Friday Ephemera

First?
I’ve always wanted to write that.

Linked over at Althouse. I thought you folks here would be a natural for this.
https://www.curbed.com/2020/11/mary-wollstonecraft-statue-london-feminism.html

Hazards of the highway.
Oh, Brilliant . . .

Nice doggy, roll over, glare with glowing red eyes.

Greetings, human
That does it, how do you become a UPS driver? That is soooo cute I am giving up my day job and heading off for life on the road 🙂

Morning, all.
House tour of note.

Don’t worry if you can’t get a doctor’s appointment, others can help
https://www.rt.com/news/506457-sweden-circumcision-soldering-gun/

Snowy nights in Switzerland
Switzerland is very lovely but frighteningly expensive.

House tour of note.
(In Lloyd Grossman voice) ” So, who lives in a house like this?”

As well as the shrivel factor, the idea played hell with my spelling and html.

Today’s word is inadvisable
Today I learned that I have three grandads

Don’t worry if you can’t get a doctor’s appointment, others can help

How much topical anesthetic and wound gauze would nine people have to buy to make a pharmacy call the cops, I wonder…
He should have done it the old fashioned way.

To fight racism, Cornell renames its English department

The term “English Department” might give students the idea that English literature was invented by the English, which would mean that some people’s ancestors accomplished things that other people’s ancestors did not, which cannot be true.
The term “Department of Literatures in English” demonstrates that African-American literature owes no debts to English literature. They just are literatures that happen to be in English. It’s not like African-American writers have been influenced by, say, the King James Bible.

The psychiatrist would likely think there is nothing wrong with them, but that you’re the crazy one. Ask me how I know.

Home Tour of Note
By all means, take a look. Go down into the basement. It goes on forever.
Just avoid the dark places. You will be eaten by a grue.

House tour of note.
There is a well fed white and black cat sitting placidly (on a box naturally) in what seems to be the living room. Those with nothing better to occupy their time* can have fun trying to find it.
* which of course would not include any regular visitors to this site he quickly adds.

Those with nothing better to occupy their time* can have fun trying to find it.
Found it. (I had nothing better to do…)

In reading this Guardian interview with Otegha Uwagba, author of Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods, the impression I got was not so much of an author keen on promoting sales of her book but that of some kind of ‘Miss Whiplash’ dominatrix holding out a promise to punish all those white middle class progressives for the sin of being white, middle class, and progressive.
For instance, she explains that the book is not actually intended for a white readership at all, but she nevertheless acknowledges that many white people will likely buy it.
And for those white readers:

“I want them to feel uncomfortable. I want them to feel challenged. I want them to feel confronted.”

And this is apparently because they have been very, very bad boys and girls:

“[White people] think racism is bad and they want it to be over. But the implementation and the facts of that require them to do things they are not willing to do. [They] talk a big game about allyship and dismantling racism but when it came to the prospect of maybe losing their jobs or getting in trouble at work in order to take a stance against racism, they weren’t willing to do it.”

They’re bad because they just have not realised that true “racial justice is “redistributive” – that they must give something up if black people are to thrive”; and that in turn means “giving up power, money, wealth, opportunities, things that will change the quality of your life and make it feel relatively worse”.

obliged to admit that the reason for doing so is seemingly non-existent
Racists do exist and it’s not hard to imagine that Uwagba may have been on the receiving end of some ugly language or behaviour at times in her life.
But I reserve the right to be incredulous that racism has been a typical experience, let alone a defining or dominant feature in her life to date.
To be an Oxford graduate, bestselling author, and celebrated as a media and marketing entrepreneur by Forbes all by the age of 28 stands in sharp contrast with claims to have lived a life suffering under “the burden of whiteness” and “the mental and emotional trauma” it has caused. Rosa Parks she is not.
The target of the “restrained prose” under which we are told lies “an iceberg of rage and frustration” in that interview is not, as might reasonably be expected, actual racists such as Britain First, National Action, or Combat-18. It’s not even against the Metropolitan police’s ‘stop and search’ policies. None of those even get a mention.
Instead, the target for her “rage and frustration” turns out to be “white people”, “progressive, liberal people”, and even including her own “friends” some of whom she explains she has found herself unable to “sustain relationships or friendships with”.
It’s not that such “progressive, liberal people” are beyond criticism for the way they express their political convictions, far from it.
But to even suggest that their non-racism and even anti-racism is proof that they racist is preposterous up to and beyond the point of delusion.

It’s strange just how often the urge to inflict discomfort and anxiety on white people crops up
Because they themselves are failures, and instead of facing up to this they rage against those who are not failures. Prove me wrong. 😉

Naw, no bias in this headline at all …

“The wrong kind of gays who are on the wrong side of history.”

Naw, no bias in this headline at all…
The BAD WHITE GAYS strike again.

The Bad White Gays would be a good name for a band.

Not a bad white gay
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1327793827080515584

We live in stupefying times.
Indeed. This isn’t what I thought the future would be like.

https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1327793827080515584
de-colon-ize: to pull out of one’s ass

…not just for white chicks anymore.
I dunno, I identify him as a white chick.

looks pretty chick-y to me
The voice to go with it, too

not just for white chicks anymore.
Although I actually voted Remain in the 2016 referendum, it’s remarkable how both complaints from that Tiktoker are identical to those made by similarly shrill die-hard Remainers over here – that both the elderly and those failing to live at addresses with more fashionably expensive zip codes should be banned from taking part in elections on the grounds that (allegedly) neither have anything of value to add to society.
Such charming people.

“The definitive guide to the Doctor Who theme.”
Any excuse to repost this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1SZs4xudf8
House tour of note.
Strongly resembles many of the student boarding houses in the town I grew up in.