K.G. writes:

Thank you for your dedicated efforts to spread truth and common sense. I have learned a great deal from your site.

We can kiss goodbye to the notion that our public libraries can be trusted to protect the innocence of our children. I found this notice in the latest issue of “Ames Living,” a magazine dedicated to promoting local business and events from a typical Midwestern college town in Iowa.

“One special event offered to teens in November is the Teen Drag Show. Teens ages 14 through 20 are welcome to strut their stuff at the library’s drag show on Saturday, Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. in the auditorium. They can come to perform or just to enjoy the show, food and mingling. To sign up for the show or get more details, teens can go to www.amespubliclibrary.org.”

What can we do to fight this insanity?

Laura writes:

Thank you for the appreciation.

Libraries don’t exactly aspire to be temples of wisdom today. Temples of junk is more like it. Previous posts on public libraries can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, here here, and here. I especially recommend the posts by Alan.

You can write to the library, of course, and express your displeasure. Not that it will make much difference, but still it’s important to speak up and to show your children you are not afraid to object. There’s hatred for innocence out there — and organized, well-funded forces to destroy it. The event is done and over with now and there was probably nothing you could do to stop it, but you should register strong complaint.

Also remember: you have reality on your side.

You and your husband are a man and a woman. All the organized and orchestrated drag shows in the world can’t change the fact that male and female are very different. Innately different. Psychologically different.

Fortunately, your children are not insane. They are able to reason.

Here’s my suggestion: Don’t appeal to their good sense on the basis of things not being what they were when you were younger. That will not be persuasive to them. They know they live in a different time.

The 20th-century psychologist Rudolf Allers, in his book Forming Character in Adolescents, wrote:

When the older generation wishes to enforce its authority, it very often refers to its own experiences. This, however, is an argument which generally leaves the adolescent quite cold; he is not impressed at all by experience undergone by older people. In this feeling, he is, indeed, not altogether wrong. Experience does not represent something uniform and objective; its value depends very much on the person who has undergone the experience.

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The adolescent may be very unwilling to recognize authority, but he is generally accessible to reason. If an appeal is made to his own independent reasoning, he may be brought to see the necessity of authority in general and of parental authority in particular.

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In all its behavior youth is greatly determined by emotions, by moods, by likings and dislikings, by a variety of “irrational” impulses. But youth is also accessible to reason, and makes use of reason quite frequently when it wishes to criticize the older generation and prove it to be wrong. This accessibility to reason means, of course, not that one may make a young person see simply by displaying before him all the arguments in favor of one’s own and contrary to his position. Reason even the most convincing, seldom overcomes emotion and mood all of a sudden. It is only by repeated attacks that the fortress of mood may be taken by reason. Inefficient though logic may prove at first and even for quite a long time, it is nevertheless the only means we have at our disposal to make the adolescent “see reason.”

[Rudolf Allers, Forming Character in Adolescents; Roman Catholic Books, originally published in 1940; p. 73; pp. 77-78]

More good advice can be found in his book.

Adolescents have their own way of looking at the world. They often side with the perceived underdog and, of course, with their peers. You might explain to your children that the whole “transgender fad” is a form of political control — which is the truth. The underdogs are the people who are being persuaded by it. They are being tricked. It’s in the interest of powerful people who want to conquer America to create confusion. Confused people are easier to control. Men and women are strong as men and women. They are weak as cross-dressers. Try to help your children understand the forces of propaganda. That’s exactly what they don’t want: manipulation.

You and they are looking at the world from different perspectives, but essences never change — and the essential things can unite you through reason. Be prepared to make many blunders as you try to guide your children through this difficult world. Admit your failures and be confident, without minimizing the dangers, that sanity has its own powers of persuasion.

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