I Blame Those Evil Towel Conglomerates
From The Independent, a new moral crisis:
A plus-size content creator and traveller who said seatbelts on planes cause “emotional damage” is now sharing tips on how to avoid the trauma.
It occurs to me that the thing causing the annoyance – sorry, emotional damage – is not in fact the seatbelt, or asking for an extender. If, say, a person of average proportions found that all plane seatbelts had suddenly been reduced in size by 38%, this might well be irritating, and somewhat surreal, but it would not, I think, be a likely cause of similar “emotional damage,” let alone psychological trauma.
Likewise, if you’re rendered incensed by the fact that a plus-sized bath towel is still insufficiently commodious, then the cause of any sorrow and agitation probably isn’t the towel, but rather what you’re trying to fit in it. However, it seems that certain obvious realities must not be acknowledged – and so we get performative indignation about how oppressive towels are.
Update, via the comments:
Regarding airborne stowing dramas, readers may recall the delightful and ladylike Lindy West, a “fat activist” whose “work focuses on pop culture, social justice and body image.” In a tearful tale shared in Jezebel, Ms West insisted that she should always be accommodated, regardless of practicality and inconvenience, as if her own choice to be, and remain, notably overweight could have no bearing on the issue. While struggling to squeeze into her plane seat, Ms West decided to pick a loud verbal fight with an adjacent male passenger, and then amused herself by deliberately knocking him with her luggage as he tried to sleep. She then complained, seemingly without irony, that “nobody wants to sit next to a fat person on a plane.”
When not writing about herself for Jezebel and the Guardian, or testing the endurance of plane seats and fellow passengers, and insisting that her difficulties fitting into seats and other spaces are nothing whatsoever to do with her choices, Ms West makes videos of herself eating biscuits and junk food.
I note the statement (with fetching picture in, er, black and white) that Ukranian lives don’t matter, until black lives matter.
I hate to be the one to say this, but what about black people in the Ukraine? Or did the ‘meme-maker’ imagine that all people in the Ukraine were white? Methinks Shalila should go there and check before assuming.
…but what about black people in the Ukraine?
There may be a few floating around, unless you are counting the Armenians or something, though they would probably take exception to the classification.
Regardless, along with BLM and “transgenders” the other pressing concerns are that only 35% of Ukranians have had the coofvax and the worst part obviously is the carbon footprint.
Obviously, or not. We’ll have to see if there is a skirmish between the “trans” and greenies over who is most affected.
I am happy to admit that learning another language (say Python) is way too much work
That’s a shame. Python’s a fun language (that’s been brutally managed by utter morons) that’s easy to pick up and do useful things with.
Are we going to not lend assistance ever to anyone around the world until the US is perfect?
How about we not lend assistance ever to anyone around the world until the US is solvent.
Ukranian lives don’t matter, until black lives matter
Bearing in mind the history of BLM activism, that should say “until black thug lives matter”.
the worst part obviously is the carbon footprint.
John Kerry remains curiously unconcerned about his own private jet.
So amid all this Ukrainian stuff I got curious what was going down over at Patterico…checking comments and such on a post begun yesterday regarding the invasion, Trump is mentioned 48 times, Biden 17. These idiots and their fellow travelers in the establishment scare me more than Putin does. Hell, at least Putin is understandable in a machiavellian sense. These establishment and establishment suck-ups are rabidly insane. Some of them that I recognize from years ago do appear to be turning on each other though. So there’s that.
I try to tell myself that that’s just one little corner of stupidity that I just happen to have stumbled across. But then looking elsewhere and at Twitter stuff going back and forth… in the previous decades I imagined all kinds of crazy that might happen, even stuff that I thought was very, very unlikely, but the mass psychosis, the absurd reasoning, is madness beyond even that. Is it any wonder we have psychiatrists advocating cutting young people’s dicks off? Do you suppose they were sent here by alien species to stop us from spreading this insanity beyond the planet? Or is it just a coincidence that it’s happening in parallel with the space biz finally getting some traction? Or am I trying too hard to be facetious? I don’t really know. One thing’s for sure, this new hobby of day drinking doesn’t seem to be helping matters.
Re: the plus-size content creator traumatized by towels and seatbelts, along with fellow traveler Lindy West, I can’t help but notice in both ladies the excess of pallor along with their excess of poundage. I wonder how long they can whine in their fatphobia oppression lane before they get called out by the more melanin-gifted for cultural appropriation?
WTP, I think that the mass psychosis basically comes down to this – confusion between the virtual world and the real one.
The virtual world works using pictures and words, and for example you can build an entire mansion by dragging word A on top of picture B. So people in the grip of that confusion truly believe that Trump triggered the current crisis by saying certain magic words, while Biden is heroically fighting Putin by saying certain other magic words.
In the virtual world, “skins” for your character are easily donned and doffed. So by that logic, in the real world you can be a boy one day, a girl the next, and a cat the day after.
And so forth. It’s been building up since TV became prevalent, began accelerating once the Internet did so, and was made infinitely worse by the enforced virtual reality during the Wuhan pandemic.
I’d say it’s been building up since fiction became a greater part of people’s experiences…or “experiences” than non-fiction and/or actual experience. A process that really started getting traction with the accelerated spread of literacy about 150 years ago.
Maybe, WTP, although at least fiction demands a certain level of mental engagement that the idiot box doesn’t.
Could also be, though, that whatever idiocies people got from fiction were balanced out by the simple stark fact that if you didn’t work you didn’t eat.
So amid all this Ukrainian stuff I got curious what was going down over at Patterico…
I’ve completely lost track of Patterico–pretty much stopped following him sometime in the early/mid 2000’s, so all I hear is that he is very much anti-Trump/pro-anyone-opposing-Trump.
fiction demands a certain level of mental engagement that the idiot box doesn’t.
Yet the idiot box is a source of much of that fiction. Again I have issues with blaming the media for the messages it carries.
Could also be, though, that whatever idiocies people got from fiction were balanced out by the simple stark fact that if you didn’t work you didn’t eat.
This. Fiction, be it via tv, movies, or books lacks a feedback loop. Somewhat related, thanks to recent promotion by Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro (others?) on Facebook of a certain 11 recommended books for boys, I’m on a personal mission to get Lord of the Flies dropped from that list. The true story was much more inspiring than the BS fiction that rapist and sadist Golding came up with. So far, crickets.
all I hear is that he is very much anti-Trump/pro-anyone-opposing-Trump.
Oh, he’s lost his bloody mind. Can only tolerate sycophants in the comments. Now there’s some non-fiction lacking a feedback loop. What’s somewhat interesting about this Ukraine situation is it is challenging alliances on all sides. Left, right, pro-Trump, NeverTrump. Call it my own bias if you will, while I do see some degree of friction in the pro-Trump side it is nothing like the confusion by the NeverTrumpers and the left as to what they think that they are supposed to think.
Fiction, be it via tv, movies, or books lacks a feedback loop.
Perfectly and pithily stated. Will definitely find use for that phrase in the future.
Oh, he’s lost his bloody mind. Can only tolerate sycophants in the comments.
Sort of like how Popehat (who I also have not looked at in many years) has been banning those who disagrees with him? Sigh.
What’s somewhat interesting about this Ukraine situation is it is challenging alliances on all sides. Left, right, pro-Trump, NeverTrump.
Some of what I’ve seen involves “Russia is corrupt and authoritarian, therefore Ukraine must be an innocent party” vs. “Ukraine has lots of corrupt politicians/oligarchs and therefore Russia must be the good guys”. And so on. Sigh. In many ways what worries me most of all is how little I can trust mainstream news sources; they are nearly all compromised or grossly biased.