See How His Pieties Catch The Light
In case you missed it in the comments:
The Secret Life of Pets 2… effectively acts as an animated ode to heteronormativity, toxic masculinity and patriarchal worldviews
Woke reviewer Carlos Aguilar watches an animated film intended for children and gets terribly upset.
It occurs to me that when the reviewer of a children’s cartoon is whining at length about a lack of discernibly gay pet-owning couples and the oppressive “heteronormativity” of a character choosing to get married and have a child – an act that is “conservative” and therefore bad, apparently – then the problem isn’t the film.
In the comments, Liz adds,
Reproduction is ‘conservative’. Normality is a ‘trope’. Sounds like someone’s been severely educated…
Such that Mr Aguilar, a 30-year-old man, is seeking validation of his own niche sexual politics in a children’s cartoon about talking dogs.
I read “The Handmaid’s Tale” ages ago and found it boring. Everybody just waits around for Offred to become pregnant, including Offred herself, and when she does escape it’s glossed over. It would have been much more interesting if the story had been about how the U.S. became Gilead.
Your daily dose of sexism stupid: “To save the oceans, we must first empower women”.
A) What is up with this new thing of giving exceptionally jejune teenagers a megaphone ?
B) Last time I looked, anyone* can go to the damn ocean and I’ve not yet seen an ocean that gives a damn who is in it.
C) RTWT – it is a leftist boilerplate marvel of a completely brainwashed mind.
*(Certain places that have religious restrictions on wxmyn excepted)
I’m so old I can remember when you were interested in something, you just went out and looked into it, without waiting around for a strong role model.
I’m so old I can remember when you were interested in something, you just went out and looked into it, without waiting around for a strong role model.
Heh. That.
I read “The Handmaid’s Tale” ages ago and found it boring…
That’s often true of littra-chaw, especially the woke kind.
I’m so old I can remember when you were interested in something, you just went out and looked into it, without waiting around for a strong role model.
That’s the fundamental irony. If you were to base your estimation of womankind solely on the claims and psychodramas of modern feminists, who are allegedly empowered yet oppressed by everything, you might reasonably infer that women are too mentally fragile to function in the world without male supervision.
“women are too mentally fragile”
So you’re saying The Patriarchy is clandestinely supporting and funding emotionally-damaged, manipulatable and competence-challenged women and promoting them as examples of women in general in order to discredit all females?
Forgot my closing tag.
< /cathynewman >
might reasonably infer that women are too mentally fragile to function in the world without male supervision.
And that would be wrong, yes? I’ll check back in a few. Gotta go change the oil in the wife’s car.
OK, this is not intended to start a debate on abortion, and I don’t care where you stand, but in the arguments for – a “fetus metes out violence”, abortion is “going on strike against gestational work” – this is one of the most depraved things I have heard yet.
Listen to the whole thing, it is some seriously bizarre rationalization, particularly for someone who lives in the US and A where one can avoid “gestational work” by a stop at any gas station, a pill for $11 from Wally World, or any of a myriad of no to low cost options.
It would have been much more interesting if the story had been about how the U.S. became Gilead.
Atwood believed[1]that Gilead was the inevitable result of the US electing George W. Bush President. Apparently no one has ever pointed out to her that Gilead exists for real and is called Saudi Arabia.
[1] No, seriously, actually believed
And that would be wrong, yes?
You do realise I’m sending screengrabs to your long-suffering wife?
Somehow, all sexual identity is a socially-determined choice which is infinitely malleable – EXCEPT homosexuality, which is inborn and unchangeable
Don’t bet on that – the trans-cult is quite vocal that lesbians who refuse to have sex with women-with-female-penises are hate hate hatey transphobes.
AND among their prey is gay youth who may be struggling with their orientation. No, Sally, you’re not some dyke, you’re really a boy! Planned Parenthood is passing out testosterone just for the asking!
You do realise I’m sending screengrabs to your long-suffering wife?
Heh. But who do you suppose provides tech support, with all its sundry privileges, around here?
As I was typing that out…How long do you suppose it will be before systems administrators will have a new PC term for “privileges” forced upon them? Can’t have white males back in tech support granting privileges, you know.
The ocean was a threatening, dangerous and, to quote the novel, “masculine” place — no place for a girl like me. This notion has been perpetuated by cultural and societal biases and is represented in many of the ways we interact with our waters.
I was watching an interesting documentary about Bremerhaven harbor, where the producers were evidently seeking out female role models in the “marine sector”, and found a female dredger operator and a female tugboat captain.
Watch this scene where the tugboat captain is dropping off a pilot at a cargo ship. Being a pilot in Bremerhaven is presumably a high-status, high-responsibility job with the best employment conditions German law can provide; the tugboat and cargo ship are the best technology the 21st century can offer; but the only way he can get into the cargo ship is to climb a rope ladder like it’s 1805, one wrong move and he’s in the sea crushed between hulls.
It’s not a literary trope or a patriarchal fraud that “the ways we interact with our waters” are physical, strenuous, and dangerous. It’s a reality, that can only be mitigated so far by safety regulations and technology. Not many men or women would choose a job where they had to climb that ladder. But more men than women are prepared to accept the risk for better pay or status (“Later in this talk we will ponder things like, why was it so rare for a hundred women to get together and build a ship and sail off to explore unknown regions, whereas men have fairly regularly done such things?”)
If you can understand German, the rest of the documentary brings up some interesting issues. When the pilot comes back, he has a chat with the tugboat captain about the low quality of the cargo crew in whose hands his life was. Seafaring was always unpleasant, and it’s becoming worse not better – a job done by third world crews under the lax regulations of flag countries like Liberia. When the tugboat lady was interning on a cargo ship, her Ukranian commanding officer thought her parents must have been very poor to have to send their daughter to sea. Western men, and even more so Western women, usually have better choices available to them. Even the tugboat captain, who’s exceptional enough to enjoy the life on the ocean blue, chose a more domestic career path – in a rainy German harbor, but with German pay and German employment conditions.
Hi David,
Yep, the empowered-yet-oppressed are strange. Women hold up half the sky, but THESE women couldn’t hold up half a newspaper.
I wonder what the male of the species is like? The burning question: who opens the jelly jars in these households?
(We got one the other day that Son had to put some effort into, and he’s 6’4” and weighs 240!)
The problem is, as has been stated before, there are so few real problems in the first world, that the ninnies have to invent them.
Oyster rights, or bottom feeders sticking up for their own.
Yet women are more vulnerable to coastal natural disasters, particularly in households of low socioeconomic status. Now more than ever, we need to strengthen our efforts to protect the marine world. This can only be achieved by addressing the inequalities that women and other genders face in a largely patriarchal society.
This young lady sure knows how to pack a load of non sequiturs into a single paragraph.
It’s one of the finest examples of authentic feminist gibberish I’ve seen yet.
there are so few real problems in the first world, that the ninnies have to invent them.
Disagree. There are plenty of problems in the first world. But the most glaring one is that we continue to enable, feed, clothe, and house these people for years of post-adolescent adolescence. This is what we get for doing so. It’s not so much that the ninnies invent silly problems as it is that via our education systems and culture we perpetually create so many ninnies. And it continues with no end in sight.
I wonder, though, are the people who write this stuff serious, or is it a giant prank on the rest of us?
How long do you suppose it will be before systems administrators will have a new PC term for “privileges” forced upon them?
We haven’t been able to use the terms “master” and “slave” to refer to bus nodes for years.
“are the people who write this stuff serious, or is it a giant prank on the rest of us?”
Insert Laughing Stalin meme.
We haven’t been able to use the terms “master” and “slave” to refer to bus nodes for years.
Which is why 20-30 years ago we all started using the terms client/server. Which I understand has now itself become problematic in certain quarters.
What are bus nodes?
What are bus nodes?
Greyhound lymph glands.
Not only are the world’s oceans sexist, but now some thunder-thighed lardass thinks the Appalachian Trail is racist:
https://www.middletownpress.com/opinion/article/Mercy-Quaye-Dangers-of-hiking-the-Appalachian-13912330.php
Behold the Bro-dazzle.
…the Appalachian Trail is racist…
I’ve been to one world’s fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that’s the stupidest thing I’ve heard come over a set of earphones.
Natalie Hinds was unavailable for comment.
Regardless, it is both sad and amazing how untroubled these types existences actually are that they have to imagine their entire lives have been lived in 1950s Mississippi ( which isn’t even 1950s Mississippi anymore).
*(For those who are curious, between 2001 and 2017, there were a total of 1,999 drownings of 10-14 (that’s the way the CDC reports) year olds (who have the lowest rate of all age groups of drownings). 1059 yte kids and 855 black kids drowned during this period – 17 years, or roughly 117/year, that is not “an epidemic”.)
…the Appalachian Trail…
If you took all the items in my Things That Didn’t Happen file and laid them end to end, they would stretch from here to the end of the universe and fill up the black hole in space.
…10 points to anyone who can identify where I ripped that off from…
If I undressed a gentleman who had been to the ball barber, I wouldn’t care if he was a plumber with a side hustle as a neurosurgeon (or the other way around). No matter how much money he made, I would yell “Get out of here, you freak!”
I mean, really.
I would yell “Get out of here, you freak!”
It was probably a good clue that he liked men more than he should. 🙂
Access to outdoor recreation is mired in a history of extreme oppression…
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2017/04/imagine-the-picnics.html
…”bewildering list of excuses for why any outdoors recreation should be tinged with guilt and wretchedness.”
And why non-wealthy persons of color should be given government money so they can quit their jobs for six months to hike the Appalachian Trail. Not being able to afford to do that on her own is, it seems, some form of oppression.
On a happier note, small-unit tactics turns out to be a surprisingly interesting subject. And I didn’t even have to play dodgeball!
And of course George Clinton always makes everything better. Bow-wow-wow-yippie-oh-yippie-ay.🐶😄
We are hurtling down the path I foretold years ago:
step 1) tolerance -check
step 2) aceptance -check
step 3) mandatory celebration -look around you
step 4) compulsory participation – not quite yet, but who wants to bet against it. I predict that at least one homosexual act will be required in order to get a degree in social work, in order to demonstrate empathy dontchaknow.
Our intrepid reviewer seems to have expected a child’s cartoon movie to be Shindler’s List, apparently.
No, what ‘he’ wants is what they all want; that everything conforms exactly to whatever the current fasionable obsession is. An obvious solipisist who is upset when the real world deviates from the psychodrama playing out in ‘his’ head.
The history of blacks and swimming may by the clearest depiction of this.
Decades of being kept out of swimming pools and public beaches…
I thought that had something to do with “black hair” and various do’s etc. Far as I know, since segregation ended, the only thing keeping black people out of the water is black people.
First the woke movie critic and now this. I can’t keep up with this crap.
Balloon pangolin!
While this displays impressive technical skill does it constitute art?
This is a discussion I’d be interested in, but only if all participants can agree beforehand that this is far closer to art that every piece of performance ‘art’ vomited onto a public that has been extorted into paying for it.
Far as I know, since segregation ended, the only thing keeping black people out of the water is black people.
Having grown up in the segregated South, yep. It is true that access to public pools and some beaches was restricted, but not creeks, rivers, ponds, and lakes unless on private lands, regardless, that all went out the window some 50 years ago.
What is interesting is that per the CDC stats, Asian-Pacific Islander kids in the 10-14 group have a slightly higher rate of drownings than wypipo kids. Given that Pacific Islanders are practically born in the water (disregarding the CONUS Pacific Islanders), that would seem backwards, until you consider that they have a higher rate of exposure in waters that are inherently more dangerous than a pool, which goes to show that any randomly quoted “stat” (e.g., “10 times more likely”) is usually meaningless without looking into other factors.
Balloon pangolin!
a la Steve Martin…”Sure he’s great, but can he make balloon animals?”
I guess the answer to that is yes, yes he can make balloon animals.
“And why non-wealthy persons of color should be given government money so they can quit their jobs for six months”
Since the trail is s fraught with danger, sending poor folks of color out on the trail is a form of racism, no?
Maybe she should have educated herself about outdoors first, before going on the trail. But it’s the patriarchy fault that there are dangers in the wild
The Two Rules of Racism
1) It’s whitey’s fault.
2( In the event it’s not whitey’s fault, refer to Rule #1.
Fnord,
Is it art?
Having listened to a recent npr radio interview, I am in the happy position of being able to answer that question.
The interviewee, a museum person of some claimed note, stated that “it’s in a museum so it’s art.”
No, really. Those were her words, and the interviewer did not disagree.
Who are we to disagree?
Oops. I just realized there’s a loophole. She did not say “if and only if.”
Darn.
hurtling down the path I predicted years ago
In Saint Jack (1979, but set a decade or so earlier) one of the British ex-pats in a Singapore bar says, “When they made buggery legal I told the Lady Wife we’d better get out before they make it compulsory.”
The character* was probably meant to be uncouth, but the audience’s laughter had at that time, I thought, a distinct note of – what? – rueful recognition, grudging assent. Or ungrudging.
*I think it was Froggy, played by the indispensable James Villiers.
Oyster rights
Notable graffito (from some cartoonist or other, nearly 50 years ago) :
Oysters on strike! Demand higher tides!
“When they made buggery legal I told the Lady Wife we’d better get out before they make it compulsory.”
That’s an old Bob Hope joke.
That’s an old Bob Hope joke
Jokes being jokes (and Hope being Hope) it’s probably even older.
Paul Theroux was one of three who worked on the screenplay, based on his novel published in ’73. Theroux was no gag-writer, but in his early fiction and travel writing he had a pretty good ear for the odd characteristic remark. The line might well have emerged from his reporter’s notebook of the decade prior to 1973. When Hope dusted it off in 1975, it was topical again, this time in California.