‘Gluten Free’ Is A Microaggression

More evidence that the weenification of America is continuing on schedule … check out this news item from Entrepreneur.com.

Perhaps an indication that gluten-free has reached peak cultural saturation, late last year Zara tried to capitalize on the trend. Via black capital letters on a white-crop top, the retailer inquired: “Are You Gluten Free?”

I wasn’t familiar with Zara before a co-worker alerted me to the article. Apparently it’s a company that produces t-shirts. Here’s the t-shirt in question:

I’ll bet your first thought when seeing that shirt was something along the lines of HOW DARE YOU MAKE LIGHT OF A SERIOUS CONDITION LIKE CELIAC DISEASE, YOU CALLOUS, INSENSITIVE BASTARDS!!

No? You mean you just figured it’s a shirt that promotes a gluten-free diet? Well, that’s because you’re not a weenie. But America is chock-full of weenies these days, so here’s what happened when the shirt was promoted:

The T-shirt, as many a T-shirt has done before, drew polarizing reactions. While some shoppers, a few of whom said they had celiac disease, embraced the shirt, others felt Zara was making light of a serious disorder.

If you’re a partial weenie, you might decide (illogically) that the shirt is making light of a serious disorder! and respond by not buying one. Here’s how a full-blown weenie responds:

One consumer was upset enough to start a change.org petition, which received 53,000 signatures. “The truth is that I just wanted Zara to reflect on the message, I was trying to explain that perhaps it wasn’t the best way to make people aware of the illness,” she told The Local.

Yup, that’s the full-blown weenie mindset in action:  I’m offended because I chose to interpret the message to mean something offensive. And now that I feel offended, I don’t want anyone else to buy that shirt – because it offends me. No message that I find offensive should ever be displayed in public.  So let’s start a petition to get this shirt off the market.

She got her wish. Zara’s parent company said the crop top would no longer be sold online or in stores. “We sincerely regret that this case might be interpreted as a trivialization of celiac disease, the absolute opposite of our intentions,” the company said in a statement.

Great. As so often happens these days, the company responded to a weenie attack by caving – thus acting like weenies themselves.

I’m about to go on a political/cultural rant here, so those of you who get all upset when I express such opinions might want to avert your eyes … although you should probably keep reading, because if you’re that easily upset, you’re a weenie and need some de-weenification. Either way, consider this your trigger warning. If you haven’t retreated to your safe space by the next paragraph, you have no one to blame but yourself.

Still here? Okay, then.

Let’s review the words printed on the shirt: ARE YOU GLUTEN FREE?

It’s a simple question. Lots of people avoid gluten these days whether they have celiac disease or not. It’s like asking ARE YOU SUGAR FREE? or ARE YOU PALEO?

So what’s offensive about it? Nothing. But that’s what makes weenies such weenies: they constantly feel offended and victimized – usually by people who had no intention of offending them. Thanks to the takeover of college faculties by the loony left, we even have an entire generation being trained to feel offended at every turn.

If I have a foreign accent and you ask where I’m from, you’ve committed a “microaggression,” according to campus guidelines written by loony-left administrators. You’ve “other-ized” me or something horrible like that. It’s perfectly okay for me to be proud of an ethnic heritage that makes me different, but if YOU notice I’m different, I’m entitled to be offended – like a good little weenie.

Here’s a hot-off-the-presses example of how weenified college students are becoming:

Students at Emory University claim they were frightened and ‘in pain’ after someone wrote ‘Trump 2016’ in chalk around campus.

Officials at the Atlanta school, which has an enrollment of more than 14,000, were forced to act after the youngsters claimed their ‘safe space’ was violated when the messages of ‘hate’ appeared on sidewalks and buildings.

One student even said she ‘feared for her life’ as she thought a ‘KKK rally’ was going on, while others were scared a mass shooting was going to take place and wouldn’t walk alone.

Someone scrawls a candidate’s name on a sidewalk, and college students — legal adults — think it’s a hate message and a violation of their safe space.  They want someone prosecuted.  Way to prepare those college kids for the real world, college administrators.  ISIS and other terrorist groups must be laughing their asses off and licking their chops.

The weenie takeover of college campuses is so complete, comedians like Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock refuse to perform at colleges anymore – because they can’t crack a joke about anything without all the weenies in the audience deciding they’re offended.

I remember a comedian I worked with in Chicago cracking a joke about his hair – or lack thereof, since he was rapidly balding:

I think your hairstyle should make a statement. Mine says “chemotherapy.”

That line got a laugh back then. Today there would probably be a stunned silence, followed by some weenie yelling, “Cancer isn’t funny, you insensitive bastard!”

Weenies like to think of themselves as sensitive, caring types. They’re not. What they actually are is profoundly self-centered.  The weenie attitude is the ultimate “it’s all about me-me-me!” attitude.  You have to be self-centered to believe you’re endowed with a divine right to go through life without being offended — even by people who intended no offense. You have to be self-centered to expect everyone else in the world to know what words or phrases you might find offensive (good luck with that, since the loony left keeps expanding the list) and then censor themselves accordingly.  You have to be self-centered to demand that a company stop selling a shirt others may want to buy because YOU interpret it as offensive.

The person who ran out and started a change.org petition because she decided ARE YOU GLUTEN FREE? is somehow making light of celiac disease is exactly that kind of weenie. So are the 53,000 people who signed the petition. Unfortunately, the loony left won’t be happy until nearly everyone in the country has been properly weenified. I say “nearly” because they’ll want to keep a few non-weenified people around to say things the weenies can find offensive. After all, being offended is what makes them feel important.

So with that rant out of the way, I’ll tie this in with diet, since this is a diet and health blog.

I’ve been going through interview footage for the film version of the book. Three people who work with kids – Dr. Ann Childers, Nora Gedgaudas, and Dr. Brad Hoopengarner – all talked about how diet affects mood and personality. Take a kid who’s overly anxious or easily upset, remove all the sugars, refined grains and industrial seed oils, start feeding him real foods with plenty of natural fats, and there’s a good chance you’ll see a personality change.

As Dr. Hoopengarner said in some footage I watched last night, the kids who switch to a real-food diet are happier and less anxious, they concentrate better in school, they get along better with other kids, and they don’t get upset over little things.

So perhaps part of the successful weenification of America is due to all the processed junk in the American diet.  Perhaps that’s part of the reason we have so many people in adult bodies exhibiting the emotional maturity of toddlers.

When people get upset and want to force a company to stop selling a t-shirt because they decide ARE YOU GLUTEN FREE? is offensive, something is seriously wrong … which means they probably need to go gluten free.

Gosh, I hope that suggestion doesn’t offend anyone.


If you enjoy my posts, please consider a small donation to the Fat Head Kids GoFundMe campaign.
Share

125 thoughts on “‘Gluten Free’ Is A Microaggression

  1. j

    Even weenies probably wish they werent associated with these people. Weenies I dont think go out of their way to be confrontational and/or draw attention to themselves…
    Maybe..cry baby weenie hybrid?

    Wonder if a petition against a shirt that read ‘Are you meat free?’ would garner so many signatures or offend meat eaters.

    “When people get upset and want to force a company to stop selling a t-shirt…something is seriously wrong..”

    At the same time it’s the company that caved in to the demands.. I guess they were worried about their bottom line over integrity.

    1. j

      “Students at Emory University claim they were frightened and ‘in pain’ after someone wrote ‘Trump 2016′”

      I bet they’d be way more frightened if what was happening in EU was happening here..in fact, I bet theyd be begging for a wall.

      1. Tom Naughton

        I certainly wouldn’t count on the weenies to come to anyone’s defense when the terrorists strike here. They’ll be too busy looking for a safe space.

    2. Tom Naughton

      We have different definitions of a weenie. The weenies who fit my definition absolutely love to call attention to themselves and tell everyone how hurt and victimized they feel. It’s what makes them feel important.

      Yes, I wish the company had shown some backbone and laughed off the petition.

      1. Jennifer Snow

        Emotions are their stock-in-trade. Your value as a person, in their view, is entirely dictated by how you feel about things. More feelings = superior person. The dumber the stuff you feel about, the more superior of a person you are.

        This is what happens when a culture adopts a value system based not on anything rational (like what you DO), but on the completely irrational.

  2. Jeff

    Can we move all the weenies to somewhere with lots of space – Wyoming maybe? – so us adults can go about our business?

    And if you live in Wyoming and the above offended you just imagine the money you’ll save in moving costs!

    Seriously, I’ve often wondered what would happen if we could actually start a new republic, like our founders intended, somewhere. A land where people are responsible for their own actions, aren’t easily offended, willingly help out their neighbors (who they may not even like) when times get tough and just generally work hard and settle their differences respectably?

    A guy can dream, right?

    1. Tom Naughton

      In all seriousness, I think we’d all be better off if the U.S. split into two countries. Right now it’s like a bad marriage. We have the libs, who are convinced the key to a great society is more government, more taxes, spending more of other people’s money and constantly writing new laws to tell business owners how to run their businesses. Then we have the other half (more or less) who would like to be left alone and perhaps even live in a free country. The differences are irreconcilable, and elections are decided by the “moderate” nitwits who don’t know what the hell they actually believe.

      So I say let the libs have their own country where they can tax and regulate and spend to their heart’s content without opposition from us. It will, of course, be a nirvana. The rest of us will live in a free country where government protects us against those who would take our lives, liberty or property and then leaves us alone, as Jefferson wanted. Yes, our free country will be a hellhole without The Anointed telling us how to live, but we’ll deal with it.

      1. Kevin

        Tom:

        I was planning on sending you an e-mail about this since I thought it would interest you, and I thought it was too ‘political’ for a nutrition blog comment, but since you’ve pretty much gone there and others may be interested in it as well…

        I believe the most reasonable and viable solution to the problem is a Convention of States per Article V of the US Constitution, which is the ‘backdoor’ that our Founders left for the People to address the type of situation we are currently in, especially since we all know that nationally elected representatives aren’t going to put limits on themselves. There is one already in progress, having been started by Michael Farris, who previously started the very successful Home School Legal Defense Fund:

        http://www.conventionofstates.com

        Note that 6 states, including Tennessee, have already passed resolutions based on the same subject…a template of the resolution is here:

        https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/conventionofstates/pages/1846/attachments/original/1455799493/Application-for-a-Convention-of-States-v.5_COSACTION.pdf?1455799493

        The great thing about it is that it should help to address some the root causes of many of the problems we tend to complain about, without having to split up the country.

        1. Tom Naughton

          I understand what they’re trying to do. But I’d still like to see the 45% or so who want big-government solutions to everything have their own country. Let ’em put all those Grand Plans into action without opposition from us — and therefore without imposing the plans on us.

      2. Joe

        I sincerely think it’s possible that it could happen one day. At some point, our economic policies are going to completely bankrupt this country and the world economy along with it. When that point comes, people will probably be ready for radical change. The left-wing loons will fight it and the right-wing neocons will hate to lose their control but they won’t have many options left at that point.

      3. Joe

        What would be hilarious is seeing the reaction of the libs and the “freeloaders” when most of the producers go to the “free” half. Also, I love the idea of an Article 5 convention even though I doubt it would do much. The only amendment I could see passing is term limits because state delegates would love to have open seats available lol. But for me, the best part about a state convention would be watching the Feds sweat knowing they have absolutely no power whatsoever to stop anything…some things are just priceless in life.

    2. Lori Miller

      My parents are from Wyoming–where the license plate has a picture of a cowboy–and I can’t imagine a place less likely to want any weenies, except maybe Alaska. All comers should just keep going west until they get to the left coast. That is, if they can stand the sight of oil wells and cattle across the West without hyperventilating.

      1. Tom Naughton

        Bingo. Let ’em all move to California. It’s already run by the weenie crowd.

  3. Mark

    Like, oh my god, I am, like, so triggered right now. I can’t even…. if it wasn’t for my Vegan diet and yoga pilates and cruelty-free spring water and my benefits from the government, I would be flipping out right now.

      1. Elenor

        ONLY if the safe space has videos of frolicking puppies! NO cats! Cats trigger me! And I want cookies and warm milk! (Oh! OH! VEGAN wheat-free cookies, and unsweetened almond milk, cause cow milk triggers me! And a soft blankie — I REALLY need a blankie!!

        And processing triggers me! No processing! You’re asking me to make sense of a thing that offends and hurts me! Why that’s ALMOST like asking me to ‘get over it’!

        Never mind — I just want to you be banned from this blog!

        (Ow. It really hurt my functioning brain to type that! But I’m not triggered, and I’ll stay in my computer room, thanks! Let me refer you again to
        the amazing book: “SJWs Always Lie” by Vox Day. Older Brother recommended it, too.)

        1. Tom Naughton

          I’m about 2/3 through it. I ordered it after you and The Older Brother recommended it.

        2. JillOz

          “cow milk triggers me!”

          Interesting. It just makes me bloat and raises my insulin levels. 😉

  4. j

    Even weenies probably wish they werent associated with these people. Weenies I dont think go out of their way to be confrontational and/or draw attention to themselves…
    Maybe..cry baby weenie hybrid?

    Wonder if a petition against a shirt that read ‘Are you meat free?’ would garner so many signatures or offend meat eaters.

    “When people get upset and want to force a company to stop selling a t-shirt…something is seriously wrong..”

    At the same time it’s the company that caved in to the demands.. I guess they were worried about their bottom line over integrity.

    1. j

      “Students at Emory University claim they were frightened and ‘in pain’ after someone wrote ‘Trump 2016′”

      I bet they’d be way more frightened if what was happening in EU was happening here..in fact, I bet theyd be begging for a wall.

      1. Tom Naughton Post author

        I certainly wouldn’t count on the weenies to come to anyone’s defense when the terrorists strike here. They’ll be too busy looking for a safe space.

    2. Tom Naughton Post author

      We have different definitions of a weenie. The weenies who fit my definition absolutely love to call attention to themselves and tell everyone how hurt and victimized they feel. It’s what makes them feel important.

      Yes, I wish the company had shown some backbone and laughed off the petition.

      1. Jennifer Snow

        Emotions are their stock-in-trade. Your value as a person, in their view, is entirely dictated by how you feel about things. More feelings = superior person. The dumber the stuff you feel about, the more superior of a person you are.

        This is what happens when a culture adopts a value system based not on anything rational (like what you DO), but on the completely irrational.

        1. Tom Naughton Post author

          Professor Stephen Hicks described it perfectly: their attitude isn’t “if it’s true, I’ll believe it.” Their attitude is “if I believe it, it’s true.”

          1. Jennifer Snow

            This always leaves a person with no criteria for deciding whether or not to believe something than “I feel it”.

  5. Tom Welsh

    “…others were scared a mass shooting was going to take place and wouldn’t walk alone”.

    Er, wouldn’t that just make a shooter’s job much easier? “Oh look, a dense mass of targets all walking close together!”

    Sorry for using logic, which is certainly offensive to many.

    1. Tom Naughton

      By applying logic here, I believe you’ve committed a microaggression and created a hostile environment not conducive to learning.

  6. Jeff

    Can we move all the weenies to somewhere with lots of space – Wyoming maybe? – so us adults can go about our business?

    And if you live in Wyoming and the above offended you just imagine the money you’ll save in moving costs!

    Seriously, I’ve often wondered what would happen if we could actually start a new republic, like our founders intended, somewhere. A land where people are responsible for their own actions, aren’t easily offended, willingly help out their neighbors (who they may not even like) when times get tough and just generally work hard and settle their differences respectably?

    A guy can dream, right?

    1. Tom Naughton Post author

      In all seriousness, I think we’d all be better off if the U.S. split into two countries. Right now it’s like a bad marriage. We have the libs, who are convinced the key to a great society is more government, more taxes, spending more of other people’s money and constantly writing new laws to tell business owners how to run their businesses. Then we have the other half (more or less) who would like to be left alone and perhaps even live in a free country. The differences are irreconcilable, and elections are decided by the “moderate” nitwits who don’t know what the hell they actually believe.

      So I say let the libs have their own country where they can tax and regulate and spend to their heart’s content without opposition from us. It will, of course, be a nirvana. The rest of us will live in a free country where government protects us against those who would take our lives, liberty or property and then leaves us alone, as Jefferson wanted. Yes, our free country will be a hellhole without The Anointed telling us how to live, but we’ll deal with it.

      1. Kevin

        Tom:

        I was planning on sending you an e-mail about this since I thought it would interest you, and I thought it was too ‘political’ for a nutrition blog comment, but since you’ve pretty much gone there and others may be interested in it as well…

        I believe the most reasonable and viable solution to the problem is a Convention of States per Article V of the US Constitution, which is the ‘backdoor’ that our Founders left for the People to address the type of situation we are currently in, especially since we all know that nationally elected representatives aren’t going to put limits on themselves. There is one already in progress, having been started by Michael Farris, who previously started the very successful Home School Legal Defense Fund:

        http://www.conventionofstates.com

        Note that 6 states, including Tennessee, have already passed resolutions based on the same subject…a template of the resolution is here:

        https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/conventionofstates/pages/1846/attachments/original/1455799493/Application-for-a-Convention-of-States-v.5_COSACTION.pdf?1455799493

        The great thing about it is that it should help to address some the root causes of many of the problems we tend to complain about, without having to split up the country.

        1. Tom Naughton Post author

          I understand what they’re trying to do. But I’d still like to see the 45% or so who want big-government solutions to everything have their own country. Let ’em put all those Grand Plans into action without opposition from us — and therefore without imposing the plans on us.

          1. Kevin

            I’m definitely with you on that ‘separate country’ solution, but until that happens, I think COS is a good interim stopgap measure…part of the reason I don’t think the ‘separate country’ solution will work in this day and age, is that The Anointed want to impose their Grand Plans as far and wide as possible, so they will not be willing to let some of us get off scot free.

      2. Joe

        I sincerely think it’s possible that it could happen one day. At some point, our economic policies are going to completely bankrupt this country and the world economy along with it. When that point comes, people will probably be ready for radical change. The left-wing loons will fight it and the right-wing neocons will hate to lose their control but they won’t have many options left at that point.

          1. Firebird

            Iceland did the sensible thing. They let the economy collapse. It took them three years to get back on track but then they did something really nice…they jailed the bankers.

      3. Joe

        What would be hilarious is seeing the reaction of the libs and the “freeloaders” when most of the producers go to the “free” half. Also, I love the idea of an Article 5 convention even though I doubt it would do much. The only amendment I could see passing is term limits because state delegates would love to have open seats available lol. But for me, the best part about a state convention would be watching the Feds sweat knowing they have absolutely no power whatsoever to stop anything…some things are just priceless in life.

        1. Tom Naughton Post author

          Well, according to the big-government lovers, their half of the country would be a nirvana because of all the taxes, spending, regulations and general do-goodery. So they needn’t worry about the producers abandoning them. Who would want to leave paradise?

    2. Lori Miller

      My parents are from Wyoming–where the license plate has a picture of a cowboy–and I can’t imagine a place less likely to want any weenies, except maybe Alaska. All comers should just keep going west until they get to the left coast. That is, if they can stand the sight of oil wells and cattle across the West without hyperventilating.

      1. Tom Naughton Post author

        Bingo. Let ’em all move to California. It’s already run by the weenie crowd.

          1. Tom Naughton Post author

            I thought the L.A. climate was perfect until I lived there for more than a few years. Than I began to seriously miss rainstorms, cloudy days, and winter.

  7. Mark

    Like, oh my god, I am, like, so triggered right now. I can’t even…. if it wasn’t for my Vegan diet and yoga pilates and cruelty-free spring water and my benefits from the government, I would be flipping out right now.

      1. Elenor

        ONLY if the safe space has videos of frolicking puppies! NO cats! Cats trigger me! And I want cookies and warm milk! (Oh! OH! VEGAN wheat-free cookies, and unsweetened almond milk, cause cow milk triggers me! And a soft blankie — I REALLY need a blankie!!

        And processing triggers me! No processing! You’re asking me to make sense of a thing that offends and hurts me! Why that’s ALMOST like asking me to ‘get over it’!

        Never mind — I just want to you be banned from this blog!

        (Ow. It really hurt my functioning brain to type that! But I’m not triggered, and I’ll stay in my computer room, thanks! Let me refer you again to
        the amazing book: “SJWs Always Lie” by Vox Day. Older Brother recommended it, too.)

        1. Tom Naughton Post author

          I’m about 2/3 through it. I ordered it after you and The Older Brother recommended it.

        2. JillOz

          “cow milk triggers me!”

          Interesting. It just makes me bloat and raises my insulin levels. 😉

  8. Andrea

    I just want to add something here. Talking about Celiac like it’s a horrible, serious medical condition is just silly.
    I have Celiac and it’s NOT that serious! If you just don’t eat the stuff that makes you sick, you’ll be fine. And anyway, the most sensitive Celiac will not die from eating a cracker, or even a foot-long sub. You’ll be bloated, headachy, your nose will be stuffed up, and you will probably have some acute form of intestinal distress, but it will not kill you.

    1. Scott

      It will kill you but, it can take a long time, and you won’t be enjoying your life while it is happening. You’re right though, as long as you stay gluten free it isn’t much of a disease; in a way, it’s actually a blessing.

    2. Cindy C

      Well Andrea,

      Celiac disease may make you wish you were dead, especially if not diagnosed, Acute, long lasting chronic pain,(migraine, intestinal, muscle or nerve pain) or depression may not respond to medication, and you cannot take it any more and kill yourself, or the medication itself may kill you. From what I have read, and perhaps you have too, that celiac sufferers die sooner than those without, even if they stick to a gluten free diet. The body may not ever completely heal from years of damage.

      http://www.celiac.com/articles/23738/1/Six-Ways-Celiac-Disease-Can-Kill-You/Page1.html

  9. Tom Welsh

    “…others were scared a mass shooting was going to take place and wouldn’t walk alone”.

    Er, wouldn’t that just make a shooter’s job much easier? “Oh look, a dense mass of targets all walking close together!”

    Sorry for using logic, which is certainly offensive to many.

    1. Tom Naughton Post author

      By applying logic here, I believe you’ve committed a microaggression and created a hostile environment not conducive to learning.

  10. Onlooker

    Righteous rant, Tom! It really gets dispiriting seeing this PC nonsense run totally amok. And you can even see it infect the rest of society outside of the left, where it started. There’s a tendency for everybody to strive for victimhood status and to be the aggrieved one, instead of arguing facts and logic. It’s truly pernicious.

    The good thing I’ve seen is that there’s a push back from a segment of the moderate left that just may be poised to stomp out the worst of it. Of course there’s also a lack of self-awareness there that this arose from the environment that they encouraged. See the work of Dave Rubin and the push against the Regressive Left.

    1. Tom Naughton

      I was pleased to see Kirstin Powers (a Democrat who worked for Bill Clinton) write an excellent book on the topic. I agree; the moderate left needs to stamp this out and purge the loons.

  11. Angel

    Quite frankly, my first reaction to hearing about those fearful students wasn’t that loony left academics tell the students they are entitled to never be offended, it was the students’ helicopter parents. I don’t know to what extent the phenomena of loony lefties and helicopter parents are related, but it sounds like it makes for an academic experience devoid of intellectual growth.

    1. Tom Naughton

      I don’t think it’s the parents. These policies about trigger warnings, microaggressions and safe spaces are being written and enforced by college administrators.

    1. Tom Naughton Post author

      We can hope. But for now, the two major parties dominate and neither is libertarian. Change will happen when a true libertarian party manages to crack the two-party monopoly.

      1. Scott Burgess

        The problem with that, in my not so humble opinion, is that true libertarians so firmly do not believe in big government, that they don’t run for offices. Sort of a Catch 22 that means you’ll never see a libertarian party strong enough to take the presidency.

          1. Walter Bushell

            Or they get elected and are seduced by POWER!. Remember the Republicans who ran promising to only stay for one term and are still in congress? I call to mind the Donald Duck cartoon where Donald gets mad at a neighbor playing a trumpet loudly and badly and the gods grant him Power. The god soon regret as Donald abuses the Power wurst.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkIrdmY3GlQ

          1. j

            Right, hes riding the ticket but the party cant control him…nor do special interests for that matter. People are tired of the puppet cogs of the establishment on both sides..thats why theyre flocking to Trump.

    1. JillOz

      I knew a guy who goes ballistic if someone – especially a woman, because he’s what he calls a “masculine man” – calls him stupid.

      He can be factual and logical. He is also one of the most emotional people I’ve ever met, who rejects facts and logic from other people when he doesn’t agree with them via ranting, not letting them speak, and shouting in their face – and the awful thing is that because he doesn’t listen he argues on the basis of something that wasn’t even said!
      He is a Christian conservative and hates Marxists who use the tactics he duplicates when he gets aggressive.

      Many people like that abound, not just in Weenie World Unfortunately.

  12. Firebird

    I just smacked her in the face on Twitter. She deserves more but I don’t want to offend anyone who thinks that it is physical abuse.

  13. Andrea

    I just want to add something here. Talking about Celiac like it’s a horrible, serious medical condition is just silly.
    I have Celiac and it’s NOT that serious! If you just don’t eat the stuff that makes you sick, you’ll be fine. And anyway, the most sensitive Celiac will not die from eating a cracker, or even a foot-long sub. You’ll be bloated, headachy, your nose will be stuffed up, and you will probably have some acute form of intestinal distress, but it will not kill you.

    1. Scott

      It will kill you but, it can take a long time, and you won’t be enjoying your life while it is happening. You’re right though, as long as you stay gluten free it isn’t much of a disease; in a way, it’s actually a blessing.

    2. Cindy C

      Well Andrea,

      Celiac disease may make you wish you were dead, especially if not diagnosed, Acute, long lasting chronic pain,(migraine, intestinal, muscle or nerve pain) or depression may not respond to medication, and you cannot take it any more and kill yourself, or the medication itself may kill you. From what I have read, and perhaps you have too, that celiac sufferers die sooner than those without, even if they stick to a gluten free diet. The body may not ever completely heal from years of damage.

      http://www.celiac.com/articles/23738/1/Six-Ways-Celiac-Disease-Can-Kill-You/Page1.html

      1. Jo

        They’ll be behind the corporate lawyers who sue the pants of anyone daring to use a copyrighted word. I had t-shirts with the word Paleo on. Apparently that’s copyrighted so they took them down.

  14. Onlooker

    Righteous rant, Tom! It really gets dispiriting seeing this PC nonsense run totally amok. And you can even see it infect the rest of society outside of the left, where it started. There’s a tendency for everybody to strive for victimhood status and to be the aggrieved one, instead of arguing facts and logic. It’s truly pernicious.

    The good thing I’ve seen is that there’s a push back from a segment of the moderate left that just may be poised to stomp out the worst of it. Of course there’s also a lack of self-awareness there that this arose from the environment that they encouraged. See the work of Dave Rubin and the push against the Regressive Left.

    1. Tom Naughton Post author

      I was pleased to see Kirstin Powers (a Democrat who worked for Bill Clinton) write an excellent book on the topic. I agree; the moderate left needs to stamp this out and purge the loons.

  15. Angel

    Quite frankly, my first reaction to hearing about those fearful students wasn’t that loony left academics tell the students they are entitled to never be offended, it was the students’ helicopter parents. I don’t know to what extent the phenomena of loony lefties and helicopter parents are related, but it sounds like it makes for an academic experience devoid of intellectual growth.

    1. Tom Naughton Post author

      I don’t think it’s the parents. These policies about trigger warnings, microaggressions and safe spaces are being written and enforced by college administrators.

    1. JillOz

      I knew a guy who goes ballistic if someone – especially a woman, because he’s what he calls a “masculine man” – calls him stupid.

      He can be factual and logical. He is also one of the most emotional people I’ve ever met, who rejects facts and logic from other people when he doesn’t agree with them via ranting, not letting them speak, and shouting in their face – and the awful thing is that because he doesn’t listen he argues on the basis of something that wasn’t even said!
      He is a Christian conservative and hates Marxists who use the tactics he duplicates when he gets aggressive.

      Many people like that abound, not just in Weenie World Unfortunately.

  16. Firebird

    I just smacked her in the face on Twitter. She deserves more but I don’t want to offend anyone who thinks that it is physical abuse.

    1. Firebird

      I posted a photo on my Facebook page of a home I lived in as a child and tagged a few of my friends that I knew in that town. I reminisced about my neighbors, one of whom fled to Canada in 1972 to avoid the draft. I referred to him as a draft dodger. I wasn’t criticizing the boy or putting him down. That is what they were called. Well, out of the woodwork comes a friend of a friend who tore into me. She told me that I should be more sensitive because Viet Nam was such a touchy subject and her brother, too, fled to Canada and that I should be more careful of what I say. My reply? I told her to F*&% off…it was my Facebook page, she wasn’t invited and I didn’t know her or her brother, and that I refuse to change how I write or what I post because somebody’s feelings MIGHT get hurt.

      Sheesh. Talk about a weenie with relish.

    1. Firebird

      I posted a photo on my Facebook page of a home I lived in as a child and tagged a few of my friends that I knew in that town. I reminisced about my neighbors, one of whom fled to Canada in 1972 to avoid the draft. I referred to him as a draft dodger. I wasn’t criticizing the boy or putting him down. That is what they were called. Well, out of the woodwork comes a friend of a friend who tore into me. She told me that I should be more sensitive because Viet Nam was such a touchy subject and her brother, too, fled to Canada and that I should be more careful of what I say. My reply? I told her to F*&% off…it was my Facebook page, she wasn’t invited and I didn’t know her or her brother, and that I refuse to change how I write or what I post because somebody’s feelings MIGHT get hurt.

      Sheesh. Talk about a weenie with relish.

    1. Tom Naughton Post author

      I saw that. I may even post about it. Fine example of the weenie attitude.

      1. Walter Bushell

        I wonder how many of the professional proponents of congenital nutritional folly are Paleo or low carb.

        OTOH, the anointed have reputations and income tied to the conventional folly, and it well understood amongst
        cult leaders of all types that if you can get someone to assert publicly something they know is absurd, you own them.

    2. JillOz

      No, they’re not.

      They say they do but they are advocacy groups for what they believe. They are pressure groups.

  17. Ulfric Douglas

    The only T-shirts I object to are the ones shouting FUCK.
    Sure, they mix up the letters a bit but someone shouting FUCK at me in the street deserves a ploating.

  18. Anonymous College Prof

    If you think this stuff is bad (and it is!), try sitting through a 2 or 3 hour department meeting at a university where people are SERIOUSLY discussing issues like this! My eyes and ears were bleeding by the time I could escape.

    The important topics that had to be covered: How to give trigger warnings in your class (I teach teachers–there aren’t any touchy subjects!); how to deal with offended students (and remember that some students are offended at having to use proper English grammar when writing papers because it’s a symbol of the white patriarchy or something); and the BIG topic of the day was what pronouns to use to avoid causing offense to any transgender students who may not yet be “out” (and obvious)…because asking someone what he/she/it prefers to be called is a microagression! The “solution” was to stop using any pronouns at all.

    You should’ve seen people twisting themselves into knots over that one!

    My contract ended and I’ve decided not to re-up…..it’s really hard being a critical thinker in academia….causes lots of headaches and bruising about the forehead. I’m only doing adjunct (part-time) teaching now because then I do not have to sit through ridiculous meetings where everyone is congratulating him/her/iz/fiz/piz/siz/thiz-self with how sensitive he/she/ie/fie/pie/sie/thie-self is.

    And the actual list of proposed “pronouns” was actually longer and even more ridiculous than the few above…..

    1. Tom Naughton

      Good grief, you must be extraordinarily patient. I wouldn’t last two minutes in a meeting like that before creating a hostile environment.

  19. Josh

    I bought three dozen of the shirts when they went onto the surplus pile, and handed them out at a Bernie Sanders rally. I now have three dozen girlfriends with a body that the above model.

    So? Whose the weenie now?

    1. Tom Naughton

      Clearly not you … although I wouldn’t want a girlfriend who attended a Bernie Sanders rally.

    2. j

      3 dozen BS GFs? Thats a whole lotta purple haired, tie-dye wearing hippies..
      Oops, generalizing..–it’s not generalizing if it’s true– Quiet!..wicked mind..

  20. Ulfric Douglas

    The only T-shirts I object to are the ones shouting FUCK.
    Sure, they mix up the letters a bit but someone shouting FUCK at me in the street deserves a ploating.

  21. Anonymous College Prof

    If you think this stuff is bad (and it is!), try sitting through a 2 or 3 hour department meeting at a university where people are SERIOUSLY discussing issues like this! My eyes and ears were bleeding by the time I could escape.

    The important topics that had to be covered: How to give trigger warnings in your class (I teach teachers–there aren’t any touchy subjects!); how to deal with offended students (and remember that some students are offended at having to use proper English grammar when writing papers because it’s a symbol of the white patriarchy or something); and the BIG topic of the day was what pronouns to use to avoid causing offense to any transgender students who may not yet be “out” (and obvious)…because asking someone what he/she/it prefers to be called is a microagression! The “solution” was to stop using any pronouns at all.

    You should’ve seen people twisting themselves into knots over that one!

    My contract ended and I’ve decided not to re-up…..it’s really hard being a critical thinker in academia….causes lots of headaches and bruising about the forehead. I’m only doing adjunct (part-time) teaching now because then I do not have to sit through ridiculous meetings where everyone is congratulating him/her/iz/fiz/piz/siz/thiz-self with how sensitive he/she/ie/fie/pie/sie/thie-self is.

    And the actual list of proposed “pronouns” was actually longer and even more ridiculous than the few above…..

    1. Tom Naughton Post author

      Good grief, you must be extraordinarily patient. I wouldn’t last two minutes in a meeting like that before creating a hostile environment.

  22. Josh

    I bought three dozen of the shirts when they went onto the surplus pile, and handed them out at a Bernie Sanders rally. I now have three dozen girlfriends with a body that the above model.

    So? Whose the weenie now?

    1. Tom Naughton Post author

      Clearly not you … although I wouldn’t want a girlfriend who attended a Bernie Sanders rally.

    2. j

      3 dozen BS GFs? Thats a whole lotta purple haired, tie-dye wearing hippies..
      Oops, generalizing..–it’s not generalizing if it’s true– Quiet!..wicked mind..

    1. Tom Naughton Post author

      Yup, but they’ve been far less successful at taking over colleges and other organizations.

  23. Ben Fury

    As usual, someone decided to hype the story to make a point. Their point, right or wrong.
    http://www.snopes.com/emory-students-trump-graffiti/

    The weeniefication of the graffiti reaction was actually an exaggeration. They had some loony right wing student on Fox to testify to it, and he hemmed and hawed and wouldn’t give a straight answer… because he’s one of the weenies who made up the most inflammatory nonsense that the loony left supposedly did.

    If it ain’t lefty loonies, it’s righty loonies. I think we need a deloonification here. Perhaps it’s time to make “Logical Basis of Hypothesis Testing in Scientific Research” a required course for all freshmen? I’m sure basic deductive logic will bounce right off some of them, but at least the rest will have some tools to defend themselves from the next moron that grabs up a megaphone, and starts spouting off about the latest loony theory of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

    1. Tom Naughton Post author

      It’s a relief to learn that the college weenification campaign (which is real) isn’t quite so effective as the original reports suggest — yet.

  24. PK

    Though I agree with you, at the very least it wasn’t the government banning them from selling the t-shirt. Technically the free market worked, even if we both agree the uproar over the shirt is silly.

Comments are closed.