Funny events in anti-woke world

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Today I learned that the reason Ken exists is because some losers didn't like Barbie being single.

In a Vogue profile for the upcoming Barbie movie, Gerwig shared that Barbie, who was created in 1959, was tied to Ken two years later, and it was a direct response to letters from the public yelling about Barbie being single.

Yes, you read that right. People were furious that a plastic doll did not have a boyfriend, so they created the greatest himbo to walk the planet: Ken.
Sometimes, you just got to laugh at humanity.
 

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Isn't it amazing how people like this see a slippery slope from "including minorities" to "semen in our lemonade"?
Partly I think it's because of the sharp line between Us and Them. If minorities aren't Us and people who put semen in lemonade aren't Us, they are Them and thus the same. People used to assume gay people were into bestiality or child abuse presumably at least partially for the same reasons.

Partly I think it's because including minorities isn't scary by itself, you have to really dial it up.
 
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Partly I think it's because of the sharp line between Us and Them. If minorities aren't Us and people who put semen in lemonade aren't Us, they are Them and thus the same. People used to assume gay people were into bestiality or child abuse presumably at least partially for the same reasons.

Partly I think it's because including minorities isn't scary by itself, you have to really dial it up.
Both fuse as the same reason. It's about fabricating and widening the divide between us and them, constructing and legitimizing an in-group identity in contrast to a repulsive out-group.

Anyway.


Yeah, some amendments are more sacrosanct than others. The self-sustaining mystical argument "but it is the Amendment decided by our Saint Founding Fathers" works when it consolidates the Cult of the Gun (and its market). Outside that, it loses its weight pretty fast.
 

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Of course. Being slammed mercilessly in the ass by a more dominant white alpha is the greatest, whitest and manliest thing one can aspire to.
Insert here as many jokes about Ancient Greece and Rome as taste and knowledge of antiquity will allow.
 
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Apparently in ancient Athens they didn't go in for penetrative gay sex so much, they'd put it between the other guy's thighs, IIRC.
 

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I think, and I might be wrong, that's a feeble stab at a joke. Given how funny a lot of right wing "humour" is, it's often hard to tell.
For context, one of the other things in the headlines right now is the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, who among their schticks have done parodies of the Catholic mass except the chalice they share is filled with fake semen.
 

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Was that the rule for all of Greece or was the Athenian method just for the non-committed butt sex enthusiast?
Well, Athens is one place in Ancient Greece we've got lots of evidence for (Sparta and later Macedonia were the other big ones), we can't really say for sure what the rest of Greece was like on lots of issues.

We can say for sure that people who should know better like assuming that the rest of Greece was like Athens without evidence. So you've got leeway for whatever answer you want.
 

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Well, Athens is one place in Ancient Greece we've got lots of evidence for (Sparta and later Macedonia were the other big ones), we can't really say for sure what the rest of Greece was like on lots of issues.

We can say for sure that people who should know better like assuming that the rest of Greece was like Athens without evidence. So you've got leeway for whatever answer you want.
Well, when in Athens, do as Athenians do I guess.
 

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Somehow we got to the particulars of Hellenic man-on-man lovin, but let's keep going.

Unrelated, but with pride months coming up, will conservatiives technically be ascetics since oodles of companies become off-limits cuz too woke?
 

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Somehow we got to the particulars of Hellenic man-on-man lovin, but let's keep going.

Unrelated, but with pride months coming up, will conservatiives technically be ascetics since oodles of companies become off-limits cuz too woke?
Nah, some entrepreneuring people will come up with anti-woke alternatives with a 300% markup and rake in all the moneys.