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.
Severely educated.
That.
Posted by: Joan | September 18, 2015 at 09:26
Just how do these people get out of bed in the morning without killing themselves?
Posted by: Crazed Weevil | September 18, 2015 at 09:38
The needy social signalling does seem rather exhausting.
Posted by: David | September 18, 2015 at 10:00
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.
Posted by: Microbillionaire | September 18, 2015 at 10:31
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.
Posted by: David | September 18, 2015 at 10:42
Pathetic little useless tits.
Posted by: Jamie MacMaster | September 18, 2015 at 11:42
Twitter has now become Nature's way of screaming, "Do not touch! Stay away!"
Posted by: R. Sherman | September 18, 2015 at 11:58
He’s letting you know he’s smarter than you.
Snork.
Posted by: [+] | September 18, 2015 at 12:02
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/
Posted by: rjmadden | September 18, 2015 at 12:37
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 :)
Posted by: big al | September 18, 2015 at 12:50
I think the best response to these cretins is illustrated at 0:44 here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXlvy3sTTBk
Posted by: sackcloth and ashes | September 18, 2015 at 12:54
What do these people do?
Two words: Public sector.
Posted by: DH | September 18, 2015 at 13:06
Cis and trans relate to the position of atoms in a molecule. This woman is chemist!
Posted by: Dr Evil | September 18, 2015 at 13:33
I’ve added a couple more.
Posted by: David | September 18, 2015 at 13:36
Erasing WrongThought™.
I'm waiting for the Chrome extension that deletes all gendered pronouns. #hardcore
Posted by: John D | September 18, 2015 at 14:14
#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.
Posted by: David | September 18, 2015 at 14:17
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.
Posted by: Steve 2 - Stevement Day | September 18, 2015 at 14:52
“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.
Posted by: Sam Duncan | September 18, 2015 at 14:55
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.
Posted by: Drake D | September 18, 2015 at 15:49
Nice montage of malevolent narcissism you've found there, David.
Posted by: Spiny Norman | September 18, 2015 at 18:16
"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.
Posted by: pst314 | September 18, 2015 at 18:47
Some play D and D, some play Fantasy (American)Football, in turn, having the exact same relevance and effect on reality, some . . . . . . . . . . .
Posted by: Hal | September 18, 2015 at 19:02
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".
Posted by: Ted S., Catskill Mtns., NY, USA | September 18, 2015 at 19:41
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.
Posted by: dicentra | September 18, 2015 at 19:48
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.
Posted by: David | September 18, 2015 at 19:49
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.
Posted by: mojo | September 18, 2015 at 20:43
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
Posted by: Dom | September 18, 2015 at 21:17
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."
Posted by: Dom | September 18, 2015 at 21:21
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 . . .
Posted by: Hal | September 18, 2015 at 21:45
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.
Posted by: Chester Draws | September 19, 2015 at 00:42
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.
Posted by: David | September 19, 2015 at 08:46
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.
Posted by: Steve 2 - Stevement Day | September 19, 2015 at 09:12
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.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | September 19, 2015 at 13:23
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
Posted by: [+] | September 19, 2015 at 14:08
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.”
Posted by: David | September 19, 2015 at 14:31
Believe it or not, these people have further to fall, if they let themselves: http://allisbornagain.tumblr.com/aboutme
Posted by: Timbo | September 19, 2015 at 15:47
Believe it or not, these people have further to fall...
There used to be homes for people like that.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | September 19, 2015 at 16:52
Farnsworth,
I have to wonder, what sort of traumatic childhood event occurred that resulted in dear Em not maturing beyond the age of ten?
Posted by: Spiny Norman | September 19, 2015 at 17:27
OT, but the inimitable Brian Sewell is dead:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11876915/Brian-Sewell-art-critic-obituary.html
Posted by: Theophrastus | September 19, 2015 at 20:35
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.
Posted by: Hal | September 19, 2015 at 20:43
"Do I feel my white privilege? Yes. Daily."
I hear you can get an implement to help you with that. With batteries.
Posted by: TimT | September 19, 2015 at 22:33
That one time I felt my male privilege the blankets got horribly messy.
Posted by: TimT | September 19, 2015 at 22:33
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.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | September 19, 2015 at 23:02
'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.
Posted by: sackcloth and ashes | September 20, 2015 at 00:10
Steve 2--you referenced Howling Mad Murdock...I LOVE YOU.
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK | September 20, 2015 at 01:44
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?
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK | September 20, 2015 at 01:45
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.
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK | September 20, 2015 at 01:51
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.
Posted by: Spiny Norman | September 20, 2015 at 02:58
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.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | September 20, 2015 at 03:48
I'm afraid this is why we're going to need a major world war.
Posted by: Sensei | September 20, 2015 at 06:01
During a software demonstration, the Patriarchy is caught red-handed.
Why, he’s practically punching that model into a smile.
Posted by: David | September 20, 2015 at 07:48
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.
Posted by: David | September 20, 2015 at 08:05
I am working on a Python script that will generate inspirational feminist sayings on Twitter: @GeniRede
Posted by: dan | September 20, 2015 at 11:45
Theophrastus
I was sad to see that too. I treasure the memory of him correcting 'less' to 'fewer' on HIGNFY.
Posted by: Ray | September 20, 2015 at 12:43
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.
Posted by: Lancastrian Oik | September 20, 2015 at 12:53
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.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | September 20, 2015 at 13:16
@ 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!
Posted by: Sporkatus | September 20, 2015 at 13:45
Oxford philosophy and linguistics student
Now I'm curious. How likely do y'all suppose this is?
Posted by: WTP | September 20, 2015 at 14:41
Just spent an hour reading the whole series. My hope for the future has really taken a hit.
Posted by: Ian | September 20, 2015 at 14:50
No refunds. Credit note only.
Posted by: David | September 20, 2015 at 15:08
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.
Posted by: jabrwok | September 20, 2015 at 16:40
Coddling the insane leads to no good.
Posted by: mojo | September 20, 2015 at 19:47
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
Posted by: Jeff Guinn | September 20, 2015 at 23:44
You might enjoy this, via Instapundit:
http://everywomanweekly.com/how-can-i-convince-my-3-year-old-theyre-transgender-go-ask-jane/
Cheers
Posted by: J.M. Heinrichs | September 21, 2015 at 00:35
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.
Posted by: dicentra | September 21, 2015 at 04:15
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:
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.
Posted by: dicentra | September 21, 2015 at 04:24
Wow. Daisy's a silly twit, ain't she? Poor thing, doesn't even know how much of a dumbass she is.
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK | September 21, 2015 at 05:06
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.
Posted by: David | September 21, 2015 at 06:57
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?'
Posted by: SteveGW | September 21, 2015 at 09:34
Yet more reasons why I don't have a Twitter account.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy | September 21, 2015 at 14:40
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.
Posted by: Tim Newman | September 21, 2015 at 15:10
Heh.
Posted by: David | September 21, 2015 at 15:18
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.
Posted by: David | September 21, 2015 at 16:20
Also, putting bread in the refrigerator makes it degrade faster.
Either the breadbox on the countertop OR the freezer.
Posted by: dicentra | September 21, 2015 at 16:44
Instalanche, David.
You might want to put the you-know-what in the back room for the nonce.
Posted by: dicentra | September 21, 2015 at 16:50
We need more coasters.
Posted by: David | September 21, 2015 at 16:54
As long as we are speaking of SJWs, please enjoy the adventures of Gyno-Star !.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | September 21, 2015 at 17:18
@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?
Posted by: AC1 | September 21, 2015 at 17:20
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.
Posted by: rabbit | September 21, 2015 at 17:55
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 . . .
Posted by: Hal | September 21, 2015 at 18:24
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
Posted by: dicentra | September 21, 2015 at 19:31
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".
Posted by: rabbit | September 21, 2015 at 22:29
IDENTIFIED: The Social Justice Smirk.
Alphabetically filed AFTER the pedo-smile.
Posted by: dicentra | September 22, 2015 at 04:47
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.
Posted by: Spiny Norman | September 22, 2015 at 07:43
'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/
Posted by: sackcloth and ashes | September 22, 2015 at 13:37
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.
Posted by: David | September 22, 2015 at 13:50
"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/
Posted by: Joan | September 22, 2015 at 14:40
“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.
Posted by: David | September 22, 2015 at 15:00
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.
Posted by: Hal | September 22, 2015 at 15:47
Other fun Twitter accounts:
@BoredElonMusk
@LosFelizDaycare
@BlindChow
@NeinQuarterly
@MrGeorgeWallace
@manual_txt (Operator's Manual)
@pixelatedboat
Posted by: dicentra | September 23, 2015 at 03:00
@BoredElonMusk
Heh. ;-)
Posted by: Spiny Norman | September 24, 2015 at 15:17
David, another one for you.
"Masculinity is a social construct... created by Patriarchy."
https://twitter.com/Emma_Cueto/status/646719029936263169
Posted by: Joan | September 24, 2015 at 15:42
“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.
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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.
Posted by: David | September 24, 2015 at 16:02
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
Posted by: Hal | September 24, 2015 at 17:57
Semi-naked granny glues her bottom to window of Debenhams
You wouldn’t get that kind of thing at John Lewis.
Posted by: David | September 24, 2015 at 18:00
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).
Posted by: AC1 | September 25, 2015 at 11:29