panel arrays knowing that excess energy will be available to use off-hours.
Hello, cronyism! Elon Musk has been spending a lot of time on somebody’s casting couch, to be the lucky winner of those Orwellian “compliance credits”.
The new standards are poised to hike construction costs by $25,000 to $30,000 (about half of which is directly due to solar), but the self-produced energy is estimated to save owners $50,000 to $60,000 in operating costs over the solar technology’s expected 25-year lifespan.
Assuming regular good weather for decades, assuming accurate, long-term usage estimates and ignoring maintenance & repair costs, you’ll thank us after half a lifetime. Unintended consequences not included.
Short of a surprise rejection at the Energy Commission’s May 9th vote, this will make California the first state to have a solar panel requirement. [It got approved.] It’s relatively easy to do this in the region given California’s abundance of warm, sunny days and high real estate prices — it’s hard to see this happening in the American Midwest, where winter and lower home prices could make solar decidedly less practical.
Northern California sometimes has a cloudy day, too, but anything that works for San Diego is good enough for Eureka!
Critics have complained that this could make California’s housing shortage worse by pricing people out of those homes that are available, and note that most people in the state only really draw on non-renewable energy when they come home from work and strain the electrical grid.
The electric grid wouldn’t be “strained” if Sacramento didn’t keep trying to dismantle it wholesale. Our legislators are at war with reality.
Even so, this could change the landscape for both California’s energy and the market as a whole. Right now, no more than 20 percent of new single-family homes in California include solar power. Boost that by five times and that’s a lot more business for panel makers and installers. That, in turn, could reduce the costs of panels and make solar more affordable in many places, not just in California or even the US.
The only reason solar power doesn’t work is we haven’t tried it hard enough! Haven’t believed in it hard enough! Like Communism.
What a wonderful world we’ll have thanks to mandatory, expensive bureaucratic initiatives, according to Engadget. But here’s the effect, in a postscript to this article:
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…According to a full-time seminarian interviewed by Christianity Today magazine. While the results are predictable, it’s a question that needs asking as the remnant of Christianity watches all the official denominations weld together into the Apostate Orthodox Church 501c3 Nonprofit Organization.
Recently a young man asked me this question via text message. I imagine you have been asked the same question by someone in your congregation.an eager person looking to take the next step in their spiritual growth.
And you told those aspirants to get professional help… “you” here being pastors, the target readership of this article. You didn’t give them opportunity to lead services or teach a brief Bible class, no, you told him to go away and become a competitor without your assistance.
Tell me that’s not what you do, pastors.
You probably have a safe guess as to what my answer was, especially since I am the director of the Western Seminary Seattle Teaching Site. We all know the assumed logic in America for landing a career:
1. Decide what to do with your life.
2. Go to school to learn the skillset.
3. Graduate from said school.
4. Get hired for a job using that skillset.
He’s correct, and the problems with this are obvious: Step 1 is really hard when you’re age 17 and not born gifted. Step 2 is unaffordable. Step 3 is reserved for wimmins and non-whites. And Step 4 is straight-up wishful thinking.
Now substitute “school” with .seminary,. and voil?! You have a career in pastoring . right?
You might be surprised to learn that this isn’t the answer I texted back to the aspiring pastor, and it isn’t the answer I hope pastors give congregants who ask the same question. In the Bible, those God called to shepherd his people didn’t look at their ministry work as a career.at least not in the way we understand the concept. Their learning came first from development in the context of a local church, with an eye for Christ-centered conviction, character formation, and the ability to make and multiply disciples. Formal training, if they received it, came after the core development they received within the local church.
A pleasant surprise for him to admit this. Of course, if he actually believed that Christ’s example was a good one…
That is not to say I am anti-seminary. As I wrote above, my full-time job is with a seminary. Academic training is an important resource for those entering full-time ministry. My aim here is not to discourage pastors from recommending seminary,
…then he’d be out of a job.
but to provide an intentional order of steps they can offer aspiring pastors that starts long before formal, academic training. This model comes in part from my personal experience of being mentored in the local church prior to attending seminary and in part from my current work counseling people toward theological training.
And even more, I expect, from your personal experience of attaining success via credentialing and seniority rather than devotion to Father or strength under trial.
Step 1: Learn to Kiss Ass
Oops. Ahem:
Step 1: Commit to a local church and begin serving.
This may seem basic, but it’s too important to skip, and it isn’t a given. A friend of mine recalls meeting several people during his seminary education who had not committed to a local congregation in years. Some were indecisive. Others were jaded. Many couldn’t imagine joining a congregation that didn’t fit their ideal vision of church.one they hoped to implement right after graduation.
I one listened to a combined assistant-pastor-and-Christian-school-director give his idea on how to foster local talent. After ten years of membership and low-level service, he thought laymen would have proven themselves sufficiently qualified to handle backroom church tasks such as groundskeeping oversight. Another 10-15 years and they might move up to budget work, not including budget decisions. So, about 20 years of rent-seeking to go from “guy off the street” to “Bible study substitute teacher”.
This while I was working though a correspondence seminary in the hopes that a low-level certification would impress them. That was money spent poorly.
You bet some of us potential pastors are jaded. But oh noes, we “lack commitment” if the pew cushion hasn’t yet conformed to our butt.
If a pastor’s primary task is to shepherd a local church, the sooner aspiring pastors commit to life in the local church.in all its imperfection and beauty.the better prepared they will be for future pastoral ministry. It is primarily in the context of the local church where on-the-job ministry training begins.
Before I began any formal leadership role in the local church, I immersed myself in volunteer ministry by serving with middle school students in the youth program. There, I began to learn what it means to be a servant: committing to show up for weekly youth events, helping with setup and cleanup, making space in my schedule to spend one-on-one time with kids, and enduring all-nighters and weekend retreats. I was not paid to serve in this way, nor was I given an “upfront” role. I was merely one of a team of servants giving of my time, energy, and gifts to serve the church.
I tried that by volunteering to work with kids. I don’t like kids but was tired of running the slide projector. They assigned me to the sixth graders. Although wild, most of them liked me well enough except for one problem kid who did everything from publicly slandering me to distributing porn. I was not trusted with enough authority to remove him from the group because “he needed a father figure”. I quit in frustration.
Step 2: Read the whole Bible at least once.
Holy illiterate, Batman! Didn’t you do that when you first became a Christian? A Protestant, no less? But I suppose it’s advice that must be given in Current Year. Sola Some-O’-Scriptura!
I worry that the process of reading the entire Bible is becoming a lost art. That’s unfortunate for any Christian, but for potential pastors, it is devastating. Admittedly, this is a step I didn’t experience early in my faith and church experience. I was encouraged to read portions of Scripture.key narratives and memorable passages.before I began leading in ministry, but reading the whole Bible was not part of my regular practice until later.
OMG. The blind are leading the seminary.
Step 3: Learn how to make disciples and shepherd people.
The Great Commission undergirds all pastoral ministry. There is no pastoring without disciple-making. It is absolutely imperative that aspiring pastors learn what the Great Commission ought to look like in the local church and everyday life.
During my early development, I learned that making disciples happens not just through weekly, large-group teaching, but through one-on-one and small-group environments. In one situation, I had built a relationship with a middle school boy who was deficient in his reading ability. Part of my discipleship strategy with him was reading Scripture, as well as books from the Chronicles of Narnia. This was immensely fruitful for both of us. He learned to read, and I learned how to do life-on-life discipleship.
He impresses me again by giving lip service to the Great Commission, such are my expectations. But the example he gives is not one of discipleship. Useful, yes, appropriate Christian conduct, yes, but that kid wasn’t about to be delegated any authority. This is a bait-and-switch.
Pastors often say things like, .Seminary didn’t teach me how discouraging it would be to toil in obscurity,. or, .Seminary didn’t train me to shepherd distracted people and naysayers.” Those things should be discovered in the discipleship process of any committed Christian, and I encourage you to push aspiring pastors in those areas before discerning a particular call to pastoral ministry.
One wonders what Director Derek of Western Seminary does train them to do. 501c3 Administration, pontificating and Koine Greek are my first three guesses.
Step 4: Pray and listen for God’s direction toward ministry.
Aspiring pastors cannot answer the question “How do I become a pastor?. until they have first answered the question, .What is God telling me to do?. Whatever your view of “calling” into ministry, the potential pastors you’re guiding won’t get very far without committed time in prayer and listening to God. I encourage this step after someone has spent time serving and making disciples because it is during those experiences when people typically begin to get a specific sense of God’s leading.
When I attended a Charismatic church, there was one time in a small group we were discussing the voice of God. Pastor called for a show of hands; turned out, he and half the group claimed to hear God’s audible voice on a daily basis, advising them on how to live that particular day. I regret to say that I was too dumbfounded to speak any of the limitless potential sarcastic responses I’ve thought of since then.
A month later, I was talking with the music director and he mentioned how that incident freaked him out. I agreed and he was thrilled to find a second guy who thought as he did.
Truth time: If God wants to micromanage your life then He won’t wait for you to ask His permission to do it. Put your dollar in the vending machine of life, make your choice and own the consequences. Don’t wait for the voices in your head to relieve you of responsibility first. That will not help.
Step 5: If God is leading toward pastoral ministry, begin to look at seminary.
I insert this step near the end as a way to define the nature and purpose of seminary. Unlike the typical role of education in the modern American model of career building, seminary is not the end-all means of ministry training, nor should it be the first step in the training regimen for future pastors.and I trust many seminaries would agree.
What is the purpose of seminary? Serious question, what is it? Is it a graduate school for men who are already working as pastors? Then Derek missed a critical opportunity to complain about seminary credentialism being used as a gatekeeper for paid pastoral jobs. Is it to qualify men as acceptable pastors? Then Derek should not have advised them to first learn on-the-job. Is it to cover the inevitable deficiencies of what most pastors do to recruit talent? Then why didn’t Derek call that out given the opportunity?
They offer a unique context for honing theology and ministry theory, but they are not the kind of environment where potential pastors can learn the crucial skillsets of shepherding and making disciples. This context can only be found within the local church.
You cannot learn theology from a book or a class. The Pharisees were living proof of this, having been fanatically devoted to the holy texts while completely missing the point of them.
I am living proof of this. What I read about marriage in the Bible was the opposite of what every pastor I knew of was teaching, back in the 1980s. I was very confused. Scripture couldn’t be wrong about marriage & human nature but the entire Church, independently and uniformly, was acting like it was. Surely not EVERY pastor and priest could be wrong about such basic theology.
Turned out, EVERY pastor and priest I knew actually was wrong… and fatally, rebelliously wrong at that. But I hadn’t had the life experience, the maturity to act on Biblical teachings in the face of stiff opposition.
You can’t get that kind of education from Derek’s seminary. Therefore, you don’t want a graduate of Derek seminary to tell you about God, even though he might be able to do so in the original Hebrew. You want a battle-scarred, burned, jaded, shot-up survivor of the trenches to tell you about God.
This post is a setup for one on Theodicy. Boxer mentioned he wanted to read about that topic from a Christian perspective and it’s difficult because a theological explanation of suffering is not the way to teach it. A rational explanation of why you must be miserable is useless. A personal example of “I went through the Valley of Darkness first and here is what I learned” is priceless. Because most Christian leaders are Derek types, they have no clue about this.
So, reread this post. Who would you trust to teach about God: Derek or me? That is why I had to suffer. Not that I’m looking for a position, but the quote “All things work together for the good of those who know Christ”, well, seeing is believing.
Honeycomb on Boxer’s blog tuned me in to the Holy Grail of Cuckoldry: Psychology of Men & Masculinity? is a quarterly publication and registered trademark of the American Psychological Association. Seems that the people who were convinced by peer pressure that humans aren’t sexually dimorphic if they feel strongly about it later decided to improve their understanding of male psychology, the stresses it faces and hegemonic masculine norms. With help, of course, from their new friends, the homosexual psychopolitical persons of color.
Get your popcorn ready for a whirlwind tour of official science that can’t be replicated!
Masculine Norms, Peer Group, Pornography, Facebook, and Men’s Sexual Objectification of Women
Renee Mikorski and Dawn M. Szymanski (Female ratio 2 of 2)
In this study, we examined the relations between 3 dimensions of traditional masculine gender role adherence (playboy, power over women, and violence) and likelihood to sexually objectify women via body evaluation and making unwanted sexual advances. In addition, we examined the moderating roles of association with a male peer group that abuses women, pornography consumption, and Facebook use in these links. Participants were 329 heterosexually identified undergraduate men who completed an online survey.
Two chicks used an online survey to prove porn and normal male behavior (and Facebook?) make men abusive to women. I can do better science than that with a meme generator:
Results revealed that endorsement of playboy and violence masculine norms and higher levels of pornography use uniquely predicted more body evaluation of women.
Honey, I want you to look like THIS!
Pornography use, Facebook use, the interaction of playboy norms and association with abusive male peers, the interaction of power over women norms and association with abusive male peers, and the interaction of violence norms and association with abusive male peers were unique predictors of making unwanted sexual advances.
“Wives, obey your husbands” -God. “Don’t associate with God.” -American Psychological Association
.Do You Even Lift, Bro?. Objectification, Minority Stress, and Body Image Concerns for Sexual Minority Men
by Melanie E. Brewster, Riddhi Sandil, Cirleen DeBlaere, Aaron Breslow, and Austin Eklund (Females 5/7)
Compared with their heterosexual counterparts, sexual minority men may experience a greater pressure to conform to a “culturally desirable” body type, body shape, and/or size that meets the standard of attractiveness set forth by this unique culture. However, with regard to “preferred” body types for sexual minority men, data are mixed. Some studies suggest that.akin to heterosexual women.they feel pressure to be thin, while other studies find that sexual minority men are driven to gain bulk and have more defined musculature.
These differing results happen because some fags like to be on top and some like to be on bottom. Even perversions of the sex act favor a dominant masculine and submissive feminine, something the APA is no longer allowed to notice.
Use of AAS is common among male athletes and body builders. However, steroid use is also prevalent among nonathletes, with 1% of U.S. college students reporting the use of AAS during their lifetime. Research suggests that men who use AAS wish to achieve a more muscular body as well as an increase in athletic performance; some men also report that, given the changes to their bodies, using AAS allows them to feel more confident.
There’s no other reason to use anabolic steroids. And yes, being strong feels good. You could have simply asked us, females.
However, use of AAS is more commonly linked to psychological disorders, such as anxiety and depression, as well as physical concerns, including cardiomyopathy and hypertension than positive outcomes. As such, use of AAS can lead to lifelong physical and psychological concerns for men. Considering the established link between steroid use and negative physical and psychological variables, its use in men may actually be suggestive of a body image disorder similar to bulimia or anorexia nervosa in women.
More likely, these men thought of steroids as a magical needle of injectable muscle, didn’t do their gym work and ended up with manboobs and no balls. Similar to women.
College Men’s and Women’s Masculine Gender Role Strain and Dating Violence Acceptance Attitudes: Testing Sex as a Moderator
by Ryon C. McDermott, Paige D. Naylor, Daniel McKelvey, and Lacy Kantra (Females 8/11)
The people investigating the consequences of porn should be investigating these authors. We could call it a confirmation study, maybe?
Contextualizing Behaviors Associated With Paranoia: Perspectives of Black Men
by Della V. Mosley, Kathryn Haynes Owen, Sharon Scales Rostosky, and Robert J. Reese (Females 11/14)
“Barriers to Psychopolitical Well-Being for Black Men”
There are several barriers to psychopolitical well-being that Black men must cope with and/or resist. The term psychopolitical emphasizes the “inseparable nature” of psychological and political aspects of wellness. This framework seeks to remedy deficits commonly found in psychological literature on well-being that privileges individualistic, decontextualized approaches to functioning that are found to be less effective for theorizing about Black people and their concerns. This more holistic approach considers how oppression, experienced as structural sociopolitical exclusion with biopsychosocial costs, relates to the inequitable distribution of wellness; and is therefore problematic across personal, relational, and collective realms.
“Psychopolitical”, I can use that. Are these fools going where I think they’re going?
For example, in a series of studies related to implicit crime-related bias toward Black Americans, it was found that police officers and undergraduate students made bidirectional associations between Blackness and crime. Personal aspects of Black masculinity were crucial as it was Black male faces that were found to be more quickly associated with crime-related objects. Additionally, more stereotypical Black male faces and features were more often falsely identified by police in a lineup task.
Yep, they went there. Memo to all psychologists and sociologists, stereotypes exist for valid reasons. I love how they lumped together police officers and undergraduate students. They both need more education in order to believe their leaders?
Implicit racial biases related to criminality are prevalent for Black men. For example, outcome data on New York City’s “Stop and Frisk” policy indicated that .685,724 stops were made in New York City in 2011; 88% of those stopped were not charged with any crime; 84% of those stopped were African-American or Latino. (Center for Constitutional Rights, 2012). Black men also account for the largest percentage of inmates (37%; Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice, 2014), despite comprising only 6% of the United States population (United States Census Bureau, 2012). These data suggest that stereotypes and implicit biases against Black men lead to oppressive relational interactions (e.g., lack of police support when in need, dehumanization) and collective level costs (e.g., mass incarceration, economic disadvantage).
They went there and bought a freakin’ farm. This is dogma, not science. This should never have passed peer review.
Integrating Self-Concept Into the Relationship Between Drive for Muscularity, and Disordered Eating and Depression, Among Men
by Mike C. Parent and Tyler C. Bradstreet (Females 11/16)
I thought this one could be interesting because men rarely suffer from eating disorders (other than “too many bacon cheeseburgers” and “Top Ramen-induced scurvy”). Depression is associated with eating changes but that’s not an eating disorder, that’s depression sucking the fun out of life and bacon cheeseburgers. Women have eating disorders because they’re naturally self-conscious about their beauty. What kind of man would be that self-conscious about… his beauty… uh-oh.
Research on men’s health has increasingly recognized the importance of depression and eating disorders among men. The present study sought to extend extant work on self-concept and depression to men, incorporating muscularity-related attitudes and behaviors, and also incorporating risk for disordered eating.
Interesting they didn’t use the word “masculinity”.
Two samples, one of 204 heterosexual college men and one of 197 gay and bisexual men sampled online, were recruited. Participants completed measures of drive for muscularity, self-concept, depression symptoms, and eating disorder symptoms. Data were analyzed using a structural equation model in which the relationships between drive for muscularity attitudes and behaviors, and depression and eating disorder symptoms, were mediated by physical self-concept, global physical self-concept, and self-esteem.
The model was supported for the gay and bisexual men sample, but not for the college men sample. Implications for future research with men, and integration of body-related variables into therapy with men, are discussed.
Fags again. Yes, girly men who care about their girly figures should be expected to develop girly problems more often than real men.
And that’s why the study didn’t use “masculinity”.
Men.s Depression: Endorsed Experiences and Expressions
by Miranda M. Nadeau, Michael J. Balsan, and Aaron B. Rochlen (Females 12/19)
The current study investigated the subjective expressions of a hypothetical depression experience in a community-based sample of 268 men. Participants were asked to imagine undergoing 1 of 5 difficult life events while completing measures of traditional depression, masculine depression, and conformity to hegemonic masculinity norms. More than 20% of men who would describe themselves as depressed as a result of the potential event failed to meet traditional diagnostic criteria.
“Imagine if you were depressed. What would be your symptoms?”
“I would be depressed… because my boss asked me to replicate your findings. I don’t want to pull stuff out of your ass.”
“Okay… we understand… you’re a hegemonic masculine normie.”
Of those who denied the possibility of experiencing depression, approximately 70% met traditional criteria for the disorder. In addition, a significant number of men endorsed a unique profile of symptoms not captured by traditional notions of depression (e.g., feeling that one needs to handle problems on one’s own and feeling under constant pressure). Finally, men who adhered to hegemonic masculinity norms were more likely than other men to endorse anger and aggression as aspects of depression. Considerations and implications for future research are discussed.
Translation, healthy men tend to have anger as part of their depression instead of female crying episodes. THAT is a testable hypothesis, not hegemonic masculinity norms.
The Role of Social Class, Ethnocultural Adaptation, and Masculinity Ideology on Mexican American College Men’s Well-Being
by guess who, three taco-benders: Lizette Ojeda, Brandy Pin.a-Watson, and Gerardo Gonzalez (Females 14/22)
Two words: population size.
Three words: authors’ personal bias
Five words: PhD = Pile of Horse Dung
Drive for Muscularity in Asian American Men: Sociocultural and Racial/Ethnic Factors as Correlates
by Hsiu-Lan Cheng, Ryon C. McDermott, Y. Joel Wong, and Susanna La (Females 16/24???)
Why does THIS survey not use “masculinity”?
Drive for muscularity is a prominent factor in men’s body image concerns; however, researchers have typically examined this construct in samples of predominantly White, non-Hispanic men. The present study extended existing sociocultural theories of men’s body image by examining the relative contributions of media internalization (i.e., general internalization and athletic ideal internalization of media body image portrayals), acculturative experiences (i.e., acculturation to mainstream American culture, enculturation to one’s heritage culture), and racial stressors (i.e., perceived racial discrimination, perceived perpetual foreigner racism) as predictors of drive for muscularity attitudes and behaviors in a large sample of Asian American college men (N 338).
Whew, no fags! They just want to find out why yellow gymbros exist, which somebody thought was money well spent. My guess would be that a healthier diet with real meat, not sushi and that Korean not-cabbage, helps them grow bigger. One could test this by comparing average heights across generations, another measure of nutrition-derived health. Fun fact: Most American men would not fit in medieval-produced body armor because we never suffered famine in childhood.
After controlling for participants. self-esteem…
sigh
…body mass index, ethnicity, and generational status in the U.S., hierarchical regressions revealed that greater acculturation to mainstream American culture and perceived perpetual foreigner racism predicted unique variance in drive for muscularity attitudes over and above the contributions of both forms of media internalization.
Translation: Asians who abandon their Asian roots get more buff. That is consistent with both better nutrition and American concepts of self-reliance.
Body image concerns, historically viewed as women’s issues, have been increasingly observed in men. Although the sociocultural standard of physical attractiveness for women focuses on thinness and a slender body shape, the standard for men emphasizes a muscular body ideal. The ideal physique for men, as reflected in the Western media, is tall and muscular, with wide shoulders, large biceps, a hefty chest, and a narrow waist low in body fat and, although highly valued, is also unrealistic to attain.
The phrasing of this paragraph makes me think that the author believes the sexiness of big, tall, strong men is a social construct. Meanwhile, Roosh is on record saying that the reason women like visibly huge muscles with low body fat is because they can’t tell the difference between a strong man and a weak man unless it’s that obvious.
Asian American men, like most men in the United States, are surrounded by rampant media portrayals of highly muscular male body images. Though largely unattainable, the muscularity ideal is espoused by the American public as an embodiment of hegemonic masculine norms…
There’s that phrase again. These researcher are from different universities yet share curiously similar language.
…such as self-reliance, competitiveness, dominance, and physical strength. Because muscularity is often associated with masculinity, researchers have noted that minority men who may not fit the typical masculine body ideal are often unhappy with their appearance and may feel less masculine. Asian American men, in particular, may be at a disadvantage to meet the ideal body standards because of a biological predisposition to body types that depart from the White-centric aesthetic ideal.
Why do they think bulging biceps is white-centric? What female prefers a small, weak man to a big, strong man? …No, she only slept with Harvey Weinstein to get into Hollywood.
Moreover, the U.S. media often denigrate the Asian male physique, racializing them in restrictive or negative images such as small, unathletic, nerdy, socially awkward, and lacking sexual and romantic competencies.
That’s the price of being smart, kids. Sex is fun but women and heavy weights just aren’t as interesting as math class. My sympathies. Asian traditions of conformity don’t encourage confidence, either.
Thus, it is perhaps not surprising that Asian American men are aware of the negative media and public stereotypes against them, which may promote greater drive for muscularity as a stereotype-countering strategy.
Why is it a problem if Asian Americans want to get buff? Are the authors being intolerant of their chosen lifestyle? Or did the Asian male authors fail a massive shit test by the Asian female authors while “researching” this paper?
Measuring Masculinity in the Context of Chronic Disease
by Suzanne K. Chambers, Melissa K. Hyde, John L. Oliffe, Leah Zajdlewicz, Anthony Lowe, Addie C. Wootten, and Jeff Dunn (Females 20/31)
Masculine beliefs are influential in men’s responses to illness; however, current measures of masculinity may not be salient for highly prevalent chronic diseases such as prostate cancer. To address this gap, a contextualized measure of masculinity for men with prostate cancer was developed.
This article is just rude. “How masculine does prostate cancer make you feel?”
Masculinity and Men’s Self-Harm Behaviors: Implications for Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Disorder
by Jonathan D. Green and Matthew Jakupcak (Females 20/33)
This one is legit. It might deserve its own post.
Masculine Consciousness and Anti-Effeminacy Among Latino and White Gay Men
by Francisco J. S?nchez, F. Javier Blas-Lopez, Mar?a Jos? Mart?nez-Pati?o, and Eric Vilain
There’s no chance any of those authors are cis-male. Females 24/37.
No Harm in Looking, Right? Men’s Pornography Consumption, Body Image, and Well-Being
by Tracy L. Tylka. Final count, Females 25 of 38. 66%, nearly identical with current college enrollment gender ratios. We may now discontinue all sexual affirmative-action programs.
Suffice to say, she thinks porn gives men bad self-images because they’re comparing themselves to society’s ideal masculine appearance. Total hamsterbation. That’s what porn does to women… because they have to outperform pictures that never disrespect the viewer and sex dolls that never get fat. God forbid that a woman should ever have poor self-image because she can’t outperform a DOLL.
