Shattering Capitalism The Easy Way

I denounce the cis-normative transphobia.

We’re finally getting an emoji that’s perfect for easily humiliating men when they’re being disgusting online or, you know, being men: the small dick emoji… It’s also great for illustrating capitalism’s failures by capturing the inadequate minimum wage or your lacklustre salary. The possibilities are endless.

We can only hope that the unnamed author of the article is an idiot teenager desperate to get a toehold in the world of media. Otherwise, what comes to mind is a heavily-indebted twenty-something prone to fits of random weeping, while pondering how their life went off the rails and crashed into a ditch.

Leftist journalism so often follows the Unreliable Narrator diagnosis…
– The Pícaro
– The Madman
– The Clown
– The Naïf
– The Liar
I guess that’s what happens when you
A) believe that fiction repeated often enough becomes truth, and
B) are really just an activist masquerading as a journalist

Can also be used for a Vice writer’s prospects of a comfortable retirement.

Adam: on Pointless * the other day, one of the contestants, a pretty girl of about 19, said that she was at university studying posters. Asked what this entailed, she said that they were given a subject, had to design a poster for it, then write an essay on it. That means she’ll emerge after three years with a degree in poster design, a debt of about £60,000, and a life in a world that’s moved over from posters to emojis.
*For non-UK readers, it’s one of the better quiz shows on British television.

It will not be long before universities offer degrees in emoji design. Perhaps they already do.
that sounds entirely too productive. More likely there will be an Emoji Studies course, being a veneer of Studies over a whole lotta activism prep.

To have believed that journalism is a fashionable and statusful activity, a worthy investment of time and effort
Years ago, I saw a British documentary about a 1970s era newspaper. It was one of these “where are they now” type things.
This little newspaper was going to Change the World, it was. After it deposed Thatcher, it would then get rid of Reagan. At least that appeared to be the mission statement; it was unclear as to exactly what they hoped to accomplish.
In one scene, a recent journalism grad was told that he would be the editor of the race relations section of the paper. Being something like 21 years of age, and out of school all of two weeks, he asked why he would be the editor of four other reporters, all of whom were senior to him, one by almost a decade.
The question surprised the others. “Because… you’re black”, they told him, because that clearly explained everything.
So I’d say that the conceit that journalism is a worthy investment of time and effort has been on the decline since long before this 19 year old waif was even conceived. At this point, the only people who are attracted to it are True Believers.
I believe it was James Lileks (himself an old school reporter type) who said that when he interviewed applicants for reporter positions, if they used the phrase “I became a reporter so I could change the world”, that was the automatic sign to show them the door.

There is the implication that the suffix ‘Studies’ is needed to clarify the academic worth of whatever the subject is- after all, no one ever did a ‘Physics Studies’ degree, did they?
Well quite. With a ‘normal’ degree, studying is implicit and the value of the topic is left to the observer to judge. Explicitly declaring the process rather suggests either a lack of rigour/effort required, or at least that the process is more valuable than the topic.

“It’s actually become quite difficult to distinguish one cut-and-paste woke-ling from another.”
At least with this one, she has The New York Times tattooed on her as an identifying mark:
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/428888-former-ny-times-editor-jill-abramson-accused-of-plagiarism
“She is now a creative writing teacher at Harvard University.” But, of course she is!
And, yes, I’m serious about the tattoo. But for heaven’s sake find a printed interview with her, not a video; the woman has a voice that just makes one want to throw things at other things.

…shattering fragile masculinities…
Aside from the sad fact that there is an actual thing called the “the Unicode Consortium” that has people presumably paid to approve modern hieroglyphics, the silly thing could also mean:
a) the worth of a ____________ Studies degree;
b) the IQ of a socialist;
c) the sense of humor of a SJW;
d) degree of tolerance for anything other than the groupthink du jour of the Leigonof Perpetually Outraged;
e) any number of other things equally tiny.
However, over in the world of smashing capitalism, Adidas is taken to the woodshed for shoethoughtcrime.
Not that I at all sure what sneakers have to do with the Harlem Renaissance, but I’d wager that most of the offended never heard of it, and I’d bet that nigh all of the sneakers back then were white because it was cheaper than dying the cotton (gasp!) duck.

More capitalism smashed, this time Gucci.
OK, the design is charitably described as odd, and I am sure the horde of POCs suffering from perfectly symmetrical vitiligo of the top of their heads should be offended, but give it a rest already, see c) and d) above.

genuine-article, wild-eyed lunatics.
And the woke-lings who fall just short of being unhinged are merely tedious. As the range of conclusions is so narrow and predetermined, and as so much is now taboo, and as so many bows and contortions have to be performed in order to show piety, there’s little sense of any room for actual thought. Which makes the pretensions of radicalism and intellectual heft both comical and perverse. Like so many products of leftist psychology, the end result is a bad facsimile.

the design is charitably described as odd…
Hah. Back when I was doing tech product design, I came up with a phrase that I thought had great explanatory power. This was the era when computer-aided design (CAD) was just becoming a real thing – the descriptor I came up with to explain the oddities of certain products was DAD – Drug-Aided Design. Some things just could not have been thought of by a sober person.
These days, and in the fashion “business” especially, I’d put the blame elsewhere, in two locations, particularly:
1. Near total lack of historical knowledge, or
2. Valuing “edginess” and “trangression” uber alles.
You get things like the Gucci design from either (1) or (2), separately. The fact that (2) and (2) are in conflict seems to be no problem.
Or perhaps, as David notes, there’s a mole inside Gucci who is pushing these designs just to see the resulting fireworks.

Blimey. It’s like trolling in wool.
Who knew it could be so easy. Release the army of balaclava-jumper-wearing soldiers of doom.

Ooops forgot the “™” on: balaclava-jumper-wearing-soldiers-of-doom™.
You’re on the honour system if you’ve used it in the meantime.

…you can see all the emojis here…
1719 of the fool things with the proud Welshmen bringing up the rear. 1719 hieroglyphics puts the Egyptians to shame and is starting to give the Chinese a run for their money.
Somehow I am failing to see the boon to communication scrolling through 1719 pictograms is compared to any modern alphabet, though I can see the future when the green energy isn’t…

Envy expressed as self-righteousness.

I’m watching you, white boy. And this time, I’m taking the screenshot.

I’m creeped out by the Stasi/stalker vibe.

Envy expressed as self-righteousness
She seems nice.

Back in 1975, UC Berkeley had a program called IDS (Interdisciplinary Studies). At the time, me being a mere Physics undergrad, I thought that was far to tough a row to hoe.
How times have changed.

As for any discernible impact on one’s dignity such emoji might have, as is often said, “I’d have to give a shit about these little shits…”
I believe David has noted a bit of multitasking.
See also the comments regarding the additional selection of Festive Scenes, where Behold his table of fucks and see that it is barren does rather remind one of Mattis 3:16.