I have noticed this exact thing. Specifically cutting her off when she brought up the second book. I was just thinking, there must be some kind of coercion, threats, or bribes happening behind the scenes, that is escalating.
I don't think it is. I think it's his own stupid ego. He is on a power trip. He knows what's considered "progressive" in today's politisphere and he's doing everything to keep that power. He has the power to shut down dissenting voices, he knows it, and he uses it. You want to find out the true nature of a person? Hand them power.
We know one other thing. People who are undeserving of power are attracted to powerful positions.
Now we know only 4 of those board members actually deserved those seats. Fire the rest.
Part of me always thinks of child porn blackmail. But right wing men aren't scared of speaking out and I doubt there is some stark divide between right and left men on this.
If it is money, why would the trans lobby just throw an equal amount at Fox News, too?
Yeah, I really cannot figure it out.
I honestly think it’s weaponized victim complex driven misogyny. The trans community has spent a great deal of time and money making themselves appear to be the ultimate victim. Men don’t want to accept TIMs as a part of normal male presentation so they push them onto women. When women complain they are told to shut up and deal with it.
It’s transphobia deeply ingrained in the patriarchy. Men must be manly, and anyone who isn’t is weak, and the patriarchy eats the weak, so they are pushed into the weakest of all: women.
They so strongly cannot accept these men as men that they are now erasing women. The best women is a man. We can’t accept that these men are men, we must call them women. Who cares what the women say, since we are easily oppressed in the patriarchy.
I’m so fucking hopping mad.
Sure, but your average white dude has no idea about this. Every one I talk to on my own instantly peaks.
I feel if you pulled your average middle-aged man off the street and read that book passage, he would be like, WTF.
But every guy "in charge" of educational, media, and sports institution is suddenly super woke and knows all the talking points, etc.
As Burjoski remarked that such books make it seem overly straightforward to take cross-sex hormones, Piatkowski interjected to warn she may be violating the code.
Not Canadian so i don't know precisely what the significance is, but, he actually interrupted a couple times to tell Ms. Burjoski that she might be perpetrating a "human rights violation".
There has to be something so much bigger behind this. The fact that men in charge everywhere are immediately and passionately silencing any "anti-progressive rhetoric" is just something that has never been seen before. Like, is it money? Blackmail? I seriously can't get my head around it. I mean, how are they all so AWARE of the trans issue.
And it wasn't just silencing the teacher, it was deleting the meeting off line and giving the teacher a stay-at-home and gag order.
Like, is this not alarm bells?
We are talking white men here. When have they ever given a shit before? Even about their own?
This is the book in question, like, I can't believe this is given to children:
And these are the "transphobic remarks" that triggered this
Edit I am listening to the recording of the meeting and the board head had no issue when she was talking about books in which young boys were objectifying women and talking about asexuality, but the second she mentioned "cross sex hormones" he jumped right in.