An empowered ladyperson asks, Why Are So Many Smart, Gorgeous Women Single?
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They Want To Teach Your Children
An eye-widening guide to the world of the woke:
In the world of intersectional grievance hustling, citing dog-humping incidents as evidence of “rape culture” constitutes “very good work” and “excellent scholarship.” We also learn that an aversion to transsexuality can be “challenged” with “receptive penetrative sex toy use.” Oh, and it turns out that you can impress a peer-reviewed feminist social work journal with chapters of Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
Corrupted By Jogging
The Guardian’s Zoe Williams finds exercise problematic. Apparently, it makes people “rightwing.”
Always Winter, Never Christmas
It helps if you think of woke piety as a kind of positional good, a marker of in-group status, and so the goal posts have to move, and keep moving, leading to ever greater contrivance and ever more absurd definitions of oppression. There’s an in-built neediness that leads to escalation and all manner of bizarre phenomena. From “social justice” activists fabricating ‘hate’ crimes for lack of any real ones, to agonised Guardian articles about the menace posed by heteronormative cupcakes and spellcheck software, and about how men discussing barbecues is not only “oppressively penetrating,” but about as “oppressively penetrating” as a thing can be.
Bad Language
Correcting grammar and spelling is “racist,” says yet another leftist academic.
Because judging people by what falls from their mouths – its comprehensibility, precision and so forth – is racist and oppressive. And so, if someone sounds barely literate, and uninterested in being understood by anyone outside of their immediate circle, then you should pretend that this is somehow your fault. It’s the way of the woke.
It Always Is
Empowered female superhero punching sinister alien shapeshifter disguised as an old lady is terribly problematic, says Guardian columnist.
It’s A Head-Scratcher
“Life isn’t going how we thought it would,” says an unhappy feminist.
No Single Man Could Satisfy All Her Personalities
Readers may wish to ponder why a publication aimed at fierce, empowered feminists – would-be remakers of the world – should presume that much of its readership has quite serious mental health issues.
Weighty Matters
Guardian World, where all things are possible.
Pretending Fragility To Conceal Aggression
The defence of an infinitely multiplying list of ‘marginalised groups’ is a predatory movement… and its pleasures are those of hunting: spotting your prey, stalking, going in for the kill. Any source of umbrage thus presents an exulting opportunity to score a trophy, stuff it, and hang it on your (Facebook) wall. Mainstream institutions straining to be with-it give credence to this pretence of injury and vulnerability, when no one’s feelings actually have been hurt. So the victory is two-pronged. You take down the sinner, and you humiliate the editors of the Nation by forcing them to participate in an emotional theatre that every-one knows is fake…
Lionel Shriver on recreational outrage. One of these.
We Must Chase Her From The Village
Professor of Medieval history says Western civilisation isn’t entirely without merit. Malevolent hysteria ensues.
We’re All Intellectuals Now, Apparently
James Delingpole and David Craig on low standards in higher education:
When we were at university, probably one out of six school-leavers went to university. Now it’s about one out of every two. The number of people going to university has gone up from about 700,000 thirty years ago to over 2.3 million now… The way we’ve achieved that is not by increasing the intellectual capacity of British youth. For example, now, around 51% of all people going to university are getting in on three ‘D’s at A-level, or worse. Leeds Metropolitan University during one year had 97 courses for which you only needed two ‘E’s at A-level… We’ve increased the number of students with a huge drop in the bar you need to get over to get a place at university, and to be able to borrow up to £50,000 of taxpayers’ money.
I Guess We’re All Nazis Now
Heather Mac Donald on media dishonesty:
What do you do if you are the New York Times and 20 people show up to the white-supremacist rally that you had been breathlessly billing as further proof of the normalisation of hatred in the Donald Trump era? Expand the definition of “white supremacist” to cover a large portion of the American electorate and its representatives… It turns out that if you are for “immigration restrictions,” “ending affirmative action,” or “instituting trade protections,” you have been influenced by white nationalism and are embracing “policy issues the far right has promoted.”
Gaslighting For Fun And Profit
A New York Times reader asks, “How can I cure my white guilt?” Creepy woo ensues.
Hold Still While We Probe You Good And Hard
Professor Rowe admits that no evidence of “overt prejudice” against women and minorities has been found, but nonetheless hopes to inflict discomfort on those deemed sufficiently pale. As if, in itself, this would be some kind of triumph.
Planet Of The Bedlamites
Michael Jones on the Clown Quarter’s approximation of scholarship:
In her paper, How to Write as Felt: Touching Transmaterialities and More-Than-Human Intimacies, University of Toronto scholar Stephanie Springgay suggests that felt, a “dense material of permanently interlocking fibres,” can be linked to racism and capitalism.
It’s those “cis-heteronormative White supremacist settler colonial logics,” you see. And the “queer self-touching,” obviously.
Insert Coin For Dancing Monkey
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How To Impress Your Boss
An Educator Speaks
When not signalling his fashionable disdain for all things white and male, and doing violence to the English language in the name of “critical pedagogy,” Dr Lewis writes inexplicably neglected erotic literature.
Modern Manners
Grace Carr notes an unexpected development:
Zander Keig, a Coast Guard veteran, now works as a clinical social work case manager at San Diego’s Naval Medical Centre. She started transitioning in 2005. She told the Washington Post that she was encouraged to speak up loudly and often when she was a woman, but now that she looks like, and identifies as, a man, she gets accused of “mansplaining,” “taking up too much space” or “asserting my white male heterosexual privilege,” by outspoken feminists like her former self.