Dan Dakich on the WNBA and Caitlin Clark

Here's the deal: The league has been [run] internally by the players, by angry lesbians, for 27 years, both white and black, and nobody cared about the league because, frankly, why would ya?  The basketball isn't great, the players are angry, the players are unattractive.  You can say whatever you want, but back in the day, Magic [Johnson] with his smile, Isiah [Thomas] with his little kid looks, Michael [Jordon] with his bald gleaming head - I mean, dudes were good looking.  These unattractive angry lesbians have made the WNBA hard to watch and in fact nobody did.  They've lost money every year.  Caitlin Clark comes in and everybody's mad.  White girl coming into our league.  What?!  Wait a second, not a lesbian, has a boyfriend, heterosexual?  What?!  We can't have this.  So the jealousy starts.

~ Dan Dakich, "Stephen A. Smith Admits Black WNBA Women Are Jealous Of Caitlin Clark Because of Her Race," Outkick.com, 2:45 mark, June 3, 2024

@tweettruth2me on feminism, LGBTQ, BLM and victimology

The feminist movement destroyed women and femininity.  Did you really believe the LGBTQ and the BLM movements weren’t going to do the same to it’s followers?  It’s a trap.  It’s always a trap.  Stop taking the victim bait.

~ @tweettruth2me, tweet, April 1, 2022

Perry L. Glanzer on the gender identity movement

Although we have discarded the old gendered moral tradition associated with gentlemen and ladies, and even Microsoft Word suggests that one stop using those terms, the identity wars look to continue even more with a coming clash of older feminism and the new gender fluid movement.  More likely, as has happened with LGBTQ+, certain moral tribes will spring up around each of the different identity groups. 

What is different about these movements, however, is that they do not involve discussions about what it means to be a good “fill in the blank with the sexual identity of choice.”  The new gender identity movements focus on obtaining power, respect, and rights, rather than achieving a particular moral ideal of identity excellence.  Every gender and sexual identity now simply fights for an equitable distribution of power and privilege.  Other virtues beyond social justice are dropped by the wayside.  In this respect, perhaps one could argue that these new movements have largely taken the old fallen approach to moral gender identity development that focuses on obtaining power and status.  Calling men to be gentlemen at least called them to bear one Christian virtue (gentleness) and often others as well (e.g., self-control). 

~ Perry L. Glanzer, "Why Men Are Giving Up on College: The Death of Gentlemen," Christian Scholar's Review, September 14, 2021

Camille Paglia: historically, transgender movements occur as "civilization is starting to unravel"

The more I explored it I realized that, historically, the movement towards androgyny occurs in late phases of culture.  As a civilization is starting to unravel...  The people who live in such periods, whether it's the Hellenistic era, whether it's the Roman empire, it's the Mauve Decade of Oscar Wilde in the 1890s, whether it's Weimar Germany.  People who live in such times feel that they're very sophisticated, they're very cosmopolitan.  Homosexuality, heterosexuality, so what, anything goes and so on.  But from the perspective of historical distance you can see that it's a culture that no longer believes in itself.  And then what you invariably get are people who are convinced of the power of heroic masculinity on the edges, whether they the Vandals and the Huns, or whether they're the barbarians of ISIS.  You see them starting to mass on the outsides of the culture, and that's what we have right now.

~ Camille Paglia, video: "Lesson From History: Transgender Mania is Sign of Cultural Collapse" (4:16 mark), December 29, 2016