Heed Ye, O Heed Ye, the Agonies of the Left
When badmouthing maleness goes horribly wrong.
White woman’s burden.
Poltergeists and Martians also spared.
Hegemony, or at least someone’s windows, yeah?
She’s decided you can’t decide.
You are free to remain immobile.
I denounce the ableism.
Adorable feminist says clever things.
Well, unlike the other thing, it allows you to posture with little physical risk.
And so modest with it.
Erasing WrongThought™.
It’s an incantation. It summons tedious people.
He’s letting you know he’s smarter than you. See also this.
If there’s a tube strike and you can’t get home or get to work, and if you aren’t happy about this, chances are you’re a wanker.
Previous instalments can be found here. And feel free to share your own.
Severely educated.
That.
Just how do these people get out of bed in the morning without killing themselves?
The needy social signalling does seem rather exhausting.
The concept of “intelligence” is one of the few cases where the social sciences actually produced a functional, reproducible, actionable metric for once. It ought to be held up as a success. Intelligence is the single largest predictor of life outcomes in general as well as specific task performances. There are multiple tests and proxies for intelligence (from Raven’s matrices to reflexes) with high correlation and retest reliability. The tests also follow a strong form of the 80/20 rule – there are crude intelligence tests that take only five minutes and predict how someone is likely to be doing fifty years from now, loosely to be sure, but better than the weatherman can predict the weekend.
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.
Pathetic little useless tits.
Twitter has now become Nature’s way of screaming, “Do not touch! Stay away!”
He’s letting you know he’s smarter than you.
Snork.
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/
What do these people do?….I mean it…Apparently most are”educated” or have some sort of post secondary degree, but really,what do they do?…..Are there really that many Starbucks or other specialty coffee shops or leftie bookstores out there? And in the case of a natural disaster or civic unrest, what could they do if they’re keyboard or smart phone won’t respond 🙂
I think the best response to these cretins is illustrated at 0:44 here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXlvy3sTTBk
What do these people do?
Two words: Public sector.
Cis and trans relate to the position of atoms in a molecule. This woman is chemist!
I’ve added a couple more.
Erasing WrongThought™.
I’m waiting for the Chrome extension that deletes all gendered pronouns. #hardcore
#hardcore
Presumably, it’s aimed at people who’ve achieved such extraordinary levels of doctrinaire uptightness that even the sight of certain common words sends them into a fit of indignation.
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.
“I am speaking for all”
The arrogance of the political mindset in a nutshell.
It’s not just the Left, let alone its loony subset. Anyone who “thinks in terms of populations” (as I once saw it put, approvingly), rather than actual, individual, living and breathing people, is saying this at some level. And it’s a damned lie.
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.
Nice montage of malevolent narcissism you’ve found there, David.
“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.
Some play D and D, some play Fantasy (American)Football, in turn, having the exact same relevance and effect on reality, some . . . . . . . . . . .
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”.
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!”
Funny thing about Jenner is that he doesn’t take himself anywhere near as seriously as the hordes of self-righteous transphiliacs do.
They had an attack of the vapors over a guy wearing a Halloween costume that mimicked his magazine cover and he said he thought it was “pretty cool.”
He’s also an admitted Republican, and that drives them nuts. Far more nuts than it drives Republicans that he’s trans.
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.
They’re so cute when they start huffing and puffing with outrage. Or turn red from frustration.
Of course, it’s less funny when the cops and courts actually start taking their insane babbling seriously. PC is Stalinist idiocy.
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
Oh dear. Wasp normative expectations are the real problem. Trigger that …
“Yet, no one is arguing for trigger warnings in the routine spaces where symbolic and structural violence are acted on students at the margins. No one, to my knowledge, is affixing trigger warnings to department meetings that WASP-y normative expectations may require you to code switch yourself into oblivion to participate as a full member of the group. Instead, trigger warnings are being encouraged for sites of resistance, not mechanisms of oppression.”
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 . . .
He’s letting you know he’s smarter than you.
Not really. There is nothing remotely ableist about intelligence. Indeed proper intelligence tests are on way to actively prevent ableism – no-one marking a blinded test knows the candidate is in a wheelchair or is deaf.
I do confess to being quite “intelligent-ist” however. I would refuse to be treated by a stupid doctor, and I won’t pay for a stupid accountant either.
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.
Then again, this is a recent tweet:
The political assemblage that calls people “stupid” is the same one that ensures women studying are always attacked & undermined.
Which is why girls do better than boys at school, and women do better at men at university. Or something.
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.
Dicentra – Funny thing about Jenner is that he doesn’t take himself anywhere near as seriously as the hordes of self-righteous transphiliacs do.
Yes, he was adopted as a SJW shibboleth despite being an old, white, rich, Republican man-lady.
Transjenner is obviously crazier than Howling Mad Murdock on bath salts, but as far as I know his mentalism is personal, not political.
Hal – Jenner is genuine, authentically changing from male to female
Hal, I authentically changed into a cat once, but the neighbours still complained when I stalked birds in their garden.
There ain’t no justice.
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.
The wrongness isn’t random, it’s in-group positioning.
This is still my favourite:
Via https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2014/11/no-balm-can-soothe-the-agonies-of-the-left.html
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, if they let themselves: http://allisbornagain.tumblr.com/aboutme
Believe it or not, these people have further to fall…
There used to be homes for people like that.
Farnsworth,
I have to wonder, what sort of traumatic childhood event occurred that resulted in dear Em not maturing beyond the age of ten?
OT, but the inimitable Brian Sewell is dead:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11876915/Brian-Sewell-art-critic-obituary.html
Hal, I authentically changed into a cat once, . . . .
Excellent doing once the engineering is arranged. Evidently being a were-Anything is rather more complicated than not.—According to comments I’ve run across at one time or another, the starting point is always, It’s not what you think.
. . . . but the neighbours still complained when I stalked birds in their garden.
. . and that’s their problem—Cats do that . . . .
There ain’t no justice.
If you’ve actually manage to be a werecat, or in the case of Jenner, Ehn . . .
Remember, when Jenner is an old, white, rich, Republican woman, the right wing liberals are going scream Nooo!!! Jenner is not supposed to be a woman!!!!!. And equally in turn the left wing liberals are all going to scream Nooo!!! Jenner is not supposed to be old, white, rich, Republican!!!!! And we conservatives bookended between the liberal extremes will just roll our eyes, again, if we even happen to run across the reactions . . . .
After all, as a matched pair of varieties of hipsters, there’s a right wing liberal or left wing liberal born every minute.
“Do I feel my white privilege? Yes. Daily.”
I hear you can get an implement to help you with that. With batteries.
That one time I felt my male privilege the blankets got horribly messy.
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.
‘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’.
He is definitely trying to get a fuck out of this situation, and he will fail.
Unless he likes strapons.
Steve 2–you referenced Howling Mad Murdock…I LOVE YOU.
I hope that didn’t trigger you.
Anyway, these whiny miserable twits want to make everyone equally a whining miserable twit, have I got that right?
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.
Farnsworth,
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.
A bit of leap, yes. It’s been my admittedly anecdotal experience that young women who publicly embrace (dare I say, celebrate?) such diagnoses tend to be making excuses for self-indulgent behavior.
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.
I’m afraid this is why we’re going to need a major world war.