BMTH live in Jakarta 2024

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This time around Ravel gets it right and BMTH (Bring Me The Horizon) are headlining the Nexfest festival in Jakarta which also features Babymetal. In this format there is no seating - which makes for a much more intimate experience - although you do have to arrive really early if you want to pick a spot right up close to the stage.  We arrived about six hours before BMTH were scheduled to start their performance and bought plenty of drinks to stay hydrated in the tropical afternoon heat (mind you, some of those were Iceland vodka mix!) This was a gig I had long been looking forward to - especially after the debacle last year. Not everyone likes BMTH of course. For deathcore fans the band sold out. For metal heads the band is not purist enough. And for the wider mainstream audience, the band is too heavy. You can't please everyone of course but there are few bands in the rock world which can match the sheer emotional velocity of BMTH. To bring metal and even aspects of metalcore t...

Thomas Beatie: The world’s first "Pregnant Man"

This is the wacky story of "Thomas Beatie," aka Tracy Lagondino.

Beatie, a woman who legally changed her sex to "male," retained all of her internal female organs – and at the same time took testosterone, grew a beard and had breast removal surgery!

She then "married" her lesbian partner, Nancy.

Wanting a kid, Nancy proceeded to artificially inseminate her "husband."

And so we have it:

the world's first "pregnant man" (trumpet roll!!!!!!!)

Thomas Beatie

But is Tracy really a man?

Well this is what Ben Shapiro thinks:

If Tracy is a man, then so is Rosie O'Donnell. Tracy has two X chromosomes, a fully functioning set of female genitalia, and a uterus -- and a voice higher than Alvin the Chipmunk's. She's a plain old lesbian who was weirdly fascinated with the idea of using a Schick Quattro on her face. Though Tracy's decision to artificially inseminate herself is the height of narcissism, it is hardly a medical anomaly.

But the Tracy story is told by the media as though it is a triumph of man over nature. "Thomas, 34, posed naked for our fascinating new pictures which show just how extraordinary this pregnancy is as he even SHAVES while resting his elbow on his baby bump," gasps News of the World. "Is the world ready for this?" asks Oprah.

Give me a break. The world has been ready for this since man started attending circuses. Tracy is no more than a glorified bearded lady, an Elephant Man for a new age. Only in this age, the circus freak isn't a victim -- she's a self-promoting sleazebag willing to sell her soul and the soul of her baby for publicity. Tracy poses naked in the mass media. She writes op-eds on parental rights in The Advocate. She blabs about her joy over having a baby while ignoring the fact that her child will grow up in a home without a father and face the lifelong scrutiny of being the planet's leading sideshow experiment.

The media loves the Tracy story, however, because it allows them to exploit self-made monstrosity for profit while pretending to stand for toleration. Oprah shows us Tracy getting an ultrasound, then lectures us on Tracy's and Nancy's bravery. "Love makes a family," Oprah sighs. And refugees from Ripley's Believe It Or Not make ratings.

The media, then, has a tacit deal with Tracy: forward her political agenda, and in return, get the shots that will boost viewership. For Tracy is no innocent, "hounded" by the media, as Oprah describes her -- she is a militant lesbian activist willing to use her body to undermine gender roles and promote sexual confusion. She is a propagandist of the first order. She plasters pictures of herself topless in her front yard, her self-butchered breasts over her pregnant belly, then claims victimization when receptionists look at her sideways. She appears on Oprah, then has the unremitting gall to claim that others are targeting her with cameras.

Tracy wrote in her dismally platitudinous, yet dramatically subversive piece in The Advocate, "our situation ultimately will ask everyone to embrace the gamut of human possibility and to define for themselves what is normal." The liberal, profit-driven press and the American court system have defined what's normal -- and Tracy is the new normal. Tracy, and those like her, are not victims of a repressive society -- they are purveyors of a rootless society, seeking to impose a worldview that labels mental illness an exercise in liberation and destroys the traditional, child-centric family in favor of a loosely-organized group of beings (male, female, or other) who see children as a right rather than a responsibility.

Tracy isn't the first pregnant man -- she is only the latest lesbian spokesperson for radical amorality, festooned with the plumage of masculinity. Testosterone doesn't make a woman a man. And a bearded pregnant woman doesn't make wrong right, no matter what the media says.

And guess what? "He" wants to have even more kids as well!!!

Comments

  1. As for me the pregnant man is quite happy and the couple is worthy of getting a child

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  2. Obviously "he" isn't REALLY a guy.. just because "he" has a beard, doesnt mean "he" is a guy, and lots of people get chest removal, and if "he" still has a uterus and a vagina, it makes no freaking sense!

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  3. I think Tracy's story is very unusual and controversial. I think it is great he is know what he wants to be - a man- but what is confusing to me that he wanted to get pregnant. He should be taking generic viagra instead.

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