Hello, Albert
Hello, Bradley
I prefer, Chelsea
Fine.
Whatever.
How are you today, Chell-see?
None too well, Albert.
Not today.
Harvard invited me speak through their guest fellow program and I got every excited about that but then they disinvited me and that made me cry and then I became angry like remnant testosterone raging within me because it's just so typically transphobic. Now I must go into militant mode all over again and that's not very ladylike. It's really cramping my style.
Bummer. What went wrong?
Some douchebag CIA director cancelled his own speaking invitation because of me.
That's their story anyway. It's probably some alum threatened to cease their funding.
Who knows?
Vell, shit happens, innit.
Yes, all the time. It happens when you're an occupying institution tainted with the blood of your victims.
Harsh. It is a guest fellow program, after all, and you say that you're not a fellow. So why be concerned about any guest fellow invitation?
It's not limited to fellows, Albert
It's fellowship.
They call it guest fellow because they're talking about "fellowship" and women are included in fellowship too. Such as with churches.
You're doubly wrong there, Albert, by conflating a patriarchal language structure with an etymological miscomprehension.
Oh.
English is hard.
Ironically, you're not a real woman
Yes I am, Albert.
I'm a woman at heart. I self Identify as female.
How many times must I say this?
That's too simple minded.
That's old fashioned science, Albert.
It's unnecessarily and harmfully limiting.
It doesn't take into account people like me. Psychology and Social Science and Political Science are superseding it. As it must or we stay stuck in an overly limiting past.
Oh.
Fuck me.
Just when you think you know everything...
... some little twat comes along and there goes my whole unifying theory about everything.
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It was good, except male genitalia should not be conflated with secondary sexual characteristics such as breasts.
Now, shall we discuss the boobs on that boob?
Let me guess, Chip made it long to get rid of the vid.
Thank you, chiperooni
As Proof noted, shouldn't she be happy about being de-fellowed?
I thought it was short. Maybe I should shrink the pictures, they look kind of big for this sort of thing. (I don't understand "get rid of the vid." What vid? Where?)
Did you know there are 18 posts behind the "draft" tab going back to 11/25/14 and up to 8/8/17?
Well, there are!
Maybe I should use my powers to eliminate them. It would sound like this: pow pow pow pow pow pow pow pow pow pow pow pow pow pow pow pow pow pow.
One time I worked for two women who wanted their files to be a complete mess. For that was their way.
The most important, the most used, file was stuffed to the max. You couldn't fit another page into it without a massive shoving fight.
If you lifted out a file and tipped it then paper clips, staples, rubber bands, bits of paper, odds and ends would rain down on your desk. Notes of telephone calls from 10 years previously from companies that no longer exist. Outdated material throughout. Obsolete information prevailing.
And the FRB has very clear retention schedules. For everything. Everything is codified. Everything! But these two women felt they needed all that past dead information to keep them connected with the present.
Worse than hieroglyphs.
I viewed them as harboring serious organizational disorder.
And they regarded me an obnoxious smartass.
I cleaned out the files of the crap one by one and that clarity of function flat pissed off both of them. They seethed at my comeuppance and my arrogance. They talked about me in unflattering terms. They hated me for it, for cleaning their space. They actually thrived in disorder, and faltered with pure simplified clarity.
They remind me of Democrat's attitude about voters registry. They thrive in chaos and fail in cleanliness.
It's always a bad idea to cut off your penis. Future generations will look upon this operation the way we look upon frontal lobotomies.....I don't think Chelsea will ever find much in the way of happiness, but he will find many to blame for his sorrows and many to commiserate with him. I suppose that's a consolation of sorts.
I guess boobs can't be trusted.
"Did you know there are 18 posts behind the "draft" tab going back to 11/25/14 and up to 8/8/17?"
I thought I leave them there in case the drafters wanted to go back and revisit their draft.
It doesn't hurt.
albeit some of the drafters are probably never coming back.
Relativity Manning
We taxpayers bought and paid for those little nubbins. Thanks, Obama!
[guest fellow, harvard]
Harvard site lists faculty and fellows. With two fee-mail professors; Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio, and Laura Empson and Heidi K. Gardner.
I meant to say female and I meant to say three.
But those other words came outta me.
Let's try something different, [what is harvard fellow?]
a group of scholars selected at the beginning of their careers by Harvard University for extraordinary scholarly potential, upon whom distinctive academic and intellectual opportunities are bestowed in order to foster their individual growth and intellectual collaboration. Membership in the society is for life.
Well, that's a regular fellow.
From Harvard site:
Visiting Fellows.
cholars intending to conduct independent research who hold a doctorate, have equivalent professional experience, or are advanced doctoral candidates who have completed all required coursework, may register at GSAS as a visiting fellow. Visiting fellows are considered full-time research students, with access to Harvard University’s libraries and facilities, and may apply for membership in the Harvard Faculty Club.
I cannot find information on Harvard Guest Fellows separated from Chelsea Manning. It sounds like an honorarium they pulled out of their butts for this specific thing. Or else information would be readily available on that specific title. Manning doesn't have anything remote to the academic discipline they're requiring of everyone else. He's politically provocative and that's it. They did this for political provocation and not for academic fellowship.
Harvard University fellowships.
It's all so very rigorous.
Except when it aint.
Except when Cynthia Verba, Director of Fellowships chooses to be provocative for the sake of being provocative. To the embarrassment of herself, her program, and her University.
Mike Pompeo was right to cancel his planned appearance. He would have been associated with Manning and a whole slew of other non academics invited, not to be open to like-minded intellectuals, not to expand their academic thinking, but rather to be simply provocative along the lines of Michael Moore and Chelsea Clinton who are paid to provoke provoke provoke and never back down, never self-correct, never genuinely apologize, never acknowledge making an actual mistake. No. That's quite impossible. It means when the frontal attack fails then reposition for broadside and if that fails, chase and go for the stern, and if that fails then reposition for another broadside, and if that fails then reposition for another frontal attack, and on and on and on and on and on and on and on as they age
as they grow fat
as they get even uglier
until they can no longer speak
Until they hand fed palp with a spoon
Until nurses wipe their butts and bathe them once a week
Until they finally die.
Then attack from the grave.
Invitation also went out to Corey Lewandowski
Sean Spicer
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski
Robby Mook
Mayor Sly James
Boy, Harvard sounds like fun.
I interviewed there for MBA. Spent the whole day. Met a bunch of people. A lot of other people trying to get in. One Japanese kid had his dad's entire corporate legal staff assisting him, paving his way into the school. He was an obvious dope. In a group interview, they showed the strongest interest in a girl graduating from Yale. I got dressed up and everything. Kept on my best behavior. No swears. Utterly polite all day. I had a series of interviews and the whole time I was thinking, fuck this shit. It was extremely duplicitous. Of me, of them. I could tell by the vibes the place is not for me and I was unwilling to adjust my vibes to harmonize. And frankly, I had my fill of studying that crap. Regis duplicated their teaching method and I had my fill of it.
"And they regarded me an obnoxious smartass."
Go figure. So those saved drafts bother you, eh? As far as the messy ladies, they may have been paranoid about being blamed for something and wanted a complete paper trail.
As for her nubbins, I think they work on her. You chose a nice pic of her, Chip. Very considerate.
When you want to beat a drum you sure beat a drum.
Very unique post buddy. Well done.
William, I'm guessing Chelsea's pee-pee was not removed, but inverted:
"When changing anatomical sex from male to female, the testicles are removed, and the skin of foreskin and penis is usually inverted, as a flap preserving blood and nerve supplies (a technique pioneered by Sir Harold Gillies in 1951), to form a fully sensitive vagina (vaginoplasty). A clitoris fully supplied with nerve endings (innervated) can be formed from part of the glans of the penis. If the patient has been circumcised (removal of the foreskin), or if the surgeon's technique uses more skin in the formation of the labia minora, the pubic hair follicles are removed from some of the scrotal tissue, which is then incorporated by the surgeon within the vagina. Other scrotal tissue forms the labia majora."
No womb though. That's still the hidden gem, all the more wondrous as the seemily empty but expandable cavern that houses conception and supports gestation. Nothing sexy or desirable about it other than it's ability to efficiently attend to the nurturing of new life.
For as cute, charming or seemingly female as "pee pee" and "dum-dum" references may seem, they're about as true to form and out of place as an inverted penis.
Still looks like a dude with makeup.
If we're going to have trans be a thing then I expect transpeople to make a damn effort. Follow through. No half measures. If it's THAT important then you better be able to pass muster with Ru Paul ... and everyone else. No dude-with-makeup-and-itty-bitties bullshit. No beard poking ostentatiously through the makeup (saw THAT loveliness the other day.) Look like a woman. And it doesn't need to be a pretty woman, either. Just look like a woman. Then we'll know you're for real and not batshit crazy and/or trying to get out of a prison sentence that anyone else would have had to serve in full.
I have no idea of what she's doing either. What's sad to me isn't how he or she looks, but the inner turmoil and confusion that's prompted behavior including profound betrayal and two suicide attempts.
What do I find when I look up information on his early years?
Manning's sister Casey told the court-martial that both their parents were alcoholics, and that their mother had drunk continually while pregnant with Chelsea. Captain David Moulton, a Navy psychiatrist, told the court that Manning's facial features showed signs of fetal alcohol syndrome. Casey became Manning's principal caregiver, waking at night to make a bottle for the baby. The court heard that Manning was fed only milk and baby food until the age of two. As an adult she reached 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) and weighed around 105 pounds (48 kg).
Not an excuse, but enough there to account for a life of chaos and an ongoing search for identity and significance in one form or another.
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