starting to feel a little uneasy about the ‘20s pic.twitter.com/75ykMxHHBa
— Tommy Siegel (@TommySiegel) September 4, 2020
A little too on the nose.
Day: September 5, 2020, 5:51 PM
Big Whinedown
Why do we allow cars to be sold that go faster than 75mph? Why not legally limit upper speed limits?
— Michael Schneider (@schneider) September 4, 2020
This would probably never happen in the US so it’s hardly worth worrying about — but I’d be for it (though it needs to be a bit higher) the moment it’s also paired with a ban on the Fat Acceptance movement and on the sale of harmful ultra-processed factory foods. Banning higher speeds would save what, a few thousand, if that, a year? Banning FA and ultra-processed foods would probably save 100,000+ a year over time in the US alone.
Now that’d cause some big whining! I love that idea, pairing them that way.
Don’t Really Want That
Thank you so much to the women who responded to this! Here's the piece, in which I try to discourage dudes from being Reply Guys… https://t.co/RzNQgyCouk
— Philip Ellis (@Philip_Ellis) September 4, 2020
While I agree that “Reply Guys” are to some extent a real thing, most of it is just illustrating the fact that the dictum that “treat a woman just like you’d treat another man” is not really what women want, no matter how much they claim that to be the case. Or how much feminists believe that should be done.
Because most “reply guys” interact in a very similar way to how men interact with other men.
Jean B Knew What Was Up
“Identity is a dream that is pathetically absurd. You dream of being yourself when you have nothing better to do. You dream of yourself and gaining recognition when you have lost all singularity. Today we no longer fight for sovereignty or for glory, but for identity. Sovereignty was a mastery; identity is merely a reference. Sovereignty was adventurous; identity is linked to security (and also to the systems of verification which identify you). Identity is this obsession with appropriation of the liberated being, but a being liberated in sterile conditions, no longer knowing what he is. It is a label of existence without qualities. Now, all energies – the energies of minorities and entire peoples, the energies of individuals – are concentrated today on that derisory affirmation, that prideless assertion: I am! I exist! I’m alive, I’m called so-and-so, I’m European! A hopeless affirmation, in fact, since when you need to prove the obvious, it is by no means obvious.”
-Jean Baudrillard in Impossible Exchange