FtttG
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FtttG
21hr ago
This is where I first heard about them (?).
Are you suggesting that the only reason people find Aella annoying is because they find her sexually desirable but know that they will never get this, they will never get this?
First off, textbook Bulverism. Second: I can't speak for everyone here, but I'm not attracted to people who smell bad, and even if she showered every day, she's not my type.
"If a man appears to dislike you, the only possible explanation is that he's mad because he knows he'll never get to fuck you" strikes me as both as a transparent cope and far more "objectifying" towards women than most comments I've made which have resulted in this accusation being hurled at me. Sometimes straight men just find you annoying for the same reasons they'd find another man annoying.
FtttG
1d ago
It's a bunch of people getting together and harassing an outsider
If we were sending Aella nasty DMs, doxxing her, sending her death and rape threats, generating AI porn of her, circulating her nudes without her consent etc., you might have a point.
Someone saying "you know, I think so-and-so is something of an intellectual lightweight" on a forum is not "harassment". If you're so thin-skinned that you can't tolerate politely worded criticism like that, I don't think you have any business being a figure in the public eye (however broadly defined).
FtttG
1d ago
I don't hate her. Whenever I see people paying attention to her I just feel vaguely exasperated, as I find her whole schtick kind of tiresome. I am disgusted by people who don't bathe frequently (unless they have a really good excuse, like profound mental illness or paraplegia or something) and I think that's an entirely appropriate response.
FtttG
1d ago
Fair point. Still, how many actors can honestly say they've played the lead in a Soderbergh movie? It can't be in the triple digits.
FtttG
1d ago
My personal experience of working at a building which hosted multiple nerd conventions makes me slow to privilege the idea that modern humans bathe too much.
FtttG
1d ago
If the only thing I know about someone is that they refuse to bathe frequently, my opinion of them will be lowered significantly. Among other things, it's tremendously inconsiderate behaviour. It may well be the case that Aella is a genuinely intelligent and perceptive person in spite of being smelly and dirty: I'm just saying that, after reading a substantial chunk of her writing, I haven't seen any evidence that that's the case. I don't understand why so many people are falling over themselves to sing the praises of someone who ultimately just seems like a mid, pretentious sex worker who smells bad.
FtttG
1d ago
I think he said that he sniffed Aella and she does not stink or something like that.
Bro, you're not helping
FtttG
1d ago
Richard Hanania and Yassine Meskhout were two I saw.
The first thing I learned about Aella is that she only takes two showers a month (1 shower for every ~9 bowel movements). I have an instinctive revulsion towards people who smell bad, but nothing I've learned about her since has persuaded me she has anything interesting or insightful to offer, quite apart from her presumably foul body odour. I'm convinced that the exalted social status she seemed to enjoy in nerdy circles for the last few years, she only achieved by surrounding herself with men for whom talking to a woman who was even mid in attractiveness (hell, talking to a woman without a penis) was a tremendous novelty, and shamelessly appealing to their nerdy interests (funnel charts of gangbang outcomes, ugh). All of these white knights suddenly rushing to her defense feels extremely Zoe Quinn-coded to me, and for much the same reasons.
In summary, bitch you stink. I'm willing to live and let live up to a certain point (I don't really care that she's a sex worker, or polyamorous, or a habitual drug user), but I'm not going to pretend that hygiene and grooming are optional, or a "Western patriarchical construct" or whatever. People who refuse to bathe frequently or ignore normal standards of hygiene and grooming should feel ashamed of themselves.
FtttG
5d ago
Still on The Perfect Heresy, which I'm determined to finish tonight or tomorrow so I can move on to something more interesting. Medieval history just doesn't seem to do it for me.
FtttG
6d ago
he doesn't remember when he bought some of the records he owns
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FtttG
6d ago
Have you ever read High Fidelity? The protagonist is an obsessive collector of vinyl records, and whenever he's going through a major life upheaval, he reorganises his records as a therapeutic exercise. At the very start of the novel his girlfriend breaks up with him, so he immediately begins reorganising his records - but in a break from tradition, he does so not in alphabetical or chronological order, but autobiographical: the chronological order in which he bought them.
FtttG
7d ago
My understanding is that he intentionally drove into a crowd of pedestrians, but it wasn't political or a nihilistic mass murder: he was just on a lot of drugs. It doesn't appear to have been an accident.
FtttG
7d ago
Last night, I was telling the missus about Countess Constance Markievicz, an Irish revolutionary who was the first woman elected to the House of Commons, participated in the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule, and was appointed as Minister for Labour in Ireland's first Dáil.
As a member of the Citizen Army, Markievicz took part in the 1916 Easter Rising... Markievicz fought in St Stephen's Green, where on the first morning —according to the only two pages surviving of the diary of an alleged witness — she shot a member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, Constable Lahiff, who subsequently died of his injuries... Markievicz supervised the setting-up of barricades on Easter Monday and was in the middle of the fighting all around Stephen's Green, wounding a British army sniper...
The Stephen's Green garrison held out for six days, ending the engagement when the British brought them Pearse's surrender order. They were taken to Dublin Castle and then to Kilmainham Gaol through what Matt Connolly described as "several groups of hostile people". There, she was the only one of 70 women prisoners who was put into solitary confinement. At her court-martial on 4 May 1916, Markievicz pleaded not guilty to "taking part in an armed rebellion...for the purpose of assisting the enemy," but pleaded guilty to having attempted "to cause disaffection among the civil population of His Majesty". Markievicz told the court, "I went out to fight for Ireland's freedom and it does not matter what happens to me. I did what I thought was right and I stand by it."
She was sentenced to death, but the court recommended mercy "solely and only on account of her sex". The sentence was commuted to life in prison. When told of this, she said to her captors, "I do wish your lot had the decency to shoot me".
I miss the era when feminists were tough as nails. The only things "triggering" this woman were the guns being fired at her. Every time I read about her, a frisson of awe runs down my spine. We used to be a proper country.
"Smokeshows" is a bit of a reach in my opinion.
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