It has been at least a year since I took a deep dive into the published works coming from the grievance studies departments. Back when I did regular Xirl Science segments, I spent a few hours a month perusing the various journals and aggregators, looking for the most amusing items. If that is your intent when reading something like Hypatia, the journal of feminist philosophy, you are spoiled for choice.
Perhaps it has been the long break from reading this material or perhaps they have continued to evolve, but the material seems different now. On the one hand, it is less flamboyantly nutty than I remember. There are far fewer articles that read like satire on the grievance studies rackets. They still exist, but it is clear that the trends have changed, and outrageousness is no longer the in-thing.
Instead, the work is more seriously crazy, as in claims that time itself is a result of oppression and whiteness. They appear to have moved on from claiming that Western culture is a conspiracy by the pale penis people to oppress embodied coloredness and people of uterus, to questioning reality itself. Even though it is loaded with insider jargon, the point of many papers is to question space-time.
This makes sense when you think about the basis of the project. What started out as a belief that culture creates people, so therefore those who “control” the culture create the people to their benefit, must eventually arrive at the conclusion that reality itself is merely a product of cultural control. Therefore, the victim of this can only escape by escaping the reality manufactured by the creators.
There is, of course, a strong whiff of the old gods in this. The culture is the creation of the white patriarchy in the same way the natural world is the creation of the Old Testament God. Alternatively, it is a corruption by white men in the same way Odin and his brothers killed the true creator in order to rule the world. The point of this “scholarship” is to return to the original intent of creation.
In other words, all of this stuff, like the liberal project that proceeded it, operate within the old mental frameworks inherited from both the Christian framing of existence and the pre-Christian framing. They discarded the essential bits and have set about producing things to fill the void of the supernatural. The woke are those most in need of the old gods searching for a modern version of them.
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- Introduction
- Chrononormativity (Link)
- Queerness (link)
- Anality (Link)
- Science Inc. (Link)
- A Nation Of Therapists (Link)
- Oppressive Rocks (Link)
- Board Broads (Link)
- Xirl Eggsploitation (Link)
- The Bogeyman (Link)
- Bad Date (Link)
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I hope they decide to leave physical reality en masse.
I see what you did there.
I also clicked on the link to “Hypatia” and gave it a look. I thought it WAS satire. I think Scott Adam’s framed it best when he pointed out that people are watching the same events, they are just different movies.
Sniff, xirl science is what won my heart initially….then the racism
Come for the patriarchal oppression, stay for the intrinsic racisms!
LOL! Freud is “German” ? All those intellectuals ran away from Germany to US were “German”, you say ? Come on man, don’t be this cucked and pathetic. It is one thing to suggest that JQ is being overrated sometimes but this is just denying reality and acting like we are all stupid. Really embarassing…
If Freud is German, then those new residents of Springfield, OH are as American as Feline Pie!
Come on, man, how many neon signs, red carpets, and GPS coordinates to that hamster wheel did you need?
Freud was the original “Neocon?”
Freud, as he and Jung sailed to the USA: “Little do they know we are bringing the plague.” https://muse.jhu.edu/article/40708
I had forgotten that Jung was with Freud on the ship, which complicates my simple narrative that Freud’s ideas were the plague.
Freud and Jung can be studied as a personification of Chosen-European relations. Jung coined the term “collective unconscious” and wrote in 1934, “The ‘Ary@n’ unconscious has a higher potential than the J3wish.” https://jewishcurrents.org/carl-jung-and-the-question-of-anti-semitism
A while back I was hanging out with my psychologist friend, and he was talking Freud-Jung. I said something like, “Look, it’s simple, we don’t need to waste breath and brain cells. Freud was Jewish, Jung was Gentile.” He seemed a little caught off guard, makes sense because talking ethnicity is taboo these days. Nowadays he’s talking the evils of multiculti and the failure of diversity. We all come to it in our own way lol.
Well, after creaming his own father Chronos and the Titans, Zeus got busy oppressing Hera and the other girls, while trying to nail every human chick he could get his hands on.
See? Men never change.
Speaking of nailing every chick, we have a Rooster that jumps the bones of every one of our hens from the time he gets up, till he settles on his perch at night. Grabs them by the neck to do his business. We should probably change his name to Clinton.
From dawn til dusk? The only name possible for such Olympian effort is Zeus!
Clinton got his charm watching ducks, even more brutal than chickens.
Ducks also have weird twisted penises, so I’ve read. Or was that Epstein?
A chick I know went to a very liberal college in the 90s. On campus there was a pond full of ducks that the students liked to watch. She said that during a certain season, the male ducks would pursue reproduction with the females and it was far from consensual or gentle. She said the human women were mad at the men during that time.
The Germans overproduced weirdos and cranks?
The Germans are the worst people in the world?
Freud and the other intellectual crazies are German?
Are you just trying to get a rise out of your listeners?
Wait, wait, wait just one minute.
Kamala explains xirl economics all the time, and it makes perfect sense.
How dare you!
I think all of this could have been avoided if these nerds had been bullied properly in school. When The Revolution comes, there should be a Director of Bullying who ensures that all schools have a Designated Bully to ensure that nerds know their role.
Personalities are determined at conception. The purpose of Designated Bullies is to become char-broiled human hamburger meat when the nerds activate the PETN [explosives] in the Designated Bullies’ iPhones & Androids & Pagers. You can’t alter inalterable personalities. Personalities gonna personalize. Very very brutally. PS: The mere idea of masturbatoriums, and masturbating to death the shiksas in the idyllic summer camps, is nothing but Freudian Projection wielded upon the entire race of German Christians at large. Germans are [by nature] so classically inclined that they can’t even do porn correctly. Have you ever seen German porn? It’s simply embarrassing. Germans… Read more »
On one hand, that would remove xirl science. On the other hand, that would create a million Bill O’Reillys.
“Bully” implies masculinity, and this is rank feminism. Granted, women are by far the worse at pecking one another into social compliance, but take it much further into all realms of life. In fact, the abundant soy boys have indeed been bullied relentlessly by feminism.
All governments will need a Ministry of Wedgies and Swirlies.
Bless you Z for bestowing us with Xirl Science. 👍🏻 It’s what a commentariat craves.
These people need to be sent to those prisons in El Salvador.
This line from the linked Tweet was pretty good:
I see it another way. Western civilization took a wrong turn two centuries ago, when it based the entire culture in two absurdities: Freedom: All men should be free (completely impossible in any possible universe, the freedom of one man is the lack of freedom of another man, my freedom to have property is your lack of freedom to enter my property, for exemple). This is a contradictory statement, similar to “all circles must be squared”, “married bachelors exist”, etc. Equality: All men are equal (this could be possible in a possible universe, but it is obviously false in this… Read more »
If you examine things, they turn out to be surprisingly discoverable. Philosophy, Reason, basically.
Time points in one direction. History, i.e., Progress. The Hebrew thing.
Combine the two and you get Christianity, but Faith goes against Reason and Progress. That appears to be a contradiction.
Supposing we didn’t give credit for ourselves to Athens and Jerusalem, it might not be such a problem. Not even a third way, just that we’re something different. Idk, just my opinion.
Related:
AINO’s, “Brides of the State,” cohort has a high probability of dooming us to life in a communist hell:
https://unherd.com/2024/08/the-march-of-kamalas-brides/
Lactating chickens! Zman, this might be one of your best shows ever!
Update: oh gob, oh gob, “our rescue chickens”!
This is a serious issue. Living beings who have been designated at “hatching” as belonging to the class Aves are being systematically “pigeonholed” out of the class Mammalian. It is clearly intersectional lactatonormative classism which these brave lactating chickens are fighting against.Truly a ‘class’ struggle.
I’m very troubled about how quickly I came up with this crap.
R. I. P diddly
[ anticipatory, there now is a slavery angle ]
“…the material seems different now. On the one hand, it is less flamboyantly nutty than I remember. There are far fewer articles that read like satire on the grievance studies rackets.”
Never having read the trash in these “journals” it’s hard for me to judge. But could it be that these journals are cleaning up their act a bit? Accepting articles that are “flamboyantly nutty” has exploded in their face since those articles are used by the “non-woke” opposition to discredit their cause.
“Instead, the work is more seriously crazy, as in claims that time itself is a result of oppression and whiteness. They appear to have moved on from claiming that Western culture is a conspiracy by the pale penis people to oppress embodied coloredness and people of uterus, to questioning reality itself. Even though it is loaded with insider jargon, the point of many papers is to question space-time.” These morons learnt about “social construction” and have run with it ever since.You’re probably familiar with the Sokal hoax of 1996. The author of the piece eventually came clean and admitted it… Read more »
Yes, the majority of pomos are shrieking mad. But we must take them seriously because they’ve successfully inflicted their madness upon the Western world. Much of what we stare at, aghast, in Clown World, is simply the byproduct of postmodernism’s conquest of the social sciences/humanities, and its creation of change agents who’ve gone into corporate, government, media, and Hollywood, and implemented what they absorbed in college.
Yep. Just because they are ludicrous doesn’t make them less dangerous. Russians found the Bolsheviks pretty ridiculous, too, for years, as you know.
I’m all for knowing the books and getting them right because I think Whiteness™ was great and the pomos were the last great academic exemplars of it, but it doesn’t matter or help us. He got there via an unlikely path—by following his own work—but Foucault was “always already” an American-style libertarian. People who stole the bodies-and-spaces rhetoric from him (third hand) are not. Writers who cite him rarely show any understanding of his work (analogous to “woke Christians”). Knowing him tells us nothing about them, and they’re the problem. Derrida’s philosophy demands radical dissidence, but in real life and… Read more »
Whew. Z sho’ ’nuff taking one for the team. I’d hoist a flagon of ale to him, but it’s a bit early in the a.m.
Yesterday I suggested abundance was responsible for the decadence and depravity of the contemporary West. Those who replied to the comment agreed. Here’s another suggestion: social media has rocket-fueled the malignant narcissism Z described in his darkly funny podcast today. Social media is inherently feminine, and brings out the very worst aspects of it, including forced social consensus, rank madness, general bitchiness, and passive-aggressive competition. There are other factors that contribute to the magnified malignant narcissism, of course, but all of them combined are less of a factor than social media. That is not to say inane psychosis like Queer… Read more »
Social media is video gaming perfected for women.
Leftist echo chambers and right wing echo chambers share many characteristics in common, others they don’t. One thing I see, over and over, in the leftist ones that I never see in the right wing ones are posters asking “What is our opinion about this?”
Yes. People bristle when leftism is referred to as a religion, but it is and the need to recite the correct creed is always a paramount concern. It is why they do not view a 180 on a given issue to be hypocrisy or inconsistent. The Truth is whatever the consensus of their Tribe is on any given day. Right wing echo chambers have a lot of problems, too, but fear of deviation from The Truth is not among them, even though conformity is big there, too.
Jack, you mentioned the rat experiments yesterday and I’ve always been interested in exactly what conclusions could be drawn from them. They weren’t controlled experiments so although abundance may play a large role, that couldn’t be all there is to it. What happens when wild populations experience abundance in nature? There is a temporary population explosion followed by a just as rapid collapse as resources run dry. In the rat experiments there was the initial population explosion but there was also overcrowding of the population under circumstances that don’t happen in the natural world. In both cases, however, there is… Read more »
Great comment, and a lot to chew on there. I’ll confine it to these right now: Thankfully though, 100% of humans don’t accept the beliefs It comes down to who the exceptions are. Unfortunately, the percentage of Gaia unbelievers is far higher in places outside of Europe, North America, and Australia and New Zealand and the cone countries in South America. Propaganda works only on populations with the intelligence to apprehend what is being pushed along with a moral compass that drives a person to do what is perceived, even wrongly as in this case, as the right thing. Among… Read more »
The thing that is not so funny about all these articles is that we are financing them. All of these nutbags force us to pay for this BS through the government.
John Carter is the Warlord of Mars. He is a character from a book series that started with a book called “A Princess of Mars” My handle, Tars Tarkas is also a character from this series of books. He is an immortal earthling who was sent to mars by a drugged astral projection (IIRC, it’s called that). Very fun series of books.
There is someone writing a reactionary Substack under the pseudonym John Carter. Some of the posts are quite good:
https://barsoom.substack.com/
You understand that these books are works of fiction!?
My take on “questioning reality”, which seems to go along with “we are living in a simulation/computer program” (my personal take, tell me more, you have far from sealed the deal) is yet another way to flee responsibility. If we are in a simulation, it suggests either or both preordination of our behaviors or “it doesn’t matter anyway”. The shedding of one’s responsibility for one’s actions is what I get out of it, which is the baseline for quite a few poses and behaviors of people today.
I love dancing, and I love long walks, whether on the beach or downtown
Is this her bio or a personal ad?
Great show today.
This show would have been better with pictures of these freaks.
Does she like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain as well?
Is this really any different than the entire Matrix terminology, including “glitches” and “unplugging from the Matrix”
As for questioning space-time itself, physics is doing this too when it considers that space-time dies in a black hole and this cosmos itself may have began out of a black hole.
So yes, one can sanely make the argument space-time is an illusion, this entire cosmos itself is an illusion and reality is timeless.
Looks like a lot of commenters made this point before me, but I must add my 2 cents’ worth: Freud and most of the other degenerates, kooks, and intellectual troublemakers were not primarily German. They may have been living in Germany, but they were Jews first and foremost. Germany was their victim/host, which they bled to the point of cultural ruin, aka the Weimar Republic. Eventually those Jews and their descendants came to the USA, and began making the same mischief here, with the same disloyalty to the host culture (ours!) they displayed previously. The nation that produced Bach, Beethoven,… Read more »
“Looks like a lot of commenters made this point before me, but I must add my 2 cents’ worth…”. So will I. Yeah, Z, you really whiffed on that one. S.V. and several others before said it best: the vast majority of those “kooks” and “bad apples” that fled to America were NOT Germans. The genuine first-generation Germans that came here contributed mightily to manufacturing and science – men like Werner von Braun, Adolphus Busch, Levi Strauss, Johan Roebling and countless others. Worst people in human history, indeed. Maybe it was a tongue-n-cheek comment that flew over my tiny brain.… Read more »
“Anality is what you think it is”
A finishing move they had to take out of Mortal Kombat because of Nintendo’s censors?
Given the infiltration of the video games industry by Woke adherents, anality would be not only encouraged but required as a finishing move in any current and future Mortal Kombat games.
You can’t choose between male and female characters in corporate video games anymore, only “body type 1” (square-jawed woman) or “body type 2” (soy-made man).
Next stop: anality type.
(“Sasha Grey” will not be an option.)
And they wonder why it’s common for Americans to have an “anti-intellectual” streak. Mine’s a mile wide at this point. I have more respect for an unschooled hillbilly than for these over-educated loons. At least the hillbilly might have some practical knowledge to share. Talking to these Xirls risks making a person dumber – one of their nonsensical notions might get past the filter. Schools should be weeding these people out, not making mors of them.
How do we get rid of these people? I suppose we just have to wait for collapse and let nature take its course.
But how can you control matter?’ he burst out. ‘You don’t even control the climate or the law of gravity. And there are disease, pain, death –‘ O’Brien silenced him by a movement of his hand. ‘We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. You will learn by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we could not do. Invisibility, levitation — anything. I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to. I do not wish to, because the Party does not wish it. You must get rid of those nineteenth-century… Read more »
I’m with you Z. People like RFK and Musk succeeded in at least partially pulling me back in and caring about the election. Sure I hope Trump wins and we see liberal tears – while another voice whispers that it won’t matter. Feels like I’m in a Roman Triumph.
While if would be nice to see Trump win, I think he’s already performed his most useful function, which was as a catalyst. Another term, which would still be preferable to the alternative, probably won’t make a lot of difference, but could still be a lot of fun.
I disagree with Zman when he says women don’t necessarily add any value to a corporate boardroom. Someone needs to serve whisky to the men and light their cigars. And some men might appreciate a nice massage after the meeting.
I predict Mis(ter)Anthrope will be recruited to be the next chair of Cornell’s Wymyn’s Studies Department…
Ah, I’ve missed the xirl science…. I guess this show highlights the idea, (with all due respect to the female commenters here) that giving women a loud public voice, probably beginning in the 19th century, was a fair boondoggle. Paying attention to these myriad blatherings has been a huge waste of time (although often humorous lately) at best, and at worst, a recipe for disaster – which seems to be coming to fruition.