Well, it has been a less than stellar week for me. A week ago, my computer suffered a hard drive failure, and well, I just didn't really feel like messing with my back-up PC that much. Besides, I had the week off, and I figured, might as well rest up a bit... But, as my vacation draws to a close, and my Mac is back among the living, I am ready to get back to posting.
Of course, by now everyone knows that a certain infamous person died. Fred Phelps, the leader of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas died on March 19, 2014. Phelps, and his, uh, "church" (it was more like a compound where his family lived, as most, if not all of the members were his immediate family) were known for traveling about, protesting against various groups they considered sinful, in particular gays and lesbians. I first heard of Phelps when he started picketing the funerals of AIDS victims back in the 1990's, and quite frankly I was appalled at the idea that someone would do such a thing. Over time, the protests increased, and eventually included those of military personnel killed in the line of duty, which, it was claimed, was part of God's judgement on the United States for allowing homosexual behavior.
Phelps and his cult have spent a number of years spewing what can only be called hatred. They have misrepresented Biblical teachings, and have, behave like those the Apostle Peter described as "the untaught and unstable (who) distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction." Phelps probably did more, in the long run, to further gay rights than to hinder them, but he still caused a lot of pain for the loved ones of those whose funerals he, and his followers, picketed.
There was briefly some talk of having protests at his funeral, but thankfully enough people were smart enough to point out how counter productive such an act would be. When it became obvious that his death would not result in people lowering themselves to his level, it was quickly announced that there would be no funeral. I rather suspect that no one showing up would have been an embarrassment.
In the end, Fred went out with more of a whimper than a bang. His death resulted in a brief flurry of attention, and then quickly faded. Many publications didn't even mention his death. And I was somewhat surprised that there was not some sort of celebration in the Castro District. In short, this rather nasty little man got the attention he deserved.
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Monday, March 31, 2014
Monday, February 24, 2014
Trannymaniacs
I miss the Animaniacs. I used to love watching that series of cartoons, as well as Tiny Toons. Well, I encountered a group of bloggers who have recently appeared who might well be called the "Trannymaniacs." Yeah, I hate that word, but they seem to embrace it, among other bizarre things, so, why not? The other name I thought of using was "Bat Sh*t Crazy Trannies," but I really don't care for profanity.
I encountered them after I read an article they had posted through the "Transgender News" mailing list. I read it as a possible source for article ideas. Entitled "The Transgender Hierarchy of Evil," it was a diatribe about the "imaginary" transgender hierarchy. You know. the one that supposedly ranks people and goes something like:
Right off the bat, Mr. Cummings went full-blown gender fascist, telling me that I am not allowed to not identify as transgender. Worse, as things went on, they basically let it be known that transsexualism (remember, they claim to be transsexuals themselves) is not legitimate. Their rhetoric sounded more like the sort of crap spewed by Blanchard, Bailey, and Lawrence (and yes, Lawrence also claims to be transsexual) than anything else.
Things went down hill from there…I'm not exaggerating when I say this bunch is seriously insane. All told, there are six members of this bizarre little cult. The more I went back and forth with this bunch, the stranger it got. Apparently Mr. Cummings and his wife (not remember, Mr. Cummings is "Jessica" and the wife is "Mark") fancy themselves some sort of transgender messiahs, who are going to "take their show on the road." Or, to put it a bit more accurately, they have bought a motorhome, and are going to become traveling grifters. It appears that neither is employed, though Mrs. Cummings claims to be an "Occupational Therapist, Nutritional Consultant and Master Personal Trainer."
I'm really not completely sure what is going on with this bunch. On the one hand, a lot of their stuff, including the attacks on transsexuals, is straight out of the classic transgender playbook. It sounds a lot like old school Arnold Lowman (you may know him better as "Virginia" Prince), or classic Phil Frye (aka, "Phyllis," Mr. "Cristan" Williams' role model), but there is also almost a hardline, right wing tone to it. It makes me wonder if Mrs. Cummings, who on at least one of her numerous websites, speaks of her "faith" might be trying to balance involvement with fundamentalism with his lifestyle? She would not be the first person to have issues with this.
Her attitude almost comes across as, "You can be a transgender, but don't think there is any real legitimacy to your identity. You're not "really" a woman, (or a man in her case) but as long as you accept that, and identify as a transgender, it's okay. But if you get uppity, and think you're really a "woman," or really a "man," then you are delusional. It would also be consistent with her being married to a man in a dress. That way, she can be the "husband" but not have to deal with being in what would be, in the eyes of some religious people, a "same sex" marriage. On the other hand, they can let lose with profanity that rivals that of most sailors, so I don't know.
Whatever the source of their beliefs…fundamentalism, or just extreme transgender, they are clearly some of the most insane transgender kooks I have run across in some time. They spend a lot of time accusing anyone who disagrees with them of "self-hatred," "shame." "arrogance," "transphobia," etc. But that seems to be exactly what they are suffering from. They are clearly dealing with some serious mental issues, and are taking them out on anyone, and everyone who dares question their views. But, they also spend a lot of time parroting the same tired crap you get from the usual mindless transgender types.
In any case, the whole thing deteriorated into them posting a series of articles attacking me, and violating the copyright on this blog site. I have contacted Google to complain (they also use blogger) with them threatening me with the "Streisand Effect." I am sure this isn't over, especially when they see this article…but, I admit, I don't suffer fools, and especially bigoted fools well. Sometimes it is fun to see just how badly they will get when they fall apart.
I encountered them after I read an article they had posted through the "Transgender News" mailing list. I read it as a possible source for article ideas. Entitled "The Transgender Hierarchy of Evil," it was a diatribe about the "imaginary" transgender hierarchy. You know. the one that supposedly ranks people and goes something like:
Post-Op Transsexuals
Pre-Op Transsexusls
Non-op Transsexuals
Pre-Transition Transsexuals
Crossdressers
Fetishistic Transvestites
Drag Queens
Of course, never mind that most transsexuals do not even identify as being member of the transgender community, nor do many drag queens. And some have started excluding crossdressers, fetishistic transvestites, and drag queens because, well they are just too darned embarrassing.
Well, I read the post, and left a simple comment…
Sorry, but no…I am a post-op transsexual. I am not transgender. I reject that term and the political silliness it represents. I changed my sex, not my gender. One is "transgender," if, and only if, one identifies as such. Otherwise, it is a meaningless term. The hierarchy is meaningless, because transgender is meaningless.And, well, I set off a fire storm of controversy… A little over an hour later, I got a reply from some kook who calls himself "Jessica Lynn Cummings." Mr. Cummings' post was followed about 3 minutes later by a post from his wife, "Mark Angelo Cummings." Yes, you read that correctly…you see, Mr. Cummings claims to be a "post-op transsexual," as does his wife… Now, this sort of thing happens, but they are not remotely transsexuals. Not judging by the insanity that followed….
Right off the bat, Mr. Cummings went full-blown gender fascist, telling me that I am not allowed to not identify as transgender. Worse, as things went on, they basically let it be known that transsexualism (remember, they claim to be transsexuals themselves) is not legitimate. Their rhetoric sounded more like the sort of crap spewed by Blanchard, Bailey, and Lawrence (and yes, Lawrence also claims to be transsexual) than anything else.
Things went down hill from there…I'm not exaggerating when I say this bunch is seriously insane. All told, there are six members of this bizarre little cult. The more I went back and forth with this bunch, the stranger it got. Apparently Mr. Cummings and his wife (not remember, Mr. Cummings is "Jessica" and the wife is "Mark") fancy themselves some sort of transgender messiahs, who are going to "take their show on the road." Or, to put it a bit more accurately, they have bought a motorhome, and are going to become traveling grifters. It appears that neither is employed, though Mrs. Cummings claims to be an "Occupational Therapist, Nutritional Consultant and Master Personal Trainer."
I'm really not completely sure what is going on with this bunch. On the one hand, a lot of their stuff, including the attacks on transsexuals, is straight out of the classic transgender playbook. It sounds a lot like old school Arnold Lowman (you may know him better as "Virginia" Prince), or classic Phil Frye (aka, "Phyllis," Mr. "Cristan" Williams' role model), but there is also almost a hardline, right wing tone to it. It makes me wonder if Mrs. Cummings, who on at least one of her numerous websites, speaks of her "faith" might be trying to balance involvement with fundamentalism with his lifestyle? She would not be the first person to have issues with this.
Her attitude almost comes across as, "You can be a transgender, but don't think there is any real legitimacy to your identity. You're not "really" a woman, (or a man in her case) but as long as you accept that, and identify as a transgender, it's okay. But if you get uppity, and think you're really a "woman," or really a "man," then you are delusional. It would also be consistent with her being married to a man in a dress. That way, she can be the "husband" but not have to deal with being in what would be, in the eyes of some religious people, a "same sex" marriage. On the other hand, they can let lose with profanity that rivals that of most sailors, so I don't know.
Whatever the source of their beliefs…fundamentalism, or just extreme transgender, they are clearly some of the most insane transgender kooks I have run across in some time. They spend a lot of time accusing anyone who disagrees with them of "self-hatred," "shame." "arrogance," "transphobia," etc. But that seems to be exactly what they are suffering from. They are clearly dealing with some serious mental issues, and are taking them out on anyone, and everyone who dares question their views. But, they also spend a lot of time parroting the same tired crap you get from the usual mindless transgender types.
In any case, the whole thing deteriorated into them posting a series of articles attacking me, and violating the copyright on this blog site. I have contacted Google to complain (they also use blogger) with them threatening me with the "Streisand Effect." I am sure this isn't over, especially when they see this article…but, I admit, I don't suffer fools, and especially bigoted fools well. Sometimes it is fun to see just how badly they will get when they fall apart.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
We Don't Want Special Rights….Except When We Want Special Rights
I've been wondering when one of the extremist transgender bloggers would take on the case of the transgender boy at a Bay Area high school who got himself in trouble for attacking a group of girls he claims were bullying him. Of course, Mr. "Cristan" Williams decided to weigh in, and as might be expected, he is demanding "special rights" for this fellow….
The case is really a simple one. A student, who claims to be a "girl" but who is male, and who is well known in his high school, claims he was bullied by female students for years. (And here we have been led to believe that female students have no problems with boys invading the girl's room in school…whoops.) The boy, who calls himself "Jewlyes" Gutierrez, physically assaulted the girls, leading to a rather nasty altercation that was caught on someone's cell phone. And because Gutierrez decided to use violence in response to verbal harassment, he was charged with battery.
Those are the simple facts. A male student, who claims to be transgender, is verbally harassed, and uses physical violence against the female students who object to his presence in their bathroom. Pretty simple. Now, of course, in the eyes of the extremist transgender crowd, the girls have no rights, and Gutierrez has all the rights. He gets to force himself on them, and when they react, he gets to use violence to "correct" them.
But, he cry will go up, "No, we don't want special rights! We just want to be treated like everyone else…." But when push comes to shove, no, they want special rights. When they are treated like everyone else, they cry foul.
No one should be bullied, but being bullied does not justify violence. That is the real issue here. A male (sorry, but he is) physically attacks females who are calling him names. Sorry, but no, that is not excusable. If he was defending himself from a physical assault, it would be different. But they were not hitting him. He is the one who resorted to violence. And he was a male, hitting a female. Reality may not suit the transgender extremists, but it is past time for them to be brought face to face with it.
The case is really a simple one. A student, who claims to be a "girl" but who is male, and who is well known in his high school, claims he was bullied by female students for years. (And here we have been led to believe that female students have no problems with boys invading the girl's room in school…whoops.) The boy, who calls himself "Jewlyes" Gutierrez, physically assaulted the girls, leading to a rather nasty altercation that was caught on someone's cell phone. And because Gutierrez decided to use violence in response to verbal harassment, he was charged with battery.
Those are the simple facts. A male student, who claims to be transgender, is verbally harassed, and uses physical violence against the female students who object to his presence in their bathroom. Pretty simple. Now, of course, in the eyes of the extremist transgender crowd, the girls have no rights, and Gutierrez has all the rights. He gets to force himself on them, and when they react, he gets to use violence to "correct" them.
But, he cry will go up, "No, we don't want special rights! We just want to be treated like everyone else…." But when push comes to shove, no, they want special rights. When they are treated like everyone else, they cry foul.
No one should be bullied, but being bullied does not justify violence. That is the real issue here. A male (sorry, but he is) physically attacks females who are calling him names. Sorry, but no, that is not excusable. If he was defending himself from a physical assault, it would be different. But they were not hitting him. He is the one who resorted to violence. And he was a male, hitting a female. Reality may not suit the transgender extremists, but it is past time for them to be brought face to face with it.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Fifteen Years of Cyberstalking
Note: This is probably going to be an evolving article. The purpose is to document the behavior of someone who is engaged in harassment against me. I have added to it several times already. If you are interested, check back regularly. If not, well, just ignore it.
About fifteen years ago, I was recovering from my first failed attempt at transition. I am not going to go into a lot of detail, but I made several mistakes, mainly rushing into transition, and I had a very poor excuse for a therapist who failed to pick up on a number of issues I was struggling with. When, as some call them, external pressures got to be too much, I fled back to, as I have put it, "the devil I knew."
It took me seven years to work through it all. During that time, I discovered a newsgroup with the ironic name alt.support.srs. I say ironic because it was anything but supportive. The group was largely terrorized by a group of bullies that included a person who used the name Cheryl, and another who posted as Diane. They were commonly referred to as "The Sisters of Transsexual Purity" because they would attack anyone who was not, in their judgement, 100% committed to SRS, and progressing at a pace that met their rather stringent standards.
The really ironic part was, neither was post-op, as they claimed. The truth about Cheryl came out after that person was found dead in front of their computer. Someone from the sheriff's department used instant messaging in an attempt to get information, and the person contacted let the newsgroup know that this person had died.
Diane, aka Diane Arons, whose real name is Diane Arons Lask had a rather long history of bullying and cyberstalking that began on FidoNet, if not earlier. For those too young to remember, FidoNet is a network of computer bulletin board systems that was sort of a predecessor of the Internet. It is not very popular in the United States these days, but is still in existence, and is more commonly used in Russia and former republics of the USSR. FidoNet was primarily through the phone system. A BBS would call an uplink hub and exchange outgoing messages for incoming ones. It might take a few days for a posting in forum to reach everyone. It was one of several such "echo net" programs available.
One of the features of FidoNet is forums, which were sort of like mailing lists or Usenet groups. And one of the forums on FidoNet was for the discussion of gender issues and Lask was very much a presence there. And was certainly one of the reasons FidoNet was jokingly called Fight-o-Net.
I didn't access the gender forum on FidoNet because I had not transitioned, and did not want friends to know my medical situation. If you were on a BBS, it was very easy for the sysop to tell what forums you participated in.
FidoNet was where Lask first encountered a person who called himself Laura Masters (later Laura Blake). Blake was a transgender extremist from Canada who developed quite a reputation for opposing SRS, and claiming to have "jumped the gurney" on the way to having it. How much of this was true was never really certain, but Lask developed an major obsession with Blake that would be a driving force in his life for many years.
Now, there is no question that Blake contributed to the whole mess. Shoot, I will admit to taking more than a few potshots at Blake, who spent a great deal of time attacking transsexuals and trying to pressure people into being "woman-males" to use his term. Of course, now, the drivel pushed by Blake has become a large part of the transgender dogma, and ironically, Lask seems to have adopted this view as well.
Actually, to be honest, it is never really clear exactly what Lask believes. Over the years, Lask has attacked, and then sided with, a number of people. For example, he viciously attacked "Willow" Arune, a notorious online kook, and then took to defending him. The same was true of a several others.
The weird thing with Lask is I actually have met this person. Several years ago, after he stopped harassing me, he contacted me and explained that he had been homeless for some time. He had been staying in Nevada, and wanted to return to San Francisco and wanted to know if he could sleep on my floor for a period. Now, I tend to be a forgiving, and compassionate person, and I agreed. Lask stayed for several days, before moving in with a post-op who, ironically, had responded to a person ad I had placed, even though I an a straight woman. This person was apparently some sort of trans fan, who preferred transsexuals as partners. I was not interested, but did seek to interest that person in the research project where I was volunteering at the time.
When I met Lask, one of the more bizarre facts I learned was that this supposed paragon of transsexualism actually had a history with a group originally known as Educational TV Channel (EDTVC) in San Francisco. It is now known as TransGender SF or TGSF.
Lask turned on me when he decided, rather suddenly, that the alt.support.srs group should be abandoned to the kooks like Arune. I declined to agree to that idea, and Lask disappeared for a while. Then there were suddenly someone appeared posting through an anonymous remailer and attacking me. Those postings seemed to be Lask's styles, but at first I was not completely sure it was him. Finally, he made reference to some things that only Lask could have known, and it was obvious that Lask had adopted me as a replacement for Blake.
Lask became increasingly abusive, and it was about this time that he suddenly began to defend Arune, and at least one other person he had rather viciously attacked. I became the sole object of his attention, though he did occasionally check up on Blake (who had withdrawn from the Internet entirely to escape Lask) and provided "updates."
BTW, at one time, Blake was posting claims about Lask's harassment that many took at either fiction, or delusional. Now, I wonder, as i have been the victim of similar attacks.
A few years ago, Lask mounted a massive cyberbullying attack on me. He sent anonymous emails to several transgender activists urging them to contact my employer in an effort to cause me grief. He basically bragged about this on alt.support.srs.
One of Lask's main tactics is to do extensive online research on a target. He will scour Google looking for anything he can exploit. I have learned to be very circumspect about what I allow to be posted online, and, thankfully, Lask does not know a lot about my current life. Of course, it can be a constant battle. Changes in Facebook security allowed him to find my daughter, for example. He then found a blog post she had written about ten years ago, at a time when we were estranged. As I have said elsewhere, I will not do what Lask did, and invade my daughter's privacy by revealing details, but suffice to say, we are no longer estranged and are very close. She was very upset at being used as a weapon against me, and was furious that Mr. "Autumn" Sandeen tried to contact her.
After finding a mention about me on my church's website, he made a similar effort to attack me through my church, mistakenly thinking I was then employed there. I found out about this when Suzan Cooke wrote about having received one, and to Cooke's credit, declined to participate. On the other hand, Mr. "Autumn" Sandeen was chose to take up Lask's suggestion and I wrote about it here.
Lask has always had a tendency to come and go. Even when he is active, there is an odd pattern of several days of almost continuous attacks, almost around the clock, followed by a period when he falls silent. Well, he had disappeared for some time...until recently.
The first sign that Lask was back was, as is often the case, not completely obvious. A person started posting in the comments section of Mr. Sandeen's column on LGBT Weekly under the name "Jenna." At first this person seemed to be a "radical feminist," and even seemed to be disagreeing with Mr. Sandeen. Then, after I made a comment in support of something he said, he attacked me. The person's statements were very inconsistent. Then, over time, it became obvious that this was not only a troll, but was Lask.
The person calling himself "Jenna" repeatedly denied being Lask, but then suddenly, every message where I mentioned "Diane Lask" was deleted. Yeah, sure it wasn't Lask. Uh huh, yeah.... Oh, and he is back at it again, trying to imply that he is another troll from Usenet. No one ever said Lask was very bright...
Since that time, Lask has used the name "Jenna Smith" to access my LinkedIn profile, and has impersonated me on several web sites, as well as using the names of my ex, and my daughter. He has also apparently created a twitter account using my photo.
This person is a a seriously mentally ill person, and to be honest, there obsession makes me feel rather threatened. While he has been careful to never say anything that could be taken as a physical threat, a person who is this obsessed can easily turn violent. So, I am taking this opportunity, knowing that he reads this blog to say to the person using the name Diane Arons Lask, that I am demanding that he cease his harassment.
I realize this is an unusual post, but the primary purpose is to go on the record concerning this person, to comply with a provision of California state law requiring that I inform the person to cease harassing me, and to insure that anyone doing a Google search for Diane Lask will see this information.
About fifteen years ago, I was recovering from my first failed attempt at transition. I am not going to go into a lot of detail, but I made several mistakes, mainly rushing into transition, and I had a very poor excuse for a therapist who failed to pick up on a number of issues I was struggling with. When, as some call them, external pressures got to be too much, I fled back to, as I have put it, "the devil I knew."
It took me seven years to work through it all. During that time, I discovered a newsgroup with the ironic name alt.support.srs. I say ironic because it was anything but supportive. The group was largely terrorized by a group of bullies that included a person who used the name Cheryl, and another who posted as Diane. They were commonly referred to as "The Sisters of Transsexual Purity" because they would attack anyone who was not, in their judgement, 100% committed to SRS, and progressing at a pace that met their rather stringent standards.
The really ironic part was, neither was post-op, as they claimed. The truth about Cheryl came out after that person was found dead in front of their computer. Someone from the sheriff's department used instant messaging in an attempt to get information, and the person contacted let the newsgroup know that this person had died.
Diane, aka Diane Arons, whose real name is Diane Arons Lask had a rather long history of bullying and cyberstalking that began on FidoNet, if not earlier. For those too young to remember, FidoNet is a network of computer bulletin board systems that was sort of a predecessor of the Internet. It is not very popular in the United States these days, but is still in existence, and is more commonly used in Russia and former republics of the USSR. FidoNet was primarily through the phone system. A BBS would call an uplink hub and exchange outgoing messages for incoming ones. It might take a few days for a posting in forum to reach everyone. It was one of several such "echo net" programs available.
One of the features of FidoNet is forums, which were sort of like mailing lists or Usenet groups. And one of the forums on FidoNet was for the discussion of gender issues and Lask was very much a presence there. And was certainly one of the reasons FidoNet was jokingly called Fight-o-Net.
I didn't access the gender forum on FidoNet because I had not transitioned, and did not want friends to know my medical situation. If you were on a BBS, it was very easy for the sysop to tell what forums you participated in.
FidoNet was where Lask first encountered a person who called himself Laura Masters (later Laura Blake). Blake was a transgender extremist from Canada who developed quite a reputation for opposing SRS, and claiming to have "jumped the gurney" on the way to having it. How much of this was true was never really certain, but Lask developed an major obsession with Blake that would be a driving force in his life for many years.
Now, there is no question that Blake contributed to the whole mess. Shoot, I will admit to taking more than a few potshots at Blake, who spent a great deal of time attacking transsexuals and trying to pressure people into being "woman-males" to use his term. Of course, now, the drivel pushed by Blake has become a large part of the transgender dogma, and ironically, Lask seems to have adopted this view as well.
Actually, to be honest, it is never really clear exactly what Lask believes. Over the years, Lask has attacked, and then sided with, a number of people. For example, he viciously attacked "Willow" Arune, a notorious online kook, and then took to defending him. The same was true of a several others.
The weird thing with Lask is I actually have met this person. Several years ago, after he stopped harassing me, he contacted me and explained that he had been homeless for some time. He had been staying in Nevada, and wanted to return to San Francisco and wanted to know if he could sleep on my floor for a period. Now, I tend to be a forgiving, and compassionate person, and I agreed. Lask stayed for several days, before moving in with a post-op who, ironically, had responded to a person ad I had placed, even though I an a straight woman. This person was apparently some sort of trans fan, who preferred transsexuals as partners. I was not interested, but did seek to interest that person in the research project where I was volunteering at the time.
When I met Lask, one of the more bizarre facts I learned was that this supposed paragon of transsexualism actually had a history with a group originally known as Educational TV Channel (EDTVC) in San Francisco. It is now known as TransGender SF or TGSF.
Lask turned on me when he decided, rather suddenly, that the alt.support.srs group should be abandoned to the kooks like Arune. I declined to agree to that idea, and Lask disappeared for a while. Then there were suddenly someone appeared posting through an anonymous remailer and attacking me. Those postings seemed to be Lask's styles, but at first I was not completely sure it was him. Finally, he made reference to some things that only Lask could have known, and it was obvious that Lask had adopted me as a replacement for Blake.
Lask became increasingly abusive, and it was about this time that he suddenly began to defend Arune, and at least one other person he had rather viciously attacked. I became the sole object of his attention, though he did occasionally check up on Blake (who had withdrawn from the Internet entirely to escape Lask) and provided "updates."
BTW, at one time, Blake was posting claims about Lask's harassment that many took at either fiction, or delusional. Now, I wonder, as i have been the victim of similar attacks.
A few years ago, Lask mounted a massive cyberbullying attack on me. He sent anonymous emails to several transgender activists urging them to contact my employer in an effort to cause me grief. He basically bragged about this on alt.support.srs.
One of Lask's main tactics is to do extensive online research on a target. He will scour Google looking for anything he can exploit. I have learned to be very circumspect about what I allow to be posted online, and, thankfully, Lask does not know a lot about my current life. Of course, it can be a constant battle. Changes in Facebook security allowed him to find my daughter, for example. He then found a blog post she had written about ten years ago, at a time when we were estranged. As I have said elsewhere, I will not do what Lask did, and invade my daughter's privacy by revealing details, but suffice to say, we are no longer estranged and are very close. She was very upset at being used as a weapon against me, and was furious that Mr. "Autumn" Sandeen tried to contact her.
After finding a mention about me on my church's website, he made a similar effort to attack me through my church, mistakenly thinking I was then employed there. I found out about this when Suzan Cooke wrote about having received one, and to Cooke's credit, declined to participate. On the other hand, Mr. "Autumn" Sandeen was chose to take up Lask's suggestion and I wrote about it here.
Lask has always had a tendency to come and go. Even when he is active, there is an odd pattern of several days of almost continuous attacks, almost around the clock, followed by a period when he falls silent. Well, he had disappeared for some time...until recently.
The first sign that Lask was back was, as is often the case, not completely obvious. A person started posting in the comments section of Mr. Sandeen's column on LGBT Weekly under the name "Jenna." At first this person seemed to be a "radical feminist," and even seemed to be disagreeing with Mr. Sandeen. Then, after I made a comment in support of something he said, he attacked me. The person's statements were very inconsistent. Then, over time, it became obvious that this was not only a troll, but was Lask.
The person calling himself "Jenna" repeatedly denied being Lask, but then suddenly, every message where I mentioned "Diane Lask" was deleted. Yeah, sure it wasn't Lask. Uh huh, yeah.... Oh, and he is back at it again, trying to imply that he is another troll from Usenet. No one ever said Lask was very bright...
Since that time, Lask has used the name "Jenna Smith" to access my LinkedIn profile, and has impersonated me on several web sites, as well as using the names of my ex, and my daughter. He has also apparently created a twitter account using my photo.
This person is a a seriously mentally ill person, and to be honest, there obsession makes me feel rather threatened. While he has been careful to never say anything that could be taken as a physical threat, a person who is this obsessed can easily turn violent. So, I am taking this opportunity, knowing that he reads this blog to say to the person using the name Diane Arons Lask, that I am demanding that he cease his harassment.
I realize this is an unusual post, but the primary purpose is to go on the record concerning this person, to comply with a provision of California state law requiring that I inform the person to cease harassing me, and to insure that anyone doing a Google search for Diane Lask will see this information.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Ironic, isn't it....not to mention, very, very sad...
Much has been made about some comments that my daughter made on a blog that were written about ten years ago. They were written at a time when she was going through some very difficult times, and were certainly never intended to be read by the creepy men who are now using her to stalk and attempt to bully me online.
She refers to things that happened between my first go at transition, and my second, and final one. The first ended when issues having nothing to do with being transsexual seemed out of control, and reached a point where I was facing a mental collapse, were compounded by issues that arose from my realization that perhaps, to my surprise, I was actually a straight woman (tons of irony there, but that is a story for another day) came together and combined with having a truly incompetent and unprofessional therapist to cause me to, as I have said, flee back to the devil I knew.
I tried to convince myself that I was doing the right thing, and I became, for seven terrible years, a very miserable person. I tried finding some point where I could live with myself, and others could live with me. I finally realized that transition was the only choice, and in October of 1999 I again went full time.
During those seven years, I hated myself, and I admit, I took that self-hatred out on others. I don't excuse what I did, and I am certainly not proud of it. I felt I had no control over my life, so I tried to control others. I did not know how to be a man, so I simply impersonated my father. Suffice to say, that was not really me. And it was a poor choice to copy. On more than one occasion, when I confronted my father about things he did that hurt me, he lied and denied that they ever happened. I don't know if he thought he could make them go away by doing so, or if he actually didn't remember, but I did. And you know, almost twenty years after he died, they still hurt. But either way, he never felt the least bit of shame for what he did.
Those who are actually transsexual can relate to trying to be something you really are not. Ironically, those like Mr. "Cristan" Williams, who is trying so desperately to control me, along with a number of other people who don't agree with his extremist agenda, should understand also, but in a sort of reversed manner. I was was trying to be a man, and did a horrible job of being a parody of one. He is trying to be a woman, and well, he is not even coming close to even parodying one.
But I have realized something from all of this. What my daughter wrote about, describing me when I was faking it, is exactly how Mr. Williams, and some others, like Mr. "Dana" Taylor, are acting now. They are trying to control me, and bully me, the same way I tried to control and bully my ex.
When I finally accepted that I really was a woman, and that it was doing far more harm than good to try to please others, the hurting stopped for all of us. I knew my marriage would end, and it did.
There are parts of this story that would clear up a lot of the misunderstanding about what my daughter wrote. But those parts are as much, or more, her private business as mine. I am not going to expose that. Besides, if I did, Mr. Williams and others, would just scoff and claim I was lying. That is there stock in trade, just as they scoff and claim that women who have real fears, that men like them can never understand are also lying.
Williams expects women to relate to him like men. That is why he tries stuff like taunting them when they will not submit to his demands. He does not understand how such an approach feels to a woman. He thinks what would work on a man, will work on them. Only a man could think that way. And of course, being a man, he thinks he can do no wrong.
My daughter and I have long ago moved past those dark days. I waited, and she reached out to me. She and I have both grown a lot since then. I have admitted my mistakes, and she has forgiven me. And she has admitted hers, and I have forgiven her. As someone once said, "When I was 18, I thought my parent's were idiots. When I was 30, I was amazed how much they had learned in 12 years." Unfortunately, Mr. Williams want to use that tragic period to control me, but he can't, and he won't.
He should be ashamed, but like a lot of men, including my father, he has no shame.
She refers to things that happened between my first go at transition, and my second, and final one. The first ended when issues having nothing to do with being transsexual seemed out of control, and reached a point where I was facing a mental collapse, were compounded by issues that arose from my realization that perhaps, to my surprise, I was actually a straight woman (tons of irony there, but that is a story for another day) came together and combined with having a truly incompetent and unprofessional therapist to cause me to, as I have said, flee back to the devil I knew.
I tried to convince myself that I was doing the right thing, and I became, for seven terrible years, a very miserable person. I tried finding some point where I could live with myself, and others could live with me. I finally realized that transition was the only choice, and in October of 1999 I again went full time.
During those seven years, I hated myself, and I admit, I took that self-hatred out on others. I don't excuse what I did, and I am certainly not proud of it. I felt I had no control over my life, so I tried to control others. I did not know how to be a man, so I simply impersonated my father. Suffice to say, that was not really me. And it was a poor choice to copy. On more than one occasion, when I confronted my father about things he did that hurt me, he lied and denied that they ever happened. I don't know if he thought he could make them go away by doing so, or if he actually didn't remember, but I did. And you know, almost twenty years after he died, they still hurt. But either way, he never felt the least bit of shame for what he did.
Those who are actually transsexual can relate to trying to be something you really are not. Ironically, those like Mr. "Cristan" Williams, who is trying so desperately to control me, along with a number of other people who don't agree with his extremist agenda, should understand also, but in a sort of reversed manner. I was was trying to be a man, and did a horrible job of being a parody of one. He is trying to be a woman, and well, he is not even coming close to even parodying one.
But I have realized something from all of this. What my daughter wrote about, describing me when I was faking it, is exactly how Mr. Williams, and some others, like Mr. "Dana" Taylor, are acting now. They are trying to control me, and bully me, the same way I tried to control and bully my ex.
When I finally accepted that I really was a woman, and that it was doing far more harm than good to try to please others, the hurting stopped for all of us. I knew my marriage would end, and it did.
There are parts of this story that would clear up a lot of the misunderstanding about what my daughter wrote. But those parts are as much, or more, her private business as mine. I am not going to expose that. Besides, if I did, Mr. Williams and others, would just scoff and claim I was lying. That is there stock in trade, just as they scoff and claim that women who have real fears, that men like them can never understand are also lying.
Williams expects women to relate to him like men. That is why he tries stuff like taunting them when they will not submit to his demands. He does not understand how such an approach feels to a woman. He thinks what would work on a man, will work on them. Only a man could think that way. And of course, being a man, he thinks he can do no wrong.
My daughter and I have long ago moved past those dark days. I waited, and she reached out to me. She and I have both grown a lot since then. I have admitted my mistakes, and she has forgiven me. And she has admitted hers, and I have forgiven her. As someone once said, "When I was 18, I thought my parent's were idiots. When I was 30, I was amazed how much they had learned in 12 years." Unfortunately, Mr. Williams want to use that tragic period to control me, but he can't, and he won't.
He should be ashamed, but like a lot of men, including my father, he has no shame.
Monday, July 22, 2013
Wow, The Boys Want to Play Rough!
Let's see... I just had to censor (something I really hate doing) a comment from Mr. "Cristan" Williams, because he violated the one rule I have here, which is you don't invade privacy. First off, he mention something about a regular commenter here, and that alone was grounds for his post being blocked.
But then I noticed he has joined the recent effort to get really nasty with cyberstalking me. He quoted something that I was not familiar with, that allegedly came from my daughter. Well, of course I placed a phone call to her. She had me send her the quote, which she was rather surprised by.
Now, she did something rather smart. She Googled it, and it turns out that it comes from a comment on Mr. "Dana" Lane Taylor's Blog, which also appears to be the "source" of the other comment mentioned above. That comment appears to be a total fabrication.
Once I saw the full quote on Mr. Taylor's blog, from someone claiming to be "Rebecca" it made a bit more sense. My daughter is not sure exactly where it came from, but whatever the source, it is clear that it was posted at a time, about nine years ago, when we were not on the best of terms. That is long past history, and it appears that someone has been very naughty, and has gone to great lengths to find anything they can use. This is not something that would be easily found...
I am not going to provide details as to the conflict between us, except to say that it has been settled, that the cause had nothing to do with my being a transsexual, that the stuff was written by someone who was in a very bad place at the time, and that I have a very wonderful relationship with my daughter and my grandchildren.
In another words, potentially illegal activities are afoot, so to speak. Not surprising, as I have clearly upset some very violent men, including both Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Williams. Mr. Williams has been accused, though he is full of denials, of threatening a journalist, mainly because said person does not believe men should be able to put on women's clothing and force their way into women's spaces. Mr. Williams does not handle disagreement, or rejection very well. If he doesn't get his way, well, let's just say he can be very nasty.
I am about 99% certain who the cyberstalker is. Mr. Williams, like Mr. Sandeen before him, is simply allowing this sleaze-ball to use him. The person in question is a very disturbed man, who used to be a terror on Usenet. There, ironically, he harassed a person who posted as "Laura Masters" and later as "Laura Blake" for years. It's ironic, because Blake was one of the first true transgender kooks. His spiel was that no one should have surgery, and we should all accept that were were "woman/male." Sort of an early version of the woman with a penis crap preached now. That feud is approaching 20 years I believe, and began on Fidonet.
The style is classic, and his tactic is to take a bit of true information when he can find it, and then basically extrapolate wildly. The said thing is, I actually tried, at one time, to help this person out. So, you might ask, what did I do that turned him into my mortal enemy? I declined to go along with a request that we effectively shut down the old group on Usenet by pulling out. He then started posting anonymously, but some of his comments gave away who he really was. Now that Usenet is effectively dead, he moved on to stalking people on blogs and such.
Oh well, if the nasty boys think they can scare me off, like they did at least one blogger, they can think again. Their lies don't bother me. Obviously I worry them.... That's nice. It means they know I am telling the truth, which is the one thing they can't abide.
Oh, and one other bit of irony... I you go back and you read the post that started Mr. Dana Lane Taylor on his hateful path, I was actually trying to be nice. I honestly felt that he was hurting, and I tried to cut him some slack. But, hey, even if you do it nicely, the transgender kooks just can't handle disagreement any better than they can handle rejection. Mr. Taylor went off the deep end because he found out he can't demand that lesbians have sex with him... I mean, after all, just because he has a penis is no reason for a woman, who prefers women, to reject him.
Oh, and no, I am not mad "because [he] got the first 'Mr.' in..." And no, we never had the same mindset. He was delusional, and clearly was never a transsexual.
And things are getting more interesting... My daughter called me back after getting the grandkids to bed, and we spent some time figuring out how someone found that old site. They had to have searched through Facebook to find her. I have my Facebook privacy setting on the highest level, just for the purpose of preventing people from bothering me and my friends. They had to have looked for anyone who might be related to me.
On top of that, Mr. "Autumn" Sandeen posted a comment, an unwelcome comment, on her old journal page. As she put it, "What he did is just....creepy." Then, in what has to be one of the most idiotic moves that fool has ever made, he sent me a friend request on Facebook.
But then I noticed he has joined the recent effort to get really nasty with cyberstalking me. He quoted something that I was not familiar with, that allegedly came from my daughter. Well, of course I placed a phone call to her. She had me send her the quote, which she was rather surprised by.
Now, she did something rather smart. She Googled it, and it turns out that it comes from a comment on Mr. "Dana" Lane Taylor's Blog, which also appears to be the "source" of the other comment mentioned above. That comment appears to be a total fabrication.
Once I saw the full quote on Mr. Taylor's blog, from someone claiming to be "Rebecca" it made a bit more sense. My daughter is not sure exactly where it came from, but whatever the source, it is clear that it was posted at a time, about nine years ago, when we were not on the best of terms. That is long past history, and it appears that someone has been very naughty, and has gone to great lengths to find anything they can use. This is not something that would be easily found...
I am not going to provide details as to the conflict between us, except to say that it has been settled, that the cause had nothing to do with my being a transsexual, that the stuff was written by someone who was in a very bad place at the time, and that I have a very wonderful relationship with my daughter and my grandchildren.
In another words, potentially illegal activities are afoot, so to speak. Not surprising, as I have clearly upset some very violent men, including both Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Williams. Mr. Williams has been accused, though he is full of denials, of threatening a journalist, mainly because said person does not believe men should be able to put on women's clothing and force their way into women's spaces. Mr. Williams does not handle disagreement, or rejection very well. If he doesn't get his way, well, let's just say he can be very nasty.
I am about 99% certain who the cyberstalker is. Mr. Williams, like Mr. Sandeen before him, is simply allowing this sleaze-ball to use him. The person in question is a very disturbed man, who used to be a terror on Usenet. There, ironically, he harassed a person who posted as "Laura Masters" and later as "Laura Blake" for years. It's ironic, because Blake was one of the first true transgender kooks. His spiel was that no one should have surgery, and we should all accept that were were "woman/male." Sort of an early version of the woman with a penis crap preached now. That feud is approaching 20 years I believe, and began on Fidonet.
The style is classic, and his tactic is to take a bit of true information when he can find it, and then basically extrapolate wildly. The said thing is, I actually tried, at one time, to help this person out. So, you might ask, what did I do that turned him into my mortal enemy? I declined to go along with a request that we effectively shut down the old group on Usenet by pulling out. He then started posting anonymously, but some of his comments gave away who he really was. Now that Usenet is effectively dead, he moved on to stalking people on blogs and such.
Oh well, if the nasty boys think they can scare me off, like they did at least one blogger, they can think again. Their lies don't bother me. Obviously I worry them.... That's nice. It means they know I am telling the truth, which is the one thing they can't abide.
Oh, and one other bit of irony... I you go back and you read the post that started Mr. Dana Lane Taylor on his hateful path, I was actually trying to be nice. I honestly felt that he was hurting, and I tried to cut him some slack. But, hey, even if you do it nicely, the transgender kooks just can't handle disagreement any better than they can handle rejection. Mr. Taylor went off the deep end because he found out he can't demand that lesbians have sex with him... I mean, after all, just because he has a penis is no reason for a woman, who prefers women, to reject him.
Oh, and no, I am not mad "because [he] got the first 'Mr.' in..." And no, we never had the same mindset. He was delusional, and clearly was never a transsexual.
And things are getting more interesting... My daughter called me back after getting the grandkids to bed, and we spent some time figuring out how someone found that old site. They had to have searched through Facebook to find her. I have my Facebook privacy setting on the highest level, just for the purpose of preventing people from bothering me and my friends. They had to have looked for anyone who might be related to me.
On top of that, Mr. "Autumn" Sandeen posted a comment, an unwelcome comment, on her old journal page. As she put it, "What he did is just....creepy." Then, in what has to be one of the most idiotic moves that fool has ever made, he sent me a friend request on Facebook.
Friday, July 5, 2013
How Low Can He Go?
Well, like a true bully, Mr. "Cristan" Williams is at it again, still trying to go after Victoria A. Brownworth, not because she actually did anything wrong, but because she is "a self-identifed radical feminist" who recognizes the reality that Mr. Williams, and his ilk has no business trying to force himself on lesbians.
First he goes after her because of her response to a transgender motorcycle gang who have threatened her. Oh, but according to Mr. Williams, the letter was "respectful." He really hasn't a clue...
He then actually went so far as to try to have her prosecuted for the article she wrote five years ago that he has been harping on. Mr. Williams really does not take disagreement well at all.
Fortunately, the authorities in Philadelphia has declined to do Mr. Williams dirty work.
First he goes after her because of her response to a transgender motorcycle gang who have threatened her. Oh, but according to Mr. Williams, the letter was "respectful." He really hasn't a clue...
He then actually went so far as to try to have her prosecuted for the article she wrote five years ago that he has been harping on. Mr. Williams really does not take disagreement well at all.
Fortunately, the authorities in Philadelphia has declined to do Mr. Williams dirty work.
Friday, May 31, 2013
True Colors
Sometimes you just have to have a good laugh at transgender extremists who don't have a clue how they really come across, or who try to make excuses if they do get a clue. The latest, and greatest such example is "Autumn" Sandeen. Yes, I write a lot about Mr. Sandeen, but dog gone it, he is just the gift that keeps on giving. He is the poster boy for transgender cluelessness. And he very often shows his "true colors" as they say...
I mean, I think, in Mr. Sandeen's mind, he sees himself as a perfect vision of feminine perfection. In reality, he is a bad joke. His clothing choices are laughable, he apparently has a serious hat fetish, and he really can't seem to grasp that his prancing around in a women's naval uniform is seen as a joke.
But his "apology" for acting exactly like what he really is, a man, is really just too much. Here, from Cathy Brennan, in inescapable detail, is what Mr. Sandeen felt he needed to "apologize" for:
Cathy Brennan sums it up very well:
A comment at Gender Trender puts it very well....
I mean, I think, in Mr. Sandeen's mind, he sees himself as a perfect vision of feminine perfection. In reality, he is a bad joke. His clothing choices are laughable, he apparently has a serious hat fetish, and he really can't seem to grasp that his prancing around in a women's naval uniform is seen as a joke.
But his "apology" for acting exactly like what he really is, a man, is really just too much. Here, from Cathy Brennan, in inescapable detail, is what Mr. Sandeen felt he needed to "apologize" for:
Exhibit #1: AUTUMN SANDEEN
Autumn Sandeen uses Violent Man speak towards women. GenderTrender published an exchange between Autumn and GallusMag that highlights this tactic.
AS: Oh please, Cathy. Send me a current email address and I’ll email you my documentation showing I know who you are, coward. … You are a full-on coward.Now, call me a prude, but I admit, I modified some of the language. I doubt it will take much imagination to figure out that the two missing letters are "uc" but unlike Mr. Sandeen, I don't care for such language.
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AS: Again, you live up to the label of coward. You won’t out yourself like bugbrennan & I have. What a loser you’ve proven yrself 2b. Seriously “Gallus”, you are such a freaking coward. Brennan and I have outed ourselves- What’s wrong with you? Afraid, girl?
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AS: I can’t put up or shut up if you won’t send me an email, you f**king coward. Email me, & I’ll show you.
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AS: Jesus Cathy, you are such a f**king loser/coward. …
AS: email me f**kwad. Prove I’m wrong via email. I’ll publicly admit if I am. You? You’re pretty much a f**king fearful coward.
Cathy Brennan sums it up very well:
Dear Transwomen: The whole “coward” thing is so, so, so Male… like… dude, you can’t punk Females… especially if they were not in the military where that kind of name calling constantly puts your Manhood in question. You are creepy.I've actually been on the receiving end of that same sort of rhetoric. Mr. "Cristan" Williams is actually engaged in EXACTLY what Mr. Sandeen is apologizing for, minus, perhaps the more salty language, but with the same attempts to "punk" Gallus Mag into a debate. And on the EXACT SAME web site where Mr. Sandeen has posted his, uh, "apology." And, it is a classic, lame excuse as is typical of a violent man...
I could make excuses about my behavior relating what was going on in my brick-and-mortar world that had nothing to do with GallusMag that were negatively impacting my life, as well as make excuses regarding how GallusMag’s and Cathy Brennan’s past behavior could justify my inappropriate language and behavior. But, I won’t. Basically, I just failed to live up to my own standards that I learned in reading the words of Martin Luther King Jr....Yes, he "could" make excuses....and oh wait, he did... If he didn't want to hide behind such classic dodges as "I had a bad day..." and "You made me get angry..." then why even mention them at all? As someone who grew up in a household with an abusive father, who caused my mother to have to seek medical treatment more than once, I have heard it all. It was never "really" his fault. It was, "I had a bad day at work..." or "You pushed, and pushed, and pushed...until I couldn't take it any more...." I grew up worrying that the slightest thing might trigger him into explosive rage. And yes, I was the target on occasion as well.
A comment at Gender Trender puts it very well....
michelle Says:
May 31, 2013 at 12:38 am
Just like a man…offer a half-assed apology while, in the same breath, basically claiming to have been goaded into being an asshole. And THAT, “Autumn,” is yet another example of why you and your type will never be anything BUT male…Then, again, I am still waiting for an apology from Mr. Sandeen for his repeated attempts to cyber-stalk me.... Oh well. I'm not holding my breath.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
When Extremist Kooks Collide...
I've been kind of busy the last week or so...I had a major project I was involved in, and it took up quite a bit of my time, and besides, there hasn't been much of interest to write about. I mean, after a while, it becomes kind of dreary just pointing out that kooks like "Autumn" Sandeen, or Suzan Cooke are posting the same repetitive dribble. Cooke is still trying to relive her glory days as a radical wannabe from the Sixties, and Sandeen...well, he has spent the past week trumpeting the fact that he did something transsexuals have done for some time, actually, apparently lying and claiming he has pulled off some major victory as the first to get his idea changed. Granted, Sandeen may be the first to fraudulently claim to have had SRS in order to effect such a change.
But one rather amusing bit has turned up on "Cristan" Williams' blog Ehipassiko, which is named for one of the six "supreme qualities" of the Teaching of the Buddha. The idea is that one should come and see for their self, and put it to the test. Of course, that is rather ironic, as Mr. Williams' blog is centered on him telling you what to believe, and attacking anyone who disagrees.
Anyway, Mr. Williams' latest obsession centers around what has come to be labeled "TERFs," and acronym for "Trans Exclusive Radical Feminists." This is used to refer to the relatively tiny group of extremist lesbian-separatists who follow in the footsteps of Janice Raymond, who wrote the largely forgotten (except among the transgender kooks) book, "The Transsexual Empire." Raymond's book falls into the category of kooky conspiracy theory, basically putting forward the idea that "transsexualism" is part of a conspiracy to subvert feminism and that transsexuals symbolically rape women's bodies by acquiring one of their own. In short, it is the sort of silliness that might get some attention within a very small, very radical, dark corner of academia, but which would go largely unnoticed by most.
But for the transgender extremists, who insist that gender and sex are matters of choice, and can be switched about on a whim, the so-called "TERFs" are a major issue. Apparently, it especially galls the "male lesbian" crowd that a group of extremist lesbians absolutely despise them.
In this most recent post, we see Mr. Williams at his most boorishness. In his typically macho style, he tries to goad his adversary, a radical feminist who uses the screen name GallusMag into debating him:
If you actually possesses the courage of your convictions, I’ll gladly public debate you live on a Google Hangout so that everyone can enjoy watching you display your own special view of reality. Let’s debate the criticisms that you’ve failed to actually address. If you feel that you need to advantage yourself by publicly hiding during the debate, you could always use an avatar on camera while I own my public words with my real identity. Debate me live so that all your supporters can watch you articulate your points in that very special way you’re known for. Be their champion, GallusMag.But, Mr. Williams does not stop there....
Will you fail to live up to your supposed convictions and if so, I wonder what excuse you’ll use that will be most pleasing to your audience. Will you pretend that rejecting my challenge is the radically feminist to do because debates are somehow male-centric? Maybe you’ll say that you’re too offended by my open challenge. Maybe you’ll pretend that the reason you’re backing out is a lack of trust, logistics or any other reason you can think of that will allow you to save face while you abandon your supposed convictions. Maybe you’ll just pretend to ignore this debate challenge.This is typical of Mr. Williams. He loves to goad his opponents. Of course, if they do give in, and agree to debate him, he then tries every dirty trick he can think of to advance his cause through logical fallacies. In this case, he goes so far as to agree to not accuse his opponent of "hate" if they debate. But I am sure he has plenty of other ad hominem attacks at the ready.
The real kicker is Mr. Williams' little timer he is using to taunt:
So far, GallusMag has been ducking an honest debate about transgenderism for 2 days 2 minutes 25 seconds.On Williams' site, it is slowly ticking away, in a silly, and rather childish attempt to bully GallusMag into a confrontation. That is what makes Mr. Williams such a clown. He actually seems to think this is how women act. And then he complains when the radical feminists call him on his totally male behavior. And it would be a miracle if Mr. Williams actually engaged in an honest debate. He tends to pull out every dishonest logical fallacy in the book.
Seriously, only a man could come ups with something like:
My debate invitation will remain open to you. If at some point you work up the courage to stand firm upon your convictions and face me live (even if you have to hide behind an avatar to do it), I’ll be happy to allow you to prove just how clever you believe yourself to be. Think of it. You’ll get to hide behind a fake face and fake identity while publicly putting me in my place in front of a live audience – all while I’m forced to own my words, actions and views by publicly debating you live.
What have you got to lose, GallusMag? So, how about it?Seriously, what a clueless twit Mr. Williams is to actually go online and taunt a woman... How very butch of him.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Here We Go Again...
You know, some men just can't take a hint... Others, well they can't take slap to the face, a knee to the groin, and a shove out the door... Well, granted, in the case of a eunuch, a knee to the groin is kind of irrelevant....
A bit over two years ago, Mr. "Autumn" Sandeen took on Ashley Love and viciously attacked her. He was pretty widely trashed by many, including even Suzan Cooke who was just beginning to cozy up to the transgender extremists even going so far as to refer to Sandeen's actions as cyberbulling (hmmm, where have we heard that before?). He responded with a rather arrogant post entitled "Why Transgender Activism?" I responded with one entitled "Why Not Transgender Activism?" Well, Mr. Sandeen has again shown his true nature, and is looking kind of foolish. And, well, he has resurrected that same load of crap...
If you want to see a response to his silliness, click on the link above and you can read what I wrote then. It still stands, and I am not going to waste bandwidth cutting and pasting the whole thing here.
But I would point out one simple fact.... Mr. Sandeen does admit that transgender is "sociopolitical." Put another way, it is pretty much imaginary. It is not rooted in reality. Males like Sandeen are not, and will never be, women.
As I have pointed out, the entire transgender paradigm is built on a logical fallacy. And this logical contradiction is born out, again and again by the writings of various extremists. For example, in another article on Transadvocate, the ever racist Mr. "Monica" Roberts put up an entire post predicated on the very idea refuted by Aunty Orthodox...
Mr. Roberts also wants to ignore the inner voice of common sense that keeps telling him to face reality...
In another post, while claiming to defend transgender people against "transphobic tropes" Mr. Roberts links to a post that actually shows a logical paradox that renders the transgender paradigm invalid:
If gender is merely a choice, then there is no basis for a medical diagnosis of transsexualism, we should all respond to being "talked out of it," and if that doesn't work, harsher measures are possibly warranted. Oh dear.... Mr. Roberts just validated the behavior that Mr. "Cristan" Williams posted about. If you can choose your gender, then they should be able to beat the sissy out of one. Whoops...
Just to be clear, this person, while engaging in a contradictory claim, really is claiming that he can simply choose to be a woman:
And again, just to drive home what this person is saying...
I will repeat again, what I said then...
A bit over two years ago, Mr. "Autumn" Sandeen took on Ashley Love and viciously attacked her. He was pretty widely trashed by many, including even Suzan Cooke who was just beginning to cozy up to the transgender extremists even going so far as to refer to Sandeen's actions as cyberbulling (hmmm, where have we heard that before?). He responded with a rather arrogant post entitled "Why Transgender Activism?" I responded with one entitled "Why Not Transgender Activism?" Well, Mr. Sandeen has again shown his true nature, and is looking kind of foolish. And, well, he has resurrected that same load of crap...
If you want to see a response to his silliness, click on the link above and you can read what I wrote then. It still stands, and I am not going to waste bandwidth cutting and pasting the whole thing here.
But I would point out one simple fact.... Mr. Sandeen does admit that transgender is "sociopolitical." Put another way, it is pretty much imaginary. It is not rooted in reality. Males like Sandeen are not, and will never be, women.
As I have pointed out, the entire transgender paradigm is built on a logical fallacy. And this logical contradiction is born out, again and again by the writings of various extremists. For example, in another article on Transadvocate, the ever racist Mr. "Monica" Roberts put up an entire post predicated on the very idea refuted by Aunty Orthodox...
Only you should have the power to determine your self identity and you must zealously defend it. When others do it for you either because they did so by force or you ceded that power to do so willingly, you not only aren’t going to like what they come up with, but you don’t have the power to control and define your own humanity.This sounds very grand, and noble, and such until you really think about it. If I decide that my self identity is President of the United States, should I be able to take over running the country? No, and while that is an extreme example, it is the logical extension of a fallacy. You can call yourself whatever you want, but that does not give you the right to impose your delusions on others. Mr. Roberts can call himself a "black woman," but he remains a man, and he has no right to force others to see him as what he is not.
Mr. Roberts also wants to ignore the inner voice of common sense that keeps telling him to face reality...
But we can’t forget the work we still need to do between our ears to permanently banish the unholy trinity of shame, guilt and fear from our lives. That starts with us never forgetting that we must fight and decisively win the battle for self determination of our own identity and remember as we engage in that just battle, we have the moral high ground when we do so.While one can become mired in false shame, fear and guilt, it should not simply be banished. It should be examined, weighed, and if valid, heeded. There is often a valid reason we feel guilty, and if we fail to learn from our mistakes, we will repeat them.
In another post, while claiming to defend transgender people against "transphobic tropes" Mr. Roberts links to a post that actually shows a logical paradox that renders the transgender paradigm invalid:
I’m going to start with the biggie – that trans people are “really” a [whatever gender you were assigned at birth.]
This is the belief that however we identify, whatever we do to our bodies, we will always really be the gender we were born as. It is irrelevant how trans people feel about ourselves, or how we look, or how we are received by the people in our lives.Okay, so the person who wrote this is claiming that transgender people can change their gender. Okay, let's take this as valid for a moment. According to this person, gender is a choice. You can choose to self-identify as a woman. Well, that takes us back to the logical fallacy which has been refuted. And while it really does no harm to the transgender kooks (who are fighting for an invalid cause anyway) this would do serious harm to transsexuals, who, again, are the victims of the transgender extremists.
You are, supposedly, one gender once and forever. It’s immutable, and whilst you can change the outside shell, you cannot change the inside.
If gender is merely a choice, then there is no basis for a medical diagnosis of transsexualism, we should all respond to being "talked out of it," and if that doesn't work, harsher measures are possibly warranted. Oh dear.... Mr. Roberts just validated the behavior that Mr. "Cristan" Williams posted about. If you can choose your gender, then they should be able to beat the sissy out of one. Whoops...
Just to be clear, this person, while engaging in a contradictory claim, really is claiming that he can simply choose to be a woman:
It’s nevertheless tremendously effective, because it appeals to a cis-sexist biology (one that ignores the tremendous gender variation across nature … see Joan Roughgarden’s Evolution’s Rainbow for more on this) as a way of legitimating denying trans experience.Actually, it is this fool who is ignoring the tremendous gender variation across nature. Animals do not choose to self-define when they show behavior that is not typical for their sex. It is because gender is hard-wired and is immutable. And sometimes it is hard wired at odds with the sex. A person can choose to vary their gender expression, and that can be at odds with their gender, but that is chosen behavior, and while it can be subject to protection from government interference, it is not a basis for protection against supposed discrimination.
It denies us the capacity to grow, change, to self-define, to have agency of our bodies and our lives. It denies our identities.
And again, just to drive home what this person is saying...
Well, I am a woman, because I say I am. Because that’s how I feel. Because I live my life as a woman. Because I am seen, by those who aren’t blinded by the “really” a man argument, as a woman. There might be a biological basis to my transness, but it’s ultimately irrelevant to me.In another words, a delusion is reality. One is not a woman, because one says one is. That is the false basis for transgender, and that is what this person has to fall back on. And if one is only "seen as a woman" by people who buy into your delusion, then, well, it is a delusion. I am seen as a woman by people who don't agree with transsexualism. They don't know to not see me as a woman. Now, if I choose to cease being a woman, and become a "trans" then their view might change. But then, I am a woman, not a political fiction.
I will repeat again, what I said then...
Will transgender extremists like Mr. Sandeen that the hint? Will they stop trying to speak for transsexuals and insisting that they are working for our rights? I doubt it. They need transsexuals to hide behind. They try to claim to be transsexual in order to advance their extremist agenda, failing to recognize the damage they do. They have done nothing to actually advance our cause, and much to harm it.Maybe one of these days, but clearly, not soon enough...
Ideally, the whole transgender fad would fade. But that won't happen soon enough. In the meantime, they will continue to cause harm to women, both transsexuals, and those born women.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Mr. Sandeen is Cyber-bullying Again
Just a few days after a whiny response to a comment where he claims he has been depressed because he was the victim of "cyberharrassment" Mr. "Autumn" Sandeen is up to his old tricks. This is a behavior he regularly engages in. Now, in accordance with his wishes, I will not quote the rather hilarious email he sent me, but I will also not allow his behavior to go unreported.
Simply put, and I guess who could blame him, he objects to the photo I posted of him. And he made a demand that I remove the photo, which he now tries to claim as copyrighted. Unfortunately for him, he had no such notice on the photo. And even more absurdly, he tries to claim that failure to remove the photo will be taken by him as permission to post copyrighted material from this blog. Such an "assumption" is, totally laughable. Does he really think that such lame threats are going to intimidate me?
And, he further threatened that "quoting" his email would be taken as granting permission to do the same, as well as quoting from other sources, and posting private information about me including photos that were stolen. Unlike the photo I used, which he himself posted, the photo he threatens to use have been mostly posted without my permission. In another words, Mr. Sandeen intends to do what a very vicious cyberstalker engaged in. Another completely ignorant threat. And very possibly illegal. While legally, he has no leg to stand on if I did choose to quote the actual email, I am not going to because it would be considered a violation of netiquette. But legally, I could do so, and he would have no recourse.
I will simply remind Mr. Sandeen that this website carries a very specific copyright notice. He would be wise not to violate it. I don't take kindly to men trying to bully me, or any other woman.
UPDATE: Mr. Sandeen sent me another email, in which he pointed out that the article was "Copyright, the Huntington Post." I simply pointed out to him that he is not the Huntington Post. He further threatens to engage in the same behavior as anonymous cyberstalker (well, anonymous only to a point...I know exactly who it is, but they hide behind anonymous remailers when posting, so I cannot pursue legal action). Stay tuned, this could get interesting. As I pointed out to Sandeen, I don' take kindly to men who try to bully women.
UPDATE #2: I did a bit of poking around after seeing a comment on LGBT Weekly about Sandeen's bullying of Cathy Brennan. It is quite true. The man seems to have no comprehension of how he comes across (not really unusual in transgender men like Sandeen). He has a history of badgering Ms. Brennan. I would find much to disagree her own, but I would never attempt to bully her like Mr. Sandeen does. He has made numerous attempts to force her into emailing him, and such. Mr. Sandeen has no concept of how many women see men, especially women who have had some traumatic experience with a man. I don't know Ms. Brennan's history, but it does appear that Mr. Sandeen could show a bit more sensitivity in some areas, though again, expecting such from an obviously aggressive man is probably a waste of time.
Simply put, and I guess who could blame him, he objects to the photo I posted of him. And he made a demand that I remove the photo, which he now tries to claim as copyrighted. Unfortunately for him, he had no such notice on the photo. And even more absurdly, he tries to claim that failure to remove the photo will be taken by him as permission to post copyrighted material from this blog. Such an "assumption" is, totally laughable. Does he really think that such lame threats are going to intimidate me?
And, he further threatened that "quoting" his email would be taken as granting permission to do the same, as well as quoting from other sources, and posting private information about me including photos that were stolen. Unlike the photo I used, which he himself posted, the photo he threatens to use have been mostly posted without my permission. In another words, Mr. Sandeen intends to do what a very vicious cyberstalker engaged in. Another completely ignorant threat. And very possibly illegal. While legally, he has no leg to stand on if I did choose to quote the actual email, I am not going to because it would be considered a violation of netiquette. But legally, I could do so, and he would have no recourse.
I will simply remind Mr. Sandeen that this website carries a very specific copyright notice. He would be wise not to violate it. I don't take kindly to men trying to bully me, or any other woman.
UPDATE: Mr. Sandeen sent me another email, in which he pointed out that the article was "Copyright, the Huntington Post." I simply pointed out to him that he is not the Huntington Post. He further threatens to engage in the same behavior as anonymous cyberstalker (well, anonymous only to a point...I know exactly who it is, but they hide behind anonymous remailers when posting, so I cannot pursue legal action). Stay tuned, this could get interesting. As I pointed out to Sandeen, I don' take kindly to men who try to bully women.
UPDATE #2: I did a bit of poking around after seeing a comment on LGBT Weekly about Sandeen's bullying of Cathy Brennan. It is quite true. The man seems to have no comprehension of how he comes across (not really unusual in transgender men like Sandeen). He has a history of badgering Ms. Brennan. I would find much to disagree her own, but I would never attempt to bully her like Mr. Sandeen does. He has made numerous attempts to force her into emailing him, and such. Mr. Sandeen has no concept of how many women see men, especially women who have had some traumatic experience with a man. I don't know Ms. Brennan's history, but it does appear that Mr. Sandeen could show a bit more sensitivity in some areas, though again, expecting such from an obviously aggressive man is probably a waste of time.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Should Little Bobby Be Allowed To Be A Girl Scout?
The latest round of transgender insanity comes from Colorado where a seven year-old male asked to join a Girl Scout troop, and was initially denied. Bobby Montoya appears to identify as a girl, and is allowed to dress as one by his mother.
Now, this issue hit home for me. When I was around 10, I too wanted to join the Girl Scouts. Of course, at the time, it was completely out of the question. I did borrow my friend's Girl Scout Handbooks, and pretty much devoured everything in it. I dreamed of being allowed to be a Girl Scout, and even had a membership card that I found in a friend's basement. His mother had been a troop leader, and she had dumped a bunch of stuff there.
Now, I think it is wonderful that the Girl Scouts are willing to be more open-minded these days, but I think there need to be some limits on this sort of thing as well. It is not clear from the articles that I have read whether Bobby actually identifies as a girl, or if he identifies as a boy who wants to be a girl. His mother refers to him with male pronouns, and he has a male name.
And, in fact, it appears there are some such limits. Here is the statement from the Girl Scouts of Colorado:
It appears that Bobby dresses as a girl, and is allowed to engage in girlish behavior, but it is also clear that he, and his parents, are presenting him as a boy. While, of course, in such a case it would be prudent and proper that the troop leader and other adults be informed that the child is transsexual, I would expect that a child in such a circumstance would be effectively stealth. This is clearly not the case here. Stories have, for example, reported on Bobby being bullied at school.
If this child actually identifies as a girl, and actually wishes to be a girl, then why is he, and his family, not making an actual effort to allow him to live as such? Why is his situation so well known?
This is the transgender extremist's dirty little secret. It is really not about being who they claim to be. It is about being a male who is presenting as a female. It is about subverting gender, it is about transgressing societal norms, and it is about forcing themselves on others.
If one claims to be a woman, or a girl, then one should be that. And if one is a transgender, then one should simply accept that one is at odds with the majority of society, and accept that people are going to wish to set reasonable limitations. Bobby, and his family, do not have a right to disrupt a Girl Scout troop, just so he can play dress up. If he wants to be a Girl Scout, then he needs to be a girl first, not a boy playing so bizarre game of make believe.
Now, this issue hit home for me. When I was around 10, I too wanted to join the Girl Scouts. Of course, at the time, it was completely out of the question. I did borrow my friend's Girl Scout Handbooks, and pretty much devoured everything in it. I dreamed of being allowed to be a Girl Scout, and even had a membership card that I found in a friend's basement. His mother had been a troop leader, and she had dumped a bunch of stuff there.
Now, I think it is wonderful that the Girl Scouts are willing to be more open-minded these days, but I think there need to be some limits on this sort of thing as well. It is not clear from the articles that I have read whether Bobby actually identifies as a girl, or if he identifies as a boy who wants to be a girl. His mother refers to him with male pronouns, and he has a male name.
And, in fact, it appears there are some such limits. Here is the statement from the Girl Scouts of Colorado:
“Girl Scouts is an inclusive organization and we accept all girls in Kindergarten through 12th grade as members. If a child identifies as a girl and the child’s family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout. Our requests for support of transgender kids have grown, and Girl Scouts of Colorado is working to best support these children, their families and the volunteers who serve them. In this case, an associate delivering our program was not aware of our approach. She contacted her supervisor, who immediately began working with the family to get the child involved and supported in Girl Scouts.”The key point here is, "presents her as a girl." While I would disagree with the use of the term "transgender," this is a reasonable start to a sane policy. What I am concerned about is the entire way this case has been handled. It appears the mother is more interested in pushing an agenda than in what is right for both Bobby and the Girl Scouts that will be affected by this whole mess.
It appears that Bobby dresses as a girl, and is allowed to engage in girlish behavior, but it is also clear that he, and his parents, are presenting him as a boy. While, of course, in such a case it would be prudent and proper that the troop leader and other adults be informed that the child is transsexual, I would expect that a child in such a circumstance would be effectively stealth. This is clearly not the case here. Stories have, for example, reported on Bobby being bullied at school.
If this child actually identifies as a girl, and actually wishes to be a girl, then why is he, and his family, not making an actual effort to allow him to live as such? Why is his situation so well known?
This is the transgender extremist's dirty little secret. It is really not about being who they claim to be. It is about being a male who is presenting as a female. It is about subverting gender, it is about transgressing societal norms, and it is about forcing themselves on others.
If one claims to be a woman, or a girl, then one should be that. And if one is a transgender, then one should simply accept that one is at odds with the majority of society, and accept that people are going to wish to set reasonable limitations. Bobby, and his family, do not have a right to disrupt a Girl Scout troop, just so he can play dress up. If he wants to be a Girl Scout, then he needs to be a girl first, not a boy playing so bizarre game of make believe.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Bullied to Death?
Recently, the hot topic on the LGBT blogs has been the shocking number of teenagers who have committed suicide as a result of bullying. Of course, the focus has been on attempting to portray this as something caused by the "right wing." But there is a problem with that. Bullying is nothing new. I was bullied as a child, as I imagine almost every transsexual was. And I have been bullied as an adult. The biggest difference is that the bullies today are "cyber-bullies" and are easily ignored. A kill file is a wonderful thing. They continue to rant, and I never see them. On the rare occasion someone responds to them, and quotes them, I have learned that they want to imagine that I am really still reading their hatred, which only shows just how disturbed they really are. But I digress.
There is no denying that there has been a rash of suicides linked to bullying. And as I said above, the LGBT blogs have been largely trying to make it sound like this is the fault of the Right...that nebulous bogey man that includes anyone who dares disagree with even the most radical of the LGBT. But what is really going on?
I will be the first to admit, I don't know the specific reason for all of this. I will start by pointing out that it is not limited to LGBT youth. Suicides related to bullying have increased overall. It is not an LGBT problem. And I don't believe it is caused by an increase in bullying. Bullying has always existed, probably as long as humans have been around. So, why is there this increase in suicides?
It is something that needs to be studied. It is a well established fact that suicides often seem to happen in clusters. It can become something of, dare I say it, a fad. I remember reading of a rash of suicides in one institution that began with someone hanging their self on a certain coat hook. After a number of men followed suit, the hook was removed, and the suicides stopped. In a similar manner, as teenage suicides resulting from bullying become publicized, other teenagers will feel the need to follow suit. And the more it happens, the more it is likely to happen.
And that is scary, What is worse, is that the LGBT blogs will probably continue to fuel this phenomena, if only because they will see this as a means to attack those they oppose. I fear that things will get far worse before they get better...and that is only if they get better. There have been a few attempts to fight back, but they have been rather weak. The scary thing is, the victims become martyrs for a cause, and this may even encourage others to see suicide as not only the answer, but as sort of honorable act. It isn't. The honorable act would be to stand up to the bullies and refuse to give in, And worse, the bullies don't seem to be shamed by causing someone's death. There have been cases where they even showed up at funerals to gloat.
Something very disturbing is going on. The most extreme of the LGBT blogs are trying to use the deaths of teenagers by suicide as a club to beat up anyone who disagrees with them. Somewhat predictably, Suzan Cooke has attempted to rewrite the past and claim that when she started her blog she "laid down the law to the 'HBS/Classic Transsexual; that their name calling wouldn’t be permitted on this blog." Never mind that we started her blog she tried to identify with the "HBS/Classic Transsexual." It was only after it became obvious that Cooke had become an apologist for the worst of the gender fascists that the "HBS/Classic Transsexual" began to reject her extremist positions and that she suddenly turned on those she used to align with.
Oh, and never mind that Cooke as been known to bully people quite a bit. I recall her attacking one post-op as a "skin transvestite" because that person stayed with her wife. That, apparently, was before Cooke took up with another post-op and was reborn as a long-time lesbian. But again, I digress.
Bullying happens on both sides of the political spectrum. And the term "bully" is often used as a club word. If they don't like it when someone speaks the truth, they just call that person a "bully." That way they can avoid dealing with facts. And sometimes the people quickest to call another a bully are the true bullies. I know of one well known net-kook, who has threatened me with being "outed," and who has even made actual attempts to cause me real harm off the Internet, who loves to scream bully when I stand up to him. And this same kook has gone after a number of others.
No, something is going on. And it is probably going to get worse. Part of the reason it will get worse is because others will try to take advantage of it. Part of the reason is because there are some real problems that need to be addressed. And part of the reason is simply that these things have to run their course.
I don't really have the answer. I do know it will have to involve teaching kids that suicide is not the answer. I know it will have to do with changing values. And I know that the answer, strange as it may seem, will not be to, to silence the bullies. First off, that won't work...and any attempt might make things worse, and second, as I said, there have always been bullies. Something else is going on.
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