Jam At The Intersection
At the switched-on woke paradise of Ontario’s Western University:
Western initially stood firm in keeping the picture up, noting it “understood ‘how complex and intersectional this topic is’ and that the ‘imagery may be upsetting to some Muslims.’” However, Associate Vice President of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Opiyo Oloya, announced on Wednesday the picture had been removed.
The pecking order of victimhood is still, it seems, under construction.
Update, two more via the comments:
It’s perfectly straightforward and nothing could ever go wrong.
Setting aside the practical, structural shortcomings of polyamorous entanglements, and the likelihood of insecurity and resentment, there’s also the fact that such arrangements tend to attract a very high concentration of, shall we say, psychologically marginal people. By which I mean, the kinds of people one wouldn’t generally wish to be in an intimate relationship with. Say, the kinds of people who need you to know just how fascinating and complicated their sexual arrangements are, and by extension how fascinating and complicated they themselves must be.
Hey, kids! Come to the library for Pokémon, Lego… and drag queens.
I’m still not sure why proximity to drag queens – i.e., men performing grotesque parodies of women – is supposed to be both imperative and affirming for toddlers. But apparently these things are somehow aspirational and representative, a role model for later adulthood. As if cartoonish transvestism were an unassailable, not-at-all-insulting shorthand for being gay. As if “story time drag queens,” a remarkable number of whom turn out to be registered sex offenders – three in Texas alone – were natural objects of kinship. As if being lurid and grotesque, or mentally ill, would be an obvious ambition. A way to feel good about oneself.
Also, open thread.
As if cartoonish transvestism were an unassailable, not-at-all-insulting shorthand for being gay. As if “story time drag queens,” a remarkable number of whom turn out to be registered sex offenders – three in Texas alone – were natural objects of kinship.
That.
Polyamory is wrong.
That.
As noted following this, it’s bizarre that one should even have to explain that the endless parade of bedlamites, narcissists, and howling Nancies with Pride flags does not in fact leave one feeling represented or affirmed. Just vaguely insulted.
For an earlier generation, homosexuality often conjured images of, say, John Inman, Larry Grayson, and Dick Emery – farcical, effeminate creatures who were there to be laughed at. The modern spectacle of cross-dressing teachers and fat, grotesque drag queens reading to children, in between fits of twerking, doesn’t exactly strike me as a massive improvement.
The conceit that all “queer” people should identify with, and feel validated by, such sad, fatuous creatures might be offensive if it weren’t so ludicrous. It’s like The Black & White Minstrel Show, but for gay kids.
Polyamory is wrong
Mixing Greek and Latin roots is wrong
I give you therefore television
It can’t be you. For me, as something of a cleavage connoisseur, they barely even register as a disappointment.
Well. I never imagined this Establishment as having such a discerning clientele. Not after seeing the feeding frenzy with those inverted pork rectum bar snacks.
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“…in the center of it all is me.”
Sums it up nicely.
Her diagram will be most helpful to the Health Department staff assigned to do contact tracing for some horrific STD that invades her ‘polycule’…the likelihood increasing with each expansion. Remember Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? She’s trying to ‘win’ Six Degrees of HIV.
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It’s like The Black & White Minstrel Show, but for gay kids.
That really hits the nail on the head, doesn’t it?
The first time I encountered this kind of thing was more than 15 years ago at an international arts festival in Singapore.
Artists of all kinds had been invited from across the globe to perform and some of them were even talented.
From Lithuania came a theatre group that put one of the most imaginative and compelling performances of Othello I’ve ever seen – the fact that it was performed in Lithuanian probably enhanced the effect.
From Hong Kong came a Cantonese Opera, the first time I’d seen a show of that kind.
Then there was the UK’s entry.
Let’s just say that to this very day I’m still half convinced that the Singaporean organisers knew absolutely what they were doing when they chose this particular act to represent their former colonial power.
It was a drag queen version of a Punch and Judy show except instead of Punch and Judy there were Barbie and Ken like dolls of glamorous female flight attendants cooing over a pilot.
Despite being performed to a small group of primary school age children (and their bemused parents) from what I could gather the show was full of absolutely filthy innuendo so it was really just as well they (apparently) didn’t get what the show was actually about.
Needless to say, it left me in a less than patriotic mood.
Vietnamese and Singaporeans teach Australians the true meaning of democracy
Democracy is non-whites heroically pushing back against having “outsiders with absolutely no connection to the local community” imposed on them by the elite. “A seat’s diversity being represented” means non-whites voting for people who look like themselves, or if that’s not possible, at least voting for anyone but the white candidate.
It’s like The Black & White Minstrel Show, but for gay kids.
That.
latin and greek: in the days when dictionaries were first being written in English, those in charge often wanted to show off their erudition by adding greek and latin into English, even if not coherently.
Re: pride–gay pride parades at some point started featuring nudity and extreme drag, to force the public to notice that gay people like sex or something. My wife and daughter (a teen at the time) stumbled on to one of these and pretty well freaked out. It did NOT make them more gay friendly. If you want to insist on confronting society with your specialness and society sort of gets used to you, then you must go to more and more extremes. Fun times.
It also seems to me that insisting that anyone gay or female or black must have identical politics to the left is demanding a lot. Do women really agree with trans in their bathrooms? Do blacks really agree with defund police? Is your opinion on inflation actually related to skin color? It of course is simply based on a false narrative of oppression.
That really hits the nail on the head, doesn’t it?
I find it difficult not to notice how odd the assumptions are. I mean, I have seen a few drag shows over the years and even found a couple of them quite funny, in an immensely crude, high-as-a-kite kind of way; but the whole point of such shows is to be perverse and grotesque. They’re not role models. They’re twisted cartoons. Why anyone would imagine that these caricatures would be representative or affirming, an empowering shorthand, as is often claimed, is not entirely obvious.
Re: pride–gay pride parades at some point started featuring nudity and extreme drag
And lots of S&M fetish wear, not to mention gay men in dog costumes, and even a few pantomimed sex acts, if I recall correctly. (I wonder if Zombie has posted anything recently.) It’s not so much that these people are gay so much as that they are extremely depraved.
Update about Mercedes Lackey just posted in the previous thread. What a nice lady: Cancel culture was okay until she was the target.
Uh oh. Someone left the ‘bold’ on
Oh dear. I grovel in abject mortification. Please don’t shoot…
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Bad news for David: in this brave new world, the role models and representatives are as follows:
Extreme drag: gay
Overwrought with green hair: young women
Shoplifting and rioting: black
Nazi oppressors: white male
Huge wearing tights: all women
Please get a new playbook. These are what is normal.
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[ Steps carefully away from asiaseen and aelfheld while watching for David reaching beneath bar. ]
The good news is a polycule is also a great source for tracking STDs.
Tom Lehrer would be cancelled today, but boy we could use him.
It’s perfectly straightforward and nothing could ever go wrong.
I am all in favour of polyamory; it seems an excellent way to keep toxic ugly weirdos out of the dating, and hopefully gene, pool.
I am all in favour of polyamory
Army veteran says, “Ask MC how he feels about polyarmory.”
[ Ducks out door ]
[ Peeks in door ]
Is it safe?
Are the end times here?
Nazi oppressors: white male
As I’ve pointed out before, encouraging all white people to think of themselves as a monolithic ethnic bloc under assault from without is not going to end well.
Polyamory is wrong.
To quote the great H. Beam Piper,
And you know what English is? The result of the efforts of Norman men-at-arms to make dates with Saxon barmaids in the [Eleventh Century], and no more legitimate than any of the other results. If a little Greek suffix gets into a mess like that, it’s have to take care of itself the best way it can.
Or, in this case, a little Greek prefix.
“Transphobia” as explaained by, I guess, a circus clown.
Mixing Greek and Latin roots?
I mean.. isn’t that the whole point?
Democracy is non-whites heroically pushing back against having “outsiders with absolutely no connection to the local community” imposed on them by the elite. “A seat’s diversity being represented” means non-whites voting for people who look like themselves, or if that’s not possible, at least voting for anyone but the white candidate.
That’s not really what it was about. Kristina Keneally is an appalling person, and her defeat was a sliver lining in the election result.