Friday Spotlight: Blue Ink

Blue Ink

At first I thought this guy was a baby Strategerist. And he is when it comes to race and sex. But for all his focus, unlike Strategerist he has some quirks of his own as well.

Bambi is not anti-gun propaganda:

“Bambi” is from the point of view of the baby deer.

It was aimed at children who lose their mothers — which was way more common back when the book was written and movie was produced.

The hunter shot and killed the deer offscreen — it isn’t even shown. All you hear is the gunshot.

When Bambi’s father tells him his mother is gone, he doesn’t say how or why. Not one word of condemnation toward hunters. Just “your mother is gone; time to grow up, Bambi.”

There was also a forest fire. No histrionics about environmentalism or “only you can prevent forest fires.”

Both the fire and the hunting were presented as Things that Happen in Life.

Hardly anti-hunting “propaganda.”

What is it with Freeper misogyny?

Chicks love doing this. Arguing with the Hells Angels at the next table, then looking at YOU to go fight.

Just wow.

So a bunch of guys nearly beat someone to death with skateboards.

This looks like a job for the Free Republic He-Man Woman Haters!

My favorite reply:

Oh,, and God help the hapless BF if he happens to be a Soldier, Marine, off duty cop, taking karate lessons, has a concealed gun, etc etc. Because the chick will almost always screech this fact out loudly (so the guys at the next table will know how badly they are about to get beaten).

Ive seen it, many times. Don’t blame the messenger.

Noting that men have something to do with pregnant single women...

Young women have also failed to pre-empt the very situations that lead to pregnancy, such as avoiding one-on-one private intimacy situations by “dating” within a group setting and setting up other established boundaries.

Oh, please. Men — including the posters on this thread — will not “date” women who won’t have sex.

So what should the women who get pregnant do? Never go out on a date in the first place? Abort? What would fix this for men so morally outraged about unwed motherhood?

Could it be... men should stop having sex with women they’re not married to? That would solve the pregnancy thing. Still, that just CAN’T be the answer... let’s think of something else, quick!

Let’s talk about my friend’s slutty baby mama who bought a jet ski with HIS child support money! What? No, HE’S not the slut... she is. Because she had the baby, not him. Duh.

He even gets colonialism:

Moreover, Zulus and Xhosas were barely even aware of the agricultural and mineral wealth they were squatting on, so in what sense could you say that it was unfairly taken from them?

Say your elderly aunt has a Monet hanging in her bathroom. She has no idea what it’s worth. But you do and you grab it. And if she objects — she likes it hanging there, not interested in selling — you take it at gunpoint.

Then you push her out of her house, because she needs to go live in the elderly zone with the rest of her kind. And you move in. But you allow her to make a living scrubbing your toilets, paying her five bucks a month from the proceeds of the sale of her painting. But she has to be out of her former home and back in her “zone” by sundown.

That is the recent history of Africa. The history of the CURRENT generation now in their thirties and older.

Why shouldn’t modern-day enslaved Africans have rolled the dice on civil war? Any sensible person, once they gathered sufficient strength and numbers, would have. Sure, it’s ended badly, with Mugabe et al in charge. But that’s not our business. And the losers in civil rebellions don’t get to dictate the terms of their defeat.

But...there's a long-running conspiracy against Southern Literature, except for all the exceptions:

Mississippian John Grisham is viewed by the East Coast literati with utter contempt. Actually, not even contempt — just snickering. A lawyer! From Mississippi! What law school did you say he went to? Hilarious!

Faulkner’s acceptance was hard-won and grudging in academia. They can ignore his racist-redneck-Southerness because he’s looked on not so much as a Southerner but as a member of the Fraternity of Drunk Mad-as-a-Hatter writers. Hemingway’s brother if you will. And they looooooooove Hemingway. And drunks.

Other Southern women writers — McCullers, Welty — are safe from the wrath of the East Coast syndicate because they simply don’t sell like Harper Lee and are not such a threat to their cultural hegemony. Nobody else comes close to the numbers she sells every year.

And he has old man rage against disrespectful youngsters:

I was in the emergency room with my mom a couple years ago (she’s better now).

I was astonished when the 22-year-old zit-faced orderly said, “Jane, I’ll be wheeling you up to X-ray now.”

In my head: “Jane?! JANE?! She’s 78 YEARS OLD! SHE’S MRS. ____ TO YOU, CART BOY!!!”

Of course I didn’t say anything at the time, fearing he’d somehow retaliate by leaving her in the hall or something. Later on I assuaged my outrage by including the inappropriate patient address in my scathing Yelp review of the ER service. HA!

And, of course, Disco is conservative:

You know who just hated, hated, hated disco?

The seventies hippies. They had a stranglehold on music and radio with terrible, awful, horrible bands like Led Zeppelin.

Disco was people who finally had enough, saying, “Um, we like to dance. All of us, boys and girls. We like to dance with each other. Like our parents did. And we’re going to dance. We’re going to dance to this music that has a BEAT and not a SHRIEKING GUITAR.”

Loser hippies who couldn’t/wouldn’t dance, or learn to dance, or just hated dancing, led the anti-disco charge. And they lost. Led Zeppelin was permanently dethroned. Disco is still around, although it’s called “Billy Jean” by Michael Jackson, or hip-hop, or house music.

Disco is music you can dance to, nothing more and nothing less.

You lost, hippies!