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What @AdamRichman Learned

Posted on | July 2, 2014 | 64 Comments

Maybe you haven’t heard about this controversy, but it’s a helpful lesson in the unstated rules of 21st-century discourse. Adam Richman is a former actor and self-educated chef who, for four seasons 2008-2011, was the star of the Travel Channel series Man vs. Food and its sequel, Man vs. Food Nation. The show was a favorite of mine. If you’ve never seen it, the gimmick was this: Richman would go to a city and visit several of his favorite restaurants in the city. Each episode would conclude with Richman taking on a challenge, which usually involved him gobbling down some ungodly number of sandwiches — or burgers, pizza, “Atomic Hot Wings,” whatever — in order to have his picture placed on the restaurant’s “Wall of Fame.”

It was fun to watch and the food was always delicious-looking, but inevitably Richman got kind of pudgy from all that eating. Then he went on a diet and lost 70 pounds, becoming sufficiently fit that he was photographed nude for the British edition of Cosmopolitan.

Understandably, Richman was proud of his dieting success, so he posted a photo of himself wearing a pair of pants from his “fat” size, holding out the waist to show how much he had lost. When he posted this photo on Instagram, he used the hashtag #thinspiration.

That hashtag apparently invited a harsh comment from a “body image” activist (as angry fat chicks now call themselves), and Richman did not react wisely: “DILLIGAF?” (Do I Look Like I Give a F–k) was his first comment, and this attracted another “body image” activist who “made a post about Adam’s ‘DILLIGAF’ comment on my personal Instagram, and asked my followers to ‘tell him that eating disorders are not a joke and nothing to take lightly.’ My followers did just that, but I didn’t for one second predict the vitriol that followed.”

The so-called “vitriol” from Richman wasn’t anything particularly shocking to people who are accustomed to online arguments:

“Give me a f–king break. If anyone acts like a c–t I’ll call them one. It’s not misogyny, it’s calling a spade a spade.”
and
“No — I legitimately don’t give a f–k about haters & close minded internet loudmouths like you. . . . Seriously, grab a razor blade and & draw a bath. I doubt anyone will miss you.”

Like I said: Not shocking to people accustomed to such arguments, yet not quite in keeping with the wholesome image of the host of a popular TV series. As a result, Richman’s new show was delayed:

The Travel Channel has pulled the plug on Adam Richman’s new series, “Man Finds Food,” after the TV host’s rant on Instagram over a picture related to his recent weight loss.
“Man Finds Food” was supposed to debut July 2, but the channel announced that the show has been postponed, reports the Washington Post.
It did not offer a new premiere date. But the “Man vs. Food” host posted this encouraging remark on Facebook: “Still waiting for a airing date for the show. “Stay tune (sic) MFF fans!”
Last month, Richman drew outrage after he wrote a string of expletives on Instagram in response to fans criticizing his use of the hashtag #thinspiration — which is often associated with anorexia and pro-eating disorder messages. . . .
He eventually apologized via Twitter and deleted all of his Instagram messages related to the incident.
In a statement to ABC News, Richman said he is sorry for his “inexcusable remarks.”
“I’ve long struggled with my body image and have worked very hard to achieve a healthy weight,” Richman said.

There is a word for this: Crazy.

Yes, Richman’s use of the f-word and the c-word were probably a breach of the standard clause in TV contracts that obligate on-air talent to refrain from engaging in obnoxious/immoral public behavior. But Charlie Sheen is still on TV, and there are lots of other TV stars who keep working despite DUIs and other personal scandals that lead to unfortunate tabloid headlines. So what happened?

The Feminist Thought Police got him. This controversy wasn’t really about eating disorders and “body image,” except insofar as those issues are a subset of the Feminist Grievance Cluster, along with date rape, the “pay gap,” abortion and Hobby Lobby.

Maybe there are male “body image” activists, but I never heard of one. No, it’s exclusively a fat chick issue, which means it’s also a feminist issue, and one look at Amber Sarah — the fat chick who may have cost Adam Rich his TV show — tells you all you need to know.

Her blog is called “Adipose Activist: One fat girl’s battle against size discrimination,” and I’ve got a terrible fear that fans of Adam Richman may be tempted to say rude things about Amber Sarah. So whatever you do, don’t say anything rude about her.

And here’s what I mean about “the unstated rules of 21st-century discourse”: You might think that feminists who are ostentatiously concerned about fairness and discrimination and equality would recognize that this means they have to play by the same rules as everybody else. On the Internet, it is customary — indeed, it seems obligatory — that when people disagree, they say the meanest things they can think of to denounce their antagonists: They’re ugly, they’re stupid, they are devotees of hideous sexual perversion.

For example, people on the Internet who hate me seem to enjoy making remarks accusing me of being homosexual despite the fact that (a) I’ve been married for 25 years and have six children and a new grandson, and (b) these people are usually “progressives” who make a big show of denouncing conservatives as homophobes.

Having been called a “faggot” innumerable times by these Enlightened Disciples of Progress, I understand that they have no actual principles or moral standards, and the same is generally true of feminists. They demand to be treated as equal to men, but when I respond to their stupid arguments the way I’d respond to any stupid argument made by a man — i.e., with cruel, mocking sarcasm — they act as if this proves that I am a hateful misogynist, and perhaps also either (a) a faggot, or (b) someone with a small penis, or usually (c) both.

That these assertions are false is obvious enough, and they are also logically invalid as argument, ad hominem. Even if I were a small-penised homosexual, this would not prove that (a) feminist ideology is coherent, or that (b) my mocking sarcasm isn’t funny as hell.

By categorizing all disagreement as hate, feminists are attempting to dictate rules of discourse whereby they win every argument simply by virtue of the fact that they possess vaginas. And because they preemptively categorize all critics as misognynistic monsters undeserving of respect, feminists thereby authorize themselves to employ Any Means Necessary to destroy their critics.

Thus, Adam Richman is at risk of losing his TV career because he said rude things to a fat chick, as if we should be shocked that a guy from Brooklyn would say rude things in the heat of an argument.

Stipulate that the c-word is a particularly hateful insult that I never use myself. Further stipulate that suggesting someone should commit suicide is at least cruel and uncouth. But, again: Adam Richman is from Brooklyn, where the use of hateful, insulting, cruel and uncouth language has been elevated to an art form. It’s his culture, the same way suicide bombing is part of the Palestinian culture.

Anyway, if Travel Channel dumps Adam Richman, I’ve got an idea for his next reality-show series, an idea that would be perfect for Spike TV: Beautiful women compete to prove that they know their way around the kitchen in . . . Make Me a #$@&ing Sandwich.

Eating well is the best revenge and, whatever you do, don’t say anything rude about Amber Sarah the “body image” activist.





 

Category: Celebrities, Feminism

If You Want Blood…

Posted on | July 2, 2014 | 15 Comments

— Wombat-socho


You got it.

This week, we have a plethora of novels filled with (more than) a bit of the old ultra-violence, ranging from the retail death and destruction dealt by Agent Franks of the Monster Control Bureau in Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter Nemesis through the horrific carnage in Tom Kratman’s The Rods and the Axe to the world-wrecking war depicted in Christopher Nuttall’s The Trafalgar Gambit, which wraps up the trilogy begun in Ark Royal.


Before all that, though, I want to put in a good word for Andy Weir’s The Martian, a good old-fashioned hard-SF epic about an astronaut marooned on Mars after his crewmates leave him for dead during a sandstorm. Not only is our hero not dead, he manages to kludge together the tools he needs to survive and communicate with NASA back on Earth. It’s a gripping tale of survival, bureaucratic and technical struggle, and humorous touches. Hard to believe the legacy publishers turned this down – no, actually, these days it’s not surprising at all. Currently marked down to about $5 and very much worth it.


Now let us praise famous monsters, particularly Agent Franks of the Federal Monster Control Bureau. Longtime readers of Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter International series (first three books helpfully collected in The Monster Hunters) will be familiar with the Frankenstein Monster of few words who serves as the nigh-unstoppable strong right fist of the MCB, and probably have mixed emotions about the construct sworn to defend America by Ben Franklin himself. Franks has long had just one condition on his contract: that the United States never attempt to build another construct like him. When the manipulative head of Special Task Force Unicorn breaks the contract and frames Franks for a rampage in MCB headquarters, that contract is broken, and Franks sets out on what may be his last mission: destroy the “improved” constructs created by Project Nemesis. It turns out there’s a lot more to Agent Franks than anyone (except possibly that sly rogue Franklin) ever suspected, and it all makes for a gripping tale that you should definitely make time for. Five stars and a strong recommendation; I have no idea how the International Lord of Hate is going to top this, but in the meantime, if you want to get yourself an autographed copy, he’s currently on tour doing signings, starting tomorrow at Uncle Hugo’s in Minneapolis.


The Rods and the Axe is the most recent novel in the series that began with A Desert Called Peace, which on one level is about the seemingly suicidal war between Balboa (Panama) and the Tauran (European) Union, a war which Balboa has inexplicably widened to include Zhong Guo (China). Patricio Carrera is playing more than one game, though; while Balboa’s nation in arms digs in to defend itself and bleed the TU and the Zhong white, Carrera is playing a longer game against the United Nations Peace Fleet, whose Admiral Wallenstein has clawed herself up from little better than a sex toy to last defender of the corrupt oligarchy that rules Earth. A good read; if you enjoyed the first five books in the series, this will be right up your alley, and if you’re not sure this is your cup of tea, well, you can always try A Desert Called Peace for free and see if it is. As usual, Kratman pulls no punches in his descriptions of modern combat and the people who fight it. Recommended.


When we last left the British space carrier Ark Royal at the end of The Nelson Touch, the battered old carrier and her crew had returned to an Earth heavily damaged by an alien attack after losing a prince of the royal family who’d become a fighter pilot under an assumed name. Humanity is on the edge of losing the war, and survival may depend on whether our diplomats can help the aliens’ peace faction to prevail – or whether a doomsday bioweapon will have to be unleashed. Meanwhile, the Ark Royal’s CAG is being blackmailed – but by who? There’s a lot going on in The Trafalgar Gambit, and while I’m not sure I like the ending, it’s still a rather good space opera, well worth your time and money.


There’s a new Laundry novel out (The Rhesus Chart) but I think I can wait until that shows up in the library.


Category: Books

Department of Useless Advice

Posted on | July 2, 2014 | 17 Comments

Among other uselessness, the August issue of Cosmopolitan includes an interview with movie star Megan Fox:

“Women don’t have to be desperate and try so hard. Allow yourself to be strong and powerful and men will be crawling on their hands and knees.”

This is advice that works well if you’re Megan Fox, or somebody who even vaguely resembles Megan Fox. While I agree that women acting “desperate” is unattractive, being “strong and powerful” is unlikely to lead to men “crawling on their hands and knees” for you.

Just think of this as a three-step plan:

  1. Look like Megan Fox.
  2. Whatever.
  3. Men crawling on their hands and knees.

You see that Step Two is basically irrelevant to the success of the plan.

 

Category: Celebrities

Fertilizer Hitting Air Circulator In Mississippi Senate Runoff Controversy

Posted on | July 2, 2014 | 19 Comments

by Smitty

TRUE THE VOTE FILES SUIT AGAINST MISSISSIPPI, STATE REPUBLICAN PARTY
1st of July 2014
REQUESTS IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO ELECTION RECORDS AHEAD OF CERTIFICATION DEADLINE

OXFORD, MS. — July 1, 2014: True the Vote (TTV), the nation’s leading voters’ rights and election integrity organization, today filed suit in federal court against the Mississippi Secretary of State and the State Republican Party, asking the Court to immediately order that election records be shared to inspect for illegal votes ahead of certification for the June 24 U.S. Senate Primary Runoff Election (True the Vote, et. al v. State of Mississippi, et. al. (3:14cv144-MPM-SAA).

Read the whole thing. It sounds as though there are some serious, detailed concerns afoot here:

True the Vote’s lawsuit consists of three counts:
Count One: Violation of NVRA’s Public Disclosure Provision. Shortly before the Republican Primary Runoff Election, True the Vote, via its volunteer base, made a valid and timely request to review voter rolls and poll books under the NVRA, but it was denied access to those records.
Count Two: Individual Plaintiffs Allege a Violation of NVRA Based on Conflict with State Laws. Plaintiffs seek a declaration that the NVRA preempts any state requirement calling for public election information to be redacted at the cost of the requestor.
Count Three: Individual Plaintiffs Allege an Equal Protection Violation. Discovering potential instances of “double-voting” between Democratic and Republican primaries are unlawful dilutions of individual votes.

The Democrats have got to be laughing themselves senseless. After years of claiming that there is no significant voter fraud, and that the GOP is just Making Stuff Up, here is this steaming debacle.

Via an email list, I heard that Mississippi law precludes McDaniel running a write-in campaign, which would have seemed less egregious than calling in the sharks.

I’m optimistic that the country will survive in the long run. Passing these kidney stones just isn’t pleasant.

More at Breitbart.

Category: Mississippi, Republicans

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 07.02.14

Posted on | July 2, 2014 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
IDF Air Strikes Pound Gaza As Netanyahu Blames Hamas For Teens’ Murder

Secondary explosions after a strike in Rafah, southern Gaza

UN human rights office calls on Israelis, Palestinians to exercise “maximum restraint”

Over 500 Arrested After Pro-Democracy Rally In Hong Kong
Tens of thousands rally

Nicolas Sarkozy Questioned Over Influence Claims
Former French President under investigation for influence peddling



POLITICS
Protesters Block Busloads Of Illegals In California

Border Patrol union reps decry “de facto amnesty”

Illegals’ families being transferred from overcrowded facilities in Texas to understaffed facilities in California
Illegal Immigrants Already Being Released To A Neighborhood Near You



The House That Talking Built: Clintons’ Speaking Riches A Political Conundrum

Navy Gets First Four-Star Female Admiral

ObamaCare Coverage For Millions In Jeopardy As IG Finds Major Data Flaws

Berkeley Voters To Decide Soda Tax In November

Activists Sue To Block Colorado Marijuana Sales Tax

Obama Warns Of Deep Cutbacks In Highway Construction Aid

VA Offers Appointment To Veteran Two Years After His Death



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Mixed Pending US Stockpile Report: WTI $105.35, Brent $112.14
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Diagnosed With Throat Cancer
Ousted American Apparel CEO Raises Stake
Asia Shares Hit Three-Year High On Economic Optimism
Dollar Plunges To Six-Year Low Against Euro Pending Yellen Comments
Puerto Rico Downgrade Raises Default Fears
Google Buys Music Playlist Service Songza
T-Mobile Sued By Feds Over Bogus Billing
Court Rejects Google Appeal On Street View Privacy Suit
Boston Introduces Solar-Powered Benches As Charging Stations



SPORTS
Dodgers Run Into Triple Play En Route To Scalping By Tribe

Dodgers’ Dee Gordon tagged out at home at tail end of triple play

David Murphy breaks out of slump, gets three hits as Cleveland pounds Dodgers 10-3

America’s Long National Nightmare Ends As Belgium Tops US 2-1 In Extras


Cubs Edge Red Sox Again

Lincecum Stellar Again As Giants Blank Cards 5-0

Angels Sweep Doubleheader Against Pale Hose With 7-5 Win

Tigers’ Porcello Shuts Out A’s 3-0

Yankees Lose Fourth Straight As Price Pitches Rays To Victory

Mariners Crush Astros Again 13-2

Strasburg Shuts Down Rockies, Nats Win 7-1



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Megan Fox Wants Women To Own Their Sexuality

The August Cosmo cover girl

“Women don’t have to be desperate and try so hard.”

“Longmire” Crew Member Dead; Teamsters Probing Whether Long Hours To Blame

Robin Williams In Rehab To Maintain Sobriety

Filmmaker Paul Mazursky Dies, 84

Cameron Diaz, Esquire Cover Girl

Beyonce Sparks Jay-Z Cheating Rumors

Fox Pulls Plug On Egyptian Drama “Hieroglyph”

Curly Kate Pretty In Pink!

Portia De Rossi Secretly Spent 30 Days In Rehab

Travel Channel Pulls New Adam Richman Show In Wake Of His Crude Instagram Rant

“Breaking Bad” Spinoff “Better Call Saul” Plots Return Of Walter White

Tori Spelling & Dean McDermott’s Marriage “A Work In Progress”

Blake Lively: “I’m A Very Shy Person And My Hair Is A Safety Net”

Taylor Armstrong Moving Back To California From Colorado

Cops Rush To Selena Gomez’ Calabasas Home – Again

Carrie Fisher’s Daughter Reportedly Cast As Young Leia In “Star Wars VII”



FOREIGNERS
India Summons US Envoy Over Reports That NSA Spied On BJP
Taliban Suicide Bomber Kills Eight In Kabul
Ukraine Resumes Offensive Against Separatist Rebels As Truce Ends
Meriam Ibrahim In Hiding After New Forgery Charges Placed
Rolf Harris Faces New Abuse Allegations
Red China Denies Link Between Seoul Visit, Nork Missile Launches
Saudi King Pledges $500 Million To Help Iraqi Refugees
Modi To Attempt Getting Indian Railways Back On Track
Tories Surge Ahead Of Labour In Polls After Cameron’s Clash With EU

Nigeria Arrests Businessman In Connection With Girls’ Abductions



BLOGS & STUFF
The Quinton Report: Black Mass In OKC Led By Sex Offender
Michelle Malkin: Two Huge Victories
Twitchy: Rest Easy, Ladies – George Takei Will Do Your Hobby Lobby Thinking For You
American Power: Huge Majorities Blame Obama For Illegal Alien Crisis, IRS Coverup, And Iraq
American Thinker: Those Poor Little Gays – The World Is Saying No
BLACKFIVE: Trailer Talk – CNN’s Zakaria Trashes The Tea Party
Conservatives4Palin: Mark Steyn – The Merger Of The Party And The State
Don Surber: No, America, Iraq Is Still Your Problem
Jammie Wearing Fools: This Is Perfectly Rational – NOW President Compares Hobby Lobby Ruling To Apartheid And Jim Crow Laws
Joe For America: Former Colorado Obamacare Director Pleads Guilty To Stealing Public Funds
Pat Dollard: One-Third Of Little Girls Lured Across The Border By Obama Raped On The Way
Protein Wisdom: Remember – ObamaCo. Planned This Crisis To “Force His Hand” On Amnesty
Shot In The Dark: Civics 090 – Remedial American Civics For “Progressives”
STUMP: Labor Force Participation Rates, Part 3 – Older Folks
The Jawa Report: HHS “Brown Shirts” Threaten To Arrest Doctors & Nurses Treating Illegals
The Lonely Conservative: Did Thad Cochran Win Runoff By Buying Votes?
This Ain’t Hell: Petraeus Unsurprised By Iraq
Weasel Zippers: CAIR Laments America’s “Free” Society Makes Muslims “Uncomfortable”
Megan McArdle: Lois Lerner, Colonel Mustard, And The Blue Screen of Death


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Category: Live at Five

PSA: Words Can Hurt You

Posted on | July 1, 2014 | 10 Comments

by Smitty

I’m not even a customer, but this is great:

“Jesse?”

Category: humor

Celebrities in the Culture War

Posted on | July 1, 2014 | 19 Comments

Famous weirdos in the news:

Post-baby heartbreak. Just five weeks after giving birth to daughter Alijah, Kendra Wilkinson was forced to face a bitter, shocking truth: As rumored, husband Hank Baskett had indeed cheated with a transgender YouTube model named Ava Sabrina London. As revealed in the new issue of Us Weekly, out now, former Playboy model Wilkinson, 29, first laughed off reports of Baskett’s April tryst with London, 25.
But when NFL pro Baskett, 31, didn’t rush to clear his name in the press, his wife grew suspicious and “started snooping,” a source explains to Us. Once Wilkinson discovered an unexplained — and damning — charge on his credit card, she “flipped out,” the source says. In a rage, she punched walls in their Calabasas, Calif. home, threw their 2009 wedding photos into the pool, and even pulled off her wedding ring, flushing it down the toilet, the source says.

On the one hand, you’ve got to figure the kind of guy who would marry a former Playmate is slightly kinky. On the other hand, cheating on a former Playmate with a tranny? Dude.

And obviously, Kendra Wilkinson is guilty of transphobia.

 

Category: Celebrities

Ace, Hayek, Hoffer, Sowell

Posted on | July 1, 2014 | 81 Comments

A few months ago, Ace of Spades pissed me off — entirely by accident, I’m sure — when he recommended Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, a book that I have been recommending for years. (In 2003, I actually wrote Neil Postman’s obituary in a freelance article for the Guardian.) Of course, there was no logical reason for me to be pissed at Ace, and my sense of proprietorship over Postman — his leading advocate in the conservative blogosphere — was utterly irrational. In a situation like that, however, you feel as if you have been cheated out of a hat-tip; alternately, if your frequent writing on a particular subject has been so overlooked that your friends didn’t even notice it, you feel a sense of futile insignificance.

One must be proactive and future-oriented to maintain the crucial sense of psychological agency necessary to good mental health. Therefore deeming it necessary to preempt any further erosion of my self-esteem, I took notice when Ace wrote this yesterday:

It occurs to me that the Left is attempting to create a system wherein there are two different classes of citizenship, one fully possessed of its right to speak and act politically, the other whose rights in this regard are sharply curtailed. . . .
The Left, were it to have its way, would forbid anyone who is not primarily in the business of politics (or working for the government or university) from exercising their full political rights.
If you work in any other industry, your rights are substantially reduced. . . .
The only people who would be permitted to speak on political issues, or at in accordance with their social/cultural/religious/political principles, would be the Political Class Itself, which is of course largely “progressive.”

Read the whole thing. The truth of Ace’s observations is indisputable and, of course, nobody has a copyright on truth. But this idea, that the Left desires to constitute itself as an elite with special privileges, is not new. Nor is Ace the first one to observe that the Left is different from the Right in terms of both its motives and purposes. Therefore, let me get ahead of the game with some recommended reading:

  • Friedrich Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism” — Everybody knows Hayek for The Road to Serfdom, but this 1949 essay — a mere 14 pages long, packed with brilliant insights — answers rather definitively the enduring question of why intellectuals almost invariably ally themselves with the Left. The short version: There is simply more work for scholars and writers to do in the imagining of a new scheme of things than there is in conservatism. Explaining and defending an existing traditional way of life against its critics can be an extraordinary intellectual feat at times, but  is inherently less “creative” than the business of the Left, i.e., dreaming up untried social, economic and political experiments. The claim that conservatives are “anti-intellectual” can be understood as arising from this factor; because intellectuals are so naturally inclined toward idealistic experimental Progress, their predominant leftist orientation makes it appear that all the Smart People are in agreement, despite the fact that other equally intelligent people — though less numerous, and less celebrated within the academia/media axis — make strong arguments against them.
  • Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements — Anyone who is interested in understanding the psychology of politics simply must read this 1951 classic. Written at a time when memories of the Third Reich were very fresh, and when the menace of Communist aggression was the greatest threat facing the world, Hoffer analyzed the personal and emotional facts that attract misfits and malcontents to what he called “mass movements.” Hoffer’s insights in this matter have universal application. There are certain types of personalities who, dissatisfied with Ordinary Life, seek psychological satisfaction in the pursuit of an Ideal World. Do yourself a favor: Buy a copy of The True Believer and put it on your nightstand for bedtime reading (or, perhaps, in your bathroom) so that you can just pick it up and re-read it from time to time. It will help you remember that progressives are suffering from a kind of mental disorder, and do not deserve to be answered as if they were entirely sane.
  • Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy — This is the book that I most often recommend as the best one-volume analysis of liberalism ever published. What Sowell demonstrates is that liberals pursue certain “crusades” in order to prove to themselves their own moral superiority — the Politics of Narcissism, essentially. The fact that the policies resulting from these liberal crusades actually harm the people they were supposedly undertaken to help? Oh, never mind that, and also never mind any data which prove the harmfulness or futility of liberal policies. Sowell has an entire chapter called “The Irrelevance of Evidence,” wherein he demonstrates how no liberal can ever accept factual proof of liberalism’s errors.

So there’s three very valuable recommendations, and if Ace starts quoting or name-checking these works in the near future when discussing the progressive Political Class, the lack of a hat-tip won’t inflict such a wound on my fragile psyche. This is not to say that the whole point of exercising influence is to obtain recognition for that influence. However, the feeling that one’s influence is being wrongly ignored — however irrational that feeling may be — can become a wound that festers unless it is recognized for what it is. Having seen what untreated cases of butt-hurt can do to vulnerable minds, concern for my own mental health requires this confession.

Blogger Mood Disorder is a persistent problem in this business. Readers can help treat this disorder: Hit the freaking tip jar.





 

Category: Ace of Spades, Intellectuals
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