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| I never knew "transmisogyny" was a word. | |
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| George K | Sep 28 2016, 03:54 PM Post #1 |
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| Horace | Sep 29 2016, 12:23 AM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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The hatred from the socially just, can be pretty scary. This whole Trump thing is so great to expose that. Watching the "good" betray their core condescension, isolation, hatred. And ultimately, fear. Terror, really. I've never seen a politician inspire so much abject terror. It really is fun to watch. You don't have to go far to see it. (Yes, next door.) And I really do hope Trump wins. Because if he does, I don't think anything will change. For anybody. At all. (Ya know, so to speak.) People will think they'll notice it has. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| Moonbat | Sep 29 2016, 02:05 AM Post #3 |
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George W Bush went to Iraq the consequences of which were unimaginably vast, he also blocked meaningful global collaboration on climate change. Regardless whether one is pro or anti these two things together theyve had an enormous impact on the world. The choice of GW over Al gore was important one, the consequences were important. The choices we make in elections (though you more than me) affect billions of people. It makes no difference? Really? I mean your day to day life pobably won't change that much, I guess the same could have been said of Gore vs. Bush but what kind of criterea is that? What about the other 7 billion inhabitants of the planet? What about the unforeseen important decisions? What about whether the coming administrations back Elon Musk in his vision to colonise Mars or not? Of course people are afraid, politics is not a game. You're the only intelligent person I've come across who doesn't seem to mind. I don't understand why. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Sep 29 2016, 06:00 AM Post #4 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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The FairPay amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act continues to screw my life up. It's been a constant source of trouble whenever I apply for work, or whenever I land a job. Every position I've held since coming back to the U.S. has been shitter because of those loopholes. The fault lies with George W. Bush there and nowhere else. Then there are the military personnel. For good or bad, thousands of their lives have been affected by his presidency. For Obama, probably the biggest change (again, for good or bad) can be found in lower middle class and the poor; they're affected by ACA more than others. Elections matter. They matter a hell of a lot, to a lot of people. |
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| Horace | Sep 30 2016, 07:39 PM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I would just say that anecdotal evidence of change, good or bad, from individuals, based on who gets elected, will never be in short supply, regardless of who gets elected. That will never change. The country has of course had a trajectory over the long term, of bigger government, more pandering to special interests, more political correctness, more ... politics. More leveraging of our socially imposed fear of thinking or, god forbid, saying, the "wrong" thing. (c.f. the Impending Veto thread. Why a second term POTUS could veto that thing, and why congress had to override.) That's actually a big deal to me, and I rather like Trump for it. It's not that he appeals to any hatreds or fears of mine. He appeals to the notion of pushing back, at least a little, on the boundaries of what we're allowed to think or feel. He speaks pretty loudly and obviously about it. It's why he's such an easy target for the media, and it's why the electorate hasn't seemed to buy that narrative to the extent they're pushing it. And when he's painted as some misogynist or racist etc etc, I just think back on the clean slate adoring forgiveness of Mrs Clinton's husband and what the heck he was doing with the young ladies in the white house and I just have to laugh. People are such posers with what they claim to think and feel. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| Horace | Sep 30 2016, 07:48 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I would also throw out there that I'm puzzled as to why even the social narrative generally claims to question Hillary so much. Why so many of our preciously evolved people hate both candidates, they're fleeing the election, they're too good for this stuff. What on earth is a consummate, predictable, vote-worthy national politician if not Hillary? Why is she apparently hated so much that even faced with the terrifying Trump, so many folk, even liberal ones, don't want to vote for her? She strikes me as not meaningfully different from any other beltway veteran. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| Rainman | Sep 30 2016, 10:18 PM Post #7 |
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Horace, that is encompassing, that is classic. |
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| Catseye | Sep 30 2016, 11:33 PM Post #8 |
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Pisa-Carp
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There is some truth to this, importantly. Hillary has worked hard to be consummate and vote-worthy; she'll never be the latter, but sometimes appearances will do. We the people have had our little fling with the odium that our leaders' dopey inattention permitted us, and now, as the election nears, we are scurrying back to the safe and familiar in the form of Clinton. We're like children who spent the snowday sledding down the big hill and flirting with death on the rocks beneath, who now are ready to go back home, climb into our jammies and drink our cocoa. At least, I hope so. Clinton is not so bad, after all. She is at best drearily mediocre, but we -- and the world -- can survive that. The extreme right has gone entirely off the deep end with this; they're like the woman who is so terrified of spiders that the mere sight of an empty cobweb sends her into shrieking hysterics and catatonia. It's what we've got: Clinton or Trump. Clinton is far from ideal and light years from what we need to fix ourselves, but Trump? Trump could be anything. |
| "How awful a knowledge of the truth can be." -- Sophocles, Oedipus Rex | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Oct 1 2016, 06:53 AM Post #9 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Uh oh.
Off-the-rails metaphors aside, you're speaking only for yourself. (I believe you said you'd not go third party.) Others vote for who they actually want to do the job. |
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| LWpianistin | Oct 1 2016, 03:09 PM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Heh. But, back to "transmisogyny"...what? I'm assuming that's misogyny towards trans women. But....but....they're women, right? So wouldn't it just be "misogyny"?
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