Tuesday, November 20, 2018
You Had Us at Hello
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
You Had Us at Hello
You Had Us At Hello
By P.B. Rage from USA (More Kurt -- too rad) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
More than 20 years ago the rock landscape had languished in a sea of regurgitated sameness. Carbon copies. Pretty boy bands that looked like girls singing about Girls Girls Girls. Half naked girls singing about virginity and prayers.
Thrash metal was scratching the itch that glam could never satisfy. Rap was another venue for expressing angst and becoming quite lucrative, in a way metal was not.
Edgy and cool was listening to classic rock. Boston, Aerosmith, Triumph were the alternative to the Lipsticked Pretty Boys prancing on MTV.
The Purple Rain had become a foggy memory, replaced by a long-haired ginger in a bandana snake dancing to a guitar charmer in a top hat. The class of 90 was made of this. The rose that bloomed with a bang soon also faded in a cold November rain, and there we were.
Our eyes fed upon Alice in Chains. Red Hot chili peppers were trying to get us to put them in us, and some of us were satiated. The rest of us hungered for more spiritual manna in this musical wasteland of pop and rock.
What new thing could we find to listen to in our apathy and malaise? "Here we are now, entertain us." "Hello hello hello, how low?" We were suddenly hearing our decade put in words we never could have found on our own, growled and howled over the pounding high school marching band drum beat.
We heard the voice in the wilderness saying come as you are, and we covered in mud soaked in bleach opened our ears and minds and souls to this new sound. We were all ugly here, and it was ok. We lit our candles in a daze because we found our Nirvana.
20 (plus) years later we are back in the wilderness and where is our voice? Married, buried. Weiland could tell you but he is not here either. Layne is truly the man in the box.
Our pop-giant killers were slain in fields of poppies.
Who will be our hero to chase away the twerking, jerking, hordes of circus performers that vie for our attention now? The shallow rivers of saccharine flow from our speakers and earbuds, yet we are starved. A constant repeating parade of boy bands that look like girls singing about girls while naked girls sing about respect and degradation simultaneously.
I do sometimes wish I were that easily amused after all.
oh,
whatever
nevermind.
Doing Something
Thursday, April 6, 2017
Doing Something
Doing Something
A sad thing happened the other day: a sad thing, in a sad place, in our sad world. Another sad thing, in a long, neverending list of sad things. This sad thing, in a sad place, far, far away is "The Saddest of All Things" and demands are being put on us to stop all the sadness. We must Do Something.More
Marco Rubio gives an impassioned plea to remove Assad during Syria presser: "This goes to the core of who we are."
NBC NewsIt's always, WE MUST DO SOMETHING!. Doing Something! is Who We Are. Not Doing Something! is not Who We Are. Look at this Sad Picture!, Do Something!. If you don't Do Something!, there will be more Sad Pictures!, and it will be your fault.
And, absolutely, the pictures are sad. They are meant to be. This is how propaganda works.
Sad picture, sad parent. We simply have to do something. No, indeed, WE don't.
There are many reasons why Doing Something! is worse than doing nothing. Our country, for nearly a century, has been "doing something". The people, now calling for us to "do something", are the very people who hate our country for its years of "doing something". When we, as a nation, "do something", we are blamed for everything.
These people, these countries, do have agency. It is simply not our place to take over for them. Their struggle, while ugly, is not ours to fight for them. We are neither a Superman - a hero to save them from themselves, nor are we Jesus - a wise all-knowing provider of Salvation from on high. Indeed, regarding ourselves as either of those is the height of hubris: we would do well to consider the craftsmanship of our pedestal.
Finally, and probably, mostly, "Whatever it Takes" is probably a very, very ugly thing. What is the solution to this problem? Our sons and daughters dying, for a confusing cause that no one understands? Dropping bombs, from on high, like gods again? Isn't that why ISIS is angry at us in the first place? Calling action there a national security necessity flies in the face of the evidence that our bombs are why they are bombing us.
Truman did something: Oh yes, indeed-rightly so- but the people saying WE MUST DO SOMETHING, hate Truman for doing The Something that he did.
We are being expected to play a parental role ( again hubris) and there is no one side with discernible clean hands. Our choices are ugly; we let them do ugly things to each other or we do ugly things to them, in order to stop them from doing ugly things to each other. Either way, everyone gets mad and decides to do ugly things to us.
If sad pictures are not motivation enough, the powers that be-while very disappointed with us-will then remind us, we must fight this battle over there to Keep Us Safe At Home. We will spend billions in a war over there under the guise of National Security-while being afraid to do the bare minimum to stop terrorism here, for fear of offending terrorists. Stopping innocent people from flying here is abusive; bombing them all to hell is just hunky dory.
But if "motive unknown" is the cause of terrorism, how is going to Syria gonna fix it? We can't even say the name of the cause, for fear of offending, but we can bomb the crap out of it?
We don't know what the hell is going on with our government, but we are sure what is going on in Syria...please... (this our source for what is happening in Syria).
So you want a smaller government, conservatives? Quit nation building and sending our military everywhere. Liberals, you want a smaller military? I will tell you the same. That, right there, is something you all can reach across the aisle and agree on if you really wanted to. Of course, we know there is more to it: the beast is hungry and it needs to be fed. Our countrymen should be more than it's fodder; blood to grease the machinery. American citizens are not Marco Rubio's troops for his personal moral crusade.
Fair Share
Saturday, April 1, 2017
Fair Share
Fair Share
A lot of angst has been expressed over Vice President Pence's tie-breaking vote to defund Planned Parenthood. The banshee screeches of "How dare MEN to decide what we do with our bodies!!" ironically over the fact that these men have decided that not everyone needs to be funding what goes on with their bodies.
Why buy the cow, when you can get the milk for free is an old proverb that recognizes the commodity that is female sexuality. The literal sale of sex is not meant, but instead the social contract of marriage, in which the female historically was provided for in a mutually beneficial relationship. Her needs, her health care, her housing, her medical care, and all costs provided. Women held on to that commodity until the contract was official. Now, thanks to the sexual revolution, women give away, no strings attached, what every man on earth wants. So, indeed, why would he sign up for a lifelong financial burden when he can get those same fleeting benefits for free.
Of course, modern feminism has declared marriage outdated and patriarchal. Women don't need men, marriage, or family to be successful or happy in their daily lives. They have unchained themselves from the institution and declared themselves free agents, which is all well and good until the bills associated with such freedom start piling up. Suddenly they too, become Henny Pennys, wondering who will pay for their maternity care or prevention. However, will they obtain the magic baby stopping beans, if society won't provide them free of cost?
Which brings us back to the notion of cows. A cow share agreement is one where consumers of the commodity, in this case, milk, pay a monthly or weekly fee to the owner of the delivery system (cow) of the commodity, for the costs associated with keeping and caring for it. Vet bills, feed, housing, etc, split up evenly among those participating in the share system. The owner of each share obtains a prearranged portion of the milk the animal has produced in that time period. ( selling raw or home pasteurized milk has been outlawed in most areas in the United State, the practice of cow shares is one creative mechanism for getting around restrictions) Since exchanging sex for money is frowned upon ( illegal) I propose the lady in need of funds to pay for the prevention of the products of conception make a similar agreement with those she intends on sharing her bounty (booty) with.
I agree that it is completely unfair for her to bear this burden alone. My quibble is with the concept that everyone should be on the hook. A woman should enter into each and every incident of sexual activity with the cost in mind beforehand. No cost sharey, no sex sharey. Simple.as.that.
Bawk Bawk.
Jesus and Chelsea Clinton
Friday, March 17, 2017
Jesus and Chelsea Clinton
President Trump released his budget draft, and the left has suddenly gotten religion. What Would Jesus Do is no longer gauche, but instead the question dripping from every media pundit's quivering lip? All day on the news, on Twitter, and other social media wealthy busybodies in sackcloth and ashes, crying to the heavens "Who will feed the grannies" upon hearing that the 3% that the fed funds for Meals on Wheels is being targeted for cuts.
Of course, no national moral crisis is complete without the left's new favorite spokesmodel for righteous living, Chelsea 10 Million Dollar Condo Clinton, piping up on cue. She persists in popping up like a perpetual whack a mole, to dispense trite, moral, cliched wisdom. Did she suggest starting a foundation to raise funds to feed the poor? Ha HA, it's almost like she has never heard of such a thing. Did she organize a charity $30,000 a plate dinner, did she call upon her other trust fund pals and celebrities?
No, she called upon you. Chelsea Clinton is basing her future political aspirations on her being too miserly or lazy to find private ways to fund these projects. She sees the country as an endless trust fund to be accessed at any time for any need that SHE, and other liberals, deems necessary.
Our betters need our cash. After her mother and the rest of the media have called half of the country deplorable, suddenly she wants to appeal to our better natures. That's the crappiest part of it. We are all stupid backwoods peasants till the check comes due. Your moral code is a joke to them. Your family values sneered at. Your Jesus religion, archaic, barbarism, until they can use it to control you.
Jesus did not tell Herod, Pilate or Caesar to feed the poor. He told you to do it. He told the rich man to voluntarily give ALL he had to the poor. He did not tell them to stump for higher taxes. It's ALMOST amusing to me that people with means insist on ignoring THAT bit. Using your platform to remind me that Jesus says to do such and such for the poor, while you sit on a bundle of your own cash, does not fly. You can be rich and Christian, but you don't get to force others to be charitable in the name of Jesus for you.
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's? Caesar is dead and we have no king.
The government should not be our training wheels. Learning to ride a bike after riding too long with training wheels to support you, makes it harder to do without. When you see something that needs to be done, do it. Don't lean on the government for it.
Our country is paralyzed to inaction... Who will feed the poor... Well, you Henny Penny.. You will do it.
Because, damn it, if it's not important enough for you, Famous Person Of Means to do, it sure the hell isn't important enough to force me to do it for you.
Fear is Another Word For Terror
Friday, February 3, 2017
Fear is Another Word For Terror
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," the words of the Democrat saint FDR. Words to inspire hope, in a time of trouble. Reminding the people that there had been worse times in the past, and the nation had overcome. "Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance" completes the quote. Today, while we live in plenty instead of want, fear is ruling us and ruining us. Fear is paralyzing us into retreating instead of standing boldly.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose (like the great and powerful bard Kris Kristofferson once penned). The left has people petrified into silence and inaction for fear of losing livelihoods. People who have something to lose, like the gainfully employed, fear a pink slip. In today's repressive society, only the unemployed truly have the freedom of speech our founders fought for. The employed cannot speak for fear of being a speaker of hate. This is not a healthy development in our society.
When the sky seems to be falling, and the world appears to be ending, I have been known to quip " Lenny Bruce is not afraid" (hat tip to REM) For weeks I have watched streets burn in "peaceful protest" of so-called "violent words" and wonder if now, perhaps, Lenny would be. Jerry Seinfeld surely is, and who can blame him. He is not alone.
College professors are afraid of free thought and free speech as naked emperors should be. Afraid of losing their hold on the impressionable minds of today's naive students. Their jobs, of course, are safe due to tenure. Their teachings can't stand up to basic scrutiny. The emperor not only is naked, but he also has gangrene. Speaking truth to power is now hate speech, and will be met with all the force they can muster ( speech is violence, violence is now speech, they now say).
2,004 people are talking about this
The people who demanded we stop using shame as behavior modification because it is demoralizing and hurts self-esteem have now weaponized it. Say goodbye to slut shaming and fat shaming and hello to thought shaming, association shaming, and worst of all, vote shaming. Of all the things that were said to be a threat to our democratic process, vote shaming actually is. It is using peer pressure, financial ruin or threats of violence as intimidation to affect elections, and has potentially a much more chilling effect than "muh Russians". It was so effective in silencing people that much of the media and pundits were shocked on election night. Polls were wrong because people didn't answer, or refused to answer in what they perceived was the wrong way, out of fear of being shamed, or worse.
The methods of shame and intimidation, in this case, didn't achieve the desired result. Instead of crawling off to inspect the damage and create a new game plan, the left has decided that they will double down. They have moved on from intimidation to punishment and revenge. They have ramped up the rhetoric in the media and on campus. Perpetual protests and riots have wearied even the most die-hard conservative non-Trump supporter. They are marching in the streets chanting No Borders, No Nation. That is not a message to win hearts and minds to your cause. They are marching quixotically against the KKK. They are destroying property, starting fires and bashing skulls to fight Nazis, and they get to decide who fits the bill.
They declared war on "Nazis". "Nazis" are exempt from the due process of law and are ripe for punching. "Nazi" is identified first as white supremacists, then nationalists then alt-right, then right then Trump supporters, then non-Trump supporters that are just tired of them. You don't want to be called a Nazi, do you? Well, you know what you have to do. It will not be good enough to simply not worship their Satan. You must renounce him and all his works at all times. If not they will call you the bad name. They will make sure you never work again. They will call your boss. They will boycott your job. They will threaten you with violence. They will use fear and shame to control you. They will do all of this to fight fascism, and will never admit to the irony.
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” G.Orwell "Animal Farm"
If everyone is, no one is.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose (like the great and powerful bard Kris Kristofferson once penned). The left has people petrified into silence and inaction for fear of losing livelihoods. People who have something to lose, like the gainfully employed, fear a pink slip. In today's repressive society, only the unemployed truly have the freedom of speech our founders fought for. The employed cannot speak for fear of being a speaker of hate. This is not a healthy development in our society.
When the sky seems to be falling, and the world appears to be ending, I have been known to quip " Lenny Bruce is not afraid" (hat tip to REM) For weeks I have watched streets burn in "peaceful protest" of so-called "violent words" and wonder if now, perhaps, Lenny would be. Jerry Seinfeld surely is, and who can blame him. He is not alone.
College professors are afraid of free thought and free speech as naked emperors should be. Afraid of losing their hold on the impressionable minds of today's naive students. Their jobs, of course, are safe due to tenure. Their teachings can't stand up to basic scrutiny. The emperor not only is naked, but he also has gangrene. Speaking truth to power is now hate speech, and will be met with all the force they can muster ( speech is violence, violence is now speech, they now say).
Please become a meme. This "professor" went off on NYPD for arresting Antifa members who assaulted Gavin McInnes. twitter.com/hunterswogg/st…
The methods of shame and intimidation, in this case, didn't achieve the desired result. Instead of crawling off to inspect the damage and create a new game plan, the left has decided that they will double down. They have moved on from intimidation to punishment and revenge. They have ramped up the rhetoric in the media and on campus. Perpetual protests and riots have wearied even the most die-hard conservative non-Trump supporter. They are marching in the streets chanting No Borders, No Nation. That is not a message to win hearts and minds to your cause. They are marching quixotically against the KKK. They are destroying property, starting fires and bashing skulls to fight Nazis, and they get to decide who fits the bill.
They declared war on "Nazis". "Nazis" are exempt from the due process of law and are ripe for punching. "Nazi" is identified first as white supremacists, then nationalists then alt-right, then right then Trump supporters, then non-Trump supporters that are just tired of them. You don't want to be called a Nazi, do you? Well, you know what you have to do. It will not be good enough to simply not worship their Satan. You must renounce him and all his works at all times. If not they will call you the bad name. They will make sure you never work again. They will call your boss. They will boycott your job. They will threaten you with violence. They will use fear and shame to control you. They will do all of this to fight fascism, and will never admit to the irony.
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” G.Orwell "Animal Farm"
If everyone is, no one is.
Stupid Grapes
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Stupid Grapes
For the longest time, superiority complexes and perpetual smugness were stereotypically Democrat identifiers. Sadly, this trend has blended over, in the spirit of cooperation as it were, across the aisle. While I agree the average voter is, naturally, of average intelligence, I am troubled by the sudden rash of pundits and conservative writers calling the base "losers" and "stupid". Intimating that the GOP bears no responsibility for the mess the country is in. We as individuals are in a bed of our own making, and it's just OUR stupidity that got us in this mess.
Well if we got here on our own, and you think we can get out of it on our own...wtf do we need you?
oh...
Do not misunderstand me. I DO believe in personal responsibility. It's the reason why I tend to vote for the most conservative candidate available. Unfortunately, that is getting ever harder to do. It is difficult to exercise personal responsibility while the GOP is constantly bowing to the party that insists on legislating it away. Tough love, coming from a party of compromising pussies, is laughable.
(Though I do find it ironic that articles chastising poor people for their lot in life is hidden behind a paywall)
You are selling us a candidate or a party based on how bad the other candidate and party have destroyed the country and the economy, it isn't a smart move to blame the constituents for the position they find themselves in, in life. Did the Democrats ruin our lives, or did we do it? If we did it in our stupidity, how did we become so ignorant?
The masses are uneducated. Ignorant of the process. Who let the liberals educate the masses? Who have you let control the federal department of education, with only minor "conservative" additions like No Child Left Behind? Why was the Common Core Candidate JEB! himself, considered remotely electable. Dietrich Bonhoeffer stated, "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." So, you've been silent on education, you haven't acted to stop the degradation. You should have. You were elected to. You have not acted, the ignorant masses you deride are on you.
"Vote for us! We will defund the evil PP that donates to the evil Democrats that votes to fund them. Just give us a majority" gives way to, " Yeah.. so.. we have a majority, but we can't really defund PP. That will lose us crucial seats later. You really need us in office to keep doing the work you sent us here to do, even though we don't, and you are too stupid to see it." You foisted on us the Gruber infested candidacy of Mitt Romney, but yeah we are dumb enough to think you are going to fight to repeal ACA.
These ignorant rubes are smart enough to see you've been playing them like the Democrats play women and minorities. So either they are genius enough to see through your superior plans, or your ruse was just basic.
Like any jilted lover, the fox despised the grapes he couldn't win and disparaged them. Instead of finding a way to reach them, he left them hanging.
Bending a Knee to Baal
Bending a Knee to Baal
Flapping Lips have their say
Brazen idol olden golden
Raised fists are emboldened
Demagoguery war of foggery
Inky stink of word boggery
Unfettered streams of worshipful praise
He will Save us from our malaise
Disparate desperation
calling us to oblation
Bonded bands of warring priests
Calling us to join their feasts
No one can
save you
No one should
save you
New messiahs for social pariahs
just another line of --- liars
Personality overpowers
empty suits empty towers
Overburdened feet of clay
can not help but give way
Spokesmodel idol fallen idle
Empty revival vain word recital
Led by malevolent benevolence
To our Magnificent irrelevance
We shall avoid the next disaster
By simply electing a better master
He who would
save you
instead will
enslave you
Abandon Hope and Change Course
Abandon Hope and Change Course
I am a firm believer in mutual self-construction.
By which I mean individuals
united in their seclusion.
Conjoined disjointed orphans
Erecting a Solace of Fortitude,
Asylums of Family Disunity
A harmonious cacophony of orchestrated solos
Instrumental temperamental
monumental chorus vocalizing
localizing
Individual vision
Alas
Feral sheep shepherded astray
by a Piper's dulcet atonement
Promissory sour notes called
due
Bald-faced ideological ribaldry
Preselected elected offal, officious
Inhumane scentipede
Mentally ill-dressed succession
of public servants self-servicing
Disarmed armada of the disillusioned
flotilla of fools on the Hill
Come sale away with me, indeed
Flotsam jet-setters presiding
Deciding
Die-er consequences
Pirated copies of declarations
of interdependence.
Anchors aweigh
My country-
tis for me
Sweet land where things are free
Of me, I'm singing
Land where our fathers sighed
Land where their dreams have died
State of Ship of State, Sinking
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
When They Came For Us, We Had Already Done The Job For Them
Perhaps it's just me, but the answer to online censorship is not tucking tail and running, but rather the "Hail Hydra" approach. Every account shut down should be met with seven new accounts opening up. What exactly is the benefit in saying "Oh, they might stop me from speaking, so I am going to preemptively shut up"?
I have been quite flabbergasted at the "Imma gonna quit" crowd. THIS, boys and girls, is why conservatives are losing. We can't keep our voices if we leave at the first sign of any push back.
I have a serious problem with a media platform, in an election year, silencing opposition voices. I have an even bigger problem with conservative voices volunteering to pack up and leave.
We were told that conservative voices weren't wanted in schools.
So we left.
We were told conservative voices weren't wanted in Hollywood.
So we left.
We were told conservative voices weren't wanted in media.
So we left
We were told that conservative voices were not wanted in government
So we left
We were told that conservative voices were not wanted on social media.
So
we
left
In life, the old adage still holds true, "The squeaky wheel gets the grease". One has to be the squeakiest wheel in this game. And conservatives are still playing "Thank you, Sir, can I have another", with shuffling feet and downturned eyes. Yet, we have the audacity to complain when our congressmen represent us to a T.
Look, for example, at the fight for a defining core conservative principle, The Right to Life, versus the core defining liberal principle, Abortion on Demand. In the public square, we have screeching liberal women vehemently, unabashedly, marching with vagina hand puppets, even full body costumes, to protest state governments defunding Planned Parenthood being praised as good, wholesome, unobjectionable, righteous even.
On the other side, women marching solemnly, prayerfully, with actual pictures of aborted babies, being vilified as gross, disgusting, objectionable, inflammatory, accusatory, evil, mean. Do we indeed have the courage of our convictions? Are we still watching, supporting the network that brought us this? Yes, we are. We politely eat what is put on our plate, and wonder why we keep getting fed garbage.
College campuses are another ground that we have lost, without a proverbial shot fired. Due process for men accused of heinous crimes is being trampled upon with impunity. We have even had presidential candidates praise this nonsense. Any voice that criticizes is met with accusations of being a rape apologist or worse, an actual rapist. Those words, just like the readily bandied "racist" are effective at melting conservatives like water on a witch. "What a world" indeed. Perhaps there is some merit after all, in the SJW claim that words are violence when the threat of being called names keeps people from speaking their minds.
If our principles are not important enough for us to stand for them, how do we expect to win hearts and minds? Especially when we have hogtied and gagged ourselves voluntarily. We can not afford to hover outside the window, moping like sad vampires of old, waiting to be invited in. We must boldly go in, as it were, and be ready to verbally stand and defend our hills. Waving a white flag and walking off of them surely is a strategy for a loss.
It's All Fun and Games 'Til the SJW's Get Involved.
Monday, February 1, 2016
It's All Fun and Games 'Til the SJW's Get Involved.
Body positive. Gender equality. Forced tolerance under any other name is still propaganda, and it still smells.
No longer satisfied with brainwashing your kids on social media, tv shows, and public schools, the Equality Brigade of Big Sister want to start indoctrination at the cradle. By social engineering the lumps of plastic your child can play with and what mascots adorn their breakfast cereal box they hope to build their socially conscience utopia brick by Lego brick.
"How many Lego mini-figures live on your street? With a planet-wide population of 4 billion, there are sure to be a few plastic folk nestling down the back of a sofa near you. But for all the mini-figures in the world, Lego does not produce a single one with a wheelchair or a disability?"
Of course, this is not true, pirates with eye patches and peg legs have been available for quite some time. ( Yay for being represented by a yellow plastic toy?). The X-men set also has the iconic wheelchair-bound character. I am sure there are more, but who cares. It's a toy. Toys are for play, for imagination expansion. You can remove arms and legs or wrap injuries in toilet paper bandages. You can get a sharpie when mom is not looking and draw scars.
The article goes on to bemoan the lack of wheelchair accessibility for Lego Airplanes. Seriously. This is adult grievance culture forcing its worldview on the mind of a child. I can remember many times as a child, a certain figure was the wrong size for the entrance for whatever building you were playing with. ( Oh and you could actually cross play. Barbie did not have to play with just Barbie abodes, she could ride "in" your brothers Tonka truck) We used our imaginations and pretended it got through and placed said figure on the other side of the door. Imagine it's wheelchair accessible if you are a child and actually concerned with such, and go your merry way. Problem solved simply, without the retooling of a whole toy manufacturing complex.
No answer on how toy manufacturers are supposed to illustrate less visible handicaps, like mental illness or blindness
For years, child development researchers have been calling for unstructured play to encourage creativity in children. At one-time coloring books were frowned upon. Pre-drawn illustrations were thought to handicap creativity. Experts thought a blank page was the best resource to bring out the artistry in preschoolers. Yet today the SJW wants to force your child to draw inside the lines. Having every toy possibly imagined and pre-made for each possible play scenario, surely inhibits inventive problem-solving.
Of course, that is the point. Control. "Wrong play" might lead to "wrong think" so let's be sure that no "wrong imagining" happens. We know their busybodying does not come from genuine concern for the less fortunate, because after all, these the same people that fight for the right to abort a disabled baby. When it actually matters, their concept of forced acceptance only goes so far.
Of course, the bane of a feminist existence could not go unscathed. Mattel announced on Twitter, Time Magazine's new cover featuring the new "realistic" body Barbie. Because that is what playtime is all about, realism and not fantasy.
When your toys are oppressing you, you really should seek help.
As a child, I read a lot of books about little girls. Not once do I remember Laura Ingalls wondering if she was going to look like a corn cob when she grew up. Little girls throughout the years were playing with molded clay dolls that vaguely had human shape. Sticks and clothespins wrapped in scrap cloth. Faceless primitive rag dolls misshapen and stuffed with sawdust never once pressured a child into wishing she too had a featureless visage. Having a real doll was once a rarity. You sure as heck didn't complain about its dimensions
"As the old saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. There’s just one problem: Despite our demographic diversity, not everyone’s beauty gets equal representation. However, new changes to one of the world’s most iconic (and influential) dolls are set to address this"
"In what is unquestionably Barbie’s "biggest change" since the toy first hit stores in 1959, Mattel is making room for other Barbies — 33 to be exact — to have a chance at dominating the shelves. And, to be honest, we’re all better for it."
Barbie is a toy, not a role model. To run an advertising campaign stating she is is a bigger issue than her waist size. Needless to say, Barbie is suffering the effects of the modern age. Kids are choosing electronics over plastic and ad campaign like this is causing the product to move, initially. Why? Limited run items are highly collectible. How many stores are going to devote shelf space to all models and clothing sizes? How many parents are going to fork over for the different clothing for all the diverse body types? Skipper was never popular for just this reason. Mattel needs to have realistic pocketbook standards. This is not a realistic long-term business model. Retooling to become less streamlined rather than more is backward in today's market, but of course, not a single SJW will mourn Barbie's passing should she indeed prove unprofitable. They got their feather, and if the bird dies, they will blame institutionalized misogyny etc and say it was too little too late.
Girls will never be a mermaid or Cinderella. Should we quit giving them toys that promote this false vision of the future? Most children will never grow up and own a Lamborghini, let's promote realistic driving standards. If we follow this logic, kids should only play with minivans. Allowing children to play with Disney castles or Barbie Dream Houses (or yachts) just sets them up for an unrealistic homing image. The will never be satisfied with their apartment complex or basic rancher. It's best to just nip all that imaginary play in the bud.
1 Corinthians 13:11-13King James Version (KJV)
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Believer or not, this is good advice, for the most part. Children's playtime is exactly that. Let them play. Let their creativity and imagination flow freely to solve the problems important to them. Let them be kids. Let the adults deal with all the serious issues that need serious people addressing them.
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