It is only Gen X on downward that has this stupid fantasy that human society can be “perfected” such that freaks won’t be treated as freaks.
Hey, don't count us in that nonsense. We (Gen X) were the original latchkey kids. We stayed out all day and learned that the world will never be perfect. Some of us also learned that people are just plain evil and nothing can be done about it, other than with a gun.
We’re not perfect, and many of us, me included, participated in this. Don’t personalize, and don’t take your personal pique out to tell me what not to say about my generation. That’s a reasonable request.
Yes, you did. And you did not "ask," you ordered. And I did not lump you all in. Supply our own not alls you demanding baby.
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And you're lying about overstepping your boundaries, and calling me "arrogant" after you were rude to me.
And then you stuck the knife in with "scarred for life" like you. You did that on purpose to be shitty to me and in hopes of hurting me.
I got the message. Here's mine to you: go fuck yourself, Joseph Weiss, you manipulative cock. I'm not going to lock my comments. It's YOU, personally, who's getting thrown out. Only you.
Whoa, Josh! I didn't take Joseph's original comment the way you did; I get his point, as a baby boomer who more and more often these days gets blamed for everything that's going down. Just saying. You know I adore you (see my other comment that was made before I saw this).
Moments that will live in my head rent-free forever:
In another life, my income was low enough that I qualified for food stamps. I was waiting in line outside the state benefits office with a group of other beneficiaries who looked like they were either "from the hood" or WISHED they were from the hood. The guy in front of me had his pants sagging around his butt, and I watched in disbelief as he adjusted his pants. No, he wasn't pulling them up to keep them from falling down. He was adjusting them by pulling them even LOWER around his butt. Because he had apparently decided that they weren't low enough already. 😅
Guys, the stereotypes exist for a reason. Don't get mad at people who notice patterns. Get mad at the people who CREATE the patterns.
Why is authenticity such an elevated value? From a Christian perspective it can’t be. Jesus never said “be yourself”; He said “be like Me.”
Sometimes I wonder whether “authenticity” as the ultimate value comes from sociopaths who want to toss off the chains of social demands for civilized and moral behavior.
“Self-actualization” likewise sounds suspect to me. Maybe it’s OK insofar as it means detaching yourself from unhealthy external expectations, such as you’d have if you were married to or raised by a bully.
But otherwise it sounds solipsistic and uninspiring. My “authentic self” (aka lizard brain) wants to nap all day and eat sugary things.
I guess it depends on what people mean by "authenticity." Some people hide their true selves, and their true thoughts and feelings, for the sake of being manipulative. (For instance, narcissists who put on a fake "virtuous" persona so they can more easily get away with doing what narcissists do.) I think certain kinds of authenticity (not all) are valued because people rightly fear being manipulated or taken advantage of. If you're a rich man, for instance, you don't want to date a woman who fakes being in love with you when she's actually just a gold digger.
So many people seem not to have kind blunt friends to give them this take. Hope you reach a few of these friendless critters and hope they listen seriously. Life can be so much simpler and smoother than it currently is, kids - honest.
I fell into this sloppy trap myself. Now I get to go through the pain of finding out how badly out of shape I am and looking at upgrading my wardrobe. Wasn't there that line being the change you wish to see in the world? 🤔 The work begins with me.
lol, "tarantulas off your eyelids"... an' I'll add kin laydeeze please schtop turnin' their lips inta anuses with fillers an' eyebrows inta brutalist ARCH-i-texture (lol) by shavin' 'em off an' repaintin' 'em in "baaaa house" style?! FWIW I love thee-act-rical folks (bein' of the pro-feshin') but the entire pernt of lettin' yer freak flag fly wuz ta git NOTICED! When Quentin Crisp (bless 'im) used ta walk around the E. Village with his bespoke white suit (soiled 'round the edges) an' his poifectly coiffed purple hair he WANTED ta git noticed (sweet fella btw). Ditto fer the wacky Moondog (a moosical blind Viking we had in NYC...cool as all heck this guy!) But ta NORMALIZE this kinda thang is absurd. We ain't all livin' in Shrekland!
enjoy the de-cipherin' an' the puns... writin' in the vernacular used ta be a literary tradition an' I embrace it fer many reasons ;-)
Here's my boilerplate as I'm asked ta soive it every so often. Never mind 'splainin' --
1. writin' in the vernacular in the Joel Chandler Harris / Lil' Abner-Al Capp / Mark Twain tradition I admire* saves me from a lotta bullies, bots an' AI mayhem that jus' cain't troll me this'a way (an' I'm no fan'a bots, trolls, 'er bullies) AI just cain't figger me out! (I have my own "stack" with sum'times controversial toe-picks covered)
*ye kin even add Steven Berkoff if ya like yer banter in cockney rhymin' slang
2. I'm an actor plyin' my trade anonymously via mah nom-de-plume cuz we "performers" who refused the jabs-bad-countermeasures & "mandates" became magically unemployed so I horizontally moved from stage to stack an' I frankly enjoy the "role" (now plyin' my trade in print) sans mandates an' still "in character"...
3. keepin' "in character" 'bout anythin' that so pleases me makes it less risky ta be frank, name names (I do!), an' pernt genu-ine fingers at the baddies while keepin' the target sign offa -- me an' my fambly...
Ya might know that many who write on substack have been targeted in all sorts'a ways--lit'rally included--which ain't good, no how... writin' "funny" disarms the worst of the nasty folks (as dues humor!)
Hope that'll suffice as an answer...
ps not from the South myself but I'm'a HUGE fan've Southern writers, philosophers, moo-sicians, an' culcha' an' I got me fambly from Kentucky (one'a the smartest & wittiest fellers I ever met!) -- an' my nom-de-plume comes from a character I've portrayed an' whom I've admired mightily since "girlhood" ;-)
The woke freaks flew too close to the sun. Turns out many people are NOT willing to "normalize women's bulges," or accept that some women have penises. Sometimes you just ain't pulling off what you think you're pulling off, and you WILL be ridiculed accordingly.
Accepting that women have penises makes as much sense as ceding that two plus two equals five. It baffles me to no end how many people appear to be willing to "agree to disagree" about the fundamentals of reality in order to simply "keep the peace."
So true. I do wonder how many actually believe trans women are women, as opposed to simply being moral cowards who are afraid to speak up for what is factually true and sane. I can't imagine we'll ever know that.
Yes! And I love what JK Rowling had to say about that: "The emperor is naked. He might be wearing lipstick, but his balls are swinging in plain sight."
There are "educators" (or as we used to say in normal times, teachers) who actually contend that insisting 2 + 2 = 4 is "white", and that alternative answers are legitimate. You know: "your truth", "my truth".
Ah …. Yes please
you are so right. The left refuses to grow up but we grew out of the stupid stuff we did in our youth.
And in my case and many others it was really stupid.
Hilarious! Thanks!
It is only Gen X on downward that has this stupid fantasy that human society can be “perfected” such that freaks won’t be treated as freaks.
Hey, don't count us in that nonsense. We (Gen X) were the original latchkey kids. We stayed out all day and learned that the world will never be perfect. Some of us also learned that people are just plain evil and nothing can be done about it, other than with a gun.
We’re not perfect, and many of us, me included, participated in this. Don’t personalize, and don’t take your personal pique out to tell me what not to say about my generation. That’s a reasonable request.
DO NOT tell me what to write or not write.
Yes, you did. And you did not "ask," you ordered. And I did not lump you all in. Supply our own not alls you demanding baby.
'
And you're lying about overstepping your boundaries, and calling me "arrogant" after you were rude to me.
And then you stuck the knife in with "scarred for life" like you. You did that on purpose to be shitty to me and in hopes of hurting me.
I got the message. Here's mine to you: go fuck yourself, Joseph Weiss, you manipulative cock. I'm not going to lock my comments. It's YOU, personally, who's getting thrown out. Only you.
Talk to me like that in my living room and you get thrown out, fucker.
Whoa, Josh! I didn't take Joseph's original comment the way you did; I get his point, as a baby boomer who more and more often these days gets blamed for everything that's going down. Just saying. You know I adore you (see my other comment that was made before I saw this).
What, Joanie? You don't agree that because you and I were born between 1945 and 1965, everything is our fault?
Moments that will live in my head rent-free forever:
In another life, my income was low enough that I qualified for food stamps. I was waiting in line outside the state benefits office with a group of other beneficiaries who looked like they were either "from the hood" or WISHED they were from the hood. The guy in front of me had his pants sagging around his butt, and I watched in disbelief as he adjusted his pants. No, he wasn't pulling them up to keep them from falling down. He was adjusting them by pulling them even LOWER around his butt. Because he had apparently decided that they weren't low enough already. 😅
Guys, the stereotypes exist for a reason. Don't get mad at people who notice patterns. Get mad at the people who CREATE the patterns.
This so needed to be said. Thank you!
Why is authenticity such an elevated value? From a Christian perspective it can’t be. Jesus never said “be yourself”; He said “be like Me.”
Sometimes I wonder whether “authenticity” as the ultimate value comes from sociopaths who want to toss off the chains of social demands for civilized and moral behavior.
“Self-actualization” likewise sounds suspect to me. Maybe it’s OK insofar as it means detaching yourself from unhealthy external expectations, such as you’d have if you were married to or raised by a bully.
But otherwise it sounds solipsistic and uninspiring. My “authentic self” (aka lizard brain) wants to nap all day and eat sugary things.
Aim high, sistah.
I guess it depends on what people mean by "authenticity." Some people hide their true selves, and their true thoughts and feelings, for the sake of being manipulative. (For instance, narcissists who put on a fake "virtuous" persona so they can more easily get away with doing what narcissists do.) I think certain kinds of authenticity (not all) are valued because people rightly fear being manipulated or taken advantage of. If you're a rich man, for instance, you don't want to date a woman who fakes being in love with you when she's actually just a gold digger.
So many people seem not to have kind blunt friends to give them this take. Hope you reach a few of these friendless critters and hope they listen seriously. Life can be so much simpler and smoother than it currently is, kids - honest.
I fell into this sloppy trap myself. Now I get to go through the pain of finding out how badly out of shape I am and looking at upgrading my wardrobe. Wasn't there that line being the change you wish to see in the world? 🤔 The work begins with me.
Could not agree more!
lol, "tarantulas off your eyelids"... an' I'll add kin laydeeze please schtop turnin' their lips inta anuses with fillers an' eyebrows inta brutalist ARCH-i-texture (lol) by shavin' 'em off an' repaintin' 'em in "baaaa house" style?! FWIW I love thee-act-rical folks (bein' of the pro-feshin') but the entire pernt of lettin' yer freak flag fly wuz ta git NOTICED! When Quentin Crisp (bless 'im) used ta walk around the E. Village with his bespoke white suit (soiled 'round the edges) an' his poifectly coiffed purple hair he WANTED ta git noticed (sweet fella btw). Ditto fer the wacky Moondog (a moosical blind Viking we had in NYC...cool as all heck this guy!) But ta NORMALIZE this kinda thang is absurd. We ain't all livin' in Shrekland!
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I like what you have to say, but it's kind of like reading through a second language.
enjoy the de-cipherin' an' the puns... writin' in the vernacular used ta be a literary tradition an' I embrace it fer many reasons ;-)
Here's my boilerplate as I'm asked ta soive it every so often. Never mind 'splainin' --
1. writin' in the vernacular in the Joel Chandler Harris / Lil' Abner-Al Capp / Mark Twain tradition I admire* saves me from a lotta bullies, bots an' AI mayhem that jus' cain't troll me this'a way (an' I'm no fan'a bots, trolls, 'er bullies) AI just cain't figger me out! (I have my own "stack" with sum'times controversial toe-picks covered)
*ye kin even add Steven Berkoff if ya like yer banter in cockney rhymin' slang
2. I'm an actor plyin' my trade anonymously via mah nom-de-plume cuz we "performers" who refused the jabs-bad-countermeasures & "mandates" became magically unemployed so I horizontally moved from stage to stack an' I frankly enjoy the "role" (now plyin' my trade in print) sans mandates an' still "in character"...
3. keepin' "in character" 'bout anythin' that so pleases me makes it less risky ta be frank, name names (I do!), an' pernt genu-ine fingers at the baddies while keepin' the target sign offa -- me an' my fambly...
Ya might know that many who write on substack have been targeted in all sorts'a ways--lit'rally included--which ain't good, no how... writin' "funny" disarms the worst of the nasty folks (as dues humor!)
Hope that'll suffice as an answer...
ps not from the South myself but I'm'a HUGE fan've Southern writers, philosophers, moo-sicians, an' culcha' an' I got me fambly from Kentucky (one'a the smartest & wittiest fellers I ever met!) -- an' my nom-de-plume comes from a character I've portrayed an' whom I've admired mightily since "girlhood" ;-)
When you decide that "shaming" is the worst possible social ill, you get what you asked for: a completely shameless society and culture.
Shame is medicinal.
Thanks, Josh. It had to be said.
The woke freaks flew too close to the sun. Turns out many people are NOT willing to "normalize women's bulges," or accept that some women have penises. Sometimes you just ain't pulling off what you think you're pulling off, and you WILL be ridiculed accordingly.
Accepting that women have penises makes as much sense as ceding that two plus two equals five. It baffles me to no end how many people appear to be willing to "agree to disagree" about the fundamentals of reality in order to simply "keep the peace."
So true. I do wonder how many actually believe trans women are women, as opposed to simply being moral cowards who are afraid to speak up for what is factually true and sane. I can't imagine we'll ever know that.
If I had to guess, I'd say the vast majority of "allies" are in fact no more than moral cowards. But that's really the only way it makes sense to me.
Yup; it's the Emperor's Clothes scenario, over and over again.
Yes! And I love what JK Rowling had to say about that: "The emperor is naked. He might be wearing lipstick, but his balls are swinging in plain sight."
There are "educators" (or as we used to say in normal times, teachers) who actually contend that insisting 2 + 2 = 4 is "white", and that alternative answers are legitimate. You know: "your truth", "my truth".
Mmmm hmmm...that's sharp! I feel rather validated. Thank you, Josh! More people need to say what needs to be said!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTI_4Pt2yDk