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The Woke Never Rest… Because It’s Hard to Keep Up

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James A. Bacon
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James Madison University already has a Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program. Now three WGSS professors are proposing creation of an “LGBTQ” studies minor, reports The Breeze student newspaper.

The program, which must undergo a lengthy approval process, would give students “access to a quality minor that would give them insight into queer lives,” says WGSS prof Kristen Kelley.

Sounds to me like JMU has a long way to catch up.

Consider that Virginia Military Institute, a military academy for chrissake, refers to “LGBTQIA+” in its diversity, equity and inclusion program. The “I” stands for intersex, and “A” for asexual, aromantic, or agender, according to Google. Not only that, VMI adds a plus sign to cover any permutations of sexuality and gender the other letters leave out.

Why no “I,” “A” or plus sign, JMU?

I’ll admit, wokism mutates faster than cockroaches after a nuclear war, so it’s hard to keep up. But, really, a gender program with only five letters? C’mon, JMU, you’ve got to up your game!

— JAB

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63 responses to “The Woke Never Rest… Because It’s Hard to Keep Up”

  1. Acbar Avatar
    Acbar

    Twenty-one letters to go. But only one pronoun.

    1. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      I’m proud of ya. That’s funny and nearly snarky.

  2. Nancy Naive Avatar
    Nancy Naive

    Virginian Republicans are able to confront a pressing problem, identify an optimal solution, eliminate it, and exhaustively begin trying anything else before concluding that the problem is simply a failure to understand the situation because of CRT, LBGTQ, DE&I, or some other combination of a few capital letters. All of this is, of course, remedied with a Confederate flag or statue.

    1. Lefty665 Avatar
      Lefty665

      The Dem solution, aka “The Northam Way” is blackface and klan robes. If they got together with the Repubs and the stars and bars it would be a bipartisan remedy, but maybe not better for the people of Virginia.

      1. Bruce Majors Avatar
        Bruce Majors

        Many Democrats look better covered in a sheet or a can of paint. Perhaps there should be tax credits or subsidies for this. Or for burkas and hijabs.

    2. Randy Huffman Avatar
      Randy Huffman

      That last insult is flat out unwarranted and you know it. See my response to Larry below. You can do better.

      1. Nancy Naive Avatar
        Nancy Naive

        What insult?

      2. LarrytheG Avatar
        LarrytheG

        Hey, Randy, THIS is weak tea compared to Conservative “talk” these days, no?

        1. Nancy Naive Avatar
          Nancy Naive

          He left his hammer at Paul’s house.

          1. Randy Huffman Avatar
            Randy Huffman

            Here you go again, your proving my point.

          2. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            Actually, I thought I was nailing it.

          3. Lefty665 Avatar
            Lefty665

            So did DePepe. Does that make you an accessory after the fact, or a copy cat?

  3. Fred Costello Avatar
    Fred Costello

    If sex determines gender, then biological science identifies only two genders. If gender has nothing to do with sex, the word “gender” has no meaning.

    1. LarrytheG Avatar
      LarrytheG

      It’s the real world and we have trouble understanding it and describing it but it is real.

    2. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      SCOTUS says sex does not determine gender. What meaning do you want gender to have? Of course, you could go extreme. Is it le sex or la sex?

      1. Lefty665 Avatar
        Lefty665

        Depends on whether you’re the f*er or the f*ee.

    3. Nathan Avatar
      Nathan

      Gender identity as I understand it relies on personhood which is separate from one’s physical body. That is by definition – metaphysical.

      It certainly smacks of religion to me. Additionally, it has become the state religion in many places.

      The same people who have fought so hard over the years to have religion removed from schools, now insist that their beliefs and dogma be not only taught, but required.

  4. James McCarthy Avatar
    James McCarthy

    I don’t know. Seems to me the woke had previously been asleep while the unwoke defined everything. Then conservatives discovered the injustice and they, too, became woke. Both ends of the political spectrum are now woke at the same time. A miracle.

    1. Lefty665 Avatar
      Lefty665

      “Both ends of the political spectrum are now woke at the same time. A miracle.”

      You’re just making stuff up. As we discussed yesterday you have created an oxymoron and self identified with it, although you are mostly anaerobic. You would benefit if you paid attention to JABs above discussion of the term in response to your and Larry’s misuse of English and clean up your act.

      Repeating prior inanities won’t get you another silly walk award.

      1. James McCarthy Avatar
        James McCarthy

        Shucks, you spoil the fun. Why is woke conservative oxymoronic? Is the application of the term woke not itself appropriated from a usage by American blacks?

        1. Lefty665 Avatar
          Lefty665

          For the 2nd time read JAB above, and don’t ask me to explain your stupidity.

          1. James McCarthy Avatar
            James McCarthy

            Splain the stupidity. Hep me to ejicate me self. JAB lost me about cockroaches, nuclear war, and mutation. Dont know much biology as Paul Simon sang. Don’t conservatives mutate? Or only procreate?

          2. Lefty665 Avatar
            Lefty665

            For the 3rd time, from JAB above: “woke” was a term the woke bestowed upon themselves, and it was not an insult to them. Conservatives picked up the term as a handy way to identify the people who… called themselves woke.

          3. Lefty665 Avatar
            Lefty665

            Not only are you not educatable you’re not even trainable. You make stupid stuff up.

            Sadly it does not make it to silly walk status so you don’t even get bennies for being simple minded but entertaining.

          4. James McCarthy Avatar
            James McCarthy

            You’re deflecting by attacking the questioner. All that was requested was a source citation. JAB is not a source.

          5. Matt Adams Avatar
            Matt Adams

            Even when you point out directly to him that he’s wrong, his partisan attitudes and sheer ego will not let me acknowledge his error.

  5. LarrytheG Avatar
    LarrytheG

    The difference between how conservatives dealt with homosexuality , then later, same-sex marriage and now, is they found some new name-calling words like “woke”.

    Other than that, it’s the same folks with the same inability to deal with the real world and as it is and just deny.

    1. Randy Huffman Avatar
      Randy Huffman

      To use a line from Reagan, “here you go again”. You and many others complain many Conservatives use the word Woke to name call Progressives.

      How often do you push back when Progressives call conservatives racists, white supremacists, fascists, Russian assets, election deniers, accuse them of killing democracy, warmongers, extreme MAGA, misongynists, Teabagger, Trumpster, and thanks to Nancy above, puts all Virginia Republican’s in the category of remedying their issues with a statue or confederate flag.

      No, many (not all) Progressive Democrats are the ones who have a problem dealing with the real world. Woke is an accurate one word description of them, and they deserve it.

      1. James McCarthy Avatar
        James McCarthy

        The concept of “woke conservative” covers the notion because they are aware of injustice.

        1. LarrytheG Avatar
          LarrytheG

          yep.

          1. James McCarthy Avatar
            James McCarthy

            But Lefty cites JAB as the authority that woke was self bestowed by the woke upon the woke.

      2. LarrytheG Avatar
        LarrytheG

        the name calling does go both ways but “woke” has become the de-facto standard for Conservatives these days.

        The REAL WORLD is the world that exists whether we like it or not – homosexuality, transgender, kids who are abused by their parents, climate change, Covid, valid elections… etc… won’t find too many progressive in denial about these things.

        1. Randy Huffman Avatar
          Randy Huffman

          Were talking over each other, but if you believe conservatives are the ones who initiated this name calling crap and are at primary fault for this, your not living in the real world.

          1. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            Randy – I’m sure you are aware of social media and the conversations on social media.

            Lies, misinformation, conspiracy theories and more.

            Do you think it’s progressives that are doing this?

            Can you give me an example of a progressive conspiracy theory that is being spread on social media?

          2. Randy Huffman Avatar
            Randy Huffman

            I already did, but your not listening.

          3. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            try again then – I’m listening now….

          4. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            Huh?

          5. Randy Huffman Avatar
            Randy Huffman

            Listen Larry, your going to use whatever I present as a means to keep arguing. I said my piece, I’m done. Just go over my exchange with you and Nancy, there is plenty there.

          6. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            Yeah, but who are you and why should we care?

          7. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            what were you saying about “debate”?

            I think you do know where the disinformation and conspiracy theories ARE coming from , guy.

            The Jan 6 folk , pizza gate, Alex Jones, The My Pillow guy, the guy who went after Pelosi… the election deniers… etc..

        2. James A. Bacon Avatar
          James A. Bacon

          Larry, you do realize, don’t you, that “woke” was a term the woke bestowed upon themselves, and it was not an insult to them. Conservatives picked up the term as a handy way to identify the people who… called themselves woke.

          1. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            yes, but Conservatives bastardized it in their usual way… right?

          2. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            It allows them to remember the ‘good ol’ days of James Crow.

          3. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            It allows them to remember the ‘good ol’ days of James Crow.

          4. James McCarthy Avatar
            James McCarthy

            OMG!!! Dems shot off their own damned foot. Where and when did Dems self immolate with woke?

          5. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            That’s sounds good. What’s the word? Truthy?

            Well, whaddya know it was a term from the civil rights era. That ‘splains why the right would co-opt it.

          6. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            The original use of “woke” on the left is NOTHING LIKE how the right is using the word!

            And I’m quite sure JAB “knows” it!

          7. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            Kinda like the n-word.

          8. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            Actually, the word originated in the civil rights movement among black Americans fighting for equal rights. They won with Brown v. Board of Education and CRA. This is a way for the Right to remind themselves of that and “fight back”.

          9. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            totally NOT how JAB is using it……..

          10. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            Really? Where does the Right stand on the CRA? Larry, this IS the South and they long for, and display their loyalty to, a country that NEVER existed, The CSA.

          11. James McCarthy Avatar
            James McCarthy

            Does that not make conservatives woke?

          12. Lefty665 Avatar
            Lefty665

            Not

          13. James McCarthy Avatar
            James McCarthy

            Why not?

          14. James McCarthy Avatar
            James McCarthy

            I am unable to locate a source to confirm your assertion that the woke bewoked themselves. Mind sharing that iteration? Thanks

          15. WayneS Avatar
            WayneS

            This provides a brief history of “woke”.

            https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/05/27/a-brief-history-of-woke/

      3. Nancy Naive Avatar
        Nancy Naive

        For one, that’s not name-calling. It’s Conservative inclusiveness.

    2. Bruce Majors Avatar
      Bruce Majors

      Actually relatively conservative authors, like Andrew Sullivan, David Lampo, and Jonathan Rauch, wrote the early books arguing for gay marriage. Libertarian billionaires like Paul Singer funded the marriage equality campaign. A Republican lawyer, Ted Olson, argued the case for marriage equality before the Supreme Court. Obama and Hillary, when campaigning, said the opposed gay marriage. Far left gays (and straights) opposed gay marriage because they opposed marriage as an institution. Only after the Supreme Court decided the case to Democrat politicians jump on board in large numbers.

      1. LarrytheG Avatar
        LarrytheG

        In general for mainstream types… typically Conservatives who are not gay or trans themselves are not exactly supportive and empathetic, etc… hostile and “anti”… no?

        1. Bruce Majors Avatar
          Bruce Majors

          The Libertarians talked about being for gay marriage back in the mid-70s.

  6. Jake Spivey Avatar
    Jake Spivey

    I don’t care who ‘y’ar.
    Jim,
    That’s FUNNY!
    (with apologies to Larry the Cable Guy)

  7. Bruce Majors Avatar
    Bruce Majors

    Back when I was a college student you could learn about queer lives for free, even if you weren’t in school, as an extracurricular activity.

    1. LarrytheG Avatar
      LarrytheG

      Gays have always known who was “gay” in most social settings…right?

      Many liberals seem to catch on quick but Conservatives not so much.

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