I think a lot of trust-fund, college-coddled, student-for-life types (Laurie Penny and her ilk) really do not mentally become adults until their thirties or perhaps forties. This phenomenon is less likely to occur in men because even most wealthy men realize the vast indifference of the universe towards them quite early in life, money or no.

But for some women like Laurie, sure, I can see them not developing beyond teenhood until they are 40. So when they posit that they were nothing but a wittle tiny helpless baby even when they were 32, I think they are in fact telling their own truth. I haven’t spent time around many women like that so it’s hard for me to accept that it could be an actual thing I think. Most of the women I know worked early, endured hard experiences, had no trust fund and were fully adults mentally by the time they hit 18.

Unfortunately, these trust-fund babies-till-they’re-40 types dominate media and attempt to force absurd morals based on their very limited and cloistered experiences on the rest of us — and harm a lot of women in the process by removing their agency and erasing their lives and experiences.

"They could have evacuated."
"Why didn't they evacuate?"
"That's what you get for not evacuating."

As a lifelong Florida resident who grew up low-income on Sanibel Island which has been destroyed by #Ian hear me when I say this:

Evacuating is HARD.

— Phoebe the Career Coach (@betterwphoebe) September 29, 2022

It is. It takes logistics, money and transpo. Not including sunk costs (vehicle, etc.), it cost us about $1,000 to evacuate for three days.

A lot of people don’t have a grand just ready to toss around. And that doesn’t even include the cost of having to bin all our food because the power was off too long for much of it be salvageable.

The thing I like least about being human is that when everyone around you is doing obvious clown shit you’re expected to do it too or you’re ostracized — but when the obvious clown shit proves to be obvious clown shit, no one ever apologizes or makes it right. You’re still seen as the “bad one” because you didn’t go along with the whole farce.

I never go along and I never will.

At the very beginning, the libs telling people they were racist and xenophobic for fearing the virus.

— Schwarzgeist (@wmslamcan) October 1, 2022

That was all over the place for a month or more in February-March 2020 but has been completely memory-holed now. Just totally forgotten.

This is the only advertisement this window installer ever needs to use. pic.twitter.com/Z5qS47ravc

— Bizarre Lazar (@BizarreLazar) October 2, 2022

That is damn impressive.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

Probably worth pointing out that another financial collapse will conclusively kill history as an academic discipline.

As in, mass layoffs of tenured faculty and shuttering of departments. https://t.co/HdduyT1z8f

— David Austin Walsh (@DavidAstinWalsh) October 1, 2022

There’s a reason history (and the humanities in general) is being annihilated — and it doesn’t have anything to do with the oft-repeated “wisdom” that STEM is the MOST IMPORTANTEST THING EVAR that you hear the STEM types shouting about left and right. That’s just their clueless arrogance.

If you have people trained in the humanities, they can think broadly about relevant issues and actually have some basis for understanding the evolution and possible direction of society. These people are better at resisting propaganda and other control mechanisms. No one in power wants that, so history and the humanities must go by any means necessary.