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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:
Imagine the selfishness. The willingness to gloat.
Were we talking about women who are full of themselves? Because here’s a woman who’s full of herself:
Who the hell thinks like this? Is it 1944 or something? The whole piece reeks of Cluster B, what with her gadding about HEROICALLY, mind you, defying the patriarchy, and exceeding expectations. Because society spends as much time as possible obsessing about whether older single women can do what they want.
This one? Definitely protesting too much.
Incidentally, speaking of visiting tradesmen, a few days ago, I had a joiner in doing some work. After 20 minutes or so of drilling and screwing and whatnot, he suddenly burst into song. He wasn’t accompanied by music of any kind, I should add, and he didn’t sing well. Just loudly. But it seemed inappropriate to bring this up. And in his defence, in terms of the task at hand, he did very good job at a very reasonable price.
#StillShaking
And here are some women who are the polar opposite of that Cluster B harpy in my last.
Not hurt enough.
Previously.
A while ago, I invited readers to devise morally fitting consequences for ferals who find amusement in repeatedly terrifying random motorists and pedestrians.
Why does this remind me of the ending in American Gigolo when Richard Gere says, “I’ll do fag tricks?
Everything is violence except for actual violence, which is fine.
…that experience made it very clear to me all the invisibilized violences…
Invisibilized violences are the worst violences.
You will no doubt be surprised that the discoverer of invisibilized violences is none other than Caleb Luna, seen here before.
That would be this shimmering vision of a chap.
Safe bet they won’t be paying for the damage they do.
Not getting laid via Grindr is violence.
As I said at the time of the second clip, what we’re seeing – and these videos are legion – isn’t just reckless larking about. It isn’t high spirits. It’s intended to intimidate and distress random people. Better people. Because that’s what the initiators of these dramas enjoy doing. It’s malice – and the thrill of having power over others.
Anyone who’s been in a car accident, even a minor one, even a near miss, will know how alarming it is, especially if you think you may have injured someone. The whole point of the swerve game is to abuse motorists who have some capacity for conscience. And it’s generally played by those for whom conscience is an alien concept or a thing to ridicule. (If the game didn’t frighten the victims, if they just kept on driving with indifference, I doubt it would be played with such enthusiasm.)
To say nothing of the videos showing pedestrians, including the elderly, getting hit and left sprawled on the pavement, injured, by the same spiteful morons. Who just cycle away, unconcerned and very often laughing, before doing it again.
Yes. This. Now men…”men” don’t want people to think they do any actual physical labor.
As I was scrolling through the comments, my eye was drawn to FEMINIST POETRY SLAM.
Quite coincidentally, it was relevant to Britain’s last General Election in 2019 so as it turns out is topical as well as entertaining.
Highly recommended.
Which was once a common thing. It’s how humans got themselves through mundane tasks for eons. Depending on the song, it was how knowledge was retained and/or passed on. It was pretty much a normal thing. Now we regard it as abnormal because we have outsourced this sort of thing to narcissistic personalities who are (usually) gifted in voice but in material/subject matter not so much. The left understood this and capitalized (npi) on it.
Oh, Bravo that young lady!
I confess at one point I did wonder whether or not she’d confused Vietnam with the first Gulf War, but other than that there’s little I could find to disagree with.
I KNOW, RIGHT?
Here I am, slaving away, bringing you this nourishing cultural soup.
It was in my grade school. For girls. (Curiously, there was no shop class for boys, although perhaps not so curiously, as the younger teachers were all ed school grad students.)
I remember those smears. Very common for feminists to say such things. My earliest clue that feminists were defective people.
To be clear, I did survive the experience. Though it was a little unexpected. And after a suitable pause, I did offer him a beverage. That seemed to prevent further atonal crooning.
They’re looking for the big payoff on their end. Sure, the thrill and the sociopathic whatever is the front end of it. But on the back end, if they do get hurt just enough and get the driver to stop (notice replies in the thread calling out the driver for hit-and-run), they’ve got some lawyer and journalist on speed dial (can we still use that expression?) for further attention and a possible lawsuit against the driver. At the very least,once the driver is identified, they get further sociopathic thrills from putting that person through the lawfare system. As I have trying to point out to “conservatives” for…decades…the legal system is being abused, not just for frivolous lawsuits, but also to punish decent people. It’s what Three Felonies a Day was about.
Well, you’re a decent, normal human being. A leftist otoh…
In a similar vein but from the other direction….I’m having an out building built on the front of our property. A week or so ago the crew arrived to put the roof on. Unfortunately, they were not Mexicans or such, just the local redneck crew. They set up their boom box, which I’m usually fine with. Especially when it’s Mexican music which is not something I usually listen to. Thus the appeal. But no, this being locals…they were blasting, at a very insane volume, the bloody Spice Girls. Other annoying crap followed that. About the time I’m calling my builder to say WTF, the owner of the STR across the street calls me asking…WTF, dude? His clients were b****g. Some neighbors mentioned it to me later as well. They finally turned it down but, jfc.
On behalf of everyone in Britain, I do apologise.
Opinions vary.
Though I suppose the point is that neither of us discussed politics, and, so far as I can tell, neither of us was reduced to a state of eye-twitching paranoia. On account of us not discussing politics.
Unlike certain senior editors of ThinkProgress.
There are places where vulnerability to lawfare is enhanced due to the jury pool being full of savages eager to “stick it to the man” and “get whitey”.
John Derbyshire’s advice comes to mind: Stay far away from such places.
I meant to write “potential jury pool”.
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
This was the claim they made to explain why, in historic periods, all the Y chromosomes of the resident population vanished following the invasion, but not the X. Sweeping the local girls off their feet supposedly being less violent than killing all the local men. Supposedly. I admit it is disconcerting to discover just how violent our ancestors were, but on the other hand it gives a new perspective on a) how civilized we have actually become and b) just how nasty it can get if we let things go south.
“Fairness and equity.”
From the archives and very much related:
Needless to say, there’s more.
Always respect the media.
Once they get the fear factor up, they don’t even need no steeenking jury. They settle many/most of these things out of court. The insurance companies and the lawyers cut deals. The victim/driver suffers as a matter of degree as to how the case goes. But they always have the publicity/jury factor in their back pocket should the true victim get uppity. The insurance companies don’t really care that much as by now they’ve accepted it as business overhead. People have to buy insurance. It’s basically like taxes. You gotta pay regardless. Notice in the ads for insurance companies, they never sell themselves on how hard they will fight for you. The lawyer adverts otoh.
Always respect the media.
Probably washed it down with a tide pod.
At least they practice equity and had a trans-woman write the article.
CHAZ 2.0
I’m not sure how to reconcile “autonomous” and “demanding free food”.
Again, the thing. Young people have a natural, inherent, biological need to feel accepted in social groups. This idiocy of “college education”, dragging people out of their home environments/societies, essentially breaking most of the bonds that they had been developing as teenagers and transporting them far away is just absolutely begging for crap like this to happen. Especially when you do it on a broad scale. And the wealthier the student, the further from their natural support system/society you are taking them. This works for military/armies because that is precisely what you want/need to do. That people on the right, even “greatest generation” people fell for this…well it is understandable for them given they were born into/raised in the Great Depression era when you didn’t see college graduates selling apples on the sidewalk. But still. Why the rest of us fell for it..? And just think of all the money dumped on “sociology” degrees yet no one mentions this big giant elephant in the room.
Militaries work in this fashion as well. Though for saner reasons.
“So I did a study abroad in the Mideast…Israel is still an Islam country, right?”
How these morons remember to breathe is a wonder.
To pick a nit, military members are exchanging their services for compensation. What are students exchanging? Besides insults to intelligence.
Middle class. […] Not trophy wives.
Hyacinth Bucket has entered the chat.
They’re signalling the status they aspire to.
Depending on the song, it was how knowledge was retained and/or passed on
I’ve always said Hudson Hawk was a terribly underrated film.
How these morons remember to breathe is a wonder.
I don’t know who this Lady MAGA is but I like the cut of his jib. The clueless rainbow girl however…
More ‘Pride’ gaiety.
Hmmm – appears to be a wreck at the intersectionality. Completely unsurprised by the appearance of those giving the beatdowns, although my money was on the T in LGBT++ mixing it up with BLM for supremacy.
Today’s word is, once again, symbolism.
They are serving their masters. Fulfilling their wishes without those masters having to expose themselves to physical or even philosophical harm. See?
At my high school alma mater, a private overwhelmingly white prep school, there is now an award (created by a white Jesuit priest) named after a current white English teacher (who prefaces every statement by mentioning his black adopted children) given to another teacher for their “commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion”.
This year the white English teacher (who has a PhD in African-American literature of course) gave the award (at the ceremony where the black national anthem was played) named after him to a white history teacher who, during his tear-filled speech declared how much work he’s put into learning “how to talk to people of color” since the “murder of George Floyd.”
The white English teacher (and his black children, just so you know) went to the same prep school as Joe Biden, lives in a 6-bedroom house, drives an $80,000 SUV and employs a black maid.
One of the few black teachers on the faculty was heard muttering the words, “What the F is THIS shit?!”
Geez, I remember when things like cutting oneself was treated as mental illness.
That’s a start.
It’s a step up from eating library paste.
But not a large step.
his favorite part of Pride Parade is “seeing all the kids”.
–John Erickson, gay mayor of West Hollywood
Another day, another Waffle House…
Remember the War of 1812, provoked by the British Navy impressing American sailors? It’s not Britain’s fault that the spic-and-span state of their ships, and the hornpipe-dancing skills of their sailors, impressed Americans so much that they jumped ship to serve with those Jolly Tars.
What?
More of the vibrant migrant experience.
When covering a shooting, a good news article will only mention the raccoons, never explain them.
Why did they blur his face? Don’t they want him caught?