The Swagger #19 — Sunday You Got Me Edition

Before turning to this Sunday’s subject matter, which is partially about taking myself to task, I wanted to briefly mention the gym experiment I’ve been running all week over at FreeTheAnimal, culminating is this wrap-up post: The Wrap: 7 Consecutive Days FBHF (Full-Body High-Frequency). If you’re at all interested in things gym-training related, you might find it of interest.

As I’m always trying to accomplish and deliver, this offers something unique that goes against the grain and counter to prevailing narratives. This often happens because people become comfortable doing what they’re doing, advocating what they advocate, and selling what they sell and the built-up momentum in that investment often has them resistant to seriously considering new stuff.

So give it a look if the gym ever beckons you. I should also mention that there’s a deal on offer, good through today (Sunday) and expires at midnight NYC time.

Child Sexualization-Indoctrination Is Really This Wide, Deep, and Institutionally Entrenched?

I got wind of a Bill Maher New Rule segment and clicked right over since, if you haven’t noticed, his process of being “red-pilled” continues afoot and his latest is a doozie that got knocked out of the park.

If you stop and think about it, he’s really the perfect man in the perfect position for this gig and while his entrenched leftism and never-Trump hatred is annoying, it’s probably necessary, or he’d just be tuned out and dismissed. Instead, he’s remaining relevant, and that leaves him in a position to persuade.

He’s being reasonable.

… I’m about to dissect his eight-minute video, section by section, but first, I need to address a point where I’ve been lax. Over the years, I haven’t paid much attention to the allegations of pedophilia among the elite. There are a couple of reasons for this. One is that I make a distinction that many do not regarding what constitutes pedophilia. There are acts that could be considered undue influence, grooming, or even coercion, but there are existing laws to address these if they occur post-puberty. According to nature, if it’s post-puberty, it’s not a crime against nature. That’s the distinction I make. However, pre-puberty, it’s not just strange; it’s morally criminal, and abhorrent to nature, laws or no laws.

Another point is that the Roman Catholic Church has dominated this conversation for a long time. The issues of pedophilia, especially involving young preadolescent boys, and the sexual abuse of young boys by clergy are probably as ancient as the Church itself. I’ve always viewed it as somewhat obvious, given the vows of chastity they take. Abstaining from a sex life is a personal choice, but making it an institutional requirement is not only odd but dangerous. This has proven to be true, as it places individuals in positions of significant influence, essentially making them spokesmen for God, wielding immense power from the outset. Then, placing them among families with children? What did we really expect would happen? It has been occurring for hundreds of years, hidden and unaddressed, which is both tragic and criminal.

So, I thought, how could these issues be more widespread than they already are in the Church? Isn’t that enough? The reasons behind it seem obvious. But then, seeing all the evidence pointed out in a documentary that Bill Maher references, it’s just mind-boggling. I’ve been ranting about how society has been indoctrinating young teens and even younger children to question their sexual identity and gender for years. It’s mind-blowing.

On a different note, having spent a lot of time in and around Asia since 1982, which is 42 years ago, I’ve observed interactions with younger women in various transactional trades. There are very few stories of exploitation, though they do occasionally crop up—as they do everywhere. But it’s not a widespread issue. So, when you see that it works without exploitation being a significant part of it, and then you hear all these exaggerated stories from the Western world, it makes you skeptical. From first-hand knowledge and observation, those stories often don’t hold up. That’s why I’ve tended to ignore what was going on in the Western world regarding this issue. It’s quite sobering.

So that’s what’s on my head-shaken mind about it. Now to the video transcript, in italics.

And finally, a new rule: As one of the few people in the public eye who’s gone through life without ever having kids, someone has to tell me, “Why am I always having to defend them?” I don’t even like kids. But I also think it’s every adult’s job to protect them. Have you all been watching the Max documentary called “Quiet on Set, The Dark Side of Kids’ TV?” OMG. Nickelodeon? It wasn’t a studio. It was Neverland Ranch with craft services. It is just scene after scene, clip after clip, of the child stars of their day being subjected to obviously inappropriate, highly sexualized degradation and quite a few pickles going through glory holes. I was grossed out, and I’ve gone camping with John Waters. I kid you, John. I love you.

Yes, just like Bill, I don’t have children either. I’m fond enough of them, but not hugely fond—mostly fond of other people’s kids, if you know what I mean. People often question, “How can you know?” Well, most of us grew up with siblings, and as adults, we’ve been close with our nieces, nephews, and whatnot. So that argument holds no water.

Sometimes, I hear these arguments and I chalk them up to cries for help or something. But maybe part of it is that those of us who don’t have kids chose not to because we were doing our own thing. It wasn’t so much that having kids was a distraction, as much as it was an enormous responsibility. Something like what’s been going on is really the last thing you would ever want to happen to any kids you’re in charge of, yet apparently, it happens a lot.

So, all these people parading their parenthood status to everyone else, why aren’t so many of you doing it fucking properly?

So, I don’t know if this documentary is the talk of your town, but it is out here because it didn’t just expose a dangerous workplace. It also exposed hypocrisy, because it must be pointed out that when the evil governor of Florida was saying the exact same thing about kids and creepy stuff at Disney that liberals now find intolerable at Nickelodeon, he was dismissed as a hick and a bigot. But why would a kids’ content factory like Disney be all that different than the one at Nickelodeon? A 2014 CNN report discovered that at least 35 Disney employees had been arrested for sex crimes against children, and in 2021, Disney child star Alison Stoner confessed she only narrowly survived the toddler to train wreck pipeline. The next year, child star Cole Sprouse told the New York Times that young actresses at the Disney Channel were heavily sexualized from an early age.

The video, embedded below, contains some clips of some on-set antics that are head shaking, my repeated theme for this edition, I guess.

You know, Willie Sutton said he robbed banks because that’s where the money is. And the reason we find pedophiles in the Boy Scouts, the Rectory, and kids’ TV is that’s where the kids are. The dentist wasn’t wrong. But we’re so tribal now, the left will overlook child fucking if the guy from the wrong party calls it out. Sure, Nickelodeon messed up Amanda Bynes, but the Mickey Mouse Club was where Britney Spears got her start. She’s perfectly fine [clip showing her being psycho]. And get this, after Brian Peck, who was one of the lead creeps at Nickelodeon, served 16 months in prison for the molesting he did there, Disney hired him. Naturally, to work on a children’s series. Oh, for pedophiles in Hollywood, it’s a small world after all.

If you think about it, a lot of folks from what you might call the old-fashioned days, those doing old-fashioned things, seemed to be a lot smarter and more perceptive than we are today. Perhaps that’s why there was complete, or nearly complete, gender separation in so many aspects of life. You had boys’ schools and girls’ schools. Of course, given the Catholic Church, this wasn’t a foolproof measure, but I think you get what I mean. There was a very realistic understanding of what’s going to happen when you mix genders excessively, along with mixing different ages too much, and don’t pay attention to what’s going on.

This has always happened, of course, but when it’s institutionalized, and then when the institution benefits so many people in so many ways that are linked to livelihood and status, they buy a lot of protection. Being the misanthrope that I am, I’ve come to understand that maybe the Christian doctrine of original sin has some merit, and that people are generally crap. You get this stuff happening, which is always going to happen because there are always bad people. But when you find presumably good people looking the other way, that’s really where culture and society break down. You have to count on good people to do the right fucking thing.

Now, when you consider that, think about all that happened during Covid and how many good people did fucking nothing that had anything to do with the right thing.

And not just Hollywood, there are Instagram moms these days who are practically only fansing their itty bitty beauty queen daughters by having them wear skimpy bikinis and eat bananas to build social media stardom. They’re called Shrenters, a hybrid of sharing and parent. I call them pimps, a hybrid of pimp and ‘s’. And people who believe in social justice have agreed this is wrong and this is bad, and exposing kids to an adult world of lurid costumes and garish makeup borders on abuse.

“Now hurry up and get in the car. We’re late for drag queen story hour.”

Not that there’s anything wrong with being a drag queen, but maybe it’s time to admit that sometimes drag queen story hour is more for the queen than the kids. Sure, kids love a clown, but does the clown have to have tits? And when I see a five-year-old tipping at a bar under a sign that says it’s not going to lick itself, do I have to pretend that’s cool in order to keep my liberal ID card? Sorry, I can’t do that.

There seems to be this persistent tendency in society for parents to have their children act out their own fantasies, or something along those lines. I can recall growing up in the ’60s, the era of the hippie, and watching kids sporting hip huggers and bell-bottom pants, growing their hair long, and donning weird-ass colors of polyester—the list goes on. Why do parents do this? Why do parents put their kids on the front lines of what is social and cultural upheaval and change? I can’t figure it out. Can someone answer that one for me?

If you want kids to be more tolerant, why not have handicapped people read them stories? Kids are more likely to encounter disabled people than drag queens in real life. Jeez, can’t we just go back to the good old days when kids were read simple stories with simple morals like if you’re a lonely single man, just make a boy out of wood?

I’ve said it before, wokeness is not an extension of liberalism anymore. It’s more often taking something so far that it becomes the opposite. Teaching kids not to hate or judge those who are different? Great, proud we got there, all for that. But at a certain point, inclusion becomes promotion. And contrary to current progressive dogma, children aren’t miniature adults wise beyond their years, they’re morons. They’re gullible morons who’ll believe anything and just want to please grown-ups. And they don’t have any frame of reference, so they normalize whatever’s happening. That’s why endlessly talking about gender to six-year-olds isn’t just inappropriate. It’s what the law would call entrapment, which means enticing people into doing something they wouldn’t ordinarily do.

This topic delves into what I’ve often discussed, particularly with regard to the so-called gender transitioning issues. They’re literally sexually mutilating boys and girls, and it’s frequently the case that you see these parents, predominantly mothers, on TV shows. They’re getting their 15 minutes of fame, gushing over and doting on their child who is going through this “transition.” When I see this, I think that’s Munchausen by proxy.

[Side story about 9/11 entrapment, cut.]

And if you think that some of that isn’t going on with gender in schools, you’re not watching enough TikTok videos. [clip of green-haired lesbo weirdo:] “I pledge allegiance to the queers. I’m not allowed to be out as trans non-binary at school. My response to this is to be as obnoxiously queer as possible.” There’s a certain kind of activist these days who wants to take heterosexuality, old school, old-fashioned, boring, minding its own business, heterosexuality, and lump it in with patriarchy and sexism and racism and tell kids, wouldn’t it be cool if you were anything but that?

This is all the upping the ante and doubling down that we see everywhere from the left. They don’t seem to have the ability to back-track, slow down, stop, or do anything reasonable of the sort. You don’t like 10x? Then you’re gonna get 100x shoved down your throat.

It’s psychopathic.

It also seems to be the theme of kind of a lot of kids’ books these days. I never used the phrase gay agenda because I thought it was mostly nonsense. And it is. Mostly. But a director for Disney Television Animation did say after she was hired, [another clip quote:] “the showrunners were super welcoming to like my like not at all secret gay agenda. Like I was just wherever I could just basically adding queerness. No one would stop me and no one was trying to stop me.”

Look, I’m all for adding queerness wherever. I put some in my drink before I came out here tonight. But maybe we should think about giving kids a break from our culture wars for a minute, or at least until the election is over.

Well, I think it’s safe to say that instead of letting or leading the pendulum to naturally swing back, at least a little bit, it’s finally being done for them, and by former allies they’ve lost forever because this is genuine egg on face for many.

People are embarrassed that they allowed such wanton depravity, decay, and destructive nihilism of all that’s honored and sacred go so long, so far. And for many, that’s a lesson learned they won’t be repeating.

… At least it confirms what many of us have always suspected. That to be a serious leftist to this degree, you’ve got to be genuinely fucked up beyond all recognition as a human being.

That’ll about do it for today. Tuesday comes around pretty quickly. I’ll see you then.