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.
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.