Lying in soft grass
under the old, glowing sun
Beneath the layered canopies
of the garden of paradise
I wait for the next breeze
To remind me of god
And gently brush away my burns
Paul Bullen is a cunt
Today we’re going to explore the Twitter saga of Paul Bullen, a man who believes that his definition of women’s genitalia should supersede the dictionary’s.
To introduce the character, it’s only fair to provide a bit of background:
With that out of the way, let’s get stuck in.
Stansted 15 freed – but proto-fascism still alive and well in the UK
All information obtained from the End Deportations website.
In March 2017, a group of 15 activists snipped through a fence and walked onto the apron of Stansted airport. They carefully and safely chained themselves together under the wing of an aircraft that was unjustly deporting 57 people from the country.
The aircraft was grounded, the airport was closed for an hour, and a dozen or so flights were diverted to other airports.
The 15 activists were arrested, and later sentenced with an anti-terrorism law that carries a maximum life imprisonment.
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what you thought
you thought the Plant had shown you the way
confirmed your true self
condensed your boundaries, sharpened your ego
but the Creator plays games
serving greater machinations
and you are not
immune
a used weapon
soon you will sink in tar
enjoying your reflection
in the plastic crown She gave you
“It’s women’s fault that we’re terrible men”
Even before the recent Gillette ad (and the backlash it sparked from angry “men’s rights activists” who felt personally attacked by the assertion that some men are not good role models), I was seeing this little gem being copied around on twitter:
“In America 43% of boys are raised by single women. 78% of teachers are female. So almost half of the boys have 100% female influence at home, and 80% female influence at school. Between 2009 and 2011 children from single parent households (overwhelmingly single mothers) accounted for 80% of rapists motivated by displaced anger. Toxic masculinity is not the problem. Lack of masculinity is. Meaning, we need more intact families.”
This has appeared on my twitter feed dozens of times, and now it is also being propagated on Facebook.
Let me first summarise what it’s saying, then debunk the stats, and finally expose the motives behind it.
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“Suffering is a Lie”
There’s a saying that there are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have suffered and do not wish others to suffer; and those who have suffered and believe others should go through that too.
A friend recently mentioned that there is a third type. The people who believe that suffering is not real.
These people have either not suffered themselves (e.g. through privilege), and don’t have the scope of imagination to conceive of higher realms of suffering – or they believe that the only kind of suffering that matters is their own.
I think this is a much more dangerous kind of person than the first two.
A sense-themed movie pitch
From the creative minds that brought you Birdbox, Hush, and A Quiet Place:
“unBEAKable”
A new psychological thriller set in a post-apocalyptic wilderness where SMELL IS THE ENEMY. Could you survive being pursued by a mysterious presence that YOU CAN’T DETECT WITH YOUR OLFACTORY SYSTEM?
Would YOU be able escape the forest and avoid a SCENT-LESS SLAUGHTER?
Starring Adrien Brody and Claire Danes.
Salvia
“Is that it? That’s it now, right? It’s over?”
My best friend stood up from the couch, directing his question to an unseen force above me.
In response, the universe stopped.
Oblivion is a hetero-male fantasy wrapped up in mommy issues
Warning: contains spoilers for Oblivion throughout
When Tom Cruise’s agent approached him in 2011 about starring in a new science-fiction epic, you can assume the pitch was something along the lines of “You get to fly your own spaceship, endure two different women vying for your affection, and live in a version of Earth mostly populated by your clones.”
The idea of a planet-sized ego also went over well with most audiences, and the film made a $120 million profit while receiving mostly positive reviews.
On the surface, Oblivion appears as an innocent sci-fi adventure: unwitting (but steadfast) hero discovers that world is not what it seems and subsequently frees humanity from oppression.
But it must also be included in the lofty and ancient archives of “hetero-male-sexual-fantasy posing as imaginative storytelling.”
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