The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Beware the “Autism Friendly City” Sinéad Murphy On 6th November, Dublin launched its Autism Friendly City plan in a bid to become the world’s  most autism friendly capital city . ‘It’s a really exciting day,’  Dublin’s Lord Mayor said.  ‘I do hope where Dublin leads, the rest of the country can follow also because it’s so, so important that we are inclusive and, at the moment, we still have a long way to go.’ Sixteen years ago, the French collective  The Invisible Committee  predicted that imperial expansion in the twenty-first century would rely on bringing into the fold those previously on the edges of Western societies: women, children and minorities. ‘Consumer society,’  they wrote,  ‘now seeks out its best supporters from among the marginalized elements of traditional society.’ The Invisible Committee summarized this latest phase of empire as ‘YoungGirl-ism’ – the strategic championing of young people, of women and of those disadvantaged by...

  Propaganda, Eugenics, Gender When illustrious leaders of the opposition cannot define what a woman is , you got to ask yourself, what the hell is going on? Why is all this overrated, X-rated smut being peddled from every direction? Have we really flooded school libraries with homoerotic books aimed at 6 year-olds? Whose idea was it to enshrine drag queen-story hour as a rite of passage? And since when was it acceptable for creeps with schoolgirl fetishes to have unsupervised, intimate conversations with our kids ? In any other time, it would be named indecent exposure or worse grooming. But not today. Self-indulgent narcissism is the gold standard of self-expression. The conversations people ought to be having with their therapist have become prime time debating points . It’s another day another carnivalesque parade of blokes in frocks swanning around social media , the creepier and more degenerate the content the more of an inalienable right it is to rub your ...