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For newcomers, more items from the archives:
Slate’s Christina Cauterucci has discovered a “brilliant new weapon of progressivism.”
You see, those “right wing, centrist, or politically complacent parents” – the parents you love, presumably – must be purged of their “ill-informed allegiances” and made to conform politically, with the threat of never seeing grandchildren. Which is how well-adjusted adult offspring behave, of course… Ms Cauterucci’s parents are no doubt proud of their daughter and her charming, terribly enlightened fantasies of coercion, in which children are imagined primarily as a form of political leverage, a tool of rather sadistic emotional punishment. And all in the name of progressive piety.
Your Failure To Enthuse Is Violence, Apparently.
Roy G Guzmán is oppressed by the “violence” of people not liking his poetry.
After dismissing the recent, rather negative appraisals of his work as driven by “toxic masculinity” and “(white) male fragility” – no other possibilities being conceivable, of course – Mr Guzmán has apparently retired from Twitter. We are, it seems, a terrible disappointment to him.
Hear The Lamentations Of Unstable Leftist Women.
Their marriages failed, they have psychiatrists on speed-dial, and it’s all Trump’s fault. Oh, and white men, obviously.
A woman named Samantha complains that her husband of 25 years, a fellow lefty, has “much less rage” than she does, specifically about “white privileged men,” and doesn’t wish to spend every evening equally infuriated by the existence of people whose politics differ somewhat. “Anger,” says Samantha, is her “de facto mode.” Though she’s trying to “get rid of it through therapy.” Another lady named Sarah tells us that her marriage became unsustainable “after the 2016 election, when I ramped up my political activism.” Sarah’s husband is described as “completely aligned” politically – a feminist, even – albeit one who doesn’t care to spend every waking hour raging about politics. “Talking about the Trump election,” says Sarah, “makes me more emotional than the end of my marriage.” And presumably, more emotional than the thought of her children losing the stability and reassurance of a family structure. But hey, priorities.
There’s more, should you want it, in the greatest hits.
Also, open thread.
Slate’s Christina Cauterucci has discovered a “brilliant new weapon of progressivism.”
“Yes, a world in which unhinged lefties don’t reproduce in order to spite their own parents. Imagine the horror.”
LOL. Brilliant planning.
So what you are saying is the current crop is only in it for the spondulix ?
Needn’t be said.
So what you are saying is the current crop is only in it for the spondulix?
I thought these empowered ladypersons were supposed to be picking up the slack.
Also, open thread.
New backup alarm:
Hipsters, dogs, by apartment.
Scream at each other.
Speaking of unstable leftist women…
“If you can’t lose an election without going crazy, you’re unfit to participate in democratic society”
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/341390/
“If you can’t lose an election without going crazy, you’re unfit to participate in democratic society”
Heh. Well, yes. Quite.
Ms Goldberg, of course, has been mentioned here before.
Our betters.
Speaking of unstable leftist women…
Call on the white courtesy phone…
Roy Guzman’s poetry is truly at the Titania McGrath level.
children are imagined primarily as a form of political leverage, a tool of rather sadistic emotional punishment.
I am reminded of the HR director who, as one co-worker pointed out, actually managed to successfully turn “drive carefully” into a threat in a missive to underlings.
I guess when you live your life being offended by pronouns, are angered by hairstyles, and go white with terror at the thought of the weather changing, it’s natural to see everyone and everyone as an enemy.
Where is Charles Mackay when you need him?
Ms. Cauterucci has apparently decided to implement the “Spay and neuter liberals” program I recently saw advocated on a bumper sticker on a jacked-up 4×4. Good on her, I say, although I think she is either insincere or amazingly callous, given her stated willingness to bring a few sacrificial munchkins into the dystopian nightmare that she foresees, in return for some political posturing from her parents.
We need more of these moms.
We need more of these moms.
True. But was it really necessary of PJM to include so many pictures of this guy? One would have sufficed to get the point across. Any more than one and it just feeds his narcissism. I gave up on the article at the second picture.
We need more of these moms.
The term fannying about was what won me over.
Somewhat related.
One would have sufficed to get the point across
Actually, the numerous pictures for me really did underline that this guy’s “DON’T STARE, YOU BIGOTS” is schtick. I suspect the who drag/cosplay/upstep-the-normies routine has nothing to do with his actual “gender identity”.
He’s elevated a Halloween Party look done for the laughs into a career. He can’t allow anyone to just ignore him!
Re my previous link, one of Mr Cremin’s deep insights.
He’s an educator, you know.
We need more of these moms.
I was a bit surprised that the commenters at Buzzfeed took him to the woodshed.
…one of Mr Cremin’s deep insights.
Indeed, and you will will be able to choose from and enormous range, tovarisch !
Hey guys, take a gander at this and see what you can do to help dismantle the patriarchy !
Skip ahead to about 3:00 and if you are a male, raise your hand if have ever been on the receiving or delivering end of something like this, usually derisory, and not been corrected or offered correction.
…and not been corrected…
Oops – been corrected – which would have resulted in correction to the correction.
Hey guys, take a gander at this and see what you can do to help dismantle the patriarchy
What a silly twat. And she presents herself as utterly confident in the correctness of her views.
Hey guys, take a gander at this and see what you can do to help dismantle the patriarchy
She is inadvertently correct when she talks about the importance of language. That’s why rational adults push back at all attempts to enforce Newspeak.
We need more of these moms.
A good post. My usual internal response to such folks as she was responding to is, ‘whatever, you wear what you like, just spare the lecture’ – maybe a bit different from her response – ‘it’s against my beliefs’. But take note of the part where she notes that gender dysphoria is a ‘mental illness’ – well, it’s exactly what we’ve been told by the many loud advocates of this vogueish form of progressivism. They’ve talked themselves into this contradiction; can they talk their way out again?
Hey guys, take a gander at this
Take a gander at a silly goose? That must be sexist!!. Consider yourself denounced, comrade. 😀
We need more of these moms.
Imagine any young adult female wearing a tight tee-shirt with some printed message on it bitching because all the men kept looking at her chest. The “lady” doth protest too much, methinks.
In the case of a certain vain emperor, a child cried out, “But he isn’t wearing anything at all!” Bless the small things.
Imagine any young adult female wearing a tight tee-shirt with some printed message on it bitching because all the men kept looking at her chest.
I have seen that behavior. Although I also suspect that some women use it occasionally as a test: “Can the man speak to me without staring at my chest? Then he might have a modicum of self-control and maturity.” 🙂
some women use it occasionally as a test
Knowing there’s a trap is the first step to evading it.
Speaking of educators.
LOL. Brilliant planning.
Taken seriously, it isn’t the soundest of plans. And as a supposedly amusing fantasy scenario, it reveals rather more than intended. You’d think that Ms Cauterucci, or her editor, or her peers, might have noticed the smell.
That they didn’t possibly tells us something.
A Guardian reader frets:
And by frets, I mean, “Thinks displays of dogmatic neuroticism are the last word in piety and a path to status.”
Although I also suspect that some women use it occasionally as a test: “Can the man speak to me without staring at my chest?”
A theory of Viagra
A Guardian reader frets:
Another frets:
OK, European history in the far past may not be my strongest suit, so looking some of that distant enemies stuff up: The Viking fellows, French, Dutch, French, Bavarians, French, Spanish, French, Prussians, a bunch of Italians, Sweden, French, Dutch, French, Poland, French, Spain, Bavarians, Dutch, Swiss, Denmark & Norway, French, Russians, Austro-Hungary-Germany-Bulgaria, Germany-Italy, Iceland, Yugoslavia.
Looks like Boris is on to something.
Roy G Guzmán is oppressed by the “violence” of people not liking his poetry.
So…his mother was a Vogon?
So…his mother was a Vogon?
And his father was Algore. Who smelt of elderberries.
Speaking of educators.
Does anyone know who coined that term, “negative rights”? It’s kinda dumb, certainly doesn’t market the idea well, and left the door wide open for lefties to sell “positive rights”. I’m rather nonplussed about it.
OK, not sure how I started that, but apparently my quoting of David’s “Speaking of educators” comment got cut. Stopped now?
Hmmm…so on refresh…my bad on the “my bad”. After posting my comment the “Speaking of educators” quote was missing and it appeared that I had started an italics run. But after my “fix” and then reloading, the original comment looks right. A glitch in the Matrix again, I suppose.
[ Acts casual, says nothing. ]
Hey guys, take a gander at this
Americans of a certain age group will recognize and fondly remember this little bit of offensiveness and propping up the patriarchy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K48I6ay4tbM“
Who smelt of elderberries.
Is that an English way of saying “drinks a lot of gin”?
I forgot to insert a blank line between the quote and my comment. Please don’t hurt me, David.
Americans of a certain age group will recognize
I find it heartwarming how far live action adaptations of Spider-Man have come in forty years.
Americans of a certain age group will recognize and fondly remember this little bit of offensiveness and propping up the patriarchy.
Heh. But of course. And what is the feminine of “guys”? “Gals”? OMG, can’t have that either. Too close to “girls”. Though I am a bit partial to, in no particular order, skirts, dames, broads, chicks, babes, birds (70’s British comedy term…does anyone use this anymore?), doll, dish, honey, floozy, sweet cheeks, sugar t*ts, sweat thang, talent, toots, missy, heifers…just for starters. Though I like to keep in mind what my pal Joey used to say, “Some guys have a system with horses and I’ve got a system with dames. … You treat a dame like a lady and treat a lady like a dame.”
…and now I see I got my grey Spirographish icon thingy back. Though I kinda liked the orange one. Not sure if we all see the same ones, however.
..or “sweet thang”. Ever since I saw the “you had one job” pic of the restaurant that had labeled a container “sweat tea”, I’ve lost the ability to spell it correctly either way. At least until after I hit post. WTF does “sweat” have an ‘a’ in it anyways? Yet another thing I’m nonplussed about.
Please don’t hurt me, David.
[ Cracks knuckles, rummages for lead pipe. ]
Is that an English way of saying “drinks a lot of gin”
Speaking of the French…Silly English knigit.
You treat a dame like a lady and treat a lady like a dame
Yes, that could be a problem in the UK if the Lady is a Dame, or the other way round, or something like that, unless you are talking about Dame Edna.
Her profile picture tells you all you need to know about whose decision it is that she’s not breeding
There is never a meteor around when you really need one.
There is never a meteor around when you really need one.
Yes. As Church Lady would say, how conveeeeeeenient.
Let me see if I have this right – feminists are strong and empowered so they need a special version of the game to give them an advantage because they can’t compete on their own strengths ?
I am confused. I wonder if there is a rule in this new version that one cannot declare oneself a wymxn at the start of the game to get the extra frogskins.
You see, those “right wing, centrist, or politically complacent parents” – the parents you love, presumably – must be purged of their “ill-informed allegiances” and made to conform politically, with the threat of never seeing grandchildren.
Sharper than a serpent’s tooth, and all that.