Snarky Jay cosplay
2025-05-26
2025-05-20
Gender Mental Gymnastics
Daddy has to take mommy‘s other kids to Disneyland, too
Girls Lying to each other
Indian Woman getting out of a marriage
Housing double standard
Gay boyfriend
Body-count-based behavior: guys
Federal Agents Banning Words
2025-05-16
Getting the Chop
What a guillotine execution was like
Marie Antoinette wed Louis XVI on 16 May 1770
Marie Antoinette's last words were supposedly, “Excuser-moi, je ne l’ai pas fait éxprès” or “Sorry, I didn’t mean it.” [stepping on the executioner’s valet’s foot.]
2025-05-15
Motivation for Short Skirts
I wear short shorts and short skirts because I like the style. I have no problem showing some skin. I shave my body hair because I like the silky soft feeling when I run my hands over my legs, or other parts of my body. I paint my nails because I like the look. I wear makeup because I like how it makes me look. I wear jewelry because I like how it adds to my appearance. I tan because I like the darker color of my skin. Do I do it for attention? I held back my desire to do the things I do now because I didn't want the attention I got. Now I just don't care what others think. I'm in it for me and me only. The things I do to make my appearance what it is are done for my benefit without regard for the opinion of others. I get both positive and negative feedback and that's fine.
2025-05-10
Menstrual Displacement
This connects with some other stuff I’ve posted about birth control.
spousal anecdote
Other YouTube videos
Medically ending menstruation
Birth control changes behavior
2025-05-08
Answers With Joe about Airships
Idea for managing lift during unloading. I want to contact companies that are working on commercial airships and see what they think of my idea.
CNBC What Happened to Blimps?
Flying Whales
Hybrid Air Vehicles
Airlander
More YouTube
Veritasium
Bloomberg
Choice Feminism
Original post
Baby boys don’t choose genital mutilation, either. Men “choose” to sign up for military service conscription because they prefer it to being sent to prison—and they sugar -coat it with the cover story that it’s“patriotic”. Many choices that men are forced to make are couched in terms of “patriotism” or “duty” and the “wrong” choice typically involves being beaten to death by groups of other men and/or being sent to prison or at the very least alienation, unemployment, homelessness, and starvation.
How is it for women? I have lesbian friends, but I’ve never heard of a gang of dead-eyed housewives beating a lesbian half to death before strapping her to a fence, dousing her in gasoline ⛽️ setting her on fire 🔥 and watching her die screaming for her horrible crimes against nature.
This is of course the kind of thing that happens to gay men with monotonous regularity, receiving at most a shrug, including among my gay friends.
I don’t want to assume that it doesn’t happen to women just as often or as horribly since I hate to make assumptions about “how life is for the other side” and so on.
Oh, and obviously if gay men live in fear, all men live in fear of the same thing. Hence no choice. Even if sexual orientation WERE a choice (I personally don’t believe this) then still no choice.
The point is that there are a lot of things that people have no choice about. For men in the USA 🇺🇸 we have circumcision, work, military service, and homophobia, and they are horrible and oppressive. There are many others.
If for some reason one does not face these issues, or is able to opt out of them (like rich and powerful parents who can get one out of the draft or one doesn’t have to work, etc) then great, but it doesn’t mean everybody else can, too.
This may be the point the speaker is making, and she makes it well.
Privilege has a blinding effect. Unfortunately it also provides an impetus to coöpt movements such as feminism, originally developed by and for poor women and (poor) women of color—who actually needed it—in the service of self-righteousness and virtue-signaling. Alas, this seems to be the fate of many activist movements, but I fear I digress.
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We can’t all make the same choices or as easily. It’s the birth lottery. Rich or poor. Race. (At the risk of setting off a transphobic firestorm) male or female.
If you get handed one thing, it may make other choices more difficult. Also, choices build up on one another, eg, decision of choice of study, whether to join a gang, whom to marry, which career path.
Yes, you can always say (you always have the CHOICE to say) “you always have a choice”—words are like LEGO, you can click them together however you like—but time, resources, and basic STATISTICS render this a thoroughly vapid pronouncement in many cases and one belying a huge lack of empathy, which I believe is the speaker’s point.
Privileged people who lean on the idea of “choice”, eg, “our movement has given you choice where you had none before” are often dodging the “noblesse oblige” of using their position of power and influence to actually dismantle structural inequality and oppression.
2025-05-06
Best SNL Sketches of the Decade
best SNL scetches of the decade
I’m still looking for the complete collection of “It’s Pat!” There was one where they were playing strip poker and of course they all wanted to get Pat naked so they could finally find out if Pat were a she-Pat or a he-Pat, and Pat didn’t lose a single hand, and some of the other players got pretty naked. That tall blonde actress, Victoria Jackson, I think got totally naked and was holding a pillow up to herself at the end. I would like to find that episode and confirm if my memory is accurate.
Please post if you have links!!
Here's an article on MSN about Julia Sweeney’s Pat character. Maybe I can find the episode I’m looking for! Here's a search on YouTube but I don't think the sketch I'm looking for is there :-(.
2025-05-05
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2025-05-01
Anonymous Confession
Pat goes to confession and tells the priest
“I’ve had sex with a woman who is not my wife”
“What's the woman's name”, asks the priest.
“Oh, I can't tell you that”, says Pat.
“Well I can't give you penance if you don't tell me who it was.”
“Was it Mrs. Gilhooly”?
“No, father, it wasn't.”
“Was it Mrs. Murphy”?
“No, father, it wasn't “
“Was it Mrs. Jones”?
“No, father, it wasn't “
“Well then Pat I can't give you penance “, says the priest.
On the way out Pat meets Seamus.
“Well, Pat, did he give you penance?” asks Seamus.
“No, he didn't, but he gave me three good leads”, says Pat.
Doctor Who?
Classic Who
New Who
The Daleks
I want to make a comic with a Dalek combined with a Mr. Monopoly guy with moustache except he's saying “Accumulate, accumulate” instead of “Exterminate”