Hump Day Shrapnel
Some hot, jagged, and fast-moving thoughts on recent “news”
Jennifer Lawrence suffers nightmares over Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Actress and social Justice warrior, Jennifer Lawrence, is evidently a victim of frequent REM rape by Tucker Carlson’s monologues — an assault made worse by her parents’ genuine appreciation of the acerbic Fox News host. To Lawrence, Ma and Pa enjoying takedowns of historic figures like Karine Jean-Pierre must seem like she’s being dream trafficked by her own parents.
But rather than examine potential biases of her own, the actress has been working to change the beliefs of her mother and father, neither of whom have the younger Lawrence’s extensive life experiences of being daily painted and festooned by professional make-up artists, fashion designers, Hollywood costumers — and then given someone else’s words to speak.
Here’s my message to Ms. Lawrence, should she care to hear it: one cannot star in The Hunger Games and come away on the side of the elite without being either genuinely confused about the dystopian arc of the story, or else happy to internalize its case for a neo-feudal caste system.
Or, to put it more forcefully, Lawrence is either a sanctimonious poser tacitly luxuriating in her position among the progressive Elect; or else she’s just another shallow moron who should learn from her successes that it takes a village — writers, directors, hair and make-up professionals, fashion designers, et al —to maintain her public persona.
Obviously, actors can and do have opinions, and I don’t begrudge Lawrence hers. I just wish the opinions she expresses from an outsized and, frankly, unearned public platform built on unrelated talents, weren’t so fucking stupid.
Look around, Jen. You’re not on the side you pretend to be. Maybe buy the Cliff’s Notes.
The show 21st-Century Serial Killers — while a bit forced in both its historiography and social psychology — nevertheless featured the fascinating case of Douglas and Donna Perry, and the murder of 3 prostitutes in 90’s Spokane, Washington.
Douglas Perry, a weapons enthusiast and habitual felon, killed 3 sex workers in 1990. Until 2012, they were believed to be additional victims of serial killer Richard Yates, who was suspected and then cleared of the crimes, and the cases grew cold.
Advancements in DNA technology however eventually led to the arrest, 32-years later, of Donna Perry, after DNA taken as part of a felony weapons charge matched DNA logged from one of the 1990 murders.
The DNA, it turned out, was not a familial match: it belonged to Douglas Perry. But because in 2000 Douglas Perry became Donna Perry after being diagnosed with gender dysphasia and going overseas for gender reassignment surgery, Donna was arrested. Douglas had been living as Donna since the surgery, and hadn’t been implicated in any other homicides.
The defense argued that Donna should not be held responsible for the crimes of Douglas, because Donna was no longer Douglas — no longer carried an envy of women, no longer was ruled by a man’s testosterone — and as a female, had become a new person entirely.
This defense became dependent upon the idea that changing one’s physical attributes and changing one’s chosen identity fundamentally create a new person.
What is fascinating about this case is how this claim aligns with contemporary gender ideology that posits that people can be born the wrong sex, which means that they need affirming care — hormone treatment, chemical or physical castration, cosmetic surgeries — to become who they truly are.
And yet were that the case, Donna would’ve had a legitimate claim to innocence: “she” had never killed; and “she” wasn’t her true self until after the surgery, which took place a decade after the murders.
Ultimately, the jury didn’t buy it: Douglas and Donna Perry, surgery, choices of dress, and pronouns aside, are the same person, jurors concluded. The change in administered chemicals and cosmetic appearance after the gender dysphoria diagnosis and subsequent medical interventions hadn’t altered that fact. Donna Perry was convicted of 3 murders in 2015, at the age of 65.
Today, she’s serving a life sentence at a women’s correctional facility. Which in itself speaks to the social friction over how we choose to categorize transgender people whose transformations can never be fully realized. Chromosomes determine sex. Gender is a construct. And as such, it is dependent upon who gets to define the rules around that construct. Conflating sex with gender has always been an attempt to seize control of biology itself and bend it to certain social and political wills.
The Douglas / Donna Perry case in the end eschewed the usual academic piffle and tasked the state to decide if changing one’s sex — becoming one’s supposed “true self” — is transformative or merely more like creating an alias, or becoming a WITSEC participant.
In matters of life and death, at least, jurors in Spokane decided it was the latter. And we should consider that as we tinker with the social order.
Jon Stewart at the Magic Kingdom.
In case you hadn’t heard, former comedian-cum-serial-virtue signaler Jon Stewart awarded neo-Nazi Ukrainian Azov Batallion soldier Ihor Halushka with a “Heart of the Team” award at the Pentagon-sponsored “Warrior Games,” held at Disney World August 19—28.
The crowd of Ukraine-fluffing war profiteers, money launderers, and attendant Useful Idiots chanted “Ihor!” as the conquering hero accepted the award, a sleeve over his arm hiding his Nazi tattoo.
In addition to Halushka, the Ukrainian delegation also featured members of the neo-Nazi Right Sector, whom our Intel community had used as regime change assets in Ukraine’s 2014 Color Revolution.
Meanwhile, Zelenskyy — as he bilks US taxpayers out of billions of dollars — has shut down multiple press agencies, outlawed his political opposition, and has created the template for a contemporary progressive “democracy” our own left seems enamored of: a one-party State that criminalizes dissent and uses fascist alliances between the State and private business to police “misinformation,” which — insofar as it breaks from the purported consensus — is also a sign of extremist behavior, domestic terrorism, and white supremacy.
As our DOJ begins arresting those who’ve signed their names to petitions calling for representative government, keep in mind that this Administration and our corrupt and captured press are holding up WEF wonderboy Zelenskyy as a modern-day Churchill.
So. Flaunt those Ukraine flag emojis with pride, people! And GOP? Keep right on supporting this foreign interventionism. It’s a huge hit with your constituencies, no matter what polling of the filthy masses may say.
As for Jon Stewart? In your next contract rider, add the condition that, if you can’t bother to do your own research, somebody please tell you in advance that you’re celebrating a Nazi. That way, you have time to sew a yellow Star of David to your sleeve.
You rootless cosmopolitans, after all, really do need to pay better respect to the Master Race. Because you don’t want to see them angry.