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:
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