So, you’ve been working from home for a few days now and you’re not used to it. Maybe you usually work from home but now your kids’ schools have been closed and you don’t know what to do. Maybe both scenarios are now taking place for you.
Working from home, with or without kids, can be difficult, but thankfully there are enough people who have been through this (including myself) that can help you through this strange new world. One of the best sources for this information has come from The Federalist (where I also have a byline), but I’ll work in some of my own tips as well. This article will include two sections: Working from home without kids and working from home with kids.
Working From Home
Working from home can be tough if you’re not used to it. All your favorite stuff is there. It’s easy to get distracted without discipline. David Marcus has some <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/14/i-work-from-home-here-are-some-tips-to-make-it-easier/">great tips</a> for people who have no discipline, fortitude, or a solid work ethic (though the tips work for those who do as well).
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<li> Set Boundaries</li>
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Just because you are at home, does not mean you are at home. Conversely, just because you are working does not mean you must always work. Try establishing a routine with your family to know that between certain hours, or when you are in front of your computer, you are working and that must be respected. And when you’re done with work – be done with work.
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<li> Take Breaks</li>
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Taking short breaks can help keep you from going stir crazy and can help you focus. Marcus suggests going out for short walks. If that’s helpful to you, do it. If you’re like me, and leaving your computer except to get food or use the bathroom will destroy your focus, I suggest multiple, super short breaks spent in your workspace.
For me, I’ve found that the only way I can easily write five articles a day is to write a few sentences or paragraphs, and then play a few minutes of a mobile phone game. So many of these games have a time component to them, such as the matching games where if you fail five times, you either have to wait 30 minutes to play again or spend real-life money to continue. I find that playing the game (just one or two levels, typically) can be enough to get me motivated to work again.
It feels like this would make your workday longer, but I’ve found that it adds no additional time to my work schedule. All the time I would spend trying to force myself to keep writing – to the detriment of my article – is replaced by the game. It’s hard to explain why it works for me, but it might work for you too as a simple way to give your brain a break.
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<li> Keep Your Home Clean</li>
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Having a messy home can hurt your productivity because you find it difficult to concentrate when your house smells or there’s more trash lying about. Find time to keep your home and workspace clean, and you’ll have an easier time working from home.
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<li> Social Media</li>
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Marcus suspects using social media to stand in for the coworkers you typically chitchat with during the day. It’s the same kind of distraction for many people that the mobile game is for me – it doesn’t require a lot of concentration, but it’s enough of a distraction to give your brain a break to recharge.
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<li> Recreate Your Commute – To An Extent</li>
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Marcus suggests going through some of what you would do during your commute to the office, such as reading the paper or a book, listening to music, or stopping for coffee or breakfast. Marcus suggests taking 30 minutes before and after working to go through these rituals.
Working From Home With Kids
All the advice from above applies to those working from home with kids as well. In this section we will use advice from some moms who work from home and homeschoolers. The advice from this section comes from <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/16/14-strategies-for-working-from-home-around-children-without-endless-screen-time/">Joy</a> <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/14/6-step-quick-start-guide-to-substituting-for-your-kids-school-while-its-closed/">Pullman</a> and <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/16/5-simple-homeschool-secrets-to-lighten-your-coronavirus-quarantine/">Jayme Metzgar</a>.
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<li> Find What Motivates Your Child</li>
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Just, please don’t make food the motivation.
Pullman writes that children who are unmotivated to learn simply won’t learn no matter how good their teacher is, so “character training” may be the first step for them. She recommends several sources: “<a href="https://simplycharlottemason.com/store/laying-down-rails-charlotte-mason-habits/">Laying Down the Rails</a>,” by Sonya Shafer, “<a href="https://www.christianbook.com/tending-classic-stories-awaken-childs-imagination/vigen-guroian/9780195152647/pd/52646">Tending the Heart of Virtue</a>,” by Vigen Guroian, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Parenting-Love-Logic-Updated-Expanded/dp/1576839540">Parenting with Love and Logic</a>,” by Foster Cline, and “<a href="https://www.circeinstitute.org/store/books/mere-motherhood-morning-times-nursery-rhymes-my-journey-towards-sanctification">Mere Motherhood</a>,” by Cindy Rollins.
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<li> Find Quality Content For Lessons</li>
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Pullman describes “Morning Time” as one of the key elements in teaching from home:
<blockquote>Morning Time is where you collect the most soul-touching bits and pieces at the heart of a real education and place them all together in an hour or two each morning to start the day. Most families will read aloud at least one classic book during this time, sometimes while the listeners work a handicraft. Many also memorize scripture, hymns, folk songs, historical gems (such as the Gettysburg Address and Bill of Rights), and math facts. Other Morning Time ideas include studying great works of art and music, working through a grammar or math problem (and then following up with homework related to the demonstrated concept), and nature journaling.</blockquote>
Other than Morning Time, Pullman suggests the Core Knowledge Series’ “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/First-Grader-Needs-Revised-Updated/dp/0553392387/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3QLK3MAKF6CP6&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=what+your+kindergartener+needs+to+know&amp;qid=1584126556&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=what+your+kindergar%2Caps%2C238&amp;sr=1-3">What Your ___ Grader Needs to Know</a>.” She suggests using the pre-Common Core versions, which may cost a few dollars.
Hopefully the child’s school has provided lessons, but if not, the series mentioned above can be helpful.
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<li> Help With Weak Points</li>
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Perhaps your child is struggling in certain areas. Pullman suggests finding workbooks that target these weak areas – particularly in math – in order to get your kids on track.
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<li> Lead By Example</li>
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Show your child how to be organized and self-manage during this time. Show them through your actions how they should behave while working from home.
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<li> Have Them Read The Classics</li>
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Pullman explains how classical literature is better:
<blockquote>Classic literature is better, as it has more complex ideas and language and good fiction has been shown to develop character and interpersonal skills. Plus reading classic works will make your children conversant with their cultural heritage and the rest of the educated world.</blockquote>
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<li> ‘Detox’ Your Resistant Child From School</li>
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Pullman suggests using this opportunity to help students who are not doing well in school or hate it. Instead of Morning Time, read-aloud as a family, spend a lot of quality time together, and do the minimum required by the child’s school. It’s a way to give them a break from school without a complete break.
Pullman suggests family hobbies can also be useful, such as cooking, or sewing. She says this method can help students who feel incapable and lost at school.
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<li> The Day Doesn’t Have To Be Filled With Academics</li>
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Jayme Metzgar writes that one of the first things she tells new homeschoolers is that educating young children doesn’t take as much time as you think. Until fourth grade, she writes, her kids’ academic day didn’t last more than a couple hours.
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<li> “Make The World Your Classroom”</li>
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Metzgar suggests getting out of the house and experiencing things to facilitate learning, such as identifying birds or going on nature walks. She suggests building a small garden at home to teach your child about botany, or going to available historical sites. A number of museums around the world also offer online tours and virtual “field trips.”
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<li> Teach Life Skills</li>
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This goes along with Pullman’s suggestion about hobbies. Teach your child some basic life skills like planning meals, budgeting, changing a flat tire, and more.
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<li> Remember What You Did As A Kid Before The Internet</li>
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Some of us still remember a time when the Internet wasn’t what it was today and what we did to pass the time back then. Try making them play outside.
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<li> The Kids Should Come First</li>
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Pullman suggests meeting your kids’ needs first, which will keep them from nagging you while you work. Make sure they’re fed, changed, or working on an activity before starting to work.
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<li> Work When They Sleep</li>
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Doing your most focused work while your kids are sleeping will help keep you from becoming distracted. This obviously doesn’t mean you can never sleep, but try working before your kids wake up, while they’re napping, and after they’ve gone to bed for the night. Obviously, you can work at other times, but these are the best times to keep you focused.
For parents with older children, Pullman suggests implementing a two-hour afternoon quiet time so that you can get your work done while they play or work on something quietly.
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<li> Schedule Your Time</li>
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Pullman provides a helpful schedule of that alternates between work and your children, if that is possible for you based on your job:
<blockquote>6-7 a.m.: Work while the kids sleep. 
7-9 a.m.: Kids wake up, feed them breakfast, read them books, then give them a craft or activity to do (or, for older children, assign them some homework or make them go outside to play or walk around the block). 
9-10: While the kids are occupied, dive into work and try to “clear the decks.” Do triage: Most urgent things first, then things that can be dispatched quickly. This will probably take your whole hour. 
10-10:30: Move your kids onto the next part of their homework checklist if they are school-aged, or bring out a new activity for them if they are preschoolers and toddlers. 
10:30-11:30: Knock out another block of work, this time switching to something that requires more time and focus than a “clear the decks.” 
11:30-1:30: Spend this chunk of time with your kids. Put lunch together, throw a load of wash in the washer together, walk the dog, read a book aloud together after or during lunch, and then set up the afternoon quiet activity. 
1:30-3:30: Quiet time for kids while mom and/or dad works. Do your hardest and biggest jobs right here. 
3:30-5:30: Regroup with the kids, put them to work on household chores (even toddlers can pick up their toys), plan and make dinner, eat. 
5:30-8: Family time. Perhaps one spouse can work while the other occupies the kids. 
8-9:30: Kids in bed, knock out some more work if you need to. Usually after a long day like this, this is the best time for catch-up work, smaller tasks that don’t require much time, energy, or brainpower, such as email.</blockquote>
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<li> Get Help From Your Spouse Or A Friend</li>
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Pullman suggests switching days or times with a spouse or a friend in a similar situation. That way, you don’t get overwhelmed.
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<li> Have Older Kids Mentor</li>
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Pullman suggests pairing younger kids with older kids and have them play or read together to further spread out the responsibility.
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<li> Rotate Activities</li>
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Instead of having all the toys and activities available to the kids at all times, keep some locked away somewhere and rotate them out to keep your kids from getting bored of them. Pullman has a “closet of wonder” where she keeps new activities and snacks for emergencies, like a sudden radio call without a babysitter. It gives the kids something new to do long enough to take care of what the adults need to do.
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<li> Set A Timer</li>
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Consider setting a timer so kids know when they can stop doing their current activity or when they can start bothering mom or dad again.
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<li> Say Goodbye To Most Of Your “Me Time”</li>
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This is going to be a difficult time for many working parents, and you have to accept the fact that you won’t get much time to yourself until school opens again and you can go back into the office. But, you know, if you find enjoyment in the activities you can do with your kids, it’ll be much easier.

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Tips For Those Now Working From Home Due To Coronavirus Quarantines – With Or Without Children

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A man who had been falsely accused of sexually assaulting a 4-year-old at church was awarded $500,000 in damages from the town that ran with the accusation despite readily available evidence concluding the assault didn’t happen.
Joel Iacopelli was accused in 2015 of sexually assaulting a 4-year-old while he cared for the child at Community Bible Church in Port Royal, South Carolina. Iacopelli sued the town after the ordeal, and <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.scd.226134/gov.uscourts.scd.226134.40.0.pdf">his lawsuit</a> states that after the allegation was made on July 10 2015, he was arrested at his home and imprisoned, charged with criminal sexual conduct in the first-degree with a minor under 11 years of age. He says that on July 11, he was denied the right to be brought before the “contract” Port Royal municipal judge and summarily denied a bond/bail hearing. Iacopelli’s lawsuit says he was “refused to even be seen by the municipal judge,” denying him a hearing. He also says no specific facts were presented, yet he was still denied this hearing.
On July 13, Iacopelli’s attorneys had to file a Writ of Habeas Corpus to petition a bond hearing. Finally, he was granted a hearing, yet it was then delayed because the mother who made the accusation was on vacation. A continuance was granted, meaning Iacopelli would remain in prison. It wasn’t until July 23 that he finally had his bond set at $75,000. Since a defendant must put up 10% of the bond, Iacopelli paid $7,500 and was finally released from prison, but as a condition of his bond he was required to wear – and pay for – a GPS monitor and he was instructed to have no contact with children other than his own.
These conditions remained in place until the charges were eventually dismissed for lack of probable cause on August 20, 2015. Iacopelli’s name was associated with this disgusting crime in local media reports and online. He lost his job with United Health Care because of the allegations. He was the sole provider for his family.
Prior to his arrest, Iacopelli cooperated with Port Royal Police Department (PRPD) officers and voluntarily submitted to a poly graph test and taped interview. He also consented to a DNA swab – twice. Police officers arbitrarily scheduled his polygraph for a day Iacopelli could not attend, and then said they would contact him with a mutually convenient day, but never followed up on the request, the lawsuit states. Here’s the kicker:
<blockquote>[T]he Port Royal officers were in possession of extensive video evidence from Community Bible Church which conclusively refuted the factual allegations made by the alleged victim’s mother. The officers viewed a portion of the videos and discovered or should have discovered that the complaining witness was lying. Further, the officers failed to interview the other worker in the room and any of the other children or the parents. All of these failures occurred prior to the officers seeking an arrest warrant for Criminal Sexual Conduct 1st Degree With a Minor Under 11 Years Old.</blockquote>
Later, Iacopelli’s DNA was conclusively excluded from being present on the child.
Iacopelli’s lawsuit accuses law enforcement of arresting the accused man after allegedly telling the accuser that there was no probable cause to make the arrest. He further claims he was told he was being arrested on July 10 for not taking a polygraph test, even though officers didn’t contact him after saying they would. PRPD executed eight search warrants on Iacopelli’s residence, cell phone, and computers, which his attorneys argue were “invalid on their face” since there was no probably cause. The lawsuit claims one of the search warrants wasn’t even signed by a judge or judicial officer.
PRPD then refused to return Iacopelli’s possessions that had been seized during the searches until December 16, 2015.
The case took on an eerie similarity to the Satanic Daycare Panic of the late 80s and early 90s. As in those cases, the allegations began not from a child, but from a parent. In Iacopelli’s case, as in the daycare cases of decades ago, the alleged child victim was interviewed by someone asking blatantly leading questions and supplying the answers to the child – answers “which contained facts that would have been impossible to have occurred as posed by the examiner,” the lawsuit states.
In addition to everything else Iacopelli went through, his lawsuit alleges that the South Carolina Department of Social Services (DSS) investigated him and his family. The lawsuit claims a DSS foster-care placement representative “accosted [Iacopelli’s] wife while” he was incarcerated. His children were then interviewed by DSS. The agency also allegedly threatened Iacopelli’s wife that if she didn’t agree to a “safety plan,” she would lose her children. The DSS never followed through with their investigation, the lawsuit says.
Iacopelli sued Port Royal and the people that investigated his case. As The Island Packet <a href="https://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/crime/article240914331.html">reported</a>, he settled with the town after a four-year legal battle for $500,000. The money, of course, won’t give him his reputation back.

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He Was Accused Of Sexually Assaulting A 4-Year-Old. Video And DNA Proved He Didn’t Do It.

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In what appears to be a rare sentencing, a female teacher was actually jailed for a serious length of time after raping underage teen boys.
Kathryn Houghtaling, 27, was a special education teacher at Rochester High School in Rochester Hills, Michigan, when she had sex with two male students, aged 16 and 17, in a car. She also provided Xanax to one of the boys, The Detroit News <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2020/03/03/ex-rochester-high-teacher-sentenced-prison-sex-students/4938777002/">reported</a>. Houghtaling eventually pleaded no contest to six charges of third-degree criminal sexual conduct with the boys and an additional charge of provided a controlled substance to one of her victims.
“I’ve learned to take full responsibility for my actions and seek help for those that I can’t control,” Houghtaling said through tears in Oakland County Circuit Court, the News reported. “The concept of going to prison is a scary one …”
She added that she regretted what she had done to students and that her actions destroyed her career and hurt her marriage, the outlet reported.
Houghtaling was sentenced to between 51 months and 180 months in prison for her crimes, or a little over four years to a potential 15 years behind bars. After sentencing, Judge Rae Lee Chabot said there was nothing that could have prevented her to sentence Houghtaling to less time in prison.
“It’s difficult for me to judge someone else’s behavior in this way but the law is very clear — and it applies to men and women the same,” Chabot said.
The Metro <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/03/control-teacher-jailed-raping-boy-car-students-watched-12343702/">reported</a> that Houghtaling’s crimes were discovered after a “parent found a video of her partying with students.” It was then discovered that Houghtaling had sexually abused one of her victims in his own home a month earlier. Houghtaling, a special education teacher, victimized one boy with a reading impairment.
The outlet reported that Houghtaling “groomed her victims by drinking and smoking marijuana after school, and also plied one of the boys with Xanax.”
Nearly five years ago I <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gender-matters-more-for-perpetrators-than-victims-in-child-sex-abuse">wrote</a> about the legal bias that allows female rapists off the hook for their crimes. Women who abuse teens and children receive little to no jail time compared to men who abuse children. Houghtaling’s four-to-10-year sentence is far more than most women get in these situations.
For example, when former Baltimore Ravens cheerleader Molly Shattuck performed oral sex on a 15-year-old boy who was a friend of her own son, she received 48 weekends at a work detention facility. Those weekends were spread out over two years. Shawna Marie Nerby received just five years’ probation after she pleaded guilty to attempting to rape young boys in a trailer park. She previously had been indicted on other charges, including first-degree rape.
Meanwhile, men who abuse children receive sentences most in society would find more appropriate for this type of crime – hundreds of years in prison. For example Luis Gilbert Sanchez was sentenced to 366 years to life in prison for abusing a young girl for years. He started abusing his victim when she was just 6 years old. Another man, Dean Lee Benner, was sentenced to life in prison plus 215 years for abusing a young boy.
Houghtaling’s sentence is nowhere near what a man would receive for the same crime, but at least she wasn’t let go with a slap on the wrist.

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Female Teacher Actually Jailed For Raping Teen Boys

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If you want to see the collapse of western civilization summarized in 30 seconds, you can’t do better than <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1233355261622063104?s=20">this viral video</a>. It shows the action at a recent drag brunch, which is an event where white liberals go to drink mimosas and watch cross dressing men dance badly to pop music. But at least one of the white liberal couples at this drag brunch decided to bring their very young daughter along for the ride. 
The girl, who looks to be maybe five or six years old, is given a place of honor right at the front. The drag queen — dressed in booty shorts, bedazzled spandex, and fake breasts — puts the child in a chair and begins dancing suggestively and crawling around on his hands and knees. At the end of the clip, he leans in and hugs the visibly confused and disturbed girl. The adults (I use the word loosely) in the room look on and cheer. 
A few observations must be made. The first is that this is obviously child abuse. I can’t imagine why anyone would care to go to a drag brunch or any other drag related event, but adults are perfectly free to make that bizarre choice if they wish. Children, though, do not and cannot consent to being exposed to this, much less participating in it, much less <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-the-people-applauding-drag-kids-are-applauding-the-sexual-abuse-of-children">performing drag themselves</a>. 
The people who defend this stuff are as incoherent as expected. Even they would agree, presumably, that you shouldn’t bring minors to a burlesque show. Yet if the burlesque performers are male, and we call them drag queens, suddenly it’s family friendly? What sort of sense does that make? In a similar way, nobody would suggest that 9-year-old girls should become burlesque performers, but some people have no problem with 9-year-old boys being recruited into the industry. This is all nonsensical.
The second thing that immediately jumps out when you watch the video is the row of men (again, term used loosely) sitting in the background with big, stupid smiles on their faces. The story of the proliferation of child sexual abuse and exploitation is, in many ways, a story of henpecked, emasculated men abdicating their roles as fathers and husbands. The man who not only tolerates but applaud this level of degeneracy is a sort of moral eunuch, having failed so utterly in his masculine duties. The appropriate response from a man when his wife suggests bringing the kids to a drag brunch is some variation of &#8220;Hell no, not gonna happen.&#8221; These men haven&#8217;t the spine or the wherewithal to protect their children&#8217;s dignity and their own. 
There is no defense for what we see in that video. A just and sane society would answer with legal force, shutting down the event and carting every adult in the room to jail. Instead, our culture responds with polite, tolerance applause. It is a disgrace.

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WALSH: Horrifying Video Shows Drag Queen Dancing Suggestively For Young Girl While Parents Applaud. This Should Be Illegal.

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The left-wing haven of California certainly has its priorities in line. As the state faces a burgeoning homelessness crisis spurred on by drug addiction and crippling housing prices, a new bill is seeking to remedy the problem of gender conformity in toy stores.
According to <a href="https://www.kron4.com/news/california/should-toys-be-gender-neutral-proposal-would-nix-boys-and-girls-toy-aisles-in-california-stores/">Kron4</a>, Assembly Bill 2826 (AB-2826) will require retailers to have gender-neutral floor spaces inside their stores by doing away with such outdated concepts like &#8220;boys aisles&#8221; and &#8220;girls aisles&#8221; by offering children products in a &#8220;single, gender-neutral section.&#8221;
Proposed by Democratic Assemblyman Evan Low, the bill would apply to all retail department stores with more than 500 employees. Should it become law, retailers who don&#8217;t comply could be “liable for a civil penalty of $1,000.”
From the <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2826#content_anchor">AB-2826 official descriptive text</a>:
<blockquote>Existing law, the Unruh Civil Rights Act, specifies that all persons within the jurisdiction of the state are free and equal, and no matter their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status, are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind.
This bill would require a retail department store with 500 or more employees to maintain undivided areas of its sales floor where, if it sells childcare articles, children’s clothing, or toys, all childcare items, all clothing for children, or all toys, regardless of whether a particular item has traditionally been marketed for either girls or for boys, shall be displayed. Beginning on January 1, 2023, the bill would make a retail department store that fails to correct a violation of these provisions within 30 days of receiving written notice of the violation from the Attorney General liable for a civil penalty of $1,000, as provided.</blockquote>
The bill further goes on to say that by dividing the toys into aisles of separate genders, the retailers make &#8220;it more difficult for the consumer to compare the products and incorrectly implies that their use by one gender is inappropriate.&#8221; To remedy this, the bill sets the following guidelines for retail outlets to abide by, which include &#8220;undivided&#8221; areas in both toy and clothing sections of the stores &#8220;regardless of whether a particular item has traditionally been marketed for either girls or for boys.&#8221;
&#8220;Beginning on January 1, 2023, a retail department store that fails to correct a violation of this section within 30 days of receiving written notice of the violation from the Attorney General is liable for a civil penalty of one thousand dollars ($1,000) which may be assessed and recovered in a civil action brought in the name of the people of the State of California by the Attorney General in any court of competent jurisdiction,&#8221; the bill asserts.
As stated earlier, the homeless situation in California has reached crisis levels. According to the <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2020/02/13/unhoused-symposium-at-usc-gives-federal-state-and-local-decision-makers-forum-to-address-homelessness/">Orange County Register</a>, a recent poll in the once golden state actually showed that homelessness is the state’s number one issue above climate change or immigration – gender-neutral spaces for toy stores barely makes the list.
&#8220;Of the respondents, 22.9% ranked homelessness as the top problem,&#8221; asserted the register. &#8220;Other issues lagged behind: 14.8% named climate change/environment, 9.2% said immigration, and another 7.5% simply answered &#8216;Trump.'&#8221;

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A 7-year-old boy was interrogated by police deputies without his parents present after he was falsely accused of bringing a gun to school.
Fox 11 <a href="https://www.foxla.com/news/7-year-old-interrogated-by-deputies-without-parent-present-after-false-accusation-of-having-gun-at-school">reported</a> that the boy’s mother, Thea Marie Perkins, said her son, Solomon, attends Tesoro Del Valle Elementary School in Valencia, California, and was accused by another student of having a gun in his backpack. KTLA <a href="https://ktla.com/2020/02/18/seven-year-old-saugus-boy-wrongfully-accused-of-bringing-gun-to-school/?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark">reported</a> that on the day of the incident, there was a fire drill, and Solomon was outside talking to a student who had bullied him, when that student left and told a teacher that Solomon had a gun.
“They checked his backpack and saw that he had over 20 or so Valentine&#8217;s Day cards that he was going to give to his friends,” Perkins told the outlet.
Solomon didn’t know why the other student made the accusation.
Even though school administrators searched Solomon’s backpack and didn’t find a gun, they called the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station – but not Solomon’s mother. By the time Perkins learned of the incident and arrived at the school, she said half a dozen sheriff’s officers were already there and that her and her son’s civil rights were violated.
“[The school administrator] didn’t call one sheriff… there were six sheriff’s department officers that showed up,” Perkins told FOX 11. “Three squad cars, not cars but trucks, when I arrived.”
Perkins said Solomon was questioned by the sheriff’s deputies without her being present.
“This district has criminalized a 7-year-old African American child and I am absolutely angry,” Perkins said. “There’s really no reason for that after there was evidence that the accusation that was made was false.”
After Solomon was accused and interrogated, the school principal sent a message to parents that stated: &#8220;As many of you may be aware we have had law enforcement on campus today. All of our students are safe and the school day is progressing as normal.&#8221;
Perkins told Fox 11 she was disappointed that the principal didn’t mention that the accusation was false. Now she’s worried Solomon will be bullied or treated differently by those who believe he actually did have a gun. She told Fox 11 that she asked the school to send out a statement saying her son was innocent. The outlet reached out to the school district multiple times but did not hear back.
For their part, the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station issued a statement regarding the incident:
During their investigation, the deputies determined a 7-year-old male student had allegedly made ‘specific threats’ about possibly engaging in a school shooting. The responding deputies made contact with the student and enlisted additional resources to evaluate his emotional and mental wellness. Not only did the deputies have a duty to protect the other children present at the school, but we&#8217;re also obligated to ensure the safety of the student involved.
Perkins, however, told Fox 11 she believed her son was treated this way because he is African American.
“I really feel as though African American boys are an endangered species in the United States of America that hurts my heart,” she told the outlet. “Why would she call a sheriff after she looked in his backpack and saw that it was a false accusation? Why?”

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Crystal and Jarvis Bryant were typical first-time parents, doting on their child and panicking over every hint of distress. To add to their stress, their baby boy, Jace, had several medical issues that resulted in repeated trips to the emergency room and doctors.
Jace suffered from severe acid reflux and a condition known as dysphagia, which caused milk to travel down his wind pipe instead of his esophagus.
“When he was 3 weeks old, he spent 31 days in the hospital and had a feeding tube inserted into his nose and down to his stomach to help him get enough nutrients to survive. At almost 4 months old, Jace had surgery on his esophagus and to place a gastrostomy tube in his abdomen, so his parents could send formula straight to his stomach,” The Associated Press <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/colorado/articles/2020-02-16/parents-charged-with-abusing-child-until-bone-disorder-found">reported</a>. “Then, just before Thanksgiving 2018, Jace was diagnosed with a viral infection that was causing fever and diarrhea. While Crystal showered and did her hair upstairs in their apartment, Jarvis was giving Jace his second bath of the day. Jarvis laid the baby stomach-down along his forearm as he bent over the bathtub, pouring soapy water over Jace’s back. The baby slipped sideways off Jarvis’ arm, his knee hitting the bottom of the tub.”
Jarvis consoled Jace when he started crying, but didn’t think anything was serious enough to tell Crystal. Later that afternoon, however, Crystal noticed Jace was favoring the leg he had hit and was in pain when she picked him up. She was already set to take him back to the hospital since his fever and diarrhea hadn’t gone away. While there, Jace’s leg was X-rayed and doctor’s discovered he had a fractured femur. Jarvis then admitted to his wife that he had accidentally dropped Jace. The couple said they were immediately treated as suspects after the injury was discovered. A full-body workup revealed Jace also had 10 fractured ribs and fractures on both his wrists, all of which were older than the leg injury and had been healing.
Jace was taken from the Bryants and they were charged with felony child abuse. Crystal had just obtained her nursing certificate and had it revoked when the charges were filed. Jarvis who worked for the U.S. Army, had his security clearance revoked, causing him to be reassigned to desk duty.
For the Bryants, the charge of child abuse was a surprise.
“Because of Jace’s feeding problems, nurses, physical therapists and occupational therapists — all required by law to report any suspicion of child abuse — had been to the Bryants’ home twice each week since he was 2 months old. They had stripped Jace naked weekly and weighed him on a portable scale placed on the table. Not one made any report of abuse or neglect,” the AP reported. “The baby had been to emergency rooms multiple times, often to replace the tube down his throat when his arms flailed and pulled out the tube, common for babies. Each time, medical staff took an X-ray to make sure it was in the right place. As a first-time mom and self-described ‘hovering parent,’ Crystal took Jace to the pediatrician at the first hint of illness.”
After Jace was taken, Jarvis began researching legal cases as well as medical cases. He came across the stories of two men who had been falsely accused of child abuse when their children actually had brittle bone disorder.
Two doctors looked at Jace’s X-rays. One discovered he wasn’t getting enough calcium due to the feeding tubes and suggested the age of the fractures meant they were actually caused by medical staff during one of his many medical procedures. Another doctor found that the acid reflux medication Jace was put on reduced his stomach acid, which also hurt his ability to absorb calcium.
Seven months later, Jace was returned to his parents. Three months after that, the criminal case against them was dropped.

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After a six-year-old Pennsylvania girl with Down Syndrome pointed her index finger at her teacher and said, “I shoot you,” the school district called the police.
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A Pennsylvania mom is furious over the fact that cops were called out when her 6-year old daughter with Down Syndrome made a &quot;finger gun&quot; and pointed it at a teacher. <a href="https://t.co/da3J6oZ0rK">https://t.co/da3J6oZ0rK</a>
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The Tredyffrin-Easttown School District said its policy called for the police to be contacted. <a href="https://www.dailylocal.com/news/local/tredyffrin-mom-upset-after-cops-called-on-her--year/article_9af5fe2a-485d-11ea-96e8-13daba8561cf.html">Daily Local News</a> reported:
<blockquote>The school’s principal Rebecca Wills quickly determined that there was not a threat and then followed district policy and convened a “threat assessment” team. The threat assessment team recommended no disciplinary action, and determined that a “transient threat” was made and no harm was made to the teacher or any classmates … Gaines then said that she received a call from the principal that police were going to be notified. The incident was reported to police 24 hours later.</blockquote>
The incident prompted the girl’s mother, Maggie Gaines, to say that the reaction to her daughter Margot’s gesture at Valley was far from reasonable, as she told <a href="https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/02/04/exclusive-maggie-gaines-says-tredyffrin-easttown-school-district-called-police-after-6-year-old-daughter-with-down-syndrome-pretended-to-shoot-teacher-with-finger/">CBSPhiladelphia</a>:
<blockquote>They get this phone call and I was fine with everything up until calling the police. And I said, “You absolutely do not have to call the police. You know, this is ridiculous” … My daughter got frustrated and pointed her finger at her teacher and said, “I shoot you.” At that point, they went to the principal’s office and it was quickly assessed that she didn’t even really know what she was saying. They were asking her questions, and she was saying, “Oh, I shoot mommy,” laughs, or, “I shoot my brother.” The principal asked, “Did you mean to hurt your teacher?” And she said no and it seemed like she didn’t even know what that meant.</blockquote>
Gaines continued, “She really didn’t understand what she was saying, and having Down syndrome is one aspect, but I’m sure all 6-year-olds don’t really know what that means. Now, there is a record at the police that says she made a threat to her teacher.
The Gaines family alerted Pennsylvania state Sen. Andrew Dinniman, who stated:
<blockquote>As a state senator, an educator, and a parent, I am concerned when I hear that such important decisions appear to be guided blindly by written policy or legal interpretation without those in positions of authority using their judgment, experience, and commonsense to weigh in. Furthermore, I am alarmed that a school seems to be acting as an extension of the police department in promulgating data and records on children as young as kindergarteners.</blockquote>
<a href="https://bearingarms.com/cam-e/2020/02/09/police-called-6-year-old-finger-gun/">Bearing Arms</a> noted, “This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a student’s finger gun land them in trouble. In 2019, a middle school student in Kansas faced <a href="https://bearingarms.com/cam-e/2019/12/17/kansas-city-girl-arrested-for-finger-gun-avoids-felony-prosecution/">felony charges</a> after making a finger gun in class, while students in the same school district who brought actual firearms to school were charged with misdemeanors.”
The Tredyffrin-Easttown School District issued a statement that included these statements: “When an individual parent concern related to our school safety practices was brought to the attention of the District two weeks ago, we agreed to review those practices in the School Board Policy Committee meeting tonight. When developing the current practice, the District worked collaboratively with parents, law enforcement and private safety/mental health agencies and legal consultants to ensure our safety measures reflected considerable input from both our local community and experts in the field of school safety.”

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A woman in Arizona has been barred from using frozen embryos she produced with her ex-husband to get pregnant.
Though some of have suggested the Arizona Supreme Court ruled on parental rights, the story is actually about the contract that the couple signed while they were still together. In 2014, John Terrell and Ruby Torres were dating. Torres learned she had cancer, but before undergoing chemotherapy, she began in vitro fertilization using donor sperm from Terrell, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/divorced-woman-can-t-use-frozen-embryos-arizona-supreme-court-n1123166?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_lw&amp;fbclid=IwAR2hGBxBLfwHYKZFyrFy-jXy0jLEsGMC2-UuShFIYg-_W9WC54LfEVZxi3Q">reported</a>.
“One month later, the couple signed a contract with a fertility clinic. The agreement said that any fertilized eggs would be considered joint property, and both parties would have to agree about what to do with them if the relationship ended,” NBC reported.
The couple married four days after signing the contract. Terrell filed for divorce three years later. Torres still wanted to be a mother, but she couldn’t due to the chemotherapy. She wanted to use the embryos that had been created with Terrell, but that would have required him to become a father against his will and make him financially responsible for a child with his ex-wife.
His attorney, Eric Fraser, <a href="https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/divorced-woman-cant-use-frozen-embryos-arizona-supreme-court-rules/75-5637f831-b9c8-416b-8023-a40c6099a809">told KPNX</a> that Torres “ wanted to use the embryos herself and force my client to become a father against his will.&#8221; He added that Terrell would have been “on the hook for child support for 18 years.”
Torres’ attorney, Stanley Murray, told NBC that his client had been planning to remarry and that the new husband would adopt any child she had from the embryos. He also said she would not have needed child support from Terrell, however, Arizona law would have required him to provide for the child.
In 2018, Arizona passed a law allowing women to use embryos without the father’s consent, but it was not retroactive. The law would also ensure that if one parent did not want to use the embryos, they would not be on the hook financially for the child conceived against their will.
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/womens-rights-man-forced-allow-ex-use-sperm-get-ashe-schow">reported</a> that a lower court in Arizona ruled that the woman’s desire to become pregnant “outweigh[ed]” the man’s desire not to become a father. It was also reported that Terrell only agreed to donate his sperm initially because Torres said she would use an ex-boyfriend’s sperm instead of his when he initially refused.
The contract signed by Terrell and Torres before the embryos were created said that both parents must provide “express, written consent” for the embryos to be used. Terrell had refused to provide that consent, and so the Arizona Supreme Court upheld the contract.
When the lower court ruled in favor of Torres, Judge Maria Elena Cruz dissented, writing:
<blockquote>Do contracts matter? I believe they do. Therefore, because the contract of these parties explicitly prohibits the outcome reached by the majority, and because it is outside our purview to reweigh the evidence, I would affirm the trial court’s judgment, or, in the alternative, remand the matter to the trial court for a new weighing of the parties’ interests.</blockquote>

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Ex-Husband Wins In Court, Prevents Wife From Using Frozen Embryos

Earlier this week, Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer joined &#8220;The Chad Prather Show&#8221; on BlazeTV for a wide-ranging (and oftentimes humorous) discussion with the eponymous host and Blaze Media resident cowboy, Chad Prather. The conversation ran the gamut of topics, covering such diverse terrain as impeachment, recent rumors and revelations pertaining to former National Security Advisor John Bolton, the debate over transgender pronouns, and &#8230; Chad&#8217;s traveling crew getting kicked out of a bar in Bakersfield, California.
The conversation kicked off around impeachment, with Prather asking Hammer why Republicans seem so opposed to calling witnesses in the current Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Hammer said he wasn&#8217;t sure why Republicans are so opposed — a skepticism that the podcast host shared:
<blockquote>I don&#8217;t really understand why Republicans and the president are so opposed to witnesses. I mean, look, in theory, here&#8217;s how this is supposed to work. Okay, the House and Senate are supposed to &#8230; actually do what they&#8217;re &#8230; supposed to do and write bills and pass laws and all that stuff that the Constitution talks about.
It ain&#8217;t gonna happen this year because it&#8217;s very simple: The Democrats control the House, Republicans control the Senate, [and] it&#8217;s also an election year, everyone&#8217;s risk-averse, no one&#8217;s trying to stick his or her neck out, put their foot on the line. So in that context, I don&#8217;t really understand this Republican resistance to calling witnesses. Drag this thing out. How is Hunter Biden getting up there not going to help with the president and Republicans come November? I don&#8217;t see it.</blockquote>
The conversation quickly shifted to the news surrounding Bolton, with Hammer offering his take on what we know so far:
<blockquote>So the worst part is &#8230; The New York Times got a copy of his book before anyone in the administration did. You know, I&#8217;m not gonna say John Bolton had anything to do with that, but it&#8217;s pretty unforeseeable that John Bolton had nothing to do with that. That&#8217;s just not a good look.
And like you, I&#8217;m a longtime defender of John Bolton&#8217;s. &#8230; He&#8217;s a lifelong conservative, he really is. I mean, he went to Yale for both undergrad and law school. At Yale undergrad, he was a member of what the nerds of Yale call the Yale Political Union&#8217;s Party of the Right, which in their kind of nerdy political club is the most right-wing party possible. So he&#8217;s a lifelong Barry Goldwater-, Ronald Reagan-like conservative, so it&#8217;s a little weird to see what&#8217;s happening now.</blockquote>
Later in the conversation, the topic shifted to transgender pronouns in the federal courts — a topic that Hammer, a former judicial law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, wrote about earlier this week for <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/transgender-pronouns-fifth-circuit-rejects-them-and-lie-they-stand-on/">National Review</a>. Hammer explained the three reasons why he thinks conservatives must not cave on this issue:
<blockquote>There are &#8230; three reasons why I think we really should care. One is the truth, inherently, is worth defending. Truth should be defended for the sake of truth. I mean, that&#8217;s kind of historically speaking, the entire purpose of debate in the academy, going back to Socrates, Aristotle, going back to all the ancients. They literally engaged in this Socratic dialogue in order to reach the truth. So if we feel like we have the truth, then it&#8217;s worth defending for its own sake.
Second, language cannot change this much, and this drastically, and remain viable. Now, some words can change meaning over time, of course. And plenty of words do change meaning over time. Like, for example, &#8220;decimate&#8221; — the word &#8220;decimate&#8221; — back in the day, the letters &#8220;dec&#8221; mean 10, so it was literally to take out one out of ten of the opposing military. Today, it just means more generally to kind of wipe out. So words can change their meaning, but words as basic as pronouns, the building blocks of distinguishing, as you quite aptly put it, between male and female genitalia — that cannot change. Words like that just cannot change for the English language to be viable.
Third, and probably the most important reason &#8230; is because there are actually really bad side effects to the transgender movement. We saw it here in Texas with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-father-of-7-year-old-trans-child-james-younger-speaks-out-before-gag-order/">James Younger</a>. We are encouraging the premature, preteen sexualization of children. We are encouraging children to choose their own gender and engaging in oftentimes-irreversible hormonal tampering — chemical castration, frankly, is really what&#8217;s going on here. There are really corrosive, actual real-life effects of this.</blockquote>
The whole lengthy conversation is available on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj804eZqF_M">YouTube</a>.
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During a 2018 interview, late basketball legend Kobe Bryant explained that he frequently opted to take helicopter rides to and from basketball-related events to avoid notorious Los Angeles traffic, thus saving time so he could spend more moments with his children. For example, Bryant said he enjoyed taking his daughters to school, as well as picking them up.
Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others, including a teammate of Gianna’s and her parents, were tragically killed in a helicopter accident on Sunday in California.
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“Traffic started getting really, really bad and I was sitting in traffic and I wound up missing like a school play, because I was sitting in traffic,&#8221; the former Laker said during an episode of the Barstool Sports&#8217; &#8220;The Corp,&#8221; <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kobe-bryant-helicopters-los-angeles-basketball_n_5e2f0b0dc5b6779e9c382798">HuffPost</a> reported.
&#8220;I had to figure out a way where I could still train and focus on the craft but still not compromise family time,” he continued. “So that’s when I looked into helicopters, to be able to get down and back in 15 minutes and that’s when it started.&#8221;
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“You have like road trips and times where you don’t see your kids. So every chance I get to see them, to spend time with them — even if it’s 20 minutes in the car — I want that,” added Bryant.
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/sports/basketball/kobe-bryant-dead.html">The New York Times</a>, the helicopter was headed to the Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks, California, where Bryant coached daughter Gianna&#8217;s basketball team.
&#8220;The gym had handwritten signs on the door: Closed,&#8221; the Times reported, adding: &#8220;A few dozen people, adults of all ages, stood huddled in silence around the memorial of several jerseys, candles, dozens of bouquets, Sports Illustrated magazines with Bryant on the cover, and a Lakers flag. Written on one bouquet was &#8216;We love you Kobe and Gigi.&#8217; Another card, the shape of a Lakers basketball, read, &#8216;The day we lost a legend: 1-26-20 Thank you for being a role model for me and for others.'&#8221;
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kobe-a-devout-catholic-reportedly-attended-mass-morning-of-accident">The Daily Wire</a> on Monday, Bryant, a devout Catholic, reportedly attended mass the morning of the accident.
“A friend texted me today to tell me that a friend of her’s saw #KobeBryant at #Catholic Mass this morning,” Boston priest David Barnes said via Twitter on Sunday. “Mass is the worship of God. Heaven is the worship of God. Go to Mass here so that you can worship God forever in heaven.”
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In 2015, the basketball star credited his faith and the help of a Catholic priest for allowing him to overcome major personal stumbles, reported <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/the-catholic-faith-of-kobe-bryant-77371">Catholic News Agency</a>.
Bryant was accused of raping a 19-year-old woman in a Colorado hotel room in 2003. He admitted to cheating on his wife and engaging in the sexual encounter, but has always maintained that it was consensual.
“What I came to understand, coming out of Colorado, is that I had to be me, in the place where I was at that moment,” Bryant told GQ in 2015.
“The one thing that really helped me during that process — I’m Catholic, I grew up Catholic, my kids are Catholic — was talking to a priest,” he added.
“It was actually kind of funny: He looks at me and says, ’Did you do it?’ And I say, ’Of course not.’ Then he asks, ’Do you have a good lawyer?’ And I’m like, ’Uh, yeah, he’s phenomenal.’ So then he just said, ’Let it go. Move on. God’s not going to give you anything you can’t handle, and it’s in his hands now. This is something you can’t control. So let it go.’ And that was the turning point,” recalled Bryant.
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Washington state Democrats are pushing a bill that would make sure kindergartners will learn about sex starting in 2022. House Bill 2184 <a href="http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/House%20Bills/2184.pdf?q=20200121052633">states</a>, “In accordance with the requirements in this section and any recommendations of the sexual health education work group established in the 2019-2021 omnibus operating appropriations act that are enacted by the legislature, every public school shall provide comprehensive sexual health education to each student by the 2022-23 school year.”
As radio host Jason Rantz of KTTH <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/1676789/rantz-mandatory-sex-ed-kindergarten-washington/">points out</a>:
<blockquote>One section of the curriculum for teachers to use as a guide suggests talking to students about the penis as not having “any bones in it, but when people talk about an erection as a ‘boner,’ they’re mistaken.” Girls are taught about a “very sensitive little area at the top called the clitoris.”</blockquote>
Despite the fact that a survey conducted by the Comprehensive Sexual Health Education work group (CSHE) , which was created in 2019 under the Office of Superintendent, found that 54% of respondents felt sex education for children in grades K-5 should not be required, a <a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules/Home/Document/208965#toolbar=0&amp;navpanes=0">document</a> from CSHE reportedly stated that such education was necessary because the “social emotional needs of our youngest students must be addressed for prevention of future challenges.” CHSE added that this was “an issue of equity and would help to ensure all students across the state receive quality, evidence-informed instruction, regardless of who they are or where they live,&#8221; according to Rantz.
As Rantz points out, “It’s not surprising that the group rejected the public’s input. The entire 16-member, all-female work group were described as in agreement with their findings, though they had conversations about what some of the K-3 curriculum should look like.”
State Representative Michelle Caldier (R-Bremerton), speaking at a House Education Committee hearing, admonished CHSE, stating, “I think that sometimes, you know in politics and when we’re making decisions. that it’s very easy to surround ourselves with people who just agree with us and I think that if the work group just had conversations and no disagreement, that really concerns me because I know there’s a lot of disagreement for that. And I would encourage you guys to go back and really listen to the people who disagree and come back with something better.”
Laurie Dills, from the Office of Superintendent lamely responded that “we were exposed to a wide variety of viewpoints around the state.”
The curriculum includes statements such as these: “This lesson does, however, acknowledge that ‘there are some body parts that mostly just girls have and some parts that mostly just boys have. Being a boy or a girl doesn’t have to mean you have those parts, but for most people this is how their bodies are.’”
Rantz noted, “For Grade 1, teachers should have their students read ‘My Princess Boy’ before teaching the six and seven-year-olds about reproduction.”
“My Princess Boy” <a href="https://www.amazon.com/My-Princess-Boy-Cheryl-Kilodavis/dp/1442429887/ref=sr_1_1?crid=NIME6PF5URKD&amp;keywords=my+princess+boy&amp;qid=1579614476&amp;sprefix=My+Princess+boy%2Caps%2C195&amp;sr=8-1">describes itself</a> this way on its Amazon website: “Dyson loves pink, sparkly things. Sometimes he wears dresses. Sometimes he wears jeans. He likes to wear his princess tiara, even when climbing trees. He’s a Princess Boy.”
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The Warwick pastor who falsely accused a teenage boy of raping his teenage girlfriend spent one night in jail before starting her 18-month sentence of home confinement.
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-who-falsely-accused-a-13-year-old-of-rape-and-allegedly-distributed-child-porn-and-groomed-a-teenage-girl-for-sex-gets-no-jail-time">reported</a> that Kelly Shannon, 48, who is also a Christian rock singer, would reportedly get no jail time after she falsely accused the boy and was charged possessing child pornography and allegedly grooming a young girl for sex. Shannon was officially sentenced on Tuesday and was forced to spend a single night in jail in addition to her home confinement.
Shannon admitted in court on Tuesday to “two counts of filing false police reports and one count of using a computer for fraudulent purposes under a plea deal,” NBC 10 News <a href="https://turnto10.com/i-team/nbc-10-i-team-warwick-pastor-sentenced-for-false-allegations">reported</a>.
Christy Gilroy, the mother of the teenage boy whom Shannon falsely accused, said that her son probably would have been considered a sex offender if Shannon hadn’t admitted to her crimes.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t even know if this day was ever going to come, because the truth is, they chased my son,&#8221; Gilroy told NBC 10. &#8220;They chased him right from day one. They believed immediately he was guilty. Whereas [Shannon] sat five years on bail, and finally, six years later, we&#8217;re having our day in court.&#8221;
&#8220;I believe if she never came clean, my son&#8217;s name would have never been cleared,&#8221; Gilroy added. &#8220;There was never a sexual assault. It was all made up because I put a restraining order on Kelly Shannon.&#8221;
Shannon had been helping Gilroy’s son and his girlfriend with homework. She eventually performed a fake marriage ceremony for the teens, who were 14 at the time. Gilroy found out and took away her son’s phone as punishment. Shannon bought him a new one, which Gilroy also found. Gilroy then took out a restraining order against Shannon.
Shannon reportedly threatened the boy by telling him she would have him arrested if his mother didn’t lift the restraining order. She then accused the teenager of raping his girlfriend. The boy was arrested and charged with rape, sent to a juvenile detention facility, and forced to wear an ankle monitoring bracelet.
Shannon also was charged initially with possessing child pornography. The girl in the photos told investigators that she was forced to pose for the photos by Shannon. As part of her plea deal, Shannon was able to get the felony charge of child pornography reduced to a felony charge of using a computer for fraudulent charges. This keeps Shannon from having to register as a sex offender.
Gilroy, of course, is not happy about the plea deal.
&#8220;If she was a man, she would have absolutely had to register as a sex offender, and I believe she should have, too,&#8221; Gilroy said.
A spokesperson for the Rhode Island Attorney General’s office told NBC 10, in part:
Among the many factors we consider in all dispositions are the strength of the case, the defendant’s history and characteristics and the impact on the victims. Based on that evaluation here, we agreed that this was the best disposition to hold the defendant accountable and offer appropriate protections to the victims.

Sad Young Man Sitting On Bed At Home

Woman Who Falsely Accused Teenager Of Rape Will Spend Just One Night In Jail, Mother Speaks Out

Crime

A recently released report commissioned by Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham found that the city’s police force allowed nearly 100 pedophiles to go free, resulting in 57 young girls being groomed. The report revealed the criminals were allowed to go free because the police department was afraid to go after the men because they were Asian.
The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7885313/Child-victims-grooming-gangs-failed-Manchester-police-report-finds.html">reported</a> that former Greater Manchester Police (GMP) detective Maggie Oliver now has called for GMP chiefs to be charged for their role in the disaster.
“GMP detectives launched Operation Augusta in 2004 after the death of a 15-year-old girl called Victoria Agoglia who previously told carers she had been raped and injected with heroin by an Asian man,” the outlet reported. “But the probe was shelved a year later despite the force uncovering almost 100 paedophiles in south Manchester who later went on to rape and abuse dozens of young girls in the areas.”
Oliver said after the report was released that for “Fifteen years &#8211; the perpetrators that we knew on Operation Augusta were abusing generations of children were allowed to walk free.”
“The kids themselves that I spoke to &#8211; I was on Operation Augusta, I wrote the report &#8211; those children were just cast to the wind, left to their own devices. Nobody cared about them,” she continued. “And I am talking about the people at the top of the police and at social services. The chief constable, assistant chief constables, head of social services, the people who knew the facts, who knew the truth and they chose to bury the truth. That, in my opinion, is unforgivable.”
The report found that officers worried arresting the pedophiles would result in “the incitement of racial hatred,” the Mail reported.
The Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/14/police-officers-knowingly-neglected-girls-exploited-grooming/">added</a> that the report quoted an unnamed GMP detective constable who had arrested a child sex offender who was not Asian.
“What had a massive input was the offending target group were predominantly Asian males and we were told to try and get other ethnicities,&#8221; the detective said.
Part of what the discontinued Operation Augusta found was “the systematic exploitation of looked after children mainly in the care system in the city of Manchester and around the Rochdale area,” the Telegraph reported.
The report released Tuesday was written by child protection specialist Malcolm Newsam and former senior police officer Gary Ridgway, launched thanks in part to Oliver’s whistleblowing.
“I want the law changing so there can be retrospective accountability for people whose duty it is to protect the vulnerable. It’s knowing and deliberate neglection of duty…[those who were involved] should be charged with gross misconduct &#8211; it’s criminal &#8211; where is the accountability?” Oliver told the Telegraph.
The GMP has now sent a referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, a British police watchdog, to investigate whether any officer’s conduct needed to be investigated.
Assistant Chief Constable Mabs Hussain, head of Specialist Crime for Greater Manchester Police, told the Telegraph that “Children should be able to expect those responsible for their care will do all they can to keep them safe and I want to apologise to all those vulnerable children who were let down.”
He said police are still looking into Agoglia’s death.

Two British Policemen

Report: British Police Refused To Arrest 97 Abusers For Fear They Would ‘Stoke Racial Tensions’

Police

United Kingdom

A convicted sex offender in Michigan is heading to prison for 10–20 years after being caught with child pornography on his computer. What makes this case interesting is the defense that 45-year-old Joseph Gobrick offered in court. Speaking to a judge at his sentencing hearing, <a href="https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/crime/man-sentenced-for-child-sexually-abusive-material/69-7fadc67c-c26e-4a9c-ba51-992caa86caf2">Gobrick claimed</a> that he has a First Amendment right to look at child porn. He also claimed that he identifies as an eight-year-old girl.
“I’ve always been an eight-year-old girl,’’ Gobrick contended. “Even in my drawings and fantasies, I am always an eight-year-old girl. &#8230; There are adults having sex with me in an online forum as an eight-year-old girl.&#8221;
The judge apparently did not find this argument persuasive. No reasonable person would. But an obvious question is raised here. Why exactly can&#8217;t Gobrick identity as a young girl? On what basis can we deny or disqualify his self-identification?
Again, the reasonable among us know the answer. He can&#8217;t identify as one because he isn&#8217;t one. According to all available metrics, he is a 45-year-old pervert, not a third grader. He cannot choose to be a different age. He is the age he is, and that&#8217;s all there is to it. It is either insanity or willful deception that causes him to make this claim about himself. We therefore are perfectly justified in refuting his self-identity and refusing to play along with it. More than merely justified, we are in fact morally obliged to insist on truth over harmful fantasies and delusions.
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But propagators of left-wing gender theory are not reasonable. Rather, they insist on unreason. They argue that a man can be a woman — not just symbolically or legally, but actually, literally — even in spite of the testimony of his own biological and chromosomal makeup. In the case of a man identifying as a woman, the only thing that matters, they say, is how he feels about himself. The objective facts are irrelevant. Biology is a moot point. He need provide no proof. We are to take him at his word, and that&#8217;s all there is to it.
Well, if biology and physical reality are irrelevant to the question of sex, why should they suddenly be relevant to the question of age? If Gobrick can identify as a female, why can&#8217;t he identify as a female of whatever age he chooses? At least a man who &#8220;feels like a child&#8221; can rightly point out that he was once a child, so he has some frame of reference for judging these feelings. And at least it does make sense, in the case of certain mental disabilities, to say that an adult &#8220;has the brain of a child.&#8221; None of this vindicates Gobrick to any extent at all, but my point is that transageism is actually more credible and makes more sense than transgenderism. It&#8217;s still bogus, but slightly less so. Age does change, after all. I will not be a 33-year-old man forever. But I will be a man forever. If my sex is a fluid characteristic, how much more fluid must my age be?
We have not yet gotten to the point where the Left will openly defend a man like Gobrick and his right to be accepted by society as the child he supposedly believes himself to be. But we will get to that point. We have to. They&#8217;ve already argued his case for him, even if they won&#8217;t admit it and maybe don&#8217;t yet realize it.

Female And Male Symbols

WALSH: Every Sane Person Saw This Coming. Now A Pedophile Claims He Identifies As An 8-Year-Old Girl.

Leftism

Pedophilia

Progressivism

A woman who once worked with troubled teens pleaded guilty last week to having sexual contact with a 13-year-old boy.
The woman, 30-year-old Amanda Shantay Williams, was listed as a “counselor” at Three Springs, a juvenile facility for troubled youths that was once located in Madison, Alabama, but has since moved its occupants to other facilities throughout the state. Despite her job title as counselor, defense attorney Robin Wolfe <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2020/01/former-three-springs-counselor-pleads-guilty-to-sex-with-13-year-old.html">told AL.com</a> that she had no formal training for such a position and that her duties were more in line with a day-care worker.
Williams was <a href="https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/2017/07/teacher_student_sex_alabama.html">first arrested</a> two years ago, in July 2017, and charged with two counts of engaging in sexual contact with a student under the age of 19. At the time, she faced up to 40 years in prison and the requirement to register as a sex offender.
&#8220;Amanda, a counselor at Sequel, gave oral sex to several boys, all under the age of 19 years, at that facility,” an investigator wore in court documents, according to AL. Those records also confirmed that the sexual activity occurred within a two-month period while Williams worked at the facility.
When her arrest was initially announced, Madison police said she had turned herself in, according to AL.
After her first arrest, Williams went on to be indicted on four felony charges: “three counts of having sexual contact with students and one count of second-degree sodomy,” AL reported. Last week, Williams pleaded guilty to one of the sodomy charges in exchange for dropping the other three charges. She took what’s known as a “blind plea,” which meant she didn’t reach a prearranged deal with prosecutors about a sentence.
Even with that lone charge, she faces up to 20 years in prison and registering as a sex offender for life. Since Williams is a woman, she likely won’t get anywhere near 20 years in prison – if she gets jail time at all.
Wolfe, the defense attorney, told AL that Williams has no prior criminal history and should be considered for probation instead of jail. The outlet reported that Williams is a single mother and no longer working with children.
“She hopes the court will see that she’s taking responsibility for her actions,” Wolfe told the outlet. “She’s remorseful, she’s embarrassed and she has good family support.”
Being a single mother shouldn’t excuse someone from their crimes. A man would never get the same treatment in a similar situation. Yet it appears as though the Madison County district attorney’s office may also try to spare Williams from jail.
Assistant district attorney Tim Douthit told AL that he wasn’t going to recommend any specific number of years for Williams to spend in prison.
“It’s going to be the judge’s call,” he told the outlet.
“I feel like I shouldn’t have to say this, but don’t have sex with a 13 year old,” Douthit said after Williams’ court hearing last week.
If the sentences for other women who have sexually abused children are any indication, there’s a good chance Williams will get only probation for her offenses.

Amanda Shantay Williams

‘Counselor’ Admits To Sexual Contact With 13-Year-Old Boy, May Only Get Probation

Alabama

A Warwick, Rhode Island, pastor admitted to falsely accusing a 13-year-old boy of raping his 13-year-old girlfriend and violating an order that prohibited him from contacting the girl.
Her false accusations against the boy led to him being held at a juvenile detention facility and being forced to wear an electronic monitoring device, The Providence Journal <a href="Rhode%20Island%20Training%20School">reported</a>. The pastor, Kelly Shannon, 48, is also a Christian rock singer, but what she has admitted to and has been accused of are anything but Christian.
Shannon pleaded “no contest” in exchange for reducing a charge of possessing child pornography down to a charge of “fraudulently using a computer to send and receive photographs,” the Journal reported.
Police found photos of a teenage boy’s erect penis on Shannon’s phone, The Metro <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/09/scheming-christian-rocker-48-avoids-jail-falsely-accusing-boy-13-rape-12033153/?ito=article.amp.share.top.twitter">reported</a>. The ordeal began when Shannon started helping the boy and his girlfriend with their homework and taking the boy out for various trips. At some point, Shannon performed a fake marriage ceremony for the young couple. The boy’s mother found out about the fake ceremony and took away his phone. Shannon reportedly bought him a new one, which the mother also found. The mother then got a restraining order against Shannon.
Shannon, according to the Journal, threatened the boy with arrest if his mother didn’t get the restraining order lifted.
This is when Shannon accused the young teenager of raping his girlfriend. She went so far as to tell the young girl what to say in order to back up the claims. Shannon is also accused, according to Metro, of making the girl perform sex acts with other young boys and coaching her on how to perform those acts. The girl reportedly told teachers at her school that Shannon had asked her to lie about being raped, prompting school officials to call the police.
Shannon has also been accused of taking nude photos of a female teenage relative, which she then reportedly passed around to young boys that she knew.
In court, the teenage boy said that he thought he was “a good judge of character, but at 13, I didn’t have the trust-your-gut instinct I wish I had.”
“[Shannon] was someone that mastered the art of deception and manipulation. I trusted her, an adult figure, and unknowingly over time became a victim in her web of lies,” the boy said, according to a transcript from Metro. “It would take a hundred pages to list all your lies, manipulations, and abuse of the legal and justice system. You may have a few years of punishment, but I have to live with what you did to me for the rest of my life.”
The Journal reported that they boy is now “suffering from PTSD, anxiety, anger and trust issues in the aftermath” of what Shannon had done to him.
So, what punishment did Shannon end up receiving for what she did? Essentially, nothing.
She was facing five years in prison (still a short amount of time for what she did) for the computer charge. Instead, she will serve 18 months on home confinement while the remaining three-and-a-half years were suspended with probation. She also received one year of home confinement for each of the false reports she made to police, but her sentences are to be served concurrently, meaning she only received two years of home confinement for falsely accusing a teenager of rape, possessing child pornography, and allegedly forcing a teenage girl to perform sex acts.
Shannon’s plea deal led to five additional charges being dropped, and most infuriating of all, she won’t have to register as a sex offender. No man in a similar position would get such a deal.

Teenage boy

Woman Who Falsely Accused A 13-Year-Old Of Rape And Allegedly Distributed Child Porn And Groomed A Teenage Girl For Sex Gets NO Jail Time

A Cleveland suburb was rocked Friday by an Amber Alert alleging a 12-year-old boy had been kidnapped.
Police immediately began searching for the missing boy and the suspects, 19 News <a href="https://www.cleveland19.com/2019/12/27/cleveland-police-search-year-old-boy-that-was-car-stolen-citys-west-side/">reported</a>. They found them driving the mother’s stolen 2008 Saturn Vue and pursued. The men crashed the car and tried to run, but they were apprehended.
Police then discovered that the child had not been kidnapped, and the mother made up the story to get police to look for her stolen car. The Amber Alert was cancelled with a notice that the mother had lied.
Cleveland Police Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia released a statement regarding the mother’s deception.
“Preliminary information indicates that this child was never in the car and was possibly at home the whole time,” Ciaccia said in the statement. “The officers on scene are going to be making reports due to the mother making false police reports. The case will be referred to the detective bureau for follow up &#8230;”
Ciaccia, according to 19 News, said the mother had not been charged. Ohio law allows the mother to be charged with a first-degree misdemeanor charge for filing a false police report.
The outlet reported that her 12-year-old boy was safe at home with his father during the whole ordeal.
19 News sent reporter Kelly Kennedy to the mother’s home in Cleveland’s East Side. When the reporter arrived, the mother was not keen to tell her side of the story.
“&#8217;Why are you here? And then you’re all talking about a hoax and all of that s**t! Can you get the f*** off my porch? I don’t even know how y’all know where I live at or none of that,&#8217; the mother said,” according to 19 News.
Kennedy then told the mother that “Police gave us that information.”
When the mother asked why Kennedy was at her home, the reporter said she wanted “to know if you filed a false police report.”
The mother said: “It’s not true.”
Kennedy then asked her several times if her son was in the car, as she told police. The mother just kept saying “It’s not true.”
Kennedy asked yet again: “Well, was your son in the car when it was stolen?”
The mother then closed her front door.
Women falsely claiming their children were abducted is nothing new. In September 2018, Florida mother Charisse Stinson told police her 2-year-old son had been kidnapped. The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/09/05/mom-who-claimed-son-was-kidnapped-admits-she-left-him-to-die-in-woods/">reported</a> at the time that Stinson later admitted that she had hit the boy, causing seizures, and then left him to die in the woods.
In July 2018, another Florida mom, Tammy Steffen, told police her former business partner had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-allegedly-faked-her-daughters-kidnapping-ashe-schow">tried to abduct her 12-year-old daughter</a>. Police later determined that Steffen staged the kidnapping to get back at the former business partner. Surveillance footage showed the man was in another city at the time of the alleged abduction attempt. More surveillance footage showed Steffen purchasing supplies later “discovered” as part of the abduction. Police suspected Steffen lied to get back at the former business partner because she believed he somehow prevented her from winning an online fitness contest.

Shadow of a boy

Woman Told Police Her Son Was Kidnapped So They Would Look For Her Stolen Car

Ohio

&#8220;Bombshell&#8221; actress Charlize Theron recently discussed her biologically male &#8220;transgender&#8221; child, asking people to use the &#8220;right&#8221; pronouns when they speak about seven-year-old Jackson.
&#8220;My daughter&#8217;s story is really her story, and one day, if she chooses, she&#8217;ll tell her story,&#8221; the actress told Pride Source, according to <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/actress-charlize-theron-says-she-would-appreciate-it-if-people-called-her-transgender-7-year-old-by-the-right-pronoun">TheBlaze</a>. &#8220;I feel like as her mother, for me, it was important to let the world know that I would appreciate it if they would use the right pronouns for her.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it became harder for us the older she got that people were still writing about her in the wrong pronouns, and also I was still talking about her in the press using the wrong pronoun,&#8221; Theron said. &#8220;It really hurt her feelings. I don&#8217;t want to be that mom, and that was really why I [revealed the news about Jackson] a while back.&#8221;
Jackson was adopted by Theron in 2012. Up until the child was three years old, the actress said in April, she wrongly thought Jackson was &#8220;a boy.&#8221; The child, according to Theron, is a girl.
&#8220;Yes, I thought she was a boy, too,&#8221; Theron told U.K. outlet <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6938233/Charlize-Theron-child-thought-boy-girl.html">The Daily Mail</a>. &#8220;Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said, &#8216;I am not a boy.'&#8221;
&#8220;My job as a parent is to celebrate them and to love them and to make sure that they have everything they need in order to be what they want to be,&#8221; the actress said of her children. &#8220;And I will do everything in my power for my kids to have that right and to be protected within that.&#8221;
Theron is not the only Hollywood celebrity to indulge his/her child&#8217;s seeming gender confusion.
In September, &#8220;Transformers&#8221; actress Megan Fox defended her decision to let her six-year-old son Noah wear dresses to school.
Speaking with “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/sara-gilbert-the-talk-conners-leaving" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Talk</a>,&#8221; &#8220;Fox said that her son sometimes wants to wear dresses to his &#8216;liberal, hippy&#8217; school, and she allows him to pick the outfit he desires despite the ridicule he faces from other boys,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megan-fox-defends-letting-her-6-year-old-son-wear-paul-bois">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
“Sometimes, he’ll dress himself and he likes to wear dresses, sometimes,” said the mother of three. “And I send him to a really liberal, hippy school, but even there — here in California — he still has little boys going, ‘Boys don’t wear dresses,’ or ‘Boys don’t wear pink.&#8217;”
“So we’re going through that now, where I’m trying to teach him to be confident no matter what anyone else says,” the &#8220;Jennifer&#8217;s Body&#8221; star continued.
“He had stopped wearing dresses for a while. He just wore one two days ago to school, and he came home and I was like, ‘How was it? Did any of the friends at school have anything to say?&#8217;” Fox explained. “And he was like, ‘Well, all the boys laughed when I came in, but I don’t care, I love dresses too much.&#8217; &#8230; He designs, he draws outfits. He’s very talented.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megan-fox-defends-letting-her-6-year-old-son-wear-paul-bois">Megan Fox Defends Letting Her 6-Year-Old Son Wear Dresses To School</a>

Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron Talks About Her 7-Year-Old ‘Transgender’ Child, Wants Folks To Use ‘Right’ Pronouns

On Thursday’s episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” the Daily Wire editor-in-chief talks about a New York Times column that the Christmas classic “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” is full of “queer code.” Video and partial transcript below: 
Apparently, The New York Times editorial page, when it&#8217;s not defending anti-Semitism coming from particular sources, is also a place for people to spill their feelings about their childhood struggles with sexuality. 
It’s amazing, half of editorial pages on the left-wing are now dedicated to people telling their personal stories about coming to grips with their own orientation, and it&#8217;s like, why? Okay, so what? Here&#8217;s the example. 
Jennifer Finney Boylan, who is a transgender woman, meaning a man who believes that he’s a woman, has a piece in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/opinion/rudolph-christmas-queer.html">The New York Times</a> called “Rudolph, The Queerest Holiday Special.”
<blockquote>It gets better for misfit reindeer, too.</blockquote>
So now we are to believe that a holiday special constructed in 1964 is actually a secret decoded message about being gay in America. So we have a long piece about why Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer is an inspiration to gay kids the world over. 
<blockquote>I&#8217;m sure that conservatives who love this old holiday chestnut will be infuriated by this suggestion.</blockquote>
Not infuriated, just puzzled why you would think that a holiday special constructed in 1964 is about gay rights — and also, why I would care how you interpret Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. This is like a trite entry from your journal, diary, in your &#8220;intersectional theory&#8221; class. But Jennifer Finney Boylan says:
<blockquote>But if you watch the show without understanding that it&#8217;s central conflict is the way people who are different are constantly shunned and humiliated — well, I don&#8217;t know what show you&#8217;re watching. </blockquote>
Well, what if that&#8217;s just a general message that applies to anyone who&#8217;s ever been bullied? I was viciously bullied in high school — that had nothing to do sexual orientation. A lot of kids are, but apparently everything is now about sexual orientation. 
<blockquote>Conservatives seem to miss the point of a lot of things having to do with Christmas, actually. Is it really possible that anyone can watch (or read) Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” without understanding its fundamental critique of capitalism?</blockquote>
“A Christmas Carol” is not really about capitalism so much as it is about the idea that capitalism doesn&#8217;t solve the problem of the need for charity. Again, this goes back to the fundamental point of the show, which is that free markets and liberty are wondrous, wondrous things. But, you also have to have an underlying social fabric in order to promote those things. 
<blockquote>As for “Rudolph,” the whole movie feels as LGBTQ-friendly to me as any episode of “Queer Eye” or “Steven Universe” or “The L Word.” </blockquote>
Except for the fact that Rudolph doesn&#8217;t, you know, like have sex with any of the other male reindeer. So aside from that, and the fact that it&#8217;s a children&#8217;s special — I am particularly tired of the hijacking of children&#8217;s literature &#8230; in order promote political viewpoints on sexual matters. It&#8217;s a piece of children&#8217;s literature, cut it out. 
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The Left likes to play this game a lot when it comes to TV. So what they will do is, for example, some members of the LGBTQ community will start saying that &#8220;SpongeBob Square Pants&#8221; is like a gay metaphor, and then people on the Right will be like, “What are you talking, that&#8217;s ridiculous. Like, stop it.” [Then the Left will say] “Aha, you&#8217;re upset by a children&#8217;s cartoons.&#8221; Like, well, no, you&#8217;re the ones who are hijacking a children&#8217;s cartoon to make a point about your own sexual orientation. 
I remember this was a big controversy in the early &#8217;90s when some members of the LGBTQ community were suggesting that some of the Teletubbies were gay. And so Jerry Falwell made a comment [paraphrasing], “Well, the Teletubbies aren&#8217;t gay and it&#8217;s silly to try and hijack children&#8217;s characters” and the Left was like, “Aha, trolled you.” 
How about this — how about you just leave the children&#8217;s literature alone, especially because you have a whole wing of children&#8217;s literature, we&#8217;ve talked about it on the show, that is specifically designed to promote these sexualized viewpoints for children. Can’t you just leave Rudolph alone? He&#8217;s got enough problems than you putting your your own issues with sexual orientation on his fragile flying back.
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