Herdwatching

The old tricks aren’t working any more – but they are trying all of them. Most recently they are dragging out the faux horror and outrage of the scared victim. Things have become to mean they say. Some of them have even begun questioning whether the first amendment covers saying bad things about our Dear Leader and his cohorts. With one hand on their foreheads they manage to ask us to consider that all this anger is dangerous right before they faint into a self-righteous heap.

Some people are just the fun kind of crazy. The mutter to themselves. They tell you the end of the world is “nigh”. They smell like old licorice and they have a favorite piece of “lucky string”. Those are the harmless ones. “Charliegrrl” is one of the other kinds. The kind that goes out in public [...]

One of the beauties of “feminist analysis” is that it can be used to turn anything and I mean literally anything into a anti female display. All it takes is the shallowest possible reading of a scene mixed with the maximum possible paranoia. Think of it as a paranoiacs hide a word. Take the picture [...]

Dethb0y responded to Hugo’s posting, continuing their existing conversation. I have a comment or two about it, continuing my side commentary. “The problem with this stance is that the media normalizes. The example i prefer to use is theft, because it’s something many people can relate to; a shared experience, so to speak.” – Dethb0y [...]

In a recent post on his blog Hugo responds to Dethb0y on the topic of pornography and violence. The response is, as many of the things Hugo writes, polite, measured and utterly based in beliefs systems I find utterly flawed. It started with a post by Hugo on the topic of anxiety and arousal and [...]