Prickly Like a Porcupine

Any reader who pays even the slightest bit of notice to the world around them will be aware of how easily offended modern man is. Some will even be offended by the penultimate word of the previous sentence. Outrage is a national staple. Particularly outrage about perceived racist slights. But in all of this, it is wonderful to catch these turkeys in their own traps. Cue the outrage of touchy Seini Taufa, a lead researcher in Moana Research and Senior Pacific Advisor for the Growing up in New Zealand Longitudinal Study.

Seini objects to the terms Pacific Islander or Polynesian, because they are apparently degrading and insensitive. She said, ‘We did not name ourselves Pacific Islanders, we did not name ourselves Polynesian. These are terms that were constructed by palagi within a colonial context.” Oh the delicious irony. I could slightly arrange her sentence. “We did not name ourselves palagi. This is a term that was constructed by Pacific Islanders within a colonial context.” You know, because since the 1970s, Pacific Islanders have been colonising New Zealand.

I don’t write that because I’m offended by the word palagi. Honestly. I don’t care. I don’t expect someone to look at me and go, “That guys’ ethnic origins are 50% English, 25% Irish, with a little bit of French and German thrown in. I don’t expect a Samoan chap to figure out (or care!) what my ethnic origins are. If I look white, palagi will do. Not something I call myself – I tend to think of myself as Kiwi, but whatever. My identity is not based on what someone else refers to me as. I am a son of the king, and that is my ultimate foundation of identity and significance. Perhaps that’s what’s missing for many of these prickly porcupines.

They are Mad

No doubt many of my readers will have seen the British ‘influencer’ (surely a better term is narcissist) who has undergone a number of operations to make himself look Korean. He claims he identifies as Korean. Of course, there is a certain amount of logic in his madness. If you can make up genders in your little Fairyland, then why can’t you make up your race? If one can construct one’s own gender identity and identify as a pansexual unicorn, then why the heck can’t you choose your racial identity?

Because…that’s racist. Thus say other loonies who have escaped the asylum. It’s OK to make up stuff about gender. Thinking a woman is all bust, long hair and dresses and assuming that simply adding these is all a person with male appendages who identifies as a woman needs to do to be a woman is apparently not at all sexist. But thinking that changing what one looks like to have features more like the race one identifies with? That’s racist. In fact, it is apparently a “prime example of racism, cultural appropriation, and transphobia, enacted from a perspective of considerable privilege.”

We are piously lectured at without any apparent irony, that gender is our internal sense of self, whether that be man, woman, neither or both. Yet, on the other hand, race ‘presents as categorised (often physical) traits that are socially constructed and understood.‘ You know, kinda like how sex used to be. As my grandmother sagely put it to me when I was a kid, you either have a Willy or a Mary. Quite. These physical traits used to be understood before we as a culture grew so stupid.

Maybe we now need to make up a semi-related word to race, let’s say ‘kith’ and then pompously argue that ‘race’ and kith are different. We could argue that ‘kith’ is our internal sense of self, whether that be Asian, Black or White racist.’ And then, just like the fruitcakes who separate gender and sex and assume that a transwoman dude with his male appendages cut off, on hormones and wearing women’s clothing is a woman; we can be consistent and do the same thing with this chap who identifies as Korean. You know, a clearly white dude who has had bits and pieces added and subtracted to his appearance to make him look like a Korean, because he feels his kith is Korean is totally entitled to do that because kith is not the same thing as race you bigots. At least we could claim to be consistent in our insanity.

But our moral superiors say “No!” Just go ahead and read the sanctimonious twaddle these people write. “It is racist to think someone can pick and choose parts of a race or culture they like, then distance themselves from that culture when it suits them.” And yet it is apparently not at all sexist for a massive dude to choose the parts of a sex he likes and use this to his advantage in weightlifting at the Olympics? A little further on we are told in a Pecksniffian manner that there “is a difference between affirming your gender as a trans person, which doesn’t harm anyone else, and choosing to live and appropriate another culture.” What is the difference? You are just making stuff up. You’re inventing the rules as you go. We can see the emperor, and he is stark naked, and because he has a “willy”, we can also see that he is a man, despite his petulant toddler-like ravings about being a transwoman sometimes two-spirit pansexual.

The bottom line is these people are clearly mad, but unfortunately, they are often in places of considerable influence. The author of the article is Pro-Vice Chancellor at Edith Cowan University. We need to mock and scorn them. They are doing their best to destroy this world, and we the mentally stable need to point out their hypocrisy and stupidity. It should also go without saying that we don’t give our children to these degenerate flakes to be ruined.

Reddit Parenting Advice #10 – Changing Identities

The more I look at parenting posts on Reddit, the more I am struck by how inadequately some people are prepared by their faulty worldviews for parenting, but as a connoisseur of human folly, I have to admit I do find I am intensely interested to read how crazy things can get when parents set themselves adrift from the anchor of reality found in Christ alone. My deep hope is that the parenting thread on Reddit somehow attracts all of the very worst parents into a common space where they can encourage and commiserate with each other in their inadequate approaches to parenting and spread their poisonous advice in a space where it will impact only those already infected with their madness. Is that too harsh? Well, check out this latest tragedy. N.B. Spelling and grammatical errors have been left in.

I have a child who has ODD and depression that has latched on to what appears to be a fad. Claiming oppression as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community and changing their description over and over in alignment with friends who are doing the same. Sophia was born female and has identified with Pan at one point, lesbian, trans, furry, and it evolves. She has started to get angry if we don’t use the favored pronouns which also change without notice. The name used has been one of about 4 over the last 2 years and has settled on “Robin” recently. If she is accidently referred to as Sophia by me she loses it. The weird thing is that I’ve been extremely involved in activism pertaining to LGBTQIA+ issues for over a decade and have attempted to involve her from early childhood. (walking in pride parades and taking her with me to events) Has anyone else sensed a faddish reaction in their kids to this recently? I know that during the pandemic she has been watching far more influencers online than I’m comfortable with. Her mother and I are in conflict over how much she watches and what she watches.

Let’s analyse this stream of folly droplet by droplet. I have a child who has ODD and depression that has latched on to what appears to be a fad. Alarm bells are already ringing at this point. Why doesn’t anyone question why children today seem to be diagnosed with so many disorders. As we have mentioned previously, ODD is essentially the description of a child who has not learnt to govern themselves. And depression? As a school teacher who has many conversations with children, I can tell you that there are some interesting home commonalities in children who suffer from anxiety and depression. These things seem to be symptoms of a larger problem, not the actual problem itself.

Claiming oppression as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community and changing their description over and over in alignment with friends who are doing the same. That right there is a failure in parenting. If you have your children in a government school at the moment, let this be a warning to you. These places are no longer safe for your child. The LGTQIAlphabet cult wants your children, and school is the perfect place to pervert them and enlist them to their unrighteous cause. Unfortunately for you, other children are a powerful influence on your children, and what they do impacts what your children do. The Bible clearly teaches this. In I Corinthians 15:33, Paul says, Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.” Part of the job of a parent is to be the gatehouse in determining which influences are allowed in your child’s life.

Sophia was born female and has identified with Pan at one point, lesbian, trans, furry, and it evolves. See, poor parenting is definitely part of the problem here. What do you mean she was born female? She is a girl, she has been female from conception. When you say she was born female, you indicate the possibility that sex is mutable. It is not. From conception, she has been female and she will never be anything else no matter how many toddler tantrums she has as she shakes her fist at you and ultimately the God who made her. And for those of you who do not want to be traumatised, I suggest not even finding out what identifying as furry means.

She has started to get angry if we don’t use the favored pronouns which also change without notice. The name used has been one of about 4 over the last 2 years and has settled on “Robin” recently. If she is accidently referred to as Sophia by me she loses it. Interestingly your daughter’s Christian name means wisdom. The very thing you as a parent need to pray for because so far you seem to be lacking in this department. It’s interesting that she has given away the name ‘wisdom’ for a name meaning fame. It seems highly likely that a lot of young girls attracted to this choose your own identity nonsense are seeking fame. They want someone to acknowledge them to take an interest in them as someone special. They are crying out for love.

The weird thing is that I’ve been extremely involved in activism pertaining to LGBTQIA+ issues for over a decade and have attempted to involve her from early childhood. (walking in pride parades and taking her with me to events). Well there we go. What can you expect? What you sow, so shall you reap. You wanted to celebrate this identity nonsense and encourage your child to do so, and you expected her to turn out a well-adjusted young girl?

Has anyone else sensed a faddish reaction in their kids to this recently? I know that during the pandemic she has been watching far more influencers online than I’m comfortable with. Her mother and I are in conflict over how much she watches and what she watches. Here we see some deep underlying issues. Mum and Dad cannot agree on basic parenting philosophy. They can’t agree on who they let influence their children. Dad is correct in that many of these influencers have the nutritional value of a sewer, but there is more going on here than who the child watches online. There is a breakdown in the family dynamic. Dads ought to lead and protect their families. Mums need to support Dads in their leadership role. There needs to be a unified front.