In one of the feats of erotica seemingly shared with the world, Mr Yates asks the question every parent hopes to hear from someone educating their children: “Am I a good meth whore?”
Verboten Realities
Amy Wax on The Unsayable, and when truth has no weight.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including an unexpected bra; a bar tab of consequence; a disruptive customer; Stalin’s longevity serum; and scenes of rubbing and bulging.
Come, Behold The “Queering” Of Motherhood
And nothing screams motherhood quite like a convulsing bald man in a bodystocking.
We Can Rebuild Him
Also I’m a size nine-and-a-half in women’s shoes, if that is important.
Tall Tales
They’re so used to bullshitting they don’t even notice how bad they are at it.
From the comments following this. In which, a progressive woman seeks irritation, some cause for concern – and, with effort, finds it.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including a laboratory of smells, personal airbags, bear-related dramas; a cunning use of cardboard; and a part of you that unfolds.
Honesty Box
It’s fundraising week over at my place. If you’d like to help keep a blog afloat. by all means do.
Bad Apples
In 2020, three prolific burglars were on the loose in Leinster, Ireland. Together they had accumulated over 200 convictions. But one day, they all died in a traffic accident. As a result, the robbery rate plummeted.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including how to build a walking coffee table; things incoming; a 70s cop show that didn’t happen; and a tale of harvesting psychedelic frog secretions.
The Wig Is Doing A Lot Of Heavy Lifting
Readers will note how “listening to the community” is conceived by Mr Bucholtz as deference and prostration, and regurgitating things that are obviously untrue. If it sounds like a struggle session, hold that thought.
Further to this, some additional thoughts.
An Interest In Children
According to Mr Andersson, other academic colleagues have hailed his “queer autoethnography” as “wonderfully written, reflective, analytical and intriguing,” and have described it as “very publishable.” Readers will doubtless recall the dizzying rigour of Mr Andersson’s academic work, noted in the post linked above, in which we learned that his feverish wanking gave him “a more embodied understanding of the topic.”
On the standards of academia’s Clown Quarter, that fiefdom of progress, and an unrepentant pervert.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including scenes of jiggling; a tourniquet test; a cleaning complication; and some customer service at an emotional moment.
Discontinued Lines
“It almost feels, like, kind of shameful to want to have children.”
In the Los Angeles Times, an associate professor of gender studies begs questions, while her students fret about climate and babies, and struggle with logic.
Sitcom Potential
Well, if someone’s view of crime and antisocial behaviour is informed only by abstractions – convenient abstractions – they’re not getting the full picture, or anything like the full picture.
Some immediacy and vividness would, I think, correct that.
From the comments following this, in which I pitch an idea for some late-night viewing.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including how to climb volcanoes; a notable hair-care regime; a test of blue perception; and several pressing questions – among which, “Will Newquay ban beatniks?”
More “Queering” Of Museums
From the world of the woke – specifically, Manchester Museum – I bring you problematic taxidermy.
You May Need To Write This Down
Or draw some kind of diagram:
So, to summarise,
Opportunist female porn models who pretended to be men pretending to be women, to thereby rake in lots of cash, have annoyed actual men who pretend to be women, including men who pretend to be women while making pornography.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including the removal of earwax and other objects; a suboptimal situation; a spa day takes a turn; a bold attempt at pilfering; and the thrill of phone mites.
Today’s Word Is ‘Irony’
A tale of intersectional complication:
After employees had gone unpaid, they were left with a dilemma: notify law enforcement about the founder of their company – which has a goal of abolishing the police – or handle it internally.