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[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
In Old Joe Biden’s America, you can’t celebrate the great outdoors or do much of anything, really, unless you’re prepared to burn incense to the left’s gods. You may think that your activity has nothing whatsoever to do with the left’s nasty little obsessions over deviance, delusion, and perversity, but think again, peasant: you either play along or you don’t play at all.
That’s how things work in authoritarian regimes, and if you think Old Joe’s regime is not authoritarian and respects the parameters of a free society, you simply haven’t been paying attention. Now even the venerable guide to the great wide world, National Geographic, has fallen into line.
The venerable 136-year-old publication took a fabulous step into the Brave New World when it added a mustachioed drag queen named Wyn Wylie, who prances around in women’s clothes under the name “Pattie Gonia,” to its list of “Travelers of the Year.” This was not the first time National Geographic has paid obeisance to woke sensibilities: as Mark Tapson noted at FrontPage, back in 2017, it put a nine-year-old boy who claimed to be a girl on its cover, for a story celebrating what it called the “Gender Revolution.” Delusion would have been more apt but would have run the old magazine afoul of our new cultural masters.
National Review reported Thursday that Wyn Wylie/Pattie Gonia describes himself as an “intersectional environmentalist, drag queen, and advocate for inclusivity in the outdoors.” He dedicates himself to efforts to “uplift LGBTQIA+ people and other underrepresented groups in the outdoors.” Wylie is so underrepresented that he has over 600,000 social media followers and is celebrated as a hero in National Geographic.
Here yet again we see it: the people who have the real power in society today are those who claim to be marginalized and to be the victims of racism and bigotry. And the people who are really marginalized in society are the people who are supposedly perpetrating the marginalization of those in power.
If LGBTQIA+EIEIO people are “underrepresented groups in the outdoors,” it’s not because some homophobic Bull Connor is holding slavering German shepherds at the ready should a poor little drag queen venture onto a hiking trail. It’s because drag queens and their pals are often more interested in things one generally does indoors (you know, like grooming children). If they’re “underrepresented” outdoors, it’s by their own choice.
Nevertheless, the valiant Pattie Gonia is pushing back against this imaginary marginalization, and being hailed as a hero for doing so by more corporate entities than just National Geographic. Last year, he made a video for North Face’s “Summer of Pride” campaign.
In that video, Wylie, decked out in a rainbow tie-dyed miniskirt with a black North Face belt, swings around in the manner of a hippie-sixties cover girl and happily announces: “Hi, it’s me, Pattie Gonia, a real-life homosexual. We are here to invite you to come out… in nature with us!” Now, what does being homosexual, or heterosexual for that matter, have to do with enjoying nature? I suppose the answer lies in how exactly one enjoys it.
Wylie is, meanwhile, a doctrinaire leftist who sees his commitment to the outdoors as part of his efforts to advance the left’s entire agenda. He is cofounder of The Outdoorist Oath, a non-profit organization that is dedicated to “action-based commitment for planet, inclusion, and adventure.”
Joining this group involves taking an oath that requires the oath-taker to affirm that “systemic oppression is real and that hatred, discrimination, and biases marginalize people.” The Outdoorist Oath’s “Stretch Sessions” will, says the organization, “challenge your perspective and make you think critically about the role White Supremacy plays into your experience in the outdoors, whether you’re white or BIPOC.”
Oh, come on. “White supremacy,” which exists nowhere but which leftists see everywhere, now interferes with the ability of “people of color” to enjoy nature? Will Whitey stop at nothing? Amidst this nonsense, it is drearily predictable that Outdoorist Oath, according to National Review, recently “issued a statement in support of Palestine and called for a cease-fire.”
That statement claims that “the work we do at Outdoorist Oath would not be needed if it weren’t for the long lasting and ongoing negative effects of colonization and imperialism….We cannot look beyond our borders without the understanding that we are all interconnected. The struggles for the liberation of our planet and its people, are one in the same.” Yeah, and what’s 1,200 murdered Israelis? It’s all for the cause!
You’ll never guess who owns National Geographic. That’s right: Disney.
Who knew, way back when, that a day would come when Disney could be said in exactly the way old Jerry Seinfeld would say “Newman!”
I honestly cannot remember whether it was Disney or National Geographic that I first noticed to be going down a bad path.
NG has been trash for decades now.
National Geographic is following Sports Illustrated to the unemployment line.
Their ex-employees can then sit together on park benches during the day as they watch illegal NY migrants walk by with $10,ooo food stamp cards sticking out of their pockets.
I hope all these news people are unemployed. They aren’t doing any useful work.
Back in 1999 N.G. did one FEATHERS FOR T-REX? trying to claimed the Arch raptor was the missing Link between Birds and Dinosaurs it turned out to be a fake(Piltdown Bird)a Bird Fossil with Tail Attached a Fake Fossil like Lucy and the Fiji Mermaid
“Lucy” was an exceptionally bad fraud because it was known from day one. the “proof” that she was our oldest ancestor was bogus because the study used mitochondrial DNA instead of nuclear DNA. Nuclear has both sets of 23 chromosomes and is paternal AND maternal, mitochondrial doesn’t.
Assholes.
Donald Johansen who discovered Lucy gave it the name because Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds(LSD)was playing on the Radio
Yeah, I remember that. An apt name for such a fantasy.
Wow, I did not know Disney owned National Geographic. Hopefully, both Disney and National Geographic will be added examples of the saying “Go woke, go broke”.
BTW, I almost always skip stories about this nonsense and actually just scanned this article looking for the answer to the subtitle. That was slick of you to put it as the last sentence in your article.
when are americans going to do a bud light to disney ? start by not visiting their parks and then move onto their products . if you dont you have no one to blame for the corruption of your children but yourselves .
Disney has lost a king’s fortune in revenue and stock price over the last few years. Americans ARE shunning Disney.
They are probably staying afloat because of the actions of a small number of very rich people. Problem is, Disney can’t court Qatar by doing an adulatory cartoon of Mohammed – though since there is an article about Fr Zakaria Botros on the Raymond Ibrahim site, in which it refers to Islamic records of Mohammed coupling with demons in the open air, finding a gay-friendly storyline ought not to be a problem.
Whoa, I was able track down that Muhammad story. Apparently it’s true, and we don’t have to ask why it was never translated from Arabic!!
Their movies like Strange World and Elementals Bombed big time and their remakes didn’t do well either
“National Geographic has been P.C. since the 90s and now I see it’s gone “woke.” I got a subscription as a Christmas present about ten years ago. I never took a single magazine out of the paper they were wrapped in. Brown paper like what’s used for grocery bags, which always end up as trash bags. That’s apt. I used to read through them in waiting rooms so I could laugh at how wrong the descriptions were of “exotic” places I’ve been to. “Exotic” places with skyscrapers and five star hotels but the writers would focus on villages and get it all wrong anyway.
I got a subscription to “Smithsonian” last Christmas (yay,) which is just as P.C. as “National Geographic although there are no trannies in the two issues I’ve received. The magazine is mostly “afro-centric.” I guess Disney just won’t be outdone in the “woke” department.
I do know a couple black chicks with their hair done up in that style a lot of them like, with those little balls on the sides of their heads toward the back, which kind of reminds me of Minnie Mouse. They aren’t “woke” though.
I don’t know why people think I like that crap. P.C. magazines. I always pretend I do to be nice but really I wish they would give me a nice bottle of wine or a weekend pass to Big Basin Redwoods or something like that. I wonder if “National Geographic” makes money for Disney? I bet it operates at a loss, unless library subscriptions keep it afloat.
How many people who work at Disney walk anywhere? They flop out of their armchair into their SUV because they can’t get out of anything lower, wobble into the store to buy more lard and wobble back to car and wobble up their driveway back into their armchair.
That’s why they awarded the pervert the prize, they were shocked.
I had been reading Nat. Geo. magazines since I was old enough to turn the pages. My father and grandfather were both members of the National Geographic Society and I still have my father’s NGS induction certificate dated 1937.
There were stacks of NG magazine in my grandmother’s house dating from 1905 and I think I read them all.
I had my own subscription from age 20, but cancelled it several years ago after it became commercialized (time was there were only 3 or 4 pages of ads, lately, more ads than content) and liberal leaning.
This latest fiasco is just …wow! …. What a shame.
Yes, it used to be a great magazine. As bad as it is now, I have to admit the photographs are still beautiful.
My favorite photo was a black and white one entitled “There are no Blondes in Bali.” I think it was just an excuse to line up a bunch of topless babes on a beach. No wonder the Nat. Geo. guys in the photo were smiling ear to ear. That was one of the things I liked best about the magazine when I was a kid; all the naked native chicks. Bali, Polynesia, Africa, wherever those photographers could find topless or naked chicks they would take photos. And I would swear they would find the hottest ones to photograph.
I avoid groups when in the outdoors. Which is why I go into the outdoors. Much like when a motorcycle gang came into a campsite we occupied. These freaks show up. I’m packing up and moving on. The outdoors doesn’t discriminate, nor will it miss you if you stay home. Nor will I.
Instead of adding Atlanta and Salt Lake City, I hope they go on tour to “PALESTINE!!!!!!!!” and Tehran. That’ll be the last tour of this talentless road show. See the wonders of nature while sailing off a roof!
I think Hamas should know what incredibly special people are supporting their cause – it should demoralise them nicely.
In case anyone thinks we are not in the “last days” then this article should make it clear that we are. The article depicts behavior and publishing so perverse and unseemly as to be almost unreal. It is like Alice in Wonderland going through the looking glass only this time into an even more perverse and degraded universe of experience.
Reading this article, I was almost breathless as I was so aghast at what I read and the short clip by Pattie Gonia embedded in the article. When I graduated from 6th grade, a prayer and a Bible reading were allowed in a public school. Some students who were residents of a local baptist orphanage who were graduating made up a cordial and delightful song in which they referred to various students. The song praised my smile and my bow ties. I was in seventh heaven. When I think of that wholesome time (year 1952) with the garbage Robert Spencer has revealed about National Geographic and Disney in this article, I feel breathless and disturbed deep within. Do you?
They are doing it deliberately to disturb normal people, laugh in their faces and then they lose.
I wonder if they want to provoke violence so they can respond with actions that they have war gamed. Maybe they want to use more cry bully words, like victimhood, oppression, or the fantastical “occupation” term they use in the middle east? IDK it’s all so bizarre.
Or maybe they think they will drive many of us to suicide?
I agree. Just laugh.
James Lindsay has spoken about this. He says your reaction, not their action, is the game they play. All the assertions of homophobia, transphobia, racism and the rest are just the set up to provoke a reaction then they have the “goods” to justify their claims. Their inability to evoke the reaction they are seeking is the reason they are getting more outlandish by the day. Their slogan should be “Queer Harder!” So far they’ve had to depend on the Jesse Smollets of the world to make up fake scenarios that are easily debunked.
Lots of them definitely try to provoke normal people. Just part of their sickness.
I’m not 83 or 84 but I remember “Wide World of Disney” aired every Sunday night on network TV back in the 70s. There were no trannies or anything that normal parents would object to in those shows. The Disney movies in the theater were similar. I saw a lot of Kurt Russel Disney movies when I was a kid (He was really young too) because that was pretty much all my mother would take my brother and me to see because she knew they were….yep….wholesome.
So transitioning now equates to travel. I guess the Disney ownership makes sense, you’d expect them to be into fantasy. The story I’d like to see them tweak to make it gay-friendly is The Sorcerer’s Apprentice from Fantasia – except that it will be the return of Someone much better than a magician that will call a halt to the madness. Opposing global warming, and operationalising outdoor coupling seem to me to be mutually exclusive goals, though – there has to be a certain lack of appeal to goose-pimpled bare flesh, even if you are into that sort of thing to start with.
Outdoor coupling is great but not in front of other people, and the thought of trannies coupling could shrivel an oak tree.
Or shrink a redwood.
That is one ugly ass guy. An encounter in the wilderness would be more terrifying than a sasqustch… either might require a shotgun for self defense
Yeah, I notice the outlandish trannies are always ugly. Of course, I’ve seen some dressed like dirty slobs here in San Jose and they were ugly, too.
The one in the photo above would terrify a sasquatch too, not just humans. I’d rather camp out with a sasquatch than that thing.
The old man’s face says it all. “There has been another escape from the mental ward”
Yeah, “I survived WWII for this shit?”
Yeah, and if I’m not mistaken, the photo was taken in Jerusalem of all places.
This Patti Gonia is truly revolting.
Yeah, inside and out.
As God is ‘no respecter of persons’ and He did die so ALL would ahve the opportunity to repent and change their ways, we know that He loves him/it/her as much as you and I. So it is our duty (Christians only) to pray for this lost soul before he meets his inevitable fate. (The survival rate of mankind is still ZERO %).
Maranatha, come Lord Jesus……….<
Rev. Roy……….<
Soon Drag Queens like this one will lead the Gay ”Pride” Parade through the streets of Mecca,Tehran,Gaza City,Baghdad and Doha… Ya think ?.
Well, their heads might, on pikes.