Journey To The Centre Of Attention
It occurs to me that it’s been a while since we marvelled at the mind of Laurie Penny. We must correct that immediately:
She “earned that pronoun with a lot of hard work,” you know. While also, rather suddenly, becoming a being of indeterminate gender. A they, depending on who’s nearby, and how fashionable they are.
Update, via the comments:
As long-time readers will know, this is part of Laurie’s ongoing, seemingly endless drama, in which she feels a need to ‘come out’ to the same group of Twitter followers, over and over again, as in some way unconventional or sexually anomalous, each time with some new twist or contradiction, some new basis for applause. Such that one has to wonder exactly how many times this feat of stunning bravery can be achieved.
Of course, if Laurie didn’t keep outing herself as something or other every few months, apparently depending on which word is in fashion, people might not realise just how fascinating and complicated she is. And in the hamster-wheel world of competitive self-definition, being merely feminist-and-a-bit-bisexual is so old hat. Even adding polyamory to her list of attributes doesn’t cut it anymore.
Given that straight, cis and white are now commonly used as pejoratives, not least by Laurie and her followers, there’s an obvious incentive to depict oneself as unblemished by such low-status labels. And hence the periodic modifications to Laurie’s ongoing project of self-description. You don’t want to be seen wearing last season’s identity tags.
And so, what we’re seeing above is a status-game called My Pronouns Are More Complicated Than Yours™. As Laurie’s latest must-haves are apparently dependent on whim and arbitrary contrivance, and could change again at any moment, and in unforeseen ways, it’s a strong hand. Among the neurotic and pretentious, I mean.
Update 2:
Oh no, mockery. How very dare they.
Off Topic:
Maybe there is such a thing as white privilege after all.
“Let me see your face! Let me see your face!”
“We’re gonna burn your building down!”
“We know where you li-ive!”
It’s hard to think of an alternative explanation as to why they have not been apprehended or, quite frankly, just shot dead.
“We’re gonna burn your building down!”
You have to wonder exactly how degenerate and sociopathic these creatures have to become – how obviously evil – before declaring affinity with Antifa and associated cults results in a public beating, every time.
victimhood
“I’ve been out for years. I just don’t talk about it much. Everyone really needs to calm down.”
Well, thank God for that.
Previously in LaurieWorld. The comments are worth a peek.
“We’re gonna burn your building down!”
Perhaps residents should take them at their word and use Any Means Necessary to end the threat.
…how fashionable they are.
Not entirely unrelated, for the
comicsgraphic novel fans out there.Rad.
Rad.
So our woke heroine’s adventures largely involve carbs, breathlessness and chafing thighs?
So our woke heroine’s adventures largely involve carbs, breathlessness and chafing thighs?
Classic signs of water retention. Looks like menstruation bloat to me.
Classic signs of water retention. Looks like menstruation bloat to me.
I’m sure I wouldn’t know.
Everyone really needs to calm down.
Physician heal thyself.
You may not know about menstruation bloat but quite a few “men” claim to and woe betide anyone who questions them.
File under “today’s world in a single sentence”.
As bad as that comic looks, I was very impressed when I clicked on the link to Rooster Teeth.
Their channel icon is superimposed on what can only be described as the flag of Wokistan.
…I was very impressed when I clicked on the link to Rooster Teeth.
I have to admit that when I first saw the logo in the bottom right corner of the cover, and was trying to figure out what it meant, I didn’t think “Roster Teeth”, but another word for rooster and what teeth do, and the result was more apt. I will report for still more regrooving.
Rad.
So in changing WW into a black woman, the artist also makes her obese.
Nope, no racial stereotyping there, eh Woke Artist of Pallor?
…eh Woke Artist of Pallor?
Pretty much also a one trick pony, it seems.
Pretty much also a one trick pony, it seems.
UV black light bulb extra. Can’t you just smell the incense and patchouli?
Woman with large butt draws other women with even larger butts.
What can this mean?
Dear Penny
Dost tha’ know how much tha’ gets from thy Patronise account?
Some say that thee gender-queer beings rakes in thousands a month but tha’d share it with the poor I’m sure.
What can this mean?
That her figure is the ideal figure.
I’m surprised that the people behind the old Red vs. Blue are now responsible for such a football-fucking monkey circus.
“football-fucking monkey circus.”
I’m not sure exactly what that means but it’s got to be very very bad.
From the thread:
“I honestly don’t care what pronouns someone uses, it’s their right to be referred to in the manner which they are most comfortable.”
No it bloody isn’t. It’s my right to refer to you any damn way I please. And, in fairness, it’s yours to be offended should I, for example – purely off the top of my head, you understand – choose to call you an oversensitive, self-absorbed, narcissistic arsewomble.
“We took an honest look at 17+ years of videos, many of them made live and uploaded on a daily basis, and concluded some do not fit the ethos of our company today”
Clearly not. Your company used to be cool.
Where is the compassion…she’s ivy league
I’m not sure exactly what that means but it’s got to be very very bad.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/monkey_humping_a_football
Your company used to be cool.
Color me surprised to learn that the creators of Rooster Teeth are apparently no longer a part of it. The present-day entity is just another example of Iowahawk’s “skin suit”.
“We took an honest look at 17+ years of videos, many of them made live and uploaded on a daily basis, and concluded some do not fit the ethos of our company today”
Wait, is that a quote from Rooster Teeth? Did they decide to purge some of their videos because they were insufficiently woke?
What, pray tell, is the Fahrenheit temperature at which hard drives burn?
Do you think LP will still be desperately seeking attention when she’s 44?
Probably but she’ll then be complaining about no longer being sexually attractive to people younger than her…just like her mate/rival Jessica Valenti…
I’ve been out for years. I just don’t talk about it much. Everyone really needs to calm down.
NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF CALMING DOWN HAS A PERSON CALMED DOWN AFTER BEING TOLD TO….
Oh, sorry, wrong meme response. Only works on lefties if a fellow lefty is doing it. My mistake.
the hamster-wheel world of competitive self-definition
That.
That.
Well, given that straight, cis and white are now commonly used as pejoratives, not least by Laurie and her followers, there’s an obvious incentive to depict oneself as exempt from such low-status labels. In a peer-group of neurotic poseurs, that is. And hence the periodic modifications to Laurie’s ongoing, seemingly endless, self-description.
You don’t want to be seen wearing last season’s identity tags.
That.
It is, I think, one of the ironies of modern leftism. If, for instance, you poke through Laurie’s Twitter feed, you’ll see that she and her likeminded admirers very much like to imagine themselves – and to describe themselves – as radical, freethinking, counter-cultural, iconoclastic, etc, while simultaneously being utterly predictable, even in their perversity, and while clearly being concerned by how their fellow wokelings will judge them. There’s lots of Gotcha! being played. For many, having opinions that are two weeks out of date is a kind of social death, and many hoops will be jumped through in order to avoid that terrible fate.
This may explain why such people often seek out environments in which they can browbeat impressionable and insecure teenagers, among whom peer-pressure is very much a thing, and why they often fare poorly when arguing with adults outside of their usual in-group, where the assumed pressure to conform may not be a priority, and not be available as leverage.
What can this mean?
It means DC has decided to follow Marvel’s policy of hiring woke Twitterati to write and draw their flagship books.
Because that’s worked out so well for Marvel.
Fun fact: it doesn’t actually matter, because no one reads Wonder Woman. Seriously. DC only keeps the title in print because they have to under the terms of the license; if they don’t print a new Wonder Woman comic every so many years, the rights to the character revert to Moulton’s estate. It’s one of the reasons why the Wonder Woman canon is so confused and why they’ve done so many weird things with it over the years; they just don’t care, and there aren’t enough readers to influence their editorial decisions.
Woman with large butt draws other women with even larger butts.
What can this mean?
It’s obvious: she’s creating mental space. If she can normalize (even in her own mind) larger butts then she 1) feels more attractive with just a ‘large’ butt and 2) she won’t feel so terrible when she inevitably has her own, larger butt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X53ZSxkQ3Ho
Hey, I waited until the end to post this.
What’s wrong with her hair?