What, These Knockers Here?
In academic news, Yasmin Benoit, “model and award-winning asexual activist,” announces her new position and wants you to notice her cleavage:
I’m honoured to announce that I’ve been given a visiting position at @KingsCollegeLon! We’re going to be conducting research into asexuality together & our first academic paper will be coming out this month! I’m in my academic era. 🎓#ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike pic.twitter.com/cam5uhAvvt
— Yasmin Benoit, MSc (@theyasminbenoit) January 3, 2025
Because she’s so asexual, you know.
Via Ophelia, who asks a not unreasonable question.
Readers are welcome to speculate as to what, exactly, “asexual rights” might entail, and how being asexual, or, more coyly, aromantic, differs in any meaningful way from having a low sex drive. Other than the statusful, rather pretentious labelling, I mean.
Update, via the comments:
Clam quips,
*tries not to look at tits*
Truly, we live in an age of wonders.
At which point, I should add that Ms Benoit’s insights, aired via Instagram, include a revelation that SpongeBob Squarepants is also asexual. Which may hint at the dizzying levels of scholarship to be anticipated.
Inevitably, Ms Benoit shoehorns in a racial victimhood angle. Because… well, one can’t be seen without one, I suppose. Not in academia. And so, we’re told that asexual people who are also black “just aren’t perceived as the ideal type of asexual representation, nor are we as amplified or included within the asexual community nearly as much.”
Yes, it’s tears and contrivance all the way down.
And I have to say, Visiting Research Fellows aren’t generally so keen to show off their bras in their social media avatars, or to foreground their breasts in every single photo, or indeed to do interviews with Playboy magazine. Complete with breast-heavy – but, like, totally asexual – photoshoots.
Above, one of many such items. For research purposes only.
So she’s going to write an academic paper in… three weeks?
*tries not to look at tits*
Oh, good heavens, woman.
Wear a top.
We live in an age of wonders.
Something tells me that the customary gathering and analysis of data, and the customary peer-review, will all take place at unprecedented speed, if indeed at all.
But hey, great rack.
The claims to “asexuality” and the very evidently sexual nature of her clothing, are in fact not contradictory. They both say – I am pretentious, and I need attention and flattery, but I don’t want to rely on my character, personality or achievements as that would involve hard work and sincerity.
So these would have to do. Come look at me, while I accuse you of being a bad person for “objectifying” me.
The bigger problem, though, is the hordes of reasonably intelligent young girls passing through university, who also, because of being girls, will be agreeable and believe what they think would give them social points. Its the influence on their minds and approach to life that’s the bigger worry.
Inevitably, Ms Benoit shoehorns in a racial victimhood angle. Because… well, because.
And we’re told that SpongeBob Squarepants is also asexual. Which must be that scholarship we keep hearing about.
And I have to say, Visiting Research Fellows aren’t generally so keen to show off their bras in their social media avatars, or to foreground their breasts in every single photo, or indeed to do interviews with Playboy magazine. Complete with breast-heavy – but, like, totally asexual – photoshoots.
For research purposes only.
Finally! A home for the Incels
That.
Apparently it only takes cleavage to cure David’s sciatica.
On suppression via regulation. And fashionable pretensions.
And happily, some belated correction.
[ Muffled wincing. ]
Fake from haircolor to toe nail polish. Dumb in the middle.
Via Ophelia, who asks a not unreasonable question.
I believe the word that covers this is “ratchet”, regardless, this appears to be like the “aromantics” who have crushes, just more MSU.
Kanye West, sex, and sadism.
[ Post updated. ]
We usually talk about B.S. scholarship as being pulled out of the professor’s ass.
In this case it’s a different orifice.
Ah, the swashbuckling tales of Dumas – :“All for one, two for the all you can eat buffet!”
The one that Empress Theodora wished she had?
Or it could be a deficit in any or all of those characteristics.
?
You have to admit ‘Visiting Research Fellow’ sounds much more impressive than ‘Playmate’.
Given what we have seen from academia lately, can we really say she doesn’t fit in?
Blasphemy laws on one hand, academic pornography on the other.
Something has to give.
There’s an asexual “community”? How long can that last? Shakers redux!
She’s sending some very mixed messages.
Extreme, round-the-clock sexual attention-seeking combined, simultaneously, with claims that sexual attention is unwelcome.
I mean, you say it out loud…
NEEDY and CRAZY.
Schizophrenic Ross. Just Ross.
They just didn’t try hard enough. After all, Beyonce won a Grammy for Best Country Music Album and Joe Biden won the 2020 POTUS election. Anything is possible.
Guardian readers do dating.
Rajesh Koothrappali?
Sounds a lot like cultural appropriation. You know, requiring trans actors to play any trans role? So why should asexuals take the sexy jobs?
Also, what sexiness is she appropriating? It’s not just one thing, sexy is relative to your *audience’s* preferences. Is she pretending to be straight sexy, gay sexy, queer sexy, trans sexy? I feel some kind of crib sheet or explanatory plaque is needed. Perhaps a badge, though that would probably hide much of the pretend-sexy.
Extreme, round-the-clock sexual attention-seeking combined, simultaneously, with claims that sexual attention is unwelcome.
Or, in the vernacular, “Look at my tits! Stop looking at my tits.”
Boobies were never highbrow.
Not really my area, guv. I looked at the second photo and all that came to mind were the oversize baps in the Béres roast pork sandwich shop.
At 04:00, he talks about Larry Fink with Blackrock rolling back all the “retarded” social projects that he’d previously been pushing and pushing.
That’s surprising. I thought Fink was a true believer, and that he was using his leverage to force compliance with a hard-left agenda that would eventually consolidated all corporate control in Washington (read: fascism).
Who knew he had his finger to the wind?
Well, quite. Though now I’m hungry and annoyed.
There is an “asexuality” community? eh?
Does it include incels?
For those who missed it, very much related.
So she’s going to write an academic paper in… three weeks?
ChatGPT is going to write the paper, which will be a buzzword salad larded up with some victimhood ideology crap for seasoning. Pal review will see all the right keywords and pass it through for publication.
She saw how well the whole trans thing went down for “look at me pay attention to me obey me” types, but doesn’t want all the messy ick with taking hormones, getting surgery, or apparently the messy ick involved in actual involvement with either sex. So basically all the worship of the GQBLT++ but without the commitments. Bingo presto a new stripe on the already overindulged, overburdened “rainbow” flag.
By the way, Ms Benoit’s Playboy interview can be found here.
Imagine blood loss as a reading experience.
Word on the street is that Canadians are having a right-old freakout today: tagging American-made products to boycott, Canadian-made to buy up, and asking those who do remote work for American companies whether they’ll quit their jobs.
I should think it’s best to wait a bit before making big decisions, because things are likely to settle out in a much less drastic manner than is currently being threatened. You know, for the negotiation leverage.
But it’s Trump, so who knows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9K9wiH2Lko
tariffs: well, for all those who are crowding the stores, looks like Mexico already caved and I bet Canada does too.
By the way, if the lass featured here knows how to look sexy, she is not asexual. Just sayin. Only in clown world can you get bonus points for hormonal deficiencies and mental illnesses.
And in Hollywood movie-award news.
A whore is a whore of course of course…
We hate you! Why don’t you like us!
Jeff Goldstein:
Links in original.