April 21, 2014
Nancy Pelosi
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CATFIGHTING AMONG THE TRANSGENDERED
A young, militant, and stridently humorless contingent of the “transgendered community” that suffers from a seemingly insatiable compulsion to police the language has turned on its own kind and is now throwing rotten tomatoes at transsexual icons.
Jayne County, a transsexual punk-rock pioneer formerly known as Wayne County, may soon be known as Shame County merely for using the words “tranny” and “shemale” in a party invitation on Facebook. County was banned from Facebook for 24 hours after using the offending words, which until very recently were commonly accepted descriptors in the tranny/shemale scene.
It recalls the recent shame-fest“a veritable tempest in a T-pot”regarding towering black transsexual RuPaul’s use of the terms “she-mail,” “she-male,” and “tranny.” Apparently the problem with old-school trannies such as Jayne County and RuPaul is that they have no shame”which we thought was the whole point of “transsexual pride” in the first place, no? Now the problem is that they don”t have enough shame? It’s sooo hard to keep score.
BRAINS ON THE BRAIN
A slew of new studies released last week revealed the following tidbits about human brain function:
“¢ Older people may be apathetic because their brains are shrinking.
“¢ Artists have “more neural matter in the parts of their brain relating to visual imagery and fine motor control.”
“¢ Up to a third of patients thought to be in vegetative states may actually be conscious and are merely unable to communicate that fact.
“¢ A joint study”pun intended”by Northwestern Medicine and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School found that even casual marijuana use can alter “key regions of the brain affecting emotion and decision-making” and that the more marijuana one smokes, “the more brain abnormalities scientists found.”
“¢ Testosterone replacement therapy, already linked to heart disease, may now also be linked to brain damage”but only in white males rather than Mexican-American males, go figure.
“¢ A study at Simon Fraser University found that brain function peaks at age 24, and then it’s a slow howling descent into dementia and incontinence.
THE STUBBORN PERSISTENCE OF WHITE MALES” EXISTENCE
Creepy white guys“damn them!”continue to disproportionately rule the entertainment roost, taking up an estimated 90% of director’s roles in upcoming summer blockbusters, hogging up way too much space in the screenwriting industry, and still arrogantly dominating the ranks of late-night talk-show hosts.
Yet there is still hope for nonwhites, non-males, and their white-male allies who hate the very idea of being white males: The American labor movement is becoming less white and less male. And American academia is on top of the White Male Question, as evidenced by a recent questionnaire sent out by Western Washington University that asked, “How do we make sure that in future years ‘we are not as white as we are today?’” In a 2012 speech, WWU President Bruce Shepard said:
Every year, from this stage and at this time, you have heard me say that, if in decades ahead, we are as white as we are today, we will have failed as [a] university.
Shepard also recently wrote:
In the decades ahead, should we be as white as we are today, we will be relentlessly driven toward mediocrity; or, become a sad shadow of our current self.
Deliberately or not, ethno-masochists such as Mr. Shepard are helping to cultivate future flocks of increasingly dark and exponentially angry sheep that will refuse to be led by white (ahem) Shepards.
