{"id":64607,"date":"2017-09-29T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64607"},"modified":"2017-09-24T15:40:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T20:40:20","slug":"now-passing-looking-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64607","title":{"rendered":"Now Passing Looking Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The school bus company requires boys to sit on one side of the aisle, girls to sit on the other side, most likely the result of insurance company lawyers trying to avoid claims of inappropriate touching, sexual harassment or sexual assault occurring on the bus while under the driver\u2019s control which would make the school bus company likely to get sued for failing to protect the students.<br \/>\nTwo girls choose to sit on the boy\u2019s side of the bus and won\u2019t move back.\u00a0 The driver puts them off the bus.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/transgender-high-school-students-kicked-off-bus\/ar-AAsmyRc?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartandhp\">Outrage occurs because the girls claim to be pre-operative transgender boys<\/a>.\u00a0 They look like girls, they dress like girls, they act like girls, they flirt like girls . . . but in their secret innermost thoughts, for today anyway, they\u2019re boys.\u00a0 So asking them to sit on the girls\u2019 side of the bus is a hateful act of gender discrimination . . . which makes the bus company likely to get sued for failing to protect those students.<br \/>\nThus we see the problem with attempting to establish rules for ordering society based on subjective, secret, ever-changing and unverifiable criteria, rather than based on objective, obvious, easily established criteria.<br \/>\nJoe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What &#8220;duckspeak&#8221; is to language, our &#8220;elites'&#8221; current conception of &#8220;gender&#8221; is to biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The school bus company requires boys to sit on one side of the aisle, girls to sit on the other side, most likely the result of insurance company lawyers trying to avoid claims of inappropriate touching, sexual harassment or sexual assault occurring on the bus while under the driver\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,49,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-science","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64615,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64607\/revisions\/64615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}