Reheated (114)
From the archives, some items of possible interest:
On historically accurate casting – and its opponents.
It is, needless to say, slightly surreal to see supposedly serious productions sharing behind-the-scenes footage, in which we’re invited to admire the craft of the set decorators, production designers, costume designers, etc., and their detailed, punctilious recreations of the period, while the people wearing the costumes and striding about the sets are demographically bizarre. As if we’re not supposed to notice.
And in transgender-sex-offender-urine-hurling news.
Despite his prodigious criminal activity, often repeated in the same locations, Mr Koko – complete with bicycle and polka-dot dress – proved difficult to apprehend. Possibly due to the public being told by both the police and the media that the person engaging in such activities, and for whom they should be alert, was somehow a woman.
Have You Tried Storing Them Upright?
Crime, incarceration, and dubious conclusions.
Attention, music lovers. Has your singing been decolonised?
And it is, I think, worth noting that the nation’s capital, where these dramas of “resistance” unfold, has in my lifetime gone from a native white-majority city, over 90%, to a native white-minority one, around 35%. Yet it would seem that even this dramatically downsized white devil population is, for some, still too burdensome and oppressive. A cause of “collective trauma.”
You May Need To Write This Down.
From the world of niche pornography.
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The ladies’ act of presenting themselves as the opposite sex, albeit with extra steps, was not, it seems, deemed affirming by those who like to present themselves as the opposite sex.
“My gender isn’t your costume,” said this chap here, a self-styled “eGirl, but like, with a penis or whatever.” Other indignant rumblings included accusations of deception and fraud, the inevitable “transphobia,” and demands that the ladies in question “don’t get in our space.” Another bewigged gentleman denounced the “masquerade” as “disgusting.”
For those craving more, this is a pretty good place to start.
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Only just spotted this:
He he.
Do you ever think about your parents, grand parents, and if you were blessed to know them, your great-grandparents? What they went through, the trials and tribulations, the sacrifices that they made, the risks, etc.? I do. I’m kinda sick that way. And it embarrasses the hell out of me that I have been part of a couple of newer generations that tolerated this degeneracy. All that hard work to create the greatest civilization the world has ever seen, only to surrender it to f’n lunatics. Not Mongol hordes, not waves of Vandals and Visigoths, not even Spanish conquistadors. Morons who don’t even know what a woman is. People who lack the will to make the slightest noise to fight it. Sometimes I sincerely hope that there truly is no afterlife. I would be embarrassed to face my ancestors.
Well, it would seem to follow the general, er, logic. Such as it is.
As I said in the original thread:
Again, there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of consistency. Beyond a preening obnoxiousness, an inapt presumption, and possibly an animus towards white people and their history, I mean.
In other news, Laurie Penny is transgender now.
[ Slurps coffee. ]
I’d somehow forgotten just how absurd she is.
So white actors playing white characters isn’t “relevant”? This Hanna Flint sounds like a bit of a racist.
What is it with some people?
Here I respond (click over, scroll up) to a woman who is, shall we say, over-literal in her interpretation of certain principles.
If she’s ASD, then maybe she genuinely can’t parse the difference, but I suspect not. I suspect she’s just better than the rest of us.
Well, you know, when they say it out loud…
Yes, that.
What took her so long? Reflexes fading with age?
Almost a quarter-million “unaccompanied minors” crossed the border during the Biden Admin and were promptly lost.
Daily Mail claims that the Trump admin has been tracking them down:
Think about it: How many Latino parents are going to randomly send their little kids north to cross the border unaccompanied? “Sure, we’ll just send Miguelito que tiene siete añitos to live with his tía Juanita in Wisconsin. He should be just fine making the journey alone.”
Good grief. What the hell is wrong with us. We can condemn the Pakistani Rape Gangs all day long but we can’t ignore the unaccompanied minor scandal right here in our country.
As I said some years ago,
You don’t want to be seen wearing last season’s identity tags, after all.
Some? It’s most. Most people are bloody crazy. And the craziest, most self-confident in their brand of crazy, “educated” in it, are drawn to Twitter/X.
They have to reverse the meaning of words.
I’m still rather tickled by the idea of a politically corrected version of The Crown with an inexplicably black Princess Margaret.