We Need To Get Women Out Of Men’s Spaces:
It’s not natural or normal for women to be police officers, or soldiers, or firefighters. And we don’t have to pretend otherwise.
There’s a lot to say about the disturbing footage of a violent mob beating a man and woman in downtown Cincinnati, but one thing that shouldn’t go unsaid is that the outrageous and offensive response from Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge is yet another reminder that we should get women out of men’s spaces — and out of men’s professions.
Policing is a man’s profession. So is soldiering, and commercial fishing, and underwater welding, and so on. That’s not to say women shouldn’t be able to serve in clerical roles in a police force or in the military, but they have no business leading police departments or being deployed into combat areas.
This is, or should be, a commonplace observation. But ever since the sexual revolution of the 1960s and the rise of feminism, we’re all supposed to pretend that women can do any job that men can do. What nonsense.
Take for example the spectacle of Theetge, an older, overweight woman who is somehow the chief law enforcement officer of a major American city. In a press conference this week about the violence in downtown Cincinnati, Theetge scolded the news media and the public for sharing and commenting on video footage of the incident posted on social media. The footage, she said, didn’t “depict the entire incident,” and showed only “one version of what occurred.”
In an imperious, irritated tone, Theetge then complained that social media commentary and news coverage of the video are making her job harder. The video, Theetge claimed, “distorts the content of what actually happened, and it makes our job more difficult.” Of course she didn’t say how it distorted what happened, or why online commentary would make the incident harder to investigate. Pressed by a reporter on what exactly the video footage distorted, Theetge gave a non-answer, saying, “it just shows one side of the equation … without factual context.”
What was this missing context? She didn’t say. But her meaning was clear enough. Theetge doesn’t want people viewing or commenting on the video because of the racial element to the attack: a mob of black people attacking two white people and knocking the woman out cold. For anyone who has seen the video, no special context is needed to understand what’s being depicted. A black mob is attacking a white man, the person filming it is reveling in the attack, and when a white woman steps in to help the man, she gets punched in the face and goes down unconscious.
It’s disturbing footage that shows mob violence in a downtown that appears to be totally lawless, with zero police presence in the area — despite the fact that there was a major music festival underway nearby that night. Yet instead of taking responsibility for her department’s failure and condemning the attack against the woman in particular, Theetge is concerned about the perception of the incident on social media, that it might create an impression that runs contrary to social justice and left-wing nostrums about race in America. So she emotionalizes the entire thing, refusing to answer direct questions about what context is missing from the video. Here is the longhouse at work, lecturing us about our potential emotional responses to violence rather than dealing with the violence itself. --->READ MORE HERE
LAFD’s $300K-per-year diversity chief sparks fury for defending DEI by blaming the victim: ‘He got himself in the wrong place’:
As Los Angeles battles its worst fires in history, the fire department’s highly paid diversity head is facing an inferno of backlash after a bizarre comment surfaced in which she appears to defend DEI hiring by blaming victims.
In a video defending the department’s DEI hiring practices, Deputy Chief Kristine Larson — who heads the Equity and Human Resources Bureau — addressed accusations that female firefighters aren’t strong enough to carry a man out of a burning building.
Her response: “He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.”
The video went viral on social media after the fire department was caught off guard and ill-prepared when an outbreak of wildfires began to tear through the Pacific Palisades — one of the oldest and wealthiest neighborhoods in the city — last week.
The Palisades Fire, the most devastating in California history, has already incinerated 26,000 acres (40 square miles), including some of the most expensive real estate in the country.
Early cost estimates for all the wildfires in Southern California are $135 billion to $150 billion — which would top the damage from any hurricane to hit the US except Katrina.
Critics argue that the LAFD had been too preoccupied with DEI vanity projects to properly staff and equip its firefighters — projects that Larson was paid $307K to manage in 2023, according to salary database Transparent California.
“Los Angeles Fire Department Assistant Chief Kristine Larson says when people’s houses are burning down, they want a firefighter to show up who looks like them. Hot take: People just want someone to show up who will stop their house from burning down,” wrote conservative influencer Collin Rugg in an X post containing the infamous video. --->READ MORE HERE
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