New York Times Writers Call Out the Paper’s Anti-Trans Onslaught

On Wednesday morning, a group of almost 200 journalists and writers released an open letter addressed to the New York Times, sharing their “serious concerns about editorial bias in the newspaper’s reporting on transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people” and criticizing how the Times has “follow[ed] the lead of far-right hate groups in presenting gender diversity as a new controversy warranting new, punitive legislation.”

The open letter, whose signees include regular contributors to the Times and prominent writers and journalists like Ed Yong, Lucy Sante, Roxane Gay, and Rebecca Solnit, comes at a time when far-right extremist groups and their analogues in state legislatures are ramping up their attacks on trans young people; just yesterday, South Dakota became the sixth state to ban or restrict gender-affirming care for youth, efforts that one conservative activist recently acknowledged was merely the first step toward their goal of banning transition care altogether.

In recent years and months, the Times has decided to play an outsized role in laundering anti-trans narratives and seeding the discourse with those narratives, publishing tens of thousands of handwringing words on trans youth—reporting that is now approvingly cited and lauded, as the letter writers note, by those who seek to ban and criminalize gender-affirming care.

Some really just amazing delusion here. The NYT coverage of trans issues has been a constant drumbeat of approval and allyship. But they reported just a little bit on the detransition movement even existing, and the left+ has a freakout.

 

Mommy Dearest
Much younger men keep pursuing me online. Many of them seem to have the same startling fantasy.

And as an “older woman” who attracts a lot of attention from younger men on this app, I have found that many of them share the same interest: sex with “mommy.”

I don’t know if these young men want to have sex with their own actual moms. They haven’t said, and I haven’t asked. I sincerely doubt it. But at least half a dozen men, in the few months I’ve been on the app, have asked me whether I’d be interested in playing the role of “mommy.”

(Mommy is the word they use. Or mom. Never mother.)

It’s not like these men acknowledge their mother­-son fantasies from the get-go. The reveal takes a while. First, they explain that they have a desire for a dynamic in which they’re submissive to a female. A conversation might go something like this:

“What is it that you like about older women?”

“I like their maturity, and that they know what they want.”

A beat, and then, from him:

“I want to explore my submissive side.”

Sometimes this is where the story ends, which is to say that sometimes I simply have a fun verbal back-and-forth with a guy who wants to call me “ma’am” and asks what he might do to please me. (I have a long list.) Then we discuss different scenarios and sext with each other until one of us has to get off the app.

Sometimes, though, the topic of having sex “in character” comes up. The young man always initiates this part of the conversation.

“Do you ever role-play?”

“Not really. What do you have in mind?”

“I’ve always wanted to try a mommy-and-son-type thing.”

Another beat, an uncomfortably long one, and then, from me:

“I’m listening. But what does that look like, exactly?”

“I want to fuck you. I want to make you cum. I want you to praise me and boss me around.”

“OK.”

“I want to service you. And to be told I am a good boy.”

“OK. And?”

“I want to be nurtured.”

When a young man first said this to me, I didn’t immediately realize that it probably had something to do with my breasts.

What are most men in their 20s looking to date women their mother’s age looking for? Precisely this. Maybe find someone that wants to sleep with you and not their mother. (Heroic Mulatto blames all the incest porn.)

 

This certainly sounds like the Biden Administration. But it’s Breaking News from CBS, so it’s information that the Biden Administrations wants us to know, so almost surely a lie. But are they telling a lie to cover up a bigger scandal? Are they telling the truth to throw us off the scent?

This shit is so convoluted.

 

Dianne Feinstein Should Resign Now, Not Retire Later

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that she won’t seek re-election in 2024. CNN reported that Feinstein, 89, shared her decision with her colleagues at the Democratic caucus lunch. The state’s first woman Senator has faced questions in recent years about her mental fitness to serve, most prominently in stories in the New Yorker and the San Francisco Chronicle from 2020 and 2022, respectively. Both stories discussed her reported cognitive decline and the Chronicle story had four Senators and three former staffers (all anonymous) say her memory was “rapidly deteriorating.” She even stepped down as chair of the Judiciary committee in November 2020 after strange behavior during the Amy Coney Barrett hearings.

Back to today’s events: “I am announcing today I will not run for reelection in 2024 but intend to accomplish as much for California as I can through the end of next year when my term ends,” Feinstein, 89, said in a statement. “Even with a divided Congress, we can still pass bills that will improve lives. Each of us was sent here to solve problems. That’s what I’ve done for the last 30 years, and that’s what I plan to do for the next two years.”

We thank her for her decades of service and also want to remind her that she can, in fact, simply retire now.

On today of all days, Feinstein seemed confused about what was happening and when. Her Senate Twitter account shared the retirement news at 1:50pm Eastern. Just before 2:30 p.m., Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer talked about her announcement with reporters and called her a legend—but shortly before 3, she told reporters she didn’t know the statement had even been released.

Christian Hall, national politics reporter for Bloomberg, tweeted that reporters asked Feinstein about her announcement to retire, and she responded, “If I haven’t made that decision, I haven’t released anything.” A Feinstein staffer had to tell the Senator that a statement was released, and she said, “I didn’t know they put it out.”

Almost seems like they learned their lesson about keeping people in office until they literally keel over from the Ruth Bader Ginsburg debacle. A faint glimmer of hope, until the last paragraph snuffs it out:

Anyway, people hadn’t been holding their breath for this announcement, and Democrats declared their candidacy already, including Reps. Katie Porter and Adam Schiff. Rep. Barbara Lee also reportedly plans to run. It’s time for some fresh ideas in the Senate Democratic caucus.

Can anyone but a Gizmodo dipshit think that bugman Schiff or Lee or Porter have anything resembling “fresh” ideas?

 

The Lovely Ladies of Hammer Horror

I’ve always had a liking for B1 (Caroline Munro) and C4 (Valerie Leon)

Leon in Zeta-One, a quickly-shot Barbarella rip-off.

 

Munro as a blood-drenched cutie in Dracula A.D 1972, one of the grooviest vampire movies ever, man.

 

Pretty much the last Smashing Pumpkins song I haven’t burned out on. And the Byzantine grotesques of the video are fantastic. “Feast, my friends! FEAST!”