Her Big Fearless Self

“In matters of grammar and usage he refused to tow the line.”
Of course if he refused to tow the line on the Volga barge (to which he was sent for refusing to use jazz hands at the Young Pioneers meeting), there was always the lumber camp in Siberia…

… and then when the desired attention turns out to be derisive, try to walk the statement back by claiming it was super-sophisticated humor that everyone else was too dull to get
Yes, it turns out that whether we knew it or not, we’ve been in an improv comedy club all along, where people adopt obnoxious personas that don’t represent their real selves, and argue for outrageous ideas that they don’t believe in. So how silly of us to expect truthfulness and fair dealing.
But the breaches of truthfulness all just happen to be in one direction and to reinforce the talking points of one faction.
And these aren’t the kinds of people who think of themselves as class clowns whose inconsequential ramblings shouldn’t be taken seriously. On the contrary, they think of themselves as serious people who deploy “edgy” and “subversive” humor for serious purposes.
What it amounts to is “polemics for me, politeness for the targets of my polemics”. If it’s a comedy club, it’s one where bad performers don’t have to fear being heckled.

This is laughable. You could substitute anything for the act described.
“My declining the special roast in favour of the house blend was a quickly calculated act of resistance”
“My declining to have my meal supersized in favour of the regular meal was a quickly calculated act of resistance”
How narcissistic can any one leftist idiot be?

a video called “Five common habits that make people dislike you” that uses Brie Larson as an example of what not to do
Heh. The parsing of Ms Larson’s anti-charisma was quite entertaining and it’s hard to imagine her being self-deprecating or convincingly generous, instead of, say, prickly and brittle. I’d also forgotten how she can even make fidgeting with an earring remarkably irritating. Marvel really shat the bed on that bit of casting. As they say.

David, we finally saw “Captain Marvel” on DVD last night.
Most of the movie was pretty entertaining, but every time the camera focused on Ms. Larson, a gaping hole opened. A void.
Then in the last third, the movie got stupid, with fight scene after fight scene and everybody getting hammered and yet not squished into a packet of strawberry jelly.
We’ve seen all the Marvel movies, and found them, at worst, watchable and at best marvelous. Compared to them, “Captain Marvel” was an epic misfire. Almost any actress could have done a better job.

but every time the camera focused on Ms. Larson, a gaping hole opened. A void.
As noted here a while ago, Ms Larson has described her latest role as a kind of activism, of which she claims to be very proud. Though the end result – this Great Feminist Statement – is a charmless, overpowered Mary Sue with no character arc, no learning curve, no emotional range, and no screen presence. And whose story requires an inversion of established continuity, such that the Skrulls, one of Marvel’s classic villains, are instead portrayed as benign victims – refugees, no less – to be saved by an all-powerful feminist who doesn’t need to earn anything, or learn anything, because, it turns out, she’s always been awesome.
Traditionally, Marvel hero stories tend to involve someone suffering some hardship, a humbling or tragedy, then learning a harsh lesson, often in humility, and consequently growing to become a better person, albeit one with outlandish talents and an unconventional wardrobe. (See, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Thor, Dr Strange, etc.) However, our woke heroine, supposedly a symbol of the progressive ideal, merely learns that she was already awesome and was held back from being even-more-awesome-by-default by those afraid of her awesomeness. And so, no humbling is required and our heroine’s only personal flaw, the thing she has to overcome, is that she doesn’t think of herself highly enough.
What this may say about feminist fantasies, and feminist psychology more generally, I leave to the reader.

I hadn’t seen a photo of Caroline Rothstein before, but now that I have, I cannot resist playing parlor psychoanalyst on this incident, at the risk of being ungallant.
She may perhaps have been offended that a man offered to help her simply because she needed it, rather than doing so as a way of ingratiating himself with a beauty. Which, God knows, she is not, and which she doubtless realizes.

no, she isn’t a tall woman.
Undoubtedly the hair hides her conehead.

The fivehead was a dead giveaway. I shave my head and I don’t have that much forehead.

If Marvel is hoping to pin the next phase of their cinematic empire on the appeal of Ms Larson…
Nope, it appears they are upping the ante of woke.

“Jessica” is a role for a transwoman actress of any ethnicity in her 20s to 30s.

If they go with the common mantra of “they need a hero that looks like them”, I am guessing early onset male pattern baldness covered with a bad wig, resembles a female like Jimmy carter does the MGM lion, – a Yaniv or “Call Me Ma’am” type of guy, IOW big box office boffo.

Stand up against courtesy!

Stand up against courtesy!
Somewhat related.

Today’s words are deputy chief constable.
Worst case of hat hair ever.

*Dresses like clown and then shrieks about not being taken seriously*

Whenever I walk through public spaces, I make a game out of looking out for women like this little nasty wench. I go out of my way to not extend them the courtesies I extend to normal people.
Holding a door open for some normal people, I’ll see her type, look her dead in the eye, and let it swing shut in her face.
Minding my own business on public transit, I’ll see her type and purposely manspread so she can’t sit next to me.
Waiting in line for an “unisex” public toilet, I’ll figure out a way to make sure she’s after me. Then, right before I leave the stall, I’ll sprinkle water all over the toilet seat just for her.

Posted by: heh \ August 07, 2019 at 00:30 
Disgusting if true; if not true, disgustingly lied.

I’ve had in Berkeley the same experience as the guy in your linked story, viz., being berated for holding the door
A few years ago, at a service station, a woman with cropped neon hair and a rather mannish gait seemed very unhappy about my holding open the door for her and then briefly smiling, as if this were some ideological affront. And not, as was the case, a reflex to prevent the door slamming in the face of whoever was behind me. I was rewarded for my trouble, such as it was, with a scowl and a small sound of irritation. I suppose it’s possible that the lady in question was just having a bad day, but the scowl did seem directed firmly in my direction, as if denoting some transgression, and the only interaction we’d had involved the door.
I was reminded of it when writing the post about Ms Huckeba, linked upthread.

She misspoke:

Oh, come on. It’s easily done.

“Host of Deadline White House at 4 pm on MSNBC”
Remember, citizens. Always respect the media.

Trump Derangement Syndrome.
“I misspoke about Trump calling for the atomic annihilation of the planet Mercury.”

Not to beat a dead kulak, but there is still comedy gold to be had from CommieCon 2019.
First up, skip past the first five minutes or so, and marvel at the smooth and efficient voting process, there is, of course, even someone crying and blowing snot about “all votes not being counted” when the vote does not go zis way. Even Madam Chairbeing Comrade Mao gets exasperated at the idiocy.
Next, skip again to 5:00 and we can finally learn what exactly a “progressive stack” is as they use marshals to rack and stack people at the microphones according to color and gender and so on. This of course causes much glutalgia because people moved from the line now have to go whine to the marshals that they are more oppressed than someone else because “some identities are invisible” which means a second marshal has to referee. Stay for the rest of the second video, it gets better, including a Visibly Shaking Person™…
Mel Brooks teamed with Monty Python couldn’t come up with this stuff.

“Down with Capitalism! Down with grades!”
Though, I believe the good professor is really operating in his own interests — fancy that ..

A New York professor is calling for the abolition of grades. He claims they are not only unfair to students, but that they are a means of propping up capitalism, and as such, academia would be better off doing away with grading entirely.
“Grading takes up much of my time that could be better spent on teaching or otherwise directly interacting with students,” New School professor Richard Wolff wrote in a Monday op-ed entitled “Grades Are Capitalism in Action. Let’s Get Them Out of Our Schools.” He claims the practice of administering grades to students has “little educational payoff” and “disrespects [students] as thinking people.”

News from another planet. ESPN cannot fathom why a rising female basketball star would throw it all away…
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/27297631?utm_source=pocket-newtab

“…Twenty-five years old and not far removed from her All-America days at Villanova, Pennefather was in her prime. She had legions of friends and a contract offer for $200,000 to play basketball in Japan that would have made her one of the richest players in women’s basketball…
…That Saturday morning in 1991, Pennefather drove her Mazda 323 to the Monastery of the Poor Clares in Alexandria, Virginia. She loved to drive. Fifteen cloistered nuns waited for her in two lines, their smiles radiant.
She turned to her family.
“I love you all,” she said.
The door closed, and Shelly Pennefather was gone…
…IT’S BEEN 28 YEARS since Pennefather left home to become Sister Rose Marie of the Queen of Angels, and I’m standing outside the family’s house in Manassas, Virginia, on a warm June day, searching for answers….
…But I cannot grasp what Pennefather — now Sister Rose Marie — has chosen to do. The Poor Clares are one of the strictest religious orders in the world. They sleep on straw mattresses, in full habit, and wake up every night at 12:30 a.m. to pray, never resting more than four hours at a time. They are barefoot 23 hours of the day, except for the one hour in which they walk around the courtyard in sandals….”

In the ongoing Jessica Yaniv saga, “Jessica Yaniv, a transgender B.C. activist, says she was arrested for brandishing a Taser.”
“…because people are so freaking violent over here.”