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The digital feculent emesis that is Twitter, vomited this up on me.
This artist draws a clitoris wherever she goes to raise awareness about women’s sexuality pic.twitter.com/u6HdChruaQ
— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) December 26, 2017
It made me curious, as a man, is there a way I could go around drawing dicks on everything and not go to jail?
The Queer Femme Fight Club Channeling Rage Through Wrestling
If you’ve had a lot of anger recently and nowhere to put it, Femme Feral could be the wrestling club for you.
A group of queer femmes in the UK are mad about Brexit and started a fight club.
But Patey-Ferguson and Smith didn’t want to give in to hopelessness. Instead, they decided to wrestle each other in their shared art studio in east London.
“It was a way of channeling and being able to get that anger out and put it somewhere in a productive way,” explained Patey-Ferguson. “I think we wanted to find a way of sharing this anger and take up loads of space. It is a reaction to that [idea] as a girl you need to be nice, personal, peaceful, [to] sit down and be quiet.”
Rather than try to actually fix problems, they were going to tussle. Why do anything productive when you can winge and waste time?
It may sound like an unorthodox way of working out stress, but it clearly worked. They felt exhilarated, if not slightly bruised. Several months on, Femme Feral has expanded into what Patey-Ferguson calls a “queer femme fighting force.” Anybody who identifies as a woman can join; a total lack of wrestling experience is not only encouraged but embraced.
Unorthodox? Yes. An effective fighting force? No.
As audience members entered the space, the wrestlers began moaning and crawling on the crash mats that had been carefully laid in the center of the venue. Over a live soundtrack of heavy mic static and crashing cymbals, it quickly crescendoed into a scream: “Fuck Theresa May! Fuck Theresa May!” And then, as two wrestlers squared up to each other on the mat: “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
These all female remakes suck. The female Ghostbusters was awful. The female Fight Club is even worse. Tyler Durden’s “you’re not your fucking khakis” speech was way better.
“Most of the spaces we perform in our queer spaces so often people haven’t been able to really allow themselves to feel the anger and rage that they do feel. So often they are thankful to us for the space that we can feel that together… You don’t feel like you are locked in your room staring at the internet alone. There is a kind of empowerment in that, because if we express that together, there is a possibility of change.”
Wrestling in a basement is not any more effective at changing things than sitting alone on the Internet.
This is mockably ridiculous. If you want to break a sweat because it feels good, great. I love a good workout to reduce stress. But I’m not kidding myself that getting under the squat rack is going to change the world.
Scenes that never happened:
“Prime minister, we need to reconsider our economic policy.”
“Why?”
“A bunch of lesbians are wrestling.”
“Let me see.”
“That’s disappointing. If they had wrestled in Jell-O, I might have done it.”
Miss Wilkie covers the White House for CNBC.com, so she is not precisely working for Sean Hannity.
She is not making up the change either, WAPO itself twitted about it:
Now, remember, when we complain that they are not in touch with their readers (specially if they happen to be from the “wrong” political spectrum) they rebut they must maintain journalistic integrity and publish things people may not want to hear. And here is confirmation they are full of shit.
Both covers side by side just to keep record of the change which I am sure has nothing to do with politicos being butt hurt.
I am not even going to ask if their staff levels have been shrinking in the last years and not because of robots taking over jobs.
Contrast this reaction with the instant and so tediously predictable blind rage spewed by the world’s liberal celebrities on social media before, during and after the address.
From my own unofficial poll – i.e. my own eyes on Twitter – I’d say 99% of them were so furious at the speech they could barely think straight……On and on it went, with these stars and many more assuming America agreed with them.
But it turned out the vast majority of Americans DIDN’T agree with them, which suggests they’re no longer listening to what celebrities say about politics or Donald Trump.For more evidence of this, look at Sunday night’s Grammys that turned into a marathon political rally of epically dreary proportions.
Ratings duly plunged 24% to an all-time low.
Why? Because Americans are sick and tired of entertainers preaching about politics at awards shows, particularly when they’re all preaching from the same liberal Trump-loathing handbook.
I just have to go with this:
It is pitiful to see the reaction of the Media to President Trump’s first State Of The Union. From what I have seen and read this morning, apparently he signed an executive order to send black Dreamer babies to Guantanamo Bay to have homosexual electrocution therapy or some other happy imagined horse shit.
Our local bird dropping catcher closed ranks with its political masters:
How disconnected is Morin from the public? If we go for what fellow Media corporation said, 75% of people liked Trump’s SOTU.
I know, I know, political opinions are to be trendy and against the powers that be, but that does not explain the previous eight years of Morin’s and the Herald’s suction of Obama’s private parts. But it comes a point that you need to figure out if you are truly the newspaper of your town and if you are actually being read which means reaching at your community. There is a bulletproof way to find out and that is income. Unfortunately for the Herald, their income has dropped through the years as locals have cancelled subscriptions and are not wasting time and effort to get them online.
There is perhaps no better representation of how far the Miami Herald has fallen that these to pictures. The one on top, was the old magnificent Herald building that overlooked Miami’s Biscayne Bay and to my recollection was part on at least two movies: Absence Malice and The Mean Season. Below is their new headquarters, a warehouse-type building in El Doral which is very far away from the bay.
But you have to understand why the Miami Herald is royally pissed, so much more than other media outlets. Not only they are in a warehouse, but they are located a mile away from the Doral Golf Resort and Spa owned by one Donald Trump and more likely they have to drive in front of it every frigging day.
Karma, apply twice a day.
I was sure that Chelsea Manning was going to get elected Senator from Maryland. He had everything going for him, a huge Progressive cult following for being an trans-woman, anti-American, anti-cop, anti-military, traitor.
His victory was certain.
No Republican would have been able to stop him.
Then he did the unthinkable. The one real sin of Progressivism. The one act that could not be forgiven as #Resistance.
He acted the tiniest bit friendly with someone on the other side.
Chelsea Manning crashed an alt-Right party,
crashed the fascist/white supremacist hate brigade party 😂 all selfies were denied 😎💕🌈 #CrashTheFash #WeGotThis #NightForFreedom pic.twitter.com/SpsbLfGunY
— Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea) January 21, 2018
and shook hands with Mike Cernocivh.
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/954967064434937856
That was it. He was infected with the NAZI cooties.
There was no excuse possible. He stood next to a member of the alt-right for more than a second and didn’t bash his head with a bike lock. That’s enough to make Manning part of the alt-right.
https://twitter.com/ac_phila/status/958437530545815552
https://twitter.com/TepidButter/status/958438400721391616
And the result is:
its been over a week since ive let everyone who helped me out of prison down, so many of you have helped me thru tough times, i tried too hard to do too much, im sorry im a human being and not a symbol, i have hit rock bottom
— Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea) January 30, 2018
He’s done. Taken out by his own people.
This is just like my last post about Bill Nye, the one thing that I progressive can’t do is be seen being amicable with a non-Progressive. They will be torn down by their own side for this.
Commit treason against the Unites States an go to jail for it, that’s a plus. Shake an alt-right hand and they will burn you at the stake.
I can’t wait until the next American civil war. We just need to release a video on Twitter of the Left’s commanding general shaking hands with Sebastian Gorka and they’ll just start shooting each other.
Bill Nye has become a clown show. I loved him as a kid, then his political antics destroyed that. He glommed on global warming in the nadir of his career, much the same way Al Gore did, and the fame went to his head. The man who once seemed so rational on TV used climate change as an excuse to justify tyranny. Nothing says science like demanding that people who deny climate change be imprisoned.
He became a hyper-progressive, not just pushing “the end is nye” climate change hysteria, but promoting progressive gender nonsense as well.
For some reason I fail to understand, Jim Bridenstine, Trump’s nominee for NASA director, invited Bill Nye to be his guest at the State of the Union.
There has been controversy about the nomination of Jim Bridenstine since he was not a NASA employee but a Congressman.
I don’t care. I don’t believe the someone has to be a “space professional” to be NASA director. NASA is a goverment agency, and the skills it takes to run an agency are very different than the skills it takes to perform an EVA.
Besides, Obama picked Charles Bolden, a former astronaut, to be NASA director and the first thing they did was Muslim outreach. They then focused NASA’s efforts onto climate change. The NOAA already existed for that job. Under Obama the shuttle was mothballed with no plan to phase something new in any time soon and the James Webb Space Telescope was back burnered. It was ruined as a agency and when Trump was elected, the proof was the bellyaching of Rouge NASA employees. I thought real space scientists would be excited about going back to the moon and then onto Mars. Turns out they just wanted to do more climate change data fudging.
Obama had sucked the Right Stuff out the NASA and if a Congressman can put it back in there, I’ll support that 100%.
A real scientist would be excited to meet the potential future director of NASA. I know I would.
Well for the women of 500 Women Scientists, that was unacceptable.
Bill Nye Does Not Speak for Us and He Does Not Speak for Science
By attending the State of the Union with NASA administrator nominee Jim Bridenstine, the Science Guy tacitly endorses climate denial, intolerance and attacks on science
500 Women Scientists is a progressive, Social Justice organization.
500 Women Scientists is a grassroots organization started by four women who met in graduate school at CU Boulder and who maintained friendships and collaborations after jobs and life took them away from Boulder. Immediately following the November 2016 election, we published an open letter re-affirming our commitment to speak up for science and for women, minorities, immigrants, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA.
500 Women Scientists works to build communities and foster real change that comes from small groups, not large crowds. Our Local Pods help create those deep roots through strong, personal relationships. Local Pods are where members meet regularly, develop a support network, make strategic plans, and take action. Pods focus on issues that resonate in their communities, rooted in our mission and values.
So as typical progressives, there was no amount of interaction with the other side of the aisle that is acceptable.
As scientists, we cannot stand by while Nye lends our community’s credibility to a man who would undermine the United States’ most prominent science agency. And we cannot stand by while Nye uses his public persona as a science entertainer to support an administration that is expressly xenophobic, homophobic, misogynistic, racist, ableist, and anti-science.
That’s not the language of scientists. That is the language of social justice activists. Anti-Science is a weasel phrase for “doesn’t tow the line on man made climate change.” Saying “NASA is about space exploration and I’m going to stop wasting resources on being redundant to the NOAA and start heading back to the moon” is not anti-science. Obama did worse to NASA than Trump ever could.
Also, “but Trump.”
Scientists are people, and in today’s society, it is impossible to separate science at major agencies like NASA from other pressing issues like racism, bigotry, and misogyny. Addressing these issues should be a priority, not only to strengthen our own scientific community, but to better serve the public that often funds our work.
Nope. Science is a methodology used to better understand how the universe works. Good science gets repeatable results. If you want to be taken seriously as a scientist, do good science.
Bridenstine’s anti-science record and his stance on civil rights, and to implicitly support a stance that would diminish the agency’s work studying our own planet and its changing climate. Exploring other worlds and studying other planets, while dismissing the overwhelming scientific evidence of climate change and its damage to our own planet isn’t just dangerous, it’s foolish and self-defeating.
Bridenstine wants to put people on the moon and on Mars and has tried to expand the area of commercial space exploration. To me that sounds like good policy for NASA.
Since he doesn’t want NASA focused on climate change, he’s anti-science.
Further, from his position of privilege and public popularity, Bill Nye is acting on the scientific community’s behalf, but without our approval. No amount of funding for space exploration can undo the damage the Trump administration is causing to public health and welfare by censoring science.
Calling climate change quackery, “quackery” is not censoring science.
No number of shiny new satellites can undo the racist policies that make our Dreamer colleagues live in fear and prevent immigrants from pursuing scientific careers in the United States. And no new mission to the Moon can make our LGBTQ colleagues feel welcome at an agency run by someone who votes against their civil rights.
The job of NASA is satellites and missions to the moon. If you let Dreamers and trans bathrooms stop you from putting satellites in space and men on the moon, you are the anti-science problem.
As women and scientists, we refuse to separate science from everyday life. We refuse to keep our heads down and our mouths shut. As someone with a show alleging to save the world, Bill Nye has a responsibility to acknowledge the importance of NASA’s vast mission, not just one aspect of it. He should use his celebrity to elevate the importance of science in NASA’s mission—not waste the opportunity to lobby for space exploration at a cost to everything else.
As a man I can tell you that the mission of NASA as defined by The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, which created it is:
If NASA is busy with social justice, it’s not doing space exploration. I want space exploration.
The true shame is that Bill Nye remains the popular face of science because he keeps himself in the public eye.
On this, we agree.
Bill Nye does not speak for us or for the members of the scientific community who have to protect not only the integrity of their research, but also their basic right to do science. We stand with others who have asked Bill Nye to not attend the State of the Union. Nye’s complicity does not align him with the researchers who have a bold and progressive vision for the future of science and its role in society.
No one is stopping you from doing science because of your race, gender, sexual orientation, or etc. It’s that your social justice science sucks. You are the same kind of people that are currently destroying math. Stop trying to destroy science too.
At a time when our ability to do science and our ability to live freely are both under threat, our public champions and our institutions must do better.
Only your bad science is under threat.
I’m embarrassed by these 500 Women. They aren’t scientists. They are social justice warriors in lab coats.
This letter is a tragedy, and I don’t feel like taking lessons on what is science from people who believe that a man can become a woman by identifying that way.
The only thing about this letter that makes me nod my head in approval is watching the progressive mob tear one of it’s most vocal members down for shaking hands with a Republican.