Library Grooming (It's not just Drag Queen Story Hour)

The beautiful and entertaining YooToober Shoe0nHead, in the context of the Balenciaga business, adds another entry to her long-running rear-guard, heroic, and ultimately doomed effort to police the boundaries of Alphabetitude from the "P"s. You know who you are.

Shoe's contention that thus extending the Alphabet represents an inauthentic infiltration requires a constrained knowledge of history (which should be forgiven; is she even old enough to drink), even the history during my own lifetime. In her autobiography The Last Closet, Moira Greyland gives chapter-and-verse of how our post-1970s characterization of modal LGBTQ behavior as being between adult peers ignores how the sexualization of children was always part of its agenda. It may have been expedient to suppress this history during the push for gay marriage, but we are watching the withdrawal of that suppression in real time.

The other night, it idly occurred to me that while I had seen many references to it, at the time and over the years, I had never seen the 1985 Michael J. Fox movie Teen Wolf. So I went looking for it on Kanopy. Kanopy is a movie streaming service usually made available for free through local public libraries. (Full disclosure: I subscribe to exactly none of the paid movie streaming services and have not resubscribed to cable).

As it happens, Kanopy doesn't currently stream Teen Wolf, but it's algorithm was happy to offer me alternatives:

If it's not obvious from their cover art, every single one of these movies is LGBTQ-themed. Let that sink in for a second. The movie recommendation algorithm of a movie streaming service offered, without any age filtering, through your public library, upon receiving a request for Teen Wolf, decides to ignore the "wolf" part of the request and interpret "teen" to mean that the viewer must want to watch half-naked young boys sexually cavort with each other in thinly-veiled p***-bait. So, yes, your children are being groomed, and by no less than taxpayer-funded organs of culture.

To be fair, our library also offers a second streaming service, Hoopla, that apparently doesn't have this problem:

Granted, I didn't search read the description for every movie, but the cover art suggests the first page of results leans heavily into wolfishness, while I could only find one LGBTQ-themed recommendation on the second page. So, Hoopla is less gay.

The Shadowban Files

I never had a lot of interaction on Twitter. Someone would like one of my tweets or, briefly, follow my channel until they figured out my tweets under the #diversity hashtag were actually counter-narrative (weirdly, this wasn't immediately obvious to them) maybe once a week. But even this limited traffic stopped cold on June 23, 2017 when Steve Sailer liked one of my retweets (which may or may not be related; Steve had liked my tweets before with no apparent effect). I gamely continued posting regularly to Twitter through 2019, and sporadically in 2020, before realizing there wasn't any point anymore to howling into the void; that, and deciding that as the counter-extremism push accelerated in 2021, the ride wasn't worth the risk.

One interesting follower I picked up about a month before my engagement dropped was Infosys Foundation USA, "Supporting greater access and inclusion in Computer Science education." I always thought that was weird. They're obviously not fellow-travelers, but also not obviously tracking every right-leaning blogger on the internet. So I don't know.

But now that St. Musk has opened a portal to its inner workings, I am middling curious as to the exact circumstances under which my apparent shadowbanning at Twitter was ordered. As I understand it, its internal emails have only been released to select journalists, not the internet at large, but if anyone can tell me how I could look this up, I would appreciate it.