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By David Futrelle
My new favorite far-right Twitter weirdo is a fellow called @WesternIdentity, a self-described “right wing urban theologian” and “esoteric image cleric” who uses his Twitter account to promote “occult nationalism,” complain that “underground heretical judaism has pushed cuckoldry into our society,” express his love of skittles and post assorted gifs involving Trump getting the better of CNN.
I discovered @WesternIdentity earlier this week after he launched a tirade against the alleged diabolical evil that is short hair on women.
we should really rebrand the "pixie cut". pixies are great, i dont need to associate them with a haircut u got because ur mad that ur female pic.twitter.com/hXnKK6rKn5
— pharaoh owen cyclops (@WesternIdentity) July 10, 2017
normalization of short hair on women is an assault on the heart of our society: our conception of what is beautiful, our conception of truth
— pharaoh owen cyclops (@WesternIdentity) July 10, 2017
Yeah, that’s right, he’s getting all philosophical on our asses.
women are told that to be beautiful is to submit to an oppressive + external standard, but in reality the desire for beauty is innate + good
— pharaoh owen cyclops (@WesternIdentity) July 10, 2017
He then decided to “rebrand” the cute-sounding pixie cut.
🔥 so we're officially rebranding this from the "pixie cut" to:
the harpycut
please take note of this official policy change. pic.twitter.com/ywmfNdJHwq
— pharaoh owen cyclops (@WesternIdentity) July 11, 2017
As longtime readers of this blog know well, @WesternIdentity is hardly the first reactionary doofus to declare war on the pixie cut and short hairdos for women generally.
But he may be the first pixie-cut hater to also suggest that Chelsea Manning — currently sporting, yes, a pixie cut — is some kind of MK Ultra mind control slave, or something.
chelsea manning (@xychelsea) was released to be an example of the mk ultra reprogramming that awaits any future whistleblowers. realize this pic.twitter.com/HwQX75vmpy
— pharaoh owen cyclops (@WesternIdentity) July 10, 2017
It turns out that @WesternIdentity has a lot of, well, interesting opinions about all sorts of stuff, including Satanic CNN pedophiles, which he apparently thinks are a real thing.
Christiane Amanpour of CNN, dozens of children have described in depth ritual satanic abuse at CNN headquarters, your response?@camanpour pic.twitter.com/RGsvEJKVk2
— pharaoh owen cyclops (@WesternIdentity) July 5, 2017
John Avlon of CNN, amateur researchers have discovered tunnels, obviously used to move children, leading from CNN HQ to airstrip@JohnAvlon pic.twitter.com/0CLT4Q1hJb
— pharaoh owen cyclops (@WesternIdentity) July 5, 2017
Oh, but this is just the tip of the iceberg.
tbh if youre going on dates with women who dont believe that demons are real and roaming the earth you are a bad person that should feel bad
— pharaoh owen cyclops (@WesternIdentity) July 10, 2017
underground heretical judaism has pushed cuckoldry into our society: heretical frankists still exist. understand the spiritual forces @ play pic.twitter.com/PWAeP7VBgr
— pharaoh owen cyclops (@WesternIdentity) July 3, 2017
you all think im joking about the impending gynocracy:
"reparations for two millennia of injustice" 🤔 pic.twitter.com/rxfBhziTwb
— pharaoh owen cyclops (@WesternIdentity) July 8, 2017
the "lgbt movement" will never be able to fully claim the rainbow as a symbol. it is too powerful and deeply rooted
some alternative takes: pic.twitter.com/xgZF4rcLUd
— pharaoh owen cyclops (@WesternIdentity) July 2, 2017
no one is addressing the fact that the US is knee deep in a full blown neo-hippie resurgence. left unchecked this WILL threaten our republic
— pharaoh owen cyclops (@WesternIdentity) July 1, 2017
And check out what is perhaps the world’s hottest take on robots:
robots are in this sense satanic golems: man uses the ichor (electricity) hes wrought from earth in a toy instead of in world transformation
— pharaoh owen cyclops (@WesternIdentity) July 3, 2017
I honestly have no idea if this one is a joke:
most white americans have no idea what happens at a so called quinceanera: aztec deity summoning, US flag desecration, sombrero golems, etc.
— pharaoh owen cyclops (@WesternIdentity) June 27, 2017
He does post some pretty dank gifs from time to time, though.
late night👈 real zeitgeist based shamanism hours who up ⏰ pic.twitter.com/75XCyzDidZ
— pharaoh owen cyclops (@WesternIdentity) July 3, 2017
H/T — @spookperson
This is a common misconception. In fact this is a dead unicorn: It hardly ever happens, especially not in modern YA, but it seems like it happens all the time because people are constantly decrying it. In fact, the vast majority of YA protagonists are strongly feminine and extremely few are actually gender-nonconforming, and the constant narrative that girlie girls are somehow under attack actually creates strong pressure forcing conformity to traditional gender expression. I did a long-form piece on this problem here.
This woman is definitely not arguing against gender policing—she demands these ultra-femme characters, to the extent that girls in actual Victorian ball gowns were rejected as insufficiently feminine for her tastes. She DGAF about anyone else’s gender expression; anything that’s not extremely feminine is personally attacking her, which is why she has a problem with girls in jeans and T-shirts. Normal clothes. That everyone wears. She’s a piece of work.
Extra irony points for that, because for most of human history, skirts were considered eminently practical clothing to wear, for all sexes. Kilts, togas, robes, etc. — very little clothing actually had legs.
Until the horse, and especially, the cavalry. Once the horse became a hugely important military technology, with that came pants, which are more practical wear for horse-riding than skirts. And pants became associated with powerful warrior dudes, knights and suchlike, and so masculinized. Then it became a norm for men to wear pants whether or not they used horses in their work lives, because pants = manly.
http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/why-do-we-wear-pants/
http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/cultural-evolution-of-pants/
http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/cultural-evolution-of-pants-ii/