April 24, 2024
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
Purple Haired Harpies
and the
Decline of the Historic
South
Friends,
I found the following article (below) of interest,
so I am passing it on. It symbolizes for me, in iconic fashion, another
major reason that the millennia-old inherited society around us is collapsing,
to be replaced by a monstruous, dystopian Gulag, a counter-reality where our tried-and-true
verities are unceremoniously dumped onto the ash heap of history.
Just the other day I caught a portion of a public
access broadcast of a Raleigh (NC) City Council meeting. Several dozen
protesters were present and proceeded to testify...that is, rant and rave and
threaten the council members if they did not, that very moment, pass a
resolution condemning Israeli occupation of Gaza.
Now, let it be said, that I tend to be
sympathetic to those who urgently seek negotiations and a withdrawal of the
IDF, which, no doubt is wrecking Gaza beyond recognition and causing immense
human suffering. While I condemn the vicious Hamas attack on Israel, the only
way—the only solution, so it seems to me—is for rational members of the parties
involved to sit down and negotiate an internationally-guaranteed two-state
solution. This would necessarily entail full Palestinian sovereignty in Gaza
and on the West Bank (with the requisite departure of zealous Zionist “settlers”
who have seized the better land there from Arab inhabitants).
But back to the protesters at the Raleigh City
Council: Almost all of them were identifiably women (?), and they were some of
the ugliest, foulest looking creatures I've ever seen—anywhere: Purple stringy
hair, 300 lb. female monsters, bulging out in all the wrong places, downright
nasty, their noses festooned with ringlets, their mouths spilling out threats
and imprecations and demands. If anyone—any rational person, that is—were
sympathetic to their position, just their presence there would have probably
quashed that sentiment and discouraged a sympathetic response.
Yet, the council members—like most
mind-in-the-cloud liberals—appeared staid and polite, intently listening, as
the loathsome harpies seized the microphone during the comment session.
That set me to thinking: How did those women become
such foul harridans? Certainly, they weren’t that way as toddlers or young girls.
And my thoughts centered on two causes which I believe have gotten us to where
we are today here in central North Carolina: First, our perverted educational
system, abetted by the collapse of the nuclear family and the church, and, second,
a massive in-migration to the Tar Heel State since Governor Luther Hodges back
in the late 1950s had the idea of establishing what became known as the Research
Triangle Park centered around the three major universities in Raleigh, Durham
and Chapel Hill. This, in turn, began a six-decade process of attracting
highly-paid technocrats, who brought with them their neoteric beliefs on everything
from politics and morality to child rearing…. But very little of the Southern “rootedness”
and “social bond” communitarianism (to use the late Richard Weaver’s term) that
had characterized my neighbors when I was growing up.
Many of those women at the Raleigh City Council went
through our educational system, and most likely had parents who forked over
thousands of shekels to make certain their daughters got a "good
education." And, no doubt, that is a major part of the problem. For
several decades we have permitted—in many cases, enabled—the total miseducation
(I should call it as it is—indoctrination and cerebral infection) of our
children by a corrupt public education system (which the GOP feeds almost as
badly as the Dems). That miseducation is coming back to haunt us with a
vengeance, culturally, politically, and religiously.
Mind you, the Raleigh City Council is now made up
of an assortment of leftists and other n'er-do'wells of progressivism. The
influx of population in recent decades, mostly techies from California and from
“up North” attracted by our growing Carolina electronic industry, low taxes and
hospitable business environment, has turned this area from a cordial, mannerly,
old fashioned Southern region, into a foul copy of Silicon Valley. I now hate
to venture into our state's capital city—it is not the town I remember as a
boy.
Automobile traffic is ruthless and becoming
impossible. Genuine courtesy, whether on the steadily-expanding and changing
road grid, or in dealing with a new and aggressive commercial class, has all
but disappeared. Chatting briefly with a cashier while standing in a check-out
line gets you nasty looks, if not nasty comments “to hurry up” or “move on” from
impatient shoppers.
Surrounding the city and chewing up thousands of
acres of once serene farmland, new multi-storied apartments rise in fields that
I recall used to cultivate tobacco and soybeans. It’s becoming almost
impossible for small landowners and farmers to hold on to their property given
real estate sharks circling round, paying inflated prices for their homesteads.
How incongruous to be driving out my way, passing beautiful countryside, only
to be struck suddenly by ugly high-rise apartments which now are replacing it. As
Howard W. Smith (d. 1976), the late conservative Democrat who once represented formerly-conservative
northern Virginia in Congress, commented, observing the new faceless, impersonal
apartments erected in his district: “And to think, that people actually live in
those ant-hills!”
As my late friend and mentor, Dr. Russell Kirk,
once said: “It is hard to love the strip mall where the honeysuckle used to
grow.”
Thirty-five years ago Raleigh elected a very
conservative mayor, a protégé of the late Senator Jesse Helms. That would never
happen today. Since then Raleigh and the county of Wake, in which I live, have
seen a sea change—in demographics, in voting habits, in the destruction of old
neighborhoods, in the once largely unspoiled environment, and in the kind of population—the
people—who inhabit the area.
Whereas I grew up in a community which celebrated our
traditions and revered the nuclear family, valued the role of the church, where
divorce was a rarity, where abortion was practically unknown, and where public
education was considered an extension of parental guidance (not some secret lab
for “woke” teachers to push six year old boys to have sex mutilation operations,
without the knowledge of their parents), that sense of community has largely
disappeared.
Again, my thoughts returned to those foul
witches with purple hair....They were an appropriate symbol, a primary illustration,
of what the best laid plans of our unweary and grasping political and business leaders
had produced…secular and barren modernism run rampant, in search of the almighty
dollar, and if traditions or heritage or old fashioned courtesy and belief
should stand in the way, then let them be damned.
So, when I stumbled across the following article
by an "out" and "proud" lesbian, boasting that now some 30%
of Gen Z women identify as LBGTQ....well, given the choices we have made, or have
allowed to be made on our behalf over the past half century, is it really surprising?
Our national decline can be traced to a number of
factors, including the infiltration and perversion of our educational and
entertainment systems, massive immigration (and not just from overseas), the
nefarious results of the “civil rights” bills of the 1960s, and, yes, the long-range
effects of the 19th Amendment. Humanly speaking it may be impossible at this
point to reverse it. Yet, we must continue to try. And may God help us!
*****
Almost
30% of Gen Z Women Identify as LGBTQ+, According to New Survey
Almost 30% of Gen Z Women Identify as
LGBTQ+, According to New Survey (msn.com)
• March
14, 2024
Look
to your left, look to your right. If neither of those girlies are queer, you probably
are. Almost 30% of Gen Z women now identify as LGBTQ+, according to a new Gallup report that breaks down the data
by age and gender in more detail than ever before.
When I saw that
statistic I could only think one thing: My fellow millennial women, we need to
get to work. Only 12.4% of millennial women currently identify as LGBTQ+ and
our younger counterparts are clearly telling us that those are rookie numbers.
It is definitely not very girlboss of us to get upstaged
like this.
As
Gallup senior editor Jeffrey Jones told NBC News, much of the overall increase
in LGBTQ+ identification is being driven by bisexual women. “That’s where a lot
of the growth seems to be happening,” Jones said. (Indeed, a whopping 20.7% of
Gen Z women are bi now, per the Gallup report.)
We can see that
trend even more clearly across the entire survey: In total, 8.5% of women of
all generations said they were LGBTQ+. Bisexuals account for the clear majority
of that figure, with 5.7% of women specifically identifying as bisexual and 2%
as lesbian. Across all generations and genders, the rate of LGBTQ+
identification has gone way up, now standing at 7.6% overall, more than double
what it was in 2012. That rise is reassuring news for anyone who supports open
expression, freedom, and equality — and a devastating blow to anti-LGBTQ+
politicians who think they can legislate us out of existence.
But ever the
perfectionist, I can’t help but see room for improvement here. Clearly us
pre-1996 babies have some more coming out to do: Let’s listen to some girl in red. Let’s go sit on the IKEA bisexual
couch —
or is it a green velvet couch now? Whatever we need to
do to keep up with Gen Z, let’s pull out all the stops.
Life is only so
long, so we might as well be as gay as humanly possible.
“THE GASP I JUST GUSPED,” said
one commenter on *Vanity Fair's* TikTok of the couple.
In seriousness,
after over a decade of reporting on Gallup data on LGBTQ+ issues, it seems
fairly clear to me that people aren’t all of a sudden “becoming gay,” but
rather that younger generations are increasingly breaking through the
prejudices that keep people in the closet. The frogs definitely aren’t turning people queer, but
rising social acceptance coupled with the boldness of youth means that we’re
finally getting a more accurate picture of the size of the LGBTQ+ population.
And sadly,
bisexual people of all genders still face rampant social stigma. (In fact, bisexual men are
often told that their sexual orientation doesn’t even exist and that only women can be
bi.) So my completely earnest, non-meme hope is that younger generations can
help more millennials feel comfortable being ourselves.
After all, we’ve
got a critical threshold to reach. As Gallup noted at the end of its report,
“If current trends continue, it is likely that the proportion of LGBTQ+
identifiers will exceed 10% of U.S. adults at some point within the next three
decades.” Ten percent! We can get there!
Basically, the
writing is on the wall: by 2054, not being bisexual will be “cringe,” or
whatever we’re calling it by then. It’s time for us to adult harder than ever
before and get gayer before it’s too late.