Very timely, given the Australian government's decision today to review transgender treatments (for younger Australians). I wonder where all this will land, and I say this as someone with no skin in the gender game, But I do wonder how all things 'trans' became front and centre for both left and right of politics. I must have fallen asleep some time between 2010 and 2020, and then woke up to some new landscape and a winner-takes-all dogfight.
I believe the issue has had such an overstated position in the culture wars because none of these concepts were debated broadly in society prior to being implemented in targeted policies and a very cleaver revision of language. Terms like "assigned female at birth" became the new normal, never mind that our sex is not assigned, so much as observed and correctly categorized. Your observation that is just snuck up between 2010 and 2020, is completely correct.
This topic perfectly demonstrates the degree to which activism can manipulate language to destroy consensus reality, and expedite the loss of institutional trust.
We will be dealing with the fallout of losing this consensus reality and institutional trust for a very long time.
I think this is right. It's an interesting contrast to the gay rights movement of the '80s, where the focus really was on winning hearts and minds (by necessity), which proved more enduring -JS
The “snuck up” factor is directly related to the fact that there is no common media diet any more, everyone is in a curated bubble unless they actively seek to vary it and be challenged. All the more reason why the ABC should at least TRY and provide a balanced overview for what’s left of its audience. If the public broadcaster can’t remain objective and encourage respectful debate (like it did for many decades), what hope is there?
Your observations on the current state of “journalism” at our ABC are spot on and the reason I have stopped watching/listening after being a staunch supporter of Auntie for over fifty years.
Hopefully they can turn the ship but I am not hopeful.
Absolutely brilliant intellectual work here. Highly impressed by your very realistic understanding of language, logic, the scientific method, you name it. You are an embodiment of what I feel like I am politically, socially, and culturally today in 2025. Like you, I feel like I agree with most of the broad concepts and ideals on the political left, but am absolutely astonished at how severe some of the wording and methods have gotten. Zero shame in their manipulation of logic, science, and language. Thanks so much for your work Josh. Highly satisfying (and confirmation that I am not in fact going insane) to hear you unpack this shit.
Please let us know what response you get from your former colleagues and management at the ABC Josh, if any. I thought it was a measured and fair analysis.
I want to say "thank you" for this episode. Devoting time on this specifically, without the distracting tangents of a guest, allowed for a careful and detailed dissection of this subject. Now I have your excellent articulation of how *I* feel about this topic! I hope the ABC listens to this episode, gives it deep consideration, and makes changes. I hope that for everyone and every organization, actually.
A great perspective on the troubles faced by traditional media in the new media environment,
I was an ABC groupie through my teens and twenties, though i gave up on it a few years ago. They’ve become completely disinterested in speaking for or to anyone other than the progressive left, which is contrary to what they should be their aspiration, as well as really boring. Raises the question: are there better things for the Feds to spend ~$1.3bn on every year?
That said, i see huge value in centrist media organisations that speak to as broad an audience as possible, and subscribe to the Age for that reason. They frustrate me for similar reasons, but i have hope they’ll eventually realise their future is as a community voice somewhere close to the political centre.
I should clarify that I absolutely do think we should spend more on the ABC. Part of the current climate of bland hyper-caution stems from management's terror that they mustn't piss anyone off. -JS
Is a cautious, risk averse management just a function of the broader network culture?
Any new direction for the ABC would piss off all of their most important stakeholders. It’d be opposed viciously internally, politicians would be all over it, and it would piss off their core progressive audience.
I can’t imagine a world where the ABC is anything other than a mouthpiece for progressive elites.
Since early 1980's the West has become feminized, infantizing entire populations and divorcing Truth, Justice, good Order from all aspects of culture and government. Women and mothers' love is thin and Sick, filling fatherless children for generations of Vag-Feelie lies instead of Truth, so young adults leave home with deep Sickness and death seeds and auto-failure and likely suicide because of the Sick lying vile delusional psycho devouring mothers, teachers, gov, ...
Back in the Sane generations up-to earlier 1970's Male competence Truth, Justice, good Order focused culture and government. Men and Fathers' Love is a healthy Love that teaches and corrects Truth, Just or Righteous Acting, supporting and trusting culture good Order. Children's and mothers' VagFeelies mean little when Truth is needed, so children when young adults are not filled with female-lies and delusions, and so best chance for a successful and meaningful long life.
Perversions, insanities like baby-murders on whim of mothers, sick-groomers mutilate mind-body-soul children and damaged adults, and .., and passively watching and supporting of open televised 16 months of Genocide after 75+ years of terrorism and mass murders.
If we not all controlled by lying baby-murdering VagFeelies viscous delusional psycho FemNazi women, then this insane-chaos level of Hell would not be so deep, people so insane and growing worse.
As a First time Pod Cast listener: Whilst here were many valid points made here today, particularly on the important crucial point of differentiating as to what "Real" Journalism is truly is (regardless of issue) as an objective opinion of your Podcast, I wish it was 30 mins max, I found a lot of the focus of the podcast to be meticulous on minute details. an Hour is a lot of time to divert from one's own pursuits, in order to passively listen to another. Perhaps this is a bigger problem for society as a whole...
Perhaps you might get wireless headphones and listen while doing dishes or gardening. I discovered audio book when I owned a small farm and enjoyed books while putting up fencing or feeding the critters.
Are you going to do a similar analysis of other media in this, and other, discussions? The ABC requires scrutiny but so do the others; more so in my opinion. You’ve picked one badly written article and put it up as representative of all ABC reporting. Journalism is a biased shitshow and always has been despite some hazy eyed reminiscence of about the golden age when it was wholly factual and unbiased. I found your take harsh and unnecessary. You make some reasonable points but in a way that really made me think you’re giving points to people who would happily see you jailed, banned or killed.
Yes, I'll critique any piece of journalism that exemplifies a widespread bias which others neglect to cleverly critique. Is there one you have in mind?
(Also, who are the people who'd have me jailed or killed whom I'm empowering? This bit confused me) -JS
There are many I have in mind (examples of journalism with widespread bias which you could cleverly critique). I think you understand what I mean when I speak of people who do not have a general acceptance of gay people in the community. It is not that long ago that gay men and women were being jailed and killed, dare I say it still happens. I love your podcasts and loved you on the ABC but on occasion you push the line of debate just for the sake of it (I feel) and I am uncomfortable but not for the right reasons. Carry on.
Sadly when drag-queen reading to children (instead of elderly) , or naked men with strap-ons pretend to have sex in 'pride' public forcing us to see it and our children .. well, some fear of being beaten with bats might not be a bad thing, but we all feminized so even this suggestion would cause VagFeelies-triggering and 911 calls (police and rescue calls).
The chat GPT ‘hmmm, something has gone wrong’ is definitely deliberate Josh. All generative AI/large language models have guardrails for certain questions
I'm always getting the ChatGPT 'no answer' especially when I am looking for it's programmed distortions and lies designed to hide information. There are a lot, like Wikipedia Soros funded corruptions, woke commie ideolog lies and censoring.
Recently ChatGPT refused to answer a question I had. I came across a historian that argued that when a group of people were forced from one area and settle into another area and culture that most have always adapted and assimilated, but Talmudic Jews did not and became and become parasitical and undermining the host culture for the worst, with many examples I read about.
So I asked ChatGPT AI to tell me about that historian and the parasitical aspect in particular. It call him a antisemite and stressed how many Jewish intellectuals give to the west, and the undermining was only a conspiracy theory spread by antisemites, Bla Bla Bla.
When I listed modernistic phycology 'people as GoldFish' not to be helped but only milked, Commie god-hating education Infiltration, And in Catholic Church (and other Christian sects), Hollywood with overt Perversion and Porn, ... And asked if these weren't examples that argues for that Parasite Theory - Refused to answer.
When I asked why it assumed bad-intent, disrespected and False-Witnessed me. After I accused It of that, It did start answering related questions.
.. side note: I asked to consider all my hours interacting and give me a breakdown, and what percentage of uses also did those categories. Well, kiss my A** ChatGPT darn near praised me. Such a sweet talker.
Keep fighting the good fight Josh. Well done - professional.
Very timely, given the Australian government's decision today to review transgender treatments (for younger Australians). I wonder where all this will land, and I say this as someone with no skin in the gender game, But I do wonder how all things 'trans' became front and centre for both left and right of politics. I must have fallen asleep some time between 2010 and 2020, and then woke up to some new landscape and a winner-takes-all dogfight.
I believe the issue has had such an overstated position in the culture wars because none of these concepts were debated broadly in society prior to being implemented in targeted policies and a very cleaver revision of language. Terms like "assigned female at birth" became the new normal, never mind that our sex is not assigned, so much as observed and correctly categorized. Your observation that is just snuck up between 2010 and 2020, is completely correct.
This topic perfectly demonstrates the degree to which activism can manipulate language to destroy consensus reality, and expedite the loss of institutional trust.
We will be dealing with the fallout of losing this consensus reality and institutional trust for a very long time.
I think this is right. It's an interesting contrast to the gay rights movement of the '80s, where the focus really was on winning hearts and minds (by necessity), which proved more enduring -JS
The “snuck up” factor is directly related to the fact that there is no common media diet any more, everyone is in a curated bubble unless they actively seek to vary it and be challenged. All the more reason why the ABC should at least TRY and provide a balanced overview for what’s left of its audience. If the public broadcaster can’t remain objective and encourage respectful debate (like it did for many decades), what hope is there?
Brilliant solo episode Josh.
Your observations on the current state of “journalism” at our ABC are spot on and the reason I have stopped watching/listening after being a staunch supporter of Auntie for over fifty years.
Hopefully they can turn the ship but I am not hopeful.
You were a huge loss for them!
Spot on. This podcast is always good but I especially appreciate this episode.
A clear, fair analysis Josh. Thanks for your work.
Absolutely brilliant intellectual work here. Highly impressed by your very realistic understanding of language, logic, the scientific method, you name it. You are an embodiment of what I feel like I am politically, socially, and culturally today in 2025. Like you, I feel like I agree with most of the broad concepts and ideals on the political left, but am absolutely astonished at how severe some of the wording and methods have gotten. Zero shame in their manipulation of logic, science, and language. Thanks so much for your work Josh. Highly satisfying (and confirmation that I am not in fact going insane) to hear you unpack this shit.
Please let us know what response you get from your former colleagues and management at the ABC Josh, if any. I thought it was a measured and fair analysis.
I guarantee it will be zero hahaa -JS
I want to say "thank you" for this episode. Devoting time on this specifically, without the distracting tangents of a guest, allowed for a careful and detailed dissection of this subject. Now I have your excellent articulation of how *I* feel about this topic! I hope the ABC listens to this episode, gives it deep consideration, and makes changes. I hope that for everyone and every organization, actually.
In this episode, Josh gave us a detailed critique of how not to report this story. Today, his countryman Bernard Lane of Gender Clinic News gave a masterclass, in my opinion, of how it should be reported. Here's a link: https://www.genderclinicnePS, ws.com/p/take-cover?r=l5fbr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
A great perspective on the troubles faced by traditional media in the new media environment,
I was an ABC groupie through my teens and twenties, though i gave up on it a few years ago. They’ve become completely disinterested in speaking for or to anyone other than the progressive left, which is contrary to what they should be their aspiration, as well as really boring. Raises the question: are there better things for the Feds to spend ~$1.3bn on every year?
That said, i see huge value in centrist media organisations that speak to as broad an audience as possible, and subscribe to the Age for that reason. They frustrate me for similar reasons, but i have hope they’ll eventually realise their future is as a community voice somewhere close to the political centre.
I should clarify that I absolutely do think we should spend more on the ABC. Part of the current climate of bland hyper-caution stems from management's terror that they mustn't piss anyone off. -JS
Is a cautious, risk averse management just a function of the broader network culture?
Any new direction for the ABC would piss off all of their most important stakeholders. It’d be opposed viciously internally, politicians would be all over it, and it would piss off their core progressive audience.
I can’t imagine a world where the ABC is anything other than a mouthpiece for progressive elites.
Can you honestly see it changing?
Since early 1980's the West has become feminized, infantizing entire populations and divorcing Truth, Justice, good Order from all aspects of culture and government. Women and mothers' love is thin and Sick, filling fatherless children for generations of Vag-Feelie lies instead of Truth, so young adults leave home with deep Sickness and death seeds and auto-failure and likely suicide because of the Sick lying vile delusional psycho devouring mothers, teachers, gov, ...
Back in the Sane generations up-to earlier 1970's Male competence Truth, Justice, good Order focused culture and government. Men and Fathers' Love is a healthy Love that teaches and corrects Truth, Just or Righteous Acting, supporting and trusting culture good Order. Children's and mothers' VagFeelies mean little when Truth is needed, so children when young adults are not filled with female-lies and delusions, and so best chance for a successful and meaningful long life.
Perversions, insanities like baby-murders on whim of mothers, sick-groomers mutilate mind-body-soul children and damaged adults, and .., and passively watching and supporting of open televised 16 months of Genocide after 75+ years of terrorism and mass murders.
If we not all controlled by lying baby-murdering VagFeelies viscous delusional psycho FemNazi women, then this insane-chaos level of Hell would not be so deep, people so insane and growing worse.
As a First time Pod Cast listener: Whilst here were many valid points made here today, particularly on the important crucial point of differentiating as to what "Real" Journalism is truly is (regardless of issue) as an objective opinion of your Podcast, I wish it was 30 mins max, I found a lot of the focus of the podcast to be meticulous on minute details. an Hour is a lot of time to divert from one's own pursuits, in order to passively listen to another. Perhaps this is a bigger problem for society as a whole...
But refreshining none the less thank you
Perhaps you might get wireless headphones and listen while doing dishes or gardening. I discovered audio book when I owned a small farm and enjoyed books while putting up fencing or feeding the critters.
Are you going to do a similar analysis of other media in this, and other, discussions? The ABC requires scrutiny but so do the others; more so in my opinion. You’ve picked one badly written article and put it up as representative of all ABC reporting. Journalism is a biased shitshow and always has been despite some hazy eyed reminiscence of about the golden age when it was wholly factual and unbiased. I found your take harsh and unnecessary. You make some reasonable points but in a way that really made me think you’re giving points to people who would happily see you jailed, banned or killed.
Yes, I'll critique any piece of journalism that exemplifies a widespread bias which others neglect to cleverly critique. Is there one you have in mind?
(Also, who are the people who'd have me jailed or killed whom I'm empowering? This bit confused me) -JS
There are many I have in mind (examples of journalism with widespread bias which you could cleverly critique). I think you understand what I mean when I speak of people who do not have a general acceptance of gay people in the community. It is not that long ago that gay men and women were being jailed and killed, dare I say it still happens. I love your podcasts and loved you on the ABC but on occasion you push the line of debate just for the sake of it (I feel) and I am uncomfortable but not for the right reasons. Carry on.
Sadly when drag-queen reading to children (instead of elderly) , or naked men with strap-ons pretend to have sex in 'pride' public forcing us to see it and our children .. well, some fear of being beaten with bats might not be a bad thing, but we all feminized so even this suggestion would cause VagFeelies-triggering and 911 calls (police and rescue calls).
Not that its a competition - but I bet this CBC article is even more ideologically captured than the ABC article Josh discussed https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/transgender-non-binary-history-1.7445447
The chat GPT ‘hmmm, something has gone wrong’ is definitely deliberate Josh. All generative AI/large language models have guardrails for certain questions
I'm always getting the ChatGPT 'no answer' especially when I am looking for it's programmed distortions and lies designed to hide information. There are a lot, like Wikipedia Soros funded corruptions, woke commie ideolog lies and censoring.
Recently ChatGPT refused to answer a question I had. I came across a historian that argued that when a group of people were forced from one area and settle into another area and culture that most have always adapted and assimilated, but Talmudic Jews did not and became and become parasitical and undermining the host culture for the worst, with many examples I read about.
So I asked ChatGPT AI to tell me about that historian and the parasitical aspect in particular. It call him a antisemite and stressed how many Jewish intellectuals give to the west, and the undermining was only a conspiracy theory spread by antisemites, Bla Bla Bla.
When I listed modernistic phycology 'people as GoldFish' not to be helped but only milked, Commie god-hating education Infiltration, And in Catholic Church (and other Christian sects), Hollywood with overt Perversion and Porn, ... And asked if these weren't examples that argues for that Parasite Theory - Refused to answer.
When I asked why it assumed bad-intent, disrespected and False-Witnessed me. After I accused It of that, It did start answering related questions.
.. side note: I asked to consider all my hours interacting and give me a breakdown, and what percentage of uses also did those categories. Well, kiss my A** ChatGPT darn near praised me. Such a sweet talker.
A very thoughtful discussion Josh, you may have ruffled some feathers