And In Thong-Related News
A project is undertaken:
Years of “working through” one’s state of heftiness obviously being preferable to actual, you know, weight loss. Which, one suspects, might have taken less time. But hey, we mustn’t reach for the stars.
Fearlessly, heroically, said garment was duly rocked. The result, needless to say, is “cool-girl style vibes” – a “body-baring sheer look,” complete with what I’m assured are a corset and “strappy, rhinestone heels.”
Other perspectives are available.
When not “pushing boundaries” and invoking the feminism of taking up space “unapologetically,” the author, Ms Margie Plus, is a “confidence activist” and a musician. Those with a taste for pitch correction and overstretched PVC can behold her creativity here.
Via Mr Worstall.
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‘…constantly translating the latest clothing trends for plus-size bodies.’
Translating them into what?!
That’s what we need. A woman’s perspective.
Why, it’s fabulousness all the way down.
TBF she doesn’t lack confidence. Too much, maybe.
Yes, there’s something to be said for an occasional flickering of doubt and entertaining the thought that, hmm, maybe I shouldn’t.
Well, when you surround yourself with people who are willing to pretend, affirming and gushing as required…
Much societal strife is caused by people who have too much confidence.
Just as criminals tend to be people with too high an opinion of themselves.
Think I’ll re-post that one in case anyone missed it:
Trying to follow the logic, or supposed logic, takes some concentration. From what I could make out, it’s basically,
Or, if you prefer an actual quote,
And their politeness, or complicity, is the sole yardstick of what is real, you see. There being no other basis on which to make a determination.
This is followed almost immediately with claims of feeling “not safe” among people who, while polite and in no way threatening, may not feel obliged to play The Pretend Game. Because a reluctance to pretend is some kind of mortal threat to a supposedly unshakable and very real identity that requires continual external validation and must never, ever be in question.
As trains of thought go, it’s a bumpy ride.
I never cease to marvel at the professional fools–sociologists and criminologists and teachers–who think that criminals are criminals because they “lack self esteem”. They seem incapable of understanding anything about sociopathy which does not confolrm to their leftist ideology.
Just as there are those who see this creature, or one of many like it, and expect the rest of us to see victimhood, and by extension an entitlement to indulgence, rather than seeing, say, pathological selfishness.
Self-esteem: this pop-psych fad has done lots of damage. In schools it is leading to getting rid of honors classes and valedictorians. In homes it is giving us spoiled children who are 25 yrs old. The sad truth of life is that not everyone can be rich or famous and the world does not care about you, but the self-esteem BS convinces people that they deserve special recognition. For nothing in particular. This goes for the trans creeps who want constant praise and stroking. As mentioned, gang members are full of their self-importance based on nothing but swaggering. A normal adult rarely gets praise. One gets to feel a sense of accomplishment for the things you have done. If you rub it in with others they will get annoyed. One could say “keep it in your pants”. Requiring praise for nothing at all is doubly annoying.
Self-esteem: this pop-psych fad has done lots of damage. In schools it is leading to getting rid of honors classes
Also because eliminating honors classes “allows” the smarter kids to spend time tutoring the slower kids. I was hearing that argument even back in the mid sixties.
The reality is that it doesn’t help the slower kids much, and it greatly deprives the smarter kids of the chance to fully develop their potential during the few precious years they are in school. Lefties–is there anything they do not ruin?
Translating them into what?!
Jibs and spinnakers.
The term ‘success’ is doing some rather heavy lifting here.
Something with reinforced seams one would hope.
*snort*
Folie à foule?
Well, it does seem a round-the-houses approach. I mean, if being fat is making you unhappy or resentful, then, instead of farting about with therapy and years of working through your issues, just lose the bloody weight.
There’s someone I know who’s been very fat for the decade or so I’ve known her. She grew more so with each passing year, and some years quite a lot more, until a recent health scare made course correction necessary. In the few months since I last saw her, she’s lost 44 kg or 97 lbs or 7 Stone. No small feat. She’s still big, but no longer, I think, in danger of expiring before her children finish secondary school. And it occurs to me that it’s probably best not to leave that particular chore until the klaxon sounds.
Self-esteem. I can’t ever remember this being a term in common currency, or even a concept in search of a label, during my childhood and youth. People would sometimes suggest that an individual either lacked ‘self-confidence’ or displayed a surfeit of it, both of which states can be sub-optimal when taken to excess. It wasn’t until I began what I must laughingly call my career and started working in education that I encountered the notion of self-esteem and other batty theories. In my work I dealt with young people with ‘special needs’, including those with ’emotional and behavioural difficulties’ (what would have been called in a less dishonest time ‘rogues and rapscallions’). As has been noted, such people are not lacking in ‘self-esteem’, but rather empathy, self-reflection and consideration for others.
It certainly qualifies as an Extraordinary Popular Delusion.
Not knowing your age or side of the pond or whatever but I personally was scolded in school approximately 50 years ago for fighting back against a bully. And actually once or twice even earlier but different context…I was told that *I* should feel sorry for him because he “suffered” from low self-esteem. My 12-13 year old self could not understand how that SOB somehow had low self-esteem. Seemed mighty f’n high in every aspect of his personality in every other regard. And then the tv shows the kids that I baby-sat watched. “The most important person in the whole wide world is you…”.
Excess weight: the fat positive people are grabbing the wrong end of the stick. They are all worked up about how people see them, but really few of us care. We have fat friends and thin friends. If anything, our “disapproval” is concern that the weight will kill them. The proper framework is their own busted out knees, diabetes, fatty liver (ie cancer), inability to do ordinary things.
Unrelated to thongs and self-esteem but similarly batty. A report on BBC local news page for Derbyshire.
Paramedics could not tell deaf Derby widow her husband had died
A deaf woman is calling for ambulance crews to learn basic sign language after paramedics were unable to tell her that her husband had died.
[snip]
By the time she got home, paramedics had arrived but could not explain to Mrs X what had happened.
So – train every paramedic in sign language (and probably they still can’t explain). At what expense of time and money?
WTF is wrong with pencil and paper?
You need to think more like a victim, h8r.
I recently head of “engineers that don’t do calculations”, which I presume means work is done in groups at school where the brainy one does all the calculus while the others enjoy the perks and benefits of being called engineers without knowing what will explode/fall down themselves.
Women of all sizes should have sole ownership of their bodies in every form
I think it’s a given no one is trying to outbid them for said ownership
…which I presume means work is done in groups at school where the brainy one does all the calculus…
Ah yes, group work. A favorite of educators everywhere. I could never understand it and got into many arguments with teachers over it. One or two (if you’re lucky) carry the weight for the entire team. Not only doing all the work but carrying all the stress of getting the thing done on time. It was obvious the teachers knew what was going on but they obviously didn’t care. What it taught me was that benefits always slide downhill. Slackers get credit for things they didn’t do and those who carry the load don’t get compensated for their extra work. If anything was learned, it’s knowing when you’ve reached your contribution limit and backing off appropriately. Oh and if you’re smart and capable, avoid group work like the plague.
It provides the teachers with a staff of unpaid tutoring assistants who can’t quit.
Agreed! Even teams of two can be a problem, as I learned when I got stuck with a lab partner whose intellect was less than stellar and, as the icing on the cake, would refuse to explain his reasoning when we disagreed.
Bolt ropes, said the old sailor.
group work: we had group projects in some professional courses (sort of engineering) in the US. My group could not do the computing part. They told me if I did that part they would do the rest and tell the prof I did it. I did, they did, and the prof gave me an A and them a B (which they were ok with). That is how group work should be done.
The term ‘success’ is doing some rather heavy lifting here.
So is the thong.
Self-esteem: this pop-psych fad has done lots of damage.
What I find ironic is the “self-esteem” in the fad is in fact the exact opposite of what that word means. The movement teaches children (and sadly, adults) to seek external validation. That’s not what self-esteem is; self-esteem comes form the self (duh) from having a strong internalized moral code and sense of one’s intrinsic value and ability, usually based on one’s own achievements.
As with so many things, it’s about sex roles. Men derive their self-worth from personal accomplishments and competition with other men against an external standard. Women derive their self-worth from their ability to increase their social position within the group. Most pop psychology is driven by a desire to make the feminine ideal universal, and when an opposite fad arises – like, say, Jordan B. Peterson’s male-centric philosophies – it has to stamped out as a threat.
WTF is wrong with pencil and paper?
I’m currently in a part of Mexico where very few people speak English and I don’t speak a lick of Spanish. Google Translate and $200 phone is near as dammit to a Star Trek universal translator.
It’s worth keeping in mind that the deaf community is easily the most militant of the disabled activist movements, to the point that they’ve lobbied to outlaw corrective surgery for deaf children.
This. Objectivity has been under attack ever since we started giving women, all women, more power.
Album title.
to the point that they’ve lobbied to outlaw corrective surgery for deaf children.
Yes. They’ve gone as far as to say it’s an attempt to eradicate deaf “culture”. (Culture–another overused and misused word.) I think the extreme, militant deaf have even called it genocide.
That.
I don’t doubt that losing weight is quite boring, a bit of a slog. But it’s not like the fat person is being asked to sail solo across the Atlantic, or to master Hungul from scratch for an exam tomorrow morning. If being fat bothers you, the solution isn’t hard to fathom. It is actually do-able, given some crumb of self-possession.
Weight: my 35 yr old son in law decided his desk job was making him chubby and he lost 30 lbs over 3 months (diet and going to gym regularly). He looks great and has more energy. The main judgement people make about the obese is that they lack discipline –a probably true statement.
A preacher gives a sermon about lies and dishonesty.
to the point that they’ve lobbied to outlaw corrective surgery for deaf children.
Remember the two deaf lesbians? [No, I’m not going to say it…]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1916462.stm
IIRC, they split. I assume the child still exists.
For those of you over in Blighty, your TV license fee at work.
The women, from Bethesda, Maryland, are both mental health therapists and deaf therapists.
“The women, from Bethesda, Maryland, are both mental health therapists and deaf therapists.”
Of course they are.
We will never reach Peak Clown World, because there is always more peaks.
To paraphrase a Haitian proverb, behind the mountains of madness there are more mountains of madness.
He fucked around and found out.
His father describes the kid’s YouTube channel as “fun” and “goofy”, but a fast look suggests he is obnoxious and deserves to get punched in the face. Shot in the stomach, however, might be a bit much. 😉
Shot in the stomach, however, might be a bit much.
The shootee, “…moved to Virginia to pursue his dream of being a youtube “influencer”…”
Lofty goal indeed.
Rap musician Cardi B drugged and robbed men when she worked as a stripper:
“I did what I needed to survive”.
Were there laws barring her from any other form of employment? A toxic, evil culture–which liberals make endless excuses for.
Hide the good spoon and breakables, possible Moron-O-Lanche as Ace has linked this post.
Lofty goal indeed.
I used to think so, too, but I’ve changed my mind a bit of late.
With the ready availability of handheld HD video cameras in smartphones and powerful digital editing tools, media creation has become democratized like never before. Streaming video platforms mean that anyone can broadcast worldwide for a trivial cost.
(Yes, there are all kinds of political issues surrounding that, but set those aside for now)
I think what we’re seeing is the fragmentation of video the same way MP3s and digital delivery platforms fragmented music, and podcasts fragmented radio. Like music and podcasts, what you can consume or produce is no longer controlled by a small group of publishers.
It’s certainly true that the majority of such content out there is vulgar and puerile, but there’s nothing stopping people from making, say, high quality production video versions of The Explorers Podcast or Trojan War: The Podcast. The Teaching Company/The Modern Scholar/The Great Courses[1] now has a $7/month streaming service.
[1] These guys change their name more often than a cartel shell company