Alone With His Patriarchy
Via Farnsworth M Muldoon, a tale of feminist romance:
A discussion ensues. The teller of said tale, Ms Kelly Jo-Bluen, describes her interests as “feminism, international justice,” and “coloniality.” “White supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy” is, we’re told, “the problem.”
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someone has managed to make Iowahawkblog’s take even better
If after listening to that you go back with the sound off and sing it with a Bob Dylan voice, it is even better still.
UATU (Unexpected Anti-Trump Utterances) keeps popping up.
At a meeting between some old guys (of different backgrounds) regarding football, one of them spotted a TV in the corner of the pub showing a clip of a coffin being carried someplace, and without warning said out loud: “What a pity Trump isn’t in that coffin.”
Odd thing to say when people are discussing overlapping full-backs and offside decisions.
Odd thing to say when people are discussing overlapping full-backs and offside decisions.
It is a bit random.
After last night’s poetry-cum-piety-signalling, I’m wondering to what extent leftist attitudes are propagated in this way. Not arrived at by pondering but instead absorbed by a kind of social osmosis. Sort of intuiting that these are the views one ought to have, and be seen as having, in order to belong to the right kind of social class.
Again, I was struck by the presumption – the belief that everyone present would naturally agree.
Here in the Great White North it’s almost impossible to attend any public function without being subjected to a lecture on how the event is taking place on unceded indigenous territory and what golly-gee, double-plus-good custodians of the land the native peoples are. This isn’t some wide-eyed radical hijacking the proceedings it’s actually a formal part of the event’s agenda.
On more than one occasion I’ve had to visit my optometrist the day after such an event to roll my eyes back into their normal position.
…I’m wondering to what extent leftist attitudes are propagated in this way. Not arrived at by pondering but instead absorbed by a kind of social osmosis.”
Yes. Consider, for example, all the STEM field students whose interests are almost totally focused on those STEM fields. They may spend little to no time actually thinking about political philosophy, economics, etc, and instead will (mostly) unconsciously absorb the opinions and attitudes of the people around them. That happened somewhat to me and I saw it in others.
[non-plussed] “I see the savages in the colonies have ruined another word, inverting its bloody meaning.”
An annoying inversion:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/table#Verb
“(non-US) to put on the agenda. [from 17th c.]
(chiefly US) To remove from the agenda. [from 19th c.]”
Annoying, but not as embarrassing as “napkin” and “fanny”.
I’m from the Great White North. We used to use “serviette” instead of the American “napkin”–though we never used “nappie” to mean diaper–but we’ve been bombarded with powerful culture rays (strong enough to penetrate “aluminium” foil hats) from the south for so long that if you ask for a serviette at Mcdonalds you just get a funny look.
And “Fanny” was my granny–God rest her soul–just leave her out of it.