Thursday, July 8, 2021
#gorenoise vol. 101
Pet python slithers into neighbour’s home, bites man sitting on the toilet
After feeling a "pinch", the elderly man discovered an albino python in his toilet. Luckily, the Austrian man only suffered some minor injuries in his genital area.
Tuesday, July 6, 2021
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 345
We are as a society—and by “we” I mean virtually all of us on the planet —brought up to believe howling absurdities, ridiculous impossibilities, and insupportable malarkey from our very first moments on Earth. We have massive lie-delivery systems that are the core institutions of our society. And we have created cultural barriers to even questioning those fabrications which are most deserving of skeptical scrutiny. For example, we regularly label as sacred those ideas that are least able to stand up to scrutiny. (Heck, we have folks in our society who can’t even handle the idea that the history we teach our kids might actually be based on what happened, you know, back in the past.)
Our parents lie to us. Our churches, synagogues, and mosques lie to us. Our schools lie to us. Hollywood lies to us. Madison Avenue lies to us. The media lies to us. Our leaders lie to us. Our friends lie to us. (They do. Going to the gym couldn’t hurt.)
What is more the lies they offer are not always big lies (e.g. Buying a particular brand of beer will not make you more attractive) while some are just gross oversimplifications (e.g. The Founding Fathers did a lot of good... but they were not the figures carved out of marble we were sold for years). Some have a seed of truth within them but are gross distortions (e.g. Columbus did not discover America). And some of the time we invite the lies because they open the door to enjoyment (e.g. Keto? All the bacon I can eat? I’m in).
But one of the key reasons we buy into so many small lies is that we have been force fed so many big ones. I mean really big ones. I mean ones that make the current Big Lie look like one of those low-calorie snacks that is actually a high-calorie treat shrunk to a smaller size and repackaged.
We Still Won’t Admit Why So Many People Believe the Big Lie
Monday, July 5, 2021
Awwwwww Yeah vol. 226
Hollywood is never honest about rape. Unattractive people get raped every day and yet, we never see the cinematic depictions of the rape of unattractive people. Not once. How do I know? Let’s start with the anecdotal: A Hollywood producer (who will remain nameless here) maintained an extensive library of every rape scene seen in films he could get his hands on. Thousands. No ugly people.
This is far from accidental. Hollywood plays with rape. Rape as titillation. Rape as foreplay. Rape as plot device. Rape as wish fulfillment.
Which is to say even the word “rape”, insofar as it evokes the rape of other people, rarely involves people who people don’t want to imagine being raped and who, if you’re one of those people now imagining it, will always imagine the victims to be attractive. Because if they weren’t, well who, after all, would want to rape them?
And when I say “people” here is it necessary to say that I really mean “men”?
You Are Getting Sleepy: The Disturbing Case of the Risible Rapist
I spent three weeks with Bill Cosby. And, total disclosure: I wish him ill.
Saturday, July 3, 2021
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