Know Your Readership (2)
Time, I think, for a visit to the pages of Everyday Feminism, where Ms Ixty Quintanilla is turning her mind to matters ectoplasmic:
I spoke with several individuals who each channel their ancestral spirituality in different ways and asked them how to use spiritual practice as a form of healing and resistance, now during this difficult Trump era and beyond.
You see, when your preferred candidate loses an election, what you really need is some channelling of ancestral spirituality. As opposed to say, a sense of proportion. And so Ms Quintanilla lists some “spiritual practices” in order to enable fellow feminists to cope with the unutterable trauma that is their lives.
Suggestions include Call On Ancestors – which is to say, the dead – and Burn Herbs Mindfully. The latter is surprisingly fraught with complication, as we’re told, emphatically, that we must avoid setting fire to white sage and various endangered plants, and that it is “vital to recognise and respect the ancestors of the land you stand on.” Exactly how one fathoms the particulars of these things, at any given point in history, and how one should respect the relevant no-longer-living parties, assuming one has been able to identify them, is not made clear.
Other recommendations are more prosaic – feeling the breeze, watching trees grow, and, er, pushing up against said trees. No, I don’t know either. But apparently, if your psyche has been exploded and rendered unto dust by the election of someone other than Hillary Clinton, you should immediately find a tree and push up against it. It’s the feminist way.
However, if breeze-feeling and tree-pushing should fail you, more drastic measures may be required. And so readers are reminded to Protect Your Energy. Specifically,
Light your candles, burn your sage, charge your crystals.
It’s unclear whether the sage we’re being told to burn is the same sage we’ve just been told not to burn under any circumstances. Given this confusion, candle-lighting and crystal-charging may be the safer options. You do have crystals, don’t you? I’m assuming that a phone charger and wall socket will suffice.
“a rather narrow cult”
Ah, yes. “Cult” is the latest media-amplified accusation from the left towards Trump supporters (AKA anyone who questions the left’s hysteria and hypocrisy).
So. A group of people who will do a 180 overnight on major issues if their cultural leaders change their minds are calling others who believe in traditional values members of a cult.
When asked to respect the ancestors of the land you stand on
It means you should revere the memories and legacy of Gondwanaland and Pangaea.
I’m confused.
Simple: no white, Jewish, or Christian ancestral spirits need apply.
And don’t even get me started on the ectoplasmic patriarchy.
Ah, yes. “Cult” is the latest media-amplified accusation from the left towards Trump supporters (AKA anyone who questions the left’s hysteria and hypocrisy).
It’s not just coming from the left. The (nominally?) rightist #NeverTrump crowd uses that epithet as well. Amongst many others.
I’m confused. When asked to respect the ancestors of the land you stand on should I respect the British who created the empire, the Normans who conquered Normandy and then the Saxons; other Vikings who raped and pillaged the Saxons; the Saxons who conquered the Romanised Britons; or the Romans themselves; or leaping back, the ancient Britons who killed off all the Neanderthals. I mean, if I respect them all it gets rather confusing and if I respect one then how can I be sure they are free of sin.
This. This is why real estate is a very, very different kind of property than anything else in a free market society. But try explaining that to people on the left or the right and your whole weekend is shot.
Re the upskirting, the problem is people don’t think these things through in advance. What would I do if—? Here, the obvious answer is to snatch the phone, as she did, and then crush it underfoot, if it’s one of the flimsy ones, or drop it in the nearest water if it’s one of the sturdy ones. What’s he going to do, complain to the cop? “Officer, she destroyed my phone when I tried to take a picture up her skirt!”
An even easier, if less fun, way to foil the upskirters would be to wear shorts or pants to the festival.
An even easier, if less fun, way to foil the upskirters would be to wear shorts or pants to the festival.
There you go, slut shaming and blaming the victims! Hater!
Don’t you know that unless women are free to walk around naked in public, pleasuring themselves for all to see, without fear of subjection to the Masculine Gaze then we’re all living, LITERALLY, in Hitler’s USSR?!
Tim, buried in her screed your female friend apparently agreed with the MP blocking the private bill. She says if it’s to be a criminal offense then it needs to be “scrutinized properly” i.e. handled in normal order.
Is she confused, or am i?
The (nominally?) rightist #NeverTrump crowd uses that epithet as well.
When one of the zealots insists loudly and at length that some random outrageous act is all part of the Grand Plan (never mind that it contradicts the Outrageous Act of four hours ago), and that I’m simply too thick to understand the machinations of the N-dimensional Chess Grandmaster, what term am I supposed to use, if Cultist is off the menu?
Which zealots? jk…crazy is as crazy does. It doesn’t need a plan. It just needs to work. jk again…Both the #NT hair-on-fire from the right and the n-dimensional-chess (presumably from the right) perceptions stem from the same highly logical misconception that plans for the planny-plan-plan are the road to success. The guy is surfing. Granted, this approach won’t work forever. But this horribly complicated edifice that “smart” people impose upon society/societies over decades and decades don’t work either. The whole s*house has to come down at some point. Better sooner than later. And we are looooong overdue for a correction to the “smart set”. Chaos is a God who must be acknowledged/saluted once in a while in order to keep his wrath at bay.
Pogonip,
Here, the obvious answer is to snatch the phone, as she did, and then crush it underfoot, if it’s one of the flimsy ones, or drop it in the nearest water if it’s one of the sturdy ones. What’s he going to do, complain to the cop?
That’s what I would expect an emotionally-stable, self-confident woman to do. Barring that, it used to be that fathers, brothers, boyfriends or husbands would usually make damn sure the perv never thought of trying that stunt again.
Barring that, it used to be that fathers, brothers, boyfriends or husbands
…none of which are ever in evidence whenever one of these strong independent women comes to our attention, I’ll note.
With respect to the ineffectiveness of purchased Tarot decks, I have a solution. Straw purchases! Just pay some other ‘practicioner’ to buy the deck, then they will ‘gift’ it to you.
But watch out for the ATF (Astrology, Tarot and Fortune-telling) agents!