unfortunately yes

I don’t want to see this human’s face again.

I think a very stoned guy posted a picture of his extremely thick glasses on Reddit once, the lack of additional context made it quite funny.

I’m going to have to go with the bow tie, especially with the hat.

Oh but for some reason Floridaman is okay?

I don’t believe the Mancunian schoolgirl dressed in the full Islamic veil I saw yesterday was suffering from a surfeit of freedom in her personal choices, let me know if that needs further clarification.

Possibly, either way I’m taking the piss.

And I’m sure that child, etc., etc., etc., don’t give me that shit.

cool it with the anti-semitism

I am pretty much okay with freedom of speech, sunlight is the best disinfectant, etc., etc. The alternative is driving this kind of rhetoric underground where they have the benefit of acting like they’re being oppressed as “truth-sayers” or whatever.

I happen to think there’s some truth to some Conservative arsehole’s recent statement that pockets of Islamic migrants in the UK are incapable of culturally integrating, which is being lambasted as xenophobic hate speech despite the fact it’s demonstrably true. I saw a schoolgirl in the full veil yesterday, I’m sorry but I don’t think that’s in keeping with progressive values, whether you want to call those “Western” or not. Talk about referring to women as household objects.

Then again, I haven’t used Facebook for years. Maybe they’re pandering to their user-base.

Same in England, at least traditionally. There’s a song about the Twelve Days of Christmas etc. I think the old thing to do was cook two Christmas cakes and keep “feeding” one of them with brandy until Easter, when you covered that with marzipan to make something called a Simnel cake. Also I think you were supposed to actually make those cakes at the beginning of October, so it’s a pretty obvious example of a historical practice of preserving the harvest, with religious significance attached after the fact. I think I might get back into it, I love a bit of traditional food culture.

I was very disappointed to find out the Feast of Epiphany is only a feast in the sense that something might be a “feast” for the eyes, or in this case perhaps the soul.

Hi, I have an MSc w/distinction and based up somebody’s patio yesterday, this isn’t a Chinese thing.

Ahem… excuse me, don’t you mean George Clooney’s wife?

I don’t know man, I’m not sure I trust that scarf.

you forget the sex one, Slipperyquim or whatever

English, same.

That’s why we say the base precedes the superstructure “in the first instance”.

This conflates material reality and ideology, though. Not to say a cultural or social reality isn’t real in its own way, just that it is preceded by objective, material reality. I think the arguments tend to boil down to people prioritising one or the other and then refusing to budge.

I’m pretty laid back about it but draw the line at people attempting to assert there is no such thing as material conditions. I’m not explicitly “Marxist” but definitely Marxian in the sense that I think all theories need to be anchored in material reality in the first instance. So gender categories exist, but are part of the superstructure.

And that’s what gender critical means.