Between The Thighs
Speaking, as we were, of Clown Quarter academics and their relentless intellectual thrusting, I bring you this:
“Digital media practices” sounds so much more scholarly than, say, tarts who use OnlyFans. Oh, and Instagram. Naturally, this is being done “through an intersectional feminist framework.” One that “centres lived experience.” So lofty stuff, and rigorous to boot.
The researcher behind this colossal undertaking informs us,
Quiet at the back. Don’t make me flick the lights on and off.
As I said, all terribly high-minded. Political, even.
Should any doubt remain,
And as we’ve seen, many times, the Clown Quarter is driven purely by academic enquiry, a ceaseless thirst for knowledge.
Update:
In the comments, Twin Cities Teegan asks, not unreasonably,
Alas, such details, should they exist, are now hidden from view. We are, however, assured,
At risk of being presumptuous, it occurs to me that this theme of minimised intellectual labour may apply more generally. A suspicion not shaken by our scholar’s claims of “challenging patriarchal systems” by sharing nude photos on Instagram. Or by her public ruminations on such topics as “The Gendered Politics of Body Hair,” a feat of rote regurgitation and colossal self-involvement, in which we learn of the crushing oppressions of leg-waxing and eyebrow maintenance.
Readers who wish to probe further into the bush can find our scholar’s inexpert twerking here.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
All the great scholars had experience of online sex work.
In days past, a woman prostituting herself online would have lost her job… now, according to feminists, such behaviour is empowering, rather than just another way of gaining narcissitic supply.
OnlyFans as research.
We really are sunk as a society, aren’t we?
As we’ve seen, many times, we are, I fear, setting the bar quite low.
or their managers.
♪♫O Canada!
Our white and frozen land…♪♫
♪♫Ô Canada!
Notre terre blanche et gelée…♪♫
Happy Fake Fourth of July to you hosers, eh!
(We now return you to your regular programming)
If smaller the talent, the bigger the bullshit.
LOL
Praying to SMOD to gift each corrupt university with a refrigerator-sized bolide of doom.
This mockery of Canada must stop or there will be consequences.
Considering how highly academia rewards convoluted, obfuscatory, rococo jargon, the amount of talent to be found there must approach homeopathic levels.
Northwich woman jailed for cocaine-fuelled sex with a dog.
The definition of woman has of course been fashionably expanded. And the mention of “indecent images of children” has, at this point, a certain inevitability.
This mockery of Canada…
It is Canada Day, take off, eh?
Indeed, as “research” and “investigating” sound more scholarly than “spending all day at the nudie bar” and “…has some experience of online sex work… ” sound better than “spending all day online ogling tarts who use OnlyFans”.
The rest of the project being “The Patriarchal Colonizing of the Bodies of Tarts Who Use OnlyFans leads to Income Inequity” the abstract is “Why do tarts who use OnlyFans make more than I do?”
OnlyFans Tarts are a Sex Pistols cover band.
The definition of woman has of course been fashionably expanded.
You cannot imagine my shock.
Two years to analyze a laptop?
You’re not supposed to notice.
If future historians look back to our time and scratch their heads for a dominant theme, pretending not to notice obvious patterns seems a pretty good starting point.
Meanwhile in Louisiana…
As one does. In a Walmart brawl can’t fight with just one arm, and who knows where a six month old might wander off to if you just put it on the ground.
Back to academia and the upcoming holiday, we find ourselves at Harvard (because of course we do)…
No, I am not making that up.
OTOH, my research has shown that using days where the sun rises in the east as a proxy has a near perfect correlation with “academics” producing utter bollocks.
or their managers.
That clearly raises the specter of male oppression and manipulation in what should be “women’s space” alone.
This demands further academic study. Fire up the grant machine!
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:
Academia has left satire in the dust.
Third album name.
misquoting Hitchhiker:
All whinge, no data.
Academia is like The Hitchhiker’s Nutri-Matic drinks dispenser: It produces something that is almost, but not quite entirely, unlike thought.
I still remember hearing The Hitchhiker’s Guide on the radio, it’s best format, back when I was a wee seedling. The first scene I recall is the one in which Lintilla activates her Crisis Inducer.
isn’t this the same lot that carries on about ‘objectifying’ women?
Album name. I’m imagining something in a King Crimson genre.
See ‘doublethink’ in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, which was supposed to be a warning not a how-to manual.
[ Screws upright pole into floor, badly, fetches bag of glitter. ]
Just in case anyone feels an urge to fling their legs about.
isn’t this the same lot that carries on about ‘objectifying’ women?
This is yet another area where we should hold two totally contradictory thoughts: there is no shame in sex work–it is empowering….AND…sex work is exploitation by the patriarchy.
Insta-lache.
Sex work is just as noble as any work.
All workers deserve at least a living wage.
Men who pay women for sex acts are patriarchal oppressors.
I think…the only way to reconcile these principles is for sex workers to be supported entirely by government, i.e. Taxes. The same way some believe home-schooling should be illegal.
I look forward to the Onion / Babylon Bee headline.
Which will be rapidly followed, if not actually preceeded, by a similar headline in Not The Bee or the WaPo.
Memory jogged…
What became of that minor dustup in Germany when an unemployed woman was urged by a government functionary to take a sex-work job?
The welfare agency bureaucrats contended that, since prostitution was legal, the woman could not refuse to work in a brothel without losing public assistance. Public outcry forced the welfare agency to back off, but none of the bureaucrats were publicly flogged or stoned, sadly.
You looking for ways to keep members of the teacher’s unions employed?
@pst314
“Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike thought” is quite brilliant. I’m going to remember that one.
[ blushes ]
But you mustn’t badmouth teachers, sir. Even teachers who encourage middle-school children to browse their “highly sexualised” TikTok accounts.
As this chap did.
An academic from another Canadian university was submitting a grant proposal to study “Traditional Catholicism and Christian Nationalism”. Unsure of its likelihood for acceptance, the title was changed to “Traditional Catholicism, Christian Nationalism, and White Supremacy”. And soon the money was on its way.
And in parallel reality news.
Slapping comes to mind.
We could take turns.
Much current academic publishing will be ignored in the future, for the same reason that Nazi era scholarly work is now ignored: There may be some honest and useful research but it is lost in the dross.
And in parallel reality news.
from the twitter profile:
Remember the South Park episode in which “gay” means “stupid and annoying”?
Frothing at the mouth.
Of course, we only have his word that he is a psychologist. But on the other hand the field is full of maleducated and malevolent lunatics and fools.
This meme should really be altered to “turn him trans”.
Via that twitter account:
“Much of the instability stems from a small group of tenants who do not receive the support they need.”
Is “support” a euphemism for “prison”?
Kicking.
It’s a euphemism for kicking.
Or should be.
Military might.
Fine with me.
But also “violent ward”, for those who don’t learn from a kicking.
The Politburo is laughing.
Raise the Canuck flag!
Canadian pole dancers? But how do you slip a loonie into a girl’s garter belt?
Ask Justin’s wife.
101°F (38°C), humidity 29%, at 3:53 pm CDT
You stick it in the space that is her cleavage, and she uses her muscles to hold it in place.
Canadian pole dancers? But how do you slip a loonie into a girl’s garter belt?
Well we do call strippers French Canadian Folk Dancers
[ Screws upright pole into floor, badly, fetches bag of glitter. ]
I walked by a man today at the Toledo Zoo; his shirt proclaimed “Sawdust is a Man’s Glitter.”
Ask Justin’s wife.
EX-wife! Rumour has it Justin is interested in an entirely different kind of pole.
But how do you slip a loonie into a girl’s garter belt?
Have you ever seen a Canadian stripper. They wear a hockey garter belt. The waist band is a good two-and-a-half inches thick. It’ll hold a lot of loonies. The higher class girls hold out for a toonie, which the belt can still accommodate.
I got talking to this guy in a bar about Quebec.
I said, there’s only two things that come of Quebec–hookers and hockey players.
He said, my mom’s from Quebec.
I said, What position does she play?
[ badum tss ]
I’m back from the US & A and will be here all week. Make sure to tip your server.
I walked by a man today at the Toledo Zoo…
You spent Canada Day in Toledo!? Who did you piss off?
Meanwhile, it is gratifying to know that i the Anglosphere we have only the best and brightest in high offices. Homina, homina, homina…
You spent Canada Day in Toledo!? Who did you piss off?
The line at the border moves the quickest on Canada Day and there are many fewer of my sanctimonious brethren to deal with including the homeless, the drug addled and the panhandling. Our cities are not what they once were.
I went to see the Mud Hens battle Louisville. Have you seen the Jays play this year? Yeesh.
I went to see the Mud Hens battle Louisville.
I’ll buy that as a good enough reason – if it had been Buffalo, OTOH…
if it had been Buffalo, OTOH…
He jests at scars that never felt a wound…
We moved to London, Ontario in 2021 to escape the hell hole the GTA is becoming. We can get to Toledo in about two-and-a-half hours and see a whole bunch of teams we haven’t seen before.
Surprisingly nice city (wasn’t kidding about lack of homeless and drug-addled) with a demographic make-up we once enjoyed. I’m not sure if you’ve been to a Canadian city lately. We have mult-cultured ourselves to death.
One thing though, I was shocked to find that most events and attractions have gone cashless. You’re one step away from the chip in your arm like Sweden. Frankly, I’m not sure how they can get away with not accepting cash. It’s called legal tender for a reason. Did you guys not learn anything from our Trucker Protest fiasco. They can and will shut you down at the slightest sign of wrong think.
EDIT EDIT EDIT
I won’t even touch the primary correlation vs causation error at the heart of this “study.” Cripes, stuff like this used to be presented as an absurdity to prove that correlation can very easily not equal causation.
Oh fer the sake of Pete. IT MAKES MONEY OFF THE MALE GAZE.
Empowering, my left elbow.
Some (all?) United States national parks do not accept cash. Constipate on that one for a while.
Heh. The same thought occurred to me when I read that. It’s as if every statistics instructor lived their lives in vain.
Relevant signage.
It’s one of those moments where you have to wonder, how the hell did this cartoonish farce even come about?
Or words to that effect.
Unless, of course, America’s military will somehow be enhanced by yet another effeminate, narcissistic gay man who thinks he’s a woman, and whose preoccupations include Botox and lip filler.
Previously and related.
Question asked, promptly ignored.
Just the entrance gates? I assume all the restaurants and lodges and shops accept cash?
Back on the topic of scantily clad ladies, this is certainly an odd way to protest. (Work caution)
Some (all?) United States national parks do not accept cash.
Right now it is many, they claim it saves money not to use money, but as the NPS service is run by the Department of the Interior, if they weren’t throwing money away on “inclusive” language guides, it mightn’t be an issue to begin with.
I’m not entirely sure what the message is. Something about kitchen hygiene?
I’m not entirely sure what the message is.
The blue bucket says “Anti fascist stripper”, so whether that means themselves or the detergent I am not sure even they know, but at least the Trocadero (I think) is getting a free cleaning, so there is that.
So, when a political party you don’t care for looks likely to win an election, the obvious thing to do is to engage in some bare-breasted street theatre?
I’d better write that one down.
and:
So “French feminist” is a euphemism for “sex worker”?
Shaving leg and armpit hair is fascism, perhaps.
Vastly more leftists think the thing to do is engage in riot and arson.
I’d better write that one down.
If they were able to make sense, they wouldn’t be leftist weirdos.
Vastly more leftists think the thing to do is engage in riot and arson.
True, but I am not entirely convinced twerking while mopping would be an improvement, though “Street Sweepers for Palestine” might be interesting.
She’s got hers. Everyone else can go hang.
It’s a good question to pose – one deserving of an answer, I’d have thought. Alas, the usually mouthy Ms Rapino suddenly got thirsty and was unable to provide one.
She won’t provide an answer as nothing she could say would be to her benefit.
She felt an immediate need.
When we first encountered this at Canaveral National Seashore, our usual beach, it kinda made sense* because there’s just a ranger station there to collect entrance fees…it’s own waaaait a minute…and since it’s in the middle of nowhere I could see an argument, though mostly a dumb one for several reasons, it becoming a target for criminals to steal from.
So the first time we learn of this (2020, pandemic era) they also sold us on some Senior pass for like $37 or something odd we get a pass that lets us into any US national park for ‘free’. As we were regulars there and it saved hassle of paying, we felt it was a good deal. FF to last October and on a lark passing through Kentucky we decide to visit the Caverns park (Mammoth is it?). Anyway…we find out that well…we still had to pay. Not just for the guided tours (which we hadn’t made reservations for) but for the general admission to the (touristy) big cave. The bastards.
*though I did make light of the idea that Uncle Sammy wouldn’t accept his own Monopoly money.
*though I did make light of the idea that Uncle Sammy wouldn’t accept his own Monopoly money.
What’s particularly frustrating for non-Americans is you never know if your debit card is going to work. The US has so many different providers with multiple different clearing facilities that often times a business will opt for a fairly narrow service and our cards won’t work. We couldn’t use them at either the ball park or the zoo. It also makes it more challenging to gas up. The card reader at some of the gas stations requires a Zip Code when you use your credit card. Well non-Americans obviously don’t have a zip code. What I found particularly ironic was there were “cash to card” machines all over the ball park and zoo and nary an atm in sight whereas before they had cash machines everywhere. The employees must hate it too. It’s much easier to stiff them for a tip when you’re using the card.
I’m sure I don’t need to introduce anyone here to
https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency.htm
I’m sure I don’t need to introduce anyone here to
I’m with this guy.
Her pride in being boorish belies her chagrin at her family’s purported racism.
For medication?
Hard not to notice there’s no indication as to when they’ll do so.
As we’ve seen, Ms DiAngelo and her admirers do tend towards the fabulist and unhinged. Which makes me hesitate to take at face value anything she has written. But assuming the account is true, it must have been quite peculiar for the black couple in the restaurant. Being faced with this neurotic white woman who “felt an immediate need” to bang on – in excruciating detail, “all evening” – about how racist she thinks her family is.
“Every… comment I could remember.”
As if that were the obvious thing to do, above and beyond all else, all evening, when having dinner with a black couple.
In my experience, liberals work hard to misinterpret every fact and opinion they dislike in dishonestly unfair ways. Neurotic? How about psychotic?
A sick mind. An especially dangerous kind of perv, a Minority Attracted Person.
“Do not remove this sign.“
And speaking of questions asked:
I’ll wait.
And speaking of questions asked:
Oh please do. To yourself, that is.
But this jerk won’t do it to himself – he’ll find the XX person most likely to not want to handle his balls and then sue her for refusing to.
Because it’s not about having smooth “ladyballs”. It’s about causing as much pain as you can to XX humans because deep down in your miserable little soul, you know you will never, ever, be a real female.
And then heterosexual white liberals will praise him for suing some poor victim.
Patience is a virtue.
Doesn’t say anything about covering it up.