I’m not usually one for long videos, but this is quite well-done and she is damn funny.

I like that she pointed out that as repellent as Jordan Peterson is to progressive sensibilities (including my own) that to incels, he is actually helpful and his advice is useful compared to what they actually believe and practice.

Incels, there is no one possibly more rejected than I used to be so it absolutely is not hopeless. Here’s how rejected by everyone I used to be: my own cousins would not talk to me or acknowledge I was related to them at school because of how despised I was. This was in about eighth grade.

After much self-improvement and life changes later (starting in high school), I am successful, I’ve had many girlfriends and relationships, and I pretty much do what I want with my life. (And I told those cousins to go fuck themselves in public at a family reunion. Oh yes that made me very popular.)

Anyway, I also like how she acknowledges that men face so very very very very much rejection. Because she’s been a man, she knows, and most women just have absolutely no idea at all. I liked that part a lot.

I had no idea about the “big head” thing in the trans community. That just doesn’t make sense. Lake Bell for instance is a woman with a just huge head (sorry, LB, but it’s true), quite pronouncedly masculine facial features, and she’s gorgeous.

The video is worth watching because it comes from a perspective that’s unique and has valid insights into both sides of the issue.

Incels are right about more than a few things and they are often truly bullied and looked down on. However, their methods of dealing with these problems are worse than counterproductive (as she points out) and their community is mostly harmful to them.

I know it’s because there is not a a proper character for the anarchist symbol, but when I was on this person’s Twitter I was at first confused why she had the unit patch of Patton’s 3rd Army on her flair. I’ve drawn a box around  it and highlighted it in yellow:

Here’s the unit patch:

(This is not used by the 3rd Army in any longer because it doesn’t exist. Now it’s United States Army Central.)

I’ve lived so many lives that they all overlap now.

The first 10 on today’s playlist:

“You know that guy says he’s your friend but I guarantee you 100% he’d sleep with you if you asked.”

Bitch if someone offered me free pie I’d 100% eat it because I love pie. But unless I hang around all hangry asking “so…pie?” it’s a non-issue.

— Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 (@RealSexyCyborg) September 7, 2018

Love Naomi Wu. Not sure why these are mutually exclusive in anyone’s mind, but people are very strange.

And perhaps this used to be true of me, even, when I was younger. But you know what, I am pretty lazy. And sex is a lot of work. Sex with a new person is even more work.

These days if a female friend asked to have sex with me, I’d be like, “Can we play Scrabble instead? It’s more intimate and less clean-up.”

When you read about damage inflicted on the environment, remember it’s consequently being inflicted on you. Nature is a myth at the heart of empire; there is no separation between it & us. Anthropogenic climate change lays this bare.

— syd🌹🌱 (@SydneyAzari) September 8, 2018

Many people, even on the liberal suposedly pro-science side, somehow believe that we have very little to no connection to the biosphere and the ecological processes that go on all around us. I have no idea how one can be so delusional but I see it often so I’m here to tell you that without a relatively stable climate, without predictable rainfall, without soil being able to replenish itself, without tree growth, we are done.

By the way, humans are becoming more dependent on ecosystem services, not less so.

This isn’t alarmism. This isn’t something happening hundreds of years hence. This is right now. I’d say your climate change chickens are going to come home to roost. But they won’t. Because they’ll be dead.

Was just thinking that my favorite vocal performance of all time isn’t even in a song, as most people would think of it.

My favorite vocal performance of all time is Miranda Otto as Éowyn in her grief belting out the threnody for her brother in the extended edition of The Two Towers.

Otto is not a trained singer yet she delivers a better, rawer performance than anyone could’ve imagined. The story goes that they were going to have her mouth the song, and then a trained singer do the part, but she wanted to try it herself. When she tried the first time, Peter Jackson and the cast was like, “Well, we don’t need to find that singer now.”

Of course it was recorded in a studio. There’s absolutely no way to have decent audio in an open field with wind blowing and a hundred people around. Just cannot happen. But that’s Otto singing and it sounds like her, which makes it so much better. The performance is less than a minute and it’s perfect — both her voice and her acting in the scene. She looks paralyzed with grief. She’s truly underrated and I wish she’d been in more.

By the way, that language is Old English. I started learning a bit of it years ago so I could understand her performance and read some. It’s not that hard though it does have genders and cases, oh so many cases. Like Latin? Then you’ll love Old English.

The first 10 on today’s playlist: