Generation Wuss and related crap
05-05-2022, 04:35 PM
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A personal observation:
1: The ratio of queer / effeminate males to normies in this building has grown over the past two years. Quite dramatically, in fact. Like it's gone from maybe 0.5% of the non-female workforce to 5-10% of the non-female workforce.
2: Broadly speaking, they're nearly all in the News Nation part of the building
3: Most of the people hired over the past two years have been hired by News Nation rather than WGN, mostly because News Nation came into existence two years ago and has grown rapidly.
4: News Nation has been tending to hire a greater percentage of very young (20s) employees than WGN, across all areas of their operation.
It would be possible to interpret this data in a few different ways.
One person might conclude that males are more likely to express a queer / effeminate presentation when they are young, and tend to become straight as they age.
Another might postulate that, over the past 20 years, males have tended to be queer at increasingly higher rates. As such, a male born in 1999 is more likely to be queer than a male born in 1979.
A third might postulate that I am not a completely unbiased and objective observer, and that I'm becoming more observant of queerness over time.
One interesting side-note: The ratio of queer, masculine, or gender-confused females to normal females does not seem to have changed at all. It's still fairly low, and roughly uniform across both WGN and News Nation.
1: The ratio of queer / effeminate males to normies in this building has grown over the past two years. Quite dramatically, in fact. Like it's gone from maybe 0.5% of the non-female workforce to 5-10% of the non-female workforce.
2: Broadly speaking, they're nearly all in the News Nation part of the building
3: Most of the people hired over the past two years have been hired by News Nation rather than WGN, mostly because News Nation came into existence two years ago and has grown rapidly.
4: News Nation has been tending to hire a greater percentage of very young (20s) employees than WGN, across all areas of their operation.
It would be possible to interpret this data in a few different ways.
One person might conclude that males are more likely to express a queer / effeminate presentation when they are young, and tend to become straight as they age.
Another might postulate that, over the past 20 years, males have tended to be queer at increasingly higher rates. As such, a male born in 1999 is more likely to be queer than a male born in 1979.
A third might postulate that I am not a completely unbiased and objective observer, and that I'm becoming more observant of queerness over time.
One interesting side-note: The ratio of queer, masculine, or gender-confused females to normal females does not seem to have changed at all. It's still fairly low, and roughly uniform across both WGN and News Nation.
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05-05-2022, 06:11 PM
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for that.At this company, HR doesn't have much to do with recruitment. They deal with the technicalities once the manager in charge of the position has made their selection.
And this spans multiple departments. Queers in news, graphics and production would have all been hired by different department heads. And there have been two different news directors over the past two years.
And no, we don't have any sort of diversity & inclusion quotas.
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05-05-2022, 06:26 PM
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A personal observation:
1: The ratio of queer / effeminate males to normies in this building has grown over the past two years. Quite dramatically, in fact. Like it's gone from maybe 0.5% of the non-female workforce to 5-10% of the non-female workforce.
2: Broadly speaking, they're nearly all in the News Nation part of the building
3: Most of the people hired over the past two years have been hired by News Nation rather than WGN, mostly because News Nation came into existence two years ago and has grown rapidly.
4: News Nation has been tending to hire a greater percentage of very young (20s) employees than WGN, across all areas of their operation.
It would be possible to interpret this data in a few different ways.
One person might conclude that males are more likely to express a queer / effeminate presentation when they are young, and tend to become straight as they age.
Another might postulate that, over the past 20 years, males have tended to be queer at increasingly higher rates. As such, a male born in 1999 is more likely to be queer than a male born in 1979.
A third might postulate that I am not a completely unbiased and objective observer, and that I'm becoming more observant of queerness over time.
One interesting side-note: The ratio of queer, masculine, or gender-confused females to normal females does not seem to have changed at all. It's still fairly low, and roughly uniform across both WGN and News Nation.
1: The ratio of queer / effeminate males to normies in this building has grown over the past two years. Quite dramatically, in fact. Like it's gone from maybe 0.5% of the non-female workforce to 5-10% of the non-female workforce.
2: Broadly speaking, they're nearly all in the News Nation part of the building
3: Most of the people hired over the past two years have been hired by News Nation rather than WGN, mostly because News Nation came into existence two years ago and has grown rapidly.
4: News Nation has been tending to hire a greater percentage of very young (20s) employees than WGN, across all areas of their operation.
It would be possible to interpret this data in a few different ways.
One person might conclude that males are more likely to express a queer / effeminate presentation when they are young, and tend to become straight as they age.
Another might postulate that, over the past 20 years, males have tended to be queer at increasingly higher rates. As such, a male born in 1999 is more likely to be queer than a male born in 1979.
A third might postulate that I am not a completely unbiased and objective observer, and that I'm becoming more observant of queerness over time.
One interesting side-note: The ratio of queer, masculine, or gender-confused females to normal females does not seem to have changed at all. It's still fairly low, and roughly uniform across both WGN and News Nation.
World wide, but especially in the USA, male testosterone levels have been dropping by approximately 1% per year for the past few decades.
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05-05-2022, 06:30 PM
#3805
Maybe there's just more of them out there, Joe.
I recall seeing some reports recently which indicated that the percentage of those identifying as LGBTQ(rstuvwxyz) has gone up significantly among the younger age groups (teens through twenties). Far more than any other age groups, and more than any "biologist" could possibly explain. To my thinking, this suggests it's actuallyindoctrination learned behavior in kids today. Where on earth could they be picking up on this though? 
I recall seeing some reports recently which indicated that the percentage of those identifying as LGBTQ(rstuvwxyz) has gone up significantly among the younger age groups (teens through twenties). Far more than any other age groups, and more than any "biologist" could possibly explain. To my thinking, this suggests it's actually
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05-05-2022, 07:38 PM
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Maybe there's just more of them out there, Joe.
I recall seeing some reports recently which indicated that the percentage of those identifying as LGBTQ(rstuvwxyz) has gone up significantly among the younger age groups (teens through twenties). Far more than any other age groups, and more than any "biologist" could possibly explain. To my thinking, this suggests it's actuallyindoctrination learned behavior in kids today. Where on earth could they be picking up on this though?
I recall seeing some reports recently which indicated that the percentage of those identifying as LGBTQ(rstuvwxyz) has gone up significantly among the younger age groups (teens through twenties). Far more than any other age groups, and more than any "biologist" could possibly explain. To my thinking, this suggests it's actually
And, honestly, I still think it's bizarre that homosexuality and gender-denial get lumped together under the same umbrella.
Different people are attracted to different things. Personally, I have a thing for tall redheads in positions of social, political or economic power who wear jeans and don't use makeup or own fancy shoes. And also for thick, rugged women with roundish faces and pixie or Karen-hair who wear jeans and don't use makeup or own fancy shoes. Those are my personal turn-ons.
Other people have a thing for skinny women who worship Trump. Or for women with long fingernails and large breasts who wear expensive jewelry. Or for people who are of the same gender as themselves.
And that's all fine and well. Whatever tickles your pickle.
But it's a whole other thing from saying "No, despite having a prostate and an XY chromosome makeup, I am actually a woman, and you must recognize me as such." Or vise-versa.
One is a preference, the other is a delusion.
An unfortunate side-effect of the "NN hiring people in their early 20s in droves" is that the east side of the building including the upper newsroom is now absolutely packed with attractive women who are young enough to be my daughter. So I'm starting to feel like a pedophile on a more or less daily basis.
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05-05-2022, 07:57 PM
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An unfortunate side-effect of the "NN hiring people in their early 20s in droves" is that the east side of the building including the upper newsroom is now absolutely packed with attractive women who are young enough to be my daughter. So I'm starting to feel like a pedophile on a more or less daily basis.
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05-05-2022, 08:16 PM
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I'm speaking entirely to "Wow, that person is physically attractive," followed by learning that "Holy crap, that person is less than half my age." Because, for the reasons you point out, that instantly kills the vibe quicker than Hillary Clinton with a person about to release information that will lead to her arrest.
Because it's not always obvious. In your mid 40s, you run into a lot of people your own age or slightly younger and assume that they've got 10 or 20 years up on you. And then you run into people who are in their early 20s, and assume that they're maybe late 30s, which is within the habitable zone.
This is a weird age to be. When you're young, it's all clear cut and obvious. When you're old, it's all clear cut and obvious. When you're 45, you're in a weird gray area where things can easily be off by two decades in either direction in terms of your perception of others.
There's a Polish girl (as in, born in Wroclaw, Poland) who started working here early this year as an audio engineer on the PM news shift. Slightly chubby, beautiful smile, big, bright eyes, just the barest hint of an east-European accent, and I'd have sworn before Congress that she was in her mid 30s.
Nope. She graduated from college last year.
But, on the plus side, we don't seem to have any women here who claim to be men. A few lesbians obviously, and some hipster-chicks, but I have no quarrel with any of them.
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05-10-2022, 11:07 AM
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I read an article the other day which @Braineack might like. I wish I could remember the source, and now I can't find it. I remembered it because it touched on a topic which I'd expressed curiosity about previously, namely the infiltration of the LGBQ community by other factions. It was written by a lesbian author, read kind of like a Ted Talk, and the gist was this:
I'm a lesbian. I've been one for as long as I can remember. As a little girl, people described me as a tomboy. I hated wearing dresses, and I liked playing in the dirt. In middle school, when most of the other girls were obsessed with New Kids on the Block, I had a crush on Buffy. In high school, I was kind of grossed out when boys would hit on me, and I struggled with the fear that the girl who I liked might be equally grossed out if I told her how I felt about her. (spoiler: she was.)
And none of that changed the fact that I am now, have always been, and was, as they like to say "assigned at birth," female. I have a womb, I have ovaries, these ***** are natural, there's really no mistaking me for anything other than a woman. I just happen to be a gay woman.
Today, that fact is under attack. Because the real aim of the transgender and nonbinary-advocacy movement seems to be the invalidation of the gay identity.
What these advocates and "allies" are doing is preaching this message, to people who are experiencing same-sex attraction and finding that they don't seem to conform to stereotypical gender norms, that "Oh, it's ok. You're not weird, you're trans!"
This message is especially well-received by adolescents. By definition, they're already pretty likely to feel uncomfortable with their changing bodies, and be questioning everything about themselves, and be predisposed towards having a rebellious attitude against established identities and roles. So along comes this new identity, which isn't conformist with mainstream norms, and which comfortably and reassuringly says "No, no, it's everyone else that has the wrong impression of who you really are," that's a really attractive proposition for someone feeling confused and misunderstood.
And this is why the highest prevalence of individuals identifying as trans or non-binary today is people in their teens and 20s.
Think for a moment about the hidden meaning of what these people are saying. They're telling people "Since you don't conform to this gender-stereotype, that's a good indication that you aren't really that gender." And so they're reinforcing and perpetuating these harmful stereotypes, because doing this helps to strengthen their message.
That's not something that anyone, gay or straight, male or female, should want.
I'm a lesbian. I've been one for as long as I can remember. As a little girl, people described me as a tomboy. I hated wearing dresses, and I liked playing in the dirt. In middle school, when most of the other girls were obsessed with New Kids on the Block, I had a crush on Buffy. In high school, I was kind of grossed out when boys would hit on me, and I struggled with the fear that the girl who I liked might be equally grossed out if I told her how I felt about her. (spoiler: she was.)
And none of that changed the fact that I am now, have always been, and was, as they like to say "assigned at birth," female. I have a womb, I have ovaries, these ***** are natural, there's really no mistaking me for anything other than a woman. I just happen to be a gay woman.
Today, that fact is under attack. Because the real aim of the transgender and nonbinary-advocacy movement seems to be the invalidation of the gay identity.
What these advocates and "allies" are doing is preaching this message, to people who are experiencing same-sex attraction and finding that they don't seem to conform to stereotypical gender norms, that "Oh, it's ok. You're not weird, you're trans!"
This message is especially well-received by adolescents. By definition, they're already pretty likely to feel uncomfortable with their changing bodies, and be questioning everything about themselves, and be predisposed towards having a rebellious attitude against established identities and roles. So along comes this new identity, which isn't conformist with mainstream norms, and which comfortably and reassuringly says "No, no, it's everyone else that has the wrong impression of who you really are," that's a really attractive proposition for someone feeling confused and misunderstood.
And this is why the highest prevalence of individuals identifying as trans or non-binary today is people in their teens and 20s.
Think for a moment about the hidden meaning of what these people are saying. They're telling people "Since you don't conform to this gender-stereotype, that's a good indication that you aren't really that gender." And so they're reinforcing and perpetuating these harmful stereotypes, because doing this helps to strengthen their message.
That's not something that anyone, gay or straight, male or female, should want.
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05-17-2022, 01:11 PM
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https://www.theblaze.com/news/maveri...lFRPEu4QUoDkyU
15-year-old went missing after going to the bathroom at a Dallas Mavericks game. Her parents found her through sex trafficking ads on the internet.
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