Reheated (105)
For newcomers, some items from the archives:
Telepathy Not A Thing, Women Hardest Hit.
Empowered feminist exhausted by hiring servants, planning holidays, brushing daughter’s hair.
The psychological intricacies of Ms Hartley’s preferences regarding bathroom cleaning do not appear to have been expressed directly to Her Loving Other, who, we’re told, “willingly complies to any task I decide to assign to him.” Perhaps he, or one of his friends, will read Harper’s Bazaar, at which point the full scale of her discontent will become apparent. Why Ms Hartley chose not to convey this issue directly is not entirely clear. Though it seems she’s been quite busy publicly cataloguing her husband’s faults – which extend from telepathic inadequacy to a failure to return gift wrap to its usual storage location.
Apocalypse Averted With Collective Juddering.
We will save the planet with jive, quickstep and Viennese waltz.
Because “dancing and singing could be part of the solution to the climate emergency.”
Their Happiness Hurt My Feelings.
The intersectional perils of video conferencing. With mad people.
Curiously, given the stated importance of “sensitivity” and being mindful of what things might mean, we aren’t invited to ponder the kind of person who would resent someone else’s wedding photo. And then complain about it. Or whether such neurotic affectations, these unhappy mental habits, are something to be actively encouraged. In the name of progress. At a university.
From Salon, wrenching tales of “water bottle separation anxiety.”
At which point, it occurs to me I may be misusing the word explain.
For those craving more, this is a pretty good place to start.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
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No red flags on this mother’s face. /sarcasm
Which is exactly the problem. Because other men are too chickenshit to defend the men who crack a few heads. Like you, they are full of excuses for why this shouldn’t be done. Hell, they are also full of excuses for why other men shouldn’t just…speak up and defend those men. Might hurt your career chances, you might stick out, women…the g.d.women…will say bad things about you. Maybe your wife’s friends will shun her. It’s all simply irresponsible to even speak of talking about maybe even someone else doing anything. And then there’s the lawyers…Best to sit back and call out anyone who suggests any sort of…agency in the matter. Doing things is always wrong.
You can learn these things for yourself somewhat by saying George Zimmerman did nothing wrong. Wait until the subject spontaneously comes up of course.
Added: Become national news. See every aspect of your entire life spread far and wide. See friends, acquaintances, colleagues, associates attacked unrelentingly until they retreat. Fortunately Kyle Rittenhouse didn’t think that way. But of course he didn’t think. He was just a dumb kid.
Heh. On insty the other night I expressed frustration regarding the Episcopal Church’s recent BS (forget the story now) and opined that I was running out of churches that I could tolerate sitting through a service in. Someone there suggested some bloody acronym that I never heard of in that casual way that implies that if you have to ask, well…so I looked it up and it was some branch of Lutheran. My limited experience with Lutherans has generally been annoying and even though my parents were married in one we attended Methodist…which itself is full of rainbow BS now. I suppose the branch suggested on insty is different/non-rainbow but none within 50 miles of me so it was irrelevant.
Predictable, you railing at others for not doing what you yourself have no intention of doing. Unsurprising, you calling others ‘chickenshit’ for not sacrificing their lives and livelihoods for your amusement. It may give you something to do but it does get tedious.
Postscript: Zimmerman, Rittenhouse, Penny, et al, were forced into situations they would have preferred to have avoided & suffered wildly disproportionate consequences. Your refusal or inability to differentiate their circumstances from your calls to premeditated violence does not speak well of your judgment or discernment.
Let’s review…what I said…
First bold: I am simply describing the simple reality of what it is going to take because all polite forms of social communication have at this point failed.
Second bold: I am speaking about why nothing will happen non-violently unless the g.d. lawyers whom we let run our lives..because we are afraid of them…until those lawyers start getting real nervous when they look at lampposts. They need to fear the society around them.
Third bold: The simple reality that the first bold will never ever happen unless the men willing to risk so much at least have some sense that the rest of us will at the very least back them up as much as we backed up Rittenhouse. Which is kinda to your point but more to mine.
But ummm….to my point re Rittenhouse, he is exactly the kind of guy I would want to encourage. He did not have the situation forced upon him. He even went so far as to cross state lines to do what real men, hundreds of thousands if not millions of real men, were too chickenshit to do. Because he was a kid and dumb. Not smaaaart like the real men.
Also, let me say this also about Zimmerman. He only had the situation forced upon him in the sense that it got out of hand. He saw the blatant theft and such going on in his community and unlike 99.9% of other men, he started a neighborhood watch. In fact, as far as real men go, my take on Zimmerman is that he was a bit of a wimp. He certainly didn’t strike me as a bold, assertive so-called real man. But he did what all the real men were too smaaaart to do. He got involved. If he had just stayed home on his couch watching basketball like a real man, none of that would have happened.
The most reassuring part is the “at least not now”. Cuz, who can predict the future? Right?
Dale Carnegie would have good advice.
It’s worth noting that George Zimmerman did not set out to “crack heads”. Rather, he volunteered for a neighborhood watch and called the police when he saw something suspicious.
In the case of Trayvon Martin he did not even confront the kid, much less assault him. He called the police who told him to keep his distance, but Trayvon noticed him and watching, went up to him, and cold-cocked him.
Behold the mighty keyboard warrior.
FFFFFS, nowhere have I said that anyone should “set out to crack heads” only that heads will need to be cracked. My God, the bed wetting. You are so afraid of anyone actually doing anything, possibly putting yourself in an uncomfortable state of mind, that you infer things that are not there. When the situation arises, as we have seen such situations have arisen again, and again, and again, and again and…again, someone with guts witnessing the situation will at some point crack a few heads. All I am saying is give violence a chance. We should not allow ourselves to be brainwashed into passivity. Even, but especially, when someone else conjures up the guts to take action.
This is precisely the level of brainwashing that I am talking about. All I have said is that in some abstract situation, one that surely has occurred many times now, a man who is present will need to crack a few heads before any of this changes. Before anyone gutsy enough to do that actually does that, they will need to have some degree of assurance, really just hope, that the rest of us chickenshit pussy cowards will not throw them under the bus. Which is exactly why we are where we are with this BS. I am bloody tired of the excuses being made by the kind of men who get more upset at the suggestion that they just might be chickenshit cowards (hmmm…did that hit a bit too close to home?) than they are about dealing with the actual problem.
Ah, the woman speaks to add her brave signal of virtue. Well, not so much virtue itself but…still in service of the default of just accepting things. Which in today’s world is a kind of virtue. Because why stick your neck out and even dare to say that maybe action should be taken. Because keyboard warrior. Back atcha Sunshine. Shall I rehash the stories of times that I at the very least had the guts to speak up outside of the safe spaces of conservative..or even “conservative” domains? Only to be left twisting in the wind (not unexpectedly) by the very kind of people who are puzzled by how/why all this bullshit is happening? Nah. That would be boring.
Mealy-mouthed evasion.
Earlier in this thread you wrote:
I have, in fact, strongly defended Zimmerman and Rittenhouse, so much so that I am a fascist white supremacist persona non grata in some circles.
So maybe don’t be so quick to throw around insults such as “chickenshit”. Hmmm?
FFFFFFFFFFFS, read what I wrote. There is a world of difference, morally speaking anyway, between cracking heads when a situation arises and setting out to crack heads. But of course I just said that. Say something once…
[ Rolls eyes. ]
Nah. You’ve defended the post-facts Rittenhouse and the post-facts Zimmerman. That doesn’t address the state of mind that the next person in that actual, real situation will have to deal with. Not knowing what might happen to them. They need to be able to trust that decent society has their backs. Even, and especially if they make the slightest mistake, as Derek Chauvin (supposedly) did and Daniel Penney got persecuted for.
FFS, precisely the problem. Bringing a hatpin to a gunfight. Per wiki, Dale:
I’ve also advocated for the general principle that good citizens have a right and even duty to do what Geoge Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse and Daniel J Penny did.
But you go on calling us chickenshits.
I meant that Dale Carnegie would advise you on how to speak if you want to actually persuade people rather than antagonize them.
My meaning should have been obvious, except that your ability to understand is compromised by your volcanic anger.