Tea at Trianon: The Bathroom Wars

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Saturday, June 4, 2016

The Bathroom Wars

From Return to Order:

“Transgenderism” has nothing to do with “rights” and everything to do with changing the very concept of man. If this battle isn’t important, why is the government (and the media) doing everything possible to force anti-moral bathroom diktats down the throats of Americans? If this battle is of such little consequence, then why are the candidates doing everything possible to exclude these issues from the debate narrative? The ruthless ferocity of the war only confirms that moral issues are powerful forces to be reckoned with inside society. Make no mistake about it: the target is the human element, so essential to the proper functioning of society and economy. This distorted concept of humanity that hates all restraint aims to destroy the natural restraining influence of those human institutions such as religion, custom, morals, family, and community.

With the bathroom wars, a cruel new phase in the battle now begins. The main target is no longer the external restraints of institutions, but the internal restraints of logic, identity, and sexuality. People can no longer be limited by what they are – they must now be free to be that which they imagine themselves to be.

In other words, reality no longer matters, and fantasy reigns. And when fantasy rules, there is no limit to the proposed absurdities. Deep calls unto deep, as nothing is sacred anymore. If man is but an evolving animal now free to live out fantasies, then no spiritual values are recognized. They can all be sacrificed on this altar of the absurd. There is no one who cannot be stripped of his human dignity and privacy in the name of imagined rights. Unlike past engagements in this battle, there is no opting out. A person no longer indulges in a fantasy alone, but all society is forced to pander to it. (Read more.)

julygirl said...: When a female who wants to pass as a male goes into the boys locker room and consequently gets beaten badly, what has she gained?; June 4, 2016 at 7:11:00 PM EDT