The Jocks Are Going To Save Us, One Defiant Grin At A Time
By: Elle Purnell (The Federalist)
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Footage went viral on Tuesday of 12-year-old Jaiden Rodriguez of Colorado Springs defying a catty school administrator's orders to remove a backpack with a Gadsden Flag patch or be barred from going back to class. Jaiden, sporting a button-down shirt beneath his camouflage backpack, a sharp haircut, and a defiant smirk, can be seen patiently listening to his mom shut down the administrator's contrived excuses.
Meet 12yo Jaiden who was kicked out of class yesterday in Colorado Springs for having a Gadsden flag patch, which the school claims has "origins with slavery."
The school's director said via email that the patch was "disruptive to the classroom environment."
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The contrast between the petty administrator and the middle-schooler couldn't be more stark. One represents a class of power-hungry HOA president types whose greatest joy in the world is to use the government to make you do what they want you to, often because no one else in their lives will listen to them. These are the type of people who would track you down in the grocery store during the era of Covid mandates and shame you for not strapping toxic paper cancer receptacles to your face. They are the Fani Willises of the world, begging to be relevant and happy to bring the republic down in order to fulfill their girlboss fantasies. They might have an autistic teenager arrested because they get their feelings hurt. They would definitely livestream their reluctant child's transgender "journey" for likes.
The other represents the people who not only reject these self-appointed microaggression police, but smile confidently while doing it. They may even smile in the mugshots they have to take when the first class of people inevitably come after them. They will fight the regime with mockery, self-confidence, and, above all, the fact that they really don't care what those people say they're supposed to think or say or do. This, obviously, drives the first group of people crazy.
The second group includes guys like Marcus Schroeder, another respectful, clean-cut young man who smiled in the faces of his bureaucratic bullies. Schroeder was arrested for publicly reading scripture in protest of a drag queen event for children (yes, you read that right). Instead of drooling out a shame-induced apology, he responded by showing up to a city council meeting and defiantly preaching the Gospel.
Of course, the categories aren't always neatly broken down by sex. But, as you might have noticed, there's a large population of intolerable women running the asylum. (If you're wondering why, read this book.) Women are overwhelmingly overrepresented in HR, administrative services, education, community services, and social work, sectors with higher rates of petty rules to enforce. As you also may have noticed, men — especially young ones — have a greater tendency to challenge those rules.
Consider how men reacted to the horrible Covid theater rituals compared to women. "A previous meta-analysis concluded that women were 50% more likely than men to engage in nonpharmaceutical protective behaviors (e.g., mask-wearing) during epidemics and pandemics, and in the COVID-19 pandemic, women report wearing masks more often than men," according to a 2020 study published by the National Institutes of Health. Another study, sampled from eight major Western countries, found that "women were more likely to agree" to levy draconian policing measures like "closing schools," "using cellular phones to trace people's movements," and "prohibiting meetings of two or more people" on their neighbors, as well as even forcing Covid-infected people into "quarantine away from home," whatever kind of government prison that's a euphemism for.
Dudes are leaning more conservative, too. According to the federal Monitor The Future survey, 12th-grade boys "are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative versus liberal." Among senior girls, the trend was the opposite.
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Why are young boys being turned off by left-wing ideology? Could it be they're sick of being told that their masculinity is oppressive and evil, that women run the world, and that the best boys are actually girls? Are they maybe getting sick of having their thoughts and actions dictated by babysitters in middle management?
In a world run by left-wing backpack patch police, the boys get a rough shake. Everything is their fault, and the prototype they're supposed to follow is somewhere between Chasten Buttigieg and Dylan Mulvaney. Contrast that to the varsity paradise that New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg is worried about Chris Rufo bringing to a college near you:
The end of gender studies and the special treatment given to incoming athletes are part of the same project, masculinizing a place that had been heavily feminist, artsy and queer.
"Gender Studies Is Out, Jocks Are In," declared the headline about the New College of Florida. Quelle horreur!
Even though the left-leaning co-eds feign disgust at such displays of testosterone, a lot of them might not hate having fit, tanned, masculine men around campus. Just ask TikToker @ms_petch, who bemoaned how "As a liberal woman, it is really hard to find a man who's willing to play the more traditional masculine role in the relationship in today's day and age who is not a conservative."
Women want them; androgynous gender studies majors want to be them.
This class of jocks — or chads, as my younger brother has informed me they're called these days — are the antidote to the ills feminism hath wrought. They understand whose opinions matter and whose disapproval should be worn as a badge of pride. The talent of being confidently unbothered by the woke scolds — and even daring to be so with defiant swagger — is kryptonite to the people who want nothing more than to bother you.
Of course, we need gutsy women too (like Jaiden's mom!) to fight back against the tinpot teachers union totalitarians. But in a society that's been bottomed out by domineering feminists and cowardly men, the boys and their air of cheery defiance are uniquely positioned to help save us.
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I never thought I'd be cheering on aggressive young boys, but it is the end of the line for our culture.
Culture is organic and what one may call American culture is far from the end of any line no matter what 'conservative' dystopians such as both author and seeder would grift/sell to their stash of the head-washed.
But, perhaps the seeder is correct, Ms. Purnell is not shy of once again trotting out her favorite red-meat words and phrases that litter all of her writings. The author is an anachronism in a footrace with the seeder.
American culture is alive and vibrant, do not let the trolling-dead tell you otherwise.
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I guess you could call a Canadian, who not only likes America better but also has more faith in her than a host of Americans do, psycho. Guilty as charged, bring on the tar and feathers, they're atop your petard!
You could get a gun...
gee, I sure hope he doesn't lose his maga pocket protector when he gets his ass kicked after school... /s
colorado springs is the bible thumping shithole of colorado which leads the state in child molestation, spousal abuse, and teenage pregnancy per capita. go figure.
we weren't allowed to wear anything anti war or anti nixon when I was in school 50+ years ago. so we grew our hair down to our shoulders and wore army surplus military clothing.
Now, now the lad was just sporting his favorite Alex Keaton look.
past memories of what happened to young republicans when I was in school always makes me smile.
We jocks regularly did a number on those wimpy liberal sissies
we publicly humiliated them in school, charged them double for drugs, and humped their girlfriends on saturday night because they were still drugged out and hung over from friday night...
There are 30 Colorado towns with violent crime than Colorado Springs. Keep figuring.
the crimes I listed usually aren't reported by thumpers...
Let me guess.
You made that up.
Why not just say that they don't fit your narrative?
So you no sources to back up your claim, just idle speculation.
That school in CO that did that to the kid with the Gadsden patch really screwed the pooch, finally came to their collective damn senses, and rescinded the punishment and allowed the patch to remain.
as usual, rwnj's only tell part of the story. even colorado's liberal gay governor came out in defense of the jr trumpster's teabag flag displayed on his backpack, at a rwnj charter school. it was all his gun patches that were removed off his backpack. that little shit wasn't even alive when the unamerican teabag scum first defamed that flag. the designer of that flag, gadsden, was a slave trader.
So?
So was many others during that time...
Including...gasp.....liberals
Hell, most of THEM are STILL pissed their slaves were freed in 1865
Well, by golly, I'll not stand in the way of your faux poutrage over something a couple of centuries old!
The "purpose" of the Gadsden flag is over 200 years old too. Using your "logic" the flag should be irrelevant today because it's inception was 200 years ago.
It never fails - right wingers want to use symbolism from the Founding era because it makes them feel patriotic, but they reject facts from the same era that point out racism and slavery.
Look, if you want to be on the wrong side of this, I won't stop you.
Even the school admitted it was wrong, why can't you?
Imagine being so fragile that the sight of a patch causes you to lash out at a child.
pffft, I'm happy that [deleted] publicly identify themselves. the school probably drew the line earlier on the kid wearing the tinfoil hat his parents sent him to school in... /s
The article’s premise that high school boys aspire to be real men and that’s why they’re conservative is suspect. In the ’60s, my dad and uncles taught me that a man doesn’t brag, bully, complain, lie or shirk responsibility; they all walked that. None of them lived to see the Trump presidency. Would they have found a man who continuously *displays* all of those attributes worthy of support? Maybe it’s Trump’s immaturity that is the real enticer. I remember reading a quote that “18 year old boys are still giving each other wedgies, whereas 18 year old girls can function as adults.”
Any allusion that jocks automatically brag, bully, complain, lie or shirk responsibility is ridiculous.
Absolutely ridiculous.
Not what I wrote at all. I pointed out some of Trump’s bad attributes, ones which are signs of immaturity. Then I pointed out that 18 year old boys are immature whereas 18 girls can function as adults. Auto insurance rates are a good indicator of this. Girls’ rates are lower than boys at 18, but when boys get to 25, their rates drop. The reason for this is that the part of a boy’s brain responsible for mature decision making develops more slowly.
If you look at the graphs in the seed, the male/female data points bounce around until the Trump presidency. Then boys go conservative and girls go liberal. Trump's immaturity, lack of impulse control, and all the attributes I listed above would really impress the immature boys, probably a lot of men as well. The girls on the other hand, see the obvious immaturity. To boys Trump represents the kind of freedom they think is reasonable. The girls see an immature idiot, the person responsible for their loss of body autonomy. I don’t think the graphs are surprising at all.
at my high school we totally fucked over the straight arrow jocks with endless public humiliation. it was fun...
Yeah we loved you as well.
Few could take the bitchslaps they had coming like men.
Straight to the principles office they went like the little bitches they were.
Good times, really good times.
Didn't the nerdy little boys always hate the jocks?
Not at my schools.
Some of my best friends were nerds. Hell I was a nerd that just happened to be good at sports as well.
I always found the practice of labeling people like that to be rather sophomoric.