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Via Darleen, Terry Newman on life among the Mao-lings at Concordia University:
For readers, Alice’s journey in Wonderland is amusing. But to be Alice is something altogether different. The experience is hard to pin down with words. With few exceptions, no one on campus is officially censored. But the culture itself exerts power. One feels constantly judged. One is always on-edge. To perceive nuance, to be sceptical, to ask questions, gets one quickly accused of moral deficiency. The students are zealous, the professors often unprepared, fearful, or complicit. And make no mistake — to be told unendingly that the whiteness of one’s skin is disqualifying, one’s morals questionable, one’s words offensive, one’s opinions invalid, has a significant cumulative psychological effect.
John Ellis on presumptuous and revolting male feminists:
I understand that Dr Michael Kimmel is accomplished in the non-scientific field of sociology and traffics himself as a gender-studies expert. And I understand that some consider him “the world’s most prominent male feminist.” But why does he get to speak for me and my fellow “heterosexual white ones” at a condescending conference with a priori commitments to the silliness called intersectionality?
And Andy Ngo on the inexplicable demise of an intersectionally feminist bookstore:
The customer wasn’t always right. In fact, he was expected to “abide by” seven “guidelines” including this one: “Cishetero-patriarchy exists, white supremacy exists, ableism exists, racism exists, colonialism never ended, capitalism is bad. This is not a space where we argue about the basics of the situation.” […] Signs denouncing police, the U.S. military and immigration authorities lined the windows. Inside, I looked at some of the merchandise for sale. There were “Riots not diets” buttons and a “Fuck patriarchy” T-shirt. The latter was double-extra-large—too big for me. One piece of merchandise carried a label that read “Trigger warning: gendered and patriarchal language.” The offending verbiage? Instructions for using a feminine-hygiene product. I attempted to make a small purchase but didn’t have any cash. A sign at the counter declared: “Due to patriarchy we require a $5 minimum on all debit/credit card purchases.”
I left empty-handed.
As usual, feel free to share your own links and snippets, on any subject, in the comments.
“Due to Patriarchy, we require a $5 minimum…”
An Indian restaurant we frequent has a 3.5% “cash alternative” charge on credit card transactions.
They should add “due to lingering colonial exploitation we are required to collect this fee” to the sign.
Isn’t the heart a little… girly?
There were “Riots not diets” buttons and a “Fuck patriarchy” T-shirt. The latter was double-extra-large—too big for me.
Mee-oww. 🙂
It’s hard to believe that “Angry Stores” don’t flourish as well as “Angry Studies.” Oh well, there goes my franchise dreams.
Capitalism just sucks, doesn’t it?
It’s hard to believe that “Angry Stores” don’t flourish
It turns out that combining dogmatic condescension with whiny, badly-written books and t-shirts for the obese isn’t the key to commercial success. Even in Portland. And even with a monopoly and plenty of cronyism, i.e., “an exclusive contract to sell textbooks for PSU’s women’s studies courses.”
Incidentally, for those thwarted by the WSJ paywall, the article can be read in full here.
Jordan Peterson claims that this may very well be the single stupidest article he’s ever encountered. High praise indeed.
…the single stupidest article he’s ever encountered…
The day is young…
Not in the least, thanks for asking.
When your argument hinges on a “study” done by a “research student” in creative writing, what ever the hell that is, you might have a problem, you might have a bigger problem if you didn’t read the paper.
There was no evidence of our preconceived notion but everyone needs to be be aware that in some as yet undiscovered universe the problem we desperately want to exist, might.
Addendum:
The paper noted is truly a piece of garbage.
That is either a bald faced lie, or they wouldn’t know a “modern text” if they were beaten about the head and neck with it, going to the shelves, my 30+ year old books (anatomy, I know what you perverts were thinking) go into explicit detail both descriptive and with drawings and photographs, and Frank Netter’s images have been around since he began drawing them around 1960.
Right. My money is on the author was too stupid to know when the students were screwing with her.
There was no evidence of our preconceived notion but everyone needs to be aware that in some as yet undiscovered universe the problem we desperately want to exist, might.
Heh.
A statement on its website blamed the closure on “patriarchy,” “white supremacy” and “capitalism.”
In other words, nobody was interested in what they sold.
All capitalist enterprizes risk failure, but a anti-capitalist capitalist enteprize doubly so. To repudiate the very thing that the business needs to flourish must generate enormous cognitive dissonance.
To repudiate the very thing that the business needs to flourish must generate enormous cognitive dissonance.
These are intersectional feminists, advocates of “social justice.” Sworn enemies of “patriarchy” and “white privilege.” I suspect the cognitive dissonance was in the red long before they opened for business.
Today’s word is multiculturalism.
I suspect the cognitive dissonance was in the red long before they opened for business.
For sure. To live in the most free, civil, humane, affluent, and equitable society the world has ever seen and to declare it evil and oppressive requires mental gymnastics that would leave Nadia Comaneci gasping in admiration.
But at least those contradictions are buried under layers of impenetrable feminist “theory”, and one can maintain the fantasy that the people of Cuba and Vietnam are far happier, never being forced to actually live there. Profits or lack thereof are a daily concern, with immediate and palpable ramifications. There’s no escaping that reality.
My sympathy for Ms. Newman is practically nonexistent.
My sympathy for Ms. Newman is practically nonexistent.
Fair enough. As Daniel and others noted in the previous thread, anyone choosing to get into serious debt for a media studies degree at Concordia is choosing to spend time among incompetents, charlatans and borderline lunatics. But it’s telling that the Mao-ling tendency has reached levels that even fellow lefties find creepy and destructive. Sufficiently so to impact, even endanger, the wider institution. When I started blogging about the pathologies of academia, a decade ago, I was often told, flatly, that the mindset I was pointing to – and showing video of – either didn’t exist or was nothing of consequence.
I don’t hear that quite so often now.
Your data is offensive.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/27/democratic-rep-citing-uncomfortable-data-is-white-privilege/
From the stupidest article evah:
Ghil’ad Zuckermann, professor of linguistics and endangered languages at the University of Adelaide, points out that in languages where the word for ‘bridge’ has a feminine gender, people describe bridges as elegant. But in languages where the word for ‘bridge’ has a masculine gender, people refer to bridges as sturdy.
Really? There are elegant bridges in Florence and Venice. There are sturdy bridges in Frankfurt (hell, German engineering – there are sturdy bridges everywhere in Germany. Even some of the elegant ones!)
And, re Farnsworth’s comment:
Nevertheless, we recommended that teachers of anatomy and authors of anatomy textbooks should be aware of the possibility of adverse effects on professional matters relating to equality and diversity issues.
Yes. Teaching anatomy students to call things by different names in the interests of ‘equality and diversity’, whatever they actually are (either the ‘interests’ or ‘equality and diversity’ themselves) is likely to lead to, coughs, ‘interesting’ outcomes in theatre.
I hypothesise.
Nurse: “Doctor, have you seen the small bleed under the patient’s left Fallopian tube?”
Properly indoctrinated Dr: “Nurse, I’m ashamed of you. Don’t you know that such an important female body part must not be referred to by the name of some dead white Italian? As a professional woman, you should be standing up for the rights of all women, etc, etc, etc …”
Nurse: “Doctor, there is now a major bleed …”
Anaesthetist: “Doctor, the patient’s blood pressure is dropping dangerously …”
Machine (which cares about reality, rather than ‘equality and diversity’) ‘Beeeeeeep …’
Another woeful article near the BBC’s “Names of Womens’ Body Parts” is another article “How the pay gap starts while we are still teenagers”
The author, Yasemin Besen Cassino, bases her conclusions on some statistics, and information gathered when she “also interviewed 35 young women who worked as babysitters and 25 women who worked in the retail and service sectors in the US.” It strikes me that if you interview only females then how are you supposed to understand the differences between males and females, unless you are just gathering support for a pet thesis? I know the numbers hover around that magic ‘At least 30 or it’s not statistically useful’, but to draw conclusions about all teenagers is stretching it.
Later she says, “Even though there were very few male babysitters, what was surprising about the group that I spoke to was they all knew the going rate..” I don’t understand: do males not count in the consideration of the 35 babysitters and the ‘interviews’ now seem to be group interviews instead of individual interviews and this can have a big difference in what is said in front of other people, especially peers. We don’t really know how many males were interviewed, only that it was ‘very few’ compared to 35 females: 2-5 perhaps?
It strikes me that if you actually do proper research and discover that there is a difference between male and females from an earlier and earlier age, then this might more strongly indicate that this is mostly due to sex chromosome genetic differences. The part that isn’t, (all of it according to Progressive/SJW ideology) must be as a result of nurture. Who has the most contact and influence in a young child’s life? Mothers and teachers: female pre-school teachers, female primary school teachers, and female high school teachers where teachers these days are almost all female with the few males considered to be potential pedophiles. The fathers are often spending too much time at work to be spending an equal time as the mothers influencing their children, yet are told that their spending this extra time at work has nothing to do with any difference in wages. So this supposed patriarchy seems very much to be driven and sustained by women – as long as you assume genetics has nothing to do with differing behaviours and values between the sexes.
In Other Words, in other words, “The customer is always wrong.” 😄. But I think what really doomed them was their infamous policy of “No refunds. Credit note only.”
Thank you, David, for providing that link! I hate it when someone links an article that’s behind a paywall.
Is the great English heat wave over? We get a break over the weekend and then back to normal July weather, mid- to upper-eighties w/ humidity to match, but the high nineties are gone for a while.
Is the great English heat wave over?
Currently a mere 27°. The forecast is for slightly lower temperatures next week, hopefully within the comfort zones of pale English bloggers.
Of course it’s been worse for those poor souls in Scotland, where heatwaves, like fresh fruit and dentistry, are unheard of.
An infographic for you UK types unaccustomed to mild heat.
At Mises, How the United Kingdom Became a Police State.
The idea that language drives thought, the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, is a very enticing. It’s also pretty much total bullshit. The Language Log blog is very good on it.
You can be certain the “elegant” bridge when feminine will be both cherry picked (who would have the time to do it thoroughly) and based on a tiny sample size. But in the world of gender studies no-one cares about facts, statistics or logic.
Frankfurt School of thought writ large.
Remember, citizens. Always respect the media:
Via Orwell & Goode.
Sadiq Khan is such a putz…
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/07/06/london-mayor-permits-trump-blimp-soar-city-upcoming-visit/
It’s 42.8 C today where I live…
Because the first thing I do when seeing a black family having a picnic in the park is call the cops on them:
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1015687648260902914
Trump is a shoo-in for 2020 at this rate.
As I said up-thread, Sadiq Khan is such a putz…
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2018/07/07/whodunit-kurt-schlichter-drops-sadiq-khan-when-he-forgets-1-key-detail-about-77-london-bombing/
As I’ve said before, everything turns out to be racist…
https://pjmedia.com/trending/now-monty-python-is-racist-or-something/
Hi Captain Nemo,
Actually that did happen, in the U.S., a while back; the people were something like 50 feet from the Approved Picnic Zone and the lady called the cops on them. Something to do with where you could set up a bbq grill.
She was probably the president of the local Homeowner’s Association.
That I didn’t know, Pogonip. My point still stands, I think. Most sensible people of whatever pigmentation wouldn’t call the cops over a family having a picnic. From what you’ve said it sounds as if the woman in question would have called the cops on anyone over something so trivial.
Yes, that was the impression I got, too.
She was probably the president of the local Homeowner’s Association.
There are equal opportunity Mrs. Grundys.
Funny how the video equates this kind of stuff with Trump supporters, yet it is people like Kino Jimenez who physically assaulted a 16 y/o over a hat.
…yet it is people like Kino Jimenez who physically assaulted a 16 y/o over a hat.
Still, it doesn’t always go completely to plan…
Let us criticize and make political all the things, up next, white science cures a disability in a comic book movie.
The utter derangement of these idiots to think that somehow it is better to cope with an ailment, and that people with disabilities are somehow marginalized because of a movie cure, is astounding.
What is this “heatwave” thing of which you speak, it was -1 C overnight a couple of nights ago, and actually got to 7C by 1 pm. Though it is warmer now and is nearly 13C.
Don’t go down the rabbit hole of deaf culture, Farnsworth.
Um… my doctor’s a brown guy from the Phillippines.
I read the In Other Words site, and I spotted 3 likely reasons for their closure:
1). They were only open 12 hours a week.
2). They complained that closing for a day for that TV show to film there cost them “a day’s profit.” This told me they didn’t understand the difference between sales and profit. You may sell 10 widgets at $10 apiece, but if the rent on your store is $150/month, not only have you not made a profit, you haven’t even covered your expenses.
3). All the rules you had to remember and follow just to walk in the place, much less make a purchase, may have caused potential customers to shrug and go elsewhere. That’s what happened in the 1960’s to restaurants that refused to serve women in pants.
Don’t go down the rabbit hole of deaf culture, Farnsworth.
Been there, that there are deaf parents disappointed that their child isn’t, or refusing treatment that will cure or lessen a deaf child’s affliction, should be grounds for the child being removed if you ask me, though so far no one has.
Where I work there are a fair number of deaf people, and someone tried to get a “deaf culture” thing going. Nobody bit; they’re deaf, not stupid. Upper mgmt finally settled for making all the supv’s learn sign language.
Southern California – Corona
Friday 117F/47C
Saturday 105F/40C (currently – 9 pm — 83F/28C)
Tomorrow predicted 101F/38C
Hi Darleen,
Is that unusually hot for southern Calif this time of year, or just on the high side of normal?
Pogonip
We’ve broken some July records this year. Combo of bad weather factors all at once (high pressure, desert winds and monsoonal flow up from Mexico — the foothills got heavy rain today along with the 100+ temps) . Last few summers have been relatively mild so I’m not surprised we get a bad one this year.
Triple digits aren’t unusual, but usually in mid-late August. 100-105 not unusual but you don’t get the above 105 until you head out to the Mohave desert.
Oh, and I’ve set up a shrine in the house to honor St. Willis [Carrier]
Me too!
The utter derangement of these idiots to think that somehow it is better to cope with an ailment, and that people with disabilities are somehow marginalized because of a movie cure, is astounding.
Apparently, we’re to believe that a black character’s desire to escape from chronic, disabling pain and impending death – using “white science” – is “ableist” and steeped in “white privilege,” and therefore wicked. On grounds that people in pain should abandon all hope of treatment and resign themselves to endless suffering for the benefit – yes, benefit – of other people in pain. And presumably Ms Lopez, our self-styled “disabled freelance film critic,” has spent money on having her mind blunted in this way. It does rather smell of Angry Studies.