The Post-Partisan Emporium

Decade at Bernie's in which endless hypersexualization trends toward complete sexlessness Chris Bray Here’s the image of sex itself, richly represented in its powerful feminine form: “Sexual liberation, our deceitful mirage, ends in lassitude and inertness,” Camille Paglia wrote. Well, yeah. Pump those hips at the stage a lot, ‘cause  pumping hips  is being  sexy . We’re nearing the moment when every new cultural artifact representing sexual behavior and identity manifests the tone and form of the strippers working near the airport on the Tuesday afternoon shift, chewing gum and watching the clock. Slip the culture a twenty, and it’ll bend over to give you a really good look at it. The metastasization of the  performative  thing implies the withering of the spontaneous and authentic thing that it aggressively playacts at resurrecting: We must be really sexy and liberated, ‘cause we publicly depict the  grinding of parts  a lot. We’re living the  Weekend at Bernie’s  of sex, and pre

LGBTQ+++© Police State: 'Trans Buddies' Now Assigned to Monitor Doctors for Transphobia Ben Bartee Big Non-Binary Brother is watching. Respecting The Science©, as we are trained to do, obviously requires that we place LGBTQ+++© Gestapo in every doctor’s office in America. Their job is to make sure bigoted doctors don’t slip up and practice medicine based on biological reality, because biology is transphobic, as is reality. Vanderbilt’s Pediatric Transgender Clinic practices The Science© by providing “ ev idence-based,  personalized gender-affirming care for transgender and gender-diverse children and adolescents ” — a fancy, rambling way to say “transing children.” And now it’s upped its game by inserting “Trans Buddies” into the doctor’s office. The  Trans Buddy Program’s mission statement  reads: “The Trans Buddy Program’s goal is to increase access to care and improve healthcare outcomes for transgender people by providing emotional support to transgender patients during hea