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.
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.