#ideological capture

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

We have a serious problem

Michael Laidlaw, MD: I'm a board-certified endocrinologist, practicing in private practice for the last 16 years. I've been studying and publishing in this area for the last 5 years, including peer reviewed journals such as Journal of of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, and others. I also have a patient who is a detransitioner.

I think it's important to note that studies are shown that desistance, or growing out of this condition, of children by adulthood is very high. It's some 50-98%.

I want to be sure before I give someone a very powerful hormone like Insulin that they in fact have diabetes.

What about cancer? Before we give any powerful agents such as chemotherapeutics or surgeries, we certainly want to have physical evidence of this problem, such as biopsies or imaging.

Now, the gender affirmative therapy treatment proposed by WPATH gives very powerful hormones and surgeries on what basis? Where can we find the gender identity to be certain that these children will not desist by adulthood? Can we use imaging of the brain or blood tests, genetic testing, are there other biomarkers to ensure that we are correct? There is no such thing.

Julia Mason, MD: The Endocrine Society put out guidelines in 2017, and they were very careful in the guidelines. One, to point out that the evidence was of low and very low quality. And they also said in the guidelines that they have no idea how you identify which kids are trans and require this treatment.

And then the American Academy of Pediatrics the next year just leapt into that void and said, oh, oh, we'll tell you how you know which kids. You ask them.

Prior to 2018 I had maybe one trans patient. But then there was another one. And another one. And another one.

It wasn't until later that I started asking questions like, wait, every single kid I send to the gender clinic gets put on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones. Just, it was happening immediately.

Patrick Hunter, MD: This affirmative model of care has spread wildly in the last 8 years. Now we have objective, unbiased systematic reviews. These systematic reviews tell us the evidence for youth transition is poor quality, and with very low certainty for benefit.

In JAMA Pediatrics, there was a study reported from Northwestern University in Chicago. Patients ranged in age from 13 to 24 years. The authors concluded that mastectomy was beneficial and should not be delayed in youth. What lead them to that conclusion? The finding that 3 months after surgery, the 36 patients were happy with their flat chests. They lost 9% of their surgical cases to follow-up. Nine percent. In 3 months.

It is absurd, meaningless to draw any conclusions after 3 months.

This paper is indicative of the quality of research we have in this field, published in our most prestigious journals.

We have a serious problem.

#gender ideology #queer theory #medical transition #desistance #detrans #sex trait modification #genderwang #detransition #trans identity #cross sex hormones #wrong sex hormones #puberty blockers #poor research #medical malpractice #medical scandal #medical corruption #endocrinology #low quality #ideological capture #ideological corruption #religion is a mental illness

[nomorerww]

#sick sick sick #misogyny #ideological capture

[thearbourist]

The Red Pen Of Justice - YMCA Regina's Campaign to Erase Women

The CBC seems utterly transfixed (ha!) on erasing women from the public sphere.  The CBC news headline from cbc.ca. “YWCA Regina stands by trans woman giving keynote speech at [a Woman’s] award event amid backlash”   We are going to go through the article and highlight what the YWCA aka the Young Women’s Christian Association is saying in an attempt to normalize the notion that males who…

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#Bullshit Transideology #Canada #CBC #Ideological Capture #Nutrien "women" of Distinction Award #RPOJ #YWCA

[code31-onthedancefloor]

what do you think dros was thinking when he first saw the phasmid? was he experiencing wonder; serenity? did he feel the world was still playing sick tricks on him: did he believe he was going insane from isolation and this was one of the symptoms? was it helplessness - that even though this miracle of nature stood before him, his beliefs prevented him from telling anyone about it? did the phasmid stand over iosef, watching him watch martinaise through his scope? did he feel her eyes on him for hours, until he forgot the eyes and the pheromones burnt a hole in his brain where she used to be? is he in a kind of grief over her absence in his head? is it a coincidence that the character who is most unable to move on from his past is on an island where the only other living being tells the player to turn from the ruin and move forward? that the most self-appraisingly noble and hopeless of causes has looked at the future for too long, and it is destroying him...

#this too is yuri #i find it funny and heartbreaking. maybe he did love the bug - in a way. #companionship. he never shot it. it just stood there and watched him until his mind eroded... #also? the sorrow in her voice when she tells you this? #she cared for him in a way that the future might take pity on the past. but ultimately it washes away. #into the wild pale yonder. because the people of the present cannot dwell unless they crave stagnation #and the other two stagnated men - stagnated socially; financially; ideologically; occupationally - capture a piece of something beautiful #while the man who sat and dwelled until that miracle next to him dissolved into mundane fractures falls apart himself in grief #and confusion. the world truly has no place for him anymore. #in other words: #get stickbugged #<- that is their ship name now #txt #disco elysium #insulindian phasmid #iosef dros

[bunkernine]

Society if Azula raised kuvira 🙄

#purposely avoiding the firebenders are bad arc WHATEVER SURE but the way the fire nation is just not there is UGLIER!!!!!!! #zaheer being an airbender is awesome. amon being bloodbender is like lol ok fine. unalaq doesnt even register 2 me that didnt happen #why not just make varrick crazier 💀 #idk kuvira and azula have opposing values which is why they would be interesting as a dynamic #but still they coulve went from kuvira to amon to zaheer or a to k to z? #the earth queen can die any other way cuz literally them killing her and then trying to capture korra were their only faults mentioned 😭 #they never talked about the actual ideologies 😭😭😭 whatever anarchy whatever #but anyway going from zaheer and p'li to how kuvira is willing to give up bataar 😰🙄😫 LOVE DOESNT WIN?????? NOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! #also wish korra lost her bending for a longer time but fucking crazy she lost it in the 1st place #but whatever this show is fun im not the biggest fan of like the mecha stuff but SAD whatever

[thedreadvampy]

christ almighty some people are sad fucking miseries huh

#red said #all art that is rewarded by capitalism must be actively preventing you resisting Hegemonic power abloobloobloobloo #fuck me get over yourself #is art a powerful tool for propaganda subject to corporate capture? yes #is art necessary to be human? also yes #all art carries the weight of the society it exists in. and yes revolutionary art is either buried or defanged by the power it protests #so no you're unlikely to see like. Art That Smashes The System on a large scale. the revolution will not be televised. #art is not going to change the world but art can change you. and you change the world be existing in it. #and you are changed and resonated with in ways that are many and unpredictable bc people resonate differently with different things #capitalism isn't. a conspiracy. it's an ideology and system of power. #it's human. and can we be real if there's one thing I'm learning from this EEAAO thing it's that people are really blind #to messages that fully don't land with them #capitalism isn't some infallible godking who foils your every move. art that moves you can still move you #the criticism that art which is lauded by the authorities cannot be truly anti-capitalist art is one thing #to extend that to say art which is lauded by the authorities cannot be positively meaningful AT ALL and can only be counterrevolutionary #is HOG FUCKING WILD like. first off. think about any work of art you can name from the last 1000 years. #guess what. probably a product of the patronage of power. political philosophy too. making art costs. gaining an audience costs. #we exist within a network of systems of power. even within underground and independent art scenes structures of power play in #nonetheless. we require art. #and art is not just for direct political confrontation. art is an act of connection and resonance. #never mind art that's inadequately revolutionary - art that's entirely capitalist is ALSO capable of positive political impact #because a) it acts on people. and politics. is a frame around people. the point of opposing unjust hierarchy is to achieve wellbeing #like. why are you doing politics if not for people? who is it for? for the abstract symbolism of moral purity? #and b) because art is a frame for building your sense of the world. And you bring your own stuff to that. #if you're radically inclined then reading idk les mis can leave you with the idea that revolution is futile. #or with the sense that there's deep vitality and importance to holding your ground against unjust power despite the knowledge of the odds #or with the sense that revolution is personal not political #or with the sense that the personal is metaphorical for the political and that our drive is to act against the law to protect each other #it depends what you bring to the text

[weepingnightmarenaruto]

The Naruto fandom is so funny cause even a small little line from a female character that can be interpreted as maybe a tiny bit insensitive and people will act as if she’s the worst person ever even though she’s like 12.

While Sasuke can try and get a jinchuriki captured (and murdered) and Sasuke stans will forgive him, and act as if he did nothing wrong, and still think that Sasuke cares about marginalised groups in the Naruto world, even though he tried to get someone from one murdered purely because of what he would gain from it.

#naruto #Naruto fans tend to forget that jinchurikis are also oppressed #‘sasuke did nothing wrong’ #he tried to get a person from a marginalised group captured and murdered #sasuke is okay with throwing other oppressed people under the bus #to get what he wants #like I love sasuke to #but this was a flaw of his #he’s a traumatised 16 year old who lacked a good supporting network #and felt very lost after itachi’s death #something obito took advantage of #he’s not your ‘anarchist/communist revolutionary icon’ #he’s 16 #doesn’t have a canon ideology #and you’re projecting #mine

[murasakiyuzu]

me when i think im fighting the powerful external threat but then it turns out im the powerful external threat to everyone else

#they were right but not in the way they thought and never so straightforwardly lol #titans didnt end inner dispute in the island any more than the existence of paradis stopped war among marley and the rest of the world #after 100 years paradis did get made into this threat that “united the world” but that was never the point #marley sought to both gather other countries under its own interests (namely pillaging the island and capturing the founding titan) #and to Also dissuade other countries from attacking Them as anti-titan technology improved and threatened their power #honestly thats the thing that bothers me abt shingeki no kyojins worldbuilding and writing #the struggle for power clearly governs every relationship and sequence of events in the story #yet the text seems to only elaborate on this cycle of violence in terms of race or ideology or history #which are certainly factors that must be considered #but the struggle for dominance and power is the base of it all #rewatching shingeki no kyojin #mumbling yuzu

[demonicimagery]

i’m not yet fully sure how to annunciate this but satine kyrze in clone wars is written in such a way that the writers misogyny is inextricable from her character for me and it’s very hard to like her or hate her or really cohere what she could have been. like the relationship that damara has to hussie’s racism in homestuck but without the handmaid. maybe it’s my own thing but all portrayal of her positive or negative falls flat to me bc it’s so removed from what her character is or it’s too fucking sexist to stomach

#satine kryze #it’s hard to explain but like: #they’ve basically made “oh this ideology sounds good on paper but is unsustainable” #into a character #they do this by oversimplifying an ideology #not thinking particularly hard about the ramifications of her actions #making her set dressing for obi wan every time she’s on screen #then when she’s captured she’s portrayed as almost naive? despite her age and experience? #like as if women being overly idealistic and irresponsible rulers wasn’t loaded #it’s not like they set her up as an individually flawed person #because they barely set her up as a person at all! #and then she’s fridged for obi wan #then people are like “hey her ideals are a bit fucked” #which makes sense! #but then they’re like “because she’s trying to do a cultural genocide of mandalore or she’s too stupid to understand the consequences” #”of her own actions” #which also suck and are almost always sexist #i’ve seen fic that basically says “shut up the men are talking” #uncritically #this isn’t super well phrased bc it’s like 1am but i was trying to look through bo katan’s tag and was so fed up by the misogyny #also i hope the damara comparison makes sense #me tag #star wars

[andreeds]

havent rimposted on here in a while. here's the base of my current save

i have ideology+biotech dlcs and im playing as a custom* race of cave dwellers whose ideology resolves around being cave dwellers. lights bad dark good eclipse is perfect their diet is entirely cave grown fungus with occasional meat from a raider** and everyone who isnt a raxdactyl and/or a caveist is fucking miserable here

#my post #*by custom i mean i made all starting pawns to have the same xenotype and saved it. not sure if thats a mod thing or not tho. oops #but sometimes i encounter other raxdactyls in the wild #**the irony is that i had a hen and a rooster but they didnt make it thru winter of the first year and now i cant find any roosters #so no easy meat for now #also acquired that highmate (the purple one) from a crashed pod event captured him converted to caveism recruited him #and paired him up with the other pawn whos also incapable of violence. they are already married and have a baby #you may ask how did i get steam geysers inside a cave that i fully dug out? and the answer is cheatingofc<-the dev tools are in the top of #for those who arent familiar with rimworld: nutrifungus grows in complete darkness and is usually hated by all ideologies #and highmates are biologically engineered perfect lovers who are always incapable of violence and will have a special bond with their partn #they are so rare tho! i dont think ive ever seen one in my other save thats like 30+ in game years #rimposting #oh also its cropped bc the rest of the map is just undug mountain. thanks to geological formations mod i have a perfect set up for this sav

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

[ Source: EPATH Conference 2019. ]

Apparently being a regular teenager is a disorder requiring medical treatment and the removal of body parts. Not only are you "trans" if you don't fit a 1950s Barbie/G.I. Joe stereotype, you're "trans" if you don't fit a 1950s "golly, gee" soda shoppe "Leave It To Beaver" stereotype.

This is the same tactic psychics use to tell you your fortune, and astrologers use to convince you that distant stars reflect your personality. It's called the Forer Effect, or Barnum Effect.

To really drive home the cult programming, any time you're feeling better, that's how you know you've gotten worse.

For political and ideological reasons - for example, one presenter actually claims that children are being "misdiagnosed" as autistic when they're actually trans - they've flipped the symptom and the cause.

This is more accurate:

#Wilfred Reilly #gender cult #queer theory #gender ideology #mental health #mental health issues #gender dysphoria #gender anxiety #puberty #unethical #medical scandal #medical malpractice #ideological capture #psychology #human psychology #sex trait modification #genderwang #religion is a mental illness

[baited-beth]

Exciting news! After failing to get through to the D&I lead that I was reporting a reputational issue about hostility towards GC views, not a personal grievance, my manager actually listened to me and was shocked that I wasn’t being taken seriously. He raised it with our HR lead, who was also shocked by the whole saga, and she’s now forming a plan with others in HR. My manager also spoke to someone pretty high up and he’s confident she’s taking it pretty seriously and has said she’s going to do some work to try to resolve it.

#I feel like I’m not screaming into the void quite so much #yes people are entitled to their opinions but that doesn’t give them the right to shut down opinions they disagree with #or the right to make unsubstantiated claims #that’s the point I’ve been trying to make all along #I obviously should have gone to people in normal jobs first off rather than those actually responsible for this stuff #because the people responsible only get into these jobs because they’re ideologically captured

[disgruntledseagull]

When a feminist calls you an idiot, it's projection.

Feminists are the dumbest organized group alive. They are incapable of recognizing when they have spent all of their rhetorical credit.

They just keep on rolling with the same tired old garbage, like you idiots don't think I heard all of this empty shit from my stupid narcissist mother dozens of times already?

Don't you fools realize that most of the people who hate you were raised by one of you? I know your shitty, low-energy, defeatist arguments better than you know them yourselves.

You are infantile utopian thinkers and you will never achieve the world you think you want. Your only choices are to grow up, or go to your grave a failure.

#idiots the pile of you #venting your spleens on who you were told to hate #without a single original thought #like religious fanatics #ideologically captured

[didanawisgi]

#journalism #ideology #ideological possession #regulatory capture #new dark ages

[hazardous-waste-containment]

Interested in the fusion of white nationalism and even Nazism with historically anti-racialist fundamentalist Catholicism, as touted by Fuentes and some other America First guys. Joe Brody is genocidally racist and seems to specifically identify as a Nazi in a few places (and where he criticises them, his issues are tactical more than ideological) and yet has also called for Jews to convert. Obviously orthodox national socialists are not remotely interested in saving Jews’ souls nor do they particularly care about Vatican II and so on so it’s a semi-notable development

#might also be some ideological transformation there that laying out a handful of his posts non-linearly doesn't capture

[msclaritea]

Canada's top court criticised after referring to female rape victim as 'person with a vagina'

Canada’s top court criticised after referring to female rape victim as ‘person with a vagina’

Vancouver’s rape relief shelter says the ‘blurring of language’ doesn’t serve the fight to end male violence against women

Rozina Sabur,

DEPUTY US EDITOR

16 March 2024 • 2:33pm

Justice Sheilah Martin (bottom right) with other justices of the Supreme Court in Ottawa, Canada

Canada’s Supreme Court has been ridiculed after ruling that referring to a female sexual assault victim as a “woman” was confusing and the term “person with a vagina” should be used instead.

It is believed to be the first time the new terminology has appeared in the country’s judicial rulings and has prompted sharp criticism for “blurring” the language around sexual attacks.

Canada’s oldest rape shelter told The Telegraph it followed a trend of “erasure of the violence that men are committing against women”.

“It definitely doesn’t serve the fight to end male violence against women when you’re blurring the language,” said Hilla Kerner, a spokeswoman for the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter.

Melissa Lantsman, a deputy leader of the Conservative Party, said: “There is nothing confusing about the word ‘woman’, it’s common sense.

“This is just complete nonsense that moves nothing forward. It’s not ‘progress’”.

The Supreme Court ruling, which was published on International Women’s Day, related to a sexual assault case which was overturned on appeal. A man was accused of assaulting a woman; no-one involved in the case identified as transgender.

Supreme Court Justice Sheilah Martin diverted from the original ruling's terminology

The case involved Christopher James Kruk, a 41-year-old from Maple Ridge, a city in British Columbia, who was convicted of sexual assault in March 2020.

The woman testified at the trial that she woke up in Kruk’s home in May 2017 to find him having sex with her and attempted, unsuccessfully, to push him off.

Kruk denied having sex with her, claiming that the victim had removed her trousers herself and that what she assumed was rape was in fact him startling her awake.

The presiding judge gave numerous reasons for finding Kruk guilty, including that it was “extremely unlikely” that a woman could be mistaken about the sensation.

“She said she felt his penis inside her and she knew what she was feeling,” the judge wrote, finding “it is extremely unlikely that a woman would be mistaken about that feeling”.

The Court of Appeal overturned the ruling in January 2022, finding the judge’s reasoning was “speculative” and ordered a new trial.

Restored Kruk’s conviction

Prosecutors petitioned the Supreme Court, which unanimously found the appeals court had erred and restored Kruk’s conviction.

However, while Supreme Court Justice Sheilah Martin concurred with the trial judge’s conclusion, she diverted from the original ruling’s terminology.

She wrote: “Where a person with a vagina testifies credibly and with certainty that they felt penile‑vaginal penetration, a trial judge must be entitled to conclude that they are unlikely to be mistaken.”

Justice Martin continued: “While the choice of the trial judge to use the words ‘a woman’ may have been unfortunate and engendered confusion, in context, it is clear the judge was reasoning... people generally, even if intoxicated, are not mistaken about that sensation.”

Later in the ruling, she stated “the fact that the judge relied on a generalised expectation is not itself problematic”, however, she said “this is not to say that this is an incontrovertible fact about all women in all instances”.

The ruling had been seen as a test case for an emerging rule challenging judges’ use of “common-sense assumptions” in rulings which are “not grounded in the evidence”.

The Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (Leaf), said it had intervened in the case to argue around the “lack of clarity” around the rule.

It had warned about the additional barriers to justice “for survivors, who are more likely to be women, girls, trans, and non-binary people”.

Roxana Parsa, one of the lawyers representing Leaf, said in a statement the decision “will have significant impact for all sexual assault survivors”.

Ignited a firestorm online

However the ruling’s use of the term “person with a vagina” ignited a firestorm online, with even US politicians picking up on it.

Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate, said: “You know what’s unfortunate and confusing? What’s happened to Canada.”

Ms Kerner, from Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter, said the organisation “appreciated” the restoration of Kruk’s conviction, saying too few assault cases in Canada resulted in “holding rapists accountable”.

But she added: “If we do not name these crimes against women as they are, if we do not understand them in the context of women’s inequality, we are undermining our ability to fight against them”.

Well, well. It looks as though the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab was telling the truth when he stated that the WEF had a number embedded inside of governments. Canada and Justin Trudeau are sorry as hell, for allowing this. And yeah, this does skew statistics on Sexual Assaults BY MEN. This is the same thing happening in Ireland, Britain...Maine, of all places. I'd also not fall for this open red meat throwing that the Conservatives are doing. Klaus Schwab is a pervert and a fucking Nazi and so are the GOP.

#Canada #Supreme Court #Justin Trudeau #Captured By The World Economic Forum #Women's Rights #Rape #People With Vaginas #Gender Ideology Cult #Supreme Court Justice Sheilah Martin