It’s even more obvious with “non-binary” and other such bullshit. The minute it became common “knowledge” that you could not be either gender, it became really common to be neither gender, though almost exclusively among people in the most impressionable ages. But it’s totally real, I’m clearly misinterpreting the history of a totally real thing.

I hear he stood in front of a funhouse mirror and his reflection looked normal.

That’s easy. The needs of their current argument dictate the difference.

In fairness, she wrote this entirely to make it “known” that she is a woman men are willing to date. That’s it. That’s all a woman really wants, is to “feel pretty” and be acknowledged as such by other people. The substance, the pseudo-financial argument, the whacky feminism, is all just window-dressing. The point she wants you to get out of this post is “men date me.” Move along.

I’m offended. The nerve of these people to think I needed to be told to not see plays.

But over time people learn the game and the language. If a story on a crime names the offender but doesn’t otherwise describe him or show his picture, you know he’s a black guy.

They know what they are doing. They know a lot of people read only the headline and assume from there, and that they will even share the link on Facebook, Twitter, etc based only on reading the headline and people will see that and also take their “understanding” only from the headline. Even so, this is an unusually shit-eating headline, even for modern media. They usually aren’t quite this bold. “Less than 100 miles from the border between two countries” is a hell of a way to avoid saying which country it was actually in, and the US flag image accompanying the headline (which would show up on reposts to Facebook and Twitter, given the way it shows links by default) drives home the assumption they want you to make. The people who actually read the article will quickly see the trick that’s been pulled, but they’re counting on that number being low, and that’s probably a safe assumption.

As their editor I would have crossed out “cisgender,” and torn out “transgender boy” and written in “girl.”

Trump is not a smart man. I voted for him, but he just isn’t. All these foreign leaders should have been able to run rings around his fat ass. That so many couldn’t is an indictment of them, not of him.

Biden sure does love his genderspecials, to the extent he’s even aware of anything being done in his name. So I guess I should say, Biden’s leftist handlers love their genderspecials.

I’m in favor of the idea of privacy and I’m very much in favor of the idea of being as incognito as possible, especially in our lookatme social media age. But you can do that for free and without couching it in the faux-revolutionary ten-dollar-word academic babble like that, professor. I know that’s sort of just what professors do, but still.

My thoughts exactly. Right wing outlets and influencer Tweeting types get snared in the “free advertising for the enemy” trap too easily. Too many of them get obsessed with the issue of the moment and end up doing 20 stories, or putting out 20 Tweets, when like two or three will suffice to cover any actual developments in the story as it runs it course. LibsofTikTok lady does the game right, just shows the latest nuttiness and then moves on. She doesn’t writr seven follow-up articles about each new weirdo she highlights, doesn’t see a particular weirdo gets lots of “engagement” from her followers and then go back and post all of that weirdo’s videos to keep the weirdo in people’s minds, etc etc etc.

My favorite response is from a user with handle RealSexyCyborg:

This is absolute garbage and you should be ashamed of hijacking progressive language in order to squander public funds on personal wish fulfillment, and in the end implement egregiously exclusionary design in the name Gender Equity. People like you make things harder.

Sweetie they didn’t “hijack progressive language,” they literally did progressivism accurately. They spent tons of money on themselves, did absolutely nothing, and then played some word games to make their non-effort sound like a revolutionary act. No hijacking here, this is what you chucklefucks do everyday.

“My delusions tell me men want to kill me and I am so paranoid that I believe it, but because I think I occupy a special protected class in society I refuse to self-reflect on this, and not only do I take my delusions at face value but I also expect everyone else to do so, in part because half of humanity does in fact validate my delusions in an endless feedback loop.”

But of a run-on sentence there, but I think it more accurately portrays the situation Evelyn is referencing.

What’s with “Very Conservative” being slightly less correct than “Conservatives” — a few Nazis just expressing their own wishful thinking, or…?

the n-word

…narcissism???

Part of their strategy is associating anything they can’t handle with Nazism or movements on par with that, because no one feels sorry for a Nazi who gets beat up or killed. They first argue that it’s okay to beat up Nazis, people nod along, and then they say they see Nazis everywhere they look.

In fairness, I’ve heard of cases where it gets changed from attempt to just murder if the person does die eventually. I’m with you though, I think “clinically brain dead” ought to be the same damn thing for charging purposes.

Obama’s neighbors better watch the fuck out lolololol

I’m actually a little proud of society — something I don’t say very often! — that the SJWs tried to push “but those cops had internalized white supremacy” and also “they may have been black but as cops they were part of a system that upholds white supremacism and were acting accordingly” and neither argument gained any REAL traction outside of leftist echo chambers. Society just looked at it and said “this was a bad situation but racism can’t explain what happened” and moved on. I’m always glad when we can see limits to the power of leftist word-games and influence because sometimes it feels like there are no limits.

This will sell many fives of copies.

“Listen up, Jedidiah…”

You know what you do if you’re faced with a person deciding right and wrong based on the stack instead of the facts? Just fucking talk past them. Keep insisting on your fact-based interpretation of events and do not back down. People of all stripes hate to admit they are wrong in the moment, and the stack-based thinker will not do so. But people watching will benefit from having SOMEONE insist on the facts and will benefit from hearing a counter-argument to stack-based thinking, and there’s a chance the stack-thinker might reflect on their error once safely out of the immediate argument later on. Maybe it isn’t likely that any one experience will shift a given stack-based thinker, but every now and again it will be effective. It’s really all you can do. Illogic of the SJW kind is common these days but less pervasive than a lot of people think. A lot of SJWs only have the nerve they do because they are (unknowingly) used to people being scared to counter them, which they mistake for a general consensus in favor of their illogic. They back down awful fast if any number above one starts insisting on the facts.

Yeah, I have the same doubts. Whatever else geekdom is or isn’t, it’s never been a subculture that was running low on fat girls. I get so bored of every other Internet wannabe-hero portraying ordinary behavior in their subculture as somehow pissing in the face of all the people “who told me I can’t.” Who told you, and what did they actually say? It’s always very non-specific. But shit, I’m in law school and all the minority women (and white women too) post endless wank about how “they” told me I couldn’t be a lawyer but I showed “them!!!!” I guess as long as you’re not a straight white gender-confident male, there is a lot of online YAS KWEEN clout to be gained by lying about how brave you are for taking a selfie.

Who was telling her she couldn’t cosplay?

She might have misheard the word “shouldn’t,” but that’s different.