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For newcomers, more items from the archives. Come, let us spend time with weirdly neurotic progressive men.
Two-year-old boy likes footballs, tractors. Father “spirals into darkness.”
At which point, it’s perhaps worth mentioning that readers’ comments are not welcome at the Today site, and Yahoo News, where the item above is also published, is “temporarily suspending article commenting.” This, we’re told, is in order to “create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions.” Yes, we will engage and connect by not talking about things.
It does often seem that people writing on certain topics, and with certain political leanings, are to be spared the indignity of discussion or disagreement. Say, people who use their own small children as a political experiment. Or whose list of things deemed “too masculine” includes a shirt with a tractor on it, owning a Ford car, and, obviously, manual labour.
Senior editor of leftist publication encounters a tradesman. Panic ensues.
Please Stop Objecting To The Assault Of Your Person.
White educator denounces “white supremacist violence” of complaining about actual violence. Say, after being punched in the face.
This assault, presumably intended to humiliate the woman and assert dominance over her, is passed over with remarkable ease by Dr Stabler, as if the “white feelings” of the teacher, and the implications of such behaviour – and its accommodation by leftist educators – were unworthy of exploration.
Apparently, hearing that your immediate predecessor was harassed and assaulted, and reduced to tears on a daily basis – by the same teenagers you’re hoping to teach about art – couldn’t possibly be a warning sign, or have any informational content, beyond a belief that those indulging in the disruption, harassment and assault must be steeped in “cultural knowledge,” and obviously oppressed, and therefore deserving of further latitude.
“As the new teacher hired to replace her, I also dealt with feelings of frustration, humiliation, guilt, and anger,” says Dr Stabler. “On the occasions when I reported infractions to parents or administrators, I too played a regrettable role in the consequences my students received at school and at home.” He’s so sorry for having dared to complain about classroom misbehaviour and vandalism, and for being targeted for humiliation. All those “white emotions” we shouldn’t care about.
Other examples of students displaying their “cultural knowledge” – and “kinetic” creativity – include the punching of a white male teacher, who subsequently agonised over whether to press charges, and which prompts Dr Stabler to deploy the euphemism “interpersonal conflict.”
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
I expect to be busy for a couple of days, so you may have to amuse each other.
F*cking hell. Up the dose or lower it?
It’s quite an outpouring. And lest we forget, this neurotic avalanche, which rumbles on for some time, is aired in print as a boast, a credential, a measure of status and woke sophistication.
Not an inadvertent admission of being a twitching, wretched shambles of a man. Someone you’d be reluctant to trust with car keys.
See also Mr Resnikoff and his effete meltdown. Again, shared as a credential.
All this and bubble-guns.
Felt ill if someone mentioned a wrench or another tool.
The flip side…
[ Struggles to follow what is being said. ]
Let’s make him our leader.
Well, quite.
I don’t think it’s hygienic to put your feet on the counter.
A veritable lobscouse of lunacy!
I, for one, have learned a new word today.
And this
patheticbathetic creature is a social worker and therapist. No responsible organization would allow him anywhere near people in need of psychological help.He is clearly the one who is “boxed in” by his defective mind, not the masculine men he hates and fears.
God help his young son.
An internet search for his name yields some “interesting” photos, and the false claim that he is a “recovering schmuck”: There is no “recovering” about him.
She has worked for the Brighton and Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum…
[ Begins to question David’s Britishness. ]
And a bubble-and-squeak of bogosity.
And I don’t often drink tea.
Indeed. As I said,
And that’s before we get to the self-satisfied hiding away of anything with a picture of a football on it, or the tool-induced swooning.
😮
This extreme, pathological paranoia helps to explain “progressive” politics.
It would not be difficult to satirically rewrite that piece, with the plumber replaced by a Jew, but no progressive would recognize its satiric nature.
Long ago I worked a short contract job on a project that had a high percentage of women developers on it. Went to lunch with them the first week. They all bragged about how they couldn’t cook. I sat there bewildered. Hell, I can cook and it’s not even a man’s domain. Generally. Of course if you go into virtually any decent restaurant and look in the kitchen…But I could not imagine a group of men back then bragging about their inability to change a tire. Yet here we are. Good job, Boomers!
Some people should be confined to neighborhoods where every business keeps its employees behind bullet proof glass.
from the comments:
An hilariously apt comparison.
Applies to college professors too. Well, with a slight modification here and there.
Foxy lady gams.
No, don’t thank me. Just doin’ my job.
St Louis restaurant Bliss sets minimum ages: Men must be 35 and older, women 30.
When I was very young, some upscale restaurants did not allow very young children. Now we have numerous tantrum-throwing toddlers who are in their teens and twenties. Behold the unsurprising results of tolerating degeneracy.
The smile on her face and the words out of her mouth.
“a harrowing experience”
Some people should be confined behind bullet proof glass.
No fear of that.
Madame Tussauds would be hard-pressed to deploy sufficient wax.
In the bedlamite therapist category, I’m just going to leave this one here. I believe it’s our current benchmark.
And even if Trump is gone in four years, I don’t expect to ever reclaim that feeling of security.
I don’t want Mr. Resnikoff to ever reclaim that feeling of security.
I’m still hoping to hear the plumber’s side of the story.
What the hell are unicorns?
It’s not as, er, savoury as you might think, but I’ll let your browser history bear the brunt anyway.
In that case I think I choose to remain ignorant.
Every time I see one of your headlines I assume you must be exaggerating. But nope…
It’s one of the (admittedly small) compensations of these people being so unmoored from reality, so chronically pretentious, so competitively unhinged. There’s no need to exaggerate for comic effect. You can just repeat what they say. And I doubt I could devise anything quite as messed-up as whatever they claim to believe on any given day.
For instance, the pretence that being a white teacher is some kind of shortcoming or moral defect, something to apologise for. Or the claim that a teacher’s expectation that a student who punched him should be disciplined in some way is merely “the overvaluation of white feelings.” Or the claim that being a female teacher and having some feral student forcibly cut your hair in a display of domination is just, you know, one of those things. No biggie.
And the conceit that complaining about such behaviour, even acknowledging it, is “white supremacist violence,” and the real problem. Not, you know, the actual violence itself.
I mean, I don’t think that would occur to me.
Tradesmen: in traditional middle class culture, the men are expected to be able to do many “trades” such as painting, minor plumbing, fixes of things. It is a very urban effete person who can’t relate to a plumber. A snob if you will.
I hired a college student to cut grass this summer. He arrived in a pickup with his own equipment. Very nice. Not afraid to get all sweaty.
How fashionable lies corrupt science:
I’m sure there are some anthropologists and sociologists who are not absolute twats, but that seems to be the way to bet.
More ‘Pride’ gaiety.
Looks like the brawlers all have “vibrantly” dark skin. So maybe the problem here isn’t “pride” but “urban” blacks violently expressing their support for genocidal Middle Easterners.
But a second factor could be black hostility towards gays, a hostility which has traditionally been more extreme than white antipathy–violently so. A black gay intellectual mentioned that in my presence decades ago, and I would not be surprised if the situation has not moderated all that much in recent years.
A third possibility is that these brawlers have no interest in “pride” and “palestine” and are merely there to cause a ruckus: Numerous public events get ruined by hood rats brawling and firing off guns.
Remember this? IIRC, there was a video in which the kid is jumping around yelling “I’m gay! I’m gay!” which sure sounds like some grooming was going on.
On recidivism and misplaced optimism.
Covid more broadly normalized the further corruption of statistics. As the old saying goes, lies, damned lies, and statistics. Not that the data was much good to begin with but now, outside of clear objective, quantitative, discrete data points, which themselves are hard to obtain and are now fairly corruptible, we will know less and less. The propaganda people will abuse this reality. This doesn’t end well.
Where on the test pattern do they fall?
They all bragged about how they couldn’t cook. I sat there bewildered
Really? It’s pretty obvious – lower class women cook, upper middle class women have lower class women to cook for them. It’s just bog-standard female jockeying for social position within the herd.
sweeping the local girls of their feet, so that they dropped their old boyfriends in favor of new ones they liked better. I have actually heard female anthropologists use similar language
They can vote when they demonstrate that they’re capable of thinking like adults.
These were software developers in the late 1980’s. Middle class. Working people. With jobs and mortgages and car payments and stuff. Not trophy wives.
Heh. Good luck putting that toothpaste back in the tube. That’s a multi-generational project. The damage having been started a century and a half ago. Half of my ancestors were still in the old country when this crap started.
These women are Boomers and I’m at a loss to understand that they did not know how to cook … except bragging about it might have been lying as virtue signalling. A lot of women came out of the late 60s/70s feeling they had to make sure they could never be smeared as a “stepford wife” or mocked as “Suzy Homemaker”.
I doubt that the vast majority of Boomer women, raised by parents who lived through the Depression and WWII would be allowed to not learn to cook. Indeed, home ec was required in junior or senior high school.
Everything is violence except for actual violence, which is fine.
This might come in handy, as a matter of reference: