In high school, one of my closest friends, “1/2 Ton,” had a dropped Chrysler Cordoba with white stencil letters across the top of the windshield which read “who’s ya daddy?” This degrading term exerts dominance of one person over another individual, typically males over females.
With an underlying premise of which one suspects Sigmund Freud would’ve approved, the person asking “who’s ya daddy?” to another individual infers psychosexual supremacy. During the mid- to late-90s, hip hop culture was heavily influence by pimp culture in such a way.
Having graduated high school in 1995 and attended Marine Corps Recruit Training in September of 1996, 1/2 Ton and I later laughed together during a visit. While I was going through military training, legendary rapper 2Pac released his album The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory.
The matter about which 1/2 Ton and I laughed was a track on the anthology entitled “Just Like Daddy,” featuring Outlawz. Listening to the track all these years later, I now realize how the lyrics are indicative of behavior known as grooming. According to one source:
Sexual grooming is the action or behavior used to establish an emotional connection with a vulnerable person – generally a minor under the age of consent – and sometimes the victim’s family, to lower their inhibitions with the objective of sexual abuse. It can occur in various settings, including online, in person, and through other means of communication.
Back in the ‘90s, I didn’t consider the moral and ethical implications of grooming. Of course, this wasn’t because I lacked knowledge about pimping and other coercive practices. Rather, many people affiliated with hip hop culture at that time glamorized pimp lifestyles.
For instance, 1/2 Ton and I used to refer to things we thought were cool as “pimp” or “pimpin’.” As an example, I thought 1/2 Ton’s car was pimpin’. Now, many years later, additional knowledge, wisdom, and understanding have changed my outlook.
I currently recognize grooming behavior for what it is: predatory action. This includes forms of grooming which aren’t solely related to sexual activity. According to one source:
Grooming can be sexual, romantic, financial or for criminal or terrorism purposes, and can target both children and adults. The common aspect is that a perpetrator manipulates a victim by building trust and rapport. The key to grooming is a power dynamic within the relationship: age, gender, physical strength, economic status or another factor.
Herein, I’ll highlight a form of grooming behavior with which you may not be familiar. I invite you to approach this matter with an open mind and refrain from the process of self-disturbance by disputing the irrational beliefs you may hold which cause unpleasant consequences.
First, some context is necessary. During 2020, when experiencing lockdown measures associated with the United States (U.S.) government response to COVID-19, I posted one of my earliest entries of my blog. I subsequently removed and later reposted it in 2022.
The reworked titled was Repost: Time, Distance, Shielding. In it, I stated, “When considering what is or isn’t healthy in relation to COVID-19, I turn to sources such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).”
Just as time and acquired knowledge about pimping and grooming impacted my perspective, I maintain a fundamentally different outlook on the WHO and CDC. In particular, I’ve witnessed both of these once trusted organizations ostensibly groom the world in unscrupulous ways.
Therefore, I no longer thoughtlessly trust these institutions. Now, I’ll provide information that builds upon the context I’ve offered thus far. You’re welcome to form your own opinion about what I state, rather than carelessly trusting me as I once did in regard to the WHO and CDC.
In October 2023, I listened to an episode of the DarkHorse Podcast by biologists Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying in which they analyzed a WHO document: Article-by-Article Compilation of Proposed Amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005) submitted in accordance with decision WHA75(9) (2022).
The document ostensibly subsumes nation state sovereignty under the WHO. Apparently, those countries which recognize the WHO as a supreme entity become subservient to the WHO during times of emergency… just like daddy dominates whomever it is being groomed.
Thankfully, on January 20, 2025, President of the U.S. Donald Trump issued an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the WHO. The order specifically states:
The United States noticed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2020 due to the organization’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global health crises, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.
I view Trump’s intervention on behalf of U.S. citizens as one who stops grooming from taking place. Although I’m in no way trusting of or heaping praise on any government entity, pardon my crassness, if I’m gonna be fucked by a governing body I’d rather it be the U.S than the WHO.
Apparently, some of the citizens with whom I share nationhood disagree. This is of no surprise after having observed many of my countrymen and women begging to be fucked harder by authoritarian government actors during the anti-constitutional pandemic measures.
Additionally, it isn’t as those some of these individuals are merely ignorant (lacking information) in regard to what subservience to the WHO actually means. As evidence to support this proposal, consider that one source states of Trump’s executive order:
More recently, the W.H.O. has become a target of conservatives over its work on a “pandemic treaty” to strengthen pandemic preparedness and set legally binding policies for member countries on surveillance of pathogens, rapid sharing of outbreak data, and building up local manufacturing and supply chains for vaccines and treatments, among others.
Talks on the treaty broke down last year. In the United States, some Republican lawmakers viewed the agreement as a threat to American sovereignty.
For people who beg to be abused through immoral and unethical grooming behavior, who’s ya daddy? Oh, wait. The WHO’s ya daddy. I’ll pass. I’ve looked through the WHO document, heard Weinstein and Heying clarify its elements, and I don’t want the WHO to be my daddy.
All the same, I encourage people to read the absurd WHO document for yourselves. As one matter of contention, though by far not the most egregious example, the proposal states:
The Director-General shall select the members of the Emergency Committee on the basis of the expertise and experience required for any particular session and with due regard to the principles of equitable age, gender, and geographical representation and gender balance and require training in these Regulations before participation.
So one of the most relevant matters worth considering in regard to a global pandemic isn’t the meritorious position one attains within one’s respective field? It isn’t the scientists or others who ascended to their positions through hard work and dedication?
No, the WHO shall focus on diversity, equity, inclusivity, and accessibility (DEIA, also referred to as DEI and recently changed to BRIDGE). This proposal is insane! It reeks of unjustified entitlement, identity-driven superiority, and pseudoscience.
Perhaps the least important factor as one is dying from fluid-filled lungs is whether or not a scientific cohort achieved “gender balance.” Is that what you imagine would be the focus as you’re slipping from this plain of existence, “Does my care provider have and innie or outie?”
Although some people within the U.S. seemingly want the WHO to be their daddy, I’m grateful that I won’t be subject to such grooming (for now). I know who my dad is, he never fucked me, and I’m not in the market to be railed by the WHO as a surrogate daddy. I’ll pass.
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