> A gender recognition certificate does not make you a woman.
> A British passport does not make you British.
> Painting your nails & having long hair does not make you a woman.
> Behaving in the right way does not make you British.
Stop ignoring biological reality.
This is one of the most beloved paintings in America, and it puts its finger on something we all pass through, first as the child, and one day as the parent left behind...
The painting is Breaking Home Ties, by Norman Rockwell, on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1954. A father and his teenage son sit side by side on the running board of a battered farm truck, waiting at a railway stop. A single track runs along the bottom of the picture. A ticket pokes from the boy's pocket. His suitcase is stacked with schoolbooks and wears a "State U" pennant. The train is coming to carry him off to college, away from home, for the first time in his life.
Everything is in the way they sit.
The son sits upright, scrubbed and dressed in his best, eyes fixed on the horizon, on the track, on the future rushing toward him. He is already half gone. For him that train is the beginning of everything.
His father sits beside him in worn work clothes and scuffed boots, looking the other way, down the line, as if he cannot bear to watch it arrive. The same train means the opposite thing to him. For the son it is the start of a life. For the father it is the day the house grows quieter, the chair at the table sits empty, and the person he built his world around walks out into a life that no longer has him at its centre.
Look at his hands. He is holding two hats. His own battered one, and resting on top of it, his son's crisp new one, held carefully together, because it is the last small thing he can still do for the boy...
And then the dog, its head laid in the son's lap, gazing up, refusing to look away. Rockwell knew exactly what that was for: "The father couldn't show how he felt about the boy's leaving," he said. "The dog did."
It has moved people for 70 years because every leaving is a beginning for one person and an ending for another. The child steps out into the world, as they should. And someone stays behind, watching them go, and loving them enough to let them go anyway...
Peter Tatchell believes that it is fine for adult men to sexually abuse 9-year-old boys, and that the boys enjoy it. He is a long-time apologist and advocate for child sexual abuse, and yet is seen by some as a 'national treasure'. Article (from last year) in reply:
11./ We look back now with disgust at how the media and Establishment fawned over Jimmy Savile. One day soon we will surely do the same about the way they treat with kid gloves Tatchell, a man who celebrates boy-raping tribesmen and defends child abuse in letters to newspapers.
Coun Harker said: “On the doors, everyone was saying go for it, really happy or it just didn’t really cop to them that I was a trans person running for office, which is nice…….” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@HumzaYousaf For decades that attitude, the way you deliberately phrased that post to blame me for such unacceptable violence, helped to enable the mass rape of vulnerable white young girls by gangs of mainly Pakistani Muslims.
It won't work anymore, Humza.
American patriot @Asmongold read our entire Rape Gang Inquiry report to his millions of subscribers over seven hours.
He has already done more than the entire British media establishment.
An incredible effort.
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@Docstockk @ThePosieParker@spikedonline@bindelj It was always going to be a class thing, wasn't it? Horrible vulgar me and Kellie, not *uni* material, against You Lot. Have at it, varlets!
“I'd rather be called racist all day long than stand back and watch my fellow people get their heads hacked off by a 50 IQ foreigner from an African shithole.”
Important Restore Britain news - we are now well over 90,000 members and on track for 100,000 within two weeks of the party's launch.
I am asking for your help - a big push to get us over the 100,000 line. Send to friends/family.
Let's make history.
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