"After political correctness burst onto the academic scene in the late
’80s and early ’90s, it went into a long remission. Now it has returned.
Some of its expressions have a familiar tint, like the protesting of
even mildly controversial speakers on college campuses.....At a growing number of campuses, professors now attach “trigger
warnings” to texts that may upset students, and there is a campaign to
eradicate “microaggressions,” or small social slights that might cause
searing trauma. These newly fashionable terms merely repackage a central
tenet of the first p.c. movement: that people should be expected to
treat even faintly unpleasant ideas or behaviors as full-scale offenses"
NOT A VERY P.C. THING TO SAY:
How the language police are perverting Liberalism
by Johnathan Chait
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Monday, March 23, 2015
Quotant Quotables vol. 41
"I do not feel that gender is sufficient to explain all of human life, This gender myopia, this
gender monomania, has become a disease. It's become a substitute for
religion. It is impossible that the feminist agenda can ever be the
total explanation of human life."
- Camille Paglia
- Camille Paglia
Sunday, March 22, 2015
NERRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 46 / Quotant Quotables vol. 40
"The audience is not wiser than the creative people. If they were better
writers and artists than those in the field, they would be employed in
the field. They’re mouthy amateurs and their suggestions should largely
be treated like the witless ramblings of an insane person."
- Erik Larsen.
- Erik Larsen.
Erik Larsen Speaks On Online Outrage, Women In Comics And “Sexist” Costume Designs
An interview with Erik Larsen on why superheroes should look like superheroes
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Quotant Qoutables vol. 39
"When I first started writing, I tried to follow more of those
traditions, which generally meant trying to write like really awful
versions of various popular literary fiction writers. And it took me a
long while — namely, many years of trying to write a book an agent could
sell to a major — but after a while I could tell not only was I not at
all good at things like intentionally developing characters or
constructing a linear, narrative plot, I also was not actually doing
what came naturally to me, what really came out when I was angry,
impassioned. So to make a long story short, after never writing that
agent-sellable book, I kind of snapped, and started pouring out all the
sound and mania that had welled up in me in trying to please a master I
learned I didn’t even really respect. I think in order to really do
something right, for me I have to be totally mystified by it to some
extent, and most linear fiction is more interested in explaining or
telling a story, rather than creating labyrinth, logical fallacy,
mirage. I’ve always tended in art most towards not things that
quantified the world or arranged it, or even provided a reflection, but
ones that made it deeper, more terrifying or awe-inspiring, like where
the fuck did this come from, and how do I touch it even more?"
- Blake Butler speaking with Decoder Magazine
- Blake Butler speaking with Decoder Magazine
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 73
while all you Ayn Rand worshiping stub-dicks were pinching a pissy fit over manufactured non-menaces like the Affordable Care Act making your Mi-Ma bite the curb and Benghazi draining the blood from eagles to be used for Obama's Voodoo Cannibal Sex Rites, the Adminstration did something that was IN ACTUAL FOR REAL REALITY sketchy and awful:
stay stupid and hopeless. prosperity awaits if you shut your fucking mouth and take your medicine.
and that's why i don't talk the politics.
White House Abolishes Freedom of Information Act Requests
you don't care, though. too dry. not enough blood and thunder.stay stupid and hopeless. prosperity awaits if you shut your fucking mouth and take your medicine.
and that's why i don't talk the politics.
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Friday, March 13, 2015
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