Old story, but new to us and indicative of the culture with which we find ourselves wrestling. A tale from the people’s Republik of Wokeistan and one of its purveyors of the progressive pestilence, the public libraries.
Libraries.
There was a time not long ago when people predicted that brick and mortar libraries were vestigial structures not long for the modern age. But much like the paperless office™ or sea-level rise, the prognosticators got it wrong, though libraries have tried to commit suicide repeatedly in recent years.
They have become warehouses for all manner of perversion, from inappropriate books for kids, tweens, and teens to cross-dressing displays and drag-queen story hours that normalize sexualizing children.
Over in Britain, this phenomenon reached new levels of stupid last year.
Redbridge Libraries hired Mandinga Arts to provide entertainers for their Summer Reading Challenge event on July 10 when video footage from the day went viral.
One of the entertainers – who was described as, you guessed it, a “rainbow dildo butt monkey” on Twitter — was dressed, well, exactly how you’d expect a rainbow dildo butt monkey to look: A person in a multi-coloured monkey costume with nipples exposed along with a fake penis and butt cheeks hanging out.
The library apologized, which is surprising, but that did not manage to protect them from well-deserved scrutiny.
Writer Janice Turner tweeted, “I would really love a detailed breakdown of the commissioning process whereby Redbridge council commissioned the Rainbow Dildo Butt Monkey as a means to teach children to read.”
We all know that Rainbow D!ld* Butt Monkey’s role is not to teach children to read. It exposes them to an adult lifestyle choice wholly inappropriate for all “butt,” a few, and none of them children.
“Butt” the culture has poisoned its watering hole. People in the system who might want to prevent that mistake or question the relevance or appropriateness are so terrified of appearing intolerant that they let what should seem unlikely, if not impossible, proceed.
Like the library that approved the “entertainment.”
This new normal continues the slide down the not just rhetorical but very real slippery slope. Sexualizing children at an early age coincided with life-long mental and physical health issues long before the gender spectrum began to expose itself. It is why objects of this cult are more likely to attempt suicide and succeed even in communities deemed tolerant and welcoming.
You are messing with people’s mental wiring and, in some instances altering their bodies chemically and physically before they can consciously consider the ramifications. And that’s the crux of the debate. Very few people care what an adult does to themself these days (with a few exceptions). They are assumed to have thought it out and made a choice.
The problem is adults turning government schools into Gender-Transition Black sites with ideological waterboarding. And politicians and activists are pretending this isn’t harmful to kids. But it is dangerous. An agenda driver re-education camp that occasionally spills over into the general public’s view.
Mandinga Arts Group, the company hired by the library that provided the characters, also apologized on their website, stating that while the monkey was previously well-received at carnival events, “it was entirely unsuitable for a children’s event and should never have been used.”
That’s not the only thing that’s unsuitable, but that doesn’t stop the library or the culture from fostering environments that will inevitably result in four out of ten of these kids trying to end their lives before they are old enough to be called adults.
If that’s the role libraries want to play in the 21st century, perhaps it’s time to defund these institutions and let them wither away, and I don’t say that lightly. I love books and learning, but terrorists have hijacked that vehicle, and we should not negotiate with terrorists.
