Ebay Is Pulling a Tumblr by Banning Adult Content.

It’s been strange seeing society get ever more prudish with many people simultaneously claiming this very-obvious thing is not occurring. But it has been, since at least the mid-1980s.

I guess soon enough the feminists will be donning burqas while extolling how very “woman-centric” it is, and claiming feminism is really about the choice to withdraw from the world and avert the male gaze by dressing like a beekeeper, only going out escorted by a male relative.

That’s certainly what Gloria Steinem and Shulamith Firestone were fighting for, alright.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

I really like this shot of one of my favorite French singers, Clou:

(Her real name is Anne-Claire Ducoudray.)

I was the fastest girl in Connecticut. But transgender athletes made it an unfair fight.

Transgender ideology is harmful to women and gay people.

As I’ve said before, transgender fundamentalists & the orgs & individuals which support them are essentially anti-gay (& misogynist). You wouldn’t know this if you listened to the mainstream media (and dumb celebrities) which lumps them together as LGBT+. You’ve been misinformed https://t.co/SCZW7NndtW

— GuruAnaerobic (@GuruAnaerobic) May 22, 2021

I feel bad for the girl in the USA Today story, who was previously at the top of her sport but is now defeated by biologically-male runners.

But time after time, I have lost. I’ve lost four women’s state championship titles, two all-New England awards, and numerous other spots on the podium to male runners. I was bumped to third place in the 55-meter dash in 2019, behind two male runners. With every loss, it gets harder and harder to try again.

Alas, there are such things as biological facts. Pretending they don’t exist doesn’t make them go away. Even now, after working out for several years, I’m not especially strong for a male. I’m maybe in the top 75-80% now. But if I were to decide I was a woman, I’d be in the top 99.8% of strength for women immediately. And that advantage would not go away even with years of being on estrogen, etc.

It’s completely deleterious to these women and women’s sports in general that biological males are allowed to compete in women’s sports. Anyone who can’t see that is being purely foolish.

The Texas Mask Mystery. When the governor lifted the state’s mandate, liberals predicted disaster. But it never came. Why?

Most liberals who were right were only accidentally correct about predicting pandemic disaster early. It wasn’t based on real systems examination or true cogitation, just shifting with the winds. Because, remember, very early, 90% of liberals were like, “Not shaking hands is racist, masks don’t work and are also racist, and anyway we should be worrying about the flu.”

Now, of course, they predict disaster as a matter of course and are always wrong as the pandemic is being brought under control in the US.

One of the things that made me a contrarian early on was observing that most people were wrong most of the time about most things. I am no longer a contrarian, really (as my thinking has grown more sophisticated than that), but I certainly still have those tendencies.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

Went into several stores today without a mask and it was glorious. Made me truly realize how much I hate the masks and how very much my cognition suffered with those things on.

The woman at the counter helping me get some shrimp pad thai said, as I was for once in the mood to be very charming, “It’s so nice to see people’s faces again.” Right on, sister. About 2/3 of the people in the store we dropped by were without masks, though it wasn’t that crowded.

Mask culture needs now to be destroyed as the virus retreats since it has soured into yet another aspect of the abandonment of community and civilization and is emblematic of withdrawing into the loathsome pod.