Best wishes to you and your family for a wonderful Christmas.
I’m deeply grateful that my fierce, sensible, yet sensitive daughter is (thus far) immune to the unfolding SNAFU. She’s aware, sure, but accepting of who she is and how she was born. If anything, that scares me a bit as I am becoming aware of what can happen for some families: so as I say, I just remain grateful. Maybe living in the far south of New Zealand is helping to insulate us to some extent - but there is a miniature epidemic here too, though healthy caution seems the rule of the day.
Anyway , thank you for this Stack: it’s a valuable insight into the issues at a personal, detailed level and it’s increased my understanding hugely. I recognise what it must be costing you emotionally to write it, and I only hope it’s in some way therapeutic, or at least cathartic.
What a beautiful note, thank you. As to what it costs me, it’s only time. The rewards, therapy and catharsis, as you intuit, are more than enough, especially when someone writes a comment like yours!
The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.
Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.
Jenny, you have brought up most excellent issues. There are incredible, massive external influences contributing to the mental attacks on your children. But I fear you have missed the point. Take one of your examples. Jeffery Marsh. He is not related to Athena, the Greek Goddess and sprung whole from the head of Zeus. He was born and raised into an obviously broken family. And any predilection toward children he now promotes, began when he was little.
And those others on your list of external influencers, have all grown up, as the product of family structures torn about by second wave feminism, easy access to birth control and free love and the destruction of the taboos around women being sexually active.
Western society has moved so far field from our natural, biological order with the family its center, as to having destroyed the most basic foundation of our daily lives.
Jenny the family is the issue, and we are now seeing all the associated ailments (like Jeffery Marsh and Dylan Mulvaney) Whether the family we are talking about is you and your kids, or Jennifer Pritzker and the millions her family give to pro trans causes. Rene Jax
In your third paragraph, you mention they are chipping away at the Constitution, and I get that. I understand they don't like America. But I just can't find, nor read, nor hear spoken from any of them, What they intend to replace it with. I am open to ideas. Maybe there is something better than the system we have in place. So I say to them, Show me! Explain what system works better than our Republic. I have yet to hear an answer.
“Our manly ways and stern simplicity wreak much confusion to the enemy's councils. For they are men yet garb themselves as women, wearing wigs and finery and lace.” ― Oliver Cromwell
The only weapon of the cult is the story itself. The story of bad parents who want to oppress their LGB child has been adapted and reified by the TQ+ lobby.
“Our manly ways and stern simplicity wreak much confusion to the enemy's councils. For they are men yet garb themselves as women, wearing wigs and finery and lace.” ― Oliver Cromwell
So many wise observations captured here! I actually had a similar conversation with a work friend a couple of years ago. How did we get to this place as a society, as a culture? I consider myself a very intelligent person and I’ve been utterly baffled and horrified by the whole phenomenon. And you dare not express your reservations publicly. What a clusterfuck …
I’m so excited you’ve started this Substack! I look forward to reading and participating in the conversation.
Might you have any links to public info on the 17-year-old who was trafficked by her glitter family? I suspect this happens far more than we're aware of (Sage Lily is another example), and it needs to be exposed.
No, that story was shared with me privately, but I felt it was important to include because it illustrates the end game of "sanctuary" for vulnerable kids, with state-funded body modification procedures included in the offer.
As another mom of an ROGD girl, I’ve pondered this many times. I’ve concluded it’s an unholy alliance of people who have a financial interest in pharmaceuticals and surgeries, male perverts who get off on making a mockery of women, invading women’s privacy, and forcing people to treat them as women, civil rights “charity” organizations who no longer had a reason to exist and pay their staff so they needed a new frontier, misguided feminists who believe abolishing any acknowledgment of sex or sex differences will eliminate those differences being used against women, political extremists who want to capture a generation of voters who will support their party and candidates and policies and don’t care who they have to hurt to do it, foreign governments and other groups who want to bring about an economic and cultural downfall of western nations so they can grab a greater share of global power, and opportunistic predators and traffickers who want to benefit financially by exploiting young people. Some of these groups are employing sophisticated brainwashing techniques, and seeking out the most vulnerable young people to use them on, and others are running sophisticated long-game campaigns to infiltrate every influential institution in western society (schools, media outlets, publishing) and silence any dissent so they can manipulate public opinion.
Agreed! But there's a difference between self-interested people taking action that happens to help other self-interested who are taking related actions, and an "unholy alliance". The distinction may not matter much in a practical sense, since the results are the same; but it matters when you're trying to educate people. Many reasonable people who would otherwise be open to our perspective will tune us out if we use such grand conspiratorial language.
There is so much of it around these days, and so much hyperbole, that people are turned off.
On our issue, the facts speak horribly and outrageously for themselves and need not be dramatized to be effective.
Fair. Most of these groups of people are probably only coincidentally working together. But it does seem clear that some of them have a goal to increase the number of kids who identify as trans and are using some pretty sophisticated influence techniques to make that happen. It would be interesting to know what kind of strategic planning is going on behind the scenes, and which of the groups are driving it, because the takeover of education, most media, publishing, and psychology all at once can’t be a coincidence.
I truly believe that the election of Trump caused a lot of liberals to get active who previously had been passive, and George Floyd magnified the effect even further. It simultaneously manifested in every institution that liberals dominate in.
Jenny- Perfectly articulates so much ! I actually read this out loud to my husband this morning. We shook our heads, chuckled bitterly and felt solidarity with you and your readers. Thanks for this.
in the “trans-accepting” hysteria out of my lack of true knowledge on the subject. Your words have made me pause and think carefully about your family, your experiences, and how other families are struggling with the same issues. Thank you for piercing my bubble and opening my eyes. Thank you for being so honest and transparent in your writings. I am sharing your Substack entries with friends who I think would appreciate your unique insight and perspective.
Wow , what a year for you. I’m simply a woman, friend, mother, wife, sister, aunt, daughter and parent. A by-stander, if you will, watching on over the chaos. But a far more educated one at that, thanks to you. Happy holiday time and all the best for growing traction, sanity and ease in the new year.
As one of the millions? I made my minuscule stand last year at work in not announcing my pronouns in my sign off, as instructed, it was perhaps just a disquieting feeling at the time that fueled my rebellion and now I have more words to put to that and have a part to play. As a new grandmother this week my heart goes out to all those who are struggling with the care and wellbeing of their children and grandchildren, may the new year bring new hope peace and understanding within this context.
I have been trying to think through this Big Question too. And it’s not so much, “where did the trans idea come from?” because we can easily trace that idea back through academia and various bad actors there (Judith Butler, John Money, etc.). But the question is, “how did so many people get captured by this delusion so quickly?” And I have no idea.
Karl Marx essentially decided that families are bad, as strong families are a bastion against communist ideas. When Mao was bringing communism to China, his infamous Red Guard was created to bring down both tradition and families. He was successful, and once the Red Guard was no longer needed, they were all killed. I can’t say that 100% of the people involved in believing this trans nonsense are Marxist, but I’d bet a pretty penny that a huge majority are. The Marxist idea too believes that they can fight what they see as evil in any way— in other words, means don’t matter as long as they achieve their ends. They have no qualms about lying, cheating, stealing, or even killing, as long as they are on “the right side of history.” They believe the State should be in control of children, because in their narrow view of seeing the whole world through the oppressor/oppressed lens, parents by nature become oppressors. And therefore, they are “right” to stop oppressors by any means necessary.
But how did so many people get captured by this Marxist way of looking at the world? My best guess at this point is that because it allows them to feel virtuous without having to do anything, especially any hard work of changing themselves. They get social approval by affirming the right things, and feel virtuous by doing it. They don’t think past themselves about it, they don’t think through how their approval of an idea could negatively impact another personal life— they have been taught to think one-dimensionally and no deeper.
I can see the appeal of this, especially if not presented with data, facts, or cold hard reality. But what I can’t wrap my mind around is the many people who are being shown what these ideas lead to and all its ugliness, and simply refuse to see reality. Is it denial? Do they simply not want to face the fact that they were deluded by false ideas? Or are they just evil and genuinely want the destruction they cause? Did society just get stupider over the years? Maybe TV really did rot our brains…
I have found James Lindsay’s work helpful— he looks Queer academic literature to trace where these ideas come from. He might be a helpful resource for your Big Question, if you haven’t already seen his work.
I’m mom to a ROGD daughter who declared a trans ID about give years ago. She’s almost 20. I’m almost dead. lol, right?
Just the other day, my husband said to me, “We’re still here, fighting this thing that the whole world supports right now.”
I will never get over this betrayal by doctors, schools, mainstream media, the list goes on and on. All the smart people who just never bothered to look a little deeper or stop and think for a minute.
But I’m glad that we’re on the same side. Thank you.
Best wishes to you and your family for a wonderful Christmas.
I’m deeply grateful that my fierce, sensible, yet sensitive daughter is (thus far) immune to the unfolding SNAFU. She’s aware, sure, but accepting of who she is and how she was born. If anything, that scares me a bit as I am becoming aware of what can happen for some families: so as I say, I just remain grateful. Maybe living in the far south of New Zealand is helping to insulate us to some extent - but there is a miniature epidemic here too, though healthy caution seems the rule of the day.
Anyway , thank you for this Stack: it’s a valuable insight into the issues at a personal, detailed level and it’s increased my understanding hugely. I recognise what it must be costing you emotionally to write it, and I only hope it’s in some way therapeutic, or at least cathartic.
Keep on and best to you all for 2024 and beyond.
What a beautiful note, thank you. As to what it costs me, it’s only time. The rewards, therapy and catharsis, as you intuit, are more than enough, especially when someone writes a comment like yours!
The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.
Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.
https://nordicresistancemovement.org/what-is-cultural-marxism/
Jenny, you have brought up most excellent issues. There are incredible, massive external influences contributing to the mental attacks on your children. But I fear you have missed the point. Take one of your examples. Jeffery Marsh. He is not related to Athena, the Greek Goddess and sprung whole from the head of Zeus. He was born and raised into an obviously broken family. And any predilection toward children he now promotes, began when he was little.
And those others on your list of external influencers, have all grown up, as the product of family structures torn about by second wave feminism, easy access to birth control and free love and the destruction of the taboos around women being sexually active.
Western society has moved so far field from our natural, biological order with the family its center, as to having destroyed the most basic foundation of our daily lives.
Jenny the family is the issue, and we are now seeing all the associated ailments (like Jeffery Marsh and Dylan Mulvaney) Whether the family we are talking about is you and your kids, or Jennifer Pritzker and the millions her family give to pro trans causes. Rene Jax
In your third paragraph, you mention they are chipping away at the Constitution, and I get that. I understand they don't like America. But I just can't find, nor read, nor hear spoken from any of them, What they intend to replace it with. I am open to ideas. Maybe there is something better than the system we have in place. So I say to them, Show me! Explain what system works better than our Republic. I have yet to hear an answer.
“Our manly ways and stern simplicity wreak much confusion to the enemy's councils. For they are men yet garb themselves as women, wearing wigs and finery and lace.” ― Oliver Cromwell
https://cwspangle.substack.com/i/138320669/heinrich-himmler-on-how-bolshevik-christianity-spreads-homosexuality-and-hatred-of-women
great story telling as always.
you are 100% correct.
The only weapon of the cult is the story itself. The story of bad parents who want to oppress their LGB child has been adapted and reified by the TQ+ lobby.
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Of the Magic Kingdom of Darkness . . .
https://cwspangle.substack.com/i/138167431/of-the-magic-kingdom-of-darkness
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“Our manly ways and stern simplicity wreak much confusion to the enemy's councils. For they are men yet garb themselves as women, wearing wigs and finery and lace.” ― Oliver Cromwell
https://cwspangle.substack.com/i/138320669/heinrich-himmler-on-how-bolshevik-christianity-spreads-homosexuality-and-hatred-of-women
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Welcome, friend! I’m delighted to have you here.
So many wise observations captured here! I actually had a similar conversation with a work friend a couple of years ago. How did we get to this place as a society, as a culture? I consider myself a very intelligent person and I’ve been utterly baffled and horrified by the whole phenomenon. And you dare not express your reservations publicly. What a clusterfuck …
I’m so excited you’ve started this Substack! I look forward to reading and participating in the conversation.
Thank you! This is really helpful.
Might you have any links to public info on the 17-year-old who was trafficked by her glitter family? I suspect this happens far more than we're aware of (Sage Lily is another example), and it needs to be exposed.
No, that story was shared with me privately, but I felt it was important to include because it illustrates the end game of "sanctuary" for vulnerable kids, with state-funded body modification procedures included in the offer.
As another mom of an ROGD girl, I’ve pondered this many times. I’ve concluded it’s an unholy alliance of people who have a financial interest in pharmaceuticals and surgeries, male perverts who get off on making a mockery of women, invading women’s privacy, and forcing people to treat them as women, civil rights “charity” organizations who no longer had a reason to exist and pay their staff so they needed a new frontier, misguided feminists who believe abolishing any acknowledgment of sex or sex differences will eliminate those differences being used against women, political extremists who want to capture a generation of voters who will support their party and candidates and policies and don’t care who they have to hurt to do it, foreign governments and other groups who want to bring about an economic and cultural downfall of western nations so they can grab a greater share of global power, and opportunistic predators and traffickers who want to benefit financially by exploiting young people. Some of these groups are employing sophisticated brainwashing techniques, and seeking out the most vulnerable young people to use them on, and others are running sophisticated long-game campaigns to infiltrate every influential institution in western society (schools, media outlets, publishing) and silence any dissent so they can manipulate public opinion.
Agreed! But there's a difference between self-interested people taking action that happens to help other self-interested who are taking related actions, and an "unholy alliance". The distinction may not matter much in a practical sense, since the results are the same; but it matters when you're trying to educate people. Many reasonable people who would otherwise be open to our perspective will tune us out if we use such grand conspiratorial language.
There is so much of it around these days, and so much hyperbole, that people are turned off.
On our issue, the facts speak horribly and outrageously for themselves and need not be dramatized to be effective.
Fair. Most of these groups of people are probably only coincidentally working together. But it does seem clear that some of them have a goal to increase the number of kids who identify as trans and are using some pretty sophisticated influence techniques to make that happen. It would be interesting to know what kind of strategic planning is going on behind the scenes, and which of the groups are driving it, because the takeover of education, most media, publishing, and psychology all at once can’t be a coincidence.
I truly believe that the election of Trump caused a lot of liberals to get active who previously had been passive, and George Floyd magnified the effect even further. It simultaneously manifested in every institution that liberals dominate in.
Jenny- Perfectly articulates so much ! I actually read this out loud to my husband this morning. We shook our heads, chuckled bitterly and felt solidarity with you and your readers. Thanks for this.
I admit to being caught up
in the “trans-accepting” hysteria out of my lack of true knowledge on the subject. Your words have made me pause and think carefully about your family, your experiences, and how other families are struggling with the same issues. Thank you for piercing my bubble and opening my eyes. Thank you for being so honest and transparent in your writings. I am sharing your Substack entries with friends who I think would appreciate your unique insight and perspective.
Wow , what a year for you. I’m simply a woman, friend, mother, wife, sister, aunt, daughter and parent. A by-stander, if you will, watching on over the chaos. But a far more educated one at that, thanks to you. Happy holiday time and all the best for growing traction, sanity and ease in the new year.
As one of the millions? I made my minuscule stand last year at work in not announcing my pronouns in my sign off, as instructed, it was perhaps just a disquieting feeling at the time that fueled my rebellion and now I have more words to put to that and have a part to play. As a new grandmother this week my heart goes out to all those who are struggling with the care and wellbeing of their children and grandchildren, may the new year bring new hope peace and understanding within this context.
Well done Jenny for your care.
Beautifully written.
I have been trying to think through this Big Question too. And it’s not so much, “where did the trans idea come from?” because we can easily trace that idea back through academia and various bad actors there (Judith Butler, John Money, etc.). But the question is, “how did so many people get captured by this delusion so quickly?” And I have no idea.
Karl Marx essentially decided that families are bad, as strong families are a bastion against communist ideas. When Mao was bringing communism to China, his infamous Red Guard was created to bring down both tradition and families. He was successful, and once the Red Guard was no longer needed, they were all killed. I can’t say that 100% of the people involved in believing this trans nonsense are Marxist, but I’d bet a pretty penny that a huge majority are. The Marxist idea too believes that they can fight what they see as evil in any way— in other words, means don’t matter as long as they achieve their ends. They have no qualms about lying, cheating, stealing, or even killing, as long as they are on “the right side of history.” They believe the State should be in control of children, because in their narrow view of seeing the whole world through the oppressor/oppressed lens, parents by nature become oppressors. And therefore, they are “right” to stop oppressors by any means necessary.
But how did so many people get captured by this Marxist way of looking at the world? My best guess at this point is that because it allows them to feel virtuous without having to do anything, especially any hard work of changing themselves. They get social approval by affirming the right things, and feel virtuous by doing it. They don’t think past themselves about it, they don’t think through how their approval of an idea could negatively impact another personal life— they have been taught to think one-dimensionally and no deeper.
I can see the appeal of this, especially if not presented with data, facts, or cold hard reality. But what I can’t wrap my mind around is the many people who are being shown what these ideas lead to and all its ugliness, and simply refuse to see reality. Is it denial? Do they simply not want to face the fact that they were deluded by false ideas? Or are they just evil and genuinely want the destruction they cause? Did society just get stupider over the years? Maybe TV really did rot our brains…
I have found James Lindsay’s work helpful— he looks Queer academic literature to trace where these ideas come from. He might be a helpful resource for your Big Question, if you haven’t already seen his work.
Wow. What a fantastic piece.
I’m mom to a ROGD daughter who declared a trans ID about give years ago. She’s almost 20. I’m almost dead. lol, right?
Just the other day, my husband said to me, “We’re still here, fighting this thing that the whole world supports right now.”
I will never get over this betrayal by doctors, schools, mainstream media, the list goes on and on. All the smart people who just never bothered to look a little deeper or stop and think for a minute.
But I’m glad that we’re on the same side. Thank you.