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For newcomers, more items from the archives:
He’s Being Rugged, And We Can’t Have That.
Transvestite potter says Bear Grylls is a bad influence, denounces masculinity as “useless” and “counter-productive.”
It’s true that rafting skills and urine-drinking may be niche concerns and of obvious practical use only to explorers, hardy outdoors types, and people whose package holidays have gone catastrophically wrong. But – and it’s quite a big one – there’s something to be said for seeing people in unfamiliar and rather trying circumstances achieving more – sometimes much more – than they thought they ever could. Which is both the premise and appeal of Mr Grylls’ various, quite popular TV programmes. However, showing people that they may be much more capable than they previously believed, resulting in a sense of great personal satisfaction, is apparently unimportant, a mere “hangover” from more primitive, less Guardian-friendly times.
She’s Seething With Empowerment.
Polite man holds door open for woman. Woman starts screaming.
No amount of public speaking or articles in the Guardian is likely to have much effect on how people in general may view the eye-catchingly rotund in terms of physical attractiveness. It’s a pointless endeavour, like shouting at rain. The more practical alternative, the one over which a person might exert some actual leverage, is losing weight, such that one can breathe properly and is not in continual discomfort, as the author admits, or not becoming quite so huge in the first place. Thereby avoiding the mental and emotional complications exhibited above, such as acting like a mad woman and bullying a stranger for being nice to you.
Flatter, Mythologize, Rinse, Repeat.
According to the New York Times, Laurie Penny is oppressed, and also a cyborg.
By all means take a moment to realign your mind with the notion of Ms Penny as a “cyborg” writer and in some way marginalised - “marked as other” – and struggling against the pressures of not being heard. Except of course when she’s on TV, or Five Live, or Radio 4, or when airing her various and bewildering concerns in the pages of the Guardian, the New Statesman and the Independent.
There’s more, should you want it, in the greatest hits. And tickling the tip jar is what keeps this place afloat.
people whose package holidays have gone catastrophically wrong
Missed that one. 🙂
Missed that one. 🙂
And, I’ve just discovered, that was the thread where we first encountered Trigglypuff and watched in real time as a meme was born.
Happy days.
Do you think she’ll have put it all back on again?
…denounces masculinity as “useless” and “counter-productive.”
OTOH, maybe not.
Hideous counter-productive masculine bridge for comparison.
Every time I read something by a “super-woke” male feminist denouncing some caricature of masculinity, I wind up going to Rudyard Kipling for a palate cleanser.*
*Fun fact: The penultimate line in Kipling’s If– is a translation of the last line of the sonnet “An Sich” by a 17th century German poet Paul Fleming:
“Wer sein selbst Meister ist und sich beherrschen kann,
Dem ist die weite Welt und alles untertan.”
See, that graduate thesis wasn’t a waste after all.
I wonder what ever happened to Triggly Puff?
Gahhh! The mugshot of Grayson Perry before coffee in the morning – not a good way to get the day started. I had forgotten about that one and clicked without thinking. That’ll learn me!
I’ve some shopping to do after work, so I hope tickling the Amazon US button on this page is an acceptable form of thanks to the gracious host of this fine establishment.
Now where do y’all keep the eye bleach??
Farnsworth, that’s the Bristol bridge, yes? Shortly after the FIU bridge fail, I saw this quote from the FIU president:
As I ranted to my wife, no, a bridge is about getting people safely from one side to another. First. Primary. My father worked as a civil engineer for 20-25 years. Mostly bridges. Such idiocy really pisses me off. The media will bury this story as much as they possibly can.
Clifton Suspension Bridge
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
It’s a toll bridge (to pay for maintenance, I believe). A quid a time for cars.
Neither male nor female, just a bl**dy good design 🙂
My father worked as a civil engineer for 20-25 years.
Mine was an E.E. in the military industrial complex. He designed and built avionics for aircraft, many of which are still flying today in various navies and air forces, including our own. It wasn’t about “pretty,” though many of those aircraft are beautiful. It was about getting the job done and bringing the pilots home safely–something near and dear to him inasmuch as he was a WWII Navy aviator and spent some time floating about the ocean on a bad day 73 years ago.
And we wonder why civilizations fail.
I wonder what ever happened to Triggly Puff?
Feast your eyes on this…
http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1125107-trigglypuff
Gahhh!
An authority on masculinity.
Heh…so now the latest spin is that Flores didn’t design the bridge, she and her daughters were there for some construction initiation thing and the reporter worked the diversity angle in (i.e. lied). Of course that could be a lie itself. Who knows these things? John Galt perhaps?
http://sandrarose.com/2018/03/leonor-flores-wants-know-didnt-build-miami-bridge-get/
Mine was an E.E. in the military industrial complex. He designed and built avionics for aircraft, many of which are still flying today in various navies and air forces, including our own. It wasn’t about “pretty,” though many of those aircraft are beautiful.
Yeah….done some work in that regard myself. This ain’t your daddy’s engineering no more. The amount of waste and lack of accountability is, in my mind, criminal. Not that anyone responsible will actually pay for it, though.
Gahhh!
It’s like someone took the waxworks of Edwina Currie, Esther Rantzen and Baroness Thatcher, and melted them into one terrifying combination. Frightening.
Frightening.
I have more.
It strikes me there’s something odd about the assumption that a man who struggles with even the concept of masculinity, as if it were something alien – such that he disdains it out of hand and often dresses as a woman – must somehow be an expert on masculinity as experienced by countless men who don’t feel a need to don a frock and heels.
Heh…so now the latest spin is that Flores didn’t design the bridge…
I would get over it, if it wasn’t lying on the street… Ba dum tishhh…
OK, she didn’t design it, so the take is she was just the project exec ? Of course, that means that it was her responsibility to ensure that the design and construction were sound and that it wouldn’t wind up on the road, instead of over it, so I am not sure they want to go with that line of reasoning at the trial.
OK, she didn’t design it, so the take is she was just the project exec ?
Hell, I have no idea. Maybe we find out that she was not even the project exec. And then we find out she really didn’t do anything, it was a cover for getting minority-owned favoritism in contracts. Maybe she’s not even a real person. Maybe this is all the Truman Show. I personally have had it to the gills with even the general concept of information. I have begun to suspect that anything published that isn’t a lie just hasn’t been discovered as one as yet. Lies, half-truths, lies by omission, fraudulent credentials, credentials from fraudulent organizations. quotes taken out of context, quotes inserted into fake context. It’s all crap.
Wife and I are finally getting around to preparing a will. As we have no children, I have ZERO faith that anything decided in it will be executed to what would be our theoretical satisfaction. I’m considering just having all assets converted into cash and set on fire. Which of course would never happen. Because lawyers. And we’re back to lies..
I’m considering just having all assets converted into cash and set on fire.
Easy solution: just marry whomever you want to inherit your estate. The inheritor will get the estate tax-free and you won’t have to worry about having a will.
Childen play dress-up and make-believe they are what their costumes depict – Batman, Cowboy… Mommy
A transvestite is an adult who still make-believes. A transexual has forgotten that the role is made up.
I have more.
Oh ye flipping gods! My eyes! And yet, I keep coming back for more.
I look at these blokes in frocks (so much better than saying “guys in dresses”) and I think “What woman dresses like that?” They seem to pull out the most stereotypical, old-fashioned, hoity-toity examples of female frippery to adopt. I give thanks every day that I wasn’t born in an era where I would have been expected to dress like that!
To each their own, I guess, but I think pontificating about the definition or usefulness of traditional masculinity is going a bit far. In an ideal world, the Grayson Perrys and that teacher discussed here a bit back would flounce around in their frocks and be happy and let Bear Grylls do his thing and be happy. But no – we can’t have that, can we. If Bear Grylls wrote an article about the ridiculousness that is Grayson Perry and his ilk, the screeching accusations of bigotry, homophobia, transphobia and a few more phobias and mismias invented on the spot would be downright deafening. Yet this Perry creature gets to say whatever he wants about the Bear Grylls of the world and heads nod and everyone says how smart he is. ARGH!
ARGH!
Oh, and let’s not forget that Mr Perry was also responsible for guest-editing this issue of the New Statesman.
He’s Being Rugged, And We Can’t Have That.
As we used to say at the auto repair shop, that tranny needs fixing.
They seem to pull out the most stereotypical, old-fashioned, hoity-toity examples of female frippery to adopt.
A feminist commented a couple years ago that when you look at actual transsexuals you notice that, based on how they choose to look, it is clear that they are not “becoming female” but are indulging in a caricature of femaleness.
…guest-editing this issue of the New Statesman.
Lo, what should I behold at that link? None other than the ostentatious, condescending bait fish.
(>_<) More coffee, that'll set me right.
…a bridge is about getting people safely from one side to another. First. Primary. My father worked as a civil engineer for 20-25 years. Mostly bridges.
…It’s a toll bridge (to pay for maintenance, I believe). A quid a time for cars. Neither male nor female, just a bl**dy good design 🙂
…My father worked as a civil engineer for 20-25 years.
…Mine was an E.E. in the military industrial complex. He designed and built avionics for aircraft … It wasn’t about “pretty” … It was about getting the job done and bringing the pilots home safely.
I can probably speak for working types when I say that as terminally testosterone-fueled as the stereotype paints men in the trades and engineering, there exists there precious little sexism, per se. Men simply realized and accepted that the world saddled them with certain burdens whose reward was that they might idealize women.
The opposite is presently untrue, to wit. Now, suddenly, it’s a competition for the very soul of the world.
None other than the ostentatious, condescending bait fish.
I discovered what happened to him when I was playing on the ice earlier this winter.
Lies, half-truths, lies by omission, fraudulent credentials, credentials from fraudulent organizations. quotes taken out of context, quotes inserted into fake context. It’s all crap.
Well, rather like this bit:
says her number one priority when building bridges is to make sure they look pretty. Nothing else matters
That’s straight up fake news. Nowhere in any of the articles cited did it say anything even remotely close to that, and the only source for the quote that squawker is outright mutating is an embedded gif in the squawker article that I can’t source.
Given what little we know, it looks a lot like the problem here was the design being done in comfy air-conditioned offices and the actual building being done at arm’s length by inadequately supervised subcontractors prone to half-assing the job. Certainly wasting a lot of time on empty sex-based virtue signalling instead of vetting the construction contributed, but so far we know very little about ultimate culpability.
“A transvestite is an adult who still make-believes. A transexual has forgotten that the role is made up.”
Somewhat related, and easily the most grown-up, thoughtful article I’ve read on the subject yet (not that it has much competition*):
Long, but well worth a read.
*Savin’ your presence, Mr. Thompson, sir.
Long, but well worth a read.
I was looking at that earlier today. This bit caught my eye:
See also this.
I have more.
You shouldn’t have. No, really, you shouldn’t have. *reaches for the brain bleach*
Granted, the quote and/or the screen shots of corporate materials mays have been faked, but this is what the FIU student news site quoted her as saying:
Put that together with what similar the FIU President said, “This bridge was about collaboration, it was about hope…” yadda-yadda-yadda.
I’d say those two quotes are somewhat remotely close to the “make sure they look pretty” one. They certainly put emphasis on form over function. It was reported by several sources that the company’s website was scrubbed.
Grayson Perry will always have a place in my heart as the artist who beat out the odious Chapman Brothers for the Turner Prize back in the mid-Aughts. David, set the WABAC Machine for 2007.
There’s a rather dire self-emasculationist’s piece linked over at Ace that seems of a piece with all this.
The whole “cuck”(naughty word!) societal mode is deeply irritating, I must say – first for insisting that everyone else must hate themselves as much as the flagellant, and second for not having the fortitude (irony) to hate self honestly and openly.
Or, as someone in the comments said,
There’s a rather dire self-emasculationist’s piece linked over at Ace…
Indeed, and considering that the twit who wrote it calls a 20 gauge shotgun a rifle that fired a “bullet”, with “kickback” that sent the thing flying, I guessing the whole episode falls under the heading of “Things That Never Happened™”.
Sporkatus
Here’s an epic fisking
and a spot-on response
I haven’t read the whole sorry mess by Leitch… I cringe watching a male willingly castrate himself in public ..
I hope his son gets out of there as soon as he turns 18.
@Sam Duncan-
“Accepting the trans movement’s argument requires us to lend credence to an extreme form of mind-matter dualism, and involves severing the links between bodily sex, gender identity, and erotic desire.”
My issue is with society’s accepted rules governing interaction. We are expected to accept a trasgender’s self-chosen identity to the point that we must use the pronouns they choose and calling them by their “dead name” is inexcusable.
My grand-niece is 5’3″ and doesn’t weigh even 90lbs (1.6 meters and 40 kilos for the Brits) due to anorexia. Is it appropriate for me to call her “fat pig” because that’s how she self-identifies?
@Scott
Excellent point.
OK, she didn’t design it, so the take is she was just the project exec ?
I covered that here:
“This bit caught my eye:”
Yes. I don’t doubt for a moment that transsexualism is a genuine medical problem, and transgenderism, in some cases, a genuine psychological one (and yes, whether you think they’re to be celebrated or not, they are problems). But they’re extremely rare. What we’re seeing at the moment is a fad. And, with trendy parents encouraging pre-pubescent kids to the point of medication, one that’s causing serious harm.
“When others rise, we must fall.”
Aaaand… there it is. The zero-sum fallacy. It’s always hovering around in the background with Leftists.
“@Scott
Excellent point.”
Indeed it is. I mean, take the case of Caitlyn Jenner. Are we seriously expected to say that the man who won those Olympic Medals, the guy who used to interview drivers on the grid at the Indy 500, wasn’t a bloke called Bruce? Whatever we think of that person now, that’s just madness.
They certainly put emphasis on form over function.
No. No, they don’t. They reference form in addition to function, but you’re primed for the other interpretation by the deliberately mendacious squawker article.
IIRC, he also fathered something like half a dozen children.
No, if I was primed it was by the FIU president (see in full in my first comment about this above) which I saw before ever seeing Farnsworth’s link.
There’s a somewhat parallel familily story about this that goes back to the 1960’s, a famous (in Pittsburgh context) bridge that my father worked on, the engineer that built it, politicians taking credit for it, and my mother and grandmother getting my father in trouble at work for a letter they wrote to the newspaper that was published about how the politicians took credit while the real brains, the engineer who designed it, got shoved way in the back behind all the political idiots in the photo when the newspapers did a story on its opening. Keep watching for Atlas to shrug.