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In The Mailbox: 01.15.19

Posted on | January 16, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.15.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Carol Channing, RIP
Twitchy: Someone Remind Occasional Cortex That She Knows A Socialist With Three Homes
Louder With Crowder: CNN Analyst Accuses Radio Host Of “White Privilege” – Except He’s Black

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Never Date A Slut, also, Gillette & The Great Replacement
American Thinker: The Conservative Majority & Polls
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Colorado Baker News
BattleSwarm: Gun News Roundup
CDR Salamander: The Fort Report On The Fitzgerald Collision
Da Tech Guy: Non-Tweets For January 15, also, That Time When God Said “Watch This!”
Don Surber: Democrats Don’t Want DACA, also, “Dangerous Precedent” Is Baloney
Dustbury: The Unmarked Of Zorro
The Geller Report: NY Port Authority Removes Islamic Saudi “Candy Flag” From Ground Zero After Protests, also, UK PM Theresa May Suffers Devastating Defeat In Brexit Vote; Labour To Call For No-Confidence Vote
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, The Dispossessed
Hollywood In Toto: Will Hollywood Denounce The Womens’ March? also, Facebook Blocks Roe v. Wade Article
Joe For America: Spain Has Ten-Month Government Shutdown; Unemployment Falls, Economy Thrives
JustOneMinute: Feel Good Moment Du Jour
Legal Insurrection: WaPo Fact-Checks trump’s Boast Burgers Were Piled Up “A Mile High” For Clemson. Seriously. also, Ten Years Ago, Sully Sullenberger Lands USAir Flight 1549 In The Hudson
The PanAm Post: Peruvian Prosecutors Accuse Humala Campaign Of Funding From Odebrecht, Venezuela
Power Line: Are You Sure Alger Done It This Way? also, What Demand Does Kirsten Gillibrand Supply?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Poised To Change Medical Marijuana Law
Shot In The Dark: The “Passive Aggression Toward Law-Abiding Gun Owners” Act
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Taxing Anything That Moves
The Political Hat: Normalization Of Prepubescent Drag As Grooming
This Ain’t Hell: Worse Than You Thought – Inside The Secret Fitzgerald Probe The Navy Doesn’t Want You To Read, also, Green Berets Targeted After Anonymous E-Mail Exposed Lowered Standards
Victory Girls: Shame On Gillette For Shaming Men
Volokh Conspiracy: Today The national Injunction Batted .500
Weasel Zippers: Frequently Deported Illegal Charged With Raping Texas 11-Year-Old, also, New Migrant Caravan Leaves Honduras Headed For U.S. Border
Megan McArdle: Can Immigration Save The U.S. From Its Birthrate Crisis?
Mark Steyn: Change & Decay All Around, also, Paperless Tyranny


Category: Linkagery

In The Mailbox: 01.14.19

Posted on | January 15, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Democrat Pols & Their Lobbyists Party In Puerto Rico During The Shutdown
Twitchy: Dollar Shave Club Capitalizing On Gillette’s Woke Stupidity
Louder With Crowder: Meghan McCain Scorches Womens’ March Founder For Farrakhan Support, Anti-Semitism

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #100 – The Getting Kicked Out Of Europe Episode
American Power: Democrats Look To Clamp Down On Occasional Cortex, also, “This Is Communism”
American Thinker: Wondering Why Americans Are Running From Blue States?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Democratic Presidential Candidate Clown Car Update For January 14
CDR Salamander: Over The Horizon, Under The Radar, And In Your MEZ
Da Tech Guy: Why Navies Aren’t Cheap, also, Voyage To The Edge
Don Surber: Why Are People In DC Such Pigs? also, The FBI Is The Security Threat
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Here Endeth The Lesson
The Geller Report: New North American ISIS Leader Connected To Plot To Behead Geller, also, President Trump Facing Left-Wing Coup
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Good News For The First Amendment
Hollywood In Toto: How This Director Created An Expendables Of Horror
Joe For America: Dem Rep Tlaib Proudly Poses With Eliminationist Hezbollah Supporter
JustOneMinute: Drinking The Haterade At The FBI
Legal Insurrection: Womens’ March Leader Tamika Mallory Refuses To Condemn Farrakhan’s Anti-Semitic Statements, also, Obama’s Border Patrol Chief Agrees With Trump, Says Build The Wall
The PanAm Post: Lula & Dilma Offered Refugee Status In Brazil To Italian Communist Terrorist
Power Line: Most Colossal Green Weenie Of All Time – The Green New Deal, also, We The Press
Shark Tank: Rep. Bilirakis Fights For School Security
Shot In The Dark: Failure
STUMP: A Year Of Dickens – Starting With The Pickwick Papers
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Allah Displeased
The Political Hat: Can The Venezuelan Disaster Be Contained?
This Ain’t Hell: No, Of Course We Don’t Need Politics At TAH, also, Ex-PH2 Update, Or…
Victory Girls: Lisa Page & The FBI – The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Volokh Conspiracy: Illegal Aliens, Guns, & Strict Liability
Weasel Zippers: Laura Loomer Brings Illegal Aliens To Pelosi’s House; Pelosi Has Cops Remove Them, also, MSNBC Host Claims Trump Supporters Want “An Ethnically Pure America”
Mark Steyn: Primal Fear, also, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes


Category: Linkagery

Lesbian Professor: ‘How Has the Form of Your Child Been Culturally Interpreted?’

Posted on | January 14, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Hanna McCann is a lesbian and a feminist (but I repeat myself) who has a Ph.D. and teaches Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is a man-hating anti-heterosexual ideologue, a proponent of queer theory, and the author of Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism, and the Politics of Presentation. No one outside the world of academic feminism had ever heard of Dr. McCann, however, until last week she reported the result of a “brainstorm” she and her girlfriend had about “ways to ask about just-born children without gender”:

People use so-called “sex”, but (as Butler reminds us) that’s not free from gender. If one must ask (and one need not), we came up with: “how has the form of your child been culturally interpreted?”

 

This descent into madness — “so-called sex”! — sparked a reaction:

At last count, there were about 170 replies to Dr. McCann’s tweet, nearly all of them mocking the perverse lunacy of her ideas about “gender” which, however, the taxpayers of Australia are employing her to teach to their young people. You see, in 21st-century academia, everyone is as deranged as Dr. McCann — or at least, if there are still any sane people on campus, they are prohibited from criticizing the Official Belief System of Queer Theory, a quasi-religion that no one is permitted to oppose.

(Hat-tip: Kaeley Triller on Twitter.)



 

Category: Australia, Education, Sex Trouble, The Transgender Cult

Girl’s Kidnapper Held on $5 Million Bond; Court Documents Reveal Crime Details

Posted on | January 14, 2019 | Comments Off on Girl’s Kidnapper Held on $5 Million Bond; Court Documents Reveal Crime Details

 

Thirteen-year-old Jayme Closs was found alive last week, nearly three months after being kidnapped by the 21-year-old man who murdered her parents. Today a Wisconsin judge ordered Jake Thomas Patterson held on $5 million bond, and details of the crime emerged:

A Wisconsin man accused of abducting 13-year-old Jayme Closs and holding her captive for three months made up his mind to take her when he spotted the teenager getting on a school bus, authorities said Monday.
Jake Thomas Patterson, 21, told detectives that “he knew that was the girl he was going to take,” and he made two aborted trips to her family’s home before finally carrying out an attack in which he fatally shot Jayme’s mother in front of her, according to a criminal complaint filed hours before Patterson’s first court appearance.
Prosecutors charged him Monday with kidnapping Jayme and killing her parents Oct. 15 near Barron, about 90 miles northeast of Minneapolis. He was also charged with armed robbery.
Investigators believe Patterson hid Jayme in a remote cabin before she escaped on Thursday. Police have said the two did not know each other. . . .
The complaint said Patterson went to the home twice intending to kidnap Jayme, but broke off one attempt because too many cars were in the driveway and called off another because the house was too active.
On the night she was abducted, Jayme told police, she was asleep in her room when the family dog started barking. She woke her parents as a car came up the driveway.
She and her mother, Denise, hid in the bathroom, clutching one another in the bathtub with the shower curtain pulled shut. Her father, James, went to the front door. They heard a gunshot, and Jayme knew that James had just been killed, according to the complaint.
Denise Closs started to call 911. Patterson broke down the bathroom door. Jayme said he was dressed in black, wearing a face mask and gloves and carrying a shotgun.
Patterson told her mother to hang up and ordered her to tape Jayme’s mouth shut. Patterson told detectives that Denise Closs struggled with the tape so he wrapped the tape himself around Jayme’s mouth and head. He then taped her hands behind her back and taped her ankles together, pulled her out of the bathtub and shot her mother in the head.
He dragged Jayme outside, nearly slipping in blood pooled on the floor. He threw her in the trunk and drove off, pausing to yield to three squad cars speeding toward the house with flashing lights. . . .
Patterson told investigators . . . he assumed he had gotten away with the slayings and kidnappings after two weeks went by. . . .
Authorities have not said whether Jayme was sexually assaulted. The complaint does not charge Patterson with any form of sexual assault.

The documents explain something that otherwise made no sense: How did Patterson, who lived an hour’s drive north of the Closs family home, find this girl?

Patterson told investigators that he worked at Saputo Cheese Factory, south of Almena for two days before quitting.
On his drive to the cheese factory on one of the two mornings he worked there, he had stopped behind a school bus on U.S. Highway 8, where he watched Jayme Closs get on the bus.
Patterson told investigators that he had no idea who she was, nor did he know who lived at the house, according to the complaint.
When he saw Closs, “he knew that was the girl he was going to take,” according to the criminal complaint.

So it was his job in Alemena, where he worked for only two days, that explains how Patterson — who attended high school in Minong, more than 50 miles from Barron County — located his prey. More details:

A man suspected in the kidnapping of Jayme Closs planned the crime methodically after he spotted the Wisconsin teenager getting onto a school bus. . . .
The complaint says Patterson didn’t even know Jayme’s name until he abducted her.
The complaint says Patterson used his father’s 12-gauge Mossberg shotgun because it is commonly used and he thought it would be more difficult to trace. It says he chose the gauge to do the most damage, and wiped shells and shotguns free of fingerprints and wore gloves to load the gun.
The complaint also says Patterson shaved his face and head and showered prior to the attack. He was dressed all in black. It says he took the license plates off his car, put stolen plates on and disconnected the dome and trunk lights.

And also this:

A Wisconsin man suspected of abducting 13-year-old Jayme Closs washed out of the U.S. Marine Corps after little more than a month.
Jake Thomas Patterson wrote in his high school yearbook that he planned to join the Marines after graduation. But military records show he lasted for only about five weeks before being prematurely discharged in October 2015 at the rank of private.
Marine spokeswoman Yvonne Carlock said by email that Patterson’s early discharge indicated “the character of his service was incongruent with Marine Corps’ expectations and standards.”

He couldn’t make it through basic training and never held a steady job, but when it came to kidnapping and murder, his planning was “meticulous.” Too bad they don’t have the death penalty in Wisconsin.



 

Category: Crime, Wisconsin

#BoycottGillette: Company Goes Full SJW, Launches Anti-Male Ad Campaign

Posted on | January 14, 2019 | 3 Comments

 

“Rigid definitions of masculinity are toxic to men’s health. . . . The goal is to help those socialized as men to unlearn some of the notions that have led to such profound harm being enacted toward others and toward themselves.”
— Brown University, “Unlearning Toxic Masculinity”

“Gillette parent Procter & Gamble Co. is among companies that in recent years have used advertising as a platform to promote their stance on social issues such as gender equality, and polarizing political topics such as immigration and gun control.”
— “P&G Challenges Men to Shave Their ‘Toxic Masculinity’ in Gillette Ad,” Wall Street Journal

The latest entry in the corporate “Get Woke, Go Broke” sweepstakes is Gillette, a brand synonymous with razors and other shaving products, which has embraced the left-wing “social justice warrior” (SJW) agenda:

Remember when companies just made products and had ads that explained why you should buy their product because it was the best? Sure, there might be a catchy song or a memorable catchphrase (where’s the beef?!) but at the end of the commercial, you understood it was the product they were trying to sell you.
Not an idea.
Not virtue-signaling.
Not a narrative. . . .

Except, yeah, it’s a virtue-signalling narrative:

It’s time we acknowledge that brands, like ours, play a role in influencing culture. And as a company that encourages men to be their best, we have a responsibility to make sure we are promoting positive, attainable, inclusive and healthy versions of what it means to be a man. With that in mind, we have spent the last few months taking a hard look at our past and coming communication and reflecting on the types of men and behaviors we want to celebrate. We’re inviting all men along this journey with us – to strive to be better, to make us better, and to help each other be better.
From today on, we pledge to actively challenge the stereotypes and expectations of what it means to be a man everywhere you see Gillette.

You see that what happens on campus doesn’t stay on campus. It is easy to point and laugh at the perverse madness in elite academia, but the fact is that these universities are attended by the kind of people who eventually become executives controlling major advertising agencies. So after decades of Ivy League professors indoctrinating students with radical feminism and other extremist beliefs, now we find a division of a major corporate behemoth like Proctor & Gamble spending millions of dollars on advertising that insults men by accusing them of being perpetrators of rape, harassment, misogyny and “toxic masculinity.”

By the way, the Gillette ads specifically demonize white males.

Stephen Green remarks: “Don’t the marketing whizzes at Gillette know that the woke bros are all sporting ironic lumberjack beards these days?”

Don’t expect this to improve Gillette’s sales, but don’t expect the executives who approved this idiocy to admit their error, either.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)



 

Category: Sex Trouble

Rule Five Sunday: Good Night, Sweet Princess

Posted on | January 14, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

It gives me no pleasure to inform those of you not already aware that Verna Bloom, who played Dean Wormer’s frustrated wife Marion in Animal House, is dead at the age of 80. She also appeared in Clint Eastwood’s High Plains Drifter and played Mary the Mother of God in <em>The Last Temptation of Christ. Quite a career.

Apparently she did want to see his cucumber.

The early bird gets the worm, and the early submitter gets to lead off. So it is with Ninety Miles from Tyranny, who has Hot Pick of the Late Night Nina Agdal, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #496, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Political Hypocrite Friday and a Saturday Brunettenarok.

EBL’s got Reefer Madness, Bezos Babes, Odette Annable, Earl Scruggs, Tulsi Gabbard, Rule 5 Static Electricity, National Bubble Bath Day, Rule 5 Princess Mononoke, and Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters.

A View From The Beach features Hawt for SWAT, Virginia to Cut Back Recreational Striped Bass Harvest, The Nail that Sticks Up Gets Hammered, Mugger Fails Crucial Test of Victim Selection, What Does It Take For a Woman to be Taken Seriously?, SJWs Find New Target – High Heels, I Like Tuna but This is Ridiculous and Blades of Glory?

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Cara Buono, his Vintage Babe is Susan Cummings, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Bestform. At Dustbury, it’s Zoe Salmon and Kirstie Alley.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

Lesbian Is a Synonym for ‘No’ (Or: Guys, Please Leave @LayneMorgan Alone)

Posted on | January 13, 2019 | 2 Comments

 
Layne Morgan is a 25-year-old lesbian — L-E-S-B-I-A-N — from Boston who is now living in L.A. where she is attempting to become a TV writer.

Now, my plan when I woke up today was to write about the notorious terrorist Angela Davis, but my plan got derailed because of some anonymous idiot in Los Angeles who can’t comprehend English. On Twitter last week, Layne Morgan told this story that went semi-viral:

 

You can read the rest of that thread if you wish, but the point is that this idiot was violating every rule in The Basic Book of How to Get Laid, which is one of those many books I’ve never actually bothered to write because I have this thing about getting paid for my writing, and unless a major publisher wants to throw me a $30,000 advance on the basis of a clever blog post or two, why bother? But the point is, I could write such a book, which would include a chapter entitled “Tempus Fugits: Never Waste Your Precious Time Trying to ‘Convert’ a Lesbian.”

Let’s start by giving Mister Idiot proper credit for being bold enough to try the cold pickup, i.e., making a move on a complete stranger in public. Any experienced player will tell you, this is a long-shot gamble that almost never works. As I’ve sometimes remarked, female sexual psychology involves a hard-wired default “no” response. Guys have to learn to cope with rejection — don’t take it personally, don’t get demoralized if a girl brushes you off — because the vast majority of women to whom you are attracted will not reciprocate your interest.

In order for Mister Idiot even to attempt to score with a girl at CVS requires a certain sort of courage, an imperviousness to shame because, viewed objectively, there is a near-zero likelihood of success in such a scenario. Was he autistic? Or had he been reading some kind of PUA (pickup artist) forum to learn this move?

“Whoa, you have pretty eyes!”

Not a bad line, but here’s a clue for you idiots: READ THE SIGNALS.

This is why I suggested the guy might be autistic, because if your opening line is to tell a girl her eyes are pretty, you should be able to judge from her reaction whether she’s into you or not. And I can’t imagine that Layne Morgan’s reaction to this line looked anything like a green light signal. I mean, if a guy opens the conversation with a compliment, he has put the ball in her court and should wait to see if she returns the volley, so to speak. See, this is the difference between flirting and harassment. When you’re flirting, it’s a back-and-forth game with two players, whereas if you go bulldozing in and corner her — making her feel trapped, looking for a way to escape — that’s harassment.

Some guys are autistic, and some guys are sociopaths, and what Layne Morgan was trying to convey in her Twitter thread was: Girls can’t tell whether a guy is just clueless or dangerous — or maybe both.

Go read her thread again and notice: He never once made a joke.

Mister Idiot’s failure to display any sense of humor during their exchange is what makes me think this guy might be somewhere on the autism spectrum, because one of the basic traits of autism is a lack of self-awareness, and any emotionally intelligent guy would have acknowledged the absurdity of his situation. I mean, a guy works up the courage to try the cold pickup and his random target turns out to be a lesbian? What a perfect opportunity to employ self-deprecating humor!

Guys, pay attention: Learn to laugh at the tragic aspect of your plight.

Why? Because chicks dig it, that’s why. Every decent, intelligent and rational woman understands how tough it is for the average guy to muster the courage to make a move, knowing full well he’s going to strike out 99% of the time, because the average guy is merely average, and women are not attracted to average guys. Mister Idiot — the guy who made his move on Layne Morgan — must not be particularly attractive, or otherwise he wouldn’t be hitting on strangers at CVS, right?

One of the things guys need to understand is The One-in-Seven Rule.

About 15% of people — roughly 1-in-7 — are sufficiently attractive that they never have a real problem finding romantic partners. Go back and look at your high school yearbook with this rule in mind, and you’ll see what I’m talking about. I mean, how many of the girls you went to school with were really good-looking? And the thing is, all the guys wanted to be with those girls, but only about 15% of the guys had any chance at all with them. The guy who was merely average had no chance whatsoever.

Well, if you’re as clueless as Mister Idiot, you don’t understand this because you lack the basic self-awareness to estimate your own attractiveness. Consider the rather obvious evidence that (a) you’re in your mid-20s and (b) so desperate for female companionship that (c) you’re trying to pick up some random girl you saw at the drugstore.

Life has a way of sorting people into two categories: Winners and losers. If you’re a heterosexual guy in your mid-20s who isn’t married or otherwise involved in a steady relationship, you are by definition not winning. By the time my oldest sons were 25, they were already married. Trust me on this, guys — if you’re 25 and making enough income to pay the rent and you don’t have a girlfriend eager to move in with you (with hopes of becoming your wife), you are by definition losing.

If a guy is even moderately good-looking and shows any prospect of going somewhere in life, he will have no trouble finding a girlfriend. So the fact you’re 25 and don’t have a girlfriend — in fact, you’re so desperate you’re trying to pick up random chicks at the CVS — means you’ve got serious problems. And the lack of any humor in Mister Idiot’s approach to Layne Morgan is a major clue to what this particular guy’s problem is.

When I was 16 or 17, I was still fool enough to imagine I could win by being sincere and earnest, that I could be the brooding romantic protagonist — Marlon Brando, James Dean, whatever — but all that ever got me was rejection and heartbreak. “Unrequited love” is a fancy poetic synonym for loser and, circa 1976-77, I was perhaps the World Champion of Hopeless Crushes on Girls Way Out of My League.

“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other,” as Benjamin Franklin observed, and I learned all my lessons the hard way. Eventually, I figured out how to make my clownish sense of humor work to my advantage, to laugh at my own inherent absurdity. The reason self-deprecating humor works is because (a) 85% of all guys are not very attractive and (b) by laughing at your pathetic predicament, you’re demonstrating self-awareness. If a guy falls below the One-in-Seven threshold, he’s going to have to put in some effort to get a girlfriend, whereas genuinely attractive guys — the top 15% — have had lovestruck girls chasing them since they were in seventh grade.

Go read Jack at Sigma Frame to get some concept of what I’m trying to convey here: For all the talk in the “manosphere” about Alpha males vs. Beta males, the fact is that if you’re the real Alpha, you don’t need any advice on how to get laid. No, the idea is to become the Sigma male — the average guy who wins despite his inherent disadvantages.

Look at yourself, Mister Idiot! Isn’t it obvious you wouldn’t stand a chance with Layne Morgan even if she were heterosexual? You’re merely average, a dime a dozen, which means you’re basically invisible. No attractive woman would ever look twice at you, which is why you’re so desperate that you’re bothering random girls at the CVS.

Because I would never in a million years make that particular move, it’s difficult for me to rewrite this guy’s script. If you were in some kind of social setting — a party, a concert, a sporting event, or any setting that suggested a commonality of interest — you could easily find a way to introduce yourself to a woman without making it unnecessarily obvious you were trying to score. But just to move in on a girl at the drugstore and drop the “pretty eyes” line on her? Dude, that’s a million-to-one shot. You’ve got to be ready to take “no” for an answer, and guess what?

Lesbian is a synonym for “no.”

You’re barking up the wrong tree, homeboy. You rolled the dice and didn’t hit your point. You crapped out. You’re a loser. Go home.

If you’ve read Layne Morgan’s thread, you know that Mister Idiot didn’t play it that way, but instead was so persistent and intrusive that she felt threatened. If that’s your idea of an “Alpha male” approach, you should seek psychiatric care immediately. As I say, this guy’s approach was a million-to-one shot and if you’re going to take that kind of shot — making a move on a complete stranger — you should expect rejection, because female sexual psychology is hardwired for the default “no.”

Even if you were unusually attractive, above the One-in-Seven threshold, the circumstances of an approach like this weigh against your odds of success, because the fact that a woman is good-looking enough to catch your attention and inspire such unusual boldness means . . . what?

Anyone care to guess the answer to this question?

Good-looking women are usually not single.

For the same reason that a genuinely attractive male — i.e., the top 15% — doesn’t have problems finding a girlfriend, neither does the One-in-Seven girl experience much difficulty finding a boyfriend. Therefore, if a girl is good-looking enough to catch your eye, she’s probably already taken. It is thus a classic loser move to zoom in on a pretty girl and act like she’s got nothing better to do than to spend time talking to you. Pretty girls are insulted by this kind of approach. She is offended by the very idea that you might think she would be interested in an average guy: “Can’t you see that I’m too good for a loser like you? Get lost, creep.”

Despite every common-sense argument against making a move in such a circumstance, however, Mister Idiot opens up with a compliment — “Whoa, pretty eyes” — and makes the nature of his interest clear: “Are you single?” And when she plainly tells him she’s gay, he nevertheless persists: “Do you want to go grab a beer?”

Like I said, seek psychiatric help immediately, because you’ve got to be completely crazy to waste your precious time chasing a no-chance prospect like that. Tempus fugits, homeboy. If you want to roll the dice on such a long-shot gamble, you’ve got to be ready to take “no” for an answer and move on, as if nothing happened. Play it off as a joke, like you’ve got a dozen girlfriends waiting for your call and just wanted to bump your total up to 13. “Never let ’em see you sweat.”

Either this guy was autistic or he had an IQ below room temperature, because if you’re trying for a cold pickup and she says “lesbian,” that’s about as no as no could ever get. How do you play it off?

  1. Surprised — “Wow, really? I never would have guessed.”
  2. Embarrassed for her sake — “Oh, wow, that’s too bad. I mean, I should have known. It’s so totally obvious. I feel stupid.”

She would prefer the surprised response, of course. Gay people generally prefer to think that their homosexuality is not apparent, so that even the most obvious bull dyke doesn’t want the stranger to make assumptions. Like, she could be an all-conference shortstop for a Division I varsity softball team with an undercut hairstyle and a pierced septum, but common courtesy requires you to pretend you don’t know she’s gay.

This is why the embarrassed-for-her-sake response could be more fun. Like, you tried to put the move on her thinking she might be heterosexual, but now that she’s told you she’s gay, you’re kicking yourself for not seeing what should have been obvious at first glance. You didn’t mean to accidentally force her into this embarrassing acknowledgement of her shameful perversion, which any decent person would have been kind enough to ignore. “Please pardon my faux pas, ma’am — I’m just a clumsy and desperate heterosexual.”

But whatever you say, laugh about it. If you play a million-to-one gamble and lose, you shouldn’t act like you expected to win. The joke’s on you, and you’re gracious enough to laugh at your own absurdity.

To blunder onward, trying to close the deal after she’s made it clear she’s not interested — are you autistic or a sociopath or just plain stupid?

One of the keys to success, playing from a Sigma Frame perspective, is to think in terms of the process of elimination. There are 3.5 billion women on this planet, and all you have to do is find one. By trial and error, you can learn to distinguish between the few who might possibly say “yes” and the vast majority who are a definite “no.” Once you accept the implications of the One-in-Seven Rule and recognize that you aren’t part of the lucky 15% who can win no matter how they play the game, you’ll increase your likelihood of winning simply because you understand how much the odds are stacked against you. And it’s important for young men to recognize this reality at a young age, or otherwise they might become the kind of loser who’s 25 years old with no girlfriend, and no idea of how to get one other than approaching strangers at the CVS.

It’s very sad watching Darwinian evolution in action. This dude trying to score with Layne Morgan is like the Pleistocene mammoth stumbling into the La Brea Tar Pits — doomed to extinction. But nobody’s paying me to write The Basic Book of How to Get Laid and I’ve already wasted 2,000 words trying to explain what’s wrong with this guy’s strategy, so let me conclude with a warning for every male in the Greater Los Angeles Metropolitan Area: Leave Layne Morgan alone!

You’re welcome, ma’am. The patriarchy is here to help.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

George Will: Apologist For Tyranny?

Posted on | January 13, 2019 | Comments Off on George Will: Apologist For Tyranny?

by Smitty

I remember reading Will back in the day and feeling edified. He has wandered far in his dotage, first embracing Her Majesty against Trump, and now coming out against Brexit.

A June 2016 referendum endorsed (52 percent to 48 percent) exiting the EU. Implementing this has, however, become messier than anyone, especially voters, anticipated. In a House of Commons debate on Brexit, a Conservative member said that democracy is like sex — if it isn’t messy, you’re not doing it right. However, messiness is not proof of correctness.

Read the whole thing.
George Will sounds as though he might have sided with George William Frederick against George Washington back in the 18th century.

Of course liberty is fraught with peril, Will. As with taking the square root of a number, negative results are part of the process. This concept of “correctness” is a fine theological pursuit for each of us. Politics? Politics is the flesh, which is why the comparison to sex is so apropos.

But the point is that, in minimizing the risk of being shagged undesirably by your government, the more local the power, the greater the likelihood of a desirable outcome.

I just can’t fathom Will’s slide into licking the authoritarian boot.

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