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Shoot, when I was a kid, those of us who preferred jeans to dresses, and playing in the woods to frilly tea parties (I didn’t mind tea parties, as long as there wasn’t too much fancy-ness or dressing up required) were called tomboys. Not, boys.
We were still very much girls. And we knew it. Sometimes, perhaps, we wished for a moment or two that maybe we had been boys, for then no one would expect us to act “lady-like.” We could get away with flopping our bodies however we wanted across the living room furniture, without worrying about “sitting like a lady.” (Now as an adult, I understand why we want a certain amount of decorum in how our young ladies seat themselves on said furniture.)
But never did we actually think we should become boys. Or that there was some mistake in our bodies.
No, we knew that for whatever reason, God had created us as girls. And girls we were, and women we would become. And we kept playing in the woods and getting dirty with our brothers, if we were fortunate enough have some, and eventually became comfortable even with a little bit of dress up every now and again.
Yes I was the only girl (wore my brothers hand me downs my sister was too girly and much smaller ) who played flagged football every morning before school!! Fun times but never thought I was the wrong sex.. most kids are just awkward during puberty!!
Love this sentiment! I’m still a Tom-boy at heart. My sisters and I are all stronger than the average woman and our husbands rarely have to call friends to move stuff. I’m 60 and still the one climbing ladders, hauling stuff and doing whatever needs doing. Tom-boy wives don’t take as long to get ready either 😉 And most of us can throw a 🏈 🤣
I didn’t get my hand eye coordination until I was in my 20s 🙄 so was never much good at any ball sports except soccer. So definitely not part of that “most” 😆
Shoveled horse manure. Self taught, learned to ride at 12, bareback when I was too short to reach horse's back with saddle. Would climb on from fence & gallop around with no saddle, bridle or even lead shank; no nothing! 😆
I was the same. I hated dresses, they were limiting on playground equipment. I also played in the woods, mud, rode motorcycle, and sometimes wished I was a boy so that I could pee standing behind a tree and not wear a shirt when it was really hot. Never once did it cross my mind that I wasn’t a female though. I got caught smoking one time in school and my punishment was that I had to wear a dress to school every day for a week, never got caught again😂😂
We had to wear dresses to school until about the 7th or 8th grade. ‘68 or ‘69? (then it wasn’t jeans, the pants were always dressier). As soon as pants were allowed thats all I wore until my hippie high school years when I made seafarer jeans into skirts.
It was about 1967-68, at University of Alabama, before this young nursing student could wear Jean's, slacks to class.
Always a dress [uniform ] when we were in the hospital. And the uniforms had to be starched and ironed.
My husband came home from Vietnam in feb 1968, and was amazed at what women were wearing. When he returned to the university in 1969, he was even more amazed. Shorts in the classroom! But darn it, he was married by then.
LOL we had to wear dresses or skirts till 15 or so, then a new generation of pupils came in who wore high heels and stockings (age 11) and we fell off our chairs. Then we were allowed pants, but dress pants, and with a skirt over it ! I refused and mom had to have a mini dress made so I could wear that over the pants. This was still all girl's school too.
😂😂😂 That would have been severe punishment for me also! My mom told me I screamed bloody murder any time she tried to put me in a dress until I was 5. She called a babysitter at the last minute once because she didn’t think it was worth the hassle to bring me to a wedding 🤣
I have 3 sisters and spent my time similar as you did and had friends who were the same. Climbed trees, found the dirtiest ravine to slide down, was one of the first picked for teams above many boys, wished I had brothers and also wanted to ease of peeing standing up! There’s a thing made for that now for camping! Dresses made it hard to hang upside down on the monkey bars. I could go on and on, smiling at memories actually. Anyway your comment made me laugh out loud! I’m glad my mom never thought of that one!
A hiking friend told me about that thing made for women to pee standing up. She called it a "shenis" 🤣🤣🤣! I bought one to use while hiking but found you still had to pull your britches down past your white shiny hiney, so why bother!
Your punishment was that you had to wear a dress to school. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
In third grade our family moved and I no longer attended a private school with a dress code that required girls to wear dresses. I would’ve worn pants every day except my mom made me wear dresses twice a week. 😂
I suppose that was a compromise she could live with. 🤷♀️
I’m sure that she would have worn dresses every day and loved it. She hates wearing jeans - I haven’t seen her in jeans for twenty years. Me? I wear them daily. Even to church. 😃
She chided me once during high school that I would graduate and still be trimming my nails with clippers rather than an Emory board.
She was right. I did. And three times actually. High school plus two college degrees. 🤣🤣🤣. I mean, clip them down quickly w clippers and smooth off with a nail file. It’s much faster that way.
My mom has always been a very girly girl. Me, not so much, obviously. 😄
🙋♀️❤️ I did dress my brothers up to be sisters when there were 2 and 4. It was a VERY DISAPPOINTING experiment for me! They are still mad at me. Tree climbing, softball/baseball, motorcycle riding, mud making, these were a few of my favorite things...😁💃
I dressed up my middle brother when he was about 9 months old (old enough to stand up in his crib). I was ten. I had really wanted a sister and just wanted to see what he would look like.
My dad came into the room and erupted. Told me to get that thing off and never do it again. I really meant no harm....
I remember wearing shorts under my catholic uniform bc my mom knew I’d be hanging upside down on the monkey bars with my two best friends who were of course boys because I only knew boys as a little girl. All my cousins closest to me were boys and my brother were all I knew. I was in the 3rd grade before I had a best friend that was a girl! To this day I prefer the company of men and *like-minded* (read not stuck-up or *gasp* feminist) women. Any woman who intrinsically hates men on sight has my immediate suspicion of someone to possibly avoid. Why would you hate an entire gender? Trauma is not an excuse there are some truly wonderful men in this world!
I wore shorts under my required skirts (for public school!) all the way through elementary school, since we did P.E. in our school clothes and since I felt naked without pants on. In junior high, we had those awful bloomer suits we had to wear at P.E., and it wasn't until senior high that we were allowed to wear pants and jeans (and that was when female teachers were first allowed to wear pantsuits, too). I had some favorite denim skirts I wore constantly in junior high, to be as close to wearing jeans as possible. And my career was in the Army, which was about 85% male, and I loved it (and them, including most of the women, except those who lobbied for women to enter military occupational specialties for which 90-99% of women aren't physically qualified, because career over lethality of the Army, apparently).
Ditto for me. I had two brothers and a sister and we were constantly playing outside in the dirt, climbing trees. I would also say that I was a tom-boy. I was never gender confused and grew up very happy to be what God made me. I feel that i had a well-rounded childhood!
Copernicus I could have written your entire post! I too was a tomboy with no aversion to dirt and I too found it difficult to sit lady-like on the furniture and yes I sometimes envied the boys but it was only an envy of their “freedom”. I never imagined actually being a boy however. There were other “tomboys” here and there and my parents just viewed it benignly and knew eventually I’d get more interested in girl things. But nowadays I’d probably be encouraged to either cultivate my supposed inner lesbianism or try to change my sex. This is so sad and wrong! Our culture is so bankrupt. Our children are at such risk in our society. Much respect to Russia which is at least trying to prevent the subversion of their children by western “values”.
Well said. Best friend growing up was a complete tomboy. She has been a happily married woman to her husband for 30 years and has 2 terrific grown children. These tomboys don’t always grow up to be lesbians either. Just leave these poor kids be. Let them be kids.
I couldn’t agree more. I have the same discussion daily. I too am a Tom Boy, always have been and always will be. I can be a girly girl but I tough and strong. I am so sick of this nonsense.
Conversely, as a little boy I was a softie who like stuffed animals and other cuddly stuff... and then I grew up and joined the Army so I could break things and hurt people in a socially acceptable manner. So you never know.
What's ironic and self-contradictory about all the "trans" stuff is that it's recreating rigid, restrictive, and stereotypical sex roles. You sometimes see vaguely trans-like practices in pre-modern societies, but that's precisely because they have these rigid sex roles. Sometimes they need a work-around to let men do women's tasks or vice versa. But this is basically a legal fiction. They don't think the person has literally become the opposite sex (or some third thing in between) or that the person can engage in sexual activity as though he/she were the opposite sex.
Exactly! My younger, by only 16 months, sister was a tomboy, in every sense of the word. Growing up, each Sunday there was a major fight between her and Mama because she had to wear a dress to church. She absolutely HATED dresses and wasn't shy about letting Mama, and everyone else, know it. And she always tried her damnedest to get out of it, but Mama always won. I don't believe the thought ever crossed her mind that she was anything but a girl.
Also a former tomboy! I loved climbing trees and playing with snakes and frog and turtles! Loved playing with cars too! I never really liked dolls and while I liked dresses for dressy occasions, I was normally in jeans or shorts (and barefoot all summer long). I became more interested in girly things as a teenager (I still love clothes and makeup) but kept the scrappy tomboy side that developed so I could keep up with my older brother and his friends. Still don’t like asking for help to lift and carry heavy objects or get things from high shelves. I’ll figure it out myself dammit 😆😂 But yeah, liking some things that boys tend to like does not make a girl the same as a boy!
Agreed about the words. But we can relate to the phrase. Truth is we were just being ourselves; not limited by societal constraints. That certainly did occur to me growing up. I just wanted to play
thanks ! I had been wondering what non-binary was LOL. How good to read all these comments that make me feel even better with myself ! It seems lots of women think like me, it is probably our age group that was uninfected with the likes of the dean of the Chicago school, who should be locked up for life if it were my decision. I know several gay and lesbian people and they are no where like this person.
I'm old enough to have experienced the school rule that said that girls had to wear dresses/skirts. Pants on girls were forbidden.
OK...Tell that to my mother. In upstate New York where it got freakin' freezin' in the winter, rule or no rule, my mother was not going to let me out to wait for the school bus in a dress! (It would have been more embarrassing to have had my mother drive me to the bus stop or to school. That, contrary to today, meant you were a wimp: "Billy's mother has to drive him to school! Hahaha!")
So. My mother made me put on pants -- under my dress. OMG, how I hated it. (Liked being warmer because of them, but oh, the horrors of having pants on when they were forbidden.) Some kids made fun of me, but I survived. "My mother is making me..." First thing before even getting to class was a "pit stop" in the "Girls' Room." (Yep, the Girls' Room.) Off came the pants.
Thinking back, it was an important lesson...Just because someone's made a "rule" doesn't mean there aren't times when common sense and individual rights demand that you break them.
I am also an Orthodox Christian, in fact I almost married a Ukrainian. We dated a long time but I converted on my own and his sister in law is my God Mother. I am so sad for the Ukrainian people and now all the Orthodox who are being persecuted. May Our Lord have mercy 🙏☦️🤍
I’ve read most of revelation and listened to several sermons on it. This is a place where Christians disagree often. I am one who believes Jesus will take his before the tribulation. And hence Jesus return please! I’m fine with disagreeing on this. 👍🏻
Color revolutions never seem to work out well ... and wherever the American/NATO Empire goes quickly devolves into a hellhole of human misery. I too feel for the Ukrainian people ... pawns in someone else's game. It should have never have been.
I always said that our country was *choosing* to make Putin and Russia our enemy for many years now in the media and in policies because of the NWO, Soros and friends, and the culture war of deplorable sexual paganism vs Christianity.
If Soros and friends couldnt control Russia like they have done here and in Europe, if they couldnt rape Russia of its wealth, they would try to destroy her.
That is why Putin constantly talks about Russia's survival.
He isnt the madmen western media makes him out to be. I am sure rhat he isnt a saint either, but he isnt an evil despot.
You say it well. Beginning back in 2016, all this Russia stuff went into warp-drive. And back then, I was thinking that the new Russia ought to be our friend in trade and not our enemy. But wait! The terror state's Woke Agenda always gets into the way of any sane pragmatic approach to anything.
What America? The America of George Washington and Patrick Henry! The America of the Civil War era? The subverted America of the early first two decades of the 20th century. Fascist mid-20th century America! Crazed insane Woke America of the 21st century?Transnational Interventionalist America of the criminally fake genocidal pandemic? Which America is it?
But reading it again, I think you mean family values of the traditional sort? And I do think that other people are a bit puzzled as well. Blind support of anything usually does not turn out too well.
And here I am too. This is NOT my country anymore. I was willing to fight and die for the country of my youth. Not now. I'd stop paying taxes if I could. The crapmem in power are perverted and love death and immorality. If the executive branch was on fire, well you know what I wouldn't do, ha, ha.
Anyone can use "whataboutism" to point out how bad the US really was in my childhood (60's to 72" Good for you. I personally grew up in community's and towns that very little resemble the crime ridden, freakazoid, streets of today. If a person doesn't have a memory of freely playing in the neighborhood, then I feel for you.
There are apparently millions of people who are FED UP in capital letters. And this is just the way it is ... and there will be more of us as night follow day. The more 'they' push at us, the more we feel like cornered rats, ultimately the more tenuous becomes their grip on things. Things just get so upside down insane bad that people tire of it all ... and want no more. Nothing lasts forever, not even 'their' Evil Grifting Looting Murderous Empire.
Woke Marxism, or any brand thereof, is always warring against God because God is the ultimate competitor to the state's authority. Therefore the choices for the state are three: 1) ban God ... with atheism becoming as the official state policy, 2) co-opt religion into a facsimile state organ of compliance (i.e., the fallen 'Christian' churches of the West), and 3) a smash the mirror divide and conquer strategy of promoting all 'religions' even 'inclusive' of New Age-ism, Satanism, witchcraft and so on.
In practice, all three are employed simultaneously.
Now explain that to the Vatican or the Grand Ayatollah. I'd agree with your premise but for the existence of theocracies both current and historical. Calvin's short-lived Geneva experiment was a rare case of a Reformed theocracy.
American Girl has been trending that way for some time now. If parents aren't aware of what they support, maybe this will finally wake them up to it. Hopefully most will get some wind of this before just getting the next thing from them for their kids. We had read up a bit on them more than 10 years ago and realized we really couldn't support that business and all of the things they push - though at least it was behind the scenes then. For a similar doll from a Christian company, we went with http://www.girlsngrace.com/ (no affiliation on my part).
That also was about the time we really started looking at where Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts were heading and decided to change direction there as well. That's been a good thing for our kids.
I assume that you know about Trail Life and American Heritage Girls as solid alternatives to Boy and Girl Scouts. We’ve appreciated the troop our kiddo is in.
We've been involved in both. AHG was the alternative we'd found when we saw what GSUSA was pushing. I'd seen where BSA was heading for some time and had followed the Trail Life movement even before they'd officially come together.
We've met Patti at a couple of events as she comes down to Texas. Our girls have had a lot of fun over the years in the program and made some good friends along the way. I appreciate that the desired outcome from the program isn't so much of a "Merit" thing as "how well is this young lady prepared to live as a Christian in today's world". :)
There’s a brand of dolls called Our Generation that’s a great alternative to the American Girl too and it’s much more reasonably priced! I have bought a bunch of them for my great niece.
Figured all this out thirty years ago about Am Girl and Disney and fifty years ago about Scouts!. My four adult children survived without these and without gender issues. They know who they were created to be.
My daughter is one of the leaders in a Boy Scout troupe in a Virginia city just outside the northern VA bedroom communities. Two of her boys have their Eagle (one was the troupe’s 100th Eagle) and her third is on track to receive his within the next 18 months. It is an extremely traditional troupe and leadership has determined that they will disband completely if National tries to force them to be “more inclusive.” They also monitor badge content closely to ensure no ‘woke’ content is conveyed to the boys. This troupe is raising up some fine masculine, resourceful, respectful young men!
Our Troop is similar. I really think BSA was strong armed into being “inclusive” by threat of being sued into oblivion. I’ve been involved with BSA for 16 years or so and I can’t see any changes at the unit level. However, I have not looked at the requirements for the Eagle required merit badge “Citizen in Society”. Sounds like woke potential in there but hopefully not. It is relatively new and none of our Scouts have requested it yet.
Probably wise to avoid. We weren't aware of all this a few years ago when we bought our now 9yo an AG doll. We bought it used and checked out the story ahead.
Rebecca is a turn-of-the-century jewish immigrant. We didn't see any problems with the character or story. Now Rebecca has a modern kitchen, does gymnastics, and drives a scooter, just like all turn of the century jewish girls. She's getting a (used) car for Christmas.
Yes, my girl is 14 and I avoided them from day 1 because they were writing LGBTQ stuff in their books a while ago. Same with girl scouts which went downhill decades ago (most of their national leadership is DEEP in the LGBTQ). Then, boy scouts. We've loved Trail Life.
How about a short letter writing campaign to American Girl from C&C subscribers. Maybe add just one more Christmas Card to your list, and give them your thoughts. Let’s see where it goes!!!
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!”
“These fools are so arrogantly stupid which is a good thing”... on reflection... the woke infiltration into everything... has been a very dangerous occupation over all.... appears Putin is all too aware of thus acting swiftly...
Nope, I don't think that'll happen. You can tell from the tone of the letter written to them that they had no concern about the parents hearing of this activity. There was no attempt to apologize or even address it the disgusting degeneracy at all; almost as if they already knew of this type of activity. Which apparently isn't surprising, as it has a reputation as a very "progressive" private school.
Yes, but the left tends to be a little overconfident in their echo chamber. Young winning VA governor is an example. There is a lot of this garbage going on in public schools, too.
I agree with this. A lot of people go along to get along but have their breaking point. And some will be too afraid to deviate from the crowd but if enough go to the other side, they will follow. So they may not have as much solid support as they assume.
We can hope that the school might get "Loudoun'ed." The Loudoun County, VA, Superintendent of Schools was just canned by the newly-elected school board, because of his cover-up of a cross-dressing boy who raped a girl in the girl's restroom, who was then transferred to another school, where he did it again. This one is a private school, so it's governed differently, but many of those Loudoun parents are also wealthy and left-leaning.
The wording is important. If they admit to being degenerate, or wrong in any way it would pave the way for retribution. The strategy appears to be blame shifting denial and excuses galore. People will however vote with their feet and wallets.
We live in a 50/50 world. My guess they will be punished because they didn't admit they have a problem. They didn't give themselves any wiggle room, they just indorsed it.
I would love to hear from any parent with a child at Francis Parker School in Chicago! Are all Chicagoans that woke that they’re ok with this perverted behavior? It’s sick and degrading!
I sent the video to my DIL, she’s a Chicago public school teacher dealing with special needs children. She is appalled! This man needs to be fired and possibly brought up on charges for grooming children. Next stop for these evil people, normalizing pedophilia! AND I bet it’s coming to a community near you faster than we will all realize! After all we have a pedo in the highest office! 😡
How far of a stretch is it to think this person might actually give live demonstrations of how to use these under the guise of “education”? Makes me sick. Why the parents aren’t ready to burn the school down after seeing this depravity is beyond me!!
Perhaps ask if Mr. Bruno is “engaging progressive approach to teaching and learning provides all students with the quantitative, interpretive, analytic and artistic experiences that allow them to acquire the skills that will help them develop their own interests and apply what they are learning in ways that benefit the broader community of which they are a valued part.”...from their website!
Parker’s passion for education emanates from our desire to know all students and guide them in their learning and development so they can become authentic, effective, responsible and empathic citizens and leaders in our democracy and the wider world. At Parker, we affirm the dignity of each person and inspire all to learn and grow to make a difference in the world.
We need to find a way to punish American Girl swiftly and forcefully. Christmas is a time when all of us moms and grandmas buy American Girl doll stuff for our kids. Not buying is easy for some of us (others don't ever do what they know they SHOULD do - shame on you). But we need to send a stronger message.
Unfortunately, I’m finding that most people just simply don’t care, don’t want to sacrifice at all. It takes what 20 min to do an online search for an alternative- and yet most can’t be bothered to do that. We are spoiled people. Freedom isn’t free and takes sacrifices. Most would rather others make the sacrifices rather than them having to do it. Freedom can be found 6’ under the ground. People are just glad they aren’t the ones that did the sacrificing under that ground 😒
As a crocheter I can get behind this! We even crochet dolls, cute pillows, and stuffed animals. People always love my items, but never want to actually buy them though :(
This!! ^ My grandmother made tons of outfits for my sister's AG doll. Also, consider second hand. Many people collected the character dolls and are now selling them.
Yep, lots of nice condition second hand stuff as well. I try to support crafters when I can as they are like small businesses. I know what it's like to make stuff and just have it sitting around because you can't sell it.
Maybe we should get a C&C crafters/ secondhand marketplace going. Neither I nor my sister have daughters to pass any of this stuff down to. Be nice if my grandmother's work went to someone who would appreciate it. The dolls too. She collected them. We have about 30 that need new homes.
Regina S...How about a short letter writing campaign to American Girl from C&C subscribers. Maybe add just one more Christmas Card to your list, and give them your thoughts. Let’s see where it goes!!!
An attorney friend of mine once said he had two approaches…a “please help me understand”…and a “WHAT the hell.” I think this calls for a “please help me understand” approach!
I am 64 years old, and earlier this year was the first time I'd ever even heard of a butt plug. I have no idea how it's used or what it's for, and I have no desire to find out. Whoever does want to find out can do it on their own when they become "adults" at the age of 18. Sex toys have no place in the classroom of a school. Why are the people, like this "dean," not charged with child abuse? Don't these states have statutes that criminalize such activity? This is just so wrong, on so many levels. Too many people really are sick...
I mentioned Dr. Denise Sibley yesterday, and asked for letters in her support as a freedom doctor. She, along with Dr. Peter McCullough, are having their board certifications threatened to be taken away due to “misinformation” about masks and treatments during the pandemic. Today I have an address where letters of support can be sent. The deadline for letters of support is December 15, 2022. Letters can be emailed to: denisesibley@aol.com or snail mailed to: Furman McDonald, MD, MPH; Chair, Credentials and Certifications Committee; American Board of Internal Medicine; 310 Walnut Street; Suite 1700; Philadelphia, PA 19106-3699 (Each ; represents a line break). Please! Flood these people with letters in her support, as well as Dr. McCullough, because they have done NOTHING wrong! While Dr. Sibley is not under threat of losing her medical license in Tennessee, I think she said that losing her Internal Medicine certification would kick her out of the local hospitals. Our local hospitals are a big political monopoly of a mess and we need her here fighting the good fight! She saved lives during the pandemic and continues to treat vaccine injured people. Jeff - look into her, I think you would find a kindred soul! Here’s the YouTube link that I also included yesterday. https://youtu.be/I5cI8m3SKf4 FF to the 33:30 mark for her remarks.
I am willing to do this, but could you specify what you mean by “support”? Maybe give an example of the kinds of things to say in the message? Or just simply write and say I support you and am against the effort to take away your certifications?
You'd be writing to the Board to say that physicians' Board credentials should not be threatened or pulled because they practice medicine, giving their best advice to willing patients, who themselves have agency as adults who can choose their own doctors and accept or reject their own therapies, with full *INFORMED* *CONSENT.* I emphasize those words because each one has implications in medical ethics and both have been willfully trampled on for the last 3 years. See Stephen Petty's Rumble videos for true information on masks and protection of health (what was known and practiced before the COVID lies). The drugs ivermection and hydroxychloroquine are among the safest drugs ever developed, so the bar that they must meet for off-label use is low, since the risk from them is already well known to be low ('off-label' = for an indication not on the FDA-approved label, a practice that happens EVERY DAY, because getting a new indication on a label is so expensive that companies don't do it and doctors just share information in the medical literature (before it too was heavily censored) and use the drugs as they, practicing under their own licenses, determine appropriate). In real scientific medicine, we work out differences of opinion about the quality of evidence and about the effectiveness of therapies in the medical literature, publishing studies (before they too were censored) and writing letters or comments.
I love this! Thank you so much for posting! I’ve been sitting here struggling with my own letter that I’m writing, because I feel like I keep coming across as if I’m wearing a tin foil hat! This gave me some ideas. Thank you!
Thank you, I am very aware of all the information you posted. The email provided was the doctor’s email, not the board’s. I just wasn’t sure what particular form of support the OP was asking for and needed some clarification, which I got.
Basically. At the meeting, she said one of her lawyers recommended citizens writing letters of support. She said, “If you would like to write a letter that just says I’m a good citizen, get those to me.” She said that after she had described the appeals process and that she, her lawyers, and her witnesses would be going to Philadelphia to argue her case in front of the board. I think the letters of support would be used as witnesses to her character and profession. I think the goal is to just have a community of support behind her saying that she is not guilty of what they’re accusing her of, which is misinformation concerning masks, masking of children, ivermectin, etc. I don’t know if you saw my post yesterday, but she is the doctor responsible for getting ivermectin behind the counter in Tennessee. People no longer need a prescription, just access to a pharmacy that will dispense it. And for that, she will likely lose her board certification. It’s tragic. If you go to the link that I posted, and fast forward to the 33:30 mark, you can hear her describe what’s going on. The monthly meetings should be on that YouTube channel, if they haven’t been taken down, and you can hear her updates that she gives to our community monthly. Thank you for being willing to help! Personally, I would like to mail hundreds of letters to the board and have the appeals office flooded with so many letters that they have to haul them in by the bagful, kind of like the scene in Miracle on 34th Street when Santa is on trial. I know it’s a long shot, but I just want to help her in any way I can because she has saved so many lives in our area. I hope this helped further explain things. I still have the Covid brain fog, and I tend to go around the mountain trying to get to the point! 🤦🏻♀️😆
I am happy to support her but I can’t really vouch for her as a good citizen since I only just heard about her. I could maybe focus on her efforts to make ivermectin available otc. You gave her personal email and not the board so I was just wondering how that would work or help. Thank you for these explanations and additional information.
Your help is very much appreciated. This is what she passed out at the meeting, it also had her home address, but I didn’t want to post that publicly. I would assume she intends to print off anything that is emailed to her. I plan to send my letter, and the letters that I collect, straight to the board! I wish there had been an email listed for the board. They do not like to have their inboxes flooded with support for real doctors who care for their patients and who practice legit medicine. Probably why it wasn’t listed 🤷🏻♀️
Thanks for the nudge to email support to Governor DeSantis. I also included a question about employers that mandated and refused to accept religious exemptions. I worked at Moffitt Cancer Center and was one of a few, that I know of on my specific unit, that refused to get the injection. I had received two calls from a director encouraging me to speak with our medical director to explain the injection and quell my reservations. When they finally did begin accepting religious exemptions, I still was required to complete their 4-page comprehension question exemption. They refused to accept the State of FL Dept of Health. They set a deadline and there were a few that needed their job and succumbed to the mandate prior to them accepting their 4-page exemption. After my exemption was accepted, I was sent a contract outlining behavior resulting from not getting the shot. I was supposed to sign, return and comply. The behavior required an N-95 mask at all times on campus! Technically, that included the parking lots. I was also to never be without the mask on my face. I was not to be with anyone during lunch when of course, my mask would need to be removed. I was ready to resign. My coworkers told me they never signed and they had no follow up. During covid, there were numerous times we were without appropriate supplies. These supplies included gowns and gloves that were actually not rated for chemotherapy administration. N 95 masks were also in short supply. Since they made a decision to treat covid positive patients getting 3-day remdesivir or immunotherapy on the same unit, where a majority were immunocompromised for periods of time, it seems I would have not been the most dangerous exposure the patient could encounter.
I also got counseled by HR for sharing a post on FB expressing concern about children being mandated to get the covid shot. I was labeled "dangerous" in an email to my direct supervisor.
I wish there was a way to discipline the pharmaceutical-lobbying giant in Tampa. I pray they legally would never be allowed to cause nurses such stress.
Would be interesting to know what the bonus paid to hospitals was in Florida for a positive Covid diagnosis. Here in TN it was(is it still being paid since we are still under a federal emergency)166,00!!!!!!!
Also I do not understand how anyone has the right to decide if your religious belief is sincere enough.
Hospitals know that nurses never sue them.The garbage I have seen and experienced. I dearly miss caring for patients .
I had a business related contact with Moffitt over 20 years ago. Many staff were "just" liberal democRats back then, but the slow march of tyranny has fully blossomed now throughout the country. Politics is indeed down stream of the culture. This does not end well as a review of 1917 Russian history will show. I feel your pain as Bubba Clinton would say to his rape victims, You were subjected to "Proper Group Think" Indoctrination, comrade.
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Jeff, I missed having your post yesterday but I was able to work through it in my C&CA meeting...good to have you back today.
I think it's important to consider current events in the context of leftist political ideology. Marx and Engels wrote in the Communist Manifesto, "But communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience." In other words, there is to be no objective source of morality or truth under Marxism. This is the logical consequence of Godlessness or, more formally, atheism. Therefore, the new "morality" is whatever maintains power for the leftists; what threatens their power is immoral even if it is declared moral when they do it. Connecting the dots between Democrats and power on issues such as COVID policy is easy.
However, the connection with the LQBTGIA+3-2/!$ agenda is a little less obvious. It is an attempt to solidify atheism into our society by eradicating what was made clear by God in Genesis and confirmed by Christ in Mark 10:6 (ESV), "But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.'" If the leftists can disprove this fundamental Biblical Truth by reconstituting our society with people who are neither male nor female (or people who can defy their created gender), then they will have proven God's design is not immutable - at least in their minds. Thus, it is not just a battle against normalization of mental illness, it's also a religious war. This is what the atheist crusades look like - a war weaponized against the most precious in our society: babies (abortion) and children (transgenderism, grooming, exploitation, brainwashing, etc.)
Amen brother! A hearty amen! Thank you for posting. I, sadly, have a masters degree in sociology and every day I am more and more disgusted by Marx. Really good insights here! And I thank God for saving me. Its not just a plattitude, Jesus really can’t come back quick enough!
Shoot, when I was a kid, those of us who preferred jeans to dresses, and playing in the woods to frilly tea parties (I didn’t mind tea parties, as long as there wasn’t too much fancy-ness or dressing up required) were called tomboys. Not, boys.
We were still very much girls. And we knew it. Sometimes, perhaps, we wished for a moment or two that maybe we had been boys, for then no one would expect us to act “lady-like.” We could get away with flopping our bodies however we wanted across the living room furniture, without worrying about “sitting like a lady.” (Now as an adult, I understand why we want a certain amount of decorum in how our young ladies seat themselves on said furniture.)
But never did we actually think we should become boys. Or that there was some mistake in our bodies.
No, we knew that for whatever reason, God had created us as girls. And girls we were, and women we would become. And we kept playing in the woods and getting dirty with our brothers, if we were fortunate enough have some, and eventually became comfortable even with a little bit of dress up every now and again.
Yes I was the only girl (wore my brothers hand me downs my sister was too girly and much smaller ) who played flagged football every morning before school!! Fun times but never thought I was the wrong sex.. most kids are just awkward during puberty!!
Tomboys make the best wives, at least the one I married turned out that way. 39 years and counting...
Love this sentiment! I’m still a Tom-boy at heart. My sisters and I are all stronger than the average woman and our husbands rarely have to call friends to move stuff. I’m 60 and still the one climbing ladders, hauling stuff and doing whatever needs doing. Tom-boy wives don’t take as long to get ready either 😉 And most of us can throw a 🏈 🤣
I didn’t get my hand eye coordination until I was in my 20s 🙄 so was never much good at any ball sports except soccer. So definitely not part of that “most” 😆
We are handy on the farm, too!
Nice
I always considered myself a "whole person". Loved dressing up; equally loved roughing it in the mud. Never any doubt that I was a girl.
Right
an elementary school teacher told me… my daughter was the only girl playing flag football in a taffeta dress… and there was no judgement.
All of this gender revolution nonsense has unnecessarily confused children for no reason.
Let the kids just be themselves without telling them there’s something wrong with them. It’s abusive.
Exactly! Me too!
ditto
So agree! I loved dresses, but in high school raised 3 steers in FFA! Shoveled a lot of cow poop, out of my steer’s stall!
Shoveled horse manure. Self taught, learned to ride at 12, bareback when I was too short to reach horse's back with saddle. Would climb on from fence & gallop around with no saddle, bridle or even lead shank; no nothing! 😆
I was the same. I hated dresses, they were limiting on playground equipment. I also played in the woods, mud, rode motorcycle, and sometimes wished I was a boy so that I could pee standing behind a tree and not wear a shirt when it was really hot. Never once did it cross my mind that I wasn’t a female though. I got caught smoking one time in school and my punishment was that I had to wear a dress to school every day for a week, never got caught again😂😂
I routinely pee behind a tree without a penis. : )
you have to be careful of those trees without penises! :)
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Whoops, I see my see my error. Well, good for a laugh : )
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Anita, that is hilarious 😂
We had to wear dresses to school until about the 7th or 8th grade. ‘68 or ‘69? (then it wasn’t jeans, the pants were always dressier). As soon as pants were allowed thats all I wore until my hippie high school years when I made seafarer jeans into skirts.
It was about 1967-68, at University of Alabama, before this young nursing student could wear Jean's, slacks to class.
Always a dress [uniform ] when we were in the hospital. And the uniforms had to be starched and ironed.
My husband came home from Vietnam in feb 1968, and was amazed at what women were wearing. When he returned to the university in 1969, he was even more amazed. Shorts in the classroom! But darn it, he was married by then.
Pretty funny
Roll Tide!
LOL we had to wear dresses or skirts till 15 or so, then a new generation of pupils came in who wore high heels and stockings (age 11) and we fell off our chairs. Then we were allowed pants, but dress pants, and with a skirt over it ! I refused and mom had to have a mini dress made so I could wear that over the pants. This was still all girl's school too.
😂😂😂 That would have been severe punishment for me also! My mom told me I screamed bloody murder any time she tried to put me in a dress until I was 5. She called a babysitter at the last minute once because she didn’t think it was worth the hassle to bring me to a wedding 🤣
I have 3 sisters and spent my time similar as you did and had friends who were the same. Climbed trees, found the dirtiest ravine to slide down, was one of the first picked for teams above many boys, wished I had brothers and also wanted to ease of peeing standing up! There’s a thing made for that now for camping! Dresses made it hard to hang upside down on the monkey bars. I could go on and on, smiling at memories actually. Anyway your comment made me laugh out loud! I’m glad my mom never thought of that one!
A hiking friend told me about that thing made for women to pee standing up. She called it a "shenis" 🤣🤣🤣! I bought one to use while hiking but found you still had to pull your britches down past your white shiny hiney, so why bother!
Your punishment was that you had to wear a dress to school. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
In third grade our family moved and I no longer attended a private school with a dress code that required girls to wear dresses. I would’ve worn pants every day except my mom made me wear dresses twice a week. 😂
Why just twice a week? So funny.
And we ALWAYS had to wear dresses to the doctor.
I suppose that was a compromise she could live with. 🤷♀️
I’m sure that she would have worn dresses every day and loved it. She hates wearing jeans - I haven’t seen her in jeans for twenty years. Me? I wear them daily. Even to church. 😃
She chided me once during high school that I would graduate and still be trimming my nails with clippers rather than an Emory board.
She was right. I did. And three times actually. High school plus two college degrees. 🤣🤣🤣. I mean, clip them down quickly w clippers and smooth off with a nail file. It’s much faster that way.
My mom has always been a very girly girl. Me, not so much, obviously. 😄
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🙋♀️❤️ I did dress my brothers up to be sisters when there were 2 and 4. It was a VERY DISAPPOINTING experiment for me! They are still mad at me. Tree climbing, softball/baseball, motorcycle riding, mud making, these were a few of my favorite things...😁💃
OMG I still have a picture of my brother at about six when we dressed him as a girl, HARD PLASTIC WIG included. He was mad!
Lol.
I dressed up my middle brother when he was about 9 months old (old enough to stand up in his crib). I was ten. I had really wanted a sister and just wanted to see what he would look like.
My dad came into the room and erupted. Told me to get that thing off and never do it again. I really meant no harm....
I remember wearing shorts under my catholic uniform bc my mom knew I’d be hanging upside down on the monkey bars with my two best friends who were of course boys because I only knew boys as a little girl. All my cousins closest to me were boys and my brother were all I knew. I was in the 3rd grade before I had a best friend that was a girl! To this day I prefer the company of men and *like-minded* (read not stuck-up or *gasp* feminist) women. Any woman who intrinsically hates men on sight has my immediate suspicion of someone to possibly avoid. Why would you hate an entire gender? Trauma is not an excuse there are some truly wonderful men in this world!
I wore shorts under my required skirts (for public school!) all the way through elementary school, since we did P.E. in our school clothes and since I felt naked without pants on. In junior high, we had those awful bloomer suits we had to wear at P.E., and it wasn't until senior high that we were allowed to wear pants and jeans (and that was when female teachers were first allowed to wear pantsuits, too). I had some favorite denim skirts I wore constantly in junior high, to be as close to wearing jeans as possible. And my career was in the Army, which was about 85% male, and I loved it (and them, including most of the women, except those who lobbied for women to enter military occupational specialties for which 90-99% of women aren't physically qualified, because career over lethality of the Army, apparently).
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Ditto for me. I had two brothers and a sister and we were constantly playing outside in the dirt, climbing trees. I would also say that I was a tom-boy. I was never gender confused and grew up very happy to be what God made me. I feel that i had a well-rounded childhood!
Copernicus I could have written your entire post! I too was a tomboy with no aversion to dirt and I too found it difficult to sit lady-like on the furniture and yes I sometimes envied the boys but it was only an envy of their “freedom”. I never imagined actually being a boy however. There were other “tomboys” here and there and my parents just viewed it benignly and knew eventually I’d get more interested in girl things. But nowadays I’d probably be encouraged to either cultivate my supposed inner lesbianism or try to change my sex. This is so sad and wrong! Our culture is so bankrupt. Our children are at such risk in our society. Much respect to Russia which is at least trying to prevent the subversion of their children by western “values”.
Well said. Best friend growing up was a complete tomboy. She has been a happily married woman to her husband for 30 years and has 2 terrific grown children. These tomboys don’t always grow up to be lesbians either. Just leave these poor kids be. Let them be kids.
I couldn’t agree more. I have the same discussion daily. I too am a Tom Boy, always have been and always will be. I can be a girly girl but I tough and strong. I am so sick of this nonsense.
Conversely, as a little boy I was a softie who like stuffed animals and other cuddly stuff... and then I grew up and joined the Army so I could break things and hurt people in a socially acceptable manner. So you never know.
What's ironic and self-contradictory about all the "trans" stuff is that it's recreating rigid, restrictive, and stereotypical sex roles. You sometimes see vaguely trans-like practices in pre-modern societies, but that's precisely because they have these rigid sex roles. Sometimes they need a work-around to let men do women's tasks or vice versa. But this is basically a legal fiction. They don't think the person has literally become the opposite sex (or some third thing in between) or that the person can engage in sexual activity as though he/she were the opposite sex.
Exactly this - the most rigid sex role stereotypes are believed in by the trans and trans-supporting 'community.'
Yes, exactly this. The trans ideology is creating more rigid stereotypes around what it means to be male and female. It is MORE restrictive, not less.
Exactly! My younger, by only 16 months, sister was a tomboy, in every sense of the word. Growing up, each Sunday there was a major fight between her and Mama because she had to wear a dress to church. She absolutely HATED dresses and wasn't shy about letting Mama, and everyone else, know it. And she always tried her damnedest to get out of it, but Mama always won. I don't believe the thought ever crossed her mind that she was anything but a girl.
Also a former tomboy! I loved climbing trees and playing with snakes and frog and turtles! Loved playing with cars too! I never really liked dolls and while I liked dresses for dressy occasions, I was normally in jeans or shorts (and barefoot all summer long). I became more interested in girly things as a teenager (I still love clothes and makeup) but kept the scrappy tomboy side that developed so I could keep up with my older brother and his friends. Still don’t like asking for help to lift and carry heavy objects or get things from high shelves. I’ll figure it out myself dammit 😆😂 But yeah, liking some things that boys tend to like does not make a girl the same as a boy!
Exactly. Although I never liked the term "tomboy". I was just being me. I didn't think those characteristics made me like a boy.
Agreed about the words. But we can relate to the phrase. Truth is we were just being ourselves; not limited by societal constraints. That certainly did occur to me growing up. I just wanted to play
thanks ! I had been wondering what non-binary was LOL. How good to read all these comments that make me feel even better with myself ! It seems lots of women think like me, it is probably our age group that was uninfected with the likes of the dean of the Chicago school, who should be locked up for life if it were my decision. I know several gay and lesbian people and they are no where like this person.
But we tomboys aren't nonbinary. We are Female. Guess I'm too old to understand. I'll just be Me.
Exactly, never occurred to me to be a boy. I still rarely wear a skirt (most dresses don't fit correctly because I'm very short waisted).
I'm old enough to have experienced the school rule that said that girls had to wear dresses/skirts. Pants on girls were forbidden.
OK...Tell that to my mother. In upstate New York where it got freakin' freezin' in the winter, rule or no rule, my mother was not going to let me out to wait for the school bus in a dress! (It would have been more embarrassing to have had my mother drive me to the bus stop or to school. That, contrary to today, meant you were a wimp: "Billy's mother has to drive him to school! Hahaha!")
So. My mother made me put on pants -- under my dress. OMG, how I hated it. (Liked being warmer because of them, but oh, the horrors of having pants on when they were forbidden.) Some kids made fun of me, but I survived. "My mother is making me..." First thing before even getting to class was a "pit stop" in the "Girls' Room." (Yep, the Girls' Room.) Off came the pants.
Thinking back, it was an important lesson...Just because someone's made a "rule" doesn't mean there aren't times when common sense and individual rights demand that you break them.
Good for your mama!
We had to wear dresses, and also had to add pants at recess if we were going to play on the monkey bars. 😄
Great post! Love the last sentence especially!
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Putin cracks down on homosexual propaganda.
Zelinskyy cracks down on orthodox Christians.
Now telll me again who I'm supposed to be supporting here.
That’s exactly what I’ve been saying. And, as an Orthodox Christian, it hurts to see them going against the Church and God.
I am also an Orthodox Christian, in fact I almost married a Ukrainian. We dated a long time but I converted on my own and his sister in law is my God Mother. I am so sad for the Ukrainian people and now all the Orthodox who are being persecuted. May Our Lord have mercy 🙏☦️🤍
you say may our Lord have mercy. I say may Jesus return VERY quickly!
Much suffering will ensue before then. It is written in Revelation and other books of the New Testament. .
I’ve read most of revelation and listened to several sermons on it. This is a place where Christians disagree often. I am one who believes Jesus will take his before the tribulation. And hence Jesus return please! I’m fine with disagreeing on this. 👍🏻
Read Matthew 24. Puts things in chronological order... It's the actual red words...
Color revolutions never seem to work out well ... and wherever the American/NATO Empire goes quickly devolves into a hellhole of human misery. I too feel for the Ukrainian people ... pawns in someone else's game. It should have never have been.
How was the conversion process? The difficulty or hurdle to me seems to be how Orthodox Christianity is organized along ethnic-tribal lines...
Try the OCA...quite non ethnic.
I always said that our country was *choosing* to make Putin and Russia our enemy for many years now in the media and in policies because of the NWO, Soros and friends, and the culture war of deplorable sexual paganism vs Christianity.
If Soros and friends couldnt control Russia like they have done here and in Europe, if they couldnt rape Russia of its wealth, they would try to destroy her.
That is why Putin constantly talks about Russia's survival.
He isnt the madmen western media makes him out to be. I am sure rhat he isnt a saint either, but he isnt an evil despot.
You say it well. Beginning back in 2016, all this Russia stuff went into warp-drive. And back then, I was thinking that the new Russia ought to be our friend in trade and not our enemy. But wait! The terror state's Woke Agenda always gets into the way of any sane pragmatic approach to anything.
Exactly
Angela, I believe you are correct on all counts.
Support America, your home.
What America? The America of George Washington and Patrick Henry! The America of the Civil War era? The subverted America of the early first two decades of the 20th century. Fascist mid-20th century America! Crazed insane Woke America of the 21st century?Transnational Interventionalist America of the criminally fake genocidal pandemic? Which America is it?
But reading it again, I think you mean family values of the traditional sort? And I do think that other people are a bit puzzled as well. Blind support of anything usually does not turn out too well.
And here I am too. This is NOT my country anymore. I was willing to fight and die for the country of my youth. Not now. I'd stop paying taxes if I could. The crapmem in power are perverted and love death and immorality. If the executive branch was on fire, well you know what I wouldn't do, ha, ha.
Anyone can use "whataboutism" to point out how bad the US really was in my childhood (60's to 72" Good for you. I personally grew up in community's and towns that very little resemble the crime ridden, freakazoid, streets of today. If a person doesn't have a memory of freely playing in the neighborhood, then I feel for you.
There are apparently millions of people who are FED UP in capital letters. And this is just the way it is ... and there will be more of us as night follow day. The more 'they' push at us, the more we feel like cornered rats, ultimately the more tenuous becomes their grip on things. Things just get so upside down insane bad that people tire of it all ... and want no more. Nothing lasts forever, not even 'their' Evil Grifting Looting Murderous Empire.
Woke Marxism, or any brand thereof, is always warring against God because God is the ultimate competitor to the state's authority. Therefore the choices for the state are three: 1) ban God ... with atheism becoming as the official state policy, 2) co-opt religion into a facsimile state organ of compliance (i.e., the fallen 'Christian' churches of the West), and 3) a smash the mirror divide and conquer strategy of promoting all 'religions' even 'inclusive' of New Age-ism, Satanism, witchcraft and so on.
In practice, all three are employed simultaneously.
Now explain that to the Vatican or the Grand Ayatollah. I'd agree with your premise but for the existence of theocracies both current and historical. Calvin's short-lived Geneva experiment was a rare case of a Reformed theocracy.
Neither
Neither?What do you mean?
American Girl has been trending that way for some time now. If parents aren't aware of what they support, maybe this will finally wake them up to it. Hopefully most will get some wind of this before just getting the next thing from them for their kids. We had read up a bit on them more than 10 years ago and realized we really couldn't support that business and all of the things they push - though at least it was behind the scenes then. For a similar doll from a Christian company, we went with http://www.girlsngrace.com/ (no affiliation on my part).
That also was about the time we really started looking at where Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts were heading and decided to change direction there as well. That's been a good thing for our kids.
I had no idea about American Girl.
I assume that you know about Trail Life and American Heritage Girls as solid alternatives to Boy and Girl Scouts. We’ve appreciated the troop our kiddo is in.
We've been involved in both. AHG was the alternative we'd found when we saw what GSUSA was pushing. I'd seen where BSA was heading for some time and had followed the Trail Life movement even before they'd officially come together.
The American Heritage Girls were founded by some friends of ours at our church!!
We've met Patti at a couple of events as she comes down to Texas. Our girls have had a lot of fun over the years in the program and made some good friends along the way. I appreciate that the desired outcome from the program isn't so much of a "Merit" thing as "how well is this young lady prepared to live as a Christian in today's world". :)
For Catholic Boys, there is the option of Troops of Saint George which stresses tradition and virtue, honor and fraternity.
There’s a brand of dolls called Our Generation that’s a great alternative to the American Girl too and it’s much more reasonably priced! I have bought a bunch of them for my great niece.
Figured all this out thirty years ago about Am Girl and Disney and fifty years ago about Scouts!. My four adult children survived without these and without gender issues. They know who they were created to be.
I think that was around the time Mattel bought out Pleasant Company. The original Pleasant Company dolls were better made.
It’s a shame they went down this road with the company.
My daughter is one of the leaders in a Boy Scout troupe in a Virginia city just outside the northern VA bedroom communities. Two of her boys have their Eagle (one was the troupe’s 100th Eagle) and her third is on track to receive his within the next 18 months. It is an extremely traditional troupe and leadership has determined that they will disband completely if National tries to force them to be “more inclusive.” They also monitor badge content closely to ensure no ‘woke’ content is conveyed to the boys. This troupe is raising up some fine masculine, resourceful, respectful young men!
Our Troop is similar. I really think BSA was strong armed into being “inclusive” by threat of being sued into oblivion. I’ve been involved with BSA for 16 years or so and I can’t see any changes at the unit level. However, I have not looked at the requirements for the Eagle required merit badge “Citizen in Society”. Sounds like woke potential in there but hopefully not. It is relatively new and none of our Scouts have requested it yet.
Probably wise to avoid. We weren't aware of all this a few years ago when we bought our now 9yo an AG doll. We bought it used and checked out the story ahead.
Rebecca is a turn-of-the-century jewish immigrant. We didn't see any problems with the character or story. Now Rebecca has a modern kitchen, does gymnastics, and drives a scooter, just like all turn of the century jewish girls. She's getting a (used) car for Christmas.
Yes, my girl is 14 and I avoided them from day 1 because they were writing LGBTQ stuff in their books a while ago. Same with girl scouts which went downhill decades ago (most of their national leadership is DEEP in the LGBTQ). Then, boy scouts. We've loved Trail Life.
Do you know which books or characters?
How about a short letter writing campaign to American Girl from C&C subscribers. Maybe add just one more Christmas Card to your list, and give them your thoughts. Let’s see where it goes!!!
https://www.americangirl.com/pages/contact-us.
American Girl
P.O. Box 620497
Middleton, WI 53562-0497
I was born and raised in Wisconsin.
Very disappointed.
Just wrote under 'store experience' because there was no other option.
Thank you for the contact page.
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!”
— Matthew 7:7-11 NASB1995
Thank you for these stories. If you didn't write about them I'd never have seen them.
I remember when the American Girl company was started. I was a big fan and bought my daughter the Samantha doll, accessories and the books.
Is there nothing the Woke bunch haven't destroyed?
The video from the Beethoven concert is priceless. Thank you for that. These fools are so arrogantly stupid which is a good thing.
They WERE beautiful dolls with wonderful historic stories, at the very beginning many years ago. But like the History Channel....
The History Channel too? Don't they only do Hitler?
“These fools are so arrogantly stupid which is a good thing”... on reflection... the woke infiltration into everything... has been a very dangerous occupation over all.... appears Putin is all too aware of thus acting swiftly...
I’m disgusted by this Chicago school dean and their support of him. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS WORLD!?
I hope they loose many many many students out of enrollment. That is my prayer for today. And for those children being trafficked.
Nope, I don't think that'll happen. You can tell from the tone of the letter written to them that they had no concern about the parents hearing of this activity. There was no attempt to apologize or even address it the disgusting degeneracy at all; almost as if they already knew of this type of activity. Which apparently isn't surprising, as it has a reputation as a very "progressive" private school.
Yes, but the left tends to be a little overconfident in their echo chamber. Young winning VA governor is an example. There is a lot of this garbage going on in public schools, too.
I agree with this. A lot of people go along to get along but have their breaking point. And some will be too afraid to deviate from the crowd but if enough go to the other side, they will follow. So they may not have as much solid support as they assume.
Agreed, and even if the parents disagree, they will do nothing because it will affect the ability for their children to go to a prestigious college.
We can hope that the school might get "Loudoun'ed." The Loudoun County, VA, Superintendent of Schools was just canned by the newly-elected school board, because of his cover-up of a cross-dressing boy who raped a girl in the girl's restroom, who was then transferred to another school, where he did it again. This one is a private school, so it's governed differently, but many of those Loudoun parents are also wealthy and left-leaning.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/loudoun-county-superintendent-scott-ziegler-fired-after-grand-jury-report-handling-sexual-assaults
The wording is important. If they admit to being degenerate, or wrong in any way it would pave the way for retribution. The strategy appears to be blame shifting denial and excuses galore. People will however vote with their feet and wallets.
We live in a 50/50 world. My guess they will be punished because they didn't admit they have a problem. They didn't give themselves any wiggle room, they just indorsed it.
I would love to hear from any parent with a child at Francis Parker School in Chicago! Are all Chicagoans that woke that they’re ok with this perverted behavior? It’s sick and degrading!
I sent the video to my DIL, she’s a Chicago public school teacher dealing with special needs children. She is appalled! This man needs to be fired and possibly brought up on charges for grooming children. Next stop for these evil people, normalizing pedophilia! AND I bet it’s coming to a community near you faster than we will all realize! After all we have a pedo in the highest office! 😡
How far of a stretch is it to think this person might actually give live demonstrations of how to use these under the guise of “education”? Makes me sick. Why the parents aren’t ready to burn the school down after seeing this depravity is beyond me!!
KLo...maybe another Christmas Card to
Daniel B. Frank. PhD, Principal
SUBJECT: Joseph Bruno, Dean of Students
Francis W. Parker School
330 West Webster Avenue
Chicago Illinois 60614
https://www.fwparker.org/
Nothing nasty or mean.
Perhaps ask if Mr. Bruno is “engaging progressive approach to teaching and learning provides all students with the quantitative, interpretive, analytic and artistic experiences that allow them to acquire the skills that will help them develop their own interests and apply what they are learning in ways that benefit the broader community of which they are a valued part.”...from their website!
Parker’s passion for education emanates from our desire to know all students and guide them in their learning and development so they can become authentic, effective, responsible and empathic citizens and leaders in our democracy and the wider world. At Parker, we affirm the dignity of each person and inspire all to learn and grow to make a difference in the world.
What he was doing seemed pretty far from dignity to me 😡
I have asked myself that so many times. Andy Tate gave a good answer and explains Wokeism.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClyqnJHj6jy/?igshid=NTdlMDg3MTY=
Jeff please don't use the language of the left
"Jan 6 Insurrection"
Call it what it was.....
"Jan 6 2020 Election Fraud Protest"
Would you also accept LARPing crisis actors as a partial description?
We need to find a way to punish American Girl swiftly and forcefully. Christmas is a time when all of us moms and grandmas buy American Girl doll stuff for our kids. Not buying is easy for some of us (others don't ever do what they know they SHOULD do - shame on you). But we need to send a stronger message.
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Unfortunately, I’m finding that most people just simply don’t care, don’t want to sacrifice at all. It takes what 20 min to do an online search for an alternative- and yet most can’t be bothered to do that. We are spoiled people. Freedom isn’t free and takes sacrifices. Most would rather others make the sacrifices rather than them having to do it. Freedom can be found 6’ under the ground. People are just glad they aren’t the ones that did the sacrificing under that ground 😒
Please contact a local seamstress, knitter, crafter and ask them to make outfits!!!
As a crocheter I can get behind this! We even crochet dolls, cute pillows, and stuffed animals. People always love my items, but never want to actually buy them though :(
This!! ^ My grandmother made tons of outfits for my sister's AG doll. Also, consider second hand. Many people collected the character dolls and are now selling them.
Yep, lots of nice condition second hand stuff as well. I try to support crafters when I can as they are like small businesses. I know what it's like to make stuff and just have it sitting around because you can't sell it.
Maybe we should get a C&C crafters/ secondhand marketplace going. Neither I nor my sister have daughters to pass any of this stuff down to. Be nice if my grandmother's work went to someone who would appreciate it. The dolls too. She collected them. We have about 30 that need new homes.
Regina S...How about a short letter writing campaign to American Girl from C&C subscribers. Maybe add just one more Christmas Card to your list, and give them your thoughts. Let’s see where it goes!!!
https://www.americangirl.com/pages/contact-us.
American Girl
P.O. Box 620497
Middleton, WI 53562-0497
I was born and raised in Wisconsin.
Very disappointed.
GREAT IDEA! LET'S DO IT! Thanks for sharing the contact info.
An attorney friend of mine once said he had two approaches…a “please help me understand”…and a “WHAT the hell.” I think this calls for a “please help me understand” approach!
North Alabama's home for 18" dolls! | Giggles n Stuff
https://www.gigglesnstuff.org/
When I was 5 or so , I had a GI Joe. Complete with A45. Cal pistol and and an M14 and foot locker.
When my sister got her Barbi and Ken doll , my GI Joe kicked Malibu Kens butt and became Barbis new boyfriend.
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I am 64 years old, and earlier this year was the first time I'd ever even heard of a butt plug. I have no idea how it's used or what it's for, and I have no desire to find out. Whoever does want to find out can do it on their own when they become "adults" at the age of 18. Sex toys have no place in the classroom of a school. Why are the people, like this "dean," not charged with child abuse? Don't these states have statutes that criminalize such activity? This is just so wrong, on so many levels. Too many people really are sick...
Same here. Sorry Blinkin, where is the "dignity" in a butt plug? He might want to look into a mouth plug before defending that.
It almost seems like as “educators” they are exempt 🙄🤷♀️ Or at least given broad leeway. It’s sickening.
I mentioned Dr. Denise Sibley yesterday, and asked for letters in her support as a freedom doctor. She, along with Dr. Peter McCullough, are having their board certifications threatened to be taken away due to “misinformation” about masks and treatments during the pandemic. Today I have an address where letters of support can be sent. The deadline for letters of support is December 15, 2022. Letters can be emailed to: denisesibley@aol.com or snail mailed to: Furman McDonald, MD, MPH; Chair, Credentials and Certifications Committee; American Board of Internal Medicine; 310 Walnut Street; Suite 1700; Philadelphia, PA 19106-3699 (Each ; represents a line break). Please! Flood these people with letters in her support, as well as Dr. McCullough, because they have done NOTHING wrong! While Dr. Sibley is not under threat of losing her medical license in Tennessee, I think she said that losing her Internal Medicine certification would kick her out of the local hospitals. Our local hospitals are a big political monopoly of a mess and we need her here fighting the good fight! She saved lives during the pandemic and continues to treat vaccine injured people. Jeff - look into her, I think you would find a kindred soul! Here’s the YouTube link that I also included yesterday. https://youtu.be/I5cI8m3SKf4 FF to the 33:30 mark for her remarks.
I am willing to do this, but could you specify what you mean by “support”? Maybe give an example of the kinds of things to say in the message? Or just simply write and say I support you and am against the effort to take away your certifications?
You'd be writing to the Board to say that physicians' Board credentials should not be threatened or pulled because they practice medicine, giving their best advice to willing patients, who themselves have agency as adults who can choose their own doctors and accept or reject their own therapies, with full *INFORMED* *CONSENT.* I emphasize those words because each one has implications in medical ethics and both have been willfully trampled on for the last 3 years. See Stephen Petty's Rumble videos for true information on masks and protection of health (what was known and practiced before the COVID lies). The drugs ivermection and hydroxychloroquine are among the safest drugs ever developed, so the bar that they must meet for off-label use is low, since the risk from them is already well known to be low ('off-label' = for an indication not on the FDA-approved label, a practice that happens EVERY DAY, because getting a new indication on a label is so expensive that companies don't do it and doctors just share information in the medical literature (before it too was heavily censored) and use the drugs as they, practicing under their own licenses, determine appropriate). In real scientific medicine, we work out differences of opinion about the quality of evidence and about the effectiveness of therapies in the medical literature, publishing studies (before they too were censored) and writing letters or comments.
I love this! Thank you so much for posting! I’ve been sitting here struggling with my own letter that I’m writing, because I feel like I keep coming across as if I’m wearing a tin foil hat! This gave me some ideas. Thank you!
Thank you JhH for the suggestion and Fla Mom for your words. I borrowed and few in my letter of support. ;)
Thank you, I am very aware of all the information you posted. The email provided was the doctor’s email, not the board’s. I just wasn’t sure what particular form of support the OP was asking for and needed some clarification, which I got.
Basically. At the meeting, she said one of her lawyers recommended citizens writing letters of support. She said, “If you would like to write a letter that just says I’m a good citizen, get those to me.” She said that after she had described the appeals process and that she, her lawyers, and her witnesses would be going to Philadelphia to argue her case in front of the board. I think the letters of support would be used as witnesses to her character and profession. I think the goal is to just have a community of support behind her saying that she is not guilty of what they’re accusing her of, which is misinformation concerning masks, masking of children, ivermectin, etc. I don’t know if you saw my post yesterday, but she is the doctor responsible for getting ivermectin behind the counter in Tennessee. People no longer need a prescription, just access to a pharmacy that will dispense it. And for that, she will likely lose her board certification. It’s tragic. If you go to the link that I posted, and fast forward to the 33:30 mark, you can hear her describe what’s going on. The monthly meetings should be on that YouTube channel, if they haven’t been taken down, and you can hear her updates that she gives to our community monthly. Thank you for being willing to help! Personally, I would like to mail hundreds of letters to the board and have the appeals office flooded with so many letters that they have to haul them in by the bagful, kind of like the scene in Miracle on 34th Street when Santa is on trial. I know it’s a long shot, but I just want to help her in any way I can because she has saved so many lives in our area. I hope this helped further explain things. I still have the Covid brain fog, and I tend to go around the mountain trying to get to the point! 🤦🏻♀️😆
I am happy to support her but I can’t really vouch for her as a good citizen since I only just heard about her. I could maybe focus on her efforts to make ivermectin available otc. You gave her personal email and not the board so I was just wondering how that would work or help. Thank you for these explanations and additional information.
Your help is very much appreciated. This is what she passed out at the meeting, it also had her home address, but I didn’t want to post that publicly. I would assume she intends to print off anything that is emailed to her. I plan to send my letter, and the letters that I collect, straight to the board! I wish there had been an email listed for the board. They do not like to have their inboxes flooded with support for real doctors who care for their patients and who practice legit medicine. Probably why it wasn’t listed 🤷🏻♀️
Great thank you so much for the additional info!
JhH...will write a letter today. Thank you!
Major snark made me laugh this a.m. BTW, Ron Johnson's hearing yesterday was fabulous. Best 3 hours you'll spend!
https://rumble.com/v1ze4d0-covid-19-vaccines-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-possible-causes-of-injuri.html
yes! long, but very worth your time.
I just hope SOMETHING comes of it....can't help but be somewhat cynical at this point.
Thank you for the link!! I was out Christmas shopping so missed it. Wrapping today...plenty of time to listen 🤣
Thanks for the nudge to email support to Governor DeSantis. I also included a question about employers that mandated and refused to accept religious exemptions. I worked at Moffitt Cancer Center and was one of a few, that I know of on my specific unit, that refused to get the injection. I had received two calls from a director encouraging me to speak with our medical director to explain the injection and quell my reservations. When they finally did begin accepting religious exemptions, I still was required to complete their 4-page comprehension question exemption. They refused to accept the State of FL Dept of Health. They set a deadline and there were a few that needed their job and succumbed to the mandate prior to them accepting their 4-page exemption. After my exemption was accepted, I was sent a contract outlining behavior resulting from not getting the shot. I was supposed to sign, return and comply. The behavior required an N-95 mask at all times on campus! Technically, that included the parking lots. I was also to never be without the mask on my face. I was not to be with anyone during lunch when of course, my mask would need to be removed. I was ready to resign. My coworkers told me they never signed and they had no follow up. During covid, there were numerous times we were without appropriate supplies. These supplies included gowns and gloves that were actually not rated for chemotherapy administration. N 95 masks were also in short supply. Since they made a decision to treat covid positive patients getting 3-day remdesivir or immunotherapy on the same unit, where a majority were immunocompromised for periods of time, it seems I would have not been the most dangerous exposure the patient could encounter.
I also got counseled by HR for sharing a post on FB expressing concern about children being mandated to get the covid shot. I was labeled "dangerous" in an email to my direct supervisor.
I wish there was a way to discipline the pharmaceutical-lobbying giant in Tampa. I pray they legally would never be allowed to cause nurses such stress.
This is completely disgusting and I hope you find a way to get justice for the treatment you were subjected to!!!
Would be interesting to know what the bonus paid to hospitals was in Florida for a positive Covid diagnosis. Here in TN it was(is it still being paid since we are still under a federal emergency)166,00!!!!!!!
Also I do not understand how anyone has the right to decide if your religious belief is sincere enough.
Hospitals know that nurses never sue them.The garbage I have seen and experienced. I dearly miss caring for patients .
I had a business related contact with Moffitt over 20 years ago. Many staff were "just" liberal democRats back then, but the slow march of tyranny has fully blossomed now throughout the country. Politics is indeed down stream of the culture. This does not end well as a review of 1917 Russian history will show. I feel your pain as Bubba Clinton would say to his rape victims, You were subjected to "Proper Group Think" Indoctrination, comrade.
PS: "HR is for Idiots" Dirty Harry.
How do you say, “Don’t say Gay” in Russian? 😉
4,000,000 ₽—obviously 😜
CNN: Is DeSantis an agent of Putler?
A most important paper that will be a likely source for all manner of legal actions against those responsible for, the vaccines, for the disease itself, for government Covid policy, and corporation liability. This is the best well documented single source reference for all things Covid, with over 600 references. Please consider reading and sharing. IMV the work is seminal for providing documented references to all manner of lawsuits against the responsible parties.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/irreparable-vaccine-induced-harm?r=slvym&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
written by Malone?
No, a Doctor Brown, a long time professional acquaintance.
It is excellent and detailed
Jeff, I missed having your post yesterday but I was able to work through it in my C&CA meeting...good to have you back today.
I think it's important to consider current events in the context of leftist political ideology. Marx and Engels wrote in the Communist Manifesto, "But communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience." In other words, there is to be no objective source of morality or truth under Marxism. This is the logical consequence of Godlessness or, more formally, atheism. Therefore, the new "morality" is whatever maintains power for the leftists; what threatens their power is immoral even if it is declared moral when they do it. Connecting the dots between Democrats and power on issues such as COVID policy is easy.
However, the connection with the LQBTGIA+3-2/!$ agenda is a little less obvious. It is an attempt to solidify atheism into our society by eradicating what was made clear by God in Genesis and confirmed by Christ in Mark 10:6 (ESV), "But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.'" If the leftists can disprove this fundamental Biblical Truth by reconstituting our society with people who are neither male nor female (or people who can defy their created gender), then they will have proven God's design is not immutable - at least in their minds. Thus, it is not just a battle against normalization of mental illness, it's also a religious war. This is what the atheist crusades look like - a war weaponized against the most precious in our society: babies (abortion) and children (transgenderism, grooming, exploitation, brainwashing, etc.)
Amen brother! A hearty amen! Thank you for posting. I, sadly, have a masters degree in sociology and every day I am more and more disgusted by Marx. Really good insights here! And I thank God for saving me. Its not just a plattitude, Jesus really can’t come back quick enough!