Heed Ye, O Heed Ye, the Agonies of the Left

Severely educated.
That.

The needy social signalling does seem rather exhausting.

It ought to be held up as a success.
But the unequal distribution of intelligence is a thorn in the paw of devout egalitarians, many of whom will tie themselves in knots trying to avoid the obvious.

Twitter has now become Nature’s way of screaming, “Do not touch! Stay away!”

He’s letting you know he’s smarter than you.
“The left loathes the concept of IQ — especially the claim that it helps to determine socio-economic status, rather than vice versa — because of a near-religious attachment to the idea that man is a piece of clay that can be moulded into any shape by society.”
http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2015/09/fall-meritocracy/

I think the best response to these cretins is illustrated at 0:44 here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXlvy3sTTBk

Cis and trans relate to the position of atoms in a molecule. This woman is chemist!

Erasing WrongThought™.
I’m waiting for the Chrome extension that deletes all gendered pronouns. #hardcore

I am concerned about my transphobia, and had been taking steps to cure it, till I realised that “taking steps” is ableist.
So now I’m slithering towards transphilia, but not in an objectifying way like Alan Partridge’s unhealthy interest in Bangkok ladyboys, because that would be problematic.
I have sellotaped a picture of Caitlyn Jenner to my bathroom mirror, and every morning I spend at least an hour staring at it and repeating the mantra “So stunning! So brave!” while beating the white cisgendered privilege out of myself with a flail made of recycled tampons and a rolled-up copy of The Guardian.

It makes me giggle to see a shrieking harridan like Jessica Valenti grovel at the feet of emotionally disturbed half-wits over something as low-brow as “sausage fest.” But maybe that’s just me.

“Cis and trans relate to the position of atoms in a molecule. This woman is chemist!”
You’ve got a lot of Gaul, assuming that’s the only possibility.

I’m waiting for the Chrome extension that deletes all gendered pronouns.
In the early 90s when I was in college, I suggested on Usenet (remember that?) that perhaps we should replace all instances of “he” with “it” and “his” with “its”, but that feminists might not like what this does to words like “the” and “this”.

Nice montage of malevolent narcissism you’ve found there, David.
As I’m sure I’ve said before, the whole series is not unlike a psych profile.

You gotta see this. I guess I’m supposed to be concerned about the content of the video, but it really sounds stupid to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=113&v=BEO3H5BOlFk

Funny thing about Jenner is that he doesn’t take himself anywhere near as seriously as the hordes of self-righteous transphiliacs do.
So in simple terms, Jenner is genuine, authentically changing from male to female, and therefore reacting from personal reasons, as opposed to trying to make up some impersonal and politically based party line while hoping it’s considered the correct party line of the moment . . .

ensures women studying are always attacked & undermined.
Again, these declarations are social signalling. The wrongness isn’t random, it’s in-group positioning. They don’t need to address how the world actually is.
I wonder if our social justice warrior would like to be treated by a clumsy and intellectually limited dentist? That would be quite a test of his actual thoughts.
Quite. It’s rather like the Marxist philosophy lecturer Nina Power, who says that expectations of competence are unfair and that equality of intelligence is “something to be presupposed” because – well, just because – “everyone is equally intelligent.” Apparently, she and her fellow educators no longer need to be knowledgeable or competent in any conventional sense. We must be freed from the “dominance” of able and well-informed people. And if you think that smells like an excuse, you may well be right.
But if Dr Power were involved in a serious traffic accident, I’m guessing she’d want paramedics and surgeons who possessed the kind of “hierarchical” expertise she pretends to disdain. I doubt she’d be happy to go under a knife wielded by someone who’d been taught in the haphazard manner she advocates for others.

More agonies of the left, lockstep leftist feminists (yes, redundant) getting their granny pants in a wad because they are “uncomfortable” liking Carly Fiorina over H>illary!™; Miss Valenti is also afflicted, as is Miss Ryan.

This is still my favourite
Heh. Mr McCafferty apparently feels that “I hate capitalism. One day we will end it, Meg” is the kind of thing one very much ought to say, and ought to be seen saying, however incongruously. Given the randomness of it, I can only imagine he was hoping to win Meg’s affections.
But I’ve seen this kind of thing happen before, in person, more than a few times. There are people out there who feel a need to tell you, however inappropriately, that they don’t like sexism or racism, as if somehow you might be a huge fan, or that they don’t like markets and capitalism (regardless of how well they understand such things or whether they have in mind an alternative that isn’t monstrous, ruinous or remotely credible). I can think of several occasions when someone interjected in this way, ostentatiously, and with no obvious relevance to the ongoing conversation. Again, it helps if you think of it as a display.
Inadvertent comedy aside, it can be quite dreary to be stuck in a conversation with someone you barely know and who, in effect, is continually saying, “Yes, never mind what you’re all talking about, look at me and how nice and caring I think I am. Listen to all the things I disapprove of.”

Believe it or not, these people have further to fall…
There used to be homes for people like that.

OT, but the inimitable Brian Sewell is dead:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11876915/Brian-Sewell-art-critic-obituary.html

“Do I feel my white privilege? Yes. Daily.”
I hear you can get an implement to help you with that. With batteries.

Spiny,
In her case, if her professed diagnoses of bipolar disorder, conversion syndromes, and eating disorders are indeed accurate, it would suggest that it just faulty factory wiring. That these are all legit is a bit of a leap.
However, the bigger question is what exactly is the etiology and epidemiology of the Neverland Syndrome into which she has also bought, and which has spawned all this “otherkin”, “demisexual”, “fillintheblanksexual” rubbish (not to mention idiocy like the Bronies) that has popped up comparatively recently.
The situation appears analogous to that of cats which never really advance past kittenhood if they are raised and kept completely in a house, and I suppose that the bubble wrap mentality with which children (at least affluent children) have tended to be raised may create the same situation in humans. Regardless, that doesn’t explain where the bubble wrap mentality came from.
The SJW claptrap, OTOH, is just boilerplate leftism which combined with the above, yields a net result of a perpetual child who is also a Victim™, and now we essentially have a nice case of Munchausen Syndrome and one who must be pitied and cared for by all.
However, I am sufficiently antediluvian that when I was a kid on a trip to Mississippi I was once told I was going into the wrong men’s room, so I just don’t get why these latest crops want to be coddled.

Steve 2–you referenced Howling Mad Murdock…I LOVE YOU.

I did gently suggest to a SJW of my acquaintance that calling someone with the surname of Palin a whore and a cocksucking slut, etc., was misogynist and could he please call her non-sexualized insults, please? I haven’t heard back in a couple of days and I reckon I never will.

Spiny,
“Celebrate” is certainly accurate given that their lives largely revolve around their symptoms and the “support groups” (generally self-licking ice cream cones) for the various diagnoses.
The apparent proliferation of such behaviors, to include trendy “food allergies”, various “intolerances”, “detox” programs, popular “diseases” that have no apparent biological or pathological bases, and other claptrap, suggest that your anecdotal experience is really just a subset of the data.

During a software demonstration, the Patriarchy is caught red-handed.

Why, he’s practically punching that model into a smile.

I am working on a Python script that will generate inspirational feminist sayings on Twitter: @GeniRede

Death Mermaid Doll: “I have bpd (with the anxiety, dissociating, paranoia, idealizing/copying and black/white thinking parts especially strong so please go easy on me), and have been housebound from chronic pain and conversion disorder (where brain badness translates into physical pain) for a while, so ‘lol go outside’ is wasted on me.
I’m guessing from the age of about seven onwards.
DMD: “My MBTI thing is ISFJ if you’re interested”.
Actually, I’m not.
DMD: “Social Justice Warrior Princess. Or more boring, this blog is heavy on the social justice. Mostly to do with sexism, ableism and analyzing problems in media. I’m still learning”.
In other words, Death Mermaid Doll is what Daredevil would be like if he was a whiny, narcissistic, monumentally useless fucked-up superannuated teenage SJW. She’s 25 years old for Christ’s sake.
DMD: “”Like I said, I am learning and will often screw up, so if I do screw up, please don’t hesitate to come in my inbox and tell me”.
Sir, the Unwitting Parody Proximity Alarm is showing 9.98. I’ll try a re-set…. No, it hasn’t worked. Do you mind if I disable audio? Otherwise I’m gonna go deaf here.

@ Lancastrian Oik – While we didn’t really need to see her Meyers-Briggs test, the results on it serve to confirm what we already knew.Intuitive Sensing Feeling Judging? (Iirc) “I make all of my decisions based on feelings and spirit whispers and am probably immune to logic” in this case? Run away, run away!

Just spent an hour reading the whole series. My hope for the future has really taken a hit.

My hope for the future has really taken a hit.
My hope for the future is that the coming Dark Age is relatively short, and that some remnant of Western Civilization (which would almost *have* to be a sane remnant in order to survive the Collapse) will re-take the world from the various barbarian hordes currently streaming out of the Middle-East.
As I have no children though, my personal investment in the future beyond my own lifetime is effectively non-existent. One half-niece doesn’t resonate with my “protect the bloodline!” instinct nearly as much as children of my own body would.
For those of you with children, I suggest firearms training and a good bug-out plan.

Catherine Deveny of I regard heterosexual marriage as a much more important feminist issue and bigger oppressor of women than the burka fame looks like re-proving once again for the umpteenth time the rule that all ranting, bitter, feminists have daddy issues:
I was born on fathers’ day. I hated my father. I’m glad he’s dead

Mermatriarch claims to be “ravenpuff.”
No such thing: the sorting hat sends you to one house only, and EVERYBODY KNOWS IT.
But then, she does traffic in improbabilities, so there’s that.

Wow. Daisy’s a silly twit, ain’t she? Poor thing, doesn’t even know how much of a dumbass she is.

Dan said: “I am working on a Python script that will generate inspirational feminist sayings on Twitter: @GeniRede”
It can start off with ‘What have the womans ever done for us?’

My day job involves, in part, the design of unmanned offshore platforms, but robotic offshore platforms are way cooler. They might even walk out to sea themselves.

And if you dare to mock hashtag warriors and their self-imagined radicalism, you must, simply must, dislike disabled people.

Do keep up. The rules change overnight.

Instalanche, David.
You might want to put the you-know-what in the back room for the nonce.

As long as we are speaking of SJWs, please enjoy the adventures of Gyno-Star !.

What is the name for the psychological phenomenon where one becomes so caught up in a movement that one’s critical faculties become entirely inert?
Other than “twitter user” I mean.

What is the name for the psychological phenomenon where one becomes so caught up in a movement that one’s critical faculties become entirely inert?
I don’t know, but you’ll likely fined it in this book: http://www.amazon.com/True-Believer-Thoughts-Movements-Perennial/dp/0060505915/ref=sr_1_1

IDENTIFIED: The Social Justice Smirk.
Alphabetically filed AFTER the pedo-smile.

‘Save Darfur is famous, not for its cries of protest against the world’s indifference to a crime against humanity, but for the demonstrable indifference of the supposed do-gooders, who signed up to it. As it turned out, they weren’t do-gooders, but look-gooders. They publicly announced their righteousness and then did nothing at all.
The University of California found 99.76 per cent of the one million-plus members failed to donate a penny to the cause.
“The study is an important counter-balance to unbridled enthusiasm for the powers of social media,” said one of its researchers. “There’s no inherent magic. Social media can activate interpersonal ties but won’t necessarily turn ordinary citizens into hyper-activists.”
Or indeed any kind of activist. James Bartholomew came up with the wonderful label ‘virtue-signalling’ to describe the narcissism of their gesture politics. You see it every day on the Web. (Every day? What am I talking about? Every minute.)
The 140-character pronunciamentos. The activists who think they can deliver socialism with an angry Facebook status. The furious complaints all writers get from all sides demanding in outraged terms ‘what gives you the right to say this’. To which the only answer is ‘I have as much or as little right as you. If you disagree with me so violently, why don’t you write a book or make a film to put your point of view?’
They never do. It is not just that their only talent is to beat their chests and howl like enraged orang-u-tangs. They lack the application to construct an argument that might appeal to the unconverted, or tell a story that remedies the real and imagined biases of this novelist or that filmmaker’.
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/09/looking-good-nothing-corbyn-slackactivist-left/

“Aggressive public displays of virtue are where the morally deplorable hide.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/21/heres-why-the-progressive-left-keeps-sticking-up-for-pedophiles/

Other than “twitter user” I mean.
I tend to stick with the sarcastic humor and satire section.
Elizabeth Windsor
‏@Queen_UK
Gone right off pork.

@BoredElonMusk
Heh. 😉

“Masculinity is a social construct… created by Patriarchy.”
Oh dear. But this is what happens when the credulous listen to Women’s Studies lecturers, who generally have qualifications in English literature instead of, say, biology or neuroscience.
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I notice Ms Cueto seems baffled and exasperated that some male readers have taken exception to her pronouncements and general air of condescension. Which is odd, really, as it seems she’s insisting that men in general have something terribly and profoundly wrong with them and therefore need fixing. By enlightened people like her.

Semi-naked granny glues her bottom to window of Debenhams
You wouldn’t get that kind of thing at John Lewis.