Anthropological Snippets
Three items presented for your betterment:
First up, “Kids and kink can coexist at Pride in a totally fine way,” we’re told.
You see, exhibitionist displays of fetishes – say, transvestism, sadomasochism, nipple clamps and cock rings – constitute a “justice space” and “kids and youth voices are vital to justice movements.” “Kids,” we learn, “are a vulnerable and marginalised group” and must therefore – yes, therefore – be exposed to narcissistic psychodrama and the penises of creepy, damaged men.
It’s all about those “intersecting identities and oppressions.”
This second item reminds us, inadvertently, of two fairly obvious options. You could, of course, regurgitate pseudo-scholarly prattle in a condescending tone, complete with facial theatre. Or you could just, you know, dial back on the carbs and sugar, and thereby live longer without the serious health problems. Or the mental contortions.
Oh, and somehow, inexcusably, I’ve only today discovered this.
I think it’s safe to say that your cross-cultural interview isn’t going terribly well when the interviewee starts throwing his own faeces at you.
Also, open thread.
I think it’s safe to say that your cross-cultural interview isn’t going terribly well when the interviewee starts throwing his own faeces at you.
Wait what?!
“Kids,” we learn, “are a vulnerable and marginalised group” and must therefore – yes, therefore – be exposed to narcissistic psychodrama and the penises of creepy, damaged men.
Wokeness or logic. Pick one.
Wokeness or logic. Pick one.
Keeping track of the mental convolution is quite a challenge. There’s more, should you want it.
I think it’s safe to say that your cross-cultural interview isn’t going terribly well when the interviewee starts throwing his own faeces at you.
WTF did I just watch?
WTF did I just watch?
Hey, I’m just tending to your cultural cravings. Selflessly, of course.
A little background here.
For the kiddies.
It’s a “social justice space.”
Oh, and somehow, inexcusably, I’ve only today discovered this.
The great portal refused to open. ‘Sign in to confirm your age’ How ironic, when we have just been told:
Kids,” we learn, “are a vulnerable and marginalised group” and must therefore – yes, therefore – be exposed to narcissistic psychodrama and the penises of creepy, damaged men.
It’s a “social justice space.”
Why do the adults always look more excited than the kids?
The great portal refused to open. ‘Sign in to confirm your age’
If you don’t want to sign in to YouTube, a brief extract, minus the indignant flinging of faeces, can be found here.
Why do the adults always look more excited than the kids?
[ Slides small gin and tonic along bar to Joan. ]
I have been watching the Netflix series “Keep Sweet – Pray and Obey” about the polygamous FLDS led by Warren jeffs. The outrage towards the group was, of course, the habit of marrying off underage girls, usually to older men of stature in their community. After all, what 17-year-old wouldn’t want to be the wife of the previous Prophet, 85-year-old Rulon Jeffs? Hey, age is just a number.
So that sense of “fringe” is bad for kids, because they’re white and “Christian.” But LGBTPQIA+ fringe is necessary for kids – conversion therapy bad, puberty blockers good.
And fringe of non-Western cultures is properly exploited for ratings in a National Geographic sense. Although if it’s CNN, I suspect that entire encounter was staged. Especially since Aslan’s facial expressions and the editing cuts remind me of “An Idiot Abroad.”
You could, of course, regurgitate pseudo-scholarly prattle…
Have you no shame, sir? It has been academically proven. Educate yourself and do better.
There’s more, should you want it. Wherein she sings the lament, “Dear Queer Little Me”. With a ukulele. Always the damn ukes. Jake Shimabukuro she ain’t.
I am not sure what exactly is happening here, but the message of this compelling argument seems to be if you are a normal woman and don’t support people who don’t reproduce you are going to die off. Logic, I guess.
Meanwhile, for food safety, always make sure you heat your food to just below the melting point of steel.
I am not sure what exactly is happening here,
I may be reaching here, but I’m guessing that the masked, screaming gentlemen aren’t entirely well-adjusted.
Once again, landfill.
One of cultural elite is having coffee issues.
One of cultural elite is having coffee issues.
“Senior art critic, New York magazine.”
I’m not sure that in order to ensure the survival of proper civilisation, certain types ought to be allowed, without being tken proper terminal care of”.
The exchange in the shit-eating video which involved the pornigrification of human remains and the drinking-out of skulls (probably unsterilised) particularly affected me. I am so offended that I might call for that dude’s tribe’s cancellation.
The fellows that went allong with recording kit to venerate those same dudes deserve to be “taken care of” alongside their film subjects.
We can’t have these sorts of people any more.
Sorry.
“Dear Queer Little Me”
“I’m performing this song that I wrote at a gig I’m doing tomorrow”
Time-warping too!
Madagascar hissing cockroach (Gromphadorhina portentosa)
Lead singer in any band you care to name
One of cultural elite is having coffee issues.
“Senior art critic, New York magazine.”
RTFM or is that too difficult for someone of 71?
“Senior art critic, New York magazine.”
By the way, that publication of our betters, New York magazine, has been mentioned here on more than one occasion.
What that says about its upscale progressive readership, I leave to the imagination.
Shot: Professor. Litigator. Scientist. Bicyclist.
Chaser:
RTFM or is that too difficult for someone of 71?
He would probably be totally bumfuzzled by a Keurig machine or a bottle of cold brew.
That guy’s kid can borrow the mask on Halloween for the basis of a really good alien costume!
Lead singer in any band you care to name
Hissing Cockroach. Band name. Sorry, I had to.
Nasty Woman PhD has Deep Thoughts™ about trans identifying males being banned from swimming competition.
One of cultural elite is having coffee issues.
How the hell does one get to 71 y/o and has never made their own coffee?
Heh.
…pseudo-scholarly prattle in a condescending tone, complete with facial theatre.
Part 38,765: all first graders should be asked their pronouns.
How the hell does one get to 71 y/o and has never made their own coffee?
His wife looked after the kitchen and he’s helpless when she’s sick/absent?
Greenwich Village lifestyle of minuscule apartment and 21 meals/week eaten out or delivered?
Can’t get good domestic servants any more?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Saltz
Suburbs with homes by Frank Lloyd Wright.
I’m imagining the lost motherless Cameron from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Darleen, exactly.
He’s been drinking coffee for what, 5 decades?
Fifty years. Let that sink in.
And his current job is explaining culture to us morons. Like the morons who built and maintain his internet / sewer / electric grid / car / ad infinitum.
WTH is it with “New York”, anyway? I’ve been there, a lot (too much). It’s nothing special.
And in unhinged minor celebrity news.
How the hell does one get to 71 y/o and has never made their own coffee?
As one of my NYC born but south Florida raised Jewish friends explained to me…How many NYC Jews does it take to change a light bulb? Two. One to mix the martinis and one to call the super.
BTW, this is the error I have been getting a lot lately. And this time, hitting page-reload did not help. I had to go to another browser tab. Odd.
How the hell does one get to 71 y/o and has never made their own coffee?
Damnit Jim, he’s an art critic, not a barista.
Pretty sure he considers it beneath him, though that doesn’t explain why he thought loading up his fridge with cups of coffee or putting his asininity on the innerwebz was a good idea.
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Have notified Typepad.
And in unhinged minor celebrity news.
Unsurprisingly, also involved in a child grooming case.
doesn’t explain why he thought loading up his fridge with cups of coffee
That’s another thing. Old coffee tastes nasty. Even a jar of good instant coffee is better.
Does he need instructions for unscrewing a lid?
I’ve known some really pampered people through the years, and of course people who are flustered when confronted by new/different tech …
but COFFEE??
And in unhinged minor celebrity news.
The Grant Gustin meme was apropos. At its absolute wokest, the CW’s Flash was more watchable than the dumpster fire that is the Flash movie. I’ve seen unverified allegations that DC was trying to bury it long before these scandals, it’s that bad. Which makes me think the reason they’re not running PR interference for Miller is that this gives them an excuse to pull the film.
And in unhinged minor celebrity news.
Hmmm… shades of Jessica “you will shave my balls, b***h” Yaniv?
How the hell does one get to 71 y/o and has never made their own coffee?
I’m reminded of a neighbor of my mother who, when she had to travel, would create meals for her husband. She’d mark the date on them and put them in the freezer, so all he had to do was microwave and eat.
I’ve encountered similar tales of learned helplessness. My son, a teenage a few years ago, mentioned that, among his group of friends, he was the only one who could read a map. Everyone else relied on their GPS. My other son was given free use of the workshop tools, including the table saw, on the condition that I was there in the beginning and made sure he understood the right way to use them.
This past Father’s Day reminded me of how important male figures can play in the lives of their kids. Not only in our knowledge, but how one should approach the world. Unfortunately, not all dads do this, or are capable of it, but it’s a different skill set than what mothers provide.
Which is why the defensiveness of this single mother is particularly irritating. It’s not about her that we’re concerned about. It’s what the lack of a male father figure will do to her kids.
[ Slides small gin and tonic along bar to Joan. ]
After I read such stuff I usually need a large gin and tonic.
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I’ve been getting that error a lot lately, too. (And mentioned it once or twice in the comments, David, if you want to give the Typepad folks a timeframe.)
How the hell does one get to 71 y/o and has never made their own coffee?
Jaw-droppingly dumb. In over 50 years of coffee-drinking, he must have seen people operate coffee makers–which are very simple machines. But he’s an intellectual and members of the Thinking Classes tend to be blind to the world around them. I have heard some interesting anecdotes over the years about clueless PhD’s and how they compare to the “dummies” that they look down on.
That’s another thing. Old coffee tastes nasty.
It does indeed. Although I found that a hermetic seal helped a great deal: Fill steel thermos with hermetically sealing cap before going to work. Still drinkable after lunch.
It’s not about her that we’re concerned about.
Holy moly, that whole article is a rant in one note: Me, Me, Me, Me
She applauds getting rid of marriage – one suspects – because she was so lousy at her’s.
WTH is it with “New York”, anyway? I’ve been there, a lot (too much). It’s nothing special.
The people I’ve met do not make me want to live there, but I can see some of the attractions: Lots of fine museums, loads of art galleries, a plethora of book stores, many specializing in one area or another, and all the other cultural advantages. But the crowding, crime, and cost of living are serious disadvantages. I wonder how far away from Manhattan you can get in 45 minutes on one of the interurban trains–someplace quieter, greener, cleaner?
A little background here.
From the link:
In the program, Aslan encounters a group of Aghori nomads outside the Hindu holy city of Varanasi, who smear his face in cremated human ashes and persuade him to drink alcohol from a skull.
I have known people who think that drinking out of a human skull would be cool. 🙁
An Aghori ascetic, who at one point also threatens to decapitate Aslan for ‘talking so much’
That seems to be a common failing of today’s “journalists”.* I can see why an interviewee might get angry with him, although I’m not sure if decapitation is appropriate.
* Journalism is mostly about sensationalism and “buzz”. Few journalists show themselves to be genuinely seeking knowledge.
One of cultural elite is having coffee issues.
Can anyone explain what “sheltering in place” involves in NYC? My understanding is that it would be the same thing as self-isolation, which means that you don’t go gadding about buying cups of coffee (de-lousing notwithstanding).
I can see why an interviewee might get angry with him, although I’m not sure if decapitation is appropriate.
Despite being a fairly even-tempered chap, I have over the years had one or two differences of opinion. But I don’t recall them entailing threats of decapitation or shitting into our hands and throwing the output at each other.
Maybe it’s a British thing.
[ Peers over spectacles. ]
The truth stays true, whoever says it:
https://mobile.twitter.com/jonhigh5/status/1537791385277026305
Can anyone explain what “sheltering in place” involves in NYC?
Maybe this? ? It might be just a high-falutin, intellectual way to say “working from home”, but since he’s an art critic who presumably works from home anyway maybe it merely means “no sit-down restaurants and no soirees at gallery openings”.
…(de-lousing notwithstanding).
[ Cue the decontamination scene from The Andromeda Strain. ]
The truth stays true, whoever says it:
Excerpt: “Would you want a stripper or a porn star to influence your child?”
Well, Many many years ago I knew a couple, early adopters of cable TV, who allowed/encouraged their young children to watch the Playboy Channel. I’m not sure exactly how explicit that channel was back in the 80’s, but it didn’t seem like suitable entertainment for early- and pre-teens.
Lots of fine museums
If I had the Metropolitan Museum, Carnegie Hall, and access to good Jewish Rye bread available in my backyard I know I would find it hard to leave. But the freak show NYC has turned into in the last 10 years or so is hard to justify.
“I would get pregnant just to abort it.”
But the freak show NYC has turned into in the last 10 years or so is hard to justify.
Which is why I ponder how far away one would have to live to escape all that, and how long the train ride to Manhattan would then be.
And of course it’s not enough to determine how far away one needs to live today: One needs to estimate how much farther away one will need to live in the future.
good Jewish Rye bread
One of the things I miss are the ubiquitous neighborhood bakeries. “American” and German bakeries in my neighborhood. Italian another mile away. And so on. Wonderful, delicious, fresh bread and pastries. No preservatives. No soy flour. Just traditional recipes made perfectly by hundreds of bakers who each had their own favorite styles.
On a happier note, Japanese feminists run into big opposition from Japanese women.
Give a man your sh*t to eat and you feed him for a day. Teach him to eat his own sh*t and you feed him for a lifetime.
Great googly moogly, via Ace, the Navy?. I wouldn’t have expected this even from the USAF.
Vibrant Italy. Also this.
Vibrant Philadelphia: Philippine tourist targeted and shot to death in random drive-by shooting.
Bartender, I’ll have a wee dram, please. On second thought, I’ll have fifty or sixty drams. Sigh. (To be fair, I don’t know that is not a hoax, but it looks real and it fits the current horrible state of urban public education.)
Bartender, I’ll have a wee dram,
You misspelled “darm”, unless you meant “dmar”.
‘Grooming” is just another alt-reich conspiracy. theory.
Regarding the coffee guy, this article is by him and explains a lot:
https://www.vulture.com/2020/05/jerry-saltz-my-appetites.html
Apparently learning things is not something he is able to do–this by his own admission. An odd duck.
pst314 @ June 20, 2022 at 19:07:
I wonder how far away from Manhattan you can get in 45 minutes on one of the interurban trains–someplace quieter, greener, cleaner?
You could ask George M. Cohan:
“Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway”
Meanwhile, this guy owned the white supremacists.
The truth stays true, whoever says it
I mentioned this in relation to the book What They Did to Princess Paragon: I remain somewhat skeptical that dressing up in drag as a child, including makeup, is a universal gay man’s experience.
“Pseudo-scholarly prattle…”
They must be issued a pseudo-scholarly makeup kit, too, as they all greatly resemble each other.
as they all greatly resemble each other.
The vocal modulation and facial scrunching are oddly common among the type.
But dear darling Marissa plans to educate you about her suffering, and injustice, and about the wickedness of blame, despite being someone who won’t try to govern her own appetites, and despite making endless TikTok videos about the fattening foods that she devours in rather generous portions.
as they all greatly resemble each other.
See also Sonalee Rashatwar, who blames her woes on “racism, misogyny, classism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism,” rather than on her own incontinent appetites, and who claims that “diet culture and fatphobia are forms of sexual violence.” When not comparing routine health advice to eugenics and “Nazi science,” Ms Rashatwar shares photos of herself wolfing down doughnuts in industrial quantities.
And so, instead of not gorging like a beast, she blames “white supremacy.” And some people, rather stupid people, take her seriously as a “community organiser” and “Instagram therapist.”
See also Sonalee Rashatwar, who blames her woes on “racism, misogyny, classism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism,” rather than on her own incontinent appetites,
Squirrel!
Squirrel!
Well, like so much woke posturing, it functions as displacement – endless, rather desperate distractions from the obvious. And so, rather than losing weight and thereby easing her health and mobility issues, Ms Rashatwar tells us we must instead topple capitalism and Western civilisation. And then, somehow, mysteriously, everything will be fine.
It’s farcical.
No amount of Instagram “activism” and intersectional woo will alter the consequences of obesity or change the fact that people will generally think of conspicuous fatness as suboptimal, low-status, something best avoided. And all that intersectional claptrap, all that pretending, won’t make those aches, chest pains and shortness of breath go away.
As with Ms Stacie Huckeba, mentioned here, it’s like shouting at the rain and expecting results.
Since it is an open thread, here is a link that provided me a rabbit hole the other night, the reason why I stayed up reading. One man’s search – with help and a helluva lot of physical effort – to ascertain the fate of the Death valley Germans: https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/
Something for your day besides mentally ill TikTokers and female blackface.
You misspelled “darm”, unless you meant “dmar”.
Oh dem, another typo.
“Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway”
Heh. And I see that the audience gives it a much higher rating than do the critics at Rotten Tomatoes.
But if 45 minutes was enough back in the 1940’s, what is needed today? It isn’t enough anymore in the Chicago and Milwaukee metro areas.
Regarding the coffee guy, this article is by him and explains a lot:
That’s pretty badly messed up.
Looking back, most of the art-world people I’ve known have been somewhere between odd and badly messed up. I’ve known a few who seemed to be entirely well adjusted with happy family lives, but they seem in retrospect to be exceptions.
But if 45 minutes was enough back in the 1940’s, what is needed today?
The song was written somewhere in the 1920s, and the 45 minutes got you to New Rochelle which was the sticks in early 20th century, now it is wall to wall people in the ‘burbs.
What is needed today is at a minimum a helicopter, or preferably a business jet that will get you 420 miles away, which still isn’t far enough. An F22, OTOH…
That’s pretty badly messed up.
At least his stepmother got the diagnosis correct.
What is “academically proven”?
What is “academically proven”?
“Our biased “research” lead conclusively to our preconceived outcome”
now it is wall to wall people in the ‘burbs
That’s far from ideal, unless those burbs include occasional large belts of parkland. But the thing that most motivates me to stay far away from Chicago, Manhattan, etc. is the dirt and crime. And every year the crime rate in the surrounding suburbs goes up, not just because of the spread of poor neighborhoods but also because of the government policy by which even the nicest neighborhoods are expected to get their “fair share” of Section 8 housing (Council housing to you Brits), and “equitable” law enforcement emboldens criminals to make forays ever farther afield from their homes.
Are you sure this will help sell race tickets? Race tickets?
McDonalds, The Happy Place.
McDonalds, The Happy Place.
Should we give that woman a warning, or should we remove her from society now?
“Why womxn with an X?”
Why? I’ll go with “because we are insufferable bints, so we have to MSU to pretend we have no real talents or abilities and suffer from delusions of adequacy”.
Be sure to check the references which show this is academically proven.
Man of Diversity walks up to tiny young woman pumping gas, asks for a date, then dumps bucket of raw chitlins on her when she says no: “That’s for all them n*****s who couldn’t get a girl!”
Should he get a warning from a judge? I say no: Remove him from society.
More diversity that should be expunged.
Just a little innocent merriment being enjoyed by every Person of Diversity in view of the camera.
Just a little innocent merriment…
Only a racist would suggest there was a trend.
As noted recently, if you exempt a particular demographic, pretty much any demographic, from normal expectations of behaviour and reciprocation, and do it habitually, systematically, in the media, and in schools and universities, for decades, such that the excuses and exemptions are a high-status position, a mark of sophistication, and such that almost any hint of criticism prompts a twitch of anxiety, an intake of breath, then the results will not be pretty.
And yet the excuses grow ever more elaborate and perverse.
Man of Diversity
Pity the girl didn’t think to spray him with petrol.
Various diversities
McDonalds seems not to be a safe space.
Pity the girl didn’t think to spray him with petrol.
At which moment he would, for the first time, shine like a light unto the world.
McDonalds seems not to be a safe space.
I long ago learned to proactively avoid certain McDonalds: One incident of rudeness is a sufficient sign of a toxic workplace/neighborhood culture, and if they are rude today they may well be violent tomorrow…and may spit in your food too.
pst314: section 8 and crime: my suburb of >100,000 was almost crime free although we had plenty of minorities (Iran, India, China, arab, black) but all middle-class. 8 yrs ago started getting section 8 and now we have armed robberies, carjackings, stabbings, etc. Just coincidence I’m sure.
In the interviewee’s defense, it is CNN.
Why all the random assaults and even stabbings? A certain demographic has been told so often that the only reason they don’t have riches is because people are keeping it from them. No one has explained that even white people who don’t study, don’t show up for work, and get in fights at work end up on the street. No one told them that white men don’t have time to “hang with their homies” on the corner and at night clubs–we are all too busy working and cutting the grass and reading to our kids. No one told them about the legal immigrants who came here with nothing and worked their butts off. They seem not to understand how so many hispanics now own their own landscaping or roofing company. So they are boiling with resentment. Now that they know they will not go to jail, boom.
may spit in your food too
That reminded me of the newish trend of point-of-payment terminals at restaurant takeouts asking the customer for a tip before the food is even delivered.
Do they spit in your food if the percentage entered is not sufficient, or perhaps you wait an extra ten minutes?
point-of-payment terminals at restaurant takeouts asking the customer for a tip before the food is even delivered.
We try to avoid such places and if we can’t, we are old enough to play tech-challenged and ask for an old-fashioned receipt AFTER the meal is done.
Man of Diversity walks up to tiny young woman pumping gas, asks for a date, then dumps bucket of raw chitlins on her when she says no: “That’s for all them n*****s who couldn’t get a girl!”
Fake. She just stands there, not intimidated at all, takes not even the slightest reflexive action when approached by a large black man, muscular, no shirt, obviously intimidating. She’s not desperately looking around for help. She then stands still while he pours the … chitlins…all over her. She then reacts by chasing after him, calling him a n*g*e*, to which neither he not others nearby react to except to…run away. Yes. I’m buying that. I’ll take one of those, that Brooklyn Bridge thingy, and the Florida swampland.
Only a racist would suggest there was a trend.
Heh. But notice the white people and those with conservative indicators (American flags, etc) on their handles cheering this on on because, given the odds, the mayor of Louisville created this environment and got what he deserved good and hard. Of course the media will now claim that was a white Trump supporter. Hence the grainy video. As one commenter said, videos from Mars are much clearer.
And damn that json error. It’s really getting annoying now.
They seem not to understand how so many hispanics now own their own landscaping or roofing company. So they are boiling with resentment.
Have you read Chinese Girl in the Ghetto? Family fresh from China. Cannot afford to live anywhere but in a very poor ghetto neighborhood. Endless harassment and abuse from black racists.
Also: A reminder from November 2021.