Fun Times At The Intersection

Top reply: “It’s literally Dungeons and dragons with gender”

Parenting is hard.

Why are they always telling people to shut up?
Not, I think, a trivial question.

And the fashionably enormous eyeglasses weren’t cheap, either.

Why are they always telling people to shut up?
Speaking of which, the other day I mentioned the “band” calling themselves Y.G.S.L.R.H. S.T.F.U.T.    It appears they claim this stands for “You Guys Suck Like Real Hard. Shut the F*** Up. Thanks.”, and was born of the need of the “need for therapy”.
As we have once again had a dearth of art I would be remiss if I didn’t bring you Y.G.S.L.R.H. S.T.F.U.T.     NSFW for lyrics, but skip ahead to around 8:00 and you can learn that when the band formed they channeled Satan which made the power go out, probably because the bass player had never played bass before (and someday will discover there are three strings besides E, and frets actually have a function).
You may thank me later.

Animal pronouns? I think I saw a sign in the locker room at they gym warning against injecting yourself with animal pronouns. Seemed like a bad idea to me anyway.

Why are they always telling people to shut up?
I took her advice to “never interact with them”. Or rather, I had long ago decided to shun crazy people and evil people.
I started laughing when she announced that it would be a “calm but stern” lecture to the world of sane people.

I hadn’t come across this before, and couldn’t be bothered to listen to Cruella de Vil Junior, so just read the text. The interesting thing is that these ‘nounself pronouns’ aren’t pronouns at all: they’re simply nouns. And if you study (or teach, as I did for many years) the linguistic aspect of child development, you find that pronouns are one of the later acquisitions, and take time to be used correctly. A two-year-old will tend to say ‘Mummy give Susie kiss!’ rather than ‘Give me a kiss!’ And part of what used to be called ‘Motherese’, but in our PC times is now ‘Caregiver language’ is the use of third-person pronouns by the adult, reflecting this childish use: ‘Now don’t hit Mummy like that!’
Anyway, I wonder whether the rejection of pronouns in favour of nouns is symbolic: so many of the people one sees online – the sort of people whom David helpfully brings to our notice – seem to be stuck in a perpetual toddlerhood. The rest of us are expected to give in to all their demands, however impractical and illogical, or they’ll start screaming. The ‘nounself’ fad, together with the identification with an animal (like a child insisting that he’s really a dinosaur) is very suggestive.

…the term neurodivergent…Maybe it’s an attempt to sidestep responsibility and strip away the moral component of being chronically obnoxious.
Agreed. Furthermore, “divergent” sounds so much more innocuous than any of the standard words denoting various mental disorders, which is useful when taking advantage of our culture’s excessive need to be “tolerant”.

which is useful when taking advantage of our culture’s excessive need to be “tolerant”.
Sort of, “I’m not selfish and whiny and childish and insufferable. I’m neurodivergent. I don’t deserve opprobrium. I deserve more deference and accommodation.”
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Not entirely unrelated.

I’m not, nor shall ever be, on Twatter but I think I would choose “Sir/M’Lord” as my pronouns and demand they use them.
“Sir, pointing and laughing at purple haired land whales is not allowed”
“Yes, I should be treated in a mental institution for my gender disphoria M’Lord”

Breaking news, that Laurel Hubbard chap has been eliminated from weightlifting,

Mike Graham just now on TalkRadio:
“She’s out of the Olympics, she failed to produce an acceptable snatch”.

Laurel Hubbard, with pursed lips and firm resolve, will endeavor to persevere.

She’s out of the Olympics…
I legitimately laughed out loud at that. Scared the cat, even. Bravo to Mr. Graham!

[Fetches Stool of Shame.]
Was that from the elimination ?
I legitimately laughed out loud at that.
Too bad about the cut, I understand Hubbard was top seed of the jerks.

Maybe it’s an attempt to sidestep responsibility and strip away the moral component of being chronically obnoxious.
There is no god but Them, and They are Their prophet.

It comes in a flimsy paper bag and we tape it to his face.

Does it get set on fire by someone’s front door?

So…this is racially insensitive.
Ahem.

[ Reaches for intercom. ]
Another Stool of Shame. Make it a jumbo.

If the jab don’t stick, you must mask it!
OJ finally finds the real killer – the unvaccinated.

Having a made-up gender is not a substitute for a personality.

Sonkitten got described as “neurodivergent” once by a social worker; he corrected “I’m not neurodivergent, I’m autistic.” I have noticed that the genuinely autistic prefer to stay off the euphemism-to-bullshit spectrum. The plainer the speech, the easier it is for them. Someone calling herself
“neurodivergent “ is probably very lightly autistic if at all, which is good; full-blown autism is a terrible handicap. But the “neurodivergent “ fad is confusing to those who have little or no experience with real autism.

“cowboy-adjacent trans masculine non-binary person”
…but the cowboys keep edging away.

I think the flighty ‘Quinn’ is actually F->M. It’s’dead name’ is something female sounding, or so I read. Though what any of this means in regards to testosterone…or anything else for that matter, I doubt even God knows.

the flighty ‘Quinn’
Bartender, a drink for Mr Muldoon.

I can never remember if a “trans man” started out as female or male
Follow the advertising rule: any adjective means “not”.
“trans man” = “not man” = biological woman.

Dammit.

. Fixed?

Barkeep, WTP’s next one on me if you please.

Furry, trans, neureodivergent, etc: I suspect that social media have played a significant role in the metastasizing of these maladies: In the past these people were largely isolated among large populations of normal people who acted as a partial corrective, but now with websites devoted to their particular defects, they can reinforce each others’ delusions and so spiral down into ever deeper realms of fantasy and dysfunction.

“There’s nothing wrong with me! Nothing at all! I’m perfect in every way!”
“I don’t need to change! You need to change!”

I suspect that social media have played a significant role in the metastasizing of these maladies.
I love that the Web allows me to “meet” and share stories and tips with people who share my more obscure interests, like slack-key guitar or old Avalon Hill war games. I try to bear in mind that there exist hundreds, nay thousands of these little communities just carrying on in obscurity and quietly adding to the amount of enjoyment in the Universe. It’s easy to forget when we have these freaks doing their little TikTok dances and demanding the rest of the world conform to their neuroses.
We are so very, very overdue for a visit from the copybook headings.

It never occurred to me that it would become an incubator for mental disorders I had never even heard of.
Yes…but see, this is the thing….just because you never heard of them didn’t mean that they weren’t out there. I had a co-worker back in the late 1990’s who, while a very smart…”smart” kid, was gullible as hell and believed in the great Lizard People conspiracy/conspiracies. Illuminati, etc. Now while such things are known and joked about today as kwazy-kwazy conspiracy stuff, back then virtually no one in normal society had ever heard such insanity. Yet I, while not entirely familiar with this specific brand of idiocy, was aware such things from my days in college, reading “underground” stuff, mostly stuff in the dustier corners of the music scene (‘zines before they were even called ‘zines…if anyone still knows of such). So one night out to dinner with some friends I begin to relate what special new crazy I was hearing from my (supposedly potential) protégé. Oh, well…the accusations that I was making this nonsense up myself were flying. It took me months to convince many of my friends that this was a real thing. Even my coworkers who knew the guy and knew I wasn’t making up that part of it had no idea that there were other such crazy BS people out there. It really wasn’t until after 9/11 happened and the related conspiracy stuff that came from that that the last few of my friends actually quasi-apologized to me for believing I made it all up. I bring this up (I think again here) only to emphasize that it is not social media that is causing this crap. Yes, it gave it a broader audience but only because it is much much easier to show actual proof of such lunacy directly to the otherwise sane people of the world (that group itself is not as large as even cynical I once believed). Seriously, if someone only told you about these videos or these people, would you believe they actually exist or would you laugh it all off as the one relating it taking the piss? Blaming social media for this idiocy is about as relevant as blaming violence on guns. It’s not the tool, it’s the individual.

What I strongly suspect is merely that the internet made it much easier for screwy people to find other screwballs, spend all their time talking only to each other in a cycle of positive reinforcement of those delusions.
All the dispersed village idiots discovered one another and a competition ensued.
And don’t forget that they make for a handy group of, shall we say, “less aware” individuals that can be manipulated fairly easily.

There is no god but Them, and They are Their prophet.
Call me Legion, for we are many.