{"id":64220,"date":"2023-12-04T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T06:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=64220"},"modified":"2023-12-03T10:10:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T15:10:16","slug":"qotd-the-ivory-gulag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/12\/04\/qotd-the-ivory-gulag\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The “ivory gulag”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Looking at the cat ladies of both sexes and all 57 genders who ruined Trashcanistan, it seems obvious that they skipped sexual maturity \u2013 they jumped straight from “tween-ager” to “menopausal”. Even the young women in the “Social Justice” movement look \u2013 and, crucially, act \u2013 like they’re pushing fifty, while the young “men” are neotenous. Most of them are what bodybuilders call “skinny fat” \u2013 scrawny yet flabby, with no muscle tone \u2013 and the rest are morbidly obese. A crowd of college kids, again of both sexes and all however-many genders, looks like the mosh pit at the Lilith Fair. Without their exaggerated displays of secondary sex characteristics \u2013 ironic facial hair on the lads, pussy hats on the lassies \u2013 who could even tell them apart?<\/p>\n

So, too, with their mentalities. I spent many years toiling in the groves of academe, so obviously my social life (such as it was) contained a lot of post-menopausal lesbians. No creature is more solipsistic than this. Whatever maternal instincts she once might’ve had, have curdled into general naggy truculence, and since they have all the money and free time in the world in which to indulge their narcissism, if they can’t find any actual wrongthink around they’ll simply invent some. Before the Deplorables were driven to organize themselves for gaudy, suicidal, IRA-style violence, post-Oranzhevvy Trashcanistan felt, I imagine, a lot like a college campus …<\/p>\n

… which the few people with normal serum hormone levels who were stuck there often called “the ivory gulag”. Make of that what you will.<\/p>\n

Severian, “Hormones, or Lack Thereof”, Founding Questions<\/em><\/a>, 2021-01-20.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking at the cat ladies of both sexes and all 57 genders who ruined Trashcanistan, it seems obvious that they skipped sexual maturity \u2013 they jumped straight from “tween-ager” to “menopausal”. Even the young women in the “Social Justice” movement look \u2013 and, crucially, act \u2013 like they’re pushing fifty, while the young “men” are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,66,53,41,13],"tags":[196,1462,255,764],"class_list":["post-64220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-health-science","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-lgbt","tag-severian","tag-sexuality","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-gHO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64220"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86076,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64220\/revisions\/86076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}