Totes Hardcore
From the ‘style’ pages of Mic magazine, where the young and left-leaning can find “news to help you rethink the world”:
On election night, like so many, 26-year-old Nicole Narvaez’s feelings “kind of exploded.” “I went to bed in tears and woke up to the final news hysterical,” Narvaez recalled.
Hysterical. Her words.
“I cried on the train to work, at work, after work and many days since. Following the election I decided I wanted and needed to do something for myself that also meant something bigger.” And how she’d do that, she thought, was with a tattoo. “I needed to remind myself that our new president-elect and all the horrible things he has said and represents isn’t a representation of humanity, and to not let it eat me up entirely,” Narvaez said. “I needed something to remind myself of how strong I can be.”
Because the way to keep things in proportion and not be eaten up entirely by an election result is to have your body marked with a permanent reminder of it. And the strength-asserting tattoo chosen by the not-at-all-unstable Ms Narvaez?
That night, after doing some research online, she walked into a tattoo parlour and got “GRL PWR” on her wrist and the Venus sign commonly associated with feminism on her pointer finger. “The two tattoos work in tandem when my hand is in a fist straight into the air,” Narvaez explained. “They work off one another.”
Tremble, ye patriarchs. This lady means business. Presumably, that fist-and-index-finger combo will be on display quite a lot in the post-election End Times.
The article, by Rachel Lubitz, goes on to inform its readers that Ms Narvaez is “not alone in feeling an urge to get something permanent on her body after the election,” that “feminist messages have been hugely popular,” and that this constitutes a “true insurgence.” Rather than, say, a display of impulse-control issues and possibly future regret. As illustrated, inadvertently, by a young feminist who wished to tell the world about her “belief in women’s rights” via the subtle medium of a large forearm tattoo. Specifically, one featuring “a coat hanger encircled in flowers with the words ‘We deserve better’ written below it.”
I’ll see your “deserve” and raise you “empower”.
I’m so glad you “raised” my “awareness” on this issue.
Unlike the last incumbent?
Not even close
I wonder if this is the same Nicole Narvaez? No, surely that would be too perfect.
Ah, the requisite pre-election sneering followed by weepy thumb-sucking and acting out.
NOW the story’s complete and even more hilarious. Good digging.
If she bleeds, do they not prick her?
Someone who’s spent a week or more crying & hysterical over an election needs “something to remind myself of how strong I can be”?
What she needs is either a swift kick or a padded room.
Or both.
I’m so glad you “raised” my “awareness” on this issue.
I would say I’ve been trumped there, but I wouldn’t want you to be “triggered”.
Wouldn’t it be prudent to find out
NO.
Squires is right. There’s a minor industry publishing collections of “unfortunate” tattoos, which would be devastated if folks started being prudent before calling in the local tattoo artist. Can’t have that, that would be creative destruction of the most pernicious kind. Or so I hear from the local tattoo artists and small publishers…
“research cited by Baer and Singal finds that white people respond to being called “racist” in a way that resembles receipt of a slur”
Based on several interactions I’ve had since the election, apparently “white people” are simply supposed to listen silently to such remarks. Permissible reactions are limited to timid expressions of 1) guilt 2) shame and 3) “please sir, may I have another?”
Reactions 1-3 are also, as the astute among you will already be aware, mandatory.
How tedious, how predictable:
https://twitter.com/i/moments/808354356219166720
Because nothing says; “I hate you” more than writing the words of the person you hate on your body.
@JibHalyard: “On current indications, the coming Trump freakshow promises plenty opportunity for stern, disciplined criticism from concerned adults.”
You must be watching a different reality than I am.
You must be watching a different reality than I am.
Right, I forgot, silly me. I should stop relying on the evil Mainstream Media for my information about the world and switch to Breitbart or Infowars or RT…
@JibHalyard: “On current indications, the coming Trump freakshow promises plenty opportunity for stern, disciplined criticism from concerned adults.”
Why, here’s a perfect example of your “stern, disciplined criticism” from yesterday’s Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/new-york-should-seize-trump-tower/2016/12/12/6dfdfc50-c0b2-11e6-897f-918837dae0ae_story.html
Absolutely reasonable. Seize his property before he turns us into newts!
This is straight out of Jimmy Buffett, isn’t it?
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jimmybuffett/permanentreminderofatemporaryfeeling.html
Especially, “there’s no ‘dumb ass’ vaccine”…
@ Burnsie: Really? You don’t don’t see anything to criticise in a candidate who actually campaigned for the presidency on a promise he would lock up his opponent? Who picks fights with his own intelligence agency (and everyone else, for that matter) on Twitter? Who seems more interested in touring the country for “thank you” rallies (yet another innovation of his) than in attending int briefings? Who so blithely brushes off his massive, unprecedented potential for conflicts of interest? The list of Hugo Chavez-type behaviour goes on and on, and he hasn’t even been sworn in yet.
This is normal, is it? Things only an SJW would take notice of?
Yup, nothing to see here, move along folks…
Seize his property before he turns us into newts!
Too late, I’m afraid….
@Jib Halyard: Things only an SJW would take notice of?
That certainly appears to be the case with you.
That certainly appears to be the case with you.
Name-calling. Another SJW tactic…
Jib:
Literally every statement in your last is tendentious or false.
“campaigned for the presidency on a promise he would lock up his opponent” – the key statement here was that his opponent *should* be locked up, and that anyone else of similar offence would have been. Not that he personally would find cause to convict a person otherwise clear as the driven snow, but that existing grossly illegal acts would have had anyone else in the pokey.
“picks fights with his own intelligence agency ” – It’s not “his” agency yet. It’s Barack Obama’s, and more to the point, John Brennan’s. Politicized to an unprecedented level, and permitting itself to be used in non-sequitur arguments of “Russian hacking of politicos – >release of juicy detail conflated with baseless accusations of machine tampering – > “The Russians hacked the election!”
“thank you” rallies (yet another innovation of his) than in attending int briefings? ” – Please demonstrate how and why he must accept all briefings on a daily basis and not a weekly one when *President Elect*, and how this differs substantially (and is worse) from the previous occupant’s typical review only of a bulleted list and routine rejection of in-person briefings while actually in office.
“Who so blithely brushes off his massive, unprecedented potential for conflicts of interest? ” Well, lawks. Potential for conflict of interest. Unprecedented and unlike the previous administrations demonstrated actual conflicts of interest and appointment of individuals with no qualifications whatsoever or actual anti-qualifications – Tim Geithner, really?
This in a media environment in which “respected” organs such as the NYT and Time respectively suggest eminent domain revenge and refusing to pay taxes until “return to democratic rule”? In which a contributor to CNN screamed that he would put all folk of an LGBT stripe “in camps”?
Precisely what is trustworthy to you, and what claims and charges demand scrutiny? Clearly the answers for you are “everything, no matter how absurd” and “none whatsoever”.
Summary: you are hysterical.
Not NYT, WaPo, rather. At any rate, you dodge Burnsie’s critique of a toxic media environment with “but there’s plenty to criticize soberly” and then proceed to do nothing of the kind. Physician, heal thyself.
Summary: you are hysterical.
You are actually pretending that any of this would pass without comment had there been a D behind the candidate’s name?
Seems you are suggesting that Trump should be above any criticism whatsoever.
Seems you are suggesting that Trump should be above any criticism whatsoever.
Utterly false, as quite a few things merit a raised eyebrow at the least, but the obverse is not that every quirk merits hysteria. Every single cited point or incident you provided was in some degree of false light. Largely, due to the manifold untrustworthiness of major media organs. If you cannot identify this, you are in no position to be “sober” going forward.
I mean. “Dignity to the office”? The office once occupied by Lyndon Johnson, who was known for waving the male organ in press discussions and holding confreres sitting on a toilet? There’s someone whose version of reality is hallucinatory here, and it’s not me.
Jib Halyard is a lightweight. Y’all should listen to me instead.
Of the two circuses in town, Jib, I’m afraid it’s the liberal freakshow that’s completely untethered at the moment. Liberals are just completely unhinged at the moment.
And you shouldn’t get too riled up over campaign rhetoric.
After all, we didn’t faint when Obama told his supporters to “punish your enemies,” “get in their faces,” “hit back twice as hard,” “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” and my favorite, “We talk to these folks … so I know whose ass to kick.”
Ah, but in case you haven’t noticed, Burnsie, the liberal freakshow is not the one taking over the reins of power in January, is it?
And one does not need to be an Obama fan to find fault with the Keynesian, protectionist God Emperor Ascendant.
None of the behaviour I have described above is in any way “conservative”.
A little consistency in one’s cynicism goes a long way, I find.
Jib, I have immense confidence in the checks and balances written into our government. We didn’t elect a “Dear Leader,” and I fully expect Congress to reassert its considerable authority after 8 years of spineless acquiescence.
What else? I genuinely welcome the return of a watchdog press after 8 years of a lapdog press acting as Obama’s palace guard. They have a job to do again, and will do it with excessive zeal. Although I do expect better than “Seize His Property!” That’s blithering nonsense.
And don’t forget the entrenched “Deep State” bureaucracy, which is overwhelmingly Democrat. This alone will become a test of the Irresistible Force versus the Immovable Object. I predict a draw at best for Trump.
What’s that famous quip—”fascism is always descending on America but landing in Europe?” It fits. Vigilance is fine, but all the fears will prove unwarranted.
@ Darleen:
Uh oh… another Lefty claiming that Trump’s election has ruined her libido
I especially like the end of that article: “Sex is also, thank god, something I can make personally and totally sure a Trump presidency doesn’t take away from me. He already tried his best and failed.” Yes, because clearly the real reason behind Trump’s candidacy was to take away Priscilla Pine’s sex drive…
@ Fred the Fourth:
research cited by Baer and Singal finds that white people respond to being called “racist” in a way that resembles receipt of a slur
I’ll put that in my scrapbook of blindingly obvious social science findings, right next to “Being told that whites in America will be in the minority by 2050 tends to increase support among whites for restricting immigration”.
Summary: you are hysterical.
You are actually pretending that any of this . . . .
Yeeeessss, I think the approaching political while should be extremely interesting to watch—and I don’t mean watching only the White House . . . !
Was this wrist tattoo the equivalent of a Plimsoll Line for a fisting?
Main Halyard: “Jib Halyard is a lightweight. Y’all should listen to me instead.”
I don’t know why David didn’t offer you cake.
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My in-a-nutshell reply to Jib: As I said on November 9: “I’m not thrilled that the Buffoon won, but I’m thoroughly pleased that the Wicked Witch lost.”
“I’m not thrilled that the Buffoon won, but I’m thoroughly pleased that the Wicked Witch lost.”
Echoing, again.
Hal, I’m stupid. Can you please ‘ splain for me wtf that paragraph is saying?
Geezer:
Really. I’m starving over here. AND crying. (Big, manly tears, of course.)
Oops. Blew THAT alias, didn’t I…
Hal, I’m stupid. Can you please ‘ splain for me wtf that paragraph is saying?
Weeelll, as that paper points out, back about mid campaign season, the choices had very easily and quickly settled into Sanders, Trump, and Clinton. The assorted right wing leavings and the Green candidate were clearly going to get left in the mud.
At that point a reoccurring assessment was Trump?!?! Ehn, too much stupid crap going on there.
And then after a bit, Sanders got edged out—An easy prediction here: Starting by about MarchIsh 2017 or so will be the initial arrivals of the book length studies on how the Democrats utterly screwed over their own campaign with Clinton getting into the nomination.
Now, this is Sanders, rather than Clinton or Corbyn.
Another example of Sanders being a demonstrated hard core conservative popped up once the Democratic nomination got formally nailed down. With the Republicans, the right wing liberals continued to try attacking Trump regardless of his being the declared right wing candidate, because Trump was already clearly conservative rather than a mere ideologically pure right wing catamite. Sanders, on the other hand, being conservative, immediately started announcing Get ‘Er Elected, Get ‘Er Elected, Get ‘Er Elected . . . i.e. a very conservative action statement from Sanders of of Screw the identity politics, people, Do something . . .
However, no matter how conservative Sanders is, at that point Clinton was the Democratic candidate.
At that point the Trump? Meh!! voters had the other choice to look at, and that choice was Clinton rather than Sanders.
The Democrats could have offered Sanders vs Trump.
But, instead of offering Sanders vs Trump, the Democrats offered Clinton vs Trump.
. . . I am voting against Hillary, come what may with Trump. . .
. . . Her vote, she concluded, was “more against Hillary than for Trump.” . . .
And thus went the election.
What is it with feminists and fisting?
On election night, like so many, 26-year-old Nicole Narvaez’s feelings “kind of exploded.” “I went to bed in tears and woke up to the final news hysterical,” Narvaez recalled.
I’ve been involved in elections since the sixties. Won ’em. Lost ’em. Cried only once. It was two weeks after we knew the outcome at the final declaration of the local vote. I didn’t cry because we’d won or lost. I didn’t cry because the local winner was my cousin. I DID cry because it brought my very shy grandfather – whose face was scarred by cancer – out of his home for the first time in years.