I know there are fans of Italy’s NT I follow, and I feel for my fan friends, but I love seeing the NT suffer. I cannot deny it. Italian football has earned decades of bad luck and awful calls. Well earned.
There’s nothing better than watching Italian players piss and moan and whine. Bunch of fucking shirt tugging, testicle grabbing bad-actors. And been rewarded for it for far too long.
Asshole Japanese artist and asshole Swiss architect parody a favela as a cafe for rich assholes to hang at during Art Basel, Switzerland, and intelligent people protest and the cops show up and shoot rubber bullets at the protest; thus successfully parodying the continuing state violence directed against actual favela protests ahead of the World Cup (2014) and Olympics (2016) in Brazil. I have this right?
And from what I understand, making it much more of an unintentional and awful parody, Art Basel permitted the protests, but for a short time only, before calling the police; thus flaunting their bourgeois liberal tolerance as some sort of meaningful alternative and pacifier to state violence.
Consistently let down by white people I know who insist Praise explain her experiences to them to justify her beliefs and experiences. It happens everytime bigotry comes up; Praise is asked to prove it. Or, as happened today, where she asked the white Korea expert how he could be so sure of his expertise, they just call her a racist. Time and again.
Maybe I shouldnt write about this, but I know I can’t step in and interrupt. White men: we’re taught from a young age to play the role of morally righteous interruptors. I must reject that impulse. I know my place in these discussions. All I can do is feel let down. Why do white people insist people of color, especially women of color, prove their experiences? When we ask white men to justify their claims, in turn, they always get bent out of shape. (This is possessive whiteness, which I’ve written about; check the archives; I tagged the posts.)
It’s one of the most insidious aspects of white power. And it’s most often applied equally and most forcefully by both social justice white women who like to claim they are allies, on the one hand, and proud to be white men, on the other.
When I walk into a classroom, when I write characters, lines in verse, the problem is there staring at me or haunting my thoughts. To belittle it on behalf of having a good time is to reject the celebration and joy in working to liberate ourselves from corrupt social order.
I will clobber the next turd who insists I worry too much about whiteness and white power. It makes up less than half the content of my blog, and together with patriarchal, white supremacist capitalism, it makes up three quarters of the everything we should be collectively organizing against.
As you can tell, the white people who write articles like this are not Korea experts, but experts about what they see while in Korea. By the way, the author is the guy I was arguing with on Facebook.
Praise pointed this out to me and was like, how in the hell does this guy think he’s a Korea Expert? I agree. (Remember, he argued that his job makes him an authorized Korea expert.) This is the author writing about how he sees Korea, not about Korean culture and Koreans.
For a guy who’s lived here for five years longer than me, you’d think he’d understand what he’s doing when he writes this way.
CLUELESS
notice how the pleas to excuse whiteness aren’t denying racism and fascist masculinities but more often merely offering cover for the behavior by claiming you’re a fascist and racist, too, but against me. the worst kind of sorry excuse for an identity is i’m proud of being white. such nonsense.
good night white pride.
There is a real question of scale and practicals that I don’t see often well addressed by the ultra-lefts on unions. There are several hundred million unorganized workers in the US, how exactly do you propose to organize…
C-S-A is on his game today. Great reading.
You cannot radicalize the AFL-CIO and other mainstream unions. I know firsthand. I was recruited to become an organizer and after the summer at Organizers Institute and participating in various functions, marches, protests, I was told I was too radical and likely wouldn’t be asked to organize. I received one phone call, two years after my summer of recruitment and training as a last ditch effort for help in rural Illinois. I was just beginning teaching. A better choice.
The union bureaucracies are loaded with conservative liberals and politicians. Never trust a Marxist who insists unions can be radicalized from within. It’s liberalism. Useless.
When you say, “Hey, Korea has so much plastic surgery, too much, a problem,” and so on, you immediately, implicitly are comparing or contrasting Korea with somewhere else, your somewhere else, and you can’t claim objectivity any longer. You admit, at once, your reliance on customs of home while taking and forgiving yourself for the pleasures of fetishizing an other you seek to discipline to cultivate your desire. Home just isn’t paying much attention to you.
So to engage in criticizing this aspect of Korean culture is to resist criticizing this aspect of your own culture, as an insider; it’s to insist you have a special kind of knowledge and access to that knowledge Koreans aren’t permitted. It’s a trade in oversimplistic cultural critique, excusing you from doing the more complicated work to offer an inclusive and dynamic examination of a common problem within patriarchal capitalist culture. In other words, you act the expert because you know damn well the oppressions at home, but criticize them through displaced complaints that are projected onto others. More troubling is that in projecting anxiety, dread, and other excesses from sexist culture in the US, for example, onto Korean culture, you obfuscate the realities of Korean daily life and individuals to grandstand about whatever political identity you’ve assumed for the discourse. It reeks of paternalism, of colonialism, of the worst kinds of liberal racism. It’s oppressive and self-serving. It exoticizes Koreans while punishing them for your racism.
We know you’ll continue to claim expertise in Korea because it’s so much easier than paying attention to the realities of your troubles at home. It’s your fantasy, after all, and they just happen to live in it
If hype were representative of open public discourse, I’d revel in it. But hype is market-oriented and technology-boosted and tracked, by which I mean regulated and disciplined. I can’t find pleasure in consumerist hype. It’s a celebration of standardization.
Not to be sentimental but I’d trust more finding something pleasurable via hype the way I discovered music and football players and teams, new literature, prior to 1993, via word of mouth, well circulated copies of zines and articles and vhs and cassette tapes.
Just me perhaps.
My cat poops on libertarian pillows.
when some guy begins to whine about spoon-feeding people, that you should just google it, read wikipedia, go to the library, and figure it out for yourself after you insist or someone you know insists you don’t understand: when a guy, friend or stranger, insists that you need to consider how to create responsible intellect, and that knowledge is accessible for all who seek it, you need to shut that fucking oppressive, libertarian, ayn rand fan up as fast as possible. you can use a wad of toilet paper, a rolled up magazine, your sock, napkins from between the booth seat-cushions, an unfinished hot dog, the other end of a pint glass, or his own fist. the most important thing is to fill up that noisy, oppressive, dark and masculinist hole with anything as soon as possible. don’t worry. nobody will step in to prevent you from completing your task. in fact, you might find several people more than willing to voluntarily step in and hold the asshole down.
Some nights all I want to do is have a good time with an interesting, attractive person. Fuck all you on tumblr unless you can tell me how I can meet a woman at a bar and in a moral way take her to her room to make love. I already said I won’t tell a lie again. Or is sex not allowed in your utopia?
LOL. What a little pig.
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통계청관계자 “MB때 외압 심해”분배지표 ‘새 지니계수’ 미공표OECD국 순위 하위권 추락 숨겨
MB administration pressures National Statistical Office to block publication of worsening inequality measures (gini coefficient) until after the presidential election. meanwhile, they had claimed that “inequality as measured by the gini coefficient has continuously improved, placing us among the middle ranks of OECD countries”. the actual figures, which includes higher-income households, results in a drastically higher measure of inequality, placing us 29th among the 34 OECD members.
This reminds me of this article about the failed promise to publish GINI date that the Hankyoreh published last August. It’s clear conservative leaders in Korea are reluctant to publish such data because it only illustrates their consistent failures to find a way to offer most Koreans access to the great wealth very few Koreans enjoy exploiting. It’s such a long history of exploiting limited resources, jobs, ownership opportunities that was only freed up post authoritarianism here.
And it only reminds me of home, where the myth of rugged individualism as a means to upward mobility is used to offer ample cover for Capitalists.
you know you’re dealing with complex masculinist rhetoric and misogynist culture when young men talk about sex as if it’s one partner enjoying himself and, hopefully, his partner enjoying their self. in other words, there’s already an apology for oppressive social relations in the way the young men talk about sexual acts.
lol! Not a misogynist unless if me liking to fuck a lot makes me one.
Already masculinist objectification of sexualized others, in this case women. He frames his narcissistic narrative of sexual prowess with objectification. As you’ll see, he mirrors this sentiment in the closing sentence below.
I honestly don’t remember that post and those who follow me would have probably seen I post a lot of personal posts then delete them after, cause usually intoxicated when I write them.
“I was drunk, so it’s not my fault.” Invokes a fucking sick side of apologetics for sexism and hate that rape culture implements. And for no reason. After all, he’s referring to evidence that doesn’t exist. Thus, we also have a courageous expression of guilt that he finds funny. That he thinks he has a kind of admirable bravery will come up again below.
Weird I would say that because I never sell women dreams, I’m pretty blunt, if I’m just looking for a good time, a fling, a relationship I let them know cause I’m not into hurting people, especially women.
“I’m not into hurting women. They hurt themselves.” (MISOGYNY 101)
If I wasn’t real how would I manage to have so much female attention on a small island? If you a player or a dick it ain 1 min before all her friends know and shitt, I don’t ruin any future opportunities for friendship, and or love, and or sex.
A.) Women love my penis. + B.) I just like to fuck. TWO INFAMOUS EXCUSES. (Misogyny 101)
I have been with women who rich as fuck, course I’m not going to let them know how broke I am cause she just wants to have sex if she’s a tourist anyway, that and my age are the only two things I ever lie about. And if I tell em my age after or that I’m not rich like them you think they care after having such good sex lmao?
See above.
Never. I’m arrogant and say a lot of asshole things but if I being a misogynist I want to correct that. I been in a fight just for a guy “joking” about putting molly in someone’s drink!
The narcissism is rich. He enjoys his penis only with women’s permission. Covert denials of rape are creepy, brother. Cut it out. If you feel like saying this, you’re lifestyle is fucked up.
I don’t see anything wrong with lying to a rich capitalist woman about my financial situation for sex, if they so materialist and love the idea of going home with the baddest guy in the club with all this money I’ll let them have that dream.
“It’s not my fault I lie; it’s their fault for believing me.” (MRA rhetoric and Misogyny 101)
Me and boys in high school and my reall broke ass friends laugh so hard if a woman who say owns a mutli-millionaire yacht in the most expensive harbor in the city has a nobody anarchist come on board and fuck her all night while her capitalist piece of shit CEO father is in the room couple decks above.
Misogyny is acceptable because capitalism sucks. (Misogyny 101)
I’m not attracted to status, but if she a Harvard graduate for instance and 28 while I only 18, course I telln my boys for jokes. The whole rapper island bad boy with the smart college stereotype definitely got her off.
This is wrong on many levels as it requires a white supremacist classism as well as misogyny. It’s patriarchal, too.
What is manipulating them for sex by the way? They’re bourgeois girls and not like they fuckn the idea of a rich guy cause they looking for a way out the hood.
He excuses his sexism by blaming the women who suffer from it. (MRA rhetoric)
Picking up someone just for sex takes mad confidence,
Being a pig takes courage. (MRA rhetoric)
mirroring their energy, some creative words, persistence but not harassment which there is a thin line, making them miss you and giving just small hints you into her, for instance leaving her at the bar all of a sudden and not coming back for a good while… If she’s like “no”, “I just want to dance with my friends”, it’s on to the next single woman without a flinch.
Total objectification of women. Good job.
She the one missing out on me so it’s on to the next who enjoys my company and how I carry myself, simple.
And blaming them for your sexist rhetoric. Bringing the framed apology for misogyny to a close.
Fucking nothing but scorn for you.
privacy is for suckers.
Evangelical argues trans identities are fantasies.
Sad thing is this notion that sex and gender are the same and, apparently, are determined at birth as an assignment via a recognition of a physical reality is not merely conservative, religious whackiness. It’s a rather common and oppressive oversimplification based in common sense explanations of social relstions and conditions of existence.
This is literally what I have to deal with on a daily basis, and there’s no arguing against it in practice because after all, someone like me is too crazy and deranged to have any authority, “too stupid to be so smart” as it is put.
Crap. Did your reblogging my post bring a bunch of hassle to your blog? It might not mean much, but I like reading your blog and just want to say, in solidarity, that I’m with you.
Quick Answers:
1. I think about Bataille’s memoir-novel Blue of Noon, Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend, Ducasse’s Les Chants de Maldoror, Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet, Celine’s Journey to the End of Night, Rimbaud’s letters and poetry, Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen, Emily Dickinson’s poems. I could go on. For me, writing to communicate and writing to express/expunge aren’t different things. Maybe we’d have to work on one of these and some of our own writing to suss this out. I don’t see the kinds of writing you listed as oppositions.
2. As a teacher, I’d ask that, before coming to teach, gain the experience necessary to teach; or, at least figure out whether or not you want to teach and know what for. So many who travel to teach are merely teaching to travel or to escape. This hurts education, students, local communities, and makes for shitty expat culture. In addition, the good jobs (universities and excellent schools) will require both teaching experience and often a Master’s degree in English Education or a CELTA. A teaching english overseas certificate (any idiot can get one of these and employers, institutions, and governments are finally learning this) and a Bachelor’s degree, thankfully, are no longer meaningful, no longer competitive. The crappy economies in US, Canada, and England mean that competition for good work with good benefits, like two or more months vacation, is tough. For example, the least experienced teachers in Korea, nowadays, are working at English Language schools, privately owned schools called hagwons. Most of these jobs require work early in the morning split with work early in the evening, or long mid-day shifts, for five days a week with employers often calling employees in to meetings and work on Saturdays for several hours. These private businesses often offer decent pay but you’ll be lucky to get two weeks of vacation a year and to take advantage of many offers of no-rent, you’ll have to live in a building with your coworkers, and that can suck. The teach-to-travel days in Korea are almost a thing of the past. The universities receive a ton of applications and they are the only schools that offer time away from school when the students are between semesters. What does all this mean? You can tell that I’m cynical about many native-speaking teachers of English in “Asia”. That said, if you’re a dedicated teacher who wants to work while living elsewhere for a couple of years, get over here. You’ll need a lot of paperwork prepared ahead of time these days: sealed transcripts, apostilled copies of degrees, and apostilled FBI background checks. You’ll need teaching experience and/or a graduate degree in English and/or English Education (or something like Reading, Literacy, or similar) to get a quality job. If you want to work hard and don’t give a shit whether you like your job or not, you can easily get work at hagwons if you’re a native speaker of English and have a degree. They’ll work you to death, though. It’s easier to get work in China, Vietnam, and Japan. But ease of employment comes with less pay and in China and ASEAN countries, no real job security.
Vice Magazine calling a pop star a revolutionary. Another day, another dollar.
Go fig. Prison doesn’t work.
Sad thing is this notion that sex and gender are the same and, apparently, are determined at birth as an assignment via a recognition of a physical reality is not merely conservative, religious whackiness. It’s a rather common and oppressive oversimplification based in common sense explanations of social relations and conditions of existence.
White supremacy is a bargain. It’s extremely racist, but in capitalist society and its market it does not merely benefit white individuals. Supremacy is much more easily confronted than the social order that cultivates it. If you’re a liberal antiracist and you’re not also opposed to capitalism in a practical way, you’re wasting (y)our time.
he’s into patriarchy, the military; he’s xenophobic, into highly regulated nationalism, authoritarian, and likely enjoys a little eugenics in his planned parenthood. but don’t call him a white supremacist. maybe an anti-semite, but nobody likes Jews, right?
c’mon everybody. what’s the big deal? he’s just a proud Australian.Just read about a cop getting upset about hearing NWA’s “Fuck tha Police” while drinking at a bar called The Squealing Pig. Giggles.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAEL PIERSON. SORRY IT’S A DAY LATE.
i want to say, in light of some of the yelling that goes on around here, that i’m always open to read with, write with, work with any of you, no matter skill and experience. this isn’t just pedagogical principle; it’s the way i feel about collaboration and work, in general. i want to put that out there because, well, it seems like it doesn’t get said enough.
i can get all worked up about things; but i will be there for you, if you need me.
the weeping wounds of tumblr. weep.
