Folks, this is hilarious. I highly recommend.
Told you so, told you so, I told you told you told you so.
11 responses to “Eating Its Own Children”
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“If this piece from Jezebel is any indication, we’re entering the “generalized sense of danger” phase of the movement now. And maybe that’s a good thing.”
The writer sees the problem…but then feels the need to shoehorn this in at the end.
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[…] A Progressive Writer Was a Bad Boyfriend. And Then He Was Fired for It. (I found this at Clarissa’s Blog.) […]
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“because she was blocked, she used her dog’s Instagram account to log in”
I can’t stop laughing.
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“Smith’s firing shows his personal life was clearly a liability for the company” … well, I disagree that this is parallel to the Kavanaugh thing.
But: we’re all products now and he wasn’t the right boyfriend-product. These women sound so weird.
Paul/Beatriz Preciado, the writer, does say that sexuality is fundamentally commercial. You have value due to beauty, fertility, etc. But still. You don’t just have to look sexy to have a job, you have to have the reputation for being an excellent date?Does all this really go on in the world of dating?
I don’t catch all text messages.
If you are seeing someone you dislike for sex once a month and you are broken up and blocked from their Instagram, does their having a girlfriend constitute cheating?
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‘Smith “employed tactics of control and manipulation,” Shepherd writes, “including an unwillingness to have sex with [Kay] unless she wore a specific eye makeup.”‘
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Hey, if you had to go through life looking like the author of the Jebezel article, you’d be mad at the world, too.
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I work with graduate and professional students who are mostly in their early 20s, and undergraduates frequently do research in my lab. While I don’t make a point of learning about their social lives, I really don’t get the impression that any of them are human dumpster fires like the folks described in this article.
I suspect that the clickbait media industry (Jezebel, Gawker & etc.) is an attractor for some of the sketchiest most messed up people around, so I try not to generalize from pieces like this to conclusions about the Kids These Days. Maybe I’m just overly optimistic.
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