The Thrill Of Bralessness
From academia’s Clown Quarter, rumblings of radical import:
Gender and Women’s Studies Professor Sami Schalk suggested she may cease wearing a bra to work, citing, among other things, male “policing” of women’s bodies. “I don’t want to wear a bra to work,” Schalk said on Twitter. “It’s harder on my body & expensive AF.”
Nothing signals gravitas quite like a juvenile abbreviation for the words as fuck.
“All so [sic] some students think my tits don’t sag or don’t know I have nipples? Why?! As person with large breasts my body has always been heavily policed bc of how other people, mostly men, respond to it.”
An educator, remember. A shaper of young minds.
Schalk has gained notoriety on the UW-Madison campus for her outspoken opinions ranging from twerking to anti-police rioting. In 2019, wearing a cape that declared “I AM 100% THAT BITCH,” Schalk twerked with rapper Lizzo at a Madison show. In a column at Vox, she declared it “an act of political defiance.”
And a grown woman.
The event in question, this act of political defiance, and preparations for it, can be witnessed here.
“When Lizzo joined in, booty to booty — my butt blessed — it was pure Black Girl Magic,” she recalled.
When not exulting in her blessed buttocks and their magic blackness, or sharing boudoir photoshoots, or referring to the police as “fucking pigs,” Dr Schalk offers snacks and advice to rioters and arsonists, including reminders not to video each other while indulging in said rioting and acts of arson, as this may be incriminating and result in consequences, and subsequently harsh the buzz of being so terribly radical.
Recently, Schalk has focused on her right to be freed from the constraints of clothing and undergarments. When one Twitter [user] counselled that it was okay to occasionally “show some ass,” Schalk heartily agreed. “My ass is great,” she responded. “Sometimes I like to share it with the world.”
American readers will doubtless find comfort in this use of their tax dollars. $102,000 per year, or thereabouts.
But hey, bras are expensive as fuck.
“Seize the means of production!”
Usually shouted right after saying, “May I have my allowance please?” Once you get a taste for other people’s money then…
I’ll match your lawn mowing simulator and raise with a power washing simulator.
“Seize the means of production!”
You may have noticed that the capitalists left much of those “means of production” to their heirs. Many (most?) of those heirs turned socialist with guilt, of one form or another. Combine that with the Keynesian economic system distributing wealth to rent-seeking pretend capitalists and you will see that the lazy bastards didn’t even need to “seize” anything. Capitalists pretty much gave it to them. I doubt Lenin, in his wildest dreams, ever believed that socialists would not even have to buy the rope by which they will hang the capitalists. Well, the ones that are not already dead that is.
a power washing simulator.
The thrill of power-washer nozzle selection.
The thrill of power-washer nozzle selection.
[ Hamster urine spray bottle stat }
Colorado Rockies backtrack and say fan did not yell racial slurs at Sunday’s game
Is that a Blacktrack?
The absolute state of our media.
As if the fact that they previously wet themselves with excitement reporting on a fan yelling the Nigger-Word at a Rockies game-ball match was nothing to do with CNN, or journalism.
[ shrugs ] “We just report what we heard. Or didn’t. You don’t expect us to investigate or something?”
You’ve probably seen this video elsewhere regarding totalitarianism. I’m not normally a fan of videos on such subjects but I thought this was very good…Long (20+ minutes). Spoiler: The solution is not through the politics but through the culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M
“We just report what we heard. Or didn’t. You don’t expect us to investigate or something?”
Saw that story. Stunning, isn’t it? Yet again another “hate crime” that turns out to be totally fake. It’s still Jessie Smollet’s world. We just live in it. Though we don’t necessarily have to. See previous video.
But anyone taking odds on our conservative…”conservative” thought leaders in the media beating this like a drum? Maybe Tucker Carlson. But then our “conservative” media megaphone friends are very busy right now trying to portray/discredit him as a Mad Hungarian lap dog.
We used to know how to deal with the mentally disturbed that exhibited their emotional and mental inadequacies in public.
Jessie Smollet’s world
I shall check out the Mass Psychosis video, thanks. Not sure whether to hope it’s a “How To” or a “How Not To” video 😉
So I had barely finished reading some sarcastic suggestions that the Rockies would immediately change the name of their mascot to something which doesn’t sound like a word which might upset the mentally ill, when along comes just such a fuckwit.
Sigh.
along comes just such a fuckwit.
Stupid dinger.
…along comes just such a fuckwit.
Dinger is a fargin’ purple dinosaur. I suppose Barney is trademarked.
Has anyone here managed to change a covidian’s mind? Or at least witnessed one saying, “ok that’s too far” in response to the never-ending / expanding limits of liberty? Serious question.
“Seize the means of production!”
I’ve taken a lot of pleasure over the years in reminding these dingers that the primary “means of production” they’re shouting about include the hammer and the sickle on their t-shirts, along with the pickaxe and the plough. I’ll usually inquire how eager they really are to seize these tools and spend their days hammering metal or tilling the earth or digging iron ore out of a deep deep hole.
I’ve yet to meet a grad student socialist with callused hands; heck, very few of them have ever shared a pitcher of beer with somebody who does an honest day’s work. So many of them are such shallow thinkers that they believe everybody can be a craft brewer, a poet or a TikTok clown and the world will just keep ticking along without so much as a hiccup.
And too many of them have the gall to huff condescendingly any time a grownup asks where the food and energy are going to come from in their brave new world. Like these are piddling details that can be worked out later.
Has anyone here managed to change a covidian’s mind?
Nope! As Jon Smith observed three centuries ago, “Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion which by reasoning he never acquired.” I’ve poked holes in any number of their silly arguments, but have yet to see the light bulb come on over anybody’s head.
Nowadays I skip straight to “You are freaking out over a disease that poses less risk to children than the annual flu” and leave it at that.
a grownup asks where the food and energy are going to come from in their brave new world
Unfortunately, with the piling up of idiot commitments to feudal levels of industrial output, it’s looking increasingly likely that we are going to find out.
many of them are such shallow thinkers that they believe everybody can be a craft brewer, a poet or a TikTok clown
Full Luxury Communism™ But didn’t Karl Marx say something about how in the future we would all work a few hours in the morning, write poetry or literary criticism in the afternoon, and relax in the evening?
Full Luxury Communism™
In case anyone missed it.
Why? The only thing socialists have ever produced is misery.
The only thing socialists have ever produced is misery.
That’s how you know it’s working.
The only thing socialists have ever produced is misery.
Eh, they made a pretty cracking Sturmgewehr-44 knockoff.
Their propaganda posters are first-rate. Just ask anyone in the Obama or Biden administrations!
Turns out that attempting to fight wildfires deep in the forest wildernesses of the US for 16+ hour days non-stop for weeks at a time is detrimental to the reproductive health of 113-pound (eight-stone) women.
Shocked as you no doubt are by that discovery, you’ll be reassured to know that the real problem has been identified – yes, that’s right – it’s the culture of rampant gender discrimination that pervades the often “all-male” crews that’s to blame.
For example, the article explains that”[t]here are no changing or restroom facilities out in the field”.
It wouldn’t be true to say things like this is why I drink – but it sure makes me glad I do.
To clarify: national socialists with the red and black flag made a great rifle in the S-44, and national socialists with the red and yellow flag made the fantastic low-budget sequel. I hear the international socialists with all the colors in their flag make good targets, at least.
For example, the article explains that”[t]here are no changing or restroom facilities out in the field”.
Then, for sure, there are no free sanitary products in the field either. Also, I am so triggered. This article is transphobic. Who cares about skinny TERFs who want to fight fires.
Sam
It wasn’t a knockoff–it was a vastly better rifle from a similar concept. Stg44 was overweight, overly complex, in a word, “German”.
I’m far from Covidian. Not vaccinated, nor wife. Holding out hope for Noravax which is a much more traditional vaccine technology but it may not be approved until October at the earliest. We go out, don’t mask unless absolutely required. Which hasn’t been the case for months now here. I know at least a dozen people who have had this thing. With one exception the only ones who have had difficulty were people with COPD or other significant health issues. The only person closest to me who has died was a pool teammate’s wife, whom I never met who had significant health issues. That was…until yesterday. Yesterday a cousin who is only 32 was admitted to the hospital, and deteriorated rapidly. By EOD he was put on a ventilator. They have been rotating him face up/down each side as much as possible. This evening we finally see some hope as he seems to be improving. Coincidentally (?) yesterday I also learned that the niece of a friend who is in her late 40’s at most, who appears very healthy, four kids 4th-11th grades, from a very active, healthy family of military and similar athletic types was admitted to the hospital, very sick. She is doing better than my cousin but was, and still is, very, very sick.
I’ve been writing a lot of this fear and panic off because, as said, most people I know who have had it were fine. I’ve been close to three of them shortly before they were sick and my antibody tests have all been negative. But all of this was months ago. Now that people whom I know or from sources I trust much, much more than the MSM are reporting serious issues with two younger people I’m a bit concerned that this wave, be it delta or whatever, is different. Viruses usually become less dangerous, not more. The numbers, which I stopped paying attention to months ago but started looking again the last couple days, may not be as huge right now and I hope they don’t grow. But past performance is no guarantee of future results either way. And this b@stard Fauci and his Chinese gain-of-function playmates need to be swinging from lampposts either way. People who insist on the fear and panic porn yet refuse to accept the significant probability that this thing came from a lab are insane. If what is being presented is what is really happening, this thing is not a function of the natural world.
My wife’s boss has just come out of the hospital after coming down with whatever variant of COVID is available in Florida. He happened to have been in Georgia at the time he was hospitalized. While in the hospital, his doctor told him that he had a roughly 50/50 chance of living.
Her boss NONETHELESS had to insist upon getting treated with Ivermectin and (I assume) a Z-pack. (This is 2nd hand and I haven’t queried my wife about the details and really don’t intend to.) He recovered after receiving the treatment he demanded; albeit with the possibility of alveoli tissue scarring which will impact his O2 levels for his remaining days.
Even the “normal” flu isn’t something that you’d want to get; I used to think it was nothing more than a bad cold, until I actually got it. Funding the engineering the flu virus for any fucking reason is 1st level lunacy and outsourcing such funded engineering to Communist China is either 10th level lunacy or absolute corruption equivalent to treason.
Oh, yeah. @WTP, your earlier comment about one of my posts tells me that your sarcasm detector is broken. Grab your buttocks, feel around until you touch your ears, grab both of them, and give a pull. That might pull your head out of your ass.
Turns out that attempting to fight wildfires deep in the forest wildernesses of the US for 16+ hour days non-stop for weeks at a time is detrimental to the reproductive health of 113-pound (eight-stone) women.
Firefighter breastfeeding.
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/013274.html
But liberals and mainstream conservatives, who have all along regarded sex differences as being of no importance in the organization of human society, are suddenly “shocked, shocked” by one of the inevitable practical consequences of that belief.
Previously and somewhat related:
And shockingly, inexplicably, public regard for the police continues to fall.
@Bernie, imagine a horrific event that magically resulted into two remaining groups of humanity that are so far apart that they won’t be able to physically meet each other for a century or two.
Both groups are at ~1900 tech but have access to written knowledge.
Both groups are the same in every way other than the male/female ratio (and what that might imply if you thought men and women were not interchangeable): One group has 5 women and 100 men; the other group has 5 men and 100 women.
I know how I would bet upon which group ends up ruling the world.
I know how I would bet upon which group ends up ruling the world.
Yeah but which group would have the nicer doilies?
If human beings had sat down one day and said, “Let’s make women smaller and weaker than men, and therefore unable to compete with men on a physical basis”, that would certainly be unfair and we’d have every right to complain and demand that the decision be reversed. But that’s not what happened. We’re a sexually dimorphic species (though a lot less sexually dimorphic than many species — see walruses, for instance) and that’s just a fact of life, and no one’s fault.
Some women can compete with men in some areas; there really are some female soldiers who are as good as many male soldiers. But there aren’t many. Pretending otherwise is just going to get people hurt (like the female firefighter driving her body to, and maybe beyond, its limits), or killed. Or, on the flip side, men pretending (or even believing) that they are really women will dominate women’s sports.
As the video about totalitarianism said, we’re dealing with psychosis here.
your earlier comment about one of my posts tells me that your sarcasm detector is broken.
Or possibly your sarcasm generator is one of those cheap knockoff mofdels? Just a thought.
Grab your buttocks, feel around until you touch your ears, grab both of them, and give a pull. That might pull your head out of your ass.
See what I mean?
We who have known all along that women do not belong in the regular armed forces, period, are not surprised by the image of women POWs. But liberals and mainstream conservatives, who have all along regarded sex differences as being of no importance in the organization of human society, are suddenly “shocked, shocked” by one of the inevitable practical consequences of that belief.
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The spectacle of small, female police officers struggling to restrain or even briefly impede one burly wrongdoer has serious consequences.
A female police officer was recently murdered in Chicago. A picture of her went around showing a rather diminutive looking brunette holding a puppy. One of my few remaining conservative friends, one whose wife is an ex-cop of some sort posted it. He and I have a mutual friend, ex-paratrooper, whose father was a rather small, but wiry and strong fireman. I’m trying to imagine how the conversation would have gone down were friend one present when friend two related how his smaller father completed humiliated a female firewoman recruit when she implied she could do any physical task his dad could do. We laughed and laughed. A society so disjointed cannot go on pretending like this.
Stage 1 (upon the introduction of firefighterices): People who worry that the strains of firefighting might harm the delicate reproductive systems of women are silenced and smeared and sued.
Stage 2 (the first firefighterix): GI Jane, one of the guys, will punch your lights out if you don’t believe it. Like action figures, they have no reproductive systems.
Stage 3 (the second firefighterix): Youtube Q&A’s breaking the silence about firefighters and periods. In stage 1, there was a silence because there really were no female firefighters (pretty soon I’m going to write “female-bodied firefighters”, aren’t I – just as one day I’m going to write “would of” instead of “would have”), and in stage 2 the taboo (an indeed a broader taboo on discussing whether female biology might in the slightest way impair performance or require special accommodation) was enforced not by the patriarchy but by female advocates. But that won’t be the reason given – it’ll be toxic masculinity and locker rooms and teenage girls giving up their dreams of fighting fires. But now the delicate reproductive systems of firefitrices can be talked about again. In stage 1, men were condemned for their creepy preoccupation with wombs, and for trying to keep women away from danger. In stage 3, men are condemned for not taking wombs sufficiently into consideration, and for putting into danger the women of the Triangle Shirtwaist Ladder Company.
his smaller father completely humiliated a female firewoman recruit when she implied she could do any physical task his dad could do.
I’m all for removing artificial barriers against women or anyone else, but physical requirements for jobs like firefighter or soldier were never designed to be barriers against women. They were designed to ensure that people who passed would be able to do — and survive — the job. If that woman couldn’t do the physical tasks the firefighting job required, she shouldn’t have been given the job. And I do mean “given”.
Stage 1 speaker-uppers raise your hands!…
If that woman couldn’t do the physical tasks the firefighting job required, she shouldn’t have been given the job. And I do mean “given”.
Oh, I agree. But there’s one other thing that no one talks about in this regard. People change over time. And women (La donna è mobile) go through far more numerous changes over just a month. Now for some women this is no big deal. But even those women will go through many more changes over a year than a man. Even putting aside the most obvious of pregnancy. Which of course they promise they won’t get pregnant…until unexpected emotions kick in. There’s that reality thing again…and I’m staying far away from the observation that, in spite of men’s egos, women are even more likely to lie to themselves about things that happen to them….OK, not far enough but anther thing no one likes to discuss.
Now given that, I still would not disqualify all females from such jobs. But I would require them, especially the younger ones, to sign a waiver or some such acknowledging that they understand reality. But if done effectively, honestly, and with proper exposure of those who fail to live up to that commitment, the problem will rectify itself. Women…or maybe from what we now know, “women” in the past have been able to perform such things, or similar things, to some degree of consistency. But they were very, very few and very, very far in between.
Taking women out of this…we do apply a similar traditional standard to older men. I was corresponding with an Army NCO (one of the conservatives on the douchebag philosopher blog that I mentioned recently) about the 38 year old cutoff (or whatever it is/was) for enlistment in the Army. He, being a very fit soldier and in his 40’s, thought it was ridiculous that it was so low. Many great athletes still perform at that age, etc. Which may be true for many men. A lot of men, actually. And for this guy himself who complained about having to ride herd on some younger guys who returned to his platoon after a couple weeks of leave having turned into lard butts. But when you look at the demographic of men that age, that is when even the fit non-athlete starts to develop issues. Putting most post-35 year old men through basic training would wash out a much, much higher percentage of them than a younger set. It’s an investment that the Army (Navy/Air Force/Marines…OK, maybe not the Air Force…I keeeeed….I really meant the Navy) would be foolish to make. Sure, a lot of 40 year old men, in decent physical shape, could even make it through basic. But how many of them would be Ranger candidates? How many would still be in combat-ready shape in 3-5 more years? And even then, are they the ones you would want walking point? From what I have read, very, very few older NCO’s take on such or similar tasks.
we do apply a similar traditional standard to older men.
Right. Again, I’m in favor of getting rid of artificial requirements, but these requirements aren’t artificial.
Even putting aside the most obvious of pregnancy.
The thing about pregnancy is that a woman’s reproductive period is a lot shorter than a man’s, plus her eggs age as she does, so the older she is, the more likely she is to produce a child with genetic defects. If a woman wants children at all, she’s better off having them when she’s young, at the very time when she’s most likely to qualify for a job such as soldier or firefighter (if she was ever likely to genuinely qualify in the first place). So she really should make a choice where a man wouldn’t have to (or not so much).
Waaaah! That’s so unfair! I should have the same choices as men!
But you don’t. And that’s not due to anyone’s decisions. It’s reality and must be accepted as such.
I heartily applaud the professor for reaching the highest level of intellectual attainment her gender, her race, and her mind can reach. Which ever gender, race, and mind she is.
I congratulate the university which should now eliminate White Racist departments leaving only studies of
Maoist thoughtfeminist, queer, and gender subjects.