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.
I read that as you shouldn’t remove it because it serves as a warning to women not to use the space. The transcum wouldn’t want women to be warned about such a thing. But then everything is so bloody upside down and stupid, I could be wrong.
transcum
Now there’s a word that cries out for hyphenation. Sean Connery says “I’ll take trans cum for 800 Alex.”
topless mopping in France–that rather seems to be a celebration of right wing victories than a protest. After all, what more could a cave man want?
Black friends: this is a fact, that the Woke tend to move in very very white circles. I have been the only white person at black gatherings like birthday parties. They like myself and my white because we are not using them for our politics. We are just friends. I know, a novel idea.
digital currency: for the gov, it has two big advantages: 1) every transaction is documented so no off-the-books income to avoid taxes and 2) anything they do not approve of (buying a gun, contributing to Trump, giving $ to a pro-life center) can be used against you.
Note that most off the books income is for small businesses, so added taxes are NOT on the rich.
Ok –So this scholar has decided to write a research paper on pole dancing, strippers, and only fans girls.
Maybe I missed something, but what are we to gain from what I can only assume will be very detailed work? Was there a hypothesis to test?
Maybe I’m too far removed from these sorts of pursuits, but don’t research papers typically have a direction or theory that they are testing? That the information being gathered presumably will be used to create datasets which will then in turn be used to make conclusions about . . . . something???
I’m all shrugs at this point.
At least she’s researching about something she knows. Pole dancer and prostitute indeed.
Transkum? Transscum? Transskum? Some stupid sh*t changed with the iPad keyboards about a couple years ago and I loathe using anything on the punctuation side that I would have to look for. The alpha and numeric keyboards are ok but anything else needing the other shift keys start p*ssing me off.
…assuming the account is true, it must have been quite peculiar for the black couple in the restaurant
I take it that this is an anecdote used in support of browbeating seminar participants who believe themselves to be already non-racist: you’re just one of those white people who think that betraying your closest relatives in order to curry favor with genetic strangers makes you a good person, but that’s not sufficient: it’s just performative, you haven’t paid your black confessor for their emotional labor, you’ve only conceded your family’s good name but none of their multigenerational wealth, etc, etc.
“Why are you reading flat earthers?”
“I am somebody who has left the cult of science.”
How to say you’re a looney without saying you’re a looney.
Or just really, really stupid.
Credit cards charge 3% per transaction to the merchant, meaning the park in this case. Accepting payment cards is more expensive than handling cash, I would think.
What kind of people would sit still for that? If I were there, I’d derail that kind of talk right quick. How incredibly rude.
Also, how incredibly improbable.
@Twin Cities Teegan
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Or, “Just sit there, politely confused, while I spend the entire evening unloading my racial neuroticism on you. Instead of, you know, engaging with you as people, not just the racial avatars of my own fevered imagination.”
That too.
I see what you did there.
Bullshit.
She’s using, and surrounded by, the products of the most sophisticated science and engineering on the planet. Close to ZERO of her environment is naturally occuring.
Reminds me of the TV ad extolling the arts, while explicitly denigrating mere science and engineering.
It was an ad for the latest iPhone.
I use to laugh at such people. Now I hate them.
Some of my favorite restaurants now offer a 3% discount when you pay cash.
And I have noticed, when paying property tax or auto license renewal fees, that government agencies charge a 3% fee if you pay by credit card.
Those which have not gone out of business in the last few years.
Exactly the point of my “Minority Attracted Person” jibe.
Sexual perversions are not the only perversions that plague our society.
Strongly agree. Pity that the recordings must omit, for copyright/royalties reasons, Marvin humming like Pink Floyd.
Actually test a theory? With the concomitant willingness to abandon a theory if the data do not confirm it? That has fallen out of favor in academia, where the prioritization of facts over feelings is seen as oppressively racist, sexist, fascist, and heteronormative.
The jokes are much funnier on radio. For many of them, the whole point is that you can’t see.
And it’s an interesting reversal of the usual “the book was better than the movie adaptation”.
Gotta run out for a while now, David. So long, and thanks for all the
fishhump fat.The series was conceived and written for radio, a medium it exploits rather well, and hence to a large extent the nature of the humour. The subsequent adaptations – the novels, a terrible, low-budget TV series, and a misjudged, unfunny film – weren’t anywhere near as effective.
Indeed.
And yet many fans do not seem to notice this, leading me yet once again to postulate that many people do not and cannot perceive such differences.
[ Returns home, drenched in sweat. ]
Bartender, what do you recommend that is cold and wet and served in tall glasses?
One large, thick tomato juice coming up.
[ Gazes appreciatively at beads of condensation on glass. ]
Thanks!
[ Glances at the news. ]
Later I think tall glasses of chilled wine will be in necessary.
Hey, I liked that low budget tv series precisely because it was low budget..and sci-fi. The styrofoam wig holder implementation for the second head of Zaphod Beeblebrox, the way Marvin the Paranoid Android would occasionally bump into things such that his flimsy (cardboard?) construction would appear obvious added to the camp humor, IMNSHO. Somewhat similar to Starship Troopers, normal people are most likely to first encounter great fiction (oxymoron or not) in the medium with the largest mass market potential. While interesting to later discover the deeper meanings, or in some cases completely different meanings, and whatever found in (usually) the original book or sometimes the stage production, whatever the medium of first encounter is will most often have the greatest impact. And I enjoy Starship Troopers with triple the pleasure when I remind myself that both Hanlon fans, who get upset at the misrepresentation of the book, and the movie’s producers, who intentionally misrepresented the book, are fuming at my refusal to respect their perceptions.
While I never had the pleasure of enjoying the radio series, I do see why that specific implementation would be superior to the other mediums but it’s a bit too late for me to go back and listen to it with fresh ears.
It remains by far the best. Again, the whole point of many gags being that you can’t see what’s happening.
Two years to analyze a laptop?
That’s about right. Most police departments have zero technically skilled people on staff, and with information crimes getting more common increasingly that’s where the evidence is. So there’s a backlog.
I still remember hearing The Hitchhiker’s Guide on the radio
I once worked for a software company in technical support and had a very odd day: every time I picked up a call from the queue, the caller insisted on being put back on hold immediately. All day. Drove the metrics competely sideways and the manager eventually went down to IT to find out what was going on with the phone system. Turns out the IT staff had replaced the soporific classical music with The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy radio program in the CD changer that fed hold music to the phones. Our entire customer base had been sitting with their phones on speaker all afternoon enjoying the show.
We have mult-cultured ourselves to death.
At the Burlington Canada Day celebrations, I would estimate that white people made up less than 30% of the attendees. Spenser Smith Park was wall-to-wall people. I’m planning my move.
I’m not entirely sure what the message is
It’s always just an excuse to get naked in public. These people are fetishists tarting up their degeneracy in high-minded rhetoric.
Street Sweepers for Palestine
Street Sweepers for Palestinians. Er, Palestine.
She felt an immediate need.
Go back and re-read it. Stop thinking in terms of politics. You’re listening to a high school girl trying to ingratiate herself with the Queen Bee by showing how well she can follow the herd.
And yet many fans do not seem to notice this
Most fans (by which we mean fans of F/SF, not people who go to baseball games) are using the objects of their fandom as a kind of emotional security blanket. Actually thinking critically about the works, or comparing them as creative works, is deeply threatening. Just consume product, and get excited for next product.
You’ll get no argument from me.
But it also seems to be true that many of these fans are unable to see the differences. Think of autistic people who cannot read emotional cues from body language, tone of voice, and choice of words. All that stuff passes through such fans like neutrinos through the Earth. I recall conversations about human stuff where an autistic fan would suddenly interrupt with an almost entirely irrelevant comment about engineering or science.
I recall conversations about human stuff where an autistic fan would suddenly interrupt
It’s actually the same thing. Autistic reactions are stress/fear reactions. You’re talking about something they don’t understand, can’t understand, and that’s deeply threatening. Dragging the conversation back to something they can understand and feel comfortable with is a common reaction.
Could be.
. . .Dragging the conversation back to something they can understand and feel comfortable with is a common reaction.
But that is a behavior that is common among non-autistic people, too.
Sorry, neurotypical people. 😁