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In Old Joe Biden’s America, you can’t celebrate the great outdoors or do much of anything, really, unless you’re prepared to burn incense to the left’s gods. You may think that your activity has nothing whatsoever to do with the left’s nasty little obsessions over deviance, delusion, and perversity, but think again, peasant: you either play along or you don’t play at all.
That’s how things work in authoritarian regimes, and if you think Old Joe’s regime is not authoritarian and respects the parameters of a free society, you simply haven’t been paying attention. Now even the venerable guide to the great wide world, National Geographic, has fallen into line.
The venerable 136-year-old publication took a fabulous step into the Brave New World when it added a mustachioed drag queen named Wyn Wylie, who prances around in women’s clothes under the name “Pattie Gonia,” to its list of “Travelers of the Year.” This was not the first time National Geographic has paid obeisance to woke sensibilities: as Mark Tapson noted at FrontPage, back in 2017, it put a nine-year-old boy who claimed to be a girl on its cover, for a story celebrating what it called the “Gender Revolution.” Delusion would have been more apt but would have run the old magazine afoul of our new cultural masters.
National Review reported Thursday that Wyn Wylie/Pattie Gonia describes himself as an “intersectional environmentalist, drag queen, and advocate for inclusivity in the outdoors.” He dedicates himself to efforts to “uplift LGBTQIA+ people and other underrepresented groups in the outdoors.” Wylie is so underrepresented that he has over 600,000 social media followers and is celebrated as a hero in National Geographic.
Here yet again we see it: the people who have the real power in society today are those who claim to be marginalized and to be the victims of racism and bigotry. And the people who are really marginalized in society are the people who are supposedly perpetrating the marginalization of those in power.
If LGBTQIA+EIEIO people are “underrepresented groups in the outdoors,” it’s not because some homophobic Bull Connor is holding slavering German shepherds at the ready should a poor little drag queen venture onto a hiking trail. It’s because drag queens and their pals are often more interested in things one generally does indoors (you know, like grooming children). If they’re “underrepresented” outdoors, it’s by their own choice.
Nevertheless, the valiant Pattie Gonia is pushing back against this imaginary marginalization, and being hailed as a hero for doing so by more corporate entities than just National Geographic. Last year, he made a video for North Face’s “Summer of Pride” campaign.
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Pluto says
I thought that ‘travellers’ are a group of travelling people of Irish descent, travelling around the US, Great Brittain, Ireland and parts of the continent. I’ve assisted some once (I won’t say with what), but they certainly didn’t look like transvestite Indians to me… Well, must be getting old. But for God’s sake don’t expose your children to these freakos.
Statler says
Is this guy’s name really ‘Willie’?
Ernie says
“Pattie Gonia”, he is all fake / pretender , and a voluntary/willing pervert . A culture , a “civilization” celebrating these perversions is self destructing . I’m not tolerant of this evil / rot .
࿗Infidel࿘ says
When I was young – this was during the 80s & 90s, I used to enjoy National Georgraphics. While a lot of the articles were about really esoteric subjects, every now and then, there would be fascinating topics that they would cover. It’s totally changed this century, when the articles they do have nothing to do w/ Geography, & everything to do w/ wokeness, be it politics, religion, sociology and the rest
I’m glad that their print edition has gone out of business: hopefully, their online version doesn’t get much traffic either
Keith O says
How sad is it that a cross dresser gets to be named “traveller of the year” simply to appease a bunch of mentally ill people?
From The Other Side of Town says
Neither sociopathy nor being a lemming is about mental illness. Please do not malign people suffering with severe brain illness (ex: schizophrenia), they already suffer enough as it is.
James Lincoln says
From The Other Side of Town,
Sometimes it’s a close call when calling someone “mentally ill”.
Diagnoses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, etc., are definitely within the wheelhouse of “mentally ill”. At least, all of the well-controlled patients that I have treated with these diagnoses – in conjunction with a psychiatrist – have been well controlled – and nonviolent.
Gender dysphoria / transgender “used to be” considered a mental illness. The World Health Organization – perhaps because of politics – no longer considers these individuals to be mentally ill. I personally take issue with that. Most transgender people are harmless to others – and may be very nice people – but I believe that they are harboring an underlying mental illness.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/20/transgender-not-mental-illness-world-health-organization/717758002/
On the other end of the spectrum, you have people with bona fide “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” These people are very easily triggered – and can be violent. Some – but not all – of them are truly mentally ill, the majority are just very confused.
Keith O says
Thanks James, you pretty much summed up what my reply to other side of town was shaping up to be.
James Lincoln says
Thanks for your reply, Keith O.
Best wishes.
Transmaster says
Why do these LBQTERXZSKLOBNVVTY. Sex #67 through #73 have to look like a Rapala crankbait.
OLD GUY says
Hell a fish wouldn’t even bite that crap.
Ginny says
Guess we’re not shopping The North Face any more. Let them go the way of Bud.