#imaginary problems

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

This level of deliberate ignorance is the current state of journalism.

Not only did Chapman, a lesbian - not "queer" - woman, give Combs approval to cover the song, but as the sole writer and composer, she reaps royalties for his recording, not to mention the uptick in the already considerable exposure of her original recording and back catalogue as a whole from the interest.

“I never expected to find myself on the country charts, but I’m honored to be there,” Chapman tells Billboard in an exclusive statement. “I’m happy for Luke and his success and grateful that new fans have found and embraced ‘Fast Car.’” [..] Combs’ version has generated at least $500,000 in global publishing royalties, Billboard estimates, with the bulk going to Chapman who owns both the writers’ and publisher’s share of the song. Additionally, the success of Combs’ version has boosted Chapman’s original, with weekly consumption of Chapman’s version increasing 44% since Combs’ version was released, according to Luminate.

[ Source: Billboard ]

[ Source: Spotify ]

It couldn't be that Chapman isn't a Country singer, and that an established Country singer is going to do better in the Country charts with a Country cover. No, we have to invent tired identity politics clickbait bullshit involving a racially motivated conspiracy to concoct stories out of thin air.

Consider how much of a shot "I Will Always Love You" had in the R&B charts until Whitney Houston covered Dolly Parton's song. Surely we must conclude that Parton's lack of traction in the R&B genre until Houston's cover came along could only be due to racism against her, right?

Is this level of disempowering and demoralizing language calculated and deliberate, or inadvertent and incompetent? 🤔

[imaginarydragonling]

I know fic writers always be like refreshing the page for comments, but you ever do the same when you leave a comment?

[offmyterf]

Calling rational people terfs is a silencing tactic in the same way calling someone a coon is for disagreeing with the lyrical content of modern rap music. It is hyperbole! Stop being extra and see all sides of the equation. I consider myself left of center, but I cannot stand these crazy wingnuts (right and left) who have this dangerous obsession with absolutes and exaggerations. It's so freaking annoying. Most sane people dwell in the middle. Teetering too far to one end creates imbalance. Can we stop with the name-calling and actually have conversations?

[infpisme]

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Be it body hair, women’s lack of pockets, or films that are too long – there’s no shortage of things to pick up and beat men over the head with.

Brexit, climate change, COVID 19 deaths, the financial crisis, racism, homophobia, or even ‘the weaponisation of women’s hair’; the patriarchy and its little brother, ‘toxic masculinity’ are up to no good, yet again.

And it’s everywhere.

It’s in the cities. It’s in the streets. It’s in oceans, down the valleys and in trees above.

It’s in your breakfast cereal. It’s hiding under your bed. It’s making you late for work and leaving the milk out.

God damn patriarchy.

It’s fucking things up, for everyone, everywhere and quite literally, for all of time.

But whilst angry social justice warriors shake their fists at the sky and shout at clouds, the rest of us look puzzled as to what the hell they’re all yelling about.

Beards? Patriarchy. Bacon sandwiches? Patriarchy. Not recycling your plastic bottle? Patriarchy. The absurdity and fragility knows no bounds.

Luckily, some things are just too stupid to be offensive, and thankfully many of these things are exactly that.

And whilst I take no offence from the silliness of these articles, I must admit I may have lost braincells reading them, whilst the full body cringe has left me pretzel like and exhausted.

So, tell me, what has the patriarchy done to you?

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Don't forget skyscrapers.

When you've run out of real things to complain about.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your [tiger-repelling] rock!

Imaginary problems with imaginary solutions for non-imaginary dollars.

[commentsandstuff]

Feminist man-hating dyke can’t handle the notions that a) the overwhelming majority of the world is heterosexual, and b) men constitute about half the population, and therefore, astonishingly, men are somehow going to come up regularly when women talk about other people, just as women come up regularly when men talk about other people.

She literally triggers (complete with an alarm), then publicly shames Marge because she doesn’t hate her husband.

Ironically, and hilariously, she failed her own “test.”

[commentsandstuff]

White middle-class girls at the elite colleges and universities seem to want the world handed to them on a platter. They have been sheltered, coddled and flattered. Having taught at a wide variety of institutions over my ill-starred career, I have observed that working-class or lower-middle-class girls, who are from financially struggling families and must take a patchwork of menial jobs to stay in school, are usually the least hospitable to feminist rhetoric. They see life as it is and have fewer illusions about sex. It is affluent, upper-middle class students who most spout the party line — as if the grisly hyperemotionalism of feminist jargon satisfies their hunger for meaningful experiences outside their eventless upbringing. In the absence of war, invent one.

Camille Paglia