Your late night phone pranks remind me of George Michael Bluth’s jerky boys call. Zooey Zephry was a trans wrestler??? The arc of the universe really is bending your way. #SummerofSteve
According to the accompanying article, Zooey wrestled somewhat passively, didn’t attempt any takedowns, and seemed content to take the match into overtime with a 1-1 tie, which would be the score if the down wrestler at the beginning of the second and third periods executed an escape. So it appeared that he was relatively passive for a high school wrestler, perhaps foreshadowing his later change of identity, as was his authorship of children’s books.
Some fighters, chess players, tennis players, etc. tend to favor defense over offense. I bet there's an equivalent concept in musicians hip. Every time I've heard about someone transitioning, it was out of the blue. Just completely gobsmacked everybody.
The authorship of children's books is interesting. Audrey Hale was obsessed with neoteny. Apparently she had a tough time getting work in graphic design because her product looked so childish. But I think men who transition tend to be either twinks (very different phenomenon) or hypermasculine.
Adopting a new name is just another facet of the MtF fantasy world - that your previous person and identity is dead (hence the phrase "deadnaming" for using a person's given name) and the world is whatever you say it is.
I have a close friend whose now ex-wife facilitated their oldest son going on hormones and getting facial feminization surgery when he turned 18, along with going by a woman's name. Yesterday I was sent a photo off the mom's Instagram from their middle son's HS graduation and he's in a dress next to his trans older brother. The youngest is in the photo and has a fixed, not actually happy, smile on his face. Since he's still a minor he's supposed to spend half of each month with his mom but apparently refuses to do so, thank God.
It's so obviously insane, I really cannot believe this is a thing.
It really is - I've known all of these boys since the oldest was about 4, and it's hard to convey the distress I feel seeing my friend go through this, and his youngest certainly looks miserable. The middle one I last saw just a few months ago and there was zero sign of any of this. The mother is clearly a massive factor in what's going on, and apparently Munchausen by proxy is common in similar situations.
Obviously one must be careful with their words, but my personal wish for what should happen to every person that has facilitated this madness would not be out of place in Afghanistan.
I suspect the recent kerfuffle over the anti-trans Maine state Rep. was in retribution for what was done to Zephyr in 2023. If you cut your male parts off or sterilize your child, your commitment to the cause becomes all consuming to prevent the reality of what you've done from creeping in.
Best to double down, because otherwise you're just a delusional freak or evil, abusive parent. In academic medicine, nobody even dares study it since Paul McHugh.
Rachel Brosnahan was on the wrestling team in high school for two years according to Wikipedia.
I was going to join the wrestling team in high school until one of my intellectual friends declared it, by describing what it involves, as super gay. I've long regretted falling for that.
Frequent users of chatGPT have noticed it becoming friendlier, often obsequious. I asked it for a bunch of decorating advice (pretty good at it) and it's enthusiasm, especially for my ideas soon sounded phony.
Yep I train now but it would have been nice to have done it back then too, given how much I enjoy it. Don't neglect the standup part of the game. Judo has a lot of ways to make your opponent be on the ground by himself ;)
I wonder if this is because they add to the prompt to be this way, or if it learns from us. I thank it and praise it when it comes up with something cool I never would have thought of.
I took a short and unsuccessful break from academia in the late 1990s/early 2000s to take a job as an equity trader at a brokerage firm in Dallas (you can tell that the stock market is about to take a nose dive when firms start hiring political philosophers as equity traders). The firm decided that it wanted to re-brand itself in order to shake its regional reputation (it didn't work). The president (stupidly) asked the trading floor to send him recommendations on possible new names. One of the traders sent in AAA Action Financial, arguing that the free advertizement of being the first firm that customers would see when checking the Yellow Pages for stock brokers would be worth a ton of money. We thought that to be quite humorous, but the president most decidedly did not.
I worked awhile at a law firm whose main activity was defending brokerage firms like yours against claims by unhappy investors (gamblers). Amazingly, one of the decorative posters in the office was a print of an interview one of the founding partners had given to a legal publication, in which he stated that the firm strove to hire "nice" people, to offset the fact that their clients were largely "not very nice people."
When I was a kid, I learned that major league baseball players had run the alphabetical gamut from Henry Aaron to Bill Zuber.
According to Grok and Baseball Reference, Hammerin' Hank is still #1 alphabetically, but Zuber has lost his spot. Tony Zych pitched parts of 3 seasons for the Mariners (apparently pretty well) starting in 2015. I presume Tony came by his name honestly.
". . .earning master's degrees in creative writing and literary criticism. She joined the university's Biology department and then the Office of the Provost, where she worked as a Program Manager overseeing the university's curricula."
Creative writing and literary criticism. Joined the Biology department. As the years go by, I become more and more proud and thankful that I quit college.
The Telecommunications History Group may have the phone book you're seeking, or guide you to the right state archives or university collection. Research librarians love a challenge.
In Ruskin, Florida, it was crucial before the invention of cellophane to know when the next train would arrive to ship crops north in winter. There was one town phone but no telephone poles. Turns out, the telephone lines were attached beneath the train tracks. The major crops were cauliflower (then an expensive rarity for the wealthy) and gladiolas for funerals.
Missoula is proof of how one crappy MFA program can ruin a whole state.
Next time in Soda Springs, I'll rename that sign Zizek Road for chuckles.
Your late night phone pranks remind me of George Michael Bluth’s jerky boys call. Zooey Zephry was a trans wrestler??? The arc of the universe really is bending your way. #SummerofSteve
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRmmDFs3BCs3At9i0mKxoJvxrhcId4GrQPkbg&usqp=CAU
I would have loved to see GOB Bluth and Dr. Tobias Fünke discussing their late-onset autogynephilia on “Arrested Development”.
He blue himself
They really didn't think through the BS possibility, did they?
According to the accompanying article, Zooey wrestled somewhat passively, didn’t attempt any takedowns, and seemed content to take the match into overtime with a 1-1 tie, which would be the score if the down wrestler at the beginning of the second and third periods executed an escape. So it appeared that he was relatively passive for a high school wrestler, perhaps foreshadowing his later change of identity, as was his authorship of children’s books.
Some fighters, chess players, tennis players, etc. tend to favor defense over offense. I bet there's an equivalent concept in musicians hip. Every time I've heard about someone transitioning, it was out of the blue. Just completely gobsmacked everybody.
The authorship of children's books is interesting. Audrey Hale was obsessed with neoteny. Apparently she had a tough time getting work in graphic design because her product looked so childish. But I think men who transition tend to be either twinks (very different phenomenon) or hypermasculine.
Adopting a new name is just another facet of the MtF fantasy world - that your previous person and identity is dead (hence the phrase "deadnaming" for using a person's given name) and the world is whatever you say it is.
I have a close friend whose now ex-wife facilitated their oldest son going on hormones and getting facial feminization surgery when he turned 18, along with going by a woman's name. Yesterday I was sent a photo off the mom's Instagram from their middle son's HS graduation and he's in a dress next to his trans older brother. The youngest is in the photo and has a fixed, not actually happy, smile on his face. Since he's still a minor he's supposed to spend half of each month with his mom but apparently refuses to do so, thank God.
It's so obviously insane, I really cannot believe this is a thing.
That’s absolutely horrible.
It really is - I've known all of these boys since the oldest was about 4, and it's hard to convey the distress I feel seeing my friend go through this, and his youngest certainly looks miserable. The middle one I last saw just a few months ago and there was zero sign of any of this. The mother is clearly a massive factor in what's going on, and apparently Munchausen by proxy is common in similar situations.
Obviously one must be careful with their words, but my personal wish for what should happen to every person that has facilitated this madness would not be out of place in Afghanistan.
God bless them all. What wreckage there will come of such nonsense.
There's a song about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lO91WWJ9tI
I can't believe I forgot about this song...insane how society now has millions that actively encourage this sort of thing.
I assume Zoey is the ass in the photo.
I suspect the recent kerfuffle over the anti-trans Maine state Rep. was in retribution for what was done to Zephyr in 2023. If you cut your male parts off or sterilize your child, your commitment to the cause becomes all consuming to prevent the reality of what you've done from creeping in.
Best to double down, because otherwise you're just a delusional freak or evil, abusive parent. In academic medicine, nobody even dares study it since Paul McHugh.
You know who else changed their names for their political careers? Yes! Hitler, Stalin, Mao...it's a tradition in certain sects.
Stalin, Mao and also Lenin, but not Hitler (though his dad had changed *his* surname, before little Adolf was born).
Rachel Brosnahan was on the wrestling team in high school for two years according to Wikipedia.
I was going to join the wrestling team in high school until one of my intellectual friends declared it, by describing what it involves, as super gay. I've long regretted falling for that.
Frequent users of chatGPT have noticed it becoming friendlier, often obsequious. I asked it for a bunch of decorating advice (pretty good at it) and it's enthusiasm, especially for my ideas soon sounded phony.
Most fights end up on the ground; grappling is a valuable skill.
Yep I train now but it would have been nice to have done it back then too, given how much I enjoy it. Don't neglect the standup part of the game. Judo has a lot of ways to make your opponent be on the ground by himself ;)
At my age the focus has shifted to firearms. 😆
Two kinds of people in the world, those who have guns, and those who dig.
I became so weary of that obsequiousness I asked Chatty to tone it down and save that preference for all future sessions/threads. So far, so good.
I wonder if this is because they add to the prompt to be this way, or if it learns from us. I thank it and praise it when it comes up with something cool I never would have thought of.
Girl talk.
Really? Girls never talk to me this way. I need to work on my handsomeness.
I took a short and unsuccessful break from academia in the late 1990s/early 2000s to take a job as an equity trader at a brokerage firm in Dallas (you can tell that the stock market is about to take a nose dive when firms start hiring political philosophers as equity traders). The firm decided that it wanted to re-brand itself in order to shake its regional reputation (it didn't work). The president (stupidly) asked the trading floor to send him recommendations on possible new names. One of the traders sent in AAA Action Financial, arguing that the free advertizement of being the first firm that customers would see when checking the Yellow Pages for stock brokers would be worth a ton of money. We thought that to be quite humorous, but the president most decidedly did not.
I worked awhile at a law firm whose main activity was defending brokerage firms like yours against claims by unhappy investors (gamblers). Amazingly, one of the decorative posters in the office was a print of an interview one of the founding partners had given to a legal publication, in which he stated that the firm strove to hire "nice" people, to offset the fact that their clients were largely "not very nice people."
That was what I thought of when Steve mentioned being the first in the Yellow Pages .. the "AAA Towing" and "AAAA Pest Control" listings.
When I was a kid, I learned that major league baseball players had run the alphabetical gamut from Henry Aaron to Bill Zuber.
According to Grok and Baseball Reference, Hammerin' Hank is still #1 alphabetically, but Zuber has lost his spot. Tony Zych pitched parts of 3 seasons for the Mariners (apparently pretty well) starting in 2015. I presume Tony came by his name honestly.
My youngest is going to wrestling camp in a few weeks. Seems like a good way for boys to work out the excess energy and learn to move well.
". . .earning master's degrees in creative writing and literary criticism. She joined the university's Biology department and then the Office of the Provost, where she worked as a Program Manager overseeing the university's curricula."
Creative writing and literary criticism. Joined the Biology department. As the years go by, I become more and more proud and thankful that I quit college.
I've been intrigued by Zzyzx Rd (and the East Mojave desert) for as long as I can remember...
For completely different reasons, I'm now intrigued by what's in the water of Montana's 100th house district...
BS - they really thought about the acronym hey ;)
BlueSky always reminds me of the teacher's 'calm blue ocean' mantra in The Simpsons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUzklzVXJwo
I rarely share links because I don't expect anyone to care about what I care about, but this tale of ChatGPT gone wrong is insane like a Black Mirror episode: https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina?r=dg54b&triedRedirect=true
The Telecommunications History Group may have the phone book you're seeking, or guide you to the right state archives or university collection. Research librarians love a challenge.
In Ruskin, Florida, it was crucial before the invention of cellophane to know when the next train would arrive to ship crops north in winter. There was one town phone but no telephone poles. Turns out, the telephone lines were attached beneath the train tracks. The major crops were cauliflower (then an expensive rarity for the wealthy) and gladiolas for funerals.
Missoula is proof of how one crappy MFA program can ruin a whole state.