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Two Approaches To Life

Ms Kelly’s outlook, seen below, seems rather fraught and a tad contrived.

And so, if a friend or colleague is trying to lose weight, which isn’t always easy, and this friend or colleague makes visible progress, then, naturally, you shouldn’t encourage them. Lest they press on and become happy. You see, according to Ms Kelly, our expert in such matters, “anti-fatness” – i.e., complimenting a friend or colleague for losing weight and achieving a goal – is “a perpetuation and enforcement of white supremacist beauty standards.” Sheer beastliness. If you must acknowledge the accomplishment at all, it seems you’re only allowed to do it in a curiously roundabout way – say, by talking about their shoes. 

Other, perhaps more obvious approaches are of course available. 

Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.

Our Brilliance Is Obscured By Your Cruel, Cruel Words

Chronic self-flatterers mystified by mockery of chronic self-flatterers:  

Update, via the comments:

Laurie Has A Sister

And so, 

Lifted from the comments, where Jen asks an inevitable question, 

Does she think Israel is ‘whiter’ than Estonia?

Geographically and demographically, it’s all rather confusing. What with the violent logic of whiteness. But like so many others, the above isn’t a load-bearing statement; it’s just there for effect. To alert us to an eruption of wokeness, and therefore superiority. Eleanor Penny, by the way, is not only an editor for Red Pepper, but also a senior editor for Novara Media. Where socialists and feminists, and socialist feminists, rub their throbbing brains until something oozes out.

Via Obnoxio. 

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

When badmouthing maleness goes horribly wrong. 

The Amazon Vanguard

An agony of sorts, spotted by Julia and several others during the National Union of Students’ currently ongoing Women’s Conference: 

No, you mustn’t laugh, says the Independent’s Andrew Griffin. Because clapping in support can break a woman in half: 

No Balm Can Soothe the Agonies of the Left

Via 4d2b: A female student is catcalled. The University of East Anglia’s postgrad education officer immediately spots the problem. 

Even Her Buttocks Feel Guilty (and Other Agonies)

Yes, yes, I know. It’s beneath me. Beneath her too.

The Agonies of the Left Are Not To Be Laughed At

Brace yourselves, dear readers. Colette is positively trembling with feminist rage.

What, you ask, could make a person so upset, so swollen with indignation? I fear we need a trigger warning before you click below.

It’s a Fascist Groove Thang

Ugh. Am felled by Man Flu, the deadliest flu of all. However, further to this discussion, I feel compelled to share this. 

If I don’t make it through the day, tell them I died heroically and handsomely. In an ocean of snot.

Update: 

A Dull Hum of Distant Agony

You see, those bitchy women are only bitchy because of capitalism.

Little Knots of Agony

Hush now, you patriarchal rubes, with your whiteness and your privilege. Our educated betters are about to speak.

Yes, his whiteness and genitals were the only problem. The salacious fantasies of “revolutionary terror” and global class genocide? She’s fine with that. Marx may have been a man, and a white one at that, but hey, he knew “what’s up.” And along with his comrades, he planned to fix all that. With the “complete extirpation” of “reactionary peoples” – i.e., bourgeois troublemakers like thee and me. Oh, there’s more. Ms Johnson, a “strong black woman and lover of poetry,” has some facts to impart, literally:  

What Your Masculinity Is

Because Laurie knows.

So, gents. Is your masculinity in crisis? Or is it, like capitalism, the very definition of crisis? Those are your choices, apparently.