It is cult behaviour: "love-bombing" people to win them over; telling them that family and friends who are opposed to their new life "hate" them and that the cult is their new family; discarding them as soon as they have misgivings; and trying to destroy their reputation if they speak against the cult. Numerous detransitioners have spoken of this cycle.
Lately, the Mayor of London has been putting up increasingly sinister signs on the London Underground. The first read, "You are loved & wanted in London". I wasn't sure if that was about tourism, immigration, Pride or what.
The second, much more sinister, one reads, "I came to London alone and met my found family". The whole concept of "found family" seems to be an attack on natural families ("heteronormativity" as the Queer Theorists call it to try to make it seem strange and unnatural) and an encouragement of joining cults and cult-like far-left groups.
Being in London feels more and more like being in some kind of parallel universe totalitarian woke state.
The found family is SO CREEPY. The thing is it preys upon the most vulnerable as people who have healthy attachments and stable upbringing will run the other way. So anti-safeguarding. Also part of that 'Lego life' that is being promoted. Everything is a choice, there are no bonds, no history, no depth. Need a new family? Find one! Whoop whoop! Brings to mind latest Jenny Holland podcast with Father (forget second name) speaking about how young men are returning to faith - even when they have been raised in atheist households. They spoke about how there are 'resonances' of faith that exist through generations. I like that.
Yeah the cult thing is obvious. But it's also an addiction. Jo thrives on the 'fix' of playing female, both pharmaceutically and socially. And it destroys him, just like an addict is destroyed by the substance he longs for.
I have not been to London properly (outside of Westminster when came for a conference in October) in over five years. I keep seeing Londoners post how it is unrecognisable. It's awful - such a remarkable place.
Lastly "You are loved and wanted in London" - that is just stupid. Makes a mockery of words.
You can't reason Jesus out of something she wasn't reasoned into. I'm all for separation of church and state theatre.
At what point do we admit that the subsidised arts sector has merely reinvented the Victorian freak show? They too featured incredible personal stories of exceptional and exotic individuals with 'lived experience'. Only now, anyone can be a bearded lady after a quick appointment at the gender clinic, so what's the point?
It’s the not exceptional version of the Victorian freak show- so dripping in social conventions and privilege to render it dull as dishwater. Even their consistent sexualised ‘commentary’ on Catholicism is tiresome. I agree they need to stop being subsidised. They have failed to serve the electorate who pays for them.
Sure thing. He is the root of trans activism here in my opinion. Through him scotland got to show its ‘exceptionalism’ - his shows toured the world through all the anticipated networks. I think his pre-trans plays were acceptable- but his trans work is just terrible artistically. Nothing in it but self serving narcissism - fawned over by the elite circles he swims in. And so it continues.
It was a sarcastic reference to men who imagine they are a female deity (self-identified, of course). Thanks for the tip on Jo Clifford, who will have a starring role in my next article for Genspect.
Also they have exiled the few non-compliant artists already (like myself, Jenny Lindsay and Rosie Kay of course more high profile). Their echo chamber validates their choices
I’d be fine with their taking themselves out , but they take down the funding for others in the process. This is going to be a very long time in turning around and we’re not even close yet.
I agree. It's an impossible situation. That said art has thrived in the most precarious of times historically so perhaps we will see a revival. I live in hope!
Good piece - I particularly appreciate the collection of the evidence of harms of 'gender' 'medicine'. However, I don't think one can or should state that any individual is "not a threat", because:
(i) we can't categorically know that for certain - all we can say is that is our personal impression; the only thing that will reveal whether a person is a threat or not is the fullness of their own time;
(ii) given the distorted perceptions of trans-identified people, the high proportion of sexual offenders amongst trans-identified prisoners, the continual evidence of strains of anti-woman and anti-childhood spirit amongst 'gender' sympathisers, the overwhelming failure of 'trans' people and organisations to condemn abuses, all allied to the male sexual instinct, one has reason to be additionally wary, in general terms, about trans-identified males in particular in certain situations;
(iii) if the individual in question is accessing 'wrong sex' spaces and, evidently being a male in what should be a female-only area, their presence causes fear or anxiety to women or girls in that space, then they ARE a threat to those women's/girls' peace of mind. They don't have to do anything more than just be there to cause harm.
Oh I totally agree with you. I was trying to show even that possibility of threat removed the ideology is destructive to the person it purports to help.
Trans never should have been included in the LGB. They have not just brainwashed people to think that long term synthetic hormone use is progressive they have trashed all the good will that was cultivated with LGB in wider public. Malcolm Clark writes about this. As you know many in the original LGB movement were also very strict with keeping the ‘man boy love’ crew out. That also seems to have fallen by the wayside. So all the goodwill trashed and safeguarding to children erased. We have a lot of work to do 😞
It is cult behaviour: "love-bombing" people to win them over; telling them that family and friends who are opposed to their new life "hate" them and that the cult is their new family; discarding them as soon as they have misgivings; and trying to destroy their reputation if they speak against the cult. Numerous detransitioners have spoken of this cycle.
Lately, the Mayor of London has been putting up increasingly sinister signs on the London Underground. The first read, "You are loved & wanted in London". I wasn't sure if that was about tourism, immigration, Pride or what.
The second, much more sinister, one reads, "I came to London alone and met my found family". The whole concept of "found family" seems to be an attack on natural families ("heteronormativity" as the Queer Theorists call it to try to make it seem strange and unnatural) and an encouragement of joining cults and cult-like far-left groups.
Being in London feels more and more like being in some kind of parallel universe totalitarian woke state.
The found family is SO CREEPY. The thing is it preys upon the most vulnerable as people who have healthy attachments and stable upbringing will run the other way. So anti-safeguarding. Also part of that 'Lego life' that is being promoted. Everything is a choice, there are no bonds, no history, no depth. Need a new family? Find one! Whoop whoop! Brings to mind latest Jenny Holland podcast with Father (forget second name) speaking about how young men are returning to faith - even when they have been raised in atheist households. They spoke about how there are 'resonances' of faith that exist through generations. I like that.
Yeah the cult thing is obvious. But it's also an addiction. Jo thrives on the 'fix' of playing female, both pharmaceutically and socially. And it destroys him, just like an addict is destroyed by the substance he longs for.
I have not been to London properly (outside of Westminster when came for a conference in October) in over five years. I keep seeing Londoners post how it is unrecognisable. It's awful - such a remarkable place.
Lastly "You are loved and wanted in London" - that is just stupid. Makes a mockery of words.
Ahhh yes - it always ends at going after the Catholics. So predictable.
They should just start there next time and spare us all the pretense.
Indeed. Easy target though.
You can't reason Jesus out of something she wasn't reasoned into. I'm all for separation of church and state theatre.
At what point do we admit that the subsidised arts sector has merely reinvented the Victorian freak show? They too featured incredible personal stories of exceptional and exotic individuals with 'lived experience'. Only now, anyone can be a bearded lady after a quick appointment at the gender clinic, so what's the point?
It’s the not exceptional version of the Victorian freak show- so dripping in social conventions and privilege to render it dull as dishwater. Even their consistent sexualised ‘commentary’ on Catholicism is tiresome. I agree they need to stop being subsidised. They have failed to serve the electorate who pays for them.
Here he is actually sainted https://www.thesisters.org.uk/saints.html
Sure thing. He is the root of trans activism here in my opinion. Through him scotland got to show its ‘exceptionalism’ - his shows toured the world through all the anticipated networks. I think his pre-trans plays were acceptable- but his trans work is just terrible artistically. Nothing in it but self serving narcissism - fawned over by the elite circles he swims in. And so it continues.
Jesus is a man. Not a 'she'.
I think Daniel did that unintentionally. Jennifer Bilek was just speaking about how this crap so messes with your head. It really needs to stop.
It was a sarcastic reference to men who imagine they are a female deity (self-identified, of course). Thanks for the tip on Jo Clifford, who will have a starring role in my next article for Genspect.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-46551824.amp
https://www.thesisters.org.uk/index.html
They provide the excuse for the powers that be to undermine funding to all areas of the arts, and are useful in that way.
Also they have exiled the few non-compliant artists already (like myself, Jenny Lindsay and Rosie Kay of course more high profile). Their echo chamber validates their choices
I’d be fine with their taking themselves out , but they take down the funding for others in the process. This is going to be a very long time in turning around and we’re not even close yet.
I agree. It's an impossible situation. That said art has thrived in the most precarious of times historically so perhaps we will see a revival. I live in hope!
They seed their own demise
Good piece - I particularly appreciate the collection of the evidence of harms of 'gender' 'medicine'. However, I don't think one can or should state that any individual is "not a threat", because:
(i) we can't categorically know that for certain - all we can say is that is our personal impression; the only thing that will reveal whether a person is a threat or not is the fullness of their own time;
(ii) given the distorted perceptions of trans-identified people, the high proportion of sexual offenders amongst trans-identified prisoners, the continual evidence of strains of anti-woman and anti-childhood spirit amongst 'gender' sympathisers, the overwhelming failure of 'trans' people and organisations to condemn abuses, all allied to the male sexual instinct, one has reason to be additionally wary, in general terms, about trans-identified males in particular in certain situations;
(iii) if the individual in question is accessing 'wrong sex' spaces and, evidently being a male in what should be a female-only area, their presence causes fear or anxiety to women or girls in that space, then they ARE a threat to those women's/girls' peace of mind. They don't have to do anything more than just be there to cause harm.
Oh I totally agree with you. I was trying to show even that possibility of threat removed the ideology is destructive to the person it purports to help.
Ah, getcha.
Trans never should have been included in the LGB. They have not just brainwashed people to think that long term synthetic hormone use is progressive they have trashed all the good will that was cultivated with LGB in wider public. Malcolm Clark writes about this. As you know many in the original LGB movement were also very strict with keeping the ‘man boy love’ crew out. That also seems to have fallen by the wayside. So all the goodwill trashed and safeguarding to children erased. We have a lot of work to do 😞