A timely quote

India didn’t become a woman. India is cosplaying a misogynistic male fantasy of what a woman is. […] The emperor is naked. He might be wearing lipstick, but his balls are swinging in plain sight.”

J.K.Rowling, the  fearless warrior

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Is there an editor in the house?

-Baltic, Balkan – what difference at this point does it make?

UN’s resident coordinator in Bosnia, Ingrid Macdonald, decried the levels of violence against women in the Baltic country and called for “immediate collective action” to curb future violence.

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Dumbdown kulchah

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!

All I can come up with is a banal “O Tempora, o Mores”

Real headline from today’s NYPost:

Transgender woman ‘demands’ ex- boyfriend to return her testicles

I didn’t click. No need.

 

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It is written-2

An incoming work email title:

ID card enrollment now offers non-binary gender option

Now you understand my previous post?

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I declare

I refuse to “unpack white violence.” I reject the idea that my existence “perpetuates white power structures.” I will not — and in fact cannot — “examine my implicit biases.” I’m an individual. I refuse to grant determined interpretive communities authority over my being. My meaning is mine. It is what makes me me.

I’m not taking any “journey” to “discover” the impact of my “privilege” on “black and brown peoples.” I will not become “anti-racist” or “anti-fascist” to satisfy your demands. I reject Cultural Marxism. I am an individual. I’m not defined by my color, my religion, my sex. I’m Jeff.{and I -ETat}

I will not “respect your pronouns” or “celebrate” your “queerness.” I am hostile to your sexualizing of children. I reject your neologisms, your “triggers,” and your desire to control my speech. I know who and what you are: you are my presumptive master, or else the Useful Idiot who empowers him. But I will grant you and your ideology no power over me.

I reject “equity” because it is collectivism disguised as virtue. I reject “inclusivity” because it is inorganic, superficial, and contrived. I reject mandated “diversity”: I will not surrender to the Crayon Box Mafia, nor to the gender changelings who pretend I am a construct answerable to their whims.

[Read the whole thing]

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Following up

on a previous post, both in sense of the topic and the fellow award recipient, here’s a video by M. Walsh, picked up at SDA, as I still refuse to have a twAtter account.

It really IS pi$$-pants-funny

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Каталонское [TH]

Из виденного отмечу испанский сериал (маркированый как Season 1, потому надеюсь не последняя ), на Walter Presents:

I Know Who You Are

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Boom!…Rang!

Pizza box recycling quips:

Andrew Tate “asks someone off-camera to bring him pizza and “make sure that these boxes are not recycled” as he’s handed two pies from Jerry’s Pizza — a local chain in Romania – which led Romanian police in full tactical gear to storm Tate’s villa with a battering ram.”  He and his brother then got arrested on rape and kidnapping charges.

Not-so-Little-Gretling: “This is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes”

head-of-kangaroo @Post thread:

“Greta should be recycled.”

I clicked the 15th like.

 

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Life imitates…Onion

Shocking footage has emerged from an NHL-backed hockey tournament of a transgender female player hitting a much-smaller transgender male opponent, who suffered a concussion after hitting the boards.

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Ручки загребущие

Shot from the new docu-series, which – naturally – I haven’t seen and not going to – taken from the Post article

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Веймар жив

ну или Кабаре, как посмотреть

A German doctor imprisoned for giving his lover an overdose by slathering his penis with cocaine before oral sex has been ordered to pay the medical bills from the failed attempts to revive her, the Daily Mail reported Monday.

Plastic surgeon Dr. Andreas Niederbichler was ordered to fork over $13,000 for the treatment of the victim, identified as Yvonne M., who suffered shortness of breath and collapsed after their drug-fueled romp in 2018.

Niederbichler has also been ordered to pay the woman’s funeral costs, as well as compensation to her husband and son.

A witty commenter @the Post:

Blew blow until blue in the face

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Royalty’s Strangest Characters:

Extraordinary But True Tales of 2000 Years of Mad Monarchs and raving Rulers, by Geoff Tibballs, 2004

*Without wishing to compare him to either of the aforementioned pair, will Prince Charles be remembered with similar compassion in centuries to come? Will historians portray him as a harmless eccentric who liked to talk to his plants or as a callous adulterer who treated his young wife appallingly? In the meantime he still has a few years to claim his place among royalty’s strangest characters. [not anymore – ETat]

*Nero soon began to take out his mounting frustration and anger on those closest to him. The year after the great fire, with his wife Poppaea pregnant, he flew into a violent rage and kicked her in the belly. She died shortly afterwards, but lived on in the form of one of Nero’s songs in which he waxed lyrical about her long auburn hair. For once Nero was genuinely grief-stricken over his actions until he spotted a young slave, Sporus, who looked uncannily like his late wife. To assuage his guilt over Poppaea’s death, Nero decided to recreate her. So he had Sporus castrated, dressed him in the finery of an empress, renamed him ‘Sabina’ and went through a marriage ceremony with him; the pair kissed openly.

*As if that were not sufficient to fuel doubts about Elagabalus’ suitability to be emperor, he now began dressing as a woman. He hated Roman and Greek clothes because they were made of cheap wool, preferring instead expensive silk garments embroidered with gold. He took to wearing gold necklaces and had his cheeks rouged and his eyes painted, even plucking the hairs from his chin so that he could look more feminine. He actually considered undergoing a sex change by having his genitals removed and offered physicians large sums of money to provide him with a vagina by means of an incision, but in the end he contented himself with circumcision only.

*….and the whole chapter on D’Orleans, brother of Louis XIV. If true, an excellent example of primate of nurture vs. nature

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Я, ты, он, она – вместе дружная семья

PM прислал указание: изменить блок-подпись в официальных emails по прилагаемому стандарту. Во имя diversity. Некоторый оксюморон с упоминанием “diversity” и”стандарта”его, разумеется, не смущает. Diversity выражается в строчке под именем, состоящей (на выбор) : She/Her, He/Him, They/Them

Сказала: не буду уточнять, т.к. НЕ АССОЦИИРУЮ СЕБЯ.

Приготовилась намекать на fluid gender, если будет настаивать. Но, видно, напугала достаточно – т.к. отстал и даже сказал, что строчка – по желанию.

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It was said

Happy marriage require that a wife is blind and a husband is deaf

Alfonso V the Magnanimous

King of Aragon (1396-1548) – when he was 21

[found in The Borgias: The Hidden History by G.J. Meyer]

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In other news,

“A transgender Lutheran bishop in California resigned over allegations of racism from the congregation.”

Post.

Unintended hilarity ensue

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QotD

01.17

What do women want? Men who need not be told what women want.

A.Haspel, pithy as usual

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Trainer, мать вашу

Это кем надо быть, чтобы согласиться за $3К привезти свою дочь на “тренировку”  к этому господину?

Вспоминаются всякие голливудские мамаши – напр. мать Judy Garland, и пр….

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A life illustrating value of contraception

Interested?

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[Манипулятор]. Ах, кабы

…мне это попалось 30 лет тому….

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Цепочка

*Началось с милого ностальгического поста Сари о ламбаде.

просмотревши клип, я вдруг заметила совсем другие интересные вещи, чем то, что осталось в памяти:

“сто лет не видела. … каков красавец мрачный папаша! а я бы тоже на его месте девчонку нашлёпала.
это потому, что тогда у меня не было 10-летних детей, потому и не помнила эту линию…”

но может, линия там совсем другая, не для моих полу-ухмыляющихся полу-идентификаций.

*тут же в ленте выскочила дискуссия о конгруэнтном переводе названия книги “daddy-long-legs” – и заметила как эта дискуссия ответвилась в обсуждение двусмысленных коннотаций daddy как папика [О-о! Ламбада!]

значит, в 1911г этих коннотацийв Америке ещё не было, раз письма 17-летней сиротки её благодетелю, адресованные daddy-longlegs  потому что его фигура издали напоминала паучка-дологонога, не вызывала этих ассоциаций. книга стала невероятно популярной именно для семейного и подросткового чтения, и никому и в голову не…ффу, take your head out of the gutter!

*теперь я заинтересовалсь: а когда же оно началось, это подмигиванье? а очень скоро,, говорят тут:

…use of “daddy” as an abbreviation of “sugar daddy” dates back to 1922. According to Green, this usage had less to do with age than it did with an image of the “daddy” in question as a provider “of sex, money, material pleasures, etc.”

дальнейшее чтение очень быстро разочаровывает – мелькают всякие sex educator, lgbt community, bedroom daddy issues, bdsm – и дошедши до  individuals who may identify as “femme daddies”, статейку я закрыла

однако! что за дурацкие ассоциации прекрасным летним субботним утром, даже ещё не позавтракав!

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Manhattan Soap

Here’s your Sunday entertainment. Here’s your “moral elites”, your “betters”, your “noble progressives“.

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Notes on a drawing set margin. N-1.22: Beauty is a Distraction

Или: Красота это Страшная Сила.

Видео-звонок с ПМ на новом проекте. Экран оживает и я получаю удар в солнечное:  на меня смотрит мужчина совершенно нереальной красоты. Симметричные черты слегка удлинённого лица, скульптурные скулы, густые тёмные волосы, светлые глаза прямо в душу, квадратный подбородок оттенён 2х-дневной щетиной…Первое впечатление необъяснимой молодости (лет 25?!)  корректируется веером морщинок у глаз и лёгкой сединой на висках. Потом замечаешь: лохматость шевелюры, мятый воротничок как бы наспех надетой рубашки, ну и фон…чувак сидит в спальне, за спиной у него – разобранная кровать, и по ней ходит кот.

Ну совершенно невозможно работать в такой обстановке!

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И вот этих тоже не надо

Хозяева стада, ага. Self-perpetuating fallacy называется.

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Again: I am a man,

apparently – according to this.

Except…not all high-percentile men like to work with computers (I can just hear curses from my Regional Director, trying to prevent his laptop from freezing during a Zoom meeting) and altogether, a lot of them prefer to work with people (as in “to be a boss, rather than designer or drafter”).

On the other hand, the worst (or the best, depending on your pov) manipulators I met were men.  On yet another hand, pathetic blame-the-women’ losers and their excuses (“she bruise easily”) are men, too…

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Улов

Лениво листая длинную – за 250 комментов – перепалку в русском журнале, нашла две чеканные формулировки:

* не создавай себе сатрапа

*ничто не красит жизнь женщины, как своевременная ротация мужчин!

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П[ере]ц

Это я пытаюсь найти цензурное слово-marker:

Мужчина, благодушно перечисляя события своей биографии, ставит за «сменил работу» – «женился на своей бывшей ученице».

Не стыдится, не скрывает (никто ж не тянул за язык, про «ученицу» сам добавил). Вовсе наоборот – гордится. Мужики – кагбе похваляется имярек – гляньте, какой я Пигмалион. Как я ловко юной девке мозги запудрил. В рот смотрит (и не только). Научаю уму-разуму, дома я бог, учитель и ПартияНашРулевой, не то что вы, подкаблучники.

Оч. надеюсь, ученица быстро поумнела и прибавила кое-что к багажу знаний наставника.

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A la cart

I am going through my periodic Nero Wolfe phase.

Today is a third weekend in a row; I even skipped the gym for pleasures of A Man Alive.

[…]they (Daumery & Nieder, a ficitonal haute couture house – Etat) had there that afternoon six of the girls I was waiting to marry, if you count Cynthia Nieder, and I don’t see why you
shouldn’t. Each of them made around a dozen appearances, some more, some less, and as for picking and choosing, if the buyers were as far up a stump as I was by the time it was over the only way they could possibly handle it was to send in an order for one of each.

As I explained to Wolfe in the office that evening, after I had reported a blank and we were conversing, “Imagine it! After the weddings I will of course have to take a good-sized apartment between Fifth and Madison in the Sixties. On a pleasant autumn evening I’ll be sitting in the living room reading the newspaper. I’ll toss the paper aside and clap my hands, and in will come Isabel. She will have on a calf-exposing kitchen apron with a double hemline and will be carrying a plate of ham sandwiches and a pitcher of milk. She will say seductively, ‘Two-ninety-three,’ make interesting motions and gestures without spilling a drop, put the plate and pitcher on a table at my elbow, and go. In will come Francine. She will be wearing slim-silhouette pajamas with padded shoulders and a back-flaring hipline. She’ll walk and wave and whirl, say ‘Nine-thirty-one’ four times, and light me a cigarette and dance out. Enter Delia. She’ll be dressed in a high-styled bra of hand-made lace with a billowing sweep to the—”

“Pfui,” Wolfe said curtly. “Enter another, naked, carrying a basket full of bills, your checkbook, and a pen.”

He has a personal slant on women.

Marvelous! admit it.

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Гениально

Разговариваем с Алисочкой:
— Она сначала была очень ватной, а потом нашла счастье в оппозиционном лагере.
— Это нормально, политические убеждения женщины часто находятся на кончике члена.
— Не у всех так, — возражает Алиса, — у меня нет.
— У меня тоже нет, у меня там музыкальные пристрастия.
— Да, у женщин там может быть что угодно. И мужчины, — толерантно добавляет Алиса, — сплошь и рядом подцепляют убеждения и вкусы половым путём.
Я задумалась, начала отделять личное от натраханного (не считая детско-юношеских накоплений), и так получается, что из своего у меня только котики. Остальное, что ни возьми, сформировалось под влияниями. Вот ужас-то.

Свежачок у Марты Кетро

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С утреца, за кофе и блогами, читаю…про развод

 

[…] Вы так спрашиваете – как же так можно. А я всем вот так вопрошающим спокойно отвечаю: “Ну вот такие мы были дуры”.

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Rolling, rolling

This was bound to happen, what’s with various Harvey W. in multiple industries. Why would Architecture and Design be an exception? Recent disgrace of Richard Meier – expulsion from his firm that still carries his name manifested the start of the hunt. Or revenge of the harassed. Whatever is your point of view.

As a young woman in the architecture field, I became acutely aware that my gender and my youth and my looks and charm were instrumental to the development of my career. I became very conscious of flirting in interviews. I remember thinking, I need to let this famous architect hug me. I don’t want him to hug me, but I’m a young woman, and I don’t want to alienate this powerful man. Everything is done by network. So if you get a reputation for being difficult, maybe this powerful man won’t introduce you to another powerful man, and he won’t introduce you to another powerful man, and there goes your career.

But then there is this:

When I graduated from architecture school more than a decade ago, it was understood that we were all going to suffer for the next 15 to 20 years, we’d never sleep, we’d be underpaid, we’d work until midnight … Our professors modeled this for us, and architecture firms reinforced it.

There’s this idea that architecture is a magical, important contribution to the world that is undervalued. We’re trained to view suffering as deeply related to the work. So something like harassment is easy to dismiss as part of the sacrifice. And even when it’s absolutely wrenching and not easy to dismiss, the culture of genius in architecture remains. Many firms are structured around a “Great Man” with a singular vision, which lowly employees are tasked with carrying out. It’s very top-down. This can create power imbalances that make junior employees vulnerable to exploitation, whether it’s harassment, pay inequality, or something else.

Then, if someone gets to the point where they are moderately high up at a firm, and they’re harassed, I can completely understand why they wouldn’t want to say anything, because if they go up against someone that powerful, they could risk everything. I wouldn’t want to take that risk.

 

By Anonymous as told to Fast Co Design

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Today I learned

A.

German group 17 Hippies.

Отлично, константин, а т. др. проч. шведы – и не!

B.

Vita Sackville-West was married for 5 years and was a mother to 2 sons, when in April 1918 she suddenly fell passionately in love with seductive Violet Keppel (later Trefusis), a friend she knew since her 12 and Violet’s – 10yo. Violet was an older daughter of Alice Keppel, last official royal mistress of Edward VII* – not by her husband, The Hon. George Keppel, but by one of her earlier lovers, Ernest Beckett. 

Alice’s younger daughter, Sonia Rosemary Keppel, is the maternal grandmother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall – whose life-long labors culminated in turning Prince of Wales from lover to a husband. Camilla attended today’s royal wedding ceremony for Prince Harry and his snowy-white-gowned bride: divorced, formerly-Jewish-by-marriage, mulatto American movie actress Megan Markle, –  wearing  a hat which one of the internet wits judged “inspired by The destruction of the Death Star…but pink”. Oh travesty!

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8й день Декамерона

Начну издалека.

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Старпёр а ла рюс

Всё в ту же коллекцию – на этот раз не моё, найденное на просторах.

Илона Борисовна, москвичка понаехавшая из Питера («города 20 оттенков серого»), наблюдает за живой природой. В т.ч. и в комментах к её посту.

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Escape from hormones

Пост в руссо-интерьеро. Про владелицу отеля на финском острове, прекраснодушную изобретательницу велосипеда: построила спа/санаторий только для женщин.* Пока читала, предчуствовала, какой тарарам тема вызовет в комментах. Но воображения мне не хватило. Вернее, не представляла уровень злобы.

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