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One example [of an alleged microaggression] was staff “rolling their eyes during … meetings while Principal Moffett is speaking.” [ ... ] Errol Hassell Elementary made the news earlier this year when a parent got a lawyer involved regarding the school’s “21-Day Social Justice Challenge.” The parent alleged Principal Moffett had “dismissed” his concerns and retaliated against his daughter.
It's true that rolling your eyes at something someone is saying is disrespectful.
Then again, it's also true that being a complete cunt tends to rub people up the wrong way.
Womenfolk, Know Your Place
And in sports news: An adult biological male who identifies as a woman edged out a 13-year-old girl to take first place in a women’s skateboarding contest held in New York Saturday. Sometimes reality is a little too on-the-nose. Update, via the comments, where Melofon adds, Ben Shapiro’s Daily W...
So, hey. No biggie.
It's always refreshing to be reminded that we belong to the same species that produced Witchfinder Generals.
That's really what Moen is, albeit a looking glass variant.
Only Looking (2)
And in, er, child-molestation-fantasy news: A professor of Ethics at Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway has called to legalise AI-generated child pornography, claiming that paedophilia should be seen as an innate sexuality that requires destigmatisation. Ole Martin Moen, a gay man who ident...
It reminded me of Ms Yassmin Abdel-Magied ...
Having previously been unaware of this particular enlightened intellectual, I went to her Wikipedia entry which, if accurate, and presumably it is, makes for fascinating reading in light of her "waking nightmare" comment:
Yassmin Midhat Abdel-Magied was born in Khartoum, Sudan.
As skilled migrants, her parents moved to Brisbane, Australia with her when aged 18 months in late 1992 [ ... ]
Abdel-Magied's father, Midhat Abdel-Magied, completed a PhD in electrical engineering at Imperial College, London [ ... ]
Yassmin's mother, Faiza El-Higzi, was a qualified architect in Sudan, and now holds postgraduate degrees across various disciplines [ ... ].
Abdel-Magied attended primary school at the Islamic College of Brisbane and the independent Christian high school John Paul College, at which there was no policy against wearing a hijab
David Baddiel, a British comedian and writer, once commented on the Scottish tennis player, Andy Murray, that it was funny how everyone assumed that because he was from Scotland he must be working class (not the case at all).
At the time, it was an off-the-cuff comment on a BBC radio programme poking gentle fun at London's intelligentsia.
It was mildly funny then, but Channel 4 (UK), the BBC, and The Guardian has for quite some time championed and promoted a number of ethnic minority intellectuals, writers and the like on the unstated assumption that such people are authentic voices of the oppressed.
Afua Hirsch is one good example (educated at the exclusive all-girls Wimbledon High School before going on to Oxford, naturally, her parents and even grandparents' were educated at Oxford and Cambridge and held elite posts in the old colonial establishment).
Priyamvada Gopal is another - a child of diplomats, she was educated at an exclusive international school in Vienna, Austria, and is now professor at the University of Cambridge, where she complains of being discriminated against by the porters.
There are no doubt more.
The words "controlled opposition" and "managed dissent" come to mind for some reason.
Friday Ephemera
A situation had arisen. || Can you guess ten seconds? (h/t, Things) || The concept of sideways. || Smooth operator. || Temptation. || Patient dogs. || The joys of public transport, part 4,865. || The progressive retail experience, part 434. || They hunt in packs. || I’ll tell you when to stop. |...
the educational importance of those TikTok leggings
Now I know what horror movie clowns are going to look like about 15 years from now.
Your Children Will Tell Me How Pretty I Am
Further to recent rumblings in the comments: “How do I look today?” Because, naturally, it’s all about him. Oh, and let’s not forget the educational importance of those TikTok leggings. Needless to say, one of many. Update, via the comments, where Joan adds, “Shirt –‘we are activists’ - is from...
Like he's off his meds.
Heh.
Your Children Will Tell Me How Pretty I Am
Further to recent rumblings in the comments: “How do I look today?” Because, naturally, it’s all about him. Oh, and let’s not forget the educational importance of those TikTok leggings. Needless to say, one of many. Update, via the comments, where Joan adds, “Shirt –‘we are activists’ - is from...
Again, aspirational role-model.
More of the same here.
It does leave one wondering how on Earth they could ever have possibly come to the conclusion that this would advance the ostensible cause of creating a more open and inclusive society.
So I have been left to assume that this is not why they are doing what they are doing. As far as I can tell, one or more of the following seems more plausible as a motivation:
Unadulterated narcissism - to achieve notoriety without caring for the particulars of how it is achieved. So long as it provokes all the "right" people, it's a publicity victory.
"Normalise" (so-called) marginal communities - to bring the marginal into the centre and establish it as an alternative but equal "norm",seemingly on the grounds that if anything and everything can be considered to be a norm, then no one can be excluded or marginalised.
Perhaps needless to say, but if this is the case, it betrays a profoundly crude, simplistic and immature understanding, one might even say a fantastical understanding, of what a society is and how it functions.
Dismantling liberal society - to expose the (alleged) internal contradictions of liberal Western societies by trying to demonstrate that it is, in fact, far more intolerant and oppressive to minority communities and not, as it is claimed to be, tolerant and open.
Whichever of these it is - or even none - the real question is still why such obvious Bedlamites are given so much support in Media and government.
Friday Ephemera
More than close enough. || The machine uprising, day 3. || A test of manliness. || Meanwhile, in Canada. || Neutralising tremors. || That’s a lot of drag-for-kiddies. || That’s a lot of transgender paedophilia. (h/t, Burnsie) || He does this better than you do. || Songs like X. For finding new m...
People should “not discriminate” against someone based on sex, race, disability, or religion, according to the poster, nor someone’s “sexual offender status.”
Trump should book it as a speaking venue.
For the "lulz".
All These Things Thou Shalt Not Judge
At Adelphi University, a curious inclusion: A private university in New York told students, faculty, and staff to not discriminate against someone based on a history of sexual offences. A poster at the university, obtained by The College Fix, has a list of categories and a statement that “I will...
Chicken-and-egg debate gets surprising new makeover.
All These Things Thou Shalt Not Judge
At Adelphi University, a curious inclusion: A private university in New York told students, faculty, and staff to not discriminate against someone based on a history of sexual offences. A poster at the university, obtained by The College Fix, has a list of categories and a statement that “I will...
[ Fixes overflow of bold, fetches revolver. ]
[ Shifts to a place further along the bar ]
It’s like The Black & White Minstrel Show, but for gay kids.
That really hits the nail on the head, doesn’t it?
The first time I encountered this kind of thing was more than 15 years ago at an international arts festival in Singapore.
Artists of all kinds had been invited from across the globe to perform and some of them were even talented.
From Lithuania came a theatre group that put one of the most imaginative and compelling performances of Othello I’ve ever seen - the fact that it was performed in Lithuanian probably enhanced the effect.
From Hong Kong came a Cantonese Opera, the first time I’d seen a show of that kind.
Then there was the UK’s entry.
Let’s just say that to this very day I’m still half convinced that the Singaporean organisers knew absolutely what they were doing when they chose this particular act to represent their former colonial power.
It was a drag queen version of a Punch and Judy show except instead of Punch and Judy there were Barbie and Ken like dolls of glamorous female flight attendants cooing over a pilot.
Despite being performed to a small group of primary school age children (and their bemused parents) from what I could gather the show was full of absolutely filthy innuendo so it was really just as well they (apparently) didn’t get what the show was actually about.
Needless to say, it left me in a less than patriotic mood.
Jam At The Intersection
At the switched-on woke paradise of Ontario’s Western University: Western initially stood firm in keeping the picture up, noting it “understood ‘how complex and intersectional this topic is’ and that the ‘imagery may be upsetting to some Muslims.’” However, Associate Vice President of Equity, D...
Is this real?
They can't be serious, surely?
Jam At The Intersection
At the switched-on woke paradise of Ontario’s Western University: Western initially stood firm in keeping the picture up, noting it “understood ‘how complex and intersectional this topic is’ and that the ‘imagery may be upsetting to some Muslims.’” However, Associate Vice President of Equity, D...
While faults can be found*, that is a great article and not only because, with the exception of the Hanania tweet, no one else seems to have asked the question.
That alone makes it worth reading.
That and the sly humour in this carefully placed paragraph:
An analogy to this whole situation would be defining obesity as people who are substantially overweight, despite eating less than 2,500 calories a day. You can’t simply define an illness to exclude causes you do not want to think about.
There's no way the author isn't aware of this kind of thing.
*I'm not unaware of the irony.
An Explanation Comes To Mind
George Francis on the rise of “imposter syndrome” – and its possible causes: This study tracked 818 college students to look for what triggered the syndrome… Their most illuminating results were the simplest (as is usually the case) - the correlation matrix of their variables. Exactly in line ...
You're very welcome.
Also, something to go behind the bar.
It's quite something to behold.
They Insisted On Showing Their Gratitude
It’s time, I fear, to remind patrons that this rickety barge, on whose seating your arses rest, is kept afloat by the kindness of strangers. If you’d like to help it remain buoyant a while longer, and remain ad-free, there’s an orange button below with which to monetise any love. Debit and credi...
Ping!
They Insisted On Showing Their Gratitude
It’s time, I fear, to remind patrons that this rickety barge, on whose seating your arses rest, is kept afloat by the kindness of strangers. If you’d like to help it remain buoyant a while longer, and remain ad-free, there’s an orange button below with which to monetise any love. Debit and credi...
"Part-time Cambridge academic and barrister" takes a calm and measured response to the complexities of the US legal system.
Her lectures must be entertaining.
Ignition Indeed
Time for an open thread, I think. You’ve got that restlessness about you. But first, Amanda Trenfield shares a tale of romance for our times: I had decided only the week earlier to attend the three-day event with my husband. It wasn’t in the family holiday plan, and we had to arrange care for th...
I also understood that it was more than simply physical attraction, but I just couldn’t put my finger on it.
You know, I think she probably could have if she'd thought about it more.
Ignition Indeed
Time for an open thread, I think. You’ve got that restlessness about you. But first, Amanda Trenfield shares a tale of romance for our times: I had decided only the week earlier to attend the three-day event with my husband. It wasn’t in the family holiday plan, and we had to arrange care for th...
As a basis for sympathy, though, it leaves something to be desired.
Well, quite!
Beholding Them’s Gloriousness Is A Privilege, You See
A tearful tale, care of Kelsey Smoot, “a cultural and gender theorist, a writer, an advocate, and a poet”: As a nonbinary trans person who uses they/them/theirs pronouns as my terms of address, I suppose I should be celebrating this influx of discourse on the proper usage of pronouns. Truthful...
Needless to say, Ms Smoot has written for the Guardian.
A year ago:
To expect true allyship from the White people in my life would be to ask them to be willing to sacrifice the thing that they covet most, though they may never be truly conscious of it: their Whiteness. So, I don’t.
Now:
Within several of my closest relationships, the fact that I require ungendered pronouns when referring to me in the third person has become the source of deep strain and disappointment.
There's a hint of method in this madness of quite literally asking for the impossible then expressing dismay when it isn't and can't ever be delivered.
It's suggestive of something like the practice of edging, but where the stimulation comes from emotionally blackmailing others rather than any physical sensation.
Beholding Them’s Gloriousness Is A Privilege, You See
A tearful tale, care of Kelsey Smoot, “a cultural and gender theorist, a writer, an advocate, and a poet”: As a nonbinary trans person who uses they/them/theirs pronouns as my terms of address, I suppose I should be celebrating this influx of discourse on the proper usage of pronouns. Truthful...
As a nonbinary trans person ...
Eh?
Anyway, some 1,000 words later, a ready-made yet apt response to Ms Smoot presents itself.
What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Beholding Them’s Gloriousness Is A Privilege, You See
A tearful tale, care of Kelsey Smoot, “a cultural and gender theorist, a writer, an advocate, and a poet”: As a nonbinary trans person who uses they/them/theirs pronouns as my terms of address, I suppose I should be celebrating this influx of discourse on the proper usage of pronouns. Truthful...
If my introduction to you as a writer is ...
Curiosity got the better of me.
#writersoftwitter 1
#writersoftwitter 2 ("he/they")
#writersoftwitter 3 ("he/him")
And as a bonus, some questionable but also rather telling advice: #writersoftwitter
Friday Ephemera
Husband detected. || In between homes. || Bandits’ Roost, not unlike a certain alley referred to around these parts. || Cacti in bloom. || Bird synthesizers. || Kestrels at home. || Canned cake. || Stacking scenes. || Something error happen. || The progressive retail experience, parts 426, 427, ...
I told myself that to do so I needed to distance myself from anything deemed masculine
my wife, always one to joke, even soon after giving birth, bragged that she had a connection to our new baby that I could never attain
When I met my wife at 28, I was terrified of the prospect of sex, but I yearned to be close to her romantically ... but in my head, at times, I was petrified and alone, often shutting down when sex was in the air ...
Does his wife ever read what he writes?
Do his wife's friends? His in-laws?
Daddy’s Baggage
After turning 2 years old, my son, Avishai, started demanding that he only wear tractor shirts, and my mind spiralled into darkness. So writes Jay Deitcher, a social worker and therapist, a declarer of pronouns, and, it seems, someone accustomed to the aforementioned mental spiralling: I catastr...
Dining scenes.
More tea, vicar?
Friday Ephemera
Emotional drama at the dentist. || Some dunnies are nicer than others. || Cheeeldren of the night (daytime version). || How to turn a health supplement into the smell of death. || Humpback and hand-crank. || To please her, you must hallucinate. || How clouds are made. || A little too close for c...
In coping news. A thread.
Think I got me a winner:
It's a consensus is social sciences that free speech can't be limitless ... Leave social matters to people study it.
Friday Ephemera
Emotional drama at the dentist. || Some dunnies are nicer than others. || Cheeeldren of the night (daytime version). || How to turn a health supplement into the smell of death. || Humpback and hand-crank. || To please her, you must hallucinate. || How clouds are made. || A little too close for c...
hearing that your immediate predecessor was harassed and assaulted, and reduced to tears on a daily basis
As if that weren't bad enough, the actual context in which that appears in the original beggar's belief (my italics).
... White people’s feelings and intentions often have outsized consequences on People of Color (Sullivan, 2017). The White art teacher I replaced at my high school was said to have wept at the end of every school day. Near the end of her tenure, this teacher pressed assault charges against a Black student who cut off a lock of the teacher’s hair.
He cut off a lock of her hair.
Her hair!
That's not ill-discipline, let alone "rambunctious" behaviour.
That's an early warning sign of someone very likely to graduate on to far worse crimes, possibly of a serial nature.
In the very next paragraph, he complains that the administration of a prison where he volunteered saw fit to " occasionally suspend all on-site educational and rehabilitation programming based on suspicions of romantic feelings between incarcerated men (nearly all BIPOC) and women volunteers (nearly all White)."
According to Stabler, "this experience hearkened back to a long history of violent White panic around the corruption of White women".
Despite, or, who knows, because of these views, Stabler is now an Assistant Professor at Appalachian State University in the Department of Art Education in the faculty in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies.
Because of course he is.
Because what Faculty Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies worthy of the name wouldn't want a male member of staff on it who thinks cutting off a lock of a woman's hair is nothing to write home about, while at the same time finding it a serious problem that convicted felons should not be able to do as they please with visiting female volunteers?
Reheated (66)
For newcomers and the nostalgic, more items from the archives: Trump, Erections, And A Lack Thereof. Salon’s Chauncey DeVega and academic powerhouse Dr Susan Block get hot and bothered. While I can boast no credentials as a high priestess of the erotic arts and sciences, unlike Dr Susan Block, ...
... didn’t end well, mainly for the Oberlin faculty members ...
Good.
Fuck 'em.
Friday Ephemera
Nest relocation of note. || Things girls don’t often do, a possible series. || A feel-good ass-kicking. || Grandma’s still got it. || How to test goggles. || Today’s words are bat genitals. || His is bigger than yours. || How many atoms are in your body? (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Skills detecte...
“What a racket”
Indeed.
We've progressed forwards to 1954 and the Comics Code Authority.
That was voluntary too.
... all of the actors playing the heroes in an upcoming scripted project appeared to be light-skinned East Asian people whereas the villains were portrayed by darker-skinned East Asian actors
And here, it seems, we've progressed back to 1854. Maybe even 1754?
If this example were true, why isn't referring to the casting process?
If by "scripted project" they mean one with storyboards, maybe all they saw in the drawings were villains lurking in shadowy lairs and, hence, appearing to be "darker-skinned"?
If by "scripted project" they mean literally just final stage scripts with casting decisions yet to be made, how on Earth could they have possibly parsed from the script how light or dark the skin tone was?
And, more importantly, why are these cretins standing around like the unseen police officer in the Peter Griffin skin tone chart meme?
It's grotesque.
Friday Ephemera
“You’re going to need a bigger boat.” || A guide to how it works, one and two. || A mindset, revealed. || The thrill of hoovering. || Illegal Lego building techniques. || When school discipline is something to “disperse across ethnicities.” || Smaller than is normal. (h/t, Things) || Stealth mod...
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