1 Yes. The basic problem is that for academic generations, the behavioralist fields in academia (history, sociology, LGBT studies, psychology) have been converging on the hypothesis of a magical conspiracy in ancient times that is witching us moderns, by telling us that fathers should not be having sexual intercourse with their daughters. For example. The inference that the Jews are to blame for one's own unhappiness is an inference carefully left unspoken. But many of these people have convinced themselves of it. Three or four years ago I was convinced that engineering programs had a future outside of the universities. Defunding gives me hope for reform, then I despair over the whining. Which is a me problem.

2 Oh believe me Pat, that unspoken inference is being shouted long and loud on X these days. (I'm not sure if they actually believe some of the outre' points they raise unsupported, or if it's just performative.)

1 (repost) Brick, you need to stop desecrating shrines

1 Yeah, basically I ascribe this to the PhDs who wanna have a PhD apartheid, and the cultural divergence of certain academics from the mainstream of the host society. Certain people deeply invested in the now mainstream of certain fields have made themselves barbarians and also savages as they emotionally internalized now core claims. They think that the 'uneducated' wrong them by being alive, and that the true economy is some esoteric thing that does not intimately involve 'uneducated' persons.

Jews, Christians and 'uneducated' are the natural foes of 'academic consensus word magic rules all' cults.  Some of the theory obsessives who self select into academia spawn these cults. 

They failed in the 1960s and 1970s, and decided they needed to hide, and work in secret.

In the 2010s, confident that they had hid enough, or desperately afraid of mortality, they decided that they were about to win forever, and unmasked.

2020 was several gambles that backfired and revealed too much.  They did not get all the people they considered 'bad' dead, and did not get their esoteric utopia.  They are increasingly desperate, and murderous henwits. 

Though, they probably have lost, and probably will not successfully do many murders. 

2 You ok Brickmuppet? You have not posted lately.

3 Yeah. I'm OK, just busy, and have been a bit under the weather. The IRL RNG has been being a butt. I've actually come very close to posting something, got a post almost ready to go and then further research result my post's premise being B.S. So frustration is high. 
I'm streaming fairly frequently on the Twitch channel, but even that has been perfunctory, with very few prepared skits, just vidya commentary. 
 I'll try to post something soon. If nothing else there's a new season of Frieren....I just need time to watch it. 
Thanks so much for asking!

4 And after posting that comment I spent yesterday afternoon/evening in the ER. I'm OK now but, damn. 

5 Brick,you need to stop desecrating shrines.

1 The Retroactive Withdrawal of Consent is something every male college student fears these days, and yes, it seems to infantileize women, but fourth wave Feminists are okay with this because it gives them victim power.
I've seen all kinds of shades of the consent discussion in my life, from the Antioch College style of "May I kiss you? May I kiss you again?" to the BDSM community, which makes a fetish over negotiating consent, to the worst and darkest corner of Furry Fandom, where the bestialists tout "Well, the dog didn't bite me when I did that, therefore it consented."
I can almost see where the "Red Pilled, Manosphere" followers of Vox Day get their inspiration to claim "There's no such thing as Marital Rape", which would make things simpler for them, if only they could find a woman stupid enough to marry them.
Where Neil fails is he didn't even bother to marry them first.

2 I think the feminists and left both have places in this story as contributing bad actors. 

Feminism seems to be big on having some elite woman being visibly successful, as a symbol for all women, so that individual women can feel better about their individual lives and life choices.  Many of the men who obtain high positions in politics are driven lunatics.  Which leads to the question of what feminists have to offer in exchange for whatever highly important symbolic acts.  At most, they have half of voters, maybe a lot less.

The deal that seems to have been struck, was that the serial rapists would do the symbolic acts, and that the rapists would get social enforcers suppressing reporting of abusive acts.  The Clinton marriage alone might be plausible as a statistical anomaly, but when you throw in Whedon, or when you throw in Epstein/Maxwell, and the others, patterns start being present. 

And nobody mentions that the true diversity of sexual preferences seems to actually include that some women prefer to be procurers, or social enforcers, on behalf of a powerful deviant man. 

It was not that long ago that feminists were pushing that it was bad for fathers or mothers to tell their daughters that the daughters probably ought not be promiscuous.  "Regulating." 

The left runs a lot on "in public speech, 'consensus' creates reality".  They've been screwing with the minds of everyone when it comes to being able to get their appearance of consensus. 

At the very least, they want dissenters too scared of possible consequence to speak up.  They would prefer people being too afraid to think wrong thoughts, but do not have all of the tools to make everyone that way. 

But, they can suppress a lot of professionals from saying that AGW looks like a nonsense theory, or various things around the Covid-19 disputes, or whatever. 

In the schools, the left pushes heavily a theory of power that claims that 'strength' is effectively 'all', and 'ever lasting', and implies strongly surveillance that can even see wrong thoughts, and not simply careless statements to people who happened to be informants. 

Girls and women may already be prone to thinking that they need to keep other women happy, because of what angry women can have done to them, or to their kids. 

I think it may be a slippery slope from the 'afraid to speak about dissenting thoughts' level of preference falsification, and the 'afraid to misthink' level.  With lying being in between those fear levels. 

For young women of feminist ideology 'it is okay to say no' may be dissent.  I feel it goes without saying that it is unwise to have sex where there is no trust, and also that sex pretty much should only be within a traditional marriage.  Modern sex eds seem to consider this message somewhere between irresponsible and actively harmful.  From a perhaps elementary level sex ed, on, there are definitely people who have had it relentlessly promoted to them that the advice to say 'No' to sex by default is probably an ancient magical conspiracy.  This is probably what the version of critical theory in Women's Studies programs at least strongly implies.  There are definitely some young women and young men who seem to actually believe critical theory, and seem to understand that using their word magic to overcome the ancient super-conspiracy is the most important thing ever. 

The fear of being punished can be worse than the actual things that can be brought into play. 

Does this mean that I am asking ladies out on dates?  No, I am not.  I can't entirely claim that the series of decisions where I have not tried to date has nothing to do with fear of being treated unfairly.  However, from my end that feels like the most minor element.

3 Apologies for the wall of text.  At the time it seemed appropriate, but I've been trying to process some discussions elsewhere. 

4 Why didn't the editor eat Pat's paragraph breaks while it ate mine?

5

Why didn't the editor eat Pat's paragraph breaks while it ate mine?

It did actually. I had to make each paragraph break a separate quote and even then the line beginning with " Except: she doesn't mean it" still didn't format right. I worked on that block quote almost as long as the rest of the post took. 

6 What I've found out commenting on Pixy's mee dot nu blogs:

If I leave javascript off, the comment submission eats my carefully crafted new lines. 

However, if I remember that it does that in time, I can copy the content out somewhere where it will be safe, while I turn javascript back on, and refresh so I can use the comment box that preserves the new lines.

Might just be that my browser choice breaks things in so easily fixable a way.

7 I find that the editor likes to eat newlines and so I usually put an extra one in between paragraphs.  Newlines for the newline god or something.

I put two blank lines between paragraphs here and that usually means one will appear.

1 "Mourners arrive and form a long line to remember President Jimmy Carter. Today is for those with license plates ending in an even number, while those with odd numbers may queue up tomorrow."

2 Would you mind posting another piece of Genshin Impact fan art or something else pleasant to see? While I despise Carter somewhat less than other recent democrat presidents, I would rather not see him first thing when I check in here. Thank you.

1 "Now go do that voodoo that you do so well!"

Also, that gal's tail has gone non-Euclidian. Sort of an Eldritch Ho-Ho-Ho.

-j

2 Yeah, there's a lot to complain about the anatomy in there. The white skin is apparently supposed to be the front or bottom part, but the artist just could not imagine how it went.

1 Qapla' in whatever you choose!
It's Buc-ee's, though.  And you don't pronounce it Byoo-cee's.

2 Merry Christmas.

3 Merry Christmas and commiserations on body pain.

4 You are a college graduate now, aren't you? Surely that can be helpful. Although it's in vogue to say that a diploma is unnecessary nowadays, it was not true. I switched jobs 4 months ago, and they asked for diploma (which, in my case, is all in Russian; in fact, it's hand-written on the special forgery-resistant paper and stamped, just to make it harder to read).