Her Breasts Were Unusually Animated

It’s not out for 3 months and they’re already making excuses for why it’s going to bomb.
The ‘misogyny’ con is a neat illustration of the broader woke dynamic, in that incompetence, fecklessness and mediocrity are excused, even lionised, by blaming other people:

“The film bombed (or will bomb) because of misogyny and because we were so brave and radical.”
“I have chest pains and high blood pressure because of fatphobia.”
“I got a ‘D’ on the test because of institutional racism.”

And endless, wearying variations thereof.
Oh, and via Dicentra, and very much related, this is the kind of crap that now gets published in Scientific American.

“If you have a man six foot tall with a beard who says he wants to be addressed as ‘she’ and ‘Mrs’, would you do that?”
The implied ‘correct’ answer – yes – is perverse. If faced with a big, bearded chap demanding to be addressed as ‘she’ and ‘Mrs’, but evidently making no effort whatsoever to pass as female, then I’d probably assume that the person was either deranged or a troll taking the piss. And more to the point, I’d entertain the possibility that the hypothetical bearded chap was trying to exert some ill-intended psychological leverage, i.e., indulging in an attempt to humiliate. Delight in making people lie, publicly, at the expense of their own dignity and integrity, isn’t exactly unheard of. And so the scenario, as stated, is a license for abuse – not of the hypothetical bearded chap, but of any staff of whom said chap might make similar demands.
Honk indeed.

Delight in making people lie, publicly, at the expense of their own dignity and integrity, isn’t exactly unheard of.
Evergreen (the quote, not the college):

“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is…in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”

(Theodore Dalrymple)

By the way, should anyone care about such things, the 100,000th comment on this blog should be coming up quite soon.

Asking for a friend.

Is there a prize?
Incredibly niche bragging rights. Here you go.

Washed down with a glass of Thunderbird served in a Flintstones jelly jar glass.

the utter disregard for how policies based on their so-called sensitivities can create an obvious license for abuse.
That’s a feature, not a bug.

Fat Is Not the Problem — Fat Stigma Is
Linda Bacon, PhD
LOL!

Linda Bacon, PhD
Piled Higher and Deeper…on her plate.

We discover that the ‘Bread And Circuses’ joy of our modern life has, er, consequences which we must stop at once
https://earther.gizmodo.com/your-binge-watching-of-netflix-and-porn-is-contributing-1836311475?/setsession

Porn leads to emissions!? Who’da thunk it!!!???