RoastBeefCurtains4Me said:It used to be obvious who was born sexually male or female, but now when you go in public, there a huge number of Pat-like things walking around. Butch women and effeminate men, to the point where some of the butch women are clearly more masculine than some of the effeminate men.
Conscious Pirate said:Looking forward to the video of this talk.
This 'Dangerous Faggot' tour has got me forgoing my usual broadcast schedule.
Milo is now one who I would list if asked 'who would you have to your ultimate dinner party?'
They said it would be offensive to female students to have ‘a person without a uterus’ — what most of us call ‘a man’ — talking about abortion. Such a discussion would harm their ‘mental safety’, they claimed. So they set up a Facebook page littered with expletives which demanded that the debate should be called off.
In the year between my being banned from the Oxford abortion debate and the shameful traducing of David Starkey at Cambridge, barely a week has passed without students screaming for the censorship of things that ‘hurt’ them. They even call for ‘safe spaces’ where they can go without feeling threatened either intellectually or physically.
Students at Cardiff University demanded that the leading feminist Germaine Greer should be ‘No Platformed’ — in other words banned from being able to speak in public — because they objected to comments she had made about transgender issues.
They insisted that Greer’s belief that men who have sex-change surgery do not become real women, has ‘no place in society’.
In the end, Greer’s lecture went ahead this week, but not without a gang of placard-waving students outside insisting that her words are ‘harmful’.
Recently, the student union at University College, London, banned a Nietzsche reading group, fearing that it would inculcate students with Right-wing ideas
Some student unions enforce these ‘No Platform’ policies not only against neo-fascist parties, but also against UKIP — which was banned at the University of East Anglia
Such intolerance reached its nadir when students at Goldsmith’s College in London and also at Cambridge recently burned the newspapers of Far-left groups that they find offensive. Now, burning literature has dark, disgusting historical echoes.
General Stalin said:It's because the youth of today are the first generation to have the idea drilled into their heads that "emotional abuse" is equally if not more damaging than physical abuse. I'm not saying emotional abuse isn't bad, but because of this we have an entire generation of a culture that equates any form of negative emotion with "violence" and have been bred to be genuinely afraid to have their feelings hurt.
With this, dissenting opinions that wander from the party line are deemed "dangerous" because it may somehow lead to other people feeling guilt, shame, discomfort, whatever. It has worked, and has worked well.
My brother is a bigwig in the booze trade and I’m an alcoholic so you’d think that I would have access to top shelf hooch at mates rates. One of life’s fringe benefits.
Truth is, he’s never given me more than a beer from his fridge when I visit sporadically.
This is not to denigrate the man. I’ve never asked him for more than a beer from his fridge either. What I do get is titbits of info & insight that add value to my life as any relationship worth having should provide. We have some great chats & while being almost black & white in many regards, his knowledge & manner of imparting it is a welcome, pragmatic & revealing information stream.
During one such beers session many moons ago, while educating me on methods of booze brewing & distilling he remarked “All distilled alcohol is essentially vodka. The word vodka refers to the process of distillation not necessarily to just the distilled grain alcohol commonly referred to as Vodka”
Recently I decided to task myself with writing an article worthy of submission to ROK. The working title is “How To Shame & Get Away With It” (purposefully clickbaity) and I started to research & construct the narrative for the article. The more I read the more I found I had more reading & thinking to do on the subject & now am considering a more full exploration that will quite possibly exceed the word count quota for submission. So how does this all relate to the above?
In my research it has become abundantly clear to me that the value of shame inasmuch as an inherent social policing structure, an inbuilt human justice system if you like, is being eroded by the rise of narcissism on a social level throughout western society. A narcissistic personality is constructed by the individual precisely to ward off & defend against an amygdala attack such as in the form of shameful feelings. These people never let the shame penetrate & mature into guilt & humility which are the building blocks of bettering oneself.
In my readings I have come across general & more specific discussions on personality disorder types & have found it useful to relate back to various personalities that I have or had surrounded myself & was able to gain a lot of previously hidden insight. It is well known that personality disorders per se are on the rise amongst the population and so it is not hard to receive a lot of information from the world around you. What I’m finding is that on some level we are all narcissistic to a certain degree & it is shame, guilt & humility that ultimately work as gate-keepers to the narcissistic influence on the ego.
As concepts like shame, guilt & humility become passé while attention whoring & shooting your mouth off become accepted & normalised, it is abundantly clear to me that Narcissism as a personality trait is the most insidious of all. It is the baseline for all of the personality disorders, & also the degree to which that individual allows manifestation of other types eg. histrionic, anti-social, paranoid or obsessive-compulsive in their overall character.
Essentially, Narcissism is the vodka of personality disorders.
This is more than hurt feelings, this is about real violence. We know that the violence against marginalized groups happens every day in this country,” claimed social work and urban studies major Claire Matway. “That so many people walked out of that [event] feeling in literal physical danger is not alright.
Buakaw said:I think this pretty much sums it up
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As far as I understand, there wasn’t any Tigers or Sharks present in the room, so what “danger” could they have possibly felt? Maybe it was a figurative danger? Is that even possible? Let’s assume that it is. Is it the same figurative danger that suburban (white) mothers led by Nancy Reagan cited as a reason to prevent rap albums from being played and purchased? No, they were RIGHT WING CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALIST NUTJOBS, these Pitt students are… not?
The Lizard of Oz said:Buakaw said:I think this pretty much sums it up
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Not really, because there weren't many 18-22 year old sluts storming the beaches in Normandy.
Any essentially peacetime organization which serves or employs both men and women will, in very rapid order, become an institution that caters to women and their every whim, because being white-knights and catering to women is what men do under peacetime conditions. The only exceptions to this are organizations whose activities are pressurized in a way that mimics combat pressure to produce results; the best financial and technology firms are examples of this, which is why they remain almost entirely male dominated. The university, on the contrary, is the example par excellence of a contemporary peacetime organization where such pressures are minimal; therefore, it caters entirely and exclusively to women and their increasingly egregious demands and sensibilities.
The nature of the young men themselves has not changed all that much, it has only been rendered dormant. A crew of 100 random dudes from Pitt's freshman class can be taken to a bootcamp and molded in fairly short order into a fighting force that would acquit itself about as well as any that invaded Normandy. What they would lack in athleticism as a result of a relatively more sedentary childhood and adolescence they may well more than make up for in increased intelligence and the ability to master the relatively more complex tools and systems involved in contemporary combat.
The Lizard of Oz said:samsamsam, note that I said that they needed to be taken to a bootcamp first. Certainly they would not be ready as is. But toughness and a surprising amount of functional common sense can be hammered into a normal dude in very short order. The combination of intense discipline from superiors, physical hardship, and intense camaraderie and ball busting among equals, can do wonders to the mind and body of your average young male.
As far as intelligence goes, the most important advance compared to the previous generations would not be in relatively useless verbal intelligence but in the ability to handle symbolic or structured information that comes from being exposed to digital media and computing from a young age. Anyone who routinely handles smartphones, computers, gaming consoles and similar devices performs more complex consecutive and symbolic manipulations than any previous generations of human beings. This results in obvious and easily observable gains in symbolic and structured intelligence, and the ability to follow and execute relatively complex and consecutive instructions. It should be clear that such an ability would confer an advantage in any combat conditions, let alone ones where such devices play an important role as they do today.
The main shortcoming of today's young guys would be that many of them would be relatively less athletic in the way that men who were always out and about and moving around in their childhood and adolescence can be athletic without being particularly strong or powerful; they have a certain naturalness and an intuitive way of moving through the physical world that can be extremely valuable in combat conditions, and that cannot be really learned in a short period of time, if ever -- it is harder to instill this instinctive athleticism than any kind of mental toughness. However, greater intelligence, better nutrition, and greater raw strength (remember that the men of a few generations ago were generally shorter and weaker than today, mainly because of inferior nutrition during childhood) would, on the whole and after a period of intense initiation training, more than make up for it.
