Tea at Trianon: The Cliff of Gender Ideology

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

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

The Cliff of Gender Ideology

From Restoring America:

Gender confusion among children had been steadily increasing over the past several years but seems to have surged during the pandemic , during which schools shut down, and in-person interaction moved online. Indeed, gender dysphoria tracks closely with increased rates of anxiety, depression, and suicidal impulses among young adults, which suggests these mental health struggles are in some way related.

This was certainly true for Amanda, a mother from Oregon whose daughter began falling into the gender ideology trap when she was 13. It began during the pandemic, Amanda said, when her daughter became heavily dependent on the internet for both school and socialization. One of her daughter’s online friends, in particular, a girl from California, began discussing transgenderism with Amanda’s daughter regularly. This new friend began identifying as a boy, and they would talk about gender identity, pronouns, and ways to transition physically, which included chest binders. (Read more.)