1. Seventy-four percent of pregnancies to women in the Navy are unplanned.
2. The geography of drunk driving.
3. A meta-analysis of research on changes in the timing of puberty. According to at least some of the research covered here, puberty age declined and then increased over the past half century.
4. Tips for NYC cab drivers aren’t keeping pace with increased fare.
5. Mexican drug traffickers funding narcolimosmas, narco churches:
Drugs and gods are an ancient couple in Mexican society; narcos are no strangers to giving alms to the Catholic church in bids of redeemer, and to playing up the image of an Escobar-ian “benevolent social bandit,” as Dr. Howard Campbell, professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso and author of Narco-Propaganda in the Mexican Drug War: An Anthropological Perspective, would put it.
This helps drug lords maintain the cover of the populace who are used as a buffer between the narcos and the centralized policing agencies. (h/t Matt Forney)
6. Jim Goad on All My Babies’ Mamas.
7. Vox Day on the feminized church.
8. Women pens an “open letter” to a guy who rode past her on a bike and asked/told her to smile. She wrote the letter online where the guy most likely will never see it instead of telling the guy to STFU or something. Women and feminists never get called out for the keyboard warriors that they are. The feel so helpless out in the real world that they work in the virtual to change it.
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Some of the reponse I’ve seen to feminist not fighting in the real is that ” we’re woman, men won’t listen to us”. It’s a bullsh*t excuse but from what i’ve seen not an excuse afforded to men.
Goad’s essay on AMBM is pretty sharp. It’s too plausible so it must be squashed. My friend’s dad had 5 kids with 4 women, and my friend always said his dad should have changed his name to McDonald’s since he was setting up franchises on every block. Watching the trailer and reading up on the premise of AMBM, AMBM seems like an attempt to do the ‘black’ version of a common white reality show. “Flavor of Love” was another reality show that was the talk of R&B morning radio stations due to its display of awful behavior. Flavor of Love was just a black version of the Bachelor, and Flava said he was the “BLachelor”, which was funny. AMBM felt like the production company doing a black version of those big white family shows, but it’s a few years too late because the victim agitator groups are wise to the Flavor of Love-I Love New York antics. Maybe they can set their sights on Oxygen’s highest rated show “Bad Girls Club” that displays modern girls at their nadir, especially the young black or mixed women who usually get kicked off the show for fighting halfway through a season.
I hate it when someone, always an older man, tells me to smile. I think men, who say this, are annoyed when women aren’t instantly friendly with them. I could see Jerry, PA’s old friend from CH, telling a woman to smile.
#6) on AMBM. I feel reality TV like this is the very tippy-top best of our culture because it brings the realities of Gov.-assisted class to those in the fantasy thinking SWPL bubble. Watching AMBM, Jerry Springer, and Maury Povich should be mandatory for obtaining a voter card. Workers in law enforcement, medicine, and social work understand the effects of BigGov. assistance on the recipients. All other voters think in fantasy.
Aside from my applause, AMBM will be misleading. Markers of reality would include Shawty Lo rarely having contact with his mamas and children, and Shawty Lo would “make a living” by latching onto a new BigGov. assisted woman and caring for her babies by other daddies. The task for ghetto men is to be sexy enough to latch onto a woman with BigGov. assistance. If they are not sexy, they stay living with their own mothers.
The South still has a huge number of dry counties, or counties where you can buy only beer/wine in limited amounts with no liquor-by-the-drink even at restaurants.
Speaking of reality TV, has anyone besides me ever noticed that the “Divorce Court” TV show is virtually 100% black? And it’s been that way for 15+ years, starting back before the whole reality show explosion that commenced with “Survivor”.
I agree with jz. I think AMBM was shut down because proponents of the welfare state know it doesn’t help their case.
I was disappointed to hear that “All My Baby Mamas” was cancelled. Contrasting that show with West Virginia-based “Buck Wild” … my guess is that the latter would inadvertantly be better for poor whites’ image — in the sense that redneck hijinx woudl be cool and fun to watch. In contrast, seeing ten black women with illegitiate babies woudl be boring and depressing.
In other words, “Buck Wild” (like the Italian-American-themed “Jersey Shore”) is probably going to be vibrant, in the true and unironic definition of the word. Steve Sailer turned the lefties’ favorite compliment for NAMs, the word “vibrant,” into a joke. But there is a real basis to what “vibrant” signifies. In essence, Vibrant refers to any culture marked primarily by undisciplined masculine energy.
In this sense, Buck WIld — if it centers on male characters — will be vibrant, like Jersey Shore. “All My Baby Mamas,” with its stench of downmarket estrogen, would have been he exact opposite of that.
Not only Divorce Court but “The First 48″ the A&E show about homicide detectives.
This same thing happened in 2007 with Charlie Murphy’s internet-to-TV show “Hot Ghetto Mess” on BET. The same crowd of people cried racism and they changed the name to “We got to do betta” and also toned down the subject matter. BET put out a few episodes and then dropped the show after a few actual sponsors started complaining under pressure from various poitical groups.
The answer for the navy of course will be to build nurseries into Navy Ships or have a nursery ship, called the USS Nursery. The navy can also have gynecological clinics on board ships, give all pregnant females maternity leave while the seawoman is pregnant and of course during delivery and recovery. Then there must be some kind of compensation for the children and the mother during birth, rearing, and schooling of the children. Taxpayers won’t mind and if they do well fuck’em, they can get someone else to do their navy.
I think PA has a good point. I watched a long preview of AMBM and it was rather boring. Shawty Lo isn’t a particularly charismatic person and was hardly in it anyway. It was mostly a bunch of late 20′s- late 30′s black women sitting around eating, talking and sometimes arguing. This is what mostly female reality shows usually end up as, hence they get boring quickly.
Camlost,
That’s the audience the show it likely geared to.
It was mostly a bunch of late 20′s- late 30′s black women sitting around eating, talking and sometimes arguing
While I still had my TV, I watched “Sister Wives.” That show always hovered on the precipice of devolving into catty fat woman mama-drama, but it managed to stay fun on the strength of Kody Brown’ (the polygamous husband) boyish charm and good looks.
I’m glad AMBM’s was shut down —— but not because it’s demeaning and I think it should be censored; it’s because I believe the show’s intended target audience, who I see at work everyday, would take to it and glorify it and relate to it and —- gulp! —– emulate it. And I don’t want that end result.
So, it’s not out of some hypocritical and contradictory sense of cultural censorship that I don’t want the show to never see light; rather, I agree with author Goad —— it’s too real to not take seriously!
If I was Kody Brown I’d spend all my time with the only skinny wife.
I don’t think that many pregnancies in the Navy are unplanned. The women REPORT them as unplanned, but often the women get pregnant on purpose to get out of required sea duty. It happened a lot when I was in. People would do anything to avoid being stuck on an aircraft carrier for 6 months at a time, and women were no exception.
@nitrcrit,
I agree with you that, to some demographics, reality TV legitimizes, even glorifies degenerate behavior. That’s the downside risk. But I also believe that to other demographics, seeing degenerate behavior is an awakening of reality. That’s the upside benefit. I believe the benefit outweighs the risk.
When did we start using the plural “women” when speaking of the singular “woman”?
Greatest line of 2013 so far goes to Jim Goad “…dysgenic clan of mayonnaise-chugging lard-bottomed rural tards.”
What Donny said.
I know I’m sort of a newbie here, but I’d like to note that I think there are some incredibly interesting article posts here, racially related and not, and that one of my early favorite kind of posts are these ‘links’ posts —— but: sometimes it seems they’re too good in that they’re too many links per ‘Links” post…. I mean, I could go off with a half-dozen comments re. the drug-cartel-built-churches link alone, but was distracted by the other provocative material; in this case, being familar with Goad’s earlier writings and his book, I opted for that line of public commentary……
My humble suggestion: spread it out and around a bit!
nikcrit,
glad you brought that up. i’m torn on this. i could turn this into a Andrew Sullivan/Instapundit type blog where I put up single snippets of every interesting link I come across. But it would move so fast that I’m afraid there wouldn’t be enough time for commenters to get to each one. I like to have several hours between posts.
“i could turn this into a Andrew Sullivan/Instapundit type blog where I put up single snippets of every interesting link I come across. But it would move so fast that I’m afraid there wouldn’t be enough time for commenters to get to each one. I like to have several hours between posts.”
Well, I suppose that would lead to more traffic, but I think even fewer posts would be ideal; they’re provocative and well-chosen enough to get lots of hits on their single topic; from a visitor perspective, I like about two posts per-day tops; that way you get thoughtful commentary with some variety, but with enough familiarity with the commenters that you feel your engaging with more than just a anonymous avatar….. it’s tricky, cuz what’s ideal for cmomenters and visitors isn’t always ideal for the one running the blog.
true. as i’ve increased the number of posts per day, i have less time to read through comments. sometimes that’s a good thing because hashing out comments is time-consuming. but on the other hand, as you hint, it turns the blog into a less intimate place. that’s why 2008/09 Roissy was probably the best venue in the history of blogdom.
As a woman, I will tell you that being told by a stranger to “smile” is the most infuriating, patronizing interaction, much worse than the “hey baby” or “I like your t-ts” sort of thing. At least the comment on one’s physical attributes is sincere and spontaneous, albeit often crude. The “smile” command is deliberately intended to humiliate a woman because any response she makes is deflected with, “Oh, he was only being cheerful, friendly, nice, etc.” when it is no such thing, it is deeply hostile. If you are a man, try having a stranger command you to “smile” and see how fast you want to punch him in the face.
^ who cares, you’re a woman. you’re here to amuse us and if you’re lucky bear our children. we say smile you say how high
I’ve had people say “smile” to me at times when I was in a particularly bad mood, and my response was “no” or “bite me” or something to that effect..and I never thought about it for the rest of the day. Sometimes you ladies create a lot of drama inside your head for really minor BS.
@Lara: “It was mostly a bunch of late 20′s- late 30′s black women sitting around eating, talking and sometimes arguing…”
Yep. Just like all those “Real Housewives of [fill in the blank]” and “Basketball Wives” (though nearly all of the characters are not technically “wives”). Nothing but unemployed, overdressed, aging females yaking and complaining non stop, usually all at the same time, and about nothing. Or so I’ve heard, not that I’ve ever watched it. Don’t be tardy to the party!
@Donny: “People would do anything to avoid being stuck on an aircraft carrier for 6 months at a time…”
A childhood friend of mine actually overslept at some girlfriend’s place in Norfolk, VA and the USS Kennedy left w/o him. He got latrine duty on the base for a couple of months. Other than that nothing happened, but I guess he was never going to be up for Admiral anyway.
@ E Rekshun: I get what you are saying, there are other ways to avoid sea-duty. But if you miss a deployment, I believe it’s an automatic Captain’s Mast (article 15), in which case the punishment could be almost anything (from restriction to base, reduction in rank/pay, and even dishonorable discharge) so your friend got lucky he didn’t get a more sever punishment.
A lot of young people get in and after the reality sets in that they are going to be doing some menial job on a ship for 12 hours a day because they weren’t smart enough to get the MOS they wanted…well, that’s when they start trying to figure out how they can get out without getting a dishonorable discharge. That’s why a lot of those “unexpected” pregnancies happened on the first deployment… at least it seemed to happen a lot when I was in.
People do tell men to smile as well. I don’t see what the big deal is.
The big deal is that a-holes use it as part of their douche repertoire on a regular basis and it’s annoying. She was analyzing a social phenomenon that women experience on a regular basis and she was right. No need to get involved in the discussion if you don’t understand it, it just is. Sometimes a complaint is justified.
#4: “n purely monetary terms, average tips are up 8 percent to $2.29, from $2.12, on fares paid by card. It is the tip percentage that has fallen, because fares have increased at a far greater rate.”
So cab drivers are in fact getting bigger tips than they used to; the increase just isn’t as high as the insanely-high fare increase. Coming from the NYT, why am I not surprised at this bit of statistical flim-flam?
LBD,
At work recently a woman told me to smile. Since I was working I kind of just smirked at this weird person who for some reason cared what I was doing with my face muscles, and I smiled in the process and she probably thought I was giving her what she wanted. If it was on the street and I was in a bad mood I would have either laughed at her or told her to mind her own business. Regardless, I would have handled it at the personal level and moved on with my life. Women who complain about being told to smile are then blaming society for their belief that they can’t stand up for themselves. That sounds like a personal problem, though, and not really something that merits an “open letter”.
I hate also hate it when people tell me to smile. I oncehad a supervisor who told me to smile. I told him it wasn’t in my job description.
Now there’s a guy at work who is always telling me to “cheer up.” But it doesn’t bother me because he’s the office curmudgeon, so he usually follows it by deadpanning “It’s only going to get worse”. He’s actually pretty funny, although you probably have be there to understand why,.
C.R.: Thank you for your thoughtful comment. I would like to say, though, that I disagree that it isn’t something that “merits an open letter”. People blog on the internet in order to express a wide variety of thoughts and opinions. I don’t think it’s fair to characterize her as obsessed just because she chose this phenomenon on which to comment for a few paragraphs. She got it off her chest, and I think many other people recognized that they have had a similar train of thought under similar circumstances.
@anonymous 4:39: Listen, sonny, I’m old enough to be your grandmother. If there’s any jumping and smiling to be done, you’re the one that’s going to do it.
9. Were the genders reversed, this would be an easy shit test to pass, simply ignore and stay in frame, if you go into “Hey you kid get offa my lawn” mode you fail. Passive aggressive people gonna, uh, passive aggress, so toughen up a little.
Smiling is two things. It reflects bliss in its ideal form, but is more often a submissive behavior, an imitation. Telling someone else to smile is presumptuous and vague, but as always, depends on the intent.
The endless imitative smile, the theatre of the absurd.
Among primitives, barring teeth is aggressive. And a slick new york smile is appealing. A classic Roosevelt held tilt, and check out these teeth.
Owen Wilson had a great new york smile. He had problems, wit his bent nose.