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Fascinating article by libertarian economist Deirdre McCloskey on her decision to change gender:
Only two paragraphs in but I’m not convinced s/he’s exactly as sane as s/he’d like us to believe.
I have read that one member of the trans-nazi mob works at Google and identifies as a “yellow scaled wingless dragonkin”.
Must be a typo, most likely “yellow scaled witless dragonkin”. Perhaps I’m being too harsh.
“yellow scaled wingless dragonkin”
It was a lot easier to get along with such people when all they asked for was courtesy and basic human kindness. The demands for approval and participation in public celebrations tend to wear away at any inclination toward kind feelings.
Being a feminist, Jill disapproves.
Via Neontaster.
Being a feminist, Jill disapproves.
By keeping her father’s surname isn’t *she* supporting a ‘sexist system’?
Alice, triply so! The name Filipovic means “son of (the male name) Philip.”
The probability of me meeting another transgender person among any group of 25 people is not 25/400, say, which is merely 6.25%, but 50-50. It’s called The Birthday Paradox…
I don’t think so. The birthday paradox is a paradox of self-centeredness – you think there’s something special about your birthday, so you’re thinking if I walk into the room, what are the chances of Alice and I or Bob and I or Ziggy and I having the same birthday, overlooking the possibilities for two people other than you to have the same birthday as each other.
But if you’re a Deirdre who used to be a Donald, then there is something different about you, and you can’t use the birthday paradox to pretend otherwise. Everyone has a birthday but not everyone has a birthday on Christmas Day, and the chances of there being two Christmas babies in a room aren’t governed by the birthday paradox.
The potential complications of feminist-approved surnames have been noted previously.
The name Filipovic means “son of (the male name) Philip.”
A radfem might “solve” that by changing her name to Filipowitch.
From Son Of Philip’s tweet:
“[A] Thing I judge silently but extremely harshly…”
Everyone silently judges others of course but maybe then STFU about it like the rest of us? Because, honey, it’s like retelling a dream: NOBODY CARES.
about referring to oneself, in the past, as a different entity, one whose unedifying behaviour is conveniently remote
… some lines by Robert Graves:
Apparently the Nazgul on the US Supreme Court are swayed by emotion like the rest of us hairless apes.
This should be pretty damn simple:
Question: Did they advertise killing school children as a use for their product? Or committing a crime of any type for that matter?
Answer: No.
Case dismissed.
A money parade for the lawyers involved, otherwise a complete waste of time and court resources.
“The families’ lawsuit contends that Remington glorified the gun in advertising aimed at young people, including in violent video games.”
A) Yep, all those ads in “Tiger Beat”, “Teen Vogue”, and “Highlights for Children”, advertising Bushmaster™ brand AR-15s (Can’t be a Colt, Wilson, or other brand, only a Bushmaster™ brand AR15 will do, ask for it by name at you local Woolworth’s, Sears, or corner convenience store !) to shoot up schools and your classmates, I remember them well.
B) That is one thing that always impressed me about video games, the level of detail to put the Bushmaster logo and “This is an AR15” on a fully automatic M16/M4 looking weapon so that today’s yoots will only go out and get a Bushmaster™ brand AR15.
Here is what Mother Jones was touting as one of these ads (from 1966)…
Au contraire:
Farnsworth
Even that shocking* ad from the 60’s fails to mention how great it would be to shoot up a school, a point which I suppose one must have a legal degree and several centuries worth of experience in order to overlook.
*shocking because Black Rifle Bad. The only danger the ad poses is that my son might literally be willing to kill for that toy.
So the handiest solution when facing a bully is to stand up for one’s self, to defend one’s self, to make clear that—-errr, Oh, Dear, butbutbut, Nooooooo!!!
Here is what Mother Jones was touting as one of these ads (from 1966)…
Still couldn’t compete with my Johnny 7 One Man Army…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-tz-9c-g4A
Oh, Dear, butbutbut, Nooooooo!!!
Democracy dies in darkness. This is why their articles sit behind a paywall.
Still couldn’t compete with my Johnny 7 One Man Army…
Yeah, well wait till they find out about this easily concealable weapon of mass masculine toxicity.
… easily concealable weapon of mass masculine toxicity.
Had one of those too.
This was my favourite. For future deep state operatives.
Spoiled. My Johnny 7 was a later model, a hand-me-down from the teenager next door. Top grenade launcher didn’t work but that didn’t matter because the proper grenade was lost. The RPG function did work kinda ok. If you took the pistol out of the gun configuration, you’d give a little blood trying to put it back in. The machine gun sound thingy on the side was barely functional. But I was happy with it. Because it didn’t work. But you try and tell the young people today that… and they won’t believe ya’.
this easily concealable weapon of mass masculine toxicity.
That doozy would make you king of the playground.
easily concealable weapon of mass masculine toxicity
Don’t forget racist. How dare they only make it in one shade of white boy?
Democracy dies in darkness. This is why their articles sit behind a paywall.
Hmmm. No idea why one would see a paywall, my browser goes straight in, and I don’t have any such account. Albeit with Democracy dies in . . . you’re clearly reaching something. And one can fish about, and see also . . .
For future deep state operatives.
A later collectors item.
Spoiled.
I was. My Uncle always bought me the best toys every Christmas. He lived next door with my Dad’s mom and he never married, so he always used some his excess cash to buy me and my brother the toy of the season. He was also the milk man and treated us to the best ice cream at the local dairy. All those things are gone now including Uncle John.
Democracy dies in darkness.
The article worked for my phone but not my computer, weirdly.
Basically a gay kid beat his bully up a bit, and the WaPo are wringing their hands about it.
The video is easy to find. Just google the kids name – ‘Jordan Steffy’.
No idea what the teacher was doing. Step in and break it up, idiot.
One might be moved to ask, why does she have to do this at the art gallery? It’s not as if she couldn’t make the same, um, point anywhere. Oh, she wanted all the excitement of a faux scandal and the attention of art gallery goers? I see.
A live reenactment of this painting might be amusing.
Good God! Even cocktails are gendered.
Quick, hide the nudie napkins and curvey glassware.
Yet another bus incident.
Good God! Even cocktails are gendered.
the stupidity…it burns
Half the fun of ordering some new concoction off the menu is the presentation of color as well as recipe. Personally, sweet drinks are not my first preference, but I enjoy trying something new.
… and the only drink I want to see crystal clear is my Tanqueray Ten martini, two olives, please.
Yet another bus incident.
Reboot of Candid Camera?
Unrelated, but I just had a thought…
Who originally came up with the idea of cultural appropriation?
To pull an example out of… the air, Tiki themed bars etc. appear to have started as far back as the 1930’s. If there were objections made at the time by Native Hawaiians to the trivialisation of their culture for decorative purposes, then they might have a claim to be the originators of the concept of cultural appropriation. In which case, white academics and other people of pallor are being shockingly racist if they try to appropriate cultural appropriation for their own ends.
As Euclid wrote after each of his geometric proofs, “Amiright?”
Question: Did they advertise killing school children as a use for their product? Or committing a crime of any type for that matter?
More to the point, can they prove that the execrable assailant in this case, who shall remain nameless, saw any advertising and that it was the advertising and not his obvious mental illness which caused him to commit the atrocity. Good luck with that one counselor.
While I feel nothing but sympathy for the parents involved here I can’t believe they think that dragging the law through the mud to punish those not guilty will help them in any way.
“The families’ lawsuit contends that Remington glorified the gun in advertising aimed at young people, including in violent video games.”
So far I have not seen citations of any specific advertisements. It would be very helpful to see just what is being pointed to by the shysters bringing the lawsuit.
Who originally came up with the idea of cultural appropriation?
The problem lies not with the people who came up with it, but with 1) those who took it seriously and 2) those who were too “polite” to mock it into obscurity for the idiocy that it is. So now we simultaneously have “cultural appropriation” where wypipo are forbidden to engage in the enjoyable things about other cultures and “diversity training” where other cultures are shoved in wypipo’s faces with the expectation that they must celebrate them. Again, I refer you to Calvera’s First Principle. Stupid, stupid world.
“Amiright?”
Damn, Shaw that made me literally spit coffee. You owe me for dry cleaning and a new keyboard (one of those kool steampunk jobs, you know).
I am still imagining the look on the face of my Geometry teacher, that formal bastard, if I said that.
(Actually, he probably would not have noticed. I found out later that he was more focused on bedding the 14 year old girls, than teaching us geek boys. As who wouldn’t be? I mean, it’s natural, amiright?)
pst314,
This Federalist article
https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/15/court-rules-remington-can-be-sued-for-marketing-guns-for-combat/
has pics of some of the ads in question, and actually mentions the key issue: that the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that relevant federal law does not preempt a state law banning marketing “military-style” weapons to civilians.
Fred, thank you very much!