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Samizdata quote of the day The frat and sorority scene didn’t appeal to me at all. Back when I was at the University of Michigan, I went to a single frat party, encountered a bunch of drunk assholes, and never went to another.
Wow.
Imagine that: All the way back in the 80s, too — a young woman on campus making her own decisions about what works or doesn’t work for her…without assistance from the government or calls to discipline anyone.
Radical, huh?
– The ever magnificent Amy Alkon.
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Well my Brother went Durham in the ’90s Me and our mate Mike went to this party there on the last night of the proms. It was all fellas singing “Rule Britannia” and taking a lot of poppers and other substances. They were all posh and in DJs. Me, Chris and Mike just exchanged glances and went for a kebab.
My point is if it ain’t your scene just leave.
With the horrendous abuse to which women are subjected on campuses all around North America and Europe, it’s a wonder nobody has still proposed segregated schooling as a matter of social justice.
If Cristina’s idea is implemented I foresee a big rise in transgenderism
Poshos from public schools are boring company at Uni, but they are a good source of drugs.
Being one myself, poshos from public schools were always my preferred company: the chaps passed out on better wine and the totty were far more sexually adventurous.
What space would be safer for women than a segregated campus?
“If Cristina’s idea is implemented I foresee a big rise in transgenderism”
It matters not, PeterT. If the man says he’s a woman, a woman he is and entitled to be part of the vibrant segregated campus. He wouldn’t be a threat to the accosted women.
When I arrived at Manchester university I found my fellow students largely* to be insufferable tossers** and so spent my time hanging out with a group of rough-arse local carpet fitters who I’d found re-carpeting my room one day.
* With a few notable exceptions, who are still my friends now.
** I accept in hindsight that I might also have been an insufferable tosser back then. In fact, I was.
Perry,
You have clearly never been to parts of Gateshead on a Saturday night. It is two litre bottles of cider but the lasses will do anything. I have had to run away once or twice.
I believe you Nick, but I doubt any of them could quote from ‘Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded’, whilst contemplating what to do next. And although I imagine many of those fine hale lasses from Gateshead had more tattoos than teeth, I bet none of them had a discrete ‘tat on the inner upper thigh saying “Donatien” on one side and “Leopold” on the other 😉
Running away was never an option.
Cristina, that last comment demonstrates a remarkable, and frankly surprising, degree of credulity.
Laird (re Christina’s comment), whenever the _literal_ meaning of a remark diverges from my own wise and mature view of whatever its subject is, I consider the explanation to be sarcasm if I can; this habit no doubt speaks to my vanity.
Christina may of course be being not wholly humorous when her words imply that this hypothetical ‘safe’ campus will be populated by the two groups of persons: those claiming implausibly to be women, and those who are “accosted women” – unless of course ‘accosted’ was a typo/spell-check-completion for something else. 🙂
“Cristina, that last comment demonstrates a remarkable, and frankly surprising, degree of credulity.”
Laird, that comment demonstrates a remarkable, and frankly surprising, degree of credulity. 🙂
Niall, LOL
Well, OK Perry. I’ll bite. You might have noticed I never play “Auf Wiedersen Pet” here. I shall not start. But I do feel I have lived a life on both sides of the tracks and if there is one thing, just one thing that fucks things over for the poor (however defined) it is government at so many levels and in so many ways. I slept with a woman in Leeds and she had a council flat (nicer than mine that I was paying for!) and she freely admitted she got that because she had been physically and mentally abused by her parents and further freely admitted this was a lie and that her parents had been utterly in on the gig. The idea of lying that you beat your child in order to get them a flat is alien to me. That is what government turns folks into. Or allows them to be.
And yeah that was a “safe space”. All girls in it. Except four, not seven as in my gaffe although they were a terrace on the appropriately Dickensian named Meanwood Road.
As to means of learning. I have recently been clearing out my shed (Augean stables time!) and I found a notebook which I hope the cops don’t ever see. It has my financial analysis of running dodgy things. I did this when I played Hardwar – a computer game. People have done chokey for less. Yeah, I have killed a fair few pixels in my days but that is not yet exactly against the law. Give it time. And of course I double-dealed with Klamp-G and the Lazarus Family. I have used my NeoTiger to ram a Hawk Moth of the Skinners into a tunnel wall and dove and pitched-up and hammered the bastard in the ventral. Got $500 for that antic.
I have learned a lot playing games. The idea that the government is in charge of all edumacashion is vile. Not just vile but incorrect.
I am rambling. Sorry.
Niall, if Cristina’s remark was intended as sarcasm I must confess that it eluded me entirely. We dullards apparently need better clues.
Perhaps Cristina’s proposal could be adopted but adapted so that lady students may study in a convent-type institution, but on secular lines, they’d be nun the worse for it.
I find myself in furious agreement with you, good sir.
But my point was not that there was any less willingness to do anything regarding Posh Totty versus Gateshead’s finest, but rather that some of the Posh Totty I have known probably had a wider understanding of what “anything” actually meant 😉
Laird, the use of phrases like social justice and safe space and the implicit tolerance for transgenderism (whatever that is) was intended as a mockery. 🙂
Mr.Ed, I think the idea has merit. If the harebrained women populating the campuses keep complaining about men being men and, at the same time, behave like crass men themselves, the best solution for the whole lot of useless idiots is to have segregated schooling. That way they don’t have to suffer undesired male attention (!). I’m not sure, however, about men’s opinion regarding the proposal.
Many (most?) colleges used to be single-sex. And of course, since most were male, all-women’s “sister” colleges sprang up nearby. Think Harvard-Radcliffe, Yale-Vasser, Columbia-Barnard, Rutgers-Douglas, etc. Once upon a time that was the norm, but of course it was “discriminatory” so ultimately all (or nearly all) are now co-ed at the insistence of feminists. Who now aren’t happy with what they have wrought. The irony is palpable.
Cristina, your proposal would also serve to protect the men from contracting some dreadful male-flesh-eating disease.
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Mr. Ed.
Have you been accompanying Mr. Gray to his Toastmasters’ Club meetings?
Your writings lately indicate that the spell of the pun is upun you, and now you have become quite upun about it.
It would be fun to say that such as you are unpunny, but I can’t as it’s not true. :>))
True, Laird. And then women complain that men do not understand us. Not even we understand ourselves!
Julie, both would be better off in segregated universities.
We are not about understanding, we are about feeling 🙂
Alisa, LOL
Good post Perry.
My problem is that I DO understand women. This means that while I love them, I don’t especially like them. And when I explain this to them, they end up disliking me.
Perfectly understandable.
Of course you do, Kim – it is we who do not understand you: what is there not to like?
LOL Alisa.
Actually, if I ignore the biting sarcasm for a moment: I’m easily understandable. I live my life according to my own desires, beliefs and purposes while on a lifelong voyage of exploration and discovery. Those who wish to join me on that voyage may do so, or not: it’s their choice, and I am perfectly okay with their decision, whatever it is.
The thing is that most men are like me, give or take a little. What women don’t understand is that in the long run, nothing they do will change that.
Dislike beginning in 5… 4… 3… 2…
Hmm… You sound like an ordinary man,
who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance
to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants. An average man you are, of no eccentric whim,
who likes to live his life free of strife,
doing whatever he thinks is best for him. Just an ordinary man… 😀
Shuddup, Eliza.
I’d rather dance all night.
Oh, why can’t a woman be more like a man?
At my age, the only thing I can do all night is sleep.
Yep, that’s all I can do at your age as well.
On behalf of women folk everywhere, I’ll have the last word, dammit!
See, likable.
LOL!!!
Being the lone-wolf misanthropic asshole that I am, I’ve always found the common (in Latin, “vulgar”) desire to withstand torture and humiliation as a rite of passage into a uni or military tribe, or sub-tribe, to be the lowest of pathetic human desires.
Now, aren’t I a bright ray of sunshine! LOL.
Well, you know that women are equal to men in every way, which is why they should have special protection, special treatment, and safe spaces where free expression is disallowed. And of course only women incapable of negotiating a fair commiserate wage for themselves are qualified to be CEO’s of multi-million dollar corporations, right? It only stands to feminist SJW reason…which…unfortunately for them ALWAYS ends up contradicting itself in some absurd way.
Make that commensurate not commiserate.
“Commiserate wage”, lol.
Thailover,
‘Commiserate’ works too.
*grin*
Yes, Ed is doing edceptionally well at sprouting nunsense, but not at my club! I am the one mandatory club excentric, kept on to prove how tolerant the club is.