Heed Ye, O Heed Ye, the Agonies of the Left

When badmouthing maleness goes horribly wrong. 

White woman’s burden. 

Poltergeists and Martians also spared.

Hegemony, or at least someone’s windows, yeah? 

She’s decided you can’t decide.

You are free to remain immobile. 

I denounce the ableism. 

Adorable feminist says clever things. 

Well, unlike the other thing, it allows you to posture with little physical risk. 

And so modest with it. 

Erasing WrongThought™. 

It’s an incantation. It summons tedious people. 

He’s letting you know he’s smarter than you. See also this. 

If there’s a tube strike and you can’t get home or get to work, and if you aren’t happy about this, chances are you’re a wanker. 

Previous instalments can be found here. And feel free to share your own. 

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[Joan]

Severely educated.

That.

[Crazed Weevil]

Just how do these people get out of bed in the morning without killing themselves?

[David]

The needy social signalling does seem rather exhausting.

[Microbillionaire]

The concept of "intelligence" is one of the few cases where the social sciences actually produced a functional, reproducible, actionable metric for once. It ought to be held up as a success. Intelligence is the single largest predictor of life outcomes in general as well as specific task performances. There are multiple tests and proxies for intelligence (from Raven's matrices to reflexes) with high correlation and retest reliability. The tests also follow a strong form of the 80/20 rule - there are crude intelligence tests that take only five minutes and predict how someone is likely to be doing fifty years from now, loosely to be sure, but better than the weatherman can predict the weekend.

[David]

It ought to be held up as a success.

But the unequal distribution of intelligence is a thorn in the paw of devout egalitarians, many of whom will tie themselves in knots trying to avoid the obvious.

[Jamie MacMaster]

Pathetic little useless tits.

[R. Sherman]

Twitter has now become Nature's way of screaming, "Do not touch! Stay away!"

[[+]]

He’s letting you know he’s smarter than you.

Snork.

[rjmadden]

He’s letting you know he’s smarter than you.

"The left loathes the concept of IQ -- especially the claim that it helps to determine socio-economic status, rather than vice versa -- because of a near-religious attachment to the idea that man is a piece of clay that can be moulded into any shape by society."

http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2015/09/fall-meritocracy/

[big al]

What do these people do?....I mean it...Apparently most are"educated" or have some sort of post secondary degree, but really,what do they do?.....Are there really that many Starbucks or other specialty coffee shops or leftie bookstores out there? And in the case of a natural disaster or civic unrest, what could they do if they're keyboard or smart phone won't respond :)

[sackcloth and ashes]

I think the best response to these cretins is illustrated at 0:44 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXlvy3sTTBk

[DH]

What do these people do?

Two words: Public sector.

[Dr Evil]

Cis and trans relate to the position of atoms in a molecule. This woman is chemist!

[David]

I’ve added a couple more.

[John D]

Erasing WrongThought™.

I'm waiting for the Chrome extension that deletes all gendered pronouns. #hardcore

[David]

#hardcore

Presumably, it’s aimed at people who’ve achieved such extraordinary levels of doctrinaire uptightness that even the sight of certain common words sends them into a fit of indignation.

[Steve 2 - Stevement Day]

I am concerned about my transphobia, and had been taking steps to cure it, till I realised that "taking steps" is ableist.

So now I'm slithering towards transphilia, but not in an objectifying way like Alan Partridge's unhealthy interest in Bangkok ladyboys, because that would be problematic.

I have sellotaped a picture of Caitlyn Jenner to my bathroom mirror, and every morning I spend at least an hour staring at it and repeating the mantra "So stunning! So brave!" while beating the white cisgendered privilege out of myself with a flail made of recycled tampons and a rolled-up copy of The Guardian.

[Sam Duncan]

“I am speaking for all”

The arrogance of the political mindset in a nutshell.

It's not just the Left, let alone its loony subset. Anyone who “thinks in terms of populations” (as I once saw it put, approvingly), rather than actual, individual, living and breathing people, is saying this at some level. And it's a damned lie.

[Drake D]

It makes me giggle to see a shrieking harridan like Jessica Valenti grovel at the feet of emotionally disturbed half-wits over something as low-brow as "sausage fest." But maybe that's just me.

[Spiny Norman]

Nice montage of malevolent narcissism you've found there, David.

[pst314]

"Cis and trans relate to the position of atoms in a molecule. This woman is chemist!"

You've got a lot of Gaul, assuming that's the only possibility.

[Hal]

Some play D and D, some play Fantasy (American)Football, in turn, having the exact same relevance and effect on reality, some . . . . . . . . . . .

[Ted S., Catskill Mtns., NY, USA]

I'm waiting for the Chrome extension that deletes all gendered pronouns.

In the early 90s when I was in college, I suggested on Usenet (remember that?) that perhaps we should replace all instances of "he" with "it" and "his" with "its", but that feminists might not like what this does to words like "the" and "this".

[dicentra]

I have sellotaped a picture of Caitlyn Jenner to my bathroom mirror, and every morning I spend at least an hour staring at it and repeating the mantra "So stunning! So brave!"

Funny thing about Jenner is that he doesn't take himself anywhere near as seriously as the hordes of self-righteous transphiliacs do.

They had an attack of the vapors over a guy wearing a Halloween costume that mimicked his magazine cover and he said he thought it was "pretty cool."

He's also an admitted Republican, and that drives them nuts. Far more nuts than it drives Republicans that he's trans.

[David]

Nice montage of malevolent narcissism you’ve found there, David.

As I’m sure I’ve said before, the whole series is not unlike a psych profile.

[mojo]

They're so cute when they start huffing and puffing with outrage. Or turn red from frustration.

Of course, it's less funny when the cops and courts actually start taking their insane babbling seriously. PC is Stalinist idiocy.

[Dom]

You gotta see this. I guess I'm supposed to be concerned about the content of the video, but it really sounds stupid to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=113&v=BEO3H5BOlFk

[Dom]

Oh dear. Wasp normative expectations are the real problem. Trigger that ...

"Yet, no one is arguing for trigger warnings in the routine spaces where symbolic and structural violence are acted on students at the margins. No one, to my knowledge, is affixing trigger warnings to department meetings that WASP-y normative expectations may require you to code switch yourself into oblivion to participate as a full member of the group. Instead, trigger warnings are being encouraged for sites of resistance, not mechanisms of oppression."

[Hal]

Funny thing about Jenner is that he doesn't take himself anywhere near as seriously as the hordes of self-righteous transphiliacs do.

So in simple terms, Jenner is genuine, authentically changing from male to female, and therefore reacting from personal reasons, as opposed to trying to make up some impersonal and politically based party line while hoping it's considered the correct party line of the moment . . .

[Chester Draws]

He’s letting you know he’s smarter than you.

Not really. There is nothing remotely ableist about intelligence. Indeed proper intelligence tests are on way to actively prevent ableism - no-one marking a blinded test knows the candidate is in a wheelchair or is deaf.

I do confess to being quite "intelligent-ist" however. I would refuse to be treated by a stupid doctor, and I won't pay for a stupid accountant either.

I wonder if our social justice warrior would like to be treated by a clumsy and intellectually limited dentist? That would be quite a test of his actual thoughts.

Then again, this is a recent tweet:

The political assemblage that calls people "stupid" is the same one that ensures women studying are always attacked & undermined.

Which is why girls do better than boys at school, and women do better at men at university. Or something.

[David]

ensures women studying are always attacked & undermined.

Again, these declarations are social signalling. The wrongness isn’t random, it’s in-group positioning. They don’t need to address how the world actually is.

I wonder if our social justice warrior would like to be treated by a clumsy and intellectually limited dentist? That would be quite a test of his actual thoughts.

Quite. It’s rather like the Marxist philosophy lecturer Nina Power, who says that expectations of competence are unfair and that equality of intelligence is “something to be presupposed” because – well, just because - “everyone is equally intelligent.” Apparently, she and her fellow educators no longer need to be knowledgeable or competent in any conventional sense. We must be freed from the “dominance” of able and well-informed people. And if you think that smells like an excuse, you may well be right.

But if Dr Power were involved in a serious traffic accident, I’m guessing she’d want paramedics and surgeons who possessed the kind of “hierarchical” expertise she pretends to disdain. I doubt she’d be happy to go under a knife wielded by someone who’d been taught in the haphazard manner she advocates for others.

[Steve 2 - Stevement Day]

Dicentra - Funny thing about Jenner is that he doesn't take himself anywhere near as seriously as the hordes of self-righteous transphiliacs do.

Yes, he was adopted as a SJW shibboleth despite being an old, white, rich, Republican man-lady.

Transjenner is obviously crazier than Howling Mad Murdock on bath salts, but as far as I know his mentalism is personal, not political.

Hal - Jenner is genuine, authentically changing from male to female

Hal, I authentically changed into a cat once, but the neighbours still complained when I stalked birds in their garden.

There ain't no justice.

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

More agonies of the left, lockstep leftist feminists (yes, redundant) getting their granny pants in a wad because they are "uncomfortable" liking Carly Fiorina over H>illary!™; Miss Valenti is also afflicted, as is Miss Ryan.

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The wrongness isn’t random, it’s in-group positioning.

This is still my favourite:

Via http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2014/11/no-balm-can-soothe-the-agonies-of-the-left.html

[David]

This is still my favourite

Heh. Mr McCafferty apparently feels that “I hate capitalism. One day we will end it, Meg” is the kind of thing one very much ought to say, and ought to be seen saying, however incongruously. Given the randomness of it, I can only imagine he was hoping to win Meg’s affections.

But I’ve seen this kind of thing happen before, in person, more than a few times. There are people out there who feel a need to tell you, however inappropriately, that they don’t like sexism or racism, as if somehow you might be a huge fan, or that they don’t like markets and capitalism (regardless of how well they understand such things or whether they have in mind an alternative that isn’t monstrous, ruinous or remotely credible). I can think of several occasions when someone interjected in this way, ostentatiously, and with no obvious relevance to the ongoing conversation. Again, it helps if you think of it as a display.

Inadvertent comedy aside, it can be quite dreary to be stuck in a conversation with someone you barely know and who, in effect, is continually saying, “Yes, never mind what you’re all talking about, look at me and how nice and caring I think I am. Listen to all the things I disapprove of.”

[Timbo]

Believe it or not, these people have further to fall, if they let themselves: http://allisbornagain.tumblr.com/aboutme

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

Believe it or not, these people have further to fall...

There used to be homes for people like that.

[Spiny Norman]

Farnsworth,

I have to wonder, what sort of traumatic childhood event occurred that resulted in dear Em not maturing beyond the age of ten?

[Theophrastus]

OT, but the inimitable Brian Sewell is dead:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11876915/Brian-Sewell-art-critic-obituary.html

[Hal]

Hal, I authentically changed into a cat once, . . . .

Excellent doing once the engineering is arranged. Evidently being a were-Anything is rather more complicated than not.---According to comments I've run across at one time or another, the starting point is always, It's not what you think.

. . . . but the neighbours still complained when I stalked birds in their garden.

. . and that's their problem---Cats do that . . . .

There ain't no justice.

If you've actually manage to be a werecat, or in the case of Jenner, Ehn . . .

Remember, when Jenner is an old, white, rich, Republican woman, the right wing liberals are going scream Nooo!!! Jenner is not supposed to be a woman!!!!!. And equally in turn the left wing liberals are all going to scream Nooo!!! Jenner is not supposed to be old, white, rich, Republican!!!!! And we conservatives bookended between the liberal extremes will just roll our eyes, again, if we even happen to run across the reactions . . . .

After all, as a matched pair of varieties of hipsters, there's a right wing liberal or left wing liberal born every minute.

[TimT]

"Do I feel my white privilege? Yes. Daily."

I hear you can get an implement to help you with that. With batteries.

[TimT]

That one time I felt my male privilege the blankets got horribly messy.

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

Spiny,

In her case, if her professed diagnoses of bipolar disorder, conversion syndromes, and eating disorders are indeed accurate, it would suggest that it just faulty factory wiring. That these are all legit is a bit of a leap.

However, the bigger question is what exactly is the etiology and epidemiology of the Neverland Syndrome into which she has also bought, and which has spawned all this "otherkin", "demisexual", "fillintheblanksexual" rubbish (not to mention idiocy like the Bronies) that has popped up comparatively recently.

The situation appears analogous to that of cats which never really advance past kittenhood if they are raised and kept completely in a house, and I suppose that the bubble wrap mentality with which children (at least affluent children) have tended to be raised may create the same situation in humans. Regardless, that doesn't explain where the bubble wrap mentality came from.

The SJW claptrap, OTOH, is just boilerplate leftism which combined with the above, yields a net result of a perpetual child who is also a Victim™, and now we essentially have a nice case of Munchausen Syndrome and one who must be pitied and cared for by all.

However, I am sufficiently antediluvian that when I was a kid on a trip to Mississippi I was once told I was going into the wrong men's room, so I just don't get why these latest crops want to be coddled.

[sackcloth and ashes]

'Mr McCafferty apparently feels that “I hate capitalism. One day we will end it, Meg” is the kind of thing one very much ought to say, and ought to be seen saying, however incongruously. Given the randomness of it, I can only imagine he was hoping to win Meg’s affections'.

He is definitely trying to get a fuck out of this situation, and he will fail.

Unless he likes strapons.

[Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK]

Steve 2--you referenced Howling Mad Murdock...I LOVE YOU.

[Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK]

I hope that didn't trigger you.

Anyway, these whiny miserable twits want to make everyone equally a whining miserable twit, have I got that right?

[Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK]

I did gently suggest to a SJW of my acquaintance that calling someone with the surname of Palin a whore and a cocksucking slut, etc., was misogynist and could he please call her non-sexualized insults, please? I haven't heard back in a couple of days and I reckon I never will.

[Spiny Norman]

Farnsworth,

In her case, if her professed diagnoses of bipolar disorder, conversion syndromes, and eating disorders are indeed accurate, it would suggest that it just faulty factory wiring. That these are all legit is a bit of a leap.

A bit of leap, yes. It's been my admittedly anecdotal experience that young women who publicly embrace (dare I say, celebrate?) such diagnoses tend to be making excuses for self-indulgent behavior.

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

Spiny,

"Celebrate" is certainly accurate given that their lives largely revolve around their symptoms and the "support groups" (generally self-licking ice cream cones) for the various diagnoses.

The apparent proliferation of such behaviors, to include trendy "food allergies", various "intolerances", "detox" programs, popular "diseases" that have no apparent biological or pathological bases, and other claptrap, suggest that your anecdotal experience is really just a subset of the data.

[Sensei]

I'm afraid this is why we're going to need a major world war.

[David]

During a software demonstration, the Patriarchy is caught red-handed.

Why, he’s practically punching that model into a smile.

[David]

Don’t question the importance of her selfies.

Daisy is a student “on medical leave” and a self-described “leftie feminist witch.” From what I can make out, she’s excited about Jeremy Corbyn and is travelling around Europe taking endless photos of her hair, which is blue.

[dan]

I am working on a Python script that will generate inspirational feminist sayings on Twitter: @GeniRede

[Ray]

Theophrastus

I was sad to see that too. I treasure the memory of him correcting 'less' to 'fewer' on HIGNFY.

[Lancastrian Oik]

Death Mermaid Doll: "I have bpd (with the anxiety, dissociating, paranoia, idealizing/copying and black/white thinking parts especially strong so please go easy on me), and have been housebound from chronic pain and conversion disorder (where brain badness translates into physical pain) for a while, so ‘lol go outside’ is wasted on me.

I'm guessing from the age of about seven onwards.

DMD: "My MBTI thing is ISFJ if you’re interested".

Actually, I'm not.

DMD: "Social Justice Warrior Princess. Or more boring, this blog is heavy on the social justice. Mostly to do with sexism, ableism and analyzing problems in media. I’m still learning".

In other words, Death Mermaid Doll is what Daredevil would be like if he was a whiny, narcissistic, monumentally useless fucked-up superannuated teenage SJW. She's 25 years old for Christ's sake.

DMD: ""Like I said, I am learning and will often screw up, so if I do screw up, please don’t hesitate to come in my inbox and tell me".

Sir, the Unwitting Parody Proximity Alarm is showing 9.98. I'll try a re-set.... No, it hasn't worked. Do you mind if I disable audio? Otherwise I'm gonna go deaf here.

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

Speaking of Daisy, I am guessing, "ox philosophy + linguistics student on medical leave", means Oxford philosophy and linguistics student ?

If so, Twitter aside, and ignoring how someone on medical leave can go gallivanting about Europe, how an Oxford philosophy and linguistics student writes this stuff without terminal embarrassment is a wonder:

"...look like something from a fairytale and my first instinct was to be like 'ikr its gr8' im so proud..."

Not to mention the originality of, "david cameron more like david cameWRONG amirite".

I had held out hope for her when I saw this, "jezza's speech !!! what a Good", but then I realized she was not talking about Clarkson, but that Corbyn bozo.

[Sporkatus]

@ Lancastrian Oik - While we didn't really need to see her Meyers-Briggs test, the results on it serve to confirm what we already knew.Intuitive Sensing Feeling Judging? (Iirc) "I make all of my decisions based on feelings and spirit whispers and am probably immune to logic" in this case? Run away, run away!

[WTP]

Oxford philosophy and linguistics student

Now I'm curious. How likely do y'all suppose this is?

[Ian]

Just spent an hour reading the whole series. My hope for the future has really taken a hit.

[David]

No refunds. Credit note only.

[jabrwok]

My hope for the future has really taken a hit.

My hope for the future is that the coming Dark Age is relatively short, and that some remnant of Western Civilization (which would almost *have* to be a sane remnant in order to survive the Collapse) will re-take the world from the various barbarian hordes currently streaming out of the Middle-East.

As I have no children though, my personal investment in the future beyond my own lifetime is effectively non-existent. One half-niece doesn't resonate with my "protect the bloodline!" instinct nearly as much as children of my own body would.

For those of you with children, I suggest firearms training and a good bug-out plan.

[mojo]

Coddling the insane leads to no good.

[Jeff Guinn]

Catherine Deveny of I regard heterosexual marriage as a much more important feminist issue and bigger oppressor of women than the burka fame looks like re-proving once again for the umpteenth time the rule that all ranting, bitter, feminists have daddy issues:

I was born on fathers’ day. I hated my father. I’m glad he’s dead

[J.M. Heinrichs]

You might enjoy this, via Instapundit:
http://everywomanweekly.com/how-can-i-convince-my-3-year-old-theyre-transgender-go-ask-jane/

Cheers

[dicentra]

Mermatriarch claims to be "ravenpuff."

No such thing: the sorting hat sends you to one house only, and EVERYBODY KNOWS IT.

But then, she does traffic in improbabilities, so there's that.

[dicentra]

Coddling the insane leads to no good.

The truly insane do need coddling, given that the voices in their heads tend to revile, upbraid, and berate the victims mercilessly.

It's the narcissistic, status-craving, obnoxious wannabees who think that their delicate conditions absolve them from self-examination or criticism.

Or as Spiny Norman observed:

It's been my admittedly anecdotal experience that young women who publicly embrace (dare I say, celebrate?) such diagnoses tend to be making excuses for self-indulgent behavior.

Those with real mental illnesses would give an arm and a leg to be quit of the demons in their heads, whose existence is not to be embraced but rather lamented.

That's probably a good tell for the real ones: the real ones find mental illness to be a nearly unbearable burden; the fake ones think it makes them interesting and exotic.

[Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK]

Wow. Daisy's a silly twit, ain't she? Poor thing, doesn't even know how much of a dumbass she is.

[David]

Ms Deveny describes herself as a “social media consultant,” a “highly regarded consultant in… cultural trending.” Which reminded me of this:

It’s like when someone refers to “pop culture” as an area of expertise.

[SteveGW]

Dan said: "I am working on a Python script that will generate inspirational feminist sayings on Twitter: @GeniRede"

It can start off with 'What have the womans ever done for us?'

[BackwardsBoy]

Yet more reasons why I don't have a Twitter account.

[Tim Newman]

My day job involves, in part, the design of unmanned offshore platforms, but robotic offshore platforms are way cooler. They might even walk out to sea themselves.

[David]

Heh.

[David]

And if you dare to mock hashtag warriors and their self-imagined radicalism, you must, simply must, dislike disabled people.

Do keep up. The rules change overnight.

[dicentra]

Also, putting bread in the refrigerator makes it degrade faster.

Either the breadbox on the countertop OR the freezer.

[dicentra]

Instalanche, David.

You might want to put the you-know-what in the back room for the nonce.

[David]

We need more coasters.

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

As long as we are speaking of SJWs, please enjoy the adventures of Gyno-Star !.

[AC1]

@Tim Newman
How many women work in the North Sea area? Are they being discriminated out of jobs by society making them not apply for these dirty and dangerous roles?

[rabbit]

What is the name for the psychological phenomenon where one becomes so caught up in a movement that one's critical faculties become entirely inert?

Other than "twitter user" I mean.

[Hal]

What is the name for the psychological phenomenon where one becomes so caught up in a movement that one's critical faculties become entirely inert?

Stockholm syndrome somewhat relates to what you describe . . .

[dicentra]

What is the name for the psychological phenomenon where one becomes so caught up in a movement that one's critical faculties become entirely inert?

I don't know, but you'll likely fined it in this book: http://www.amazon.com/True-Believer-Thoughts-Movements-Perennial/dp/0060505915/ref=sr_1_1

[rabbit]

dicentra:

Thank you. At $11.62 (Cdn) I may well buy it. It should go well with "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds".

[dicentra]

IDENTIFIED: The Social Justice Smirk.

Alphabetically filed AFTER the pedo-smile.

[Spiny Norman]

Other than "twitter user" I mean.

I tend to stick with the sarcastic humor and satire section.

https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/646135617584128000

I don't venture down the SJW path. There lies madness.

[sackcloth and ashes]

'Save Darfur is famous, not for its cries of protest against the world’s indifference to a crime against humanity, but for the demonstrable indifference of the supposed do-gooders, who signed up to it. As it turned out, they weren’t do-gooders, but look-gooders. They publicly announced their righteousness and then did nothing at all.

The University of California found 99.76 per cent of the one million-plus members failed to donate a penny to the cause.

“The study is an important counter-balance to unbridled enthusiasm for the powers of social media,” said one of its researchers. “There’s no inherent magic. Social media can activate interpersonal ties but won’t necessarily turn ordinary citizens into hyper-activists.”

Or indeed any kind of activist. James Bartholomew came up with the wonderful label ‘virtue-signalling’ to describe the narcissism of their gesture politics. You see it every day on the Web. (Every day? What am I talking about? Every minute.)

The 140-character pronunciamentos. The activists who think they can deliver socialism with an angry Facebook status. The furious complaints all writers get from all sides demanding in outraged terms ‘what gives you the right to say this’. To which the only answer is ‘I have as much or as little right as you. If you disagree with me so violently, why don’t you write a book or make a film to put your point of view?’

They never do. It is not just that their only talent is to beat their chests and howl like enraged orang-u-tangs. They lack the application to construct an argument that might appeal to the unconverted, or tell a story that remedies the real and imagined biases of this novelist or that filmmaker'.

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/09/looking-good-nothing-corbyn-slackactivist-left/

[David]

As it turned out, they weren’t do-gooders, but look-gooders.

That could easily be a motto for the Agonies series, and for the left more generally. Though readers’ definitions of doing good may depart somewhat from those being tweeted.

For instance.

[Joan]

"Aggressive public displays of virtue are where the morally deplorable hide."

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/21/heres-why-the-progressive-left-keeps-sticking-up-for-pedophiles/

[David]

“Aggressive public displays of virtue are where the morally deplorable hide.”

Heh. Well, it does seem to be an odd thing to do, this habitual, almost neurotic signalling of piety. I can’t offhand think of a not-peculiar reason to spend so much time publicly saying, in effect, “Look at me and how nice and caring I think I am. Listen to all the things I disapprove of.” I mean, for instance, this tweet is only comprehensible if you think of leftism in terms of display. Or pretence.

[Hal]

Other than "twitter user" I mean.

I tend to stick with the sarcastic humor and satire section.

Elizabeth Windsor
‏@Queen_UK

Gone right off pork.

[dicentra]

Other fun Twitter accounts:

@BoredElonMusk

@LosFelizDaycare

@BlindChow

@NeinQuarterly

@MrGeorgeWallace

@manual_txt (Operator's Manual)

@pixelatedboat

[Spiny Norman]

@BoredElonMusk

Heh. ;-)

[Joan]

David, another one for you.

"Masculinity is a social construct... created by Patriarchy."

https://twitter.com/Emma_Cueto/status/646719029936263169

[David]

“Masculinity is a social construct... created by Patriarchy.”

Oh dear. But this is what happens when the credulous listen to Women’s Studies lecturers, who generally have qualifications in English literature instead of, say, biology or neuroscience.

[ Added: ]

I notice Ms Cueto seems baffled and exasperated that some male readers have taken exception to her pronouncements and general air of condescension. Which is odd, really, as it seems she’s insisting that men in general have something terribly and profoundly wrong with them and therefore need fixing. By enlightened people like her.

[Hal]

Of course by contrast there is putting one's butt on the line . . . literally.

Self-professed 'grumpy old woman' glues her bum to a Debenhams
Metro - ‎10 minutes ago

Debenhams issues witty response after becoming the butt of a bizarre protest
The Drum - ‎2 hours ag

Fed Up 'World's Grumpiest Old Woman' Strips Naked, Glues Herself To Croydon ...
Yahoo News UK - ‎2 hours ago‎

Semi-naked granny glues her bottom to window of Debenhams
The Sun (subscription) - ‎2 hours ago‎

[David]

Semi-naked granny glues her bottom to window of Debenhams

You wouldn’t get that kind of thing at John Lewis.

[AC1]

So.....

Gender is a choice, yet people who decide to be women are discriminated against.

So these people DECIDE to be inferior (in their view).