She Knows What You Need To Do
My daughter’s father called her “princess” yesterday and I had to lecture him… again.
It’s a short video, but quite a lot is implied. Not all of it, I think, intentionally.
Update, via the comments, where Burnsie adds,
Watching that, I can certainly understand why her “daughter’s father” is not her daughter’s mother’s husband.
Well, quite. “We do not use that term in this house,” says our Queen of Indignation and Overreach. It’s a “harmful word,” we’re told. Though I’d imagine rather more harm is being done to said daughter by her having the kind of mother she apparently has.
Also, open thread. Have at it, me hearties.
“Maybe I come across as very controlling…..”
Ya think?
Ya think?
Well, quite. The irony being that our unhappy scolder of husbands – sorry, of daughters’ fathers – seems to be the one who’s being condescending – both to her own child and to everyone else. The assumption that young girls will somehow be rendered submissive and unambitious by a term of parental affection is… a bit of a stretch, I think. As if countless other variables didn’t have much more bearing. I have a niece who was often referred to affectionately as a princess, and she’s by no means a wallflower or hung up on her appearance. Quite the opposite.
This is fun, Rose McGowan melts down when heckled by a trans person.
https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/959218557946155008?s=20
This is fun, Rose McGowan melts down when heckled by a trans person.
It’s hard to know who to root for.
Watching that, I can certainly understand why her “daughter’s father” is not her daughter’s mother’s husband.
What a joyless scold.
As is the custom, they’re so busy regurgitating their gender studies lecture notes, and being so terribly emphatic and disapproving, there’s no time to check whether whatever it is they’re claiming actually corresponds with reality. And indeed, no discernible motivation.
not even an emperor will execute a child for such an act
A quaint and bygone notion in [current year].
“The satanists are our last hope!”: “A leftist is a person who can read that headline without wondering if she picked the wrong side.”
I believe that relaxed attitude towards Satanism is far from uncommon: Back in the 70’s and 80’s liberals and neopagans told me that there was nothing wrong with Satanism and that those who said otherwise were merely repeating Christian slanders.
What a joyless scold.
People should really take a harder look at the partners they want to reproduce with.
I have to wonder if this silly clown would have an intersectional short circuit if dad called the girl “prince” instead.
BTW, why do they always have voices like a band saw cutting tin?
That kid definitely has one bad parent….
That kid definitely has one bad parent…
Two, as long as “the daughter’s father” allows himself to put up with “lecturing” by a hectoring harpy.
BTW, why do they always have voices like a band saw cutting tin?
Feminism has won the cultural monarchy and its adherents spread the gospel and enforce dogma with the affectations of their high priests. You would expect, say, Southern Baptist preachers to ape the style of fire-breathing poetry readings that we’ve seen from televangelists to MLK Jr. Feminism, being one big amalgamation of daddy issues, penis-envy, and female hysterics ape the worst stereotypes of both “toxic masculinity” and female nagging.
So you have females (of all genders) poorly copying what they perceive are the behaviors of strong, confident men, while trying to keep a semblance of their womanhood. The result? F*cking vocal fry and head tilts while beating their chests and calling for war.
“Back in the 70’s and 80’s liberals and neopagans told me that there was nothing wrong with Satanism and that those who said otherwise were merely repeating Christian slanders.”
‘Course, back then, Lefties were saying much the same about pederasts.
Anyway, I’ve spent a pleasant couple of hours reading old Peter Simple columns from the Telegraph. The dive towards Hell in a handbasket seems to have accelerated since we lost Michael Wharton. I’m beginning to believe this not to be entirely coincidental.
Sam: True. And other things. Didn’t Bill Ayers dedicate a book to Satan–well, Lucifer?
quite a lot is implied. Not all of it, I think, intentionally.
It’s easy to imagine her as the kind of divorcée who tries to cut her ex-husband off from further access to the children on the grounds that “They have too much fun” and are therefore “moody and unmanageable” when they come back from seeing him.
Also, open thread.
Somewhat unexpectedly, Emilia “Daenerys Targaryen” Clarke has written a comic book.
Rather less unexpectedly, it’s apparently absolutely fucking awful.
Independent comics creator Trisha Cuffari critical-drinkers it here.
It’s hard to know who to root for.
Ms. McGowan was a serial victim of the Hollywood starlet rape machine, and unlike most of them she chose to tank her career and expose it rather than quietly suffer. Unfortunately her severe PTSD makes her an unsympathetic victim. Corey Haim and Corey Feldman had the same problem.
Rather less unexpectedly, it’s apparently absolutely fucking awful.
Period power??? What is it with rad fems and their periods?
What is it with rad fems and their periods?
It’s the only thing they can do better than men. Well, could do better. Honk.
Well, could do better. Honk.
Heh.
I suppose men could mock rad fem nutters by wearing penis hats and creating such comic book superheroes as Captain Smegma and the Obstinate Gleet, but it doesn’t seem worth the effort–the rad fems are their own best satire.
Pfizer: “Ivermectin is a Trump conspiracy horse drug. Only the vaccine can fight against this plague. Therefore our magical vaccine should be emergency authorized, required by governments and business, and our company shielded from any lawsuits.”
Also Pfizer: “Whatever the hell Ivermectin is doing to covid is what our magic pills are going to do. Also, you’ll be forced to take our pills and not sue us.”
Isn’t she sweet?
you’ll be forced to take our pills and not sue us
NOW the Feds are interfering with monoclonal antibodies therapy.
It’s as if our Ruling Class really doesn’t want the crisis ever to pass.
Too true, Darleen. May we all take The Joe Rogan Experience to heart and make our own way through this world.
Obvious joke is obvious, but bureaucratic minds are bewilderingly stupid.
In the interest of open thread…anybody else sick to death of the mourning of the death of every damn celebrity? So some guy who apparently did all his work on HBO has died in middle age “of unknown causes” and it’s simply “unbelievable” to think we’ve lost an “enormous talent”. A bloody actor. Yeah, those things can’t be replaced. Meanwhile we lose good, hard working, people who know how to do actual things that need to be done from repairing roofs to designing life saving equipment to building bridges to defending western civilization, every day. And some of us can see civilization circling the drain when many of them are not there anymore. In spite of Napoleon’s observation that graveyards are full of indispensable men. But yes, let us stop…take time out of our busy lives…because some, often literal, clown whom very, very few of us have ever met has died. Possibly by doing something stupid. But hey…gotta cry for him because of his “enormous talent “.
Off Topic, you say.
Italian Hotel bathrooms.
My wife and I are relatively recent arrivals to the city-break holidays, now that the kids have, nominally at least, reached adulthood.
Several years ago we stayed in Milan for a couple of nights. Hotel 160 euros a night- not luxury but not slumming it either. We got to our room, which was small, and saw that the bathroom was a frosted-glass cube in the corner. The door to this cube had a gap of close to an inch at the bottom and had gaps around it even when closed.
Mr and Mrs James are a middle-aged, bourgeois and possibly uptight couple who try to be discreet in the toilet department.
Mr James, unfortunately, when he has been eating large volumes of Italian food for several days with a bottle of red wine each night tends to let rip in his morning toilet performance even why trying to be discreet. The glass cube and token door magnified the acoustics and olfactory experience. This was a significant debit in Mrs James’ scoring of the holiday experience.
For our next trip we indulged ourselves and booked a room in a renovated Palazzo. We were elated on passing through through the 16th century courtyard and garden with its classical statues. The room was huge and beautifully furnished. Then we saw the bathroom door. A sliding frosted glass door, with a half inch gap at the bottom. A blemish on an otherwise perfect room in a palazzo.
Our next couple of trips were fine- standard bathrooms with wood hinged doors- so I dropped my guard. Our last trip, before the Wuhan Flu- and again a frosted, sliding door which might as well have been a shower curtain.
I have been planning our next trip. I had identified one hotel which seemed to be perfect location and had great reviews on Tripadvisor. It was a bit pricey but as we haven’t been abroad in nearly 2 years I thought we would go for it.
Then I remembered- take nothing for granted regarding toilet doors.
I studied room photos on the hotel website and on Tripadvisor and realised that some rooms appeared to have clear glass sliding doors and the luxury rooms didn’t appear to have any door between the bathroom and bedroom.
That hotel was dismissed and I looked at more- most appeared to have sliding glass doors. I have spend more time scrutinising hotel photos for bathroom doors than on planning what attractions to visit in this beautiful town and excursions to nearby sights!
I am sufficiently self-aware to realise that this behaviour is pushing me into crank territory: that there is a danger that when I next meet a friend for a pint that I am likely to give him a lecture on Italian hotel bathroom doors. Up to a couple of years ago I could happily spend months planning all the things I wanted to see in our next Italian short holiday- now the spectre of sliding glass bathroom doors dominates my thoughts.
Would it be fully in lunatic/ obsessive territory if I emailed hotels, prior to booking, to get them to confirm that their bathroom doors are hinged wooden doors which offer a decent level of sound and gas suppression?
Bears repeating:
Isn’t she sweet?
Well, she’s in her late sixties so I wonder what her expiration date is. She’s certainly past her freshness date.
“I have never wished anyone dead, but I have read some obituaries with pleasure.”
–Clarence Darrow or Mark Twain
Over at the Guardian, Judith Butler (everyone’s favourite gender studies theorist) has some deep thoughts about what it is to be a woman. And what it might mean to be a man in future:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/07/judith-butler-interview-gender
So, it turns out that pansexuality is not inherently biphobic.
Bigots!
Thank you Captain Nemo. I for one will not be surprised when the category of women expands to include pigeons.
I’ve found a clearer video. Sorry I seem to be completely captivated by this zipper-headed roadkill. I think she might have won TikTok.
Is that “METH” she has tattoed on her neck?
“Obvious joke is obvious, but bureaucratic minds are bewilderingly stupid.”
In light of Darleen’s link, I’d mention that it’s often hard to tell stupidity from wilful malice.
“anybody else sick to death of the mourning of the death of every damn celebrity? So some guy who apparently did all his work on HBO has died in middle age “of unknown causes” and it’s simply “unbelievable” to think we’ve lost an “enormous talent””
My mum passed away a few weeks ago, at the age of 84. She wasn’t anybody. But that’s how she liked it. I’ve had the odd experience since then of going through her things, looking at the photographs and belongings of someone I knew intimately, but didn’t yet know: a child and young woman who would become my mother. And it’s hard not to wonder, knowing how the story turned out, what were her hopes and dreams, and if she ever really achieved them.
I think she did. The concept of a “bucket list” was alien to her: what she wanted was to help those around her, to pull her weight in any endeavour she encountered, to raise a family and keep a roof over their heads, and she did all that, brilliantly well. Oh, she travelled a little when she was younger, was always proud of singing with her choir in the Albert Hall a couple of times for the radio, but in truth her dreams were modest and she died content with a life well-lived.
84 years. And I’m supposed to care about some damn actor I’ve never heard of?
“So, it turns out that pansexuality is not inherently biphobic.”
Well, that’s a weight off my mind.
Condolences, Sam.
A Different James. if you get a hotel with a gap beneath the bathroom door, try having whoever is using the bathroom stuff a towel in the gap.
Is that “METH” she has tattoed on her neck?
I think it’s a backwards “THEM”. I have no idea why.
“I had to lecture him again.”
I can literally feel my soul shriveling at the thought of having to endure that lecture. Again.
“Isn’t she sweet?”
Ellen Barkin’s expiry date was decades ago.
the Obstinate Gleet
I wish I had not looked up “gleet.”
Would it be fully in lunatic/ obsessive territory if I emailed hotels, prior to booking, to get them to confirm that their bathroom doors are hinged wooden doors which offer a decent level of sound and gas suppression?
I, for one, was gripped by the drama. An ongoing series, perhaps?
Isn’t she sweet?
See also. Readers may note that both, um, ladies are vain and ageing, and both are well past the ends of their respective careers, details that may be relevant.
Is that “METH” she has tattooed on her neck?
Heh.
Judith Butler
Of whom, more here.
Do note Ms Butler’s willingness to lie.
Emilia “Daenerys Targaryen” Clarke has written a comic book.
So that’s two things she’s not very good at.
Still, as a window into a certain type of psyche, it’s not without some unintended educational value.
I’ll drop this here, which is somewhat appropriate given the subject: https://wonderfulengineering.com/know-german-toilet-design-different-rest-world-wisdom-behind/
Watching that, I can certainly understand why her “daughter’s father” is not her daughter’s mother’s husband.
“We do not use that term in this house,” says our Queen of Indignation and Overreach. It’s a “harmful word,” we’re told. Though I’d imagine rather more harm is being done to said daughter by her having the kind of mother she apparently has.
People tested for the virus may choose to isolate at home pending test results
Darleen, your question:
Are you going to tell me that SA doesn’t automatically demand 14 days of quarantine of any subject with the temerity to cross STATE lines? And at quarantine hotels that the subject has to pay for? Regardless of test results or vax status? So they are going to offer this GPS/Face recognition app as an alternative, the subject should be humbled and grateful to be allowed to quarantine at home after the horrible transgression of leaving their home in the first place?
And if you think this “pilot program”, once rolled out, will remain “only” with transgressors … your naivete in the face of an obvious power grab is breathtaking.
Darleen, I’m a little slow responding to your question -SA doesn’t ‘demand’, quarantine for anyone returning to the state. Returning SA residents are not the subject of the trial.
Currently interstate visitors wishing to come to SA are subject to 14 days hotel quarantine. The trial asks for 50 volunteers from other states who wish to visit SA to agree to the phone checks without having to quarantine in hotels. I’m reporting the facts as I find them, not making a judgment and not acting from a naive or unaware position. Take it as you will.
’ It’s hard to know who to root for.’
So many ‘can’t they both lose?’ moments, so little time…
don’t ever make the mistake of asking a German “how they are doing,”
I notice that the Google translations into German of “How are you doing?” and “How are your doings?” are worryingly identical. Perhaps this is the source of their unnatural lavatorial habits?
A semi-erect penis may lead to a firm conviction
A person identifying as a “woman of colour” accuses a person identifying as a “woman of penis” of exposing Xself in a room identifying itself as being for “changing women”.
Hilarity ensues.
The world has always been full of these fishermen’s wives, they just didn’t have a tic-toc account.