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Post by Askel McThurkill on Mar 30, 2021 11:06:28 GMT
I know that students can live in straightened circumstances, but I would hate to think any female fellow student of mine (or male student, for that matter) was compelled to engage in prostitution for economic or other reasons. Rumours that some lecturers awarded higher grades for sexual favours was bad enough. But if this initiative in the University of Leicester is a sign of coming things, I wonder how long it will be before we are denouncing this from a height: unherd.com/thepost/why-are-universities-so-keen-to-support-prostitution/?mc_cid=0b5d47a57f&mc_eid=b0870864c7
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Post by hibernicus on Mar 31, 2021 1:38:28 GMT
I'm sorry to say that this has been a thing for years and that it's even worse in the US. Another example of the overlap of free-market libertarianism and leftie political correctness (note the increasing occurrence of the description of prostitution as "sex work" in mainstream media, and the attempt to normalise the view that this is just as acceptable if not more so as stacking shelves). There is BTW one of the major dividing lines between feminists, with some arguing that it's a form of exploitation and those who support it are allying with pimps, while others claim that it's perfectly acceptable (indeed since the 60s at least there have been some feminists who argue it's the best form of male-female relations because it's purely transactional) and that its opponents are playing into the hands of religious fundamentalists.
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Post by hibernicus on Apr 18, 2021 22:52:19 GMT
BTW it's also related to the combination of managerial/marketised universities and the increased treatment of university degrees as ground-level employment requirements. Student indebtedness and poverty is a serious and growing problem. (It should also be noted that university centres, attracting large number of the economically precarious young - until c.1900 mostly male - have often been centres of prostitution, except that the students used the prostitutes rather than being prostitutes themselves.) The striking change is the replacement of hypocrisy by moral anomie and blankness. I remember a couple of decades ago Julie Burchill, of all people, published an article discussing how "non-judgmental" agony aunts often reacted to correspondents who detailed highly abusive and exploitative relations by taking an "everything goes if there's consent" attitude and refusing to face up to what this actually entailed.
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Post by Askel McThurkill on Sept 29, 2021 12:11:14 GMT
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Post by Askel McThurkill on Sept 29, 2021 12:45:30 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Sept 29, 2021 20:24:10 GMT
The transgender issue has rapidly attained such heights of lunacy that I am rapidly going from laughing at it to being ashamed to discuss it, especially with women. The number of dehumanising terms for the female body which the various commissars have devised is a depressing illustration of the human capacity to deny reality and to impose a new slavery under the name of freedom. BTW "No Terfs in Ireland" stickers are already appearing on the lampposts in central Dublin.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Oct 12, 2021 15:05:23 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Oct 13, 2021 22:25:55 GMT
An elderly relative yesterday asked me how it would be possible for parents to teach their children that fornication is wrong when the government is now encouraging it by providing women aged 17-25 with contraceptives free of charge in the new Budget. I had to explain that this was the point - our society has undergone a transfiguration of values in which Christian teaching on sexual matters is positively rejected as impossible, encouraging cruelty by Pharisaic hypocrites and intended to exert social control by making people feel guilty, and promiscuity (provided it's consensual) is promoted as a means to personal fulfilment. The same budget, BTW, is making family formation even harder by extending tax individualisation. Really, I wonder what there will be left worth defending whenever the barbarians turn up.
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Post by jaykay on Oct 15, 2021 23:45:57 GMT
"our society has undergone a transfiguration of values"
It certainly has. I'm currently on a late-night commuter train with a crowd of our brightest and best hope (sarcasm off), all under the age of 25 and all drunk. The profanity and ignorant behaviour is depressing - and God knows I've been used to a pretty high level of it over my many years! The worst are, actually, the girls. And yet, the accents are relatively middle class - when they stop shrieking. And yet, they probably consider themselves "educated" - or what passes for our current education system would have them think so.
Lord knows, we weren't plaster saints (you can get them in antique shops these days) 40+ years ago but the level of uncivilised crudity, combined with expensive clothes and electronic accoutrements, and no sense of either self-awareness or self-moderation, says a lot about this country. In a bad way.
100 years on from 1921, here we are. We've had a transfiguration of values alright, but I think it's more a question of deformation.
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Post by hibernicus on Oct 20, 2021 21:32:12 GMT
Theodore Dalrymple likes to note the way in which certain sections of the middle class like to play at being lumpenproletariat. (This may not be completely new; in the C19 - and probably earlier - sections of the aristocracy liked to mix with the rougher classes to show they were too superior to bother with bourgeois respectability.) www.city-journal.org/html/what%E2%80%99s-wrong-twinkling-buttocks-12447.html
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Post by hibernicus on Jan 4, 2022 23:03:52 GMT
Although the link below discusses the phenomenon I wish to discuss in an American context, I have seen articles similar to the one discussed at the link in the IRISH TIMES. What we have is someone declaring that they had to get a divorce because although their spouse was perfectly benign and/or they had X number of children, they felt there must be something more in life and they needed to discover themselves/ experiment with others etc. (It tends to be women who write these articles. I suspect their male equivalents just do it without writing justifications.) Note the reference is not to people with abusive or unfaithful spouses, but those who just got bored. There have always been people who did this, but what is interesting is the transvaluation of values - the disappearance of the sense of duty or of a binding mutual obligation as having any force at all, the idea of self-fulfilment whatever the consequences as the highest good. the fact that such people feel a need to justify themselves may suggest a residual unease, but the point is that the terms in which they justify themselves would only have been preached (as distinct from practised) by small subcultures even a few decades ago. Note also that the changes in recent decades which Dreher has observed in rural Louisiana bear more resemblance to those in Ireland over the same period than to attitudes in metropolitan America, where attitudes relaxed earlier. www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/lucille-of-the-libs-marriage-honor-jones-divorce/
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Post by hibernicus on Mar 17, 2022 21:15:22 GMT
Note to readers - I only look at the takimag site for Theodore Dalrymple's column. In general this site is best avoided as some iffy so-called 'race realists' write for it. www.takimag.com/article/waste-of-ink/ In complaining about the rise of tattooing as a mass habit he cites an Irish writer (whom he does not name, but who is called Megan Nolan) who defends her tattoos on the grounds that they are an expression of chaos and "a means of undermining the sanctity of my body". In other words, she would rather desecrate her body with painful scribbles than consider it sacred, because if it's sacred then it's not really hers to (mis)use as she pleases (note Dalrymple's point that tattooing is in at least some cases a badge of antinomianism). This reminds me of certain other recent trends in Irish society. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/18/tattoos-mistake-melanie-phillips-sanctity-body
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Post by hibernicus on Mar 18, 2022 23:49:16 GMT
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Jul 27, 2022 10:35:20 GMT
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Sept 9, 2022 9:53:18 GMT
No doubt you are aware of the case of Enoch Burke, a teacher who was suspended from his position as a teacher in Wilson's Hospital, Multyfarnham, Co Westmeath (diocesan school of the Church of Ireland/Anglican diocese of Meath and Kildare). The problem began when Mr Burke refused to follow a direction to refer to a pupil of his as "they/them", as the pupil identified as transgender and was in the process of transitioning. Whereas I agree totally with Mr Burke's position and I think the suspension was incorrect and unjust, Mr Burke certainly didn't help himself by interrupting a service and haranguing the principal. He was injuncted from attending the school, but when he defied the injunction, he was imprisoned for contempt of court (this is one of the sanctions attached to an injunction, which is in the area known as equity).
I gather the Burke family has a history of this. They are home-schooled evangelicals from Co Mayo. Nothing wrong with their principals, but the way they go about asserting them can be problematic
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