Harvey Weinstein, Smooth Talker: Today in Tweets

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/13/trump-scraps-healthcare-subsidies-obamacare

Fuckhead.

OTOH, he’s an overweight septuagenarian with a history of eating rich, who is currently experiencing a severe bout of work-related stress from all accounts. I think it’s a toss-up at this point which gets a thunderclap coronary first, him or the world economy.

Whichever one it is will no doubt set unpleasant dominoes in motion, though. The fuckhead’s followers include a lot of conspiracy theorists who would spread and accept the idea that it was a “deep state” assassination, leading to unrest, and the economy tanking (already baked into the cake at this point, we’ve already gone an unusually long time without a recession so we’re statistically overdue, and they did everything they could after the last one not to let the market truly correct itself, what with their bailouts and failure to spend countercyclically, so the economy’s been basically comatose and on life support since the last one, and they’re out of maneuvering room to use tricks like quantitative easing with interest rates as low as they are since ’08, or bailouts with public debt as high as it is since ’08 and the US’s credit rating downgraded to just AA — I don’t think they can stop the next one from turning into Great Depression II.

And of course one or both will likely happen just in time for the 2018 midterm elections.

Fun times! /s

(What’s nearly pure garbage, orange on top, and noxious throughout a huge area? A dumpster fire!)

Hambeast, I’m so sorry. They never live long enough. Never.
We have had a rash of euthanasias at work, and it makes me wonder if I should even get another cat when we inevitably lose the ones we have.

I’m so sorry, Hambeast. It’s such a hard thing to deal with. Will break out an extra treat for our furry nonagenarian-equivalent 🙁

Adding my sympathy, Hambeast. It hurts when it’s time for them to leave.

@peak182

In my opinion, for the most part you have to be presentable and attractive to be with an attractive women.

I thought we talked about this, peak182. Physical attraction is not the only thing women care about. It varies from one woman to another as to how high of a priority it is in their dating preferences. It’s almost as if women are individuals with different backgrounds, desires, and needs.

I have 1000000 more respect for Incels

I’m starting to get the feeling you identify with incels more than you identify with women.

(The NONE MYSOGINISTIC ONES)

We’ve definitely talked about this. Once again, a person cannot define themself by their lack of sexual experience as if it’s a hardship the collective women of the world have thrust upon them without being misogynistic. There is no such thing as a non-misogynistic incel.

and undateble men

Don’t do that. Would you classify a group of women as “undateable?” There’s no human who is “undateable.” There are humans who don’t ever date for a variety of reasons but none of those reasons are fixed and unchangeable.

Getting laid through scumbag behaviour and manipulation is fuck all to be proud of

Don’t call it getting laid. Don’t call it sex. Don’t call it 20 minutes of action. It’s rape. It’s sexual assault. Don’t lend it legitimacy by calling it anything else.

Apologies to all, that was inappropriate

@Hambeast – I’m so sorry about your cat.

The Weinstein tape was hard to listen to. That sort of pushy, manipulating, guilt-tripping stuff would make me uneasy even if it wasn’t in a sexually predatory context. There’s another story on the radio right now about a Montreal actress being assaulted by Weinstein 15 years ago. 🙁

I’m OK but busy. A crisis at work delayed my supervisors from hiring another English tutor, so the new small-group ESL class got assigned to me at the last minute (okay, 1 day in advance). Intermediate ESL is fun, especially with a small group like that, but I’m already overwhelmed with things to do.

And no, I do not fucking condone manipulation of women. No no no.

I’m so sorry about kitty, Hambeast. Hugs.

Not really on topic to any of the conversations going on now, but has anyone seen The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson yet? It’s on Netflix. It’s not a particularly easy and fun watch and it might be triggering for trans women to watch but it is really good. It also goes into Sylvia Riviera’s life quite a bit and features a righteous rant she did at a gay rights rally in the 70s. She demanded intersectionality in the movement and got booed for it. It was a really powerful speech but so depressing to see the reception it got. Anyway, I really recommend the movie. I never watch enough documentaries.

In my opinion, for the most part you have to be presentable and attractive to be with an attractive women.

It is true that looks aren’t everything to everyone and not everyone is attracted to conventionally attractive looks. It’s also true that because women are socialized to looks past appearances much, much, much more than men are, the majority of couples that are mismatched in terms of conventional attractiveness has the hot woman + average man combo rather than the hot man + average woman combo.

But it annoys me that we (and I include myself in this) always feel compelled to point that out. If a particular man can’t attract super gorgeous women, so what? It’s not a political problem. Not dating a woman with model looks isn’t oppression. It’s barely even a personal problem as lots of men wind up happily partnered with women who aren’t conventionally beautiful. It’s also not a gendered problem. Contrary to popular belief among men, every woman on earth doesn’t have her pick of men no matter where she is on the conventional attractiveness scale. Not to mention how heteronormative these conversations always are.

Nobody is obligated to find you attractive. This goes for people of all genders and orientations. C’est la vie.

I have 1000000 more respect for Incels

(The NONE MYSOGINISTIC ONES)

Kupo already covered why choosing the label is inherently misogynistic. I’m going to add to that and let you and other sad boner whiners know that it’s also misogynistic to come into a feminist space that will invariably be heavily populated with female commenters and whinge about straight men not being to get dates/sex with beautiful women and how hard it is not to be a handsome hunk.

First of all, we’re not your mommy. Not only are women not obligated to be attracted to any given man, we’re also not obligated to soothe you and give you advice. Of course, we have lots of male commenters here that are valued and that the women here are happy to listen to and sympathize with. The difference is, they don’t turn conversations about misogyny or any other kind of oppression all about them and their boners.

Second of all, our society judges women based on our looks so much more than men. I’m not saying that men are never unfairly judged by their appearance but it is not even close to the level that we’re scrutinized. It’s not just when it comes to dating and sex that we’re harshly judged for our looks. It’s every aspect of our lives. A lot of men don’t even want us to exist in public if we don’t please their boners. Remember the time that female local news anchor chastised a man on air for sending her a letter complaining that she dared to be on television even while not being thin. Or the time some douchebag reviewer wrote a negative review of an opera singer because she was too fat for his boner tastes? Since when were men expected to be hot in order to his job?

Hambeast, I’m so so sorry. Thinking of you and your husbeast today.

I have 1000000 more respect for Incels (The NONE MYSOGINISTIC ONES)

Oh yeah, all the non-misogynistic straight men who refer to themselves as “involuntarily celibate.” Take so hot I wish it would light itself on fire.

What’s cabin crew?

Well yeah, I’m obviously not including jobs where looks are part of the job. That’s kind of missing the point.

side note: some male models and a lot of actors can also get hired because they look interesting, not good. Loads of character actors, and they mostly tend to be men.