Totes Hardcore
From the ‘style’ pages of Mic magazine, where the young and left-leaning can find “news to help you rethink the world”:
On election night, like so many, 26-year-old Nicole Narvaez’s feelings “kind of exploded.” “I went to bed in tears and woke up to the final news hysterical,” Narvaez recalled.
Hysterical. Her words.
“I cried on the train to work, at work, after work and many days since. Following the election I decided I wanted and needed to do something for myself that also meant something bigger.” And how she’d do that, she thought, was with a tattoo. “I needed to remind myself that our new president-elect and all the horrible things he has said and represents isn’t a representation of humanity, and to not let it eat me up entirely,” Narvaez said. “I needed something to remind myself of how strong I can be.”
Because the way to keep things in proportion and not be eaten up entirely by an election result is to have your body marked with a permanent reminder of it. And the strength-asserting tattoo chosen by the not-at-all-unstable Ms Narvaez?
That night, after doing some research online, she walked into a tattoo parlour and got “GRL PWR” on her wrist and the Venus sign commonly associated with feminism on her pointer finger. “The two tattoos work in tandem when my hand is in a fist straight into the air,” Narvaez explained. “They work off one another.”
Tremble, ye patriarchs. This lady means business. Presumably, that fist-and-index-finger combo will be on display quite a lot in the post-election End Times.
The article, by Rachel Lubitz, goes on to inform its readers that Ms Narvaez is “not alone in feeling an urge to get something permanent on her body after the election,” that “feminist messages have been hugely popular,” and that this constitutes a “true insurgence.” Rather than, say, a display of impulse-control issues and possibly future regret. As illustrated, inadvertently, by a young feminist who wished to tell the world about her “belief in women’s rights” via the subtle medium of a large forearm tattoo. Specifically, one featuring “a coat hanger encircled in flowers with the words ‘We deserve better’ written below it.”
Tremble, Patriarchy, tremble!
When my patriarchy quivers, it’s for a better reason than that.
featuring “a coat hanger encircled in flowers with the words ‘We deserve better’ written below it.”
I’m not sure they do deserve better.
Having browsed the “dumb tattoos and the stupid people that get them” vidoes on youtube I was underwhelmed. If she’d had girl power tattooed on her face and a Venus around each eye then I might have faked some interest.
She should have gotten “Love” and Hate” tattooed across her fingers.
featuring “a coat hanger encircled in flowers with the words ‘We deserve better’ written below it.”
Every phrase in that sick formulation is dysfunctional as used. How can someone be that wrong?
I’m not sure they do deserve better.
Along with massive used as the universal adjective for anything large these days, deserve is the most useless word there is.
Every phrase in that sick formulation is dysfunctional as used.
It’s not the happiest combination of sentiments. But it’s good to know that, for some, the fundamental virtue of feminism, the one principle worth showing to the world, is the righteous termination of nascent human life.
Life which, apparently, doesn’t “deserve better.”
Speaking of over-reactions to events and a desire to end life; Louise Mensch thinks we should bomb Russia.
https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/807730060774035457
Louise Mensch thinks we should bomb Russia.
I notice that her Twitter bio includes the word optimist.
That’s . . . that’s not a fist. I think instead of a tattoo she could have done herself a lot more good if she had learned how to make an actual fist. Its not hard, all those pro-socialist, psuedo-‘anarchist’ posters she’s fond of have a picture of one.
I notice that her Twitter bio includes the word optimist.
Well, what could possibly go…
Oh.
Louise Mensch has really lost her shit since being fired from Heat Street.
Mind you, she was a hysterical Never Trumper before that.
LOSE WELL, nothing says losing well like getting a tattoo to remind you of your tantrum,
Anti fascist, or Beretta logo ?
Mind you, she was a hysterical Never Trumper before that.
For her and all the other idiots getting shpilkes over the Russians, it is amazing how diabolical they were to have Hillary win the popular vote, and lose the Electoral College.
I was reminded of this song …. I tried not to but I was triggered:
“One fist of iron the other of steel. If the right one don’t get you then the left one will.”
16 Tons
16 tons, you say?
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LOSE WELL, nothing says losing well like getting a tattoo to remind you of your tantrum,
You’d make a terrible feminist.
(Not completely) Off Topic:
[A] collection of writers and thinkers of otherwise divergent views [are currently] united by the painful process of reexamining identity politics, social norms, and—most urgently—how to address racism in an election clearly influenced by it. Though earnest and perhaps necessary, their emphasis on the civil persuasion of denizens of “middle America” effectively coddles white people. It mistakes civility for the only suitable tool of discourse, and persuasion as its only end [ … ]
White Americans share a vested interest in not being called racist, straight people in not being called homophobic, and men in not being called misogynistic. Arguments in favor of civility cede valuable rhetorical ground by default and coddle people who may well know the score about their own views. […]
Civility is not the highest moral imperative—especially in response to perceived injustices—nor is hand-holding and guiding reluctant people to confront their bigotry gently … Civility is overrated.
Don’t they teach Aesop’s Fables in primary schools any more? The North Wind and the Sun?
You’d make a terrible feminist.
That is the nicest thing anyone has said to me in quite a while.
…how to address racism in an election clearly influenced by it…
I am not sure what election he is talking about, but the recent one was between two persons of pallor.
It mistakes civility for the only suitable tool of discourse…
As if he would know, it is not as if the left has tried civility lately.
But it’s good to know that, for some, the fundamental virtue of feminism, the one principle worth showing to the world, is the righteous termination of nascent human life.
I once had the privilege of being uplifted and enlightened during a formal religious service in which the virtues of zero-coathanger ethics were vaguely but vigorously applauded, if by applauded I mean a sea of old leftist psychos nodded and smiled approvingly at their generation’s singularly greatest contribution to civilization, which I do.
And there was singing and odes to The Children throughout, as there typically is. No, really.
That these degreed urban intellectuals could not have first plumbed the breadth of their academically-endowed minds to accomplish abstinence was left as utterly unaddressed as was this twisted, horrific, and baldly obvious perversion of a simple, sun-lit Sunday morning in a “sanctuary” setting involving, as I believe they go to lengths to advertise themselves to one and all every third meeting or so, universalist humanists.
For my part I counted not having the vernacular to more efficiently identify monsters like this as my personal failing. I was trying not to gasp audibly.
I wonder if these sanctified chuckleheads ever consider what it’s like to shake with actual social rage at actual, professed lunacy – another of the ostensible talents we know they live for – or worse, suffer a scissors to a somewhat less than 9 month old spinal cord.
I don’t suppose they could be sued for false advertising, could they?
Rather than, say, a display of impulse-control issues and possibly future regret.
The former certainly, but I doubt the latter. Regret requires dispassionate self-assessment and acknowledgement of past error. I see little or no evidence that those like Ms. Narvaez are capable of that.
…[A] display of impulse-control issues and possibly future regret.
BTW, I’m going to steal that the next time I need to something about a crappy bottle of wine.
I see little or no evidence that those like Ms. Narvaez are capable of that.
There I go again. Ever the optimist.
I cannot tell you how much I am enjoying this womans pain. Such stupidity and weakness deserves to be painful.
BTW, I’m going to steal that the next time I need to something about a crappy bottle of wine.
When my dad found out I like Merlot, he bought me a bottle of “White Merlot”.
It was so awful I wouldn’t even serve it to Laurie Penny.
A woman who spends days post-election crying in public and at her workplace, (that must have been fun for everyone concerned – I hope she didn’t work in a funeral home), gets a tattoo to remind herself of how strong she is? Obviously the loony-left have gone up with a new definition for strong when I wasn’t looking.
There’s surely some clever (or at least juvenile) wordplay to be had regarding an emblem of a coat hanger and a “coat”of arms, but I doubt it’s occurred to her. “Ya daft bint, someone’s stolen your coat of arms! Right out of the closet!” or some such. Hangers on? Getting shirty? Wearing thin?
So many weak puns to make here and me on my phone…
Oh, for God’s sake! She thinks the world is crumbling, and her solution is to get a couple of tattoos?
Wow. I bet the attack on Pearl Harbor would have been made all ok if the surviving Navy personnel there had all gone to tattoo parlors the next day.
“When my dad found out I like Merlot, he bought me a bottle of “White Merlot”. It was so awful I wouldn’t even serve it to Laurie Penny.”
If it had “White” in the title anywhere, Ms Penny wouldn’t drink it
Uh oh… another Lefty claiming that Trump’s election has ruined her libido
The silver lining is that maybe these Left-cult members who have substituted Left ideology for God and family will remain frigid and chaste and never reproduce.
The silver lining is that maybe these Left-cult members who have substituted Left ideology for God and family will remain frigid and chaste and never reproduce.
They generally don’t anyway. Unfortunately they still manage to replicate via other people’s offspring. That was largely the point of the Long March Through the Institutions. Don’t produce your own kids, brainwash someone else’s!
As actual capability and competence at a given task declines, the importance of the symbolic rises.
See also: automotive styling from the mid-to-late 1970s, coinciding with ever more abysmal engine output.
I want to recommend the Atlantic article that Nikw211 links to in his 16:19 comment above.
I have rarely seen an article published in a notionally general circulation journal, which so blatantly denigrated the intelligence and morality of those in political opposition. One more typically sees this in hack rags.
In particular, this sentence jumped out at me:
“Perhaps broad definitions of racism and white supremacy really do muddle conversations, especially among people without the same level of critical understanding.”
I suppose it’s worth noting that the author is attempting to persuade folks already on his side, politically – it’s almost entirely an argument about tactics.
And you won’t want to miss deep insights such as “research cited by Baer and Singal finds that white people respond to being called “racist” in a way that resembles receipt of a slur”
Of course, The Atlantic is a journal I gave up on years ago, so I am not surprised to see this there.
I think it is really selfless of her to brand herself so any potential suitors will know at a glance to avoid her like the plague.
I suggest she gets a cat.
Along with massive used as the universal adjective for anything large these days, deserve is the most useless word there is.
I’ll see your “deserve” and raise you “empower”.
Oh, for God’s sake! She thinks the world is crumbling, and her solution is to get a couple of tattoos?
Well, that and day after day of weeping in public. I can’t help wondering how this strong and fearless woman would cope with real emotional stress. I’m guessing the death of a pet guinea pig would push her over the edge.
The article, by Rachel Lubitz, goes on to inform its readers that Ms Narvaez is “not alone in feeling an urge to get something permanent on her body after the election,” that “feminist messages have been hugely popular,” and that this constitutes a “true insurgence.”
So they’re going to overthrow the government with crap tattoos? #GetAFuckingDictionaryYouStupidTarts
So they’re going to overthrow the government with crap tattoos? #GetAFuckingDictionaryYouStupidTarts
Heh. Well, quite. And it’s funny how the inevitable hyperbole, the ludicrous inflation, is almost always in the service of self-flattery.
And by ‘funny’ I mean revealing.
26-year-old Nicole Narvaez
Millions like her insisting they will never grow up. Childlike tantrums forever.
Civility is not the highest moral imperative—especially in response to perceived injustices—nor is hand-holding and guiding reluctant people to confront their bigotry gently …
“Perceived injustices”.
Given that much of non-STEM Leftist academic thinking and teaching is rooted in post-modernism and its rejection of objective reasoning then, surely, upon “perceiving” an “injustice” one should be exaggeratedly polite to the perpetrator, since it may be one’s own misunderstanding of the situation which is the trigger.
Po-mo doesn’t work that way, of course, and neither do SJWs; show them a non-white kid looting during the course of a riot and it’s a case of “Let’s not get all judgmental here, m’kay?”.
Show an SJW a white person who supports Trump/Brexit/whatever and be grateful for that bin-liner you slipped over your head which will protect your clothing from the spray of spittle which accompanies the invective.
I wonder if this is the same Nicole Narvaez? No, surely that would be too perfect.
I’ll see your “deserve” and raise you “empower”.
Excellent point.
And “prayers” as constantly uttered publicly whenever there’s a tragedy, especially when “wished” by politicians. And the demanded public apology, although that’s more an empty, juvenile habit not befitting adults than a word.
Lo, light dawns! (I’d been about to ask what a coathanger signified in modern feminist symbology.) I still think it’s a silly tattoo and the reason for having it is even sillier. But, to quote Shakespeare, “Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.”
Hipsters really shouldn’t get tattoos; leave them for the bikers, the military, Japanese Mafiosi, or the Maori — at least they get badass tattoos (because they’re kinda involved in badassery).
Which also explains the breakdown to quivering jelly over a presidential election.
For the record: my family is tattoo’d (military — although a couple did hang for a time with bikers after they got out) — no, they wouldn’t care what you think about their tats (although oddly enough, the one group of people I keep that on the down low from are my horribly liberal education co-workers, who can’t stop trashing tattoo wearers as trash…hmm); they also aren’t caring all that much about the election…meet the new boss…but my two daughters, my son, 5 other relatives sounded a bit relieved though noncommittal last I talked to them.
But no crying.
Seem to be? Wouldn’t it be prudent to find out whether something actually is before getting a tattoo protesting it?
And of course, in the minds of modern feminists not forcing reluctant taxpayers to fund abortions is exactly the same as criminalising abortion and making young women use coat hangers. In Lefty-world, if something isn’t paid for by forcibly-collected taxes, it cannot possibly exist. See the arts, for example.
Wouldn’t it be prudent to find out whether something actually is before getting a tattoo protesting it?
But if the object is self-flattery and to imagine oneself as a brave and righteous heroine, embattled in some grand moral drama, then reality will most likely be disappointing.
Blubbering like an hysterical child is probably not the best response to the accession of an industrial-grade buffoon to the US presidency.
On current indications, the coming Trump freakshow promises plenty opportunity for stern, disciplined criticism from concerned adults.
He brings no dignity to the office. And the histrionic bedwetters with their silly tattoos bring no dignity to the opposition.
“research cited by Baer and Singal finds that white people respond to being called “racist” in a way that resembles receipt of a slur”
Can’t have that!
@JibHalyard:“Blubbering like an hysterical child is probably not the best response to the accession of an industrial-grade buffoon to the US presidency.
On current indications, the coming Trump freakshow promises plenty opportunity for stern, disciplined criticism from concerned adults.
He brings no dignity to the office.”
Unlike the last incumbent?