We Hunted The Mammoth
So I’m working on a bigger piece on a recent report about incels, but in the meantime I found myself a little distracted by a thread on Twitter about harmful “Airport Books” — that is, those non-fiction books usually with one big and possibly very bad idea that are waiting to snare unwary passengers at the airport bookstore.
I learn so many things by reading Reddit on the regular. Here are a few historical insights I picked up on the Antifeminist subreddit today.
The trans panic has reached an alarming stage: transphobes, most notably Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, have escalated their rhetoric and become more obvious about their stochastic terrorism, with Tucker Carlson broadcasting the names and faces of board members of Vanderbilt Hospital, which offers gender affirming care to children. Bill O’Reilly gave the same sort of “publicity” to a prominent abortion doctor years ago; the doctor was murdered by an anti-abortion fanatic.
Yesterday, Scott Adams the Dilbert Guy brought us some truly tragic news:
Tucker Carlson is doing that not-so-delicate dance again, inciting violence against his ideological foes without literally telling his listeners to beat anyone up in those exact words.
I‘m not sure that Redditors are always getting the best possible advice from the Demons subreddit, a hangout for people who think literal demons are pestering them in real life.
NOTE: Another Sunday, another Tiny Mammoth Concert.
A couple of years back I was vaguely obsessed with Driver’s Seat, the one hit of a one hit wonder band with the unlikely name of Sniff ‘n” the Tears. You probably know the song; though it hasn’t been on the (American) charts since 1979, it’s had what the statisticians call a long tail, by which I mean that people still play it. Though usually not as often as I did that year.
Some random dude on the internet has thoughts about sex and civilization so we have to listen to him.
Sometimes the best laid plans (for getting laid) go astray.
It’s been three and a half months since the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial ended with a victory for Depp. But Heard’s professional haters on YouTube can’t seem to quit her, putting out dozens of videos a day blasting her in any way they can think of; racking up millions of views in the process. I found more than a hundred of these videos posted just today (9/15/22).