Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[benji]

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1752872397311447407

Benji, when does the jelqing tips subforum open?

It may be obsolete, please understand:
https://twitter.com/bryan_johnson/status/1752728500107378832

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

UPDATE:

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/educate-me-the-perilousness-of-the-coffee-date-yay-or-nay.815790/page-5?post=119010219#post-119010219

It's fine. Can disagree with Feminista Jones on this. Her replies of having the men pay as reparations and that dinner dates is what she's advising just seems excessive. Like you end up in the same ballpark as conservatives.

Her dating advice before has been more reasonable.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/girl-no-feminist-28407742 (2019)

https://www.patreon.com/posts/girl-no-feminist-28407742

*This article focuses on dating between women and cismen and is not meant to be exclusionary of others. Considering, though, that most online dating interactions are between women and cismen, and cismen continue to be the biggest threat to the health and safety of all women, I decided to focus this guide on those who are actually still afflicted with the desire to date them.

May want to get hetro dating advice from someone else.

Are you talking about Ms Jones or Messy?

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/educate-me-the-perilousness-of-the-coffee-date-yay-or-nay.815790/page-5?post=119017224#post-119017224

Like, yeah it's kinda racist, but this also doesn't actually inform the discussion in any way. Nothing really changes as a result of this revelation--it doesn't put a new spin on what's in the OP or expose some innate hypocrisy or show us that the source isn't worth trusting at all. Yes, these tweets are really shitty but what is the purpose of bringing them up here? We already know she has super toxic takes on dating, it's right there in the OP for everyone to see and nobody is defending her at all. It's just dunking for the sake of dunking, it doesn't really add anything you know? It doesn't continue the discussion in any way.

I know most will not understand this, but this was the first thing I thought:

[benji]

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[benji]

In 2014, she launched a global anti-street harassment campaign (#YouOKSis)
...
Another user, Mia McKenzie, suggested turning the phrase she had used to check in with the woman—"You OK, sis"—into a hashtag campaign designed to raise awareness and encourage people to ask victims of harassment if they need help.[6] Hundreds of people began using the hashtag

[benji]

FEMINISTA JONES: I think that Black women are being asked to fight for everyone, change everything, fix everything, solve everything, take care of everything, sooth people. Mammy was expected to be this wise person, right? I feel like we're still positioned in this place of everything that you've learned about modern-day posits, whatever you learn from Black women, we didn't have to teach you. We shouldn't have to be the ones responsible for teaching you these things. We should not be the ones who make you feel better about things when they don't go your way. We're not here to soothe you. We're not here to nurture you. We need our own soothing and our own nurturing, and yet we've been positioned in this place where people are kind of scurrying behind us and hiding behind us waiting to see what we'll do and how we're going to fix this mess, rather than them having to do the work themselves.

At the beginning of the book, you talk about allyship and how the word "ally" is a symbiotic relationship versus true giving. In my mind, I was like, maybe "advocacy" might be the better word for those who stand up for marginalized communities. How do you believe white people can advocate for POC in the most authentic way?

The first thing is amplifying the voices of people of color and women of color. Hit the retweet button. Something I've talked about is like, are you comfortable with having Black women's faces or Black people's faces on your timeline? Do you always feel the need to add something to it? Are you afraid that when people come and troll your Twitter timeline, all they're going to see is Black faces? Or do you feel the need to add something to that, even if it's something that's already been said? It's infantilizing. It's insulting.

The other thing can be, you know when I look at someone like Heather Heyer. Unfortunately, she was killed for being this advocate for Black liberation as a white woman. She happened to show up and be in a space where she was needed to…her presence was needed. Her voice was needed. Her body was needed, and unfortunately, her life was lost by some maniac out there. But, she was somebody who wasn't conveniently trying to extract herself when things got uncomfortable. I think that's why I challenge the issue of allies. What I would say on social media, is don't remain quiet when you see stuff going on. If you're calling someone out, you're calling them out because they're wrong, and you're risking also being attacked. So, while they're attacking you and calling you all kinds of names for being a white person, they're also calling me names. The fact that you're there with me because you think that I need to take on this person. That's part of it. An ally can easily, in my opinion, just be like, "Well, this ain't my fight. I ain't going to deal with it."

How do you feel like fatigue has affected activism on Twitter?

I…I am tired. I have to definitely say that I am tired. People are constantly scrutinizing every word that you type. They are waiting for that gotcha moment to try to just discredit everything that you have ever done just by one thing that they don't like that you've said. There are people that are just.. they will orchestrate, coordinate, like slander campaigns. The tiring part for me is just kind of like why are you so invested in trying to harm me? I'm not the enemy. Can you put all that energy towards fighting white supremacy?

[benji]

This book is filled with Black feminist theory and resources to find out more about leaders. Throughout, you talk about the Combahee River Collective: Why do you think its so necessary to examine their work in our current social state?

When we were conceiving the idea for this book, I was like well how do I make this like relevant to right now? We were coming up to the 40th anniversary of the Combahee River Collective Statement (1977).

...

Black women have a rather unique way of communicating with each other and sharing knowledge and creating knowledge. The Combahee River Collective kind of shows us what it's like, like literally what's it's like for us to come together and brainstorm and imagine a new world, and imagine a new society in which Black women are not facing these issues that we've been facing for centuries. They were imagining a world and a landscape in which Black women were free.

They created a blueprint?

When they put it in writing, they basically did. All we gotta do is just read it and go along with it, and build that world and create that world. I think that there's some of us who are doing that, and have been doing that and trying our best to create this world in which Black women are free. I keep referencing them because I feel like we don't have to start from the bottom. We don't have to reinvent the wheel.

We realize that the liberation of all oppressed peoples necessitates the
destruction of the political-economic systems of capitalism and
imperialism as well as patriarchy. We are socialists because we believe
that work must be organized for the collective benefit of those who do
the work and create the products, and not for the profit of the bosses.
Material resources must be equally distributed among those who create
these resources. We are not convinced, however, that a socialist
revolution that is not also a feminist and anti-racist revolution will
guarantee our liberation. We have arrived at the necessity for developing
an understanding of class relationships that takes into account the
specific class position of Black women who are generally marginal in the
labor force, while at this particular time some of us are temporarily
viewed as doubly desirable tokens at white-collar and professional
levels. We need to articulate the real class situation of persons who are
not merely raceless, sexless workers, but for whom racial and sexual
oppression are significant determinants in their working/economic
lives. Although we are in essential agreement with Marx's theory as it
applied to the very specific economic relationships he analyzed, we
know that his analysis must be extended further in order for us to
understand our specific economic situation as Black women.

This is literally, like literally like literally, all it says "imagining" that "world" or whatever the fuck she's talking about. 90% of the "statement" is rambling about how they're Black women.

[HaughtyFrank]

RE: "I can't believe people fell for that woke kindergarten grift"

Also RE: "Here is this great thinker who believes that coffee dates are a ruse by red pilled man to dehumanize women. Also she's racist but that's ok"

[benji]

They seriously think some of the dumbest people and scammers are super smart. I never get tired of it.

[Boredfrom]

Royalan think she is smart because she posts endlessly in social media. Is always their social media what shapes their opinions than genuinely understanding those issues.

[Boredfrom]

RE: "I can't believe people fell for that woke kindergarten grift"

Also RE: "Here is this great thinker who believes that coffee dates are a ruse by red pilled man to dehumanize women. Also she's racist but that's ok"

Well dang, I had no idea an "Antiracist Baby" adaptation was under way and now I'm sad that it's dead.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/variety-netflix-scraps-several-animated-projects-including-ava-duvernay’s-‘wings-of-fire’-and-‘antiracist-baby’.584519/

[benji]

Royalan think she is smart because she posts endlessly in social media. Is always their social media what shapes their opinions than genuinely understanding those issues.

IT'S THE ALGORITHMS says guy who assembled and oversees a bad-faith staff full of people who decide everything based on social media trends of the moment.

[BIONIC]

What’s the worst on the nose grifter name: Jessie Gender or Feminista Jones?

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

Am I a red pilled chud for asking this?

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/educate-me-the-perilousness-of-the-coffee-date-yay-or-nay.815790/page-5?post=119017224#post-119017224

Like, yeah it's kinda racist, but this also doesn't actually inform the discussion in any way. Nothing really changes as a result of this revelation--it doesn't put a new spin on what's in the OP or expose some innate hypocrisy or show us that the source isn't worth trusting at all. Yes, these tweets are really shitty but what is the purpose of bringing them up here? We already know she has super toxic takes on dating, it's right there in the OP for everyone to see and nobody is defending her at all. It's just dunking for the sake of dunking, it doesn't really add anything you know? It doesn't continue the discussion in any way.

I know most will not understand this, but this was the first thing I thought:

no this was also the very first thing I thought

[benji]

The name is Feminista Zeldasamus Gender, chud.
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[BIONIC]

The name is Feminista Zeldasamusisblackandinawheelchair Gender, chud.
                   /

Fixed

[kaleidoscopium]

Weird how that thread is still going, if it wasn’t from a mod they would have locked it now for platforming a known racist.

[BIONIC]

I feel like a coffee date is a perfectly fine way to like, have a chat with someone in person without wasting an entire night on an expensive dinner when there's no guarantee either person is going to be into the other. There's no weird hangups, there's no frustration if it doesn't work out. I've gone on several coffee dates where I was like "yeah, I don't think this is gonna happen" and I've been on at least a few where the same thing happened from the other side, and that's fine.

It's a hell of a lot better than that time I took someone out for dinner for our first date and she literally just watched the Olympics on the restaurant's TV the entire meal and barely said ten words to me the entire time. Like, shit, if you didn't want to go out, just say no.

There unfortunately are people who will go on a date simply to get a free meal out of someone. I've been on the receiving end of that and it did not feel great. I felt so used.

Oh, I'm sure. That was thankfully the only time that happened to me during my dating days, at least. It just felt like such a colossal waste of my time. But I have a general philosophy on dating that everybody is somebody's bad date (god knows I fucked up a lot of dates in my early twenties, lol), so that was just one of the times I rolled a nat 1 on the dating die. Like the time I told someone the reason I got interested in music performance was Final Fantasy VI and her response was just a disgusted "...oh". Didn't bother talking to her again after that night, lol.

As it stands, if I ever start dating again, I feel like a low-stress test date where we can figure out if we even want to spend real time with each other without the expectation of a large amount of wasted money just seems like the ideal situation for both parties. If it doesn't work out, it's an hour of our time and $15 down the drain instead of an entire evening and a $60-70 check.

[benji]

Why is he talking like this is some kind of new invention? Expensive evening dinners have never been the only method of dating.

[benji]

This is probably smoother than every PlanetSmasher "date" was before he settled down alone at his parents:

[Hap Shaughnessy]

I told someone the reason I got interested in music performance was Final Fantasy VI and her response was just a disgusted "...oh".

[Potato]

RE: "I can't believe people fell for that woke kindergarten grift"

Also RE: "Here is this great thinker who believes that coffee dates are a ruse by red pilled man to dehumanize women. Also she's racist but that's ok"

Well dang, I had no idea an "Antiracist Baby" adaptation was under way and now I'm sad that it's dead.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/variety-netflix-scraps-several-animated-projects-including-ava-duvernay’s-‘wings-of-fire’-and-‘antiracist-baby’.584519/

They always seem disproportionately upset about children's media being cancelled.

Like they're children or something...



I wonder what the reason is?

Spoiler: The reason (click to show)(click to hide)

   

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Wait. Messy tried to pull the dossier and got slapped down?  

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I prefer any version that is not voiced by Tara Strong.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-prefer-harley-quinn-as-a-villain-anti-hero-or-hero.815712/page-2?post=118987503#post-118987503

You sure changed your tune!

I jest, I jest.

It's actually really creepy and weird that you decided to go through my post history to see if I had ever praised Tara Strong in the past. Like, what even sparked that?

It's especially weird since it completely ignores the fact that since I made that post over a year ago, she outed herself as an Islamophobic monster who openly supports genocide. Which, you know, might cause someone to change their views on a person.

[Nintex]

We're cancelling cartoon voices now?

[Potato]

We're cancelling cartoon voices now?

We've been cancelling random people in the street for years now.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-prefer-harley-quinn-as-a-villain-anti-hero-or-hero.815712/page-2?post=118987503#post-118987503

It's actually really creepy and weird that you decided to go through my post history to see if I had ever praised Tara Strong in the past. Like, what even sparked that?

It's especially weird since it completely ignores the fact that since I made that post over a year ago

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

But I thought going through the history of others to cancel them is perfectly fine? 

[Polident]

There was a discussion a few pages back about how some users are nutty but seem genuine or whatever. I agree, mostly. Most people can be helped. The quasi religious “they will stumble, they will fall, but in time they’ll join you in the sun” thing.

Some, like that guy, have a real darkness in them. The type of gormless weasel who wouldn’t think twice about participating in heinous acts. People smell it on him, somehow, through the internet.

[benji]

But I thought going through the history of others to cancel them is perfectly fine? 

That's for people on the wrong side of history.