My favorite / least favorite part of any given woke witch burning is when the victim attempts to apologize and everyone aggressively rejects the apology and seems offended at the very attempt. This cycle continues until they are just abjectly groveling for relief that will never come or just Become Brett Weinstein.
I think this aggressive refusal to accept an apology is a good litmus test for whether someone is just being sensitive about some subject (justly or unjustly) and when they are a psycho using performative outrage to garner social power.
I find it interesting that men talk about facial beauty so much but women act like it never matters even though the latter do much more to their face to look beautiful.
The “cultural appropriation” story references the Ban Mih “scandal”. Feel like it’s important to note how this “scandal” played out. Some student at Oberlin notes a sandwich noted as a “ban mih” sandwich has wrong ingredients is basically not a ban Mih sandwich. The student talks to the newspaper and eventually after some discussion the sandwich is changed. Being Oberlin, there is some very lefty language in the student newspaper but in general my banal summary is correct.
Like a month later the NyPost writes a headline “Students at Lena Dunham’s college offended by lack of fried chicken”. First off, what a time capsule! We sort of forget how much insane discourse there was about “Girls” and Lena Dunham (relevant today with her memoir). But second, it’s only after the Post article that this “scandal” became a “story” and launched a thousand takes including articles in The Atlantic and New York Times that were all a version of “Lefty college kids are way too lefty!” or more succinctly “These kids today!”
The ironic twist is of course given this story is the “big bang” of cultural appropriation, this led to leftists on Twitter actually doing the thing various MSM commentators accused Oberlin students of doing.
There are probably a lot of lessons from this story but one I take is that we underrate how many “controversies” are downstream of more traditional media outlets pushing a political narrative even today (Orange Man famously watched hours of TV not TikTok when he puts out his insane Truth Social posts for example).
The funny thing is that ube thread most reminds me of what happened when Northern restaurants try to do BBQ and get clowned by Southerners, like the whole Brooklyn BBQ meme.
How do you feel about Birkenstocks? Personally, I hate how they look, but unfortunately my feet have decided they need them - walking long distances in anything else triggers my plantar fasciitis.
Dispirited but not surprised by the number of likes received by the suggestion that Israelis should eat the poison. It wasn't a real suggestion but the nastiness was real.
It’s alarming how many people who posture as “virtuous” and “compassionate” refuse to see Israelis as humans. If someone said that about foreigners from any other nationality, I doubt they’d be on board. It’s a shallow facade. These sorts of people might think that they’re more moral than far-right weirdos who rage against people from “shithole countries,” but it’s the same thing in a slightly different package.
I do think the ube ice cream guy deserved to be clowned on lightly, but like the issue with the internet is that if a thousand people clown on someone lightly, then it looks like a giant dogpile. And of course, a few people are going to take it way too far
There was an option missing on the “who asked who” first date question: blind date. My husband and I were fixed up by friends, neither of us was super enthusiastic about going out. (But by the end of the date I knew we would get married.)
I just ate some precooked Fufu from a Cameroonian store that opened in my neighbourhood. If it turns out they poisoned me to punish me for cultural appropriation, I just want to say that I really liked this blog and commenting community.
Blerg, thought we were done with Cultural Appropriation discourse
My favorite / least favorite part of any given woke witch burning is when the victim attempts to apologize and everyone aggressively rejects the apology and seems offended at the very attempt. This cycle continues until they are just abjectly groveling for relief that will never come or just Become Brett Weinstein.
I think this aggressive refusal to accept an apology is a good litmus test for whether someone is just being sensitive about some subject (justly or unjustly) and when they are a psycho using performative outrage to garner social power.
My Twitter bubble must be drifting away from CHH's. This week I got the European AC discourse instead of the ube ice cream discourse!
Me too-lol
I find it interesting that men talk about facial beauty so much but women act like it never matters even though the latter do much more to their face to look beautiful.
I was a little disappointed because I thought the survey was going to be about our fist date everI
The “cultural appropriation” story references the Ban Mih “scandal”. Feel like it’s important to note how this “scandal” played out. Some student at Oberlin notes a sandwich noted as a “ban mih” sandwich has wrong ingredients is basically not a ban Mih sandwich. The student talks to the newspaper and eventually after some discussion the sandwich is changed. Being Oberlin, there is some very lefty language in the student newspaper but in general my banal summary is correct.
Like a month later the NyPost writes a headline “Students at Lena Dunham’s college offended by lack of fried chicken”. First off, what a time capsule! We sort of forget how much insane discourse there was about “Girls” and Lena Dunham (relevant today with her memoir). But second, it’s only after the Post article that this “scandal” became a “story” and launched a thousand takes including articles in The Atlantic and New York Times that were all a version of “Lefty college kids are way too lefty!” or more succinctly “These kids today!”
The ironic twist is of course given this story is the “big bang” of cultural appropriation, this led to leftists on Twitter actually doing the thing various MSM commentators accused Oberlin students of doing.
There are probably a lot of lessons from this story but one I take is that we underrate how many “controversies” are downstream of more traditional media outlets pushing a political narrative even today (Orange Man famously watched hours of TV not TikTok when he puts out his insane Truth Social posts for example).
The funny thing is that ube thread most reminds me of what happened when Northern restaurants try to do BBQ and get clowned by Southerners, like the whole Brooklyn BBQ meme.
How do you feel about Birkenstocks? Personally, I hate how they look, but unfortunately my feet have decided they need them - walking long distances in anything else triggers my plantar fasciitis.
I don’t like them on me, but I don’t judge! They’re very comfortable.
I judge, though! They look terrible! 😂
Dispirited but not surprised by the number of likes received by the suggestion that Israelis should eat the poison. It wasn't a real suggestion but the nastiness was real.
It’s alarming how many people who posture as “virtuous” and “compassionate” refuse to see Israelis as humans. If someone said that about foreigners from any other nationality, I doubt they’d be on board. It’s a shallow facade. These sorts of people might think that they’re more moral than far-right weirdos who rage against people from “shithole countries,” but it’s the same thing in a slightly different package.
I do think the ube ice cream guy deserved to be clowned on lightly, but like the issue with the internet is that if a thousand people clown on someone lightly, then it looks like a giant dogpile. And of course, a few people are going to take it way too far
Twitter/X and Bluesky are case studies in how to create a culture where being completely deranged is rewarded and celebrated.
Fyi the gender and social media survey link brings me to the BDSM survey
Oh shoot, will fix!
Seconded
Women will literally look at 10,000 variations of “straps mounted on soles” and form strong aesthetic opinions about every single one of them
There was an option missing on the “who asked who” first date question: blind date. My husband and I were fixed up by friends, neither of us was super enthusiastic about going out. (But by the end of the date I knew we would get married.)
I just ate some precooked Fufu from a Cameroonian store that opened in my neighbourhood. If it turns out they poisoned me to punish me for cultural appropriation, I just want to say that I really liked this blog and commenting community.
The orgasm gap discourse started with this actually: https://x.com/etanarachel/status/2057864634628006338?s=46https://x.com/etanarachel/status/2058385393305661736?s=46