Quick, Men. To The Escape Pods
“We want to destroy the Conservative government. We want to bring down the Patriarchy.”
And if this doesn’t do it, I don’t know what will:
In the UK, women and femme-identifying people have come under sustained attack by the Conservative government… But Phoebe Patey-Ferguson and Anna Smith didn’t want to give in to hopelessness. Instead, they decided to wrestle each other in their shared art studio in east London.
Chunky tattooed ladies channelling their inner umbrage. Part fetish, part psychodrama, part delusional politics – feminist fight club is apparently a thing now:
“Most of the spaces we perform in are queer spaces so often people haven’t been able to really allow themselves to feel the anger and rage that they do feel,” [says Patey-Ferguson]. “So often they are thankful to us for the space that we can feel that together… You don’t feel like you are locked in your room staring at the internet alone. There is a kind of empowerment in that, because if we express that together, there is a possibility of change.”
For these terribly radical ladies and “femme-identified” beings, fighting each other ineptly and accidentally cracking each other’s ribs – while screaming “Fuck you, Theresa May!” – is “a mode of resistance.”
The Patriarchy trembles.
So the first rule of feminist fight club is you never shut up about it?
But Phoebe Patey-Ferguson and Anna Smith didn’t want to give in to hopelessness. Instead, they decided to wrestle each other in their shared art studio in east London.
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And remember, it’s about “things like Brexit.”
We’re not supposed to call them broads anymore.
They’re gonna be in so much trouble.
Someone call Chris Morris.
‘You don’t feel like you are locked in your room staring at the internet alone.’
They sound like they have ample experience in this field, at least…
We want to destroy the Conservative government. We want to bring down the Patriarchy
I bet we could bring their army to a halt with a strategically placed table covered with cake and biscuits.
“They’ve performed at… the Labour Party conference”
“They’ve performed at… the Labour Party conference”
The outcome of the next election could hang on the heavy-set lesbian wrestler demographic.
Theresa May is, whatever the hard left believes, a woman. To a fault, she’s pursued various policies that seem to align with radfem talking points – sacking men for touching knees and spouting endless rubbish about policing the internet.
Meanwhile, the leader of Haringey council left the Labour party yesterday, citing the sexism of Momentum as the reason – one of a long line of women to make that same point.
But naturally the hard-hitting Vice journalists don’t allow reality or logic to obtrude.
That was not the lesbian wrestling video I asked for.
No refunds. Credit note only.
They’re doing it wrong. No one should be losing toenails. Done properly, the MAs are statistically safer than golf.
Also in the category of “doing it wrong,” from the same publication, I give you the pick-up artists:
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/bjy3q4/playing-the-game-the-game-a-haunting-pick-up-artist-dating-sim-angela-washko
We didn’t have video games till late in my misspent youth, when Pong and Duck Hunt appeared, but we did have PUAs, although in that more innocent time we called them “assholes,” as in “Oh, God, Carol, there’s that asshole again. Go with me and distract him or I’ll never make it to the restroom in time without wetting my pants.”
Well, can you blame Teresa May for wanting to police the Internet? There are guys out here with unregulated electric flambe-ers!
Having viewed the video clips in this post, I think this is relevant here:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/socialists-will-probably-always-be-uglier-than-tories-research-finds-ppwgjr2f2
There are guys out here with unregulated electric flambe-ers!
The bloody thing still hasn’t been used. I’m going to have to start dusting it.
Not clicking on that link for anything.
Well, it’s nice that solipsists no longer have to sit alone in a room being solipsistic.
sH2
So the first rule of feminist fight club is you never shut up about it?
I lol’d.
Are the ladies in the video* at 4’13’ paying inadvertent tribute to the late, great Les Kellett, a star of British professional wrestling in the 1960s and 1970s?
*Yes, I did watch the whole thing. Forget all that IPCRESS File malarkey in the punishment booth, just make ’em sit through that a few times.
When my youngest was little, he’d react to parental discipline by getting angry and announcing, “I’m going to my room and go to sleep!” To which, my wife and I would reply, “Don’t you dare” as he defiantly shuffled off to punish himself.
Thus, on behalf of the Patriarchy, to Feminist Fight Club I say, “Don’t you dare!”
Isnt that Eddy Izzard in the red beret?
OK, the first two comments were just damn funny.
Meanwhile, and related as he is member of Teh Patriarchy™, Jordan Peterson has figured out how to monetize SJWs.
“Before a fight …I think about the man that cat-called me on the street.”
It might be time to start treating the drinking water with anti-psychotics.
“As ridiculous as they may have looked and behaved, all the carrying-on served a vital purpose: Like a religious ritual, it enabled women to think they are doing something important, something to improve their lives.”
It might be time to start treating the drinking water with anti-psychotics.
It occurs to me that, however the world was arranged, and however much it conformed to their preferences, some of these ladies would still be pouting and theatrically unhappy. Such is their determination. It’s practically their destiny.
It’s practically their destiny.
Stanley’s comment at 13:04 dovetails with yours nicely. A state of pathological unhappiness is not unique to (some) women, of course. We all know people who manage to find and fixate on the cloud in every silver lining, no matter how small the cloud might be. Indeed, such people invent clouds if they have to, because without them, they don’t really feel alive. Johnny Cash’s Hurt is on a constant loop in their heads. As Stanley points out, Feminism is an off-the-rack suit which provides a context for what would otherwise be labeled an obnoxious, misanthropic personality disorder.
people haven’t been able to really allow themselves to feel the anger and rage that they do feel
Que?
The bonkerness is very strong with this one.
Why can’t we just have the girls wrestling without all the argy-bargy? I find it a total turn-off. They should fire their manager and publicist.
people haven’t been able to really allow themselves to feel the anger and rage that they do feel
More accurately, some people haven’t been able to really allow themselves to feel the joy and happiness that is out there that most other able-bodied, healthy (both kinds), and reasonably intelligent (like can tie their shoes and balance a checkbook) people take advantage of every day without making other people miserable by harping and bitching.
Kinda long and wordy. Needs some pruning. Won’t fit on a bumper sticker and not much of a sound bite. Meh. I can’t do everything.
More accurately, some people haven’t been able to really allow themselves to feel the joy and happiness that is out there…
Quite so.
Such attitudes seem to be prevalent among Leftists, simply because they view all human actions as zero-sum. If I’m happy, then somewhere someone else must be sad. If I’m blessed, then somewhere someone else must be disadvantaged. For them, happiness and/or mere contentment leads to feelings of guilt because [fill-in-blank-with-random-tale-of-oppression]. The question is, what do they really gain from such an attitude? How do they benefit by constantly bathing in misery?
It occurs to me that, however the world was arranged, and however much it conformed to their preferences, some of these ladies would still be pouting and theatrically unhappy. Such is their determination. It’s practically their destiny.
If I might analogise, using my mother-in-law. Bear with me.
MIL is a deeply narcissistic, emotionally manipulative, selfish woman. Lives on her own (having long since divorced, and scared subsequent sensible suitors away). This is a problem for my lovely, moral, decent wife, as she feels (rightly, I believe) that she should do what she can as her mother slips into senescence and Alzheimer’s. Despite the fact her ma always complains, had never *once* thanked her for rushing over, staying over, paying for carers (whom her mother could afford to pay for but refuses to do so as she is in denial of her illnesses). Etc. All her self-absorbed regality often leaves lovely wife in tears of rage and frustration.
And there is nothing she can do about it.
Now, I once said – imagine you gave your ma everything. Everything she asks for. She wants you to visit more, you visit more. Move in? You move in. Tell her how much you care for her? Do so. Every whim catered for, no matter how misguided, contradictory, absurd, self-serving, pathetic, etc etc.
Now, you know that no matter that you did all of that, everything, that nothing would change. She would still complain, she would still lie, she would still hate. She would never be happy.
And that, o my droogs, is the SJW.
Such attitudes seem to be prevalent among Leftists, simply because they view all human actions as zero-sum.
Precisely. Well, a large number of leftists anyway. But this attitude/perception of a zero-sum game is quite prevalent in society. Even among many, many people on the right as well. The way I see it, this is the most obvious key to breaking the left’s power.
And that, o my droogs, is the SJW.
Exactly why, as much as it often makes me cringe, I value Trump’s refusal to play that PC game that the cucks of the GOPe clutch their pearls over. There is no understanding, no middle ground to be reached with unreasonable harpies.
The question is, what do they really gain from such an attitude? How do they benefit by constantly bathing in misery?
University tenure, government largesse and national coverage as we seen with Australia Day.
It occurs to me that, however the world was arranged, and however much it conformed to their preferences, some of these ladies would still be pouting and theatrically unhappy. Such is their determination…
That reminds me of the European communists who escaped Hitler to America, but instead of being grateful to the nation that took them in they were resentful and full of hatred. One account described them living in misery in California, hating the fact that the people were so cheerful and friendly. I don’t remember the sources where I read about that.
…It’s practically their destiny.
They want it to be our destiny, too. Only then will they be happy.
I don’t remember the sources where I read about that.
My thanks to anyone who can remind me of names and sources.
What if you, you know, one day just sorta, you know, were a fat, weird feminist, and then just kind of got up and got on with your life? And suddenly just started sort of going to a job everyday, and coming home to your apartment, and watching Netflix and eating nacho cheese popcorn like everybody else?
Oh, right. Because then you wouldn’t be “special.”
They want it to be our destiny, too.
If you watch the video, you’ll notice how the ladies make a fetish of anger, which they refer to repeatedly and proudly, as if it were a credential, a goal, an end in itself. Which is hardly indicative of mental health or a satisfying future. Given that the ladies’ accents suggest comfortable middle-class backgrounds rather than lives of drudgery and want, and given that they apparently have enough free time to seek attention with theatrical anger and playing dress-up, the exalting of rage seems all the more peculiar.
Which makes me suspect that it’s not so much a political position as a personal disposition. One we’ve seen before, many times.
If you watch the video, you’ll notice how the ladies make a fetish of anger…
Which brings us back to the question, “How do you benefit from this?” It’s not just tenure. Academe doesn’t have enough billets for all the angry, fist raising, anti-something curmudgeons running about. Presumably, these people don’t believe in an afterlife where all will be set right and jeweled crowns will be placed on their shaven heads. Where do they think they’ll be in 20 years? How do they see their last moment, life-in-review movie playing out? Do they think they’ll have no regrets for going through life in a constant state of rage?
Could’ve used a trigger warning for that pic. Just sayin’
Then feminism tells women to join together with other women to resist their oppressor.
Women actually resisting an actual oppressor.
…people haven’t been able to really allow themselves to feel the anger and rage that they do feel…
The difficulty is that in reality they only “feel anger and rage” about their frustration because they can’t get their own way, all the time, with no consequences, and because other people won’t accept their failings.
*Assumes Cathy Newman voice*
So what you’re saying, Farnsworth, is we have to choose between chubby English lesbian wrestlers and chubby Soviet lesbian snipers?
because they can’t get their own way, all the time, with no consequences,
Some people do seem determined to be unhappy.
@ R. Sherman
OK, I laughed, but no, you can also have hot Israelis with Stens…
…or cute Kurds with machine guns.
@Farnsworth
Been there, done that.
In 1982, I was backpacking around Israel and wound up at a Sea of Galilee-side bar in Tiberius. As I sat there drinking my Maccabees Beer, with a couple of lovely (female) IDF soldiers within earshot, a couple of Israeli F-4 Phantoms screamed over the lake and banked east to the Golan. My dad had worked for the military industrial complex and was project engineer for said F-4s, which caused me to raise my bottle to him.
Suffice it to say, that provided an intro to an extremely enjoyable evening.
#UzisAreSexy
#UzisAreSexy
An old college friend of mine was an avowed lesbian until she spent a semester in Tel Aviv, surrounded by uniformed 19-year-old men with Uzis. Upon returning to the States, we were informed that she now identified as bisexual, and was beginning to understand the 2nd Amendment crowd.
Magic!
@Governor Squid
One goes to Jerusalem to pray. One goes to Tel Aviv to play.
“We want to destroy the Conservative government. We want to bring down the Patriarchy.”
Hm. Not a word about Rotherham or sharia law. Does that mean they’re fans?
From the archives and not entirely unrelated:
Artists Katy Albert and Sophia Hamilton stand by the roadside and spend 90 minutes beating themselves around the head and face with large feather pillows. It’s a “strategic refraction,” apparently, and intended to make you “think critically” about “feminism, consumerism” and other matters of crushing import.