Clarissa's Blog

In his victory speech, Bernie was nice and gracious towards Hillary. It’s really good to see opponents behave with dignity and not lose face during an electoral contest. I don’t know about you, but I find all this “my opponent is a pussy” and stuff like that to be undignified and disrespectful of the office people are running for. We deserve better than to be exposed to this kind of thing.

Putin, by the way, loves using toilet-level language, and the voters adore him for it. Which tells us all we need to know about those voters. Let’s not be like them and allow ourselves to be treated this way.

P.S. And by the way, even though I support Hillary, I feel no compulsion to say stupid things like it’s not a real victory for Bernie because New Hampshire is close to Vermont or whatever or that something is wrong with him or his supporters. It’s a big victory that testifies to a vigorous, valuable campaign. Only total nutjobs can deny that.

Hey, folks, did you see that Kasich is coming in second in New Hampshire and Rubiobot might get to finish in fifth place? That’s funny. I’m glad Rubiobot is getting slayed because I kind of hate him. Of course, it’s not like I can abide any of them, so I will always be happy when some of them suffer.

Cruz is coming in third. I’m very happy that the nasty lizard is getting a drubbing.

Nothing unexpected in the Democratic race. Hillary gave a beautiful concession speech, said nice things about Bernie. But that’s par for the course, she’s always very graceful and poised. Remember the Benghazi hearing?

I’m reading Pat Conroy and discovering that there are many racial insults for white people. In my innocence, I had no idea they existed.

We had a teensy bit of snow today but people around here are so not used to it that there was a massive freak out. The highway was backed up for two hours. There was such a huge number of snow trucks everywhere that it seemed like they were preparing to dig up and cart off Mount Everest.

In the meanwhile, there is an anti-Rauner rally back on campus that I’m going to miss. But at least people are finally awakening and beginning to protest.

People are not even trying to avoid sounding like jerks:

I might not be supporting the Democratic nominee either. I’m not a Hillary hater, but I never liked her husband (and I think he’s going to be a huge problem when and if he gets back into the East Wing).

Imagine how it would sound if I declared that I don’t support Bernie because I don’t like his wife. But a male blogger thinks nothing of sounding like a superficial brat.

For years now, a new leftist movement has been rising on college campuses. It speaks a new, radical language of intersectional identity politics. It is obsessed with social justice, with promoting the interests of the historically marginalized— and with policing its own adherents for their violations of its norms.

Oh, enough with this crap, seriously. A very small group of rich kids do this shit and their antics somehow get extrapolated onto all college campuses. 95% of college students in this country have never heard the expression “intersectional identity politics.” They are studying, working, taking care of their families. They are not a bunch of freaks howling about the need to be taken care of. But that’s all we see on TV. And that’s all we see covered online.

It angers me hugely that the experiences and the concerns of the majority of students are overshadowed by the silly dramas of these boring rich freaks.

Sexist Putinoids have grown so desperate in their attacks on Hillary that one of them is now claiming she was “a political operative” (whatever that is) in 1996 and confuses her entirely with Bill as if they were the same person.

Hillary’s candidacy is bringing out so much shit in people that we should all be hugely grateful to her for running. I read the linked fellow for years before realizing how much he hated women (and loved Putin.)

Young women don’t find feminism very relevant. I ask my students all the time, and they tell me feminism has achieved all its goals and is no longer needed.

It’s true that feminism doesn’t have much to offer to young women. Until they try to have actual careers, give birth (without the mediation of their parents), make serious money, experience health problems, etc, there truly is nothing for them in feminism. The only thing anybody has come up with to offer as a substitute for feminism among this group is orifice policing, and that energizes only a small segment.

And that’s the real reason why young women don’t see the need for a candidate who will champion feminist issues.

People asked me why I consider Corey Robin to be irredeemably dumb. Here is the most recent example. The poor, dense fellow is imploring Hillary supporters to reconsider because:

I ask that you be open to the possibility that maybe, just maybe, the world is changing, if only a little bit.

I mean, seriously. The world is changing (duh!) so the solution is to vote for a fellow whose every word, every idea, every suggestion is a nostalgic throwback to the pre-1978 heyday of the nation-state. The world is changing, so let’s pretend it isn’t, shut our eyes really tight, and repeat very loudly, “It isn’t true if I say it isn’t!”

I understand voting for Bernie if you honestly believe that we can travel back to 1968. But if you do recognize that the world is changing, the only reasonable response is to let go of the nostalgia and look towards the future,  not the past.

Twitter is going to the dogs, people, and since the path it has to travel to get there is not that long, it will be there in no time. Whenever I try to access my Twitter feed these days, I get a mishmash of things I never wanted to follow or expressed any interest in and I have to sift through them to get access to people I actually do want to read. This gets so boring that I barely go on Twitter any more.

Plus, I’m annoyed by endless notifications about some boring starlet posting some photo I totally need to see even though I couldn’t give a crap about the starlet or her photo.