Friday Ephemera
I’m not entirely sure what it is, but you should buy some anyway. (h/t, Damian) || Cardboard piano. || Pretty good fingering. || Classical musicians react to K-Pop. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || At all times, dignity. || The eternal struggle. || Ordia is a game. || Signs of cultural decline, #3,004. || Always respect the media. || They have bodies. || He has a business card. (h/t, Holborn) || Miracle breakthrough. || He was embarrassed, you see. (h/t, Dicentra) || Magnetic construction kit of note. || Question answered. (h/t, Orwell) || With nails and a single thread. || OK Soda was not a success. || Amplified cat. || Honey, Queen and Bumble are here to help. || And finally, the faces of dogs after eating bees.
but was that, or what was that with, a dig at Neil Gorsuch?
totally dishonest and gratuitous. Indeed, that Wolf failed in basic research to find out the real meaning of the entries actually undercuts the snide remark aimed at a SCOTUS justice who DOES want to find out the real contexts rather than just rewriting precedent to conform to his own whims.
Emily Litella moment in real life.
Yes, I saw that earlier on Twitter. A beautiful challenge by the host, Dr. Matthew Sweet, who is somewhat of an expert on the Victorian era.
Via Cathy Young, Amanda Marcotte reviews popular TV, judging Daenerys to be a person with ‘a deep capacity for cruelty that is only checked when her ego is being sufficiently fed’.
It’s unclear from the article whether she watched the show or simply looked in a mirror.
Julia M: 😄
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/05/rainbow-village/?mc_cid=50f04d4a7e&mc_eid=d63b7b651c
I think they oughta keep this town and change the name to Huangville.
Emily Litella moment in real life.
You’ve got to marvel at the, shall we say, dissonance of writing a book about the “criminalisation of love” and then citing – unwittingly, one hopes – the molestation of a six-year-old child as an example of the “love” being criminalised.
Our betters, you see.
And let’s not forget Ms Wolf’s history of unhinged conspiracy theories.
Good news, everyone, gay white men are symbols of heterosexuality.
You will be surprised to note that this revelation is the product of this esteemed academic who offers us profound insights.
It is not so much that these people are insane, except that they are.
And let’s not forget Ms Wolf’s history of unhinged conspiracy theories.
The author of the Vox article on Wolf concludes (my italics):
This is not to argue that all of Wolf’s earlier work must be discarded on the basis of these Facebook posts, but rather to urge others to see the broader context of Wolf and her thinking. In other words, it is important for readers who may encounter Wolf’s ideas to understand the distinction between her earlier work, which rose on its merits, and her newer conspiracy theories, which are unhinged, damaging, and dangerous.
If the writer hopes to to suggest that Wolf’s earlier work is somehow more reliable, this is simply not the case.
In fact, Wolf’s cavalier approach to the use and interpretation of sources apparently dates all the way back to 1990 with the publication The Beauty Myth as this 2004 critical review paper from the journal of Eating Disorders makes dazzlingly clear:
[I]n her chapter “Hunger” [the] eating disorder figures were dramatically high: according to Wolf (1990), 20% of American female students suffered from anorexia and 60% from bulimia. Only [a] small minority had no eating disorder! Her mortality figure — 150,000 deaths from anorexia each year in the U.S.— caught the most attention in the media […]
All 23 statistics on anorexia nervosa (see pp. 181–183 in the newest edition of The Beauty Myth [Wolf, 1991a]; p. 148–150 in the first edition [Wolf, 1990a] were compared to statistics in recent reviews of epidemiological studies (Hoek, 2002; Van Hoeken et al., 2003). [ … ] When her mortality statistic (150,000 annual deaths) is divided by the true statistic (525), her exaggeration can be quantified [as] 150,000/525 =286 … almost 300 times as high as the real statistic. [ … ] On closer inspection only five out of 23 statistics (22%) were accurate … Once she underestimated a little, three times she mentioned the same correct percentage of female patients. For one statistic there was insufficient evidence … More than three-quarters of her statistics were too high. Half of her statistics were more than ten times overdone [ … ]
It has been suggested that the Wolf statistics were not refuted, because in 1990 the experts did not have access to good data on incidence, prevalence, and mortality of anorexia nervosa. This is not true, however. At that time, Williams and King (1987) had already questioned the “anorexia epidemic” in the Lancet. Several well-designed studies on prevalence and incidence of eating disorders had been published (for a review, see Hoek, 1993). Sixteen studies on outcome (including mortality) of anorexia nervosa had been reviewed in 1980 (Hsu, 1980). In fact, this outcome review was refered to by Wolf herself (see statistic 11 in Table 1). Hsu stated: “The mortality in the different series varied from 0% to 19%. In over half the studies, mortality was below 5%” (p. 1042). This finding was summarized by Wolf as:“Researcher L.K.G. Hsu gives a death rate of up to 19%” (Wolf, 1991a, p. 182).
On closer inspection only five out of 23 statistics (22%) were accurate… Half of her statistics were more than ten times overdone
Racist.
47% of all statistics are made up.
On closer inspection only five out of 23 statistics (22%) were accurate… Half of her statistics were more than ten times overdone
But Nik, using wildly inaccurate and/or fabricated statistics is a proud and ancient feminist tradition.
gay white men are symbols of heterosexuality.
About that lunatic professor:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/greta-lafleur/
“Greta LaFleur is Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University, where she teaches courses on early American studies, the history of sexuality, and queer and trans studies….”
Reminding us once again that lesbians tend to hate men (not just heterosexual men).
Emily Litella moment in real life.
…
Our betters, you see.
And she has a degree from Oxford.
“Woke capitalism in a nutshell.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/woke-capitalism-in-a-nutshell/#post-comments
Emphasis on “nut.”
Wasn’t it nice of them to put a rush on it like that?
Reminds me of my favorite joke told me by a 4-year-old: What did the snail say when it rode on the back of a tortoise? “Wheeeeeee!“
😄
I like it!
Since David’s a gay man, and might even be white, we were going to get his thoughts about being a symbol of heterosexuality, but he mumbled something that was either “…brilliant parody” or “…bloody morons,” and started polishing the bar again. Quite vigorously.
NASA missed a trick not naming them Huey, Dewey and Louie.
David’s GAY?! That’s it… me and my masculine fragile heteronormative whiteness are OUT of here!
(Also “Bibblyboo” or whatever sound it is I’m supposed to make now)
It’s my belief that Peterson gets REALLY close at this point in his discussion with Prager:
https://youtu.be/L47oJxwp6yg?t=1460
By that I mean how people can go so wrong in an innocent way.
Dibbly-doo.
how people can go so wrong
Best line:
Tyranny is broken by the truth of the individual.
Bibbity bobbity boo?
Scooby dooby doo.
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron.
Innagoddadavida, honey…the long version.
…what?
Dey do?
Innagoddadavida…
…as performed at the First Church of Springfield?
Also “Bibblyboo” or whatever sound it is I’m supposed to make now
Bibble-ee-doo was the closest approximation I could come up with. And bless you, sir. May you never know the small but grating irritation of people pronouncing ‘H’ as ‘haitch’.
John Cage as you haven’t ever, er, *not* heard him before!
No. No no no no no. I’m talking Inagaddavida The Long Version. Like when Iron Butterfly played Pirates World back in the day and all those nice, clean cut young people showed up, and there was business propositions made, and it was groovy. Like this:
https://youtu.be/TMEeUlkLe1o
“Inagaddavida The Long Version”
Drum solo! :-O
Play your bibble-ee-doo, Blue
Play your bibble-ee-doo
Keep playin’ till I shoot through, Blue
Play your bibble-ee-doo
Tie me kangaroo down sport
Tie me kangaroo down…
John Cage as you haven’t ever, er, *not* heard him before!
Still, it is better than listening to any sort of metal crap.
Tie me kangaroo down sport
None of that here, please. David might lose his liquor license.
As a private club, I didn’t think we needed a liquor license. And I’m sure the 501 (c)(7) non-profit organization paperwork was filed with the proper authorities…right?
John Cage as you haven’t ever, er, *not* heard him before!
Still, it is better than listening to any sort of metal crap.
And far better than listening to even two seconds of Yoko Ono.
(Better 30 minutes in the Correction Booth than 30 seconds of Yoko Ono.)