{"id":92838,"date":"2024-12-09T04:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=92838"},"modified":"2024-12-08T12:15:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T17:15:50","slug":"take-the-lecture-america-this-person-is-tired-of-you-being-so-weird-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/12\/09\/take-the-lecture-america-this-person-is-tired-of-you-being-so-weird-all-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Take the lecture, America. This person is tired of you being so <em>weird<\/em> all the time&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/p\/youre-very-weird\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Bray<\/a> checks in on the vocational mental health clinic known as the <em>New York Times<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_92839\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-09-at-12-09-13-Youre-Very-Weird-by-Chris-Bray-Tell-Me-How-This-Ends.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92839\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-09-at-12-09-13-Youre-Very-Weird-by-Chris-Bray-Tell-Me-How-This-Ends.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-09-at-12-09-13-Youre-Very-Weird-by-Chris-Bray-Tell-Me-How-This-Ends.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-09-at-12-09-13-Youre-Very-Weird-by-Chris-Bray-Tell-Me-How-This-Ends-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-09-at-12-09-13-Youre-Very-Weird-by-Chris-Bray-Tell-Me-How-This-Ends-120x120.png 120w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-09-at-12-09-13-Youre-Very-Weird-by-Chris-Bray-Tell-Me-How-This-Ends-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-92839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Non-binary <em>New York Times<\/em> op-ed writer M Gessen<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>A cruel government official absolutely brutalized and devastated some journalists this week, in a horrifying showdown that the <em>New York Times<\/em> op-ed writer M Gessen bravely <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/7xaiW\" target=\"_blank\">describes<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Shortly before allowing reporters into the main chamber of the Supreme Court for oral arguments in <strong>United States v. Skrmetti<\/strong>, a court employee asked us all if we needed to use a bathroom. The men&#8217;s room was right next door, the staff member said, and the women&#8217;s room down the hall.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Where should nonbinary people go?&#8221; one of the reporters asked.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>An uncomfortable back-and-forth followed. The staff person seemed not to understand the question. In the end, there was no answer. It just didn&#8217;t seem to compute.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The men&#8217;s room is over there<\/em>, the Nazi said, not even seeing what a vicious act this was.<\/p>\n<p>This is the lede; given the richest real estate in journalism, Gessen opens a discussion of a Supreme Court case with the story of victims denied the right to drop a deuce in a manner that fully provides them with the rich tapestry of social equity. The arc of the moral universe is long, but it apparently bends toward just using a gendered toilet stall to wipe your ass. The piece goes on the warn about the American descent into Trumpian autocracy, in case you hadn&#8217;t guessed.<\/p>\n<p>After an election season in which Tim Walz, of all people, was sent out to sell the narrative that JD Vance, of all people, was deeply <em>weird<\/em> and socially marginal, I constantly find myself seeing representations of strangeness and darkness and cruelty and horror that make me &#8230; shrug? &#8220;Which part is the bad part?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned this yesterday, but I&#8217;m fixating this morning on the journalist who just <em>crushed<\/em> Pete Hegseth, just absolutely <em>caught<\/em> his ass, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DecodingFoxNews\/status\/1864512603046764649\" target=\"_blank\">dead to rights<\/a>, and bragged that she had <em>the receipts<\/em>. Mic drop, bitch \u2014 she <em>got<\/em> you! Your deviant behavior is <em>on video<\/em>. And then you watch the video, and it&#8217;s some way-obvious dads drinking a glass of whiskey together, obviously sober and acting with restraint, in a dead-center normal piece of social behavior.<\/p>\n<p>This happens daily. HERE IS A SCARY WEIRD THING, a headline says, and I click on the link and see an unremarkable thing. The nonbinary journalist M Gessen is deeply concerned that the Supreme Court building is operated in such a bizarre way, consistent with a brutal descent into autocracy, not the socially reasonable way in which a diverse regime of toilet facilities are aligned with the infinite number of possible ways to represent your relationship to your crotch. M Gessen.<\/p>\n<p>Take the lecture, America. This person is tired of you being so <em>weird<\/em> all the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Bray checks in on the vocational mental health clinic known as the New York Times: A cruel government official absolutely brutalized and devastated some journalists this week, in a horrifying showdown that the New York Times op-ed writer M Gessen bravely describes this morning: Shortly before allowing reporters into the main chamber of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,28,53,13],"tags":[254,213,752],"class_list":["post-92838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-gender","tag-newspapers","tag-supremecourt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-o9o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92838","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=92838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92841,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92838\/revisions\/92841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}