Gee, more privileged white folks getting offended on behalf of the groups who typically don’t give a flying eff, what a surprise. Reminds me of this Will Witt man[OMG, more offensiveness]-on-the-street interview of him wearing a sombrero in which the Mexicans (spoiler alert) don’t take offense at all:
That video is SO GOOD. Poor kids; just repeating what they've been told with absolutely no idea why. I'm so lucky my daughters see through the BS! Pretty sure they'll go psycho ninja with me. (And I'm counting on you, too, MAA!) ;)
🤯🧕 (That was the closest emoji I could find to a ninja, so now I'm going to get into trouble with the Cultural Appropriation Police, too, while simultaneously risking a fatwa.)
When I ❤️ replied to poster,I accidentally posted it twice. When I tried to delete one ,it wouldn’t allow me to delete it…but,now I see one is gone…🤷♀️
Eventually I will try downloading the Substack app, to see if it helps…no worries. I will consider myself blessed if this is the worst of my frustrations,today.😉
Thank you for writing this post. I have 2 young sons, one in college and one in high school. I was thinking with all of the military activity, "kiss your mom and choose death or jail". I also found it very interesting that illegal aliens (aghast they used the word alien) are not included in the auto draft. We have millions of military-aged men coming across the border with free cell phones, rent, college and medical care (more than my American boys) and now my kids get to fight for their freedom??? This is positively replacement theory in action. I fought to protect my boys from those awful mandates, but cannot if they are in the military. I sent my son to ND to avoid college mandates, he left a full-tuition from a MN school requiring the mandates. I am getting tired of fighting, but won't stop.
Right?!!! They think it’s a jolly good idea to leave illegals with all the women left behind?! What a perfect opportunity for them to — no, I’m not even going to put it in writing. It makes me so angry. And I bet they would think we are joking.
You are too freakin’ right and funny. I had to subscribe! My son, a non phallus prosthetic male just became a Green Beret and let me tell you the military is for some and not others. Only one percent of Americans know someone in the military. Sad. No one has any idea what these kids go through to train both mentally and physically. My sister had the audacity or just the ignorance to ask why women aren’t green berets not understanding the physicality of it. Not understanding any of it. Women are not restricted from trying, but we physically can’t. of course there’s some Amazonian who can and that’s great but she hasn’t shown up yet. Maybe she’ll have a penis and then I guess I’d be wrong (or right of common sense begins to prevail. ) What people don’t think about is someone, some equally fit man, that is a penis swinging man, may have to drag my 200 pound 6’4” injured boy off the battlefield. That’s what I care about. I don’t need someone on the phone calling for help. I need someone helping my boy.
First, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT, and God bless you and your son! What a stud. And your point is the very reason men--sorry, assigned male at birth persons--should NOT be able to compete against women in sports. They simply have a biological advantage. You don't have to like it, but you do have to accept it.
There are a lot of similar video clips of males disentangling themselves from female police and leaving the scene, if no other male passerby, or Amazon, intervenes.
So much truth !! Bravo … I have that outfit in the basement that my kids wore in middle school, about 15 years ago ,gees has the world changed . Just a change in topic ( but related) it’s ok in Pelosi and Newsom neck of the woods to take advantage of immigrants to cut their manicured lawns , palm trees and prune their flowers and watch their kids cook dinner and clean their houses and pay them minimal dinero … honestly they are disgusting hippocrits .
Here’s a story from the late 70’s . I was hired by 2 rich families in Beverly Hills (movie producer the other brain surgeon involved in removing Kennedy bullet, as he had a piece displayed in the house ) , they had kids that needed “play therapy “ from a white person … they treated the Hispanic hires like slaves…their arrogance and attitude disgusted me , I lasted a few months and quit .
1. Poison millions of people with an untested biological agent causing thousands of deaths and millions of injuries.
2. Foment and fund a war sending billions of $$$ to the most corrupt nation in the world.
3. Open our borders to millions of illegals who come to suck billions of taxpayer $$$.
4. Draft our young men and women who are still able-bodied and send them to various overseas theaters to fight for bullshit that has nothing to do with us.
Sounds like the perfect set up for the complete destruction of America, her values, and her strength. Who will be left behind to defend her? Women with young children. The elderly? And illegals who care nothing about America. What was it Obama said, “We are fundamentally going to change America”? Well, it’s happening.
What a delightful article to read while having my usual coffee with vanilla creamer ...or you might say my vanilla creamer with coffee. Yep! Our "countrymen" have crossed the line. I am reminded daily of the Seinfeld episode when he began dating a native American - or should I say an indigenous person of the western hemisphere.
I work online overseeing a group of people who score a speaking exam for nonnative ( !) speakers. It was time to send a break reminder and I knew they were more than ready to step away from their laptops. The phrase, "The natives are restless" came to mind which at first I thought would be amusing to begin the reminder with that phrase...something like "I am sure the all the natives are restless by now..."
I asked a coworker if she thought that would be funny and she couldn't believe I would even consider saying that! So I discarded that idea. What has happened? These concepts are putting us back in time rather than getting on with living.
And by the way - that sorority girl or girls were most likely aghast at her wearing a sombrero as they were actually prejudiced against various cultural traditions and were concerned it would bring down their "status." Kudos to your daughter for quitting - I did the same....way back in 1969.
Oh please, lol. I teach kids to ride and I’ve considered stopping myself from saying “abort!” if I need them to change the pattern or whatever. I now say it but was shocked that I even hesitated.
Good God, Jenna -- how did you make me snort with laughter multiple times while reading such alarming things? Genius. (And I'll join you in psycho ninja-hood, if it comes to that.)
But africans sporting blond hair, long fake hair, blue contact lenses, and driving German cars or using anything else from western, white civilization (air conditioning and everything else not native to Africa) isn't cultural appropriation?
I still have, burned into my brain, a memory from my impressionable college days of a visiting artist's response to my series of paintings based on my time spent in China. Her critique: you can't paint these because you're not Chinese. The rational part of my brain, of course, realized that limiting my artwork to "white people stuff" from [town I grew up in] and leaving no room for imagination is absolutely ridiculous, but it still hurt. Of course I think most of my work from those days is garbage now 😅
And the blackface analogy is perfect. I have wondered for years why people can choose their gender, but not their race. Isn't race a "social construct" as well? And isn't it much more of an actual spectrum?
You can't paint these because you're not Chinese? Can the Chinese eat hamburgers and hotdogs and mac-and-cheese? Can Latvians wear Levis? Can Brazilians listen to Bruce Springsteen? Where did this notion of my-country-my-culture even come from? I had a friend (who no longer speaks to me) get furious when I compared vax passes to yellow stars. I had no right to do so, she insisted, because "I'm not Jewish" and she is. I reminded her that history belongs to all of us (and that forgetting it is an express train to repeating it). Sort of like dreadlocks and tribal tattoos, if we fancy 'em. :)
Oh, the Chinese certainly have their own interpretations of things... like pizza - with interesting toppings like corn, carrots, and shrimp. Honestly, I kind of like it.
And truth be told, I prefer Chinese McDonald's to American 😬😆
“I don’t give a flying middle finger what you’re doing with your clothes off behind closed doors. I don’t want to celebrate it with a parade, I don’t want to see a kaleidoscopic reminder of your sexual preferences everywhere I turn, and I certainly don’t want you chatting about them with any children.”
*AGAIN* this is not in any way trans or homophobic. I do not want or need to celebrate anyone's sexuality. I was taught that stuff was private. Can't we please keep it that way?
I haven't read the bill but advise all who have loved ones in this age category to read up on the 'exemptions'. You know the criminal/hypocrites who are running the show will have 'legal exemptions' and are already getting their younger ones lined up for them. During the 60s, my ex got a job with a military contractor to obtain a 'free pass'. He hated every second of it as he is, like me, an absolute conscientious objector and called it the 'bomb factory'. Then he went to law school and hid there for a few years. Alternatively, one can become a quaker and reconcile their belief/exemption with peace.
I notice govt contractors are hiring big time. Double check and keep monitoring the 'exemptions' in the bill. I merely offer a potential solution.
Learn to be strategic, know your enemy and make your moves without fanfare.
Thank you Jenna. If it wasn’t for you & your hysterical way of writing there are some days I’d just cry… instead you make me laugh & want to yell .. hell ya your daughter too Way to go ♥️🤍💙
Just when I'm enjoying your right on target essay you slipped this in: ". . . it seems like it could be a distinct tactical disadvantage." The next time I read you I'll put my coffee down first. FWIW, it was messy, but also SO WORTH IT!
if the clothing or markings mean something of honor in that culture.... it is probably not a good idea to use it in such a fashion as to cheapen the item / markings.... military medals of honor. feathers.
something that is earned to have the right to wear....
if the item or markings worn by everyone in that culture, then it holds no unique value.
Actually I don't really understand what Rushdie has got to do with it.... and it doens't make a differnce, if a historical person or made up king. A Pharao for arguments sake. The last emperor of China. Cesar. Queen Elizabeth. Daenerys Targaryen and Snowwhites Stepmother. It's regal clothing. Some General. Medals. Geronimo. Feathers... You know.... Imitation is the purest form of flattery, they say.
all of these things have to deal with freedom of expression and the consequences of expressing them at different times and places, situations.
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all i am saying is sometimes it really isn't a good idea to display imitations or real.
a few years ago, some people tried to get across the border from Mexico into the States. Part of their deception was dressed in either imitation or stolen Fed Ex uniforms and imitation truck... the truck was imitation, that is how they got caught.
Hey Jenna, this is going to be a chaotic comment, I apologize upfront. I live in Munich, Bavaria. Every effing year about 200k of foreigners swarm in on the Wiesn (Oktoberfest) dressed in our traditional attire. I don't mind at all, but how is that cool, while wearing a Kimono or Dreads is cultural appropriation. These people live in and of our culture every single day, so wtf are they talking about? I mean the crazies, as most people aren't like that at all.
Regarding the draft, which will be voluntarily mandatory soon in Germany, women are for now excluded. I say women, because Transwomen are counted as men. So lo and behold, there does seem to be a difference all of the sudden... but all women are welcome to join the meatgrinders... that's loveley equality, isn't it just....
And just to be a smarty pants, if women are fighting alongside men, the men tend to be more occupied with protecting the women, because that is how genetics really work.
Gee, more privileged white folks getting offended on behalf of the groups who typically don’t give a flying eff, what a surprise. Reminds me of this Will Witt man[OMG, more offensiveness]-on-the-street interview of him wearing a sombrero in which the Mexicans (spoiler alert) don’t take offense at all:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT2UH74ksJ4
Congratulations to Sophie for liberating herself from the conformity, I mean sorority 👏 You are deservedly very proud.
As much as I’d love to see you whip into psycho ninja mode, I hope the need never arises for this particular scenario.
That video is SO GOOD. Poor kids; just repeating what they've been told with absolutely no idea why. I'm so lucky my daughters see through the BS! Pretty sure they'll go psycho ninja with me. (And I'm counting on you, too, MAA!) ;)
🤯🧕 (That was the closest emoji I could find to a ninja, so now I'm going to get into trouble with the Cultural Appropriation Police, too, while simultaneously risking a fatwa.)
Those kids! Oh my gosh. We are so screwed.
God bless your daughters Jenna. I have the utmost respect for people who have the courage of their convictions.
I’ll go psycho ninja with you. Count on it!
I KNOW YOU WILL HAHAHAHAHAHA and that's why I love you!!!
I❤️ Your comment!
Can you still NOT ACTUALLY HEART COMMENTS???? Grrrrrrrrrr. I'm so disappointed in Bruno. :(
Correct.
When I ❤️ replied to poster,I accidentally posted it twice. When I tried to delete one ,it wouldn’t allow me to delete it…but,now I see one is gone…🤷♀️
Eventually I will try downloading the Substack app, to see if it helps…no worries. I will consider myself blessed if this is the worst of my frustrations,today.😉
Thank you for writing this post. I have 2 young sons, one in college and one in high school. I was thinking with all of the military activity, "kiss your mom and choose death or jail". I also found it very interesting that illegal aliens (aghast they used the word alien) are not included in the auto draft. We have millions of military-aged men coming across the border with free cell phones, rent, college and medical care (more than my American boys) and now my kids get to fight for their freedom??? This is positively replacement theory in action. I fought to protect my boys from those awful mandates, but cannot if they are in the military. I sent my son to ND to avoid college mandates, he left a full-tuition from a MN school requiring the mandates. I am getting tired of fighting, but won't stop.
Right?!!! They think it’s a jolly good idea to leave illegals with all the women left behind?! What a perfect opportunity for them to — no, I’m not even going to put it in writing. It makes me so angry. And I bet they would think we are joking.
Your sons are very fortunate to have a strong,intelligent mother,Sw.
You are too freakin’ right and funny. I had to subscribe! My son, a non phallus prosthetic male just became a Green Beret and let me tell you the military is for some and not others. Only one percent of Americans know someone in the military. Sad. No one has any idea what these kids go through to train both mentally and physically. My sister had the audacity or just the ignorance to ask why women aren’t green berets not understanding the physicality of it. Not understanding any of it. Women are not restricted from trying, but we physically can’t. of course there’s some Amazonian who can and that’s great but she hasn’t shown up yet. Maybe she’ll have a penis and then I guess I’d be wrong (or right of common sense begins to prevail. ) What people don’t think about is someone, some equally fit man, that is a penis swinging man, may have to drag my 200 pound 6’4” injured boy off the battlefield. That’s what I care about. I don’t need someone on the phone calling for help. I need someone helping my boy.
First, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT, and God bless you and your son! What a stud. And your point is the very reason men--sorry, assigned male at birth persons--should NOT be able to compete against women in sports. They simply have a biological advantage. You don't have to like it, but you do have to accept it.
You've seen the post,
https://x.com/RadioGenoa/status/1800125436346941468 ?
There are a lot of similar video clips of males disentangling themselves from female police and leaving the scene, if no other male passerby, or Amazon, intervenes.
So much truth !! Bravo … I have that outfit in the basement that my kids wore in middle school, about 15 years ago ,gees has the world changed . Just a change in topic ( but related) it’s ok in Pelosi and Newsom neck of the woods to take advantage of immigrants to cut their manicured lawns , palm trees and prune their flowers and watch their kids cook dinner and clean their houses and pay them minimal dinero … honestly they are disgusting hippocrits .
TRUTH BOMB.
Here’s a story from the late 70’s . I was hired by 2 rich families in Beverly Hills (movie producer the other brain surgeon involved in removing Kennedy bullet, as he had a piece displayed in the house ) , they had kids that needed “play therapy “ from a white person … they treated the Hispanic hires like slaves…their arrogance and attitude disgusted me , I lasted a few months and quit .
Ever thought about writing a book?😉
🧐😉
Bro - what Jenna said.
Let’s see…
1. Poison millions of people with an untested biological agent causing thousands of deaths and millions of injuries.
2. Foment and fund a war sending billions of $$$ to the most corrupt nation in the world.
3. Open our borders to millions of illegals who come to suck billions of taxpayer $$$.
4. Draft our young men and women who are still able-bodied and send them to various overseas theaters to fight for bullshit that has nothing to do with us.
Sounds like the perfect set up for the complete destruction of America, her values, and her strength. Who will be left behind to defend her? Women with young children. The elderly? And illegals who care nothing about America. What was it Obama said, “We are fundamentally going to change America”? Well, it’s happening.
🎯🤬
What a delightful article to read while having my usual coffee with vanilla creamer ...or you might say my vanilla creamer with coffee. Yep! Our "countrymen" have crossed the line. I am reminded daily of the Seinfeld episode when he began dating a native American - or should I say an indigenous person of the western hemisphere.
I work online overseeing a group of people who score a speaking exam for nonnative ( !) speakers. It was time to send a break reminder and I knew they were more than ready to step away from their laptops. The phrase, "The natives are restless" came to mind which at first I thought would be amusing to begin the reminder with that phrase...something like "I am sure the all the natives are restless by now..."
I asked a coworker if she thought that would be funny and she couldn't believe I would even consider saying that! So I discarded that idea. What has happened? These concepts are putting us back in time rather than getting on with living.
And by the way - that sorority girl or girls were most likely aghast at her wearing a sombrero as they were actually prejudiced against various cultural traditions and were concerned it would bring down their "status." Kudos to your daughter for quitting - I did the same....way back in 1969.
Oh please, lol. I teach kids to ride and I’ve considered stopping myself from saying “abort!” if I need them to change the pattern or whatever. I now say it but was shocked that I even hesitated.
It is incredible! A good one.........lol....abort.
Good God, Jenna -- how did you make me snort with laughter multiple times while reading such alarming things? Genius. (And I'll join you in psycho ninja-hood, if it comes to that.)
🥷👯♀️
But africans sporting blond hair, long fake hair, blue contact lenses, and driving German cars or using anything else from western, white civilization (air conditioning and everything else not native to Africa) isn't cultural appropriation?
EXACTLY!!!
Oohhh. I like this. Kudos!
I still have, burned into my brain, a memory from my impressionable college days of a visiting artist's response to my series of paintings based on my time spent in China. Her critique: you can't paint these because you're not Chinese. The rational part of my brain, of course, realized that limiting my artwork to "white people stuff" from [town I grew up in] and leaving no room for imagination is absolutely ridiculous, but it still hurt. Of course I think most of my work from those days is garbage now 😅
And the blackface analogy is perfect. I have wondered for years why people can choose their gender, but not their race. Isn't race a "social construct" as well? And isn't it much more of an actual spectrum?
You can't paint these because you're not Chinese? Can the Chinese eat hamburgers and hotdogs and mac-and-cheese? Can Latvians wear Levis? Can Brazilians listen to Bruce Springsteen? Where did this notion of my-country-my-culture even come from? I had a friend (who no longer speaks to me) get furious when I compared vax passes to yellow stars. I had no right to do so, she insisted, because "I'm not Jewish" and she is. I reminded her that history belongs to all of us (and that forgetting it is an express train to repeating it). Sort of like dreadlocks and tribal tattoos, if we fancy 'em. :)
Oh, the Chinese certainly have their own interpretations of things... like pizza - with interesting toppings like corn, carrots, and shrimp. Honestly, I kind of like it.
And truth be told, I prefer Chinese McDonald's to American 😬😆
Hypothetical, my back hole!! I hope it is not too late…
“I don’t give a flying middle finger what you’re doing with your clothes off behind closed doors. I don’t want to celebrate it with a parade, I don’t want to see a kaleidoscopic reminder of your sexual preferences everywhere I turn, and I certainly don’t want you chatting about them with any children.”
Yeah, we’re good.
THE FACT THAT I EVEN HAVE TO SAY THAT tho... ugh.
I'm sure you heard about the bar in Idaho that launched "heterosexual awesomeness month" where any "heterosexuals male dressed like a heterosexual male" gets a free beer? That's ONE way to do it hahahaha! https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/idaho-bar-celebrates-heterosexual-awesomeness-month-response-pride-mon-rcna156063
*AGAIN* this is not in any way trans or homophobic. I do not want or need to celebrate anyone's sexuality. I was taught that stuff was private. Can't we please keep it that way?
I haven't read the bill but advise all who have loved ones in this age category to read up on the 'exemptions'. You know the criminal/hypocrites who are running the show will have 'legal exemptions' and are already getting their younger ones lined up for them. During the 60s, my ex got a job with a military contractor to obtain a 'free pass'. He hated every second of it as he is, like me, an absolute conscientious objector and called it the 'bomb factory'. Then he went to law school and hid there for a few years. Alternatively, one can become a quaker and reconcile their belief/exemption with peace.
I notice govt contractors are hiring big time. Double check and keep monitoring the 'exemptions' in the bill. I merely offer a potential solution.
Learn to be strategic, know your enemy and make your moves without fanfare.
THIS.
Thank you Jenna. If it wasn’t for you & your hysterical way of writing there are some days I’d just cry… instead you make me laugh & want to yell .. hell ya your daughter too Way to go ♥️🤍💙
That makes me happy. :)
Just when I'm enjoying your right on target essay you slipped this in: ". . . it seems like it could be a distinct tactical disadvantage." The next time I read you I'll put my coffee down first. FWIW, it was messy, but also SO WORTH IT!
You’re welcome?🤣😊
my view:
if the clothing or markings mean something of honor in that culture.... it is probably not a good idea to use it in such a fashion as to cheapen the item / markings.... military medals of honor. feathers.
something that is earned to have the right to wear....
if the item or markings worn by everyone in that culture, then it holds no unique value.
Fair… But what about tiaras? Those people earned nothing… They were born into royalty or married into it. [*locks tiara in safe*]
Agree to disagree? Can you not play king or war hero or even Jesus in a movie? That's also just dressing fancy.
play king generic? or a specific king? and then there is the problem of how historical true is it? Satanic Verses--- fatwa
having said that, i would hope that: anyone that killed Salman Rushdie would face the death penalty...
Actually I don't really understand what Rushdie has got to do with it.... and it doens't make a differnce, if a historical person or made up king. A Pharao for arguments sake. The last emperor of China. Cesar. Queen Elizabeth. Daenerys Targaryen and Snowwhites Stepmother. It's regal clothing. Some General. Medals. Geronimo. Feathers... You know.... Imitation is the purest form of flattery, they say.
all of these things have to deal with freedom of expression and the consequences of expressing them at different times and places, situations.
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all i am saying is sometimes it really isn't a good idea to display imitations or real.
a few years ago, some people tried to get across the border from Mexico into the States. Part of their deception was dressed in either imitation or stolen Fed Ex uniforms and imitation truck... the truck was imitation, that is how they got caught.
But that is a lot different from doing fancy dress for a Party, isn't it? They tried to scam, to imposter.
yes, it is situational dependent.
i should have said that earlier.
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btw i tried to click on like, i can't with my internet browser. i used to be able to with it.
Hey Jenna, this is going to be a chaotic comment, I apologize upfront. I live in Munich, Bavaria. Every effing year about 200k of foreigners swarm in on the Wiesn (Oktoberfest) dressed in our traditional attire. I don't mind at all, but how is that cool, while wearing a Kimono or Dreads is cultural appropriation. These people live in and of our culture every single day, so wtf are they talking about? I mean the crazies, as most people aren't like that at all.
Regarding the draft, which will be voluntarily mandatory soon in Germany, women are for now excluded. I say women, because Transwomen are counted as men. So lo and behold, there does seem to be a difference all of the sudden... but all women are welcome to join the meatgrinders... that's loveley equality, isn't it just....
And just to be a smarty pants, if women are fighting alongside men, the men tend to be more occupied with protecting the women, because that is how genetics really work.
Excellent points, all! The world makes no sense at all anymore.