Incantations
Time to dip a toe in the world of Clown Quarter poetry. Specifically, a colossal work titled Everyone Is A Little Trans, by the University of Connecticut’s visiting assistant professor, Trace Peterson:
Everyone is a little enby. Everyone is a little gender-fluid.
Everyone is a little twelve-inch pianist. Everyone is a little cis.
Everyone is a little circular rubbing motion.
Everyone thinks they’re Billy Ocean.
No, wait – don’t go. There’s more.
The full, four-minute version can be experienced here.
The author of the above has “been working at the forefront of trans poetry & poetics (and queer poetry & poetics) for the past two decades.” As will doubtless be apparent.
Via Christopher Rufo.
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
Should you crave it, I have more:
No, don’t thank me.
I have very sensitive breasts / and so do your breasts
Er… what?
No refunds. Credit note only.
“I really like you / I like you tube”
Are you sure the last word shouldn’t be lube?
I have very sensitive breasts / and so do your breasts
They’re just taking the piss now.
As is often the case, it does resemble a shit test.
I poked through a fair amount of the, um, work on offer and struggled to find much in the way of aesthetic flair. Practically by default, it’s lumpen and artless. And there’s rather a lot of Me, I and My. Amid the non-sequitur and strained contrivance, the most telling line, I think, is “Everyone is me.” Which, like so much else on offer, seems doubtful.
But as Christopher Rufo says, “Modern universities have substituted identity for scholarship.” And very often, ability in general. It does seem likely that Mr Peterson was hired, repeatedly, and draped with awards, primarily for his professed identity badge, for being transgender, rather than for any rare or distinguishing talent.
I have a Thai face
A rant against TikTok
https://twitter.com/fishyonsaturn/status/1601951600700174337
I don’t know if anyone has yet shared the Ten Glorious Reasons to watch Witcher:Blood Origins?
What strikes me is how identity placement has supplanted product placement as the motor of entertainment production. Of course, product placement generates prizes whereas identity placement merely generates woke points. But they are both equally grotesque.
Or maybe not equally.
“It has the first kiss between two men on the show!” squees breathless camp creature. Because apparently that – not, say, competent storytelling – is what matters and will drag the punters in.
The Critical Drinker was, I think it’s fair to say, unimpressed.
Indeed. Though the responses to that tweet do give me grounds for some hope for humanity.
It’s all rather bewildering and just a tad alienating. I don’t think I’ve ever gone to the cinema or followed a TV series because of the sexual preferences of a character, or of the actor playing the character. It’s just not why I would clear my schedule, mute my phone, and watch.
Though I suppose selling a thing on identity is easier than selling it on obvious talent. Until people actually see it.
“Yes, the show’s being panned by critics and disappointed viewers, and by fans of the source material, and is haemorrhaging its audience like you wouldn’t believe, and yes, the words laughable, abomination and shockingly amateurish have been used… BUT THERE IS A GAY KISS. And brown people. BROWN PEOPLE!”
I paraphrase above, but only just:
I ask you, judge: Is this the face of a lunatic?
Did someone say poetry?
Meanwhile, the Alphabet Clan is soon going to have to start using Cyrillic.
I couldn’t take more than 14 seconds so I don’t think I’d survive the extended version.
Not the face perhaps but certainly the hair style.
Not the face perhaps but certainly the hair style.
Even Sideshow Bob agrees.
Clearly America needs Commonsense Ice Cream Machine Control.
Deranged, and the shape of his skull seems kind of wrong.
Apropos of nothing and open thread, I give you Biden’s band names.
O Canada!
O Canada!
As I have said before, a sensible society excludes leftists from positions of power and influence.
Apropos of nothing and open thread, I give you Biden’s band names.
Relink…
I did verify that the link worked. I posted it from my iPad via Chrome and tested it immediately. I still had this page open on my iPad and just now hit it again and it worked just fine from there. I think the page on the iPad had even reloaded. But sitting down at my PC reading this page on Chrome and hitting that link that same link from my post I get the Twitter broken link page. Ever since I retired from software development, technology has gone to hell. Not saying that there’s a causation there. Just an interesting correlation.
This came to mind.
As I have said before, repeatedly and for decades now, the psychology and psychiatric professions have increasingly lost any sense of reason, proportion, or rationality. Is it odd or just cute that Mr. JP has begun waking up to this fact recently?
Why is the balding man wearing a dress and reading Vogon poetry?
I got curious about what happened with Lindsey Shepherd following that incident. Not insanely curious enough to go down a potentially bottomless rabbit hole, but Wikipedia level curious. So per wiki, which has practically zero information beyond 2019 there:
Curious if anyone knows anything more recent about how those law cases have turned out or much else. Also…If those footnotes don’t link after posting I’ll remove them in an edit.
… cool, the links still work. At least for me…on Chrome…on my laptop…sitting in Florida…while the weather outside is 83F and cloudy. Not that it’s relevant but…I just had to…
Bear in mind that any comment with more than five links gets held as ‘pending’ by the spam filter until I realise and get around to approving it.
I did verify that the link worked. I posted it from my iPad via Chrome and tested it immediately.
Probably a cached page, regardless, the problem, as I found out the hard way, is all the crap in bold after the actual URL:
It appears particularly to be a PITA with links that show referrals, e.g.
As I said, through the hard way, not that I didn’t enjoy the regrooving in the correction booth, I learned the easy fix is just copying the link before the crap.
Understand. Totally cool with that so long as it’s not too much of a bother for you. Thanks.
Most likely. Though when the page reloaded and I hit it again, after some intermittent time (an hour and 20 minutes), I subconsciously(?) dismissed that. Or I’ve grown to despise my former profession to such a degree that I’ve subconsciously dropped all curiosity as to how it works anymore. Similar to stepping down from my HOA board, as I see things breaking and going to pot around the neighborhood it’s increasingly not my monkey, not my circus. Though it is, kinda, until we (hopefully) sell the house. Ah…but then…
As I have said before, repeatedly and for decades now, the psychology and psychiatric professions have increasingly lost any sense of reason, proportion, or rationality. Is it odd or just cute that Mr. JP has begun waking up to this fact recently?
We don’t really know if he only recently noticed. We only know when he started to speak publicly about such things.
Why is the balding man wearing a dress and reading Vogon poetry?
Because he is a trans-vogon, of course.
Respect his pronouns: cruel/callous/bureaucratic.
In June 2018, Shepherd filed a lawsuit against the university, Rambukkana, Pimlott, Joel, and a graduate student for damages of $3.6 million, claiming “harassment, intentional infliction of nervous shock, negligence, and constructive dismissal”.
There should be serious consequences for Stalinist thuggery. One of the problems is that leftists rarely pay a price for their thuggery: If defeated in court or elsewhere, they are not punished (much less fired and bankrupted as they should be) and thus can try again and again.
“I will not comply.”
Jordan Peterson: he has been lecturing about truthful things for years in his classes and elsewhere. He became a public lightening rod when he spoke out against the Canada pronoun law (5 yrs ago?). It has been a shitshow ever since.
Jordan Peterson: he has been lecturing about truthful things for years in his classes and elsewhere. He became a public lightening rod when he spoke out against the Canada pronoun law (5 yrs ago?). It has been a shitshow ever since.
March 2017 was the earliest mention of JP on this blog.
But I may have heard of him as early as 2016.
I’m not sure when he did those personal podcasts about compelled speech which closed with Johnny Cash’s cover of “I Won’t Back Down”. (Anybody got links?)
The earliest references I can find are from the tail end of 2016, here and here.
The earliest references I can find are from the tail end of 2016, here and here.
Thanks. I have difficulties searching your site. Google returns nothing for pre-switchover posts on your new site. Hits include items in the sidebar which should be ignored. Date-range-restricted searches sometimes exclude pages that should be included.
I’m not sure when he did those personal podcasts about compelled speech which closed with Johnny Cash’s cover of “I Won’t Back Down”. (Anybody got links?)
Very frustrating. I ought to be able to find them on JP’s YouTube channel but not so far.
Curious if anyone knows anything more recent about how those law cases have turned out or much else.
Justice moves slowly in the Great White North. Michael Mann filed his libel claim against Tim Ball in 2011. It took until the summer of 2019 for that suit to be dismissed. (If you’ll recall Ball said that Mann belonged in the State Penn not Penn State, or words to that effect.) Ball was wiped out financially by the costs of litigation and although ordered by the court, Mann failed to pay Ball’s costs. Ball died in 2022.
I’m not sure of the status of Lindsey’s case, but you can bet that WLU is doing everything they can to prevent it from getting to court. Lindsey meanwhile, moved back to her home province of BC, had a baby, then got a job in academia where she was promptly recognized by one of the usual suspects who hounded the institution that hired her. They promptly canceled her contract.
As I say, justice moves slowly in the Great White North, but in the end it may not be justice at all.
I believe Peterson may have been more aggressive in the prosecution of his case. WLU recently has brought motions to court for the case to be dismissed. They have also said that Shepherd controlled the release of her tape which lead to the libel against Peterson and therefore she, not the profs or WLU were responsible for the libel. I don’t believe the court has ruled on the motion. There’s an article from the National Post here.
Yes. That was a part of what I quoted from Wiki. Which is such a twisting of the concept justice that it reminds me of stories about justice in the middle ages. But then not much different from how many (most?) psychology and psychiatry professionals behave themselves.
Everything is Racist: Photography.
Yes. That was a part of what I quoted from Wiki. Which is such a twisting of the concept justice that it reminds me of stories about justice in the middle ages.
“Mankind will not be free until the last Marxist is strangled with the entrails of the last wokester.”
–Denis Diderot
Stuff you just can’t make up.
Disrupting the arts: they are free to make their own art…if they are able. There was a whole lot of rebelling against the status quo in art world starting with the Impressionists, but now that art has devolved into a Jackson Pollock painting or a solid red canvas, there is nothing left to rebel against. As the meme says…”pathetic”
I’m more of a bawdy limerick man myself
I seem to be in the minority, as I really quite enjoyed ‘Blood Origins’. I didn’t worry about the odd characters, because, y’know, it’s fantasy. OK, the presence of Lenny Henry was somewhat unwelcome, but the others played their parts with husto.
And it was short! Only four episodes.
The self-satisfied malice of the educators and bureaucrats mentioned in my original post is hard to overstate. As I said at the time,
The bullying and spite – indulged in with audible satisfaction – and the willingness to tell outright lies, including fabricating complaints as a basis for that bullying – is not, I’d suggest, an ideal role model of adult behaviour.
And yet.
I didn’t worry about the odd characters, because, y’know, it’s fantasy
Ah, yes. The “because elves” excuse. I know I certainly enjoyed that chapter of The Lord of the Rings where Sauron’s panzer battalion drove their Tiger tanks into the Elvish flanks, only to be driven off by the Earth Alliance Starfuries.
Because, y’know, it’s fantasy.
The bullying and spite – indulged in with audible satisfaction – and the willingness to tell outright lies
I attended the University of Waterloo, four blocks west of WLU, and there’s a reason we refer to it as the high school down the road. It’s one of the bottom tier universities in Canada, although I think some of the fake native universities in northern Ontario are buoying its reputation a bit.
It does add weight to the idea that wokeness is very often a compensation for, or camouflage for, inadequacy. In the case above, an extraordinary lack of probity, and seemingly routine malevolence.
Ah yes the Julian Assange defence. “Sure we committed war crimes – but you’re the real criminal for revealing them.”
Karl,
As suggested, I watched the first episode of The Devil’s Hour. It held my attention, just about. Though so far, it manages to be both slow-burning and a little overwrought. I think the… oddness would be more effective if used sparingly. We’ll see if things improve in episode two.
I fear that the system, shaken to it’s core by Oberlin college having finally paid damages to Gibsons bakery, will be going all out to wreck every aspect of Ms Shepherd’s life as an example to any others brave or foolish enough to actually state the truth.
@David
Funnily enough, that’s more-or-less what the friend I recommended it to said. He wasn’t impressed at first. But then went very quiet while he manically binge-watched the rest 🙂
Well, that’s another batch prepared. And done before lunch. That’s a first.
From the “Blacks Can’t Be Racist™” files, one Michael Harriot brings us the “2022 Wypipo Awards“.
Give it a read, you won’t find a more balanced and rational article on the planet.
@Daniel Ream: ‘I know I certainly enjoyed that chapter of The Lord of the Rings where Sauron’s panzer battalion drove their Tiger tanks into the Elvish flanks, only to be driven off by the Earth Alliance Starfuries.’
God, I’d watch the HELL out of that!
I fear that the system, shaken to it’s core by Oberlin college having finally paid damages to Gibsons bakery, will be going all out to wreck every aspect of Ms Shepherd’s life as an example to any others brave or foolish enough to actually state the truth.
I expect that the chief lesson that leftists will take from the Gibson’s Bakery case is that they should be more careful about their tactics: When accusing someone of racism, do not make demonstrably false factual allegations but rather keep your accusations vague; that way you cannot be held legally liable for defamation.
God, I’d watch the HELL out of that!
Next up: Amazon Prime Video presents a mash-up of National Lampoon’s Bored of the Rings and Cassandra Claire’s The Very Secret Diaries.
The University of Nebraska educates us rubes.
Educate yourself and do better with their handy Anti-Oppression Resources!
Be sure to check out the “religious equity” section where they discuss equity for all religions!
I’m guessing that an evening at Julia’s involves top-notch nosh and terrible television.
That sound you hear is the very thin ice cracking under my feet.
“blacks can’t be racist”–once again they pervert a definition to mean “hating a minority and being in power” so since they ARE the minority and not in power (don’t look at that man behind the curtain…I mean the black mayor, police chief, city council) then they can’t be racist. So they are free to hate and assault random white people on the bus or elderly asian ladies on the street but it isn’t racism racism.
Ohhh, Bored of the Rings–highly recommended.
Fantasy: I can suspend disbelief on lots of things. Elves exist? Ok. But some things bug me. For example, the cop shows wherever they go in NYC they can find a parking spot right in front of their destination. Right. In the last year of CSI Las Vegas (before the reboot) they had murderers who appeared to be psychic or had bugged the police station. In all the Star Trek shows they are traveling faster than light but have lost seat belt technology. In the later star trek, they regularly get boarded by aliens or shot at but in several shows they had lots of kids on the ship.
Look on the bright side – it could have been the poetry of the Azgoths of Kria or Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings.
Dang – 2023 is off to a rollicking start: first, some Tumblr lesbian porn in a cooking magazine, then a balding guy inna dress reading trans-vogon poetry. That last almost, but not quite, made me long for the days when we would be forcibly cultured with the latest offering from the Sandrine woman.
It moves as slowly, if not moreso, in the Lower 48. If memory serves, Mann sued Mark Steyn in 2012 & there still hasn’t been a trial.
As Steyn has noted, it’s the process that’s the punishment & that’s what the Left leverages.
“… wokeness is very often a compensation for, or camouflage for, inadequacy.”
[tucks quote away for future use – with proper attribution, of course]
The WSJ comes to Jordan Peterson’s defense. Of course they must do so in the weakest, most milquetoast way they can think of. Because clown world.
In a-day-too-soon-for-ephemera…a rattlesnake bites it’s headless body. A metaphor for…well, something relevant. I think.
I suppose a question to ask is: What kind of person would be so anxious to broadcast their supposed piety and sophistication – and to do it habitually and incongruously? Why the need to signal to those around them, including random strangers, just how much better they are – and how much more caring? It doesn’t pass the sniff test.
David asks: What kind of person would be so anxious to broadcast their supposed piety and sophistication
I think the answer is lost people. When people felt like they belonged to a big family, a tribe, a local church, a small town, then they were protected from the profound sense of being nothing that can afflict people now. Clowns in clown world very much want someone to tell them they are ok, are part of something. Because they know they are not, no amount of reassurance is ever enough.
Just ran across this interesting thing on insty. Perhaps it’s the thing for the metaphor thing for the thing above. Well, it’s a thing anyway.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/alena-buyx-chair-of-the-german-ethics
As appealing as that sounds, I don’t think that’s entirely it. For some of these people, yes. But a good number of them, the more broadly known, come from wealthy families in which they likely were doted on. Such people, mostly women…and blonde women at that (?)…see previous link…want to be the ones who decide who is ok and who is not. Though perhaps it’s a bit symbiotic. The latter I think feel deep down inside that they don’t have anything original to offer but feel compelled to make up for their inadequacies by shifting the maternal instinct into overdrive. It keeps the attention that they simply must have upon them.
many or the tyranny-inclined DEI advocates that I know come from middle class—even upper middle class—backgrounds. College educated, with colleges educated parents. Often with post-grad degrees.
many or the tyranny-inclined DEI advocates that I know come from middle class—even upper middle class—backgrounds. College educated, with colleges educated parents. Often with post-grad degrees.
And I bet the vast majority of them were not raised with regular church or temple attendance. They are hostile to religion BUT describe themselves as “spiritual”.
Darleen: you may be right, although one couple are supposedly devout Catholics.
Darleen: you may be right, although one couple are supposedly devout Catholics.
Have you seen the woke commie pope we got now? The Catholic Church is going through one of its more corrupt phases again, forgetting why it’s there (kinda like most big corporations these days). I sometimes think that is why the previous pope had to resign. The good ol CoE also has forgotten its purpose, as have most major religions except Islam. They all got woke, went with the feel good socialism thing, and conveniently forgot the rules and why they were there in the first place. I think Darleen is on to something there, but I’d add a caveat – belonging to and actively participating in a church or temple community that still has rules, standards, acceptable and non-acceptable behaviors – structure and boundaries of some kind. I think that is what is missing in the anything-goes, minds-so-open-everything-falls-out modern world we live in.
Commie pope indeed.
In the victimhood stakes, Harry plays the “my big brother was mean to me” card.
(Note: London Times article behind paywall, so this is to the Althouse site)
Harry plays the “my big brother was mean to me” card.
My comment on another site was, “After he pushed me down, he took all my lunch money and made me wear a nazi uniform.”
There’s a liar’s level of detail in the “he pushed me down” story. You know the kind of story a liar puts together with too much detail believing that the more detail, the more believable the story. Harry says he fell onto a dog bowl which broke when he hit it and it cut him. I can picture the royal residences with china dog bowls in every room. Harry needs to stop whinging and GTFU.
Neither. It’s only recently he’s been more vocal about it. He first became well-known for opposing bill C-16 by saying he’d use someone’s special pronouns if requested but didn’t want to be compelled to by law. He’s been very careful about this. Some time ago he said he’d begun refusing clients who thought they might trans because he’d have to “affirm” them as required by the Ontario Psycho Board or have his license pulled.
Has anybody watched A Man For All Seasons lately? I saw it when it first came out and thought, “Wow, that’d never happen to the average employee.” Little did I know how much more relevant I’d find it over the years. JBP isn’t going to be executed, but still.
I’ve never seen one that ended with that music. If they were on Youtube, they might’ve been pulled for a copyright claim on the music and reposted without it. Maybe audio versions with the music are still on his website?
Wasn’t the problem that a professor was openly directing a protest? Oberlin’s lawyers probably realized that even before the lawsuit was filed.
Wasn’t the problem that a professor was openly directing a protest? Oberlin’s lawyers probably realized that even before the lawsuit was filed.
Yes, that was indeed part of why Gibson’s was able to win the lawsuit.
But the other part was that specific false factual claims were made.
If you want to check my memory, the Legal Insurrection blog covered this is detail.
I’ve never seen one that ended with that music. If they were on Youtube, they might’ve been pulled for a copyright claim on the music and reposted without it.
I have guessed copyright issue, but have not been able to find the podcasts even without that music. (They were done from his home and would have been instantly recognizable. But internet searches and YouTube searches don’t always work 100%.)
Wasn’t the problem that a professor was openly directing a protest?
Yes, and college resources were used, including printing leaflets, sending emails, social media, office space, etc. This also helped the bakery’s case since colleges are fond of using the academic freedom, free speech of individual professors dodge. Wilfred Laurier U is using that argument in the Lyndsey Shepherd case.
For those who missed it, a summary can be found here.
structure and boundaries of some kind
Children act out because they need to know where the boundaries are to feel safe. Given strong, consistent boundaries, they’re happier and better behaved. Without boundaries they get more anxious and insecure, and act out more and more strenuously.
Progressives are just spoiled children who have never had boundaries set for them.
One of the striking features of the Oberlin saga is the bizarrely adolescent behaviour of so many educators and college administrators. And one of the pleasures of the Legal Insurrection coverage is the inclusion of the jury’s bewilderment at the arrestedness and delinquency. These unspanked children in adult bodies.
In case anyone thought that the Oberlin College lawsuit was a satisfying result that righted the world, let me point out that every single disgraced staff member found to have defamed and racially targeted Gibson’s Bakery costing the college $36M has gone on to better, and richer, things.
and
Meredith Raimondo, who handed out the defamatory fliers, is now vice president for student affairs at Oglethorpe University.
If you want to sick up a little in your mouth you can still read Oberlin’s online collection of 10 key fabrications about the incident.
What a shit-show of a college!
And these people, these grown adults, were not merely wrong or misinformed. They chose to defame the innocent, repeatedly and enthusiastically, to all but destroy the business of people who had done nothing wrong, and to generally behave like delinquent adolescents. Say, by harassing astonished onlookers and threatening to vandalise their cars.