Bad boyz

There's been a spate of anti-gay violence in New York lately, beatings and one death. All seem unprovoked and cowardly. The victims were all taken by surprise, either outnumbered by a larger group or unarmed against men with weapons.

It's one thing to hold a public anti-homophobia rally in an obviously anti-gay society like Georgia and not expect a violent pushback. It's another to be walking around the streets of New York doing nothing provocative and be set upon by a pack of thugs. Urbania. 

As disapproving as I am of LGBT victimist carryings-on and as respectful I am of traditional masculinity, this kind of contemptible human-hunting behavior, gangs stalking the weaker, is the shameful shadow of men. Acting out a primal instinct of showing dominance, it actually reveals cowardice. No matter who the perpetrators, or the victims, it's always turned my stomach.

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Now for the tricky part. About the Georgians.

It's easy to make the locals and their church look like mere barbarians. Especially if you know nothing of their history and current situation. But from their point of view, if you look around at the advanced West, to see what eventuates from the recognition of "LGBT rights", what starts out as a humane plea for the tolerance of a tiny minority winds up with a society where merely arguing against gay marriage makes you a pariah. Seeing that trajectory...

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As ExC says

Comedians can tell truths the rest of us are forbidden even to notice.

Cucina

I like my kitchen. It is the brightest room in the house, with a southern and eastern exposure. On beautifully perfect sunny days like today, it is filled with light all morning. Sunlight filtering in, making sharp bright and shadow, falling even on the most mundane of objects I find beautiful.

B has a photographer's eye for light and shadow, too. The back of a dining chair, casting a morning shadow on the floor of his cucina.

The White Western Political Model

Shallow me

Via the lawless internet, I can watch the new Star Trek prequel movie. But it's a camera version of what's shown on the screen so it has a kind of 1930's look to it. It's exciting, and silly. Some of the barfworthy Star Trek PC moralism remains. The new BBC Sherlock Holmes, Benedict  Cumberbatch, is the serious bad guy, Khan, who will/did show his Wrath.

Spock and Kirk out of uniform

Men with eyebrows.

The young Captain Kirk is the freakishly handsome Chris Pine, whose bromance with Spock (out gay man Zachary Quinto) continues, the switching of a famous franchise scene between the buddies bringing out a side of the Vulcan we have never seen before. (Vagueness to avoid spoiler.)

PS Although Uhura is now played as a super-efficient fox, she remains a woman. She starts a romance with Spock --the Vulcan-- and then gets mad at him --the Vulcan--for not showing his feelings...

The intractable irrationality of the female.

Is it just me

FBI — Most Wanted Terrorists:

Or are the first two faces and names on this list a Black woman and a Hispanic man because they are more wanted than the following 30 men, all of whom are Muslims, or because it would not be nice to start out with Muslims because that would be un-dhimmi-like Islamophobic?



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Diversion

Patient Nation

CDC finds mental health woes in one in five U.S. kids - CBS News:

All your diagnoses are belong to us.

[In typical ExC fashion, I note that the stock photo used to represent US children is not inclusive. There is one racial group which we are obsessively required to include that in this case, because it would meaning being included in a bad thing, is absent... How considerate we are.]




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Just for the record

My reaction to a scene and character on X-Files:

I am so fucking sick of The Sassy Black Woman.

The combination of privilege/protection because of race and gender, along with the condescension, patronizing (matronizing) and aggression deserves a much more robust response than the usual. You can imagine what I think it should be.



A related unPC note: a Black person of my acquaintance, who has spent their life almost entirely in a White world, by clear choice, with only tangential relationships with other Blacks, is nonetheless always scanning for White racism. Responding to a program in Britain, a cooking show, no less, this was the set of responses: Are they cooking food for the (insert People of Color group here) that they would like or is it just British food? Do they treat those people well? Why is the final dinner just with the Whites? 

Here you have the Obama Reflex: Black people who live in this country --whether to call them Americans or not is a good question-- and whose lives are entirely dependent on the good will, protection (and guilt) of Whites, carry around an unquenchable suspicion and resentment of the very people who have made their lives possible. They rely entirely on Shelby Steele's damnable bargain of license and deference. 

Thanks, Rev "Dr" King, for your contribution.
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Mamas from (Muslim) hell

PJ Lifestyle » How Mothers from Hell Raise Their Boys to Do Evil:

Our natural, and rather sentimental, sympathy for mothers needs to be seriously critiqued in these cases. Most Westerners refuse to confront how deeply alien Islam is.

I'll bet that the same people who would have been in favor of dialogue with Marxists back in the days of Communism now take the same denial-cum-appeasement attitude to the Mohammedans.

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PS One of the characteristics that I noticed right away in Muslim culture is its obsession with conspiracies. Muslims may critique themselves for not being Muslim enough, but there is no critique of Islam itself. So the outward-projection is massive. Foolish White People, however, blame themselves for everything.

Of course, --as we who have taken Logic 101 know-- just because Muslim culture is paranoid, does not mean that only Muslim culture is paranoid. Nor one bit less paranoid because of that.