This article is really too disgusting to illustrate. Here’s a nice painted turtle instead.
The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture has pulled $600 thousand that would have gone to fund a “study” of “Menstrual Cycles in Transgender Men” (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/department-agriculture-yanks-600k-absurd-study-menstrual-cycles/).
“Non-binary persons [??] may also menstruate,” said at idiot. (“Show us one, dumbo!”)
The public money that paid for this was frittered away by Southern University of Agriculture and Mechanics College.
This used to be kind of ha-ha funny, but it isn’t anymore. Now it’s insulting. Now it shows arrogance: they really don’t care what we have to go through to pay our taxes and tuition. They have no respect for our work, no respect for us.
Well, this one agricultural folly has been shut down. How many left to go, God only knows.
Keep at ’em, DOGE!
One of the terrible things these monsters have done is cause us to talk in public about things we used never to discuss or even name in mixed company before: male and female genitals, women’s monthly cycles — and notice that I haven’t used the technical terms that are now tossed around so freely. I remember noticing this insidious trend about 20 years ago, when a male friend from church and I were venting our outrage to each other about children in school being taught to put condoms on bananas. At one point, I suddenly stopped and said, “Do you realize that 10 years ago we wouldn’t have us
Oops, hit the enter key by accident. To continue what I said to Dennis: “‘Do you realize that 10 years ago we wouldn’t have used the word ‘condom’ in mixed company?”
I do wish WordPress would give us an “edit comment” option. 😬
It’s Sex Education!
I’ve noticed that as well. I’m not advocating a return to Victorian levels of shame, but it strikes me that the pendulum has swung quite far in the opposite direction. Let me mount my soapbox …
I have a very strong belief that parents should teach their children the facts of life, and that they should do so before children learn from peers, or others outside the family. This provides an environment where such information can be presented calmly, in a dignified manner, as opposed to learning in an environment where this is perceived as forbidden knowledge, which makes the subject more emotionally charged.
This is spoken from experience, for while my mother explained that there was an anatomical difference between males and females, she never elaborated, leaving me wondering how all of this worked. Friends from the neighborhood were taught by their parents, and that’s where I learned, but I felt ashamed, because I didn’t know how my parents would react to the fact that I had this information. My father eventually gave me a booklet designed to teach children, but there was no discussion.
Compared to some of my friends, I had it good. I know several people whose parents sought to shelter them from this vital information and never taught them anything on the subject. This leaves a child vulnerable to abuse and exploitation, or at the very least, can make a child feel dirty once they begin to mature. One couple I knew were both raised this way, and while they learned what they needed to learn in due time, it left north of them with animosity towards their respective parents which has persisted throughout their lives.
Children who have learned these facts of life from their parents, and whom understand the role this plays in God’s purpose to fill the earth, are far better equipped to deal with the pressures which may come upin them. These days, there are any number of children who are confronted with sexual peer pressure from relatively early on in their life, and parents need to prepare their children for these pressures.
It’s not like the world we grew up in, back in the ‘50s or ‘60s. Any children, these days, are robbed of their innocence, frequently by fellow students in their grade schools. It doesn’t take much to alter the life course of a child and cause lifelong problems.
Parents need to teach their children from an early age, and then keep an open dialogue, because there will be pressures coming upon them, and they need to be prepared, and remain prepared.
My father tried, once, to educate me about sex. In only a minute or two, he was too embarrassed to continue.
I already had a form of that information, imparted to me by my friends across the street who had dirty comic books, stuff you couldn’t buy in the 5&10.
I don’t have children, but I doubt I would have given them the instruction that they needed. Maybe now that I’m 75, I could do it.
Oh, well.
I don’t really know why my parents weren’t more proactive in this area, except to say that they had different approaches to how I should be raised and sometimes I think that worked against either of them making progress. To be honest, I felt a lot of resentment over this, because an hour or two of time could have set the matter right and spared me the guilt I felt about learning this from kids in the neighborhood.
As I said, two of my friends learned the right way, from their father, and passed along the information, which spread through the neighborhood rapidly. My own feeling is that children are much more likely to have a healthy attitude about sex if they hear about it from their parents, early enough that they aren’t exposed to this information by other sources, some of whom might be less than wholesome. My sister informed her kids early, before grade school, and I think that helped them to have a healthy attitude and to be confident in dealing with neighborhood kids who raised the subject.
Yes, a “edit comment option” would be nice. Elder Mike, I’m not anonymous.
I’m at a loss for words.
Mystery: What does this DO for liberals?
Cause disruption.
Ruling over the wreckage of what was once a civilization… How appealing is that?