Well thank ye so very much Lucinda and thanks too fer all your perceptive insights n' cheerin' on this "crackpotty"stack -- thinkin' outside the POT!
Re the Face Changers... So I don't know much on the secrets of the mask changes but I do know there are hair-thin wires / threads that let the performer pull them like a winda shade--but the threads can be hidden in sleeves, in a curl of the hair, in a hat, a collar--and if you have, say, 100 masks in a performance you have to know which wires are where so nothin' gets tangled and all is in order--it's an art and takes a ton of practice an' skill. But the result WOWS us in much the same way the sleight of hand our "alphabets" 'r doin' to us. With this "ancient art" it's for entertainment alone, but when our own govt. does it to us, it's devilish wicked trickery and we are not just the audience, we are the suckers that don't see (or aren't supposed to see) the masks, the real allegiances, whom to trust... and so on. (BTW this is part of the ancient Chinese culture I love! Mao /CCP tries to erase all these traditions... durned shame and I hope these arts are passed on to new generations!) Anywhoo...
Yes! Mockingbird still singin' never stopped! Our press isn't the kind that makes good coffee (har har) it's more like the ol' British "Press Gangs" whar the Royal Navy (ie. govt.) literally kidnapped citizens and made'em be sailors under harsh horrible conditions--not recruitment, kidnapped! Our own press is kidnapped and has had Stockholm Syndrome fer years--there is no "free" press (here they are also bribed so they git a little more n' hardtack and rotten sardines)
Agreed, the term transBUDDIES is some real wicked wordplay (I said in a comment it should be TransBULLIES as they bully you into procedures that harm ya, bully ya outta any questions ya have, and then go an' bully the dok-turds into keepin' quiet and/or into just doin' their jobs per woke parameters; your buddy, your "friend" is takin' you by the hand to the point of no return--snip snip chop chop. Whatta pal!
And yes, these kids are so messed up and confused--and I'll argue that the buddies are no less messed up than the kids they "steer"--foller the money--and yes they harm and control vulnerable people! (Many are on the spectrum even if high functionin' and others are just confused teens... it's downright predatory how their vulnerabilities are preyed upon).
And yup, the whole trans agenda not only wrecks immediate "famblys" but those of relatives, friends, co-workers, peers and more--in short it UNdoes relationships like it undoes gender. Many trans kids reject their former friends too--they feel those unlike them can't understand--and folks gettin' huffy about pronouns and all--SUCH a can o' worms but...
Thanks for the share re the essay--I'll give it a look and yes, BLESSINGS out to these confused kids--may the Doktorz Mengele (in the plural) who harm them all "git theirs" however cosmic AND real justice can be served to pay for the lives n' bodies they've wrecked---and may those who are still whole wake the heck up! Cain't be soon e'nuf!
Thanks much fer this Lucinda! Oh lordy I never was in ANY way conservative--I was quite the lefty until the left broke it's own arm! (Aktually, I'm still left handed but that's 'bout the ONLY affinity I gots fer what they call "the left") Now, I listen to sanity--from all ends! The "wurd" or label of feminist is now unrecognizable to me but I'm an "old skool" feminist (though Gloria Steinem is a SPOOK with an AGENDA and I had no clue back then...). Anywayz, on Tablet a good writer Phyllis Chesler penned at least a few great stories about her bein' canceled by the "new woke" feminists--she's worth a look and expressed many o' the same seny-mints I have myself!
I 'm with what ya said here:
"Free to be...you and me. No gender stereotypes allowed. And def no need for the vast majority of non-conforming kids - like me as a sports-loving tomboy growing up - to chop off body parts to conform to those same cultural stereotypes."
Yes, ya see the hip-ocrisy (hip to fools that is!) I LOVED "Free to be You and Me" and raised my girls with it--I hear it's been canceled as stuff like Mel Brooks an' Marlo Thomas's intro "I'm a BOY I'm a GIRL" diaper schtick is transphobic. Even the "feminists" are slammed today. I still sing some'a them tunes (and Michael Jackson was so adorable there...all pre-plastick surgery...) So yes, it's all flipped on it's rear--I waz sorta a tomboy too--I loved using powertools!!!
I hope yer dear daughter git's it, it's important that kids NOT have teacher's (who wield SO much influence) condone the frightin' political agenda --and yup, the pronoun bizness needs to be flushed like so much useless u-know-what. ha ha, WHOzit as yer pronoun--that's funny!
That's interesting about the Chinese art of changing faces, it must be a very ancient art; it reminds me of hexagram 49, "Revolution" in the I Ching, lines 5 & 6, talks about changing faces like a tiger, like a panther and molting in the face.
In California, a new law goes into effect on Jan 1 that takes away the medical license of any doctor who gives "covid misinformation" to a patient. I'm sure they'll add trans buddies to the law soon. Gavin Newsom's probably upset he didn't already think of that.
Yes, in CA not only can MDs lose their license jus' tellin' their patients the truth (for example, risks 'a vaxxines) BUT CA is now a trans-refuge state where kids (even MINORS!) can git all their hormones and surgeries an' mutilations covered (paid for fer free) and parents that try'n stop it get charged with a felony! Californey is NOT the place I wanna be! And yup, there'll be buddies fer kids (or young'uns) gettin' their "gender affirmin'" transformations (into what I don't pretend to know!) and there'll be "buddies" I'm sure helping patients NOT ask the "wrong" questions of their doctors (can we changed buddies to BULLIES???). It's bad all over but LA is really gone LaLa!
Well thank ye so very much Lucinda and thanks too fer all your perceptive insights n' cheerin' on this "crackpotty"stack -- thinkin' outside the POT!
Re the Face Changers... So I don't know much on the secrets of the mask changes but I do know there are hair-thin wires / threads that let the performer pull them like a winda shade--but the threads can be hidden in sleeves, in a curl of the hair, in a hat, a collar--and if you have, say, 100 masks in a performance you have to know which wires are where so nothin' gets tangled and all is in order--it's an art and takes a ton of practice an' skill. But the result WOWS us in much the same way the sleight of hand our "alphabets" 'r doin' to us. With this "ancient art" it's for entertainment alone, but when our own govt. does it to us, it's devilish wicked trickery and we are not just the audience, we are the suckers that don't see (or aren't supposed to see) the masks, the real allegiances, whom to trust... and so on. (BTW this is part of the ancient Chinese culture I love! Mao /CCP tries to erase all these traditions... durned shame and I hope these arts are passed on to new generations!) Anywhoo...
Yes! Mockingbird still singin' never stopped! Our press isn't the kind that makes good coffee (har har) it's more like the ol' British "Press Gangs" whar the Royal Navy (ie. govt.) literally kidnapped citizens and made'em be sailors under harsh horrible conditions--not recruitment, kidnapped! Our own press is kidnapped and has had Stockholm Syndrome fer years--there is no "free" press (here they are also bribed so they git a little more n' hardtack and rotten sardines)
Agreed, the term transBUDDIES is some real wicked wordplay (I said in a comment it should be TransBULLIES as they bully you into procedures that harm ya, bully ya outta any questions ya have, and then go an' bully the dok-turds into keepin' quiet and/or into just doin' their jobs per woke parameters; your buddy, your "friend" is takin' you by the hand to the point of no return--snip snip chop chop. Whatta pal!
And yes, these kids are so messed up and confused--and I'll argue that the buddies are no less messed up than the kids they "steer"--foller the money--and yes they harm and control vulnerable people! (Many are on the spectrum even if high functionin' and others are just confused teens... it's downright predatory how their vulnerabilities are preyed upon).
And yup, the whole trans agenda not only wrecks immediate "famblys" but those of relatives, friends, co-workers, peers and more--in short it UNdoes relationships like it undoes gender. Many trans kids reject their former friends too--they feel those unlike them can't understand--and folks gettin' huffy about pronouns and all--SUCH a can o' worms but...
Thanks for the share re the essay--I'll give it a look and yes, BLESSINGS out to these confused kids--may the Doktorz Mengele (in the plural) who harm them all "git theirs" however cosmic AND real justice can be served to pay for the lives n' bodies they've wrecked---and may those who are still whole wake the heck up! Cain't be soon e'nuf!
Thanks much fer this Lucinda! Oh lordy I never was in ANY way conservative--I was quite the lefty until the left broke it's own arm! (Aktually, I'm still left handed but that's 'bout the ONLY affinity I gots fer what they call "the left") Now, I listen to sanity--from all ends! The "wurd" or label of feminist is now unrecognizable to me but I'm an "old skool" feminist (though Gloria Steinem is a SPOOK with an AGENDA and I had no clue back then...). Anywayz, on Tablet a good writer Phyllis Chesler penned at least a few great stories about her bein' canceled by the "new woke" feminists--she's worth a look and expressed many o' the same seny-mints I have myself!
I 'm with what ya said here:
"Free to be...you and me. No gender stereotypes allowed. And def no need for the vast majority of non-conforming kids - like me as a sports-loving tomboy growing up - to chop off body parts to conform to those same cultural stereotypes."
Yes, ya see the hip-ocrisy (hip to fools that is!) I LOVED "Free to be You and Me" and raised my girls with it--I hear it's been canceled as stuff like Mel Brooks an' Marlo Thomas's intro "I'm a BOY I'm a GIRL" diaper schtick is transphobic. Even the "feminists" are slammed today. I still sing some'a them tunes (and Michael Jackson was so adorable there...all pre-plastick surgery...) So yes, it's all flipped on it's rear--I waz sorta a tomboy too--I loved using powertools!!!
I hope yer dear daughter git's it, it's important that kids NOT have teacher's (who wield SO much influence) condone the frightin' political agenda --and yup, the pronoun bizness needs to be flushed like so much useless u-know-what. ha ha, WHOzit as yer pronoun--that's funny!
That's interesting about the Chinese art of changing faces, it must be a very ancient art; it reminds me of hexagram 49, "Revolution" in the I Ching, lines 5 & 6, talks about changing faces like a tiger, like a panther and molting in the face.
In California, a new law goes into effect on Jan 1 that takes away the medical license of any doctor who gives "covid misinformation" to a patient. I'm sure they'll add trans buddies to the law soon. Gavin Newsom's probably upset he didn't already think of that.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2022-10-06/spreading-lies-about-covid-19-could-get-doctors-disciplined-in-california
Yes, in CA not only can MDs lose their license jus' tellin' their patients the truth (for example, risks 'a vaxxines) BUT CA is now a trans-refuge state where kids (even MINORS!) can git all their hormones and surgeries an' mutilations covered (paid for fer free) and parents that try'n stop it get charged with a felony! Californey is NOT the place I wanna be! And yup, there'll be buddies fer kids (or young'uns) gettin' their "gender affirmin'" transformations (into what I don't pretend to know!) and there'll be "buddies" I'm sure helping patients NOT ask the "wrong" questions of their doctors (can we changed buddies to BULLIES???). It's bad all over but LA is really gone LaLa!
I signed up an' didn't watch'it yet but plan to! Thanks fer the tip re. answers !!!