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Apr 16 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Not really, because defining the term 'woman' by biological sex doesn't imply any prescriptive social role that women need to fulfill- I assume this absence of reasoning is why you resort to vague allusions of 'dark shit' rather than actually showing your workings
i.e. does defining 'woman' by biological sex imply that 'women are only good for having children' ?
Answer: no- in fact, by demarcating biological sex as a protected characteristic, it actually creates a basis to defend against hypothetical attempts to prescribe social roles on the basis of biological sex- pretty simple
Jan 3 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
I think it's important to identify and list the various interlocking strategies of denial used by people who want to minimise, dismiss and deny the problem- all of the following make up what can be called 'Grooming gang denial'- this is my attempt to organise and describe these strategies, listed below:
Denial of reality
Denial of the events themselves- really all other strategies of denial should be considered extensions of this one, since they all deny *dimensions* of the Grooming gang problem- but more specifically, describing grooming gangs as a 'moral panic' should be considered a denial of the reality i.e. a denial of the mass abuse and victimisation of girls by majority Pakistani men, which is what occurred
Dec 13, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Rorshach is not an 'incel' because that concept did not exist at the time. He smells because his unusual lifestyle leads him to neglect personal hygiene and this is supposed to give him pathos, not invite the readers contempt- I hate reading these garbage takes which completely disservice both book and writer
Ditko is obviously one of Moore's heroes and biggest influences- there's no reason why he would 'take a Ditko character' and try to make him contemptible- Rorshach's black and white moral thinking clearly resonates with Moore as an existential attitude and this is reflected in his other work like V for Vendetta, which is similarly (and explicitly) Manichean in its worldview
Nov 17, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I have to say, I am developing a real distaste for this kind of quaint British folkery- green men and morris dancing etc touted as 'the Real Britain, the Pagan Britain, yeah?' by dumb, anti-Christian Gen Xers like Andy Partridge
It's sexual liberation for a particular sort of uptight and repressed, serious British man who attributes his inhibitions to 'the influence of Christianity' rather than his own personal shyness and lack of forward motion
Oct 22, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
There's something distinctly sadomasochistic and unsavoury about the compulsiveness with which millennial culture churns out images of (often young) characters in states of traumatic dissociation and terror
All of this stuff suggests to me a real lack of appropriate emotional boundaries on the part of the creators of these shows- older kids television (with varying degrees of success) often dealt with 'serious issues' but there was always an implicit sense of adult stability and order, both in the world of the show, and metatextually, in the making of it
Oct 21, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Has there been one single Democrat ad aimed at men that isn't just a sort of weird threat that women won't fuck you if you don't vote Kamala
Another chapter in the absolute hatred and contempt and indifference older men feel towards young men, and the despicable point-scoring they engage in to win the favour of stupid women too self-absorbed to recognise flattery
This type of woman and this type of older man enjoy thinking about young men being frightened, distressed or in pain- they think it's funny and they like gloating about it regardless of if it's real
This is the millennial condition- every unreconstructed millennial believes they are 'the most evil and problematic person to exist' and all millennial censorship is premised on both creating and exploiting this feeling
It's brave to even say what Maggie here is saying, which is really a request for mercy- but the only way to extricate yourself from this terminal spiral of bad faith is to publicly, vocally refuse it- to refuse all attempts to undermine your judgement, your conscience, your right exist and pursue good things for yourself and the people you love
Aug 15, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
You have a Masters in history but you're not able to articulate the significance of anything you're saying for an anti-immigration view-point
Sorry but it's not enough to just gesture vaguely at successive invasions in British history- the Fresians captured York- ok, what does that have to do with the UK now? Why is it an argument for immigration now?
Aug 8, 2024 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
This is wrong- the 'two-tier policing' complaint comes from a basically accurate perception that modern-day policing now, perhaps of necessity, involves maintaining community relations with discreet ethnic & religious groups, oft mediated through contact with 'community leaders'
This is an obvious source of tension and unease for the simple reason that it's necessity reveals these ethnic & religious groups as a significant presence within British society large enough to exert a degree of political pressure on government institutions such as the police
Jun 24, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It seems like people have a real problem with being made to feel multiple emotions simultaneously in the course of watching a movie or TV show, where, for example, the actions of a character might be both self-destructive yet also poignant, or cruel yet sympathetic- they feel that they need to choose one and elevate it to the 'point' of the scene
There's this need to adjudicate a 'final word' or a 'last judgement' of the character as if this is consequential- when the discreet existence of the text itself makes such judgements totally superfluous, because it already presents an enclosed, unified world that comes to us already finished
Jun 22, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Not 'breaking the 4th wall' per se- I just don't find the 'drama of complicity' interesting or worthy of respect- it's akin to the author going 'now see what you made me do' to the reader- I didn't make you 'do' anything
My job is to be the reader, not the author's conscience- if the author wants to engage me in a moral dialogue then that's ok, but it should involve a level of good faith on his part and not condescend to me that 'actually being in the mafia is bad'
Jun 22, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The Sopranos and/ or Breaking Bad may well be examples of 'pulling you in to make you root for the bad guy' but to the extent that is true of either, it's a vulgarity that flaws either show, and which they succeed in spite of
Walt and Tony become the focus of the audience's sympathy and attention because they are charismatic creations of talented actors, writing and direction, and because our sympathy and interest is inherent in the premise of the show- not because the audience is 'morally mislead' in some way
Jun 22, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Ok I've learned that Fight Club is a satire? Now what? Is that it?
It's funny that people have this midwitted assumption that the surface of a work is always some kind of misdirection or false front, as if the correct way to watch a movie like Fight Club is to 'fail to watch it', to willingly 'fail to see' what is directly before you
Apr 25, 2024 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
It's not tragic at all- why should I give a damn about a random TV background character? He's a design feature, not a real person
Obviously the Simpsons is done regardless so it doesn't really matter but tv is so full of these youtube essay-tier millennial emotion stunts- 'oh this background character had a rich emotional life actually'
Mar 22, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
As I've been observing recently, leftism as a subcultural force is really sustained by these shared truisms, these very simple narrative patterns- the authority figure is always wrong, the rebel is always in the right
These truisms are used as a timeless shorthand- you identify the nearest analogue to Bart Simpson or Principal Skinner and judge accordingly- if you know a bit of culture, then your Bart Simpson might be Dada or situationism- in The Wicker Man, the Principal Skinner is Howie
Mar 20, 2024 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
It's 'beyond depressing' to me that the influence of a book like Watchmen that is really a meditation on heroism and on the superhero as a cultural icon reduces over the decades to this pathetic, meaningless repetition of a platitude
It occurs to me that the idea of 'literacy' promoted here is fundamentally a literacy of 'tropes'- it's about teaching people to locate themselves within the appropriate self-consciousness necessary to enjoy a particular phase within a cycle of nostalgia
Mar 15, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Ok but are we supposed to be infinitely entertained by that or are we allowed to expect something better and more interesting now?
Wow, a mechanism for making people mad but you can't criticise it because then you're mad- very cool- when can we have something that is entertaining, interesting or beautiful on its own terms again?
Dec 31, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Realised that Beau is the anti-Green Knight (2021), the latter being a movie about the purported superiority of mothers over sons and how sons are inherently guilty and it would be better if they'd never been born at all
The Green Knight has a scene in which Dev Patel's Gawain has a vision of what will occur if he refuses to accept his beheading: he causes war and strife, his castle is sieged and he's abandoned by his family- this intends to show the futility of 'patriarchal civilization' as represented by the continuation of his life
Sep 19, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Media events like this one are preparations for behavioural reform campaigns- you are supposed to feel that your 'proximity' to Brand within the public imagination implicates you in his transgressions
Behavioural reform begins with creation of a kind of communal script by which random members of the public can 'testify' to their supposed culpability, and commit themselves to 'soul-searching' and 'self-reflection'
You did, by insisting that 'gender' refers to a tangible reality, rather than an artificial and incoherent construction of the relationship between sex and social identity
