For newcomers, more items from the archives.
A philosophy lecturer, a specialist in “critical whiteness studies,” apologises, at length, for his own heterosexuality.
Professor Yancy goes on to denounce, on behalf of all men, “our sexually objectifying gazes… our pornographic imaginations.” Our “dominant phallic economy.” Indeed, he continues, “we are collectively complicit with a sexist mind-set and a poisonous masculinity.” You see, being aroused by women, while not quite rape in itself, is nonetheless, as it were, rape-adjacent, and constitutes “a violent, pathetic and problematic masculinity.” One wonders how a species of suitably corrected human beings, purged of such heterosexual inclinations, might propagate and flourish. Such that we can indulge the theatrical sorrows of woke philosophy lecturers.
Zoe Williams warns Guardian readers that exercise “makes you rightwing.”
According to Zoe, if you visit a gym, or cycle, or merely take the occasional brisk walk with a dog in tow – or presumably have any kind of goals, however modest, and then achieve them – you’ll become boastful, consumed with “self-love” and wicked delusions of “self-sufficiency,” a gateway to the greatest sin of all: not being leftwing. Because leftwing people, like Zoe, are free of vanity and unblemished by urges to signal superiority of one kind or another. Say, by telling us, quite often, that they’re not at all rightwing.
Still, it’s strange just how readily Zoe leaps from ‘people can be a bit tedious when banging on about their enthusiasms’ – the word blogging comes to mind – to ‘regular jogging will make you vote Conservative because feelings of achievement and capability are politically corrupting’. Presumably, leftist piety is arrived at via indolence, whining and half-arsed flummery. Though it’s not, perhaps, as strange as declaring one’s own piety and compassion – as opposed to all those dreadful rightwing people – while sneering at a cancer charity because its most direct beneficiaries are men.
How To Impress Your Boss, An Intersectional Guide.
Self-described “educator” Sophia Stephens says that minority employees shouldn’t have to be reliable or competent.
Apparently, white employers must avoid using the phrase “I need such-and-such by the end of the week,” as this inflicts cruel and unusual hardship on those possessed of brown skin. And as an employer, a white employer, you must always remember to ask yourself, ‘Could I give this person’s work – which I hired them to do, and am paying them to do – to someone else – ideally, someone whiter?’ Or as Ms Stephens puts it, “It is important to reflect on how generations of access and entitlement to our labour does not mean you automatically get it from us now.”
It Was Raining Outside And They Were Promised Sandwiches.
Sshh. Art is happening.
Today it’s the art of Ms Nika López, seen below as she “establishes an intimate relationship” between herself and nature. Specifically, an indoor pile of dirt. Thereby, of course, permitting us to behold, “The connection with the earth, the immersion of bodies in matter, the transformation from inside to outside, the tracking of a body that multiplies and distributes energy to people.”
There’s more, should you want it, in the greatest hits.
Also, open thread.
I have been writing a fitness column for a year and in this time I’ve digested very little about what exercise does for your body.
A “fitness writer” who has no clue about exercise physiology, well, at least that is consistent with virtually all leftist “experts” on any subject, though they don’t tend to brag about their ignorance of their field of “expertise”.
…the self-love develops a carapace of self-sufficiency… over time, this makes you more rightwing…
Now I am confused, “self-love” and sufficiency are supposed to be admirable things to the fat-acceptance clowns, none of whom are what anyone not left of Pol Pot would call “rightwing”.
Though it’s not, perhaps, as strange as declaring one’s own piety and compassion… while sneering at a cancer charity because its most direct beneficiaries are men.
She’s stupid *and* vile.
“A ‘fitness writer’ who has no clue about exercise physiology, well, at least that is consistent with virtually all leftist “experts” on any subject…”
Yes indeed, because leftists choose “experts” based on their ideological purity rather than their knowledge of the subject at hand.
Marone – the other day we learned that Budwiser (The King of Amber Colored Water) UK (again not to be confused with Czech Budweiser Budvar which is good) had come out with a cup for “Asexual Pride”.

Rest easy, they have gone full pander with a cup for everyone. Scroll down the link to see which is for what subset they are pandering to.
Personally, I thought the one second row far left in the three subtractive primary colors was for Offset Lithographers Pride, not for “I’ll Screw Anything With A Pulse And The Pulse Is Optional Pride”
As an aside, I am still trying to figure out why “Bi Pride” has three colors and not two.
She’s stupid *and* vile.
Dear sweet Zoe does struggle with even the basics of a wide range of subjects, on which she nonetheless holds forth with great certainty. And her compulsion to be obnoxious, indeed gleefully sadistic – not as a private vice but a public piety – is a defining attribute.
As when airing her belief that charity galas, to help Romanian orphans and fund the distribution of retro-viral drugs in Africa, are not only terribly problematic but abhorrent, because giving money away “creates inequality.” And as when wishing elaborate and protracted humiliation on parents who can no longer afford to give their children an education as comfortable as Zoe’s own, in which, extracurricular activities included visits to Rome and Morocco and an eight-day tour of Barbados. And which of course she doesn’t mention.
I don’t think she can help herself.
What happens when you have a degree in Racial Angry Studies, but never took course in history or geography.

“Chernobyl ! With Morgan Freeman as Mikhail Gorbachev and Halle Berry as Lead Fireman Anton Balsfalov”
What happens when you have a degree in Racial Angry Studies, but never took course in history or geography.
Have you seen history curricula lately?
@Cake
Makes sense to me. I’ve seen the musical Hamilton, and all the Founding Fathers were black.
Wypipo – the only folks who don’t give a shit about being culturally appropriated.
Have you seen history curricula lately?
So Volume 2 is accurate, I take it…
I see that the anti-Trump brains trust is once again out in force.
With its signature compassion and sensitivity.
[Budweiser] have gone full pander with a cup for everyone
I thought the only point to drinking Budweiser was to do so in such quantities as to render sexual attraction moot. It’s inclusive in its own way.
[Charity galas are abhorrent] because giving money away “creates inequality.”
Wait, I thought the accepted method to combat inequality was to take money from rich people and give it to not-rich people. Why the fuss when this happens without coercion? Answers on a postcard please.
Why the fuss when this happens without coercion? Answers on a postcard please.
Because there’s no bureaucrat in between to siphon funds off the top.
It’s all about creating jobs, you see.
Has Budweiser designed a glass for people who identify as Clydesdale horses? 🙂
Historians of the future will describe our age as the Silly Hat Period.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/06/macrame-sculptures-by-sandra-de-groot/?mc_cid=049195a678&mc_eid=d63b7b651c
Personally, I thought the one second row far left in the three subtractive primary colors was for Offset Lithographers Pride, not for . . .
It might be for Romania When So Drunk It’s Fallen On It’s Side.
Michael P. writes: And there’s even a Volume 2 [Making Europe] with a nice strong picture of Lenin on the cover.
So Volume 2 is accurate, I take it…
The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in the Middle Ages: The British Isles from 500 to 1500, which starts off with the picture of Elizabeth I of England— September 1533 – 24 March 1603— on the cover, and then gets even more . . . ah . . . “detailed” from there, inside . . .
I and quite a few medieval historians got our copies just to see the level of . . . accuracy . . . for ourselves . . .
Is there anyone creepier then a male feminist?
“Tolerance”: A play in two acts.
@Rob
A female feminist in charge of the police?
“Tolerance”: A play in two acts.
That’s not parody, right? Assuming it’s all in earnest, this bit stood out:
In other words, “While we agree that the frog must die, we would prefer a slow boil lest the frog take us seriously as a threat.” Christ, what pathetic assholes. They’re just like Nazi’s, except they expect the Juden to gas themselves out of a sense of duty to the Fatherland.
Though, on balance, I suppose it’s better we have lazy Nazis. The organized, motivated, technically competent variety were damned difficult to contend with.
I and quite a few medieval historians got our copies just to see the level of . . . accuracy . . . for ourselves . . .
The authors primary oeuvre is the frothy, rough-edges-sanded-off version of Laurell K. Hamilton paranormal romance. Not someone I’d expect a great deal of scholarly acumen from, historical or otherwise.
That’s not parody, right?
Not parody, brought to you by some “Anti”fa in the Pacific Northwest, who are probably ytes themselves.
Of course it escapes their grasp that if PoCs reproduce with ytes, the result is some form of PoCs, not wypipo, but it is interesting that the left are again big on anti-miscegenation.
Well Mr Muldoon, it seems some “ytes” are taking the message seriously.
Zoe Williams warns Guardian readers that exercise “makes you rightwing.”
“Rightwing”.
brought to you by some “Anti”fa in the Pacific Northwest
Their logo looks suspiciously like a bundle of spears.
Their logo looks suspiciously like a bundle of spears.

I initially thought they were advertising Baretta’s upside down, but that is their version of the “Anti-Fascist Circle” of the “Iron Front”, a bunch of commie thugs in the Weimar Republic, but yeah a fasces would actually be more appropriate for these asses, or just go full hammer and sickle.
Of slippery slopes.
What a tragedy.
Sam,
I rtwt, and the most telling thing was ms. dick’s tossed off remark about how “of course” the bar owner’s baseball bat would be illegal today.
What does one call people who can’t even learn from their own experience? (Apparently, “Commissioner” ).
I’ve only visited England once on vacation (2004) and that was sufficient to convince me to never set foot there again.
The mind-boggling chaos around the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace that I saw led me to wonder how the devil the British managed to gain an empire at all. I mentioned the same to an ethnic Indian colleague at work who had seen something similar during his visit to England and who was rather ashamed that such a disorganized lot had been able to conquer India.
I’m not convinced that the idiots who had been running my country for the last 30 years could have won WWII, so there’s that as well.
Hi Richard,
My dad was in England in the ‘40’s. The way he described it things ran pretty smoothly then.
Kids These Days…
With its signature compassion and sensitivity.
She looks the part.
She looks the part.
The seemingly demented shrieking lady, the lovely Siobhan, is a self-described “intersectional feminist,” and is, she says, “trying to educate myself daily.”
Hence the learnedness.
In “diversity” news, the Young Democratic Socialists at Texas State University are celebrating the fact that their super-diverse Coordinating Committee includes “literally no straight people.” Oh, and apparently LGBT should stand for “Let’s Guillotine Bourgeois Traitors.”
Leon Trotsky could not be reached for comment.
Oh, and apparently LGBT should stand for “Let’s Guillotine Bourgeois Traitors.”
That is a bit confusing, do they mean traitors to the bourgeois seeing as how college students in the US tend to be of the “bourgeois” even at Texas State with its laughable 71% admission rate ? If they think they are not because they spout commie slogans, they might want a chat with one Mr. Pot.
Potato, pototo…

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Wouldn’t miss it for the world.
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You’re going to set off the bedlamite klaxon.
“For people of color, each day is a barrage of microaggressions, macroaggressions, and interactions that highlight and trigger our personal identities of oppression. And let me tell you, it is exhausting,” Houston continued.
Oh my. Is it ever.
It never ends over there at Everyday Feminism, does it?
“For people of color, each day is a barrage of microaggressions, macroaggressions…”

The firm I work for was recently gobbled up by a larger company, which meant that I had to sit through corporate propaganda sessions for a week. I think I got off to a good start with the new HR department, since I was the most enthusiastic participant in the corporate diversity workshop.
For instance, when asked why diversity was so important, I offered up: “Because blacks and queers don’t have the same brains as you and me!” When we spoke about how {ethnic} jokes were harmful, I said I found it easy to get around the problem by always telling Polish jokes ‘cuz we Polacks have such a great sense of humor.
The feather in my cap, and the moment when I think the HR ladies really took a shine to me, was when they said that my demonstrated behavior could be considered a microaggression toward some of the others in the room. Without hesitation, I offered my most sincere micro-apology to anybody I micro-offended. I think they were impressed by my sensitivity!
According to Zoe, if you visit a gym, or cycle, or merely take the occasional brisk walk with a dog in tow – or presumably have any kind of goals, however modest, and then achieve them – you’ll become boastful, consumed with “self-love” and wicked delusions of “self-sufficiency,”
Got a very similar message from my decidedly right-wing parochial school as a child. The same one that had me believing, as I think I related here recently, that the world would likely be ending Christmas of ’73. How odd. Yet not.
http://americandigest.org/wp/to-vacuum-the-vacuum-use-the-vacuum/
😄
The expression “beyond the pale” is “racist,” apparently, and use of such oppressive language must be publicly atoned for.
The gentleman doing the pretentious fretting can be seen here.
The expression “beyond the pale” is “racist,”…
Never having looked it up before, the etymology is interesting, if that is accurate.
However, as the ancient Hibernian Muldoons were from beyond the pale – WooHoo ! I am now oppressed, you racysiss bassards. I want reparations. Reparations and a pony.
the etymology is interesting, if that is accurate.
Were you triggered, traumatised, shaken to the core? Do I need to fetch tissues? I ask because fairly obscure etymology that’s likely unknown to most people, including the supposed victim group, and not generally cared about by pretty much anyone, apparently warrants public prostration and theatrical piety.
Though it occurs to me that if someone claims that the phrase “beyond the pale,” with its long-forgotten connotations of legal boundaries, and before that wooden posts, will somehow reduce the entire Irish population to tears and feelings of desolation – either because he believes these things or feels he needs to pretend to – then that sounds a tad neurotic.
And that’s before we get to the whole polyamory thing.
Reparations and a pony.
A whole one?
Were you triggered, traumatised, shaken to the core? Do I need to fetch tissues?
I am literally shaking even as we speak, I think I have PTSD from this, and unless your tissues are from fair trade, locally sourced, union forested renewable tree pulp, no thank you, Sir, I’ll stick to my artisnal hemp handkerchief hand embroidered by trans artists of color at our local arts co-op and organic farm.
This whole violent imbroglio is probably why my people took to drink.