The story they tell seems to be that “people who think they are white” tricked everyone else into believing that races are real. It’s analogous to the Marxist concept of false consciousness. Ironically it ends up making white men sound even more awesomely sinister by assuming they have the power to plant a mind virus in all of humanity. As Norm Macdonald said, “White men are so stupid. The stupidest thing the smart people ever did was giving them all the power.”
I think it's more like they believe that the characteristics of blacks are genetic but the categories we divide people into based on them are arbitrary. Or something like that.
I wonder if teachers and museums staff get bored at repeating the same old "pale and stale" history. Their boredom metastasizes into resentment so they concoct hate history (history is all bad, filled with bad people, and you are bad if you don't listen and respect to them).
As a fat guy who has lost and regained weight many many times and finally become vaguely normal sized for a decade, but now finds himself drifting upwards, I have to tell you:
Man, it ain't easy.
I can see the appeal of giving up for a while and trying to convince yourself it wasn't meant to be, and maybe it would be ok for the world to not treat you like a piece of shit just because you are physically unattractive.
Okay, but did you ever promote yourself on the basis of being fat, as Ms. Penney did, or demand society admire you for your girth?
I suspect not.
She frames her fatness victimhood using Marxist gobbledygook. If she would state her case more clearly, she wouldn't be entirely wrong: beauty standards are in part socially constructed. There are societies where more fat = more good. She could move to one of those societies if she really believed those social constructs were better. But by unfortunate coincidence, the societies that have those more fat-favorable beauty constructs also come with certain downsides. (They are mostly in Africa.)
We're in the soft people part of the cycle. We've also apparently abolished scarcity e.g. these people make good livings for art nobody actually likes.
This site focuses on the irritation created by intellectuals. It creates an illusion. Real intellectuals can be swell people. And anti-intellectuals are no treat as a group either.
When it comes to racism and hair, the worst racists are black women. They spend hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars every year straightening out their hair and adding color. The Afros of the 70s are out. Apparently Black is not Beautiful.
"[My] art practice confronts collective knowledge production’s ability to normalize the horrors of history through standardized visual formats while simultaneously elevating the obscure."
A pretty good self-description, IMO.
Penney's "art practice" *is* an instance of collective knowledge production.
Normalizing the horrors of history -- Penney proclaims that "hair" is the key intersection of race, culture, and identity that should and does shape our perceptions of style, beauty, and resistance. Those are pretty rancid ideas, arguably a pretty horrible way to look at history. As a prideful grift, it's incrementally horribler.
Just happened to visit the Smithsonian’s AAM two weeks ago. Been there lots of times over the years. Noticed that a lot of the great art that I was used to seeing there had been replaced; also noticed that a lot of the little art-related narrative plaques had become less factual and more opinionated. Heard about this, but had never encountered it. It’s disturbing, and insidious.
"Her ongoing research focuses on language translation and standardization policies in museum database structure and wall labels. She is interested in the ties between colonial tendencies and mimetic expectations in form and content relationships, prioritizing the impact on Black American and African contemporary artists"
So she's a DBA who stumbled upon a grift? I would love to read a paper by her on how third normal form is the white patriarchy's way of both deconstructing blackness and enforcing white power structures. While it is black people's nature to be mercurial and multifaceted, the white man's third normal form requires defining the black as the sum of its characteristics and requiring each characteristic to exist in a single place in the white power structure.
Secretary of Defense Hegseth has just announced that all those members of the military in combat arms will now be held to the same standards of physical fitness, regardless of sex.
This has provoked screams (mostly high pitched) from those who have, until now, assured us that females and males were of course being held to the same standards.
I suppose that sex, along with race, is a sociological construct, with no basis in biology.
I suppose I am wasting my time, but I have to point out that men and women in the armed forces have had different fitness requirements not just for years, not just for decades, but for generations. This is not secret knowledge.
Physical Fitness Assessments are done once a year. This includes the Physical Readiness Test, medical screen and Body Composition Test.
Fitness requirements vary by both sex and age. If you fail your PFA you are placed on a mandatory fitness program and restricted in advancement. If you fail a second time you are separated.
Here are the PRT requirements for young men and women:
The only thing Hegseth's order will do, if it is enforced, is increase the severe personnel shortage the armed forces are already suffering from. We will lose flight surgeons, hospital corpsmen, meteorologists, ONI country specialists, interpreters and translators, air crew and all sorts of experienced specialized ratings that can't be replaced simply because there are no qualified male civilians willing to serve and those men in those occupations already serving are...already serving. They can't fill two billets at once.
I find it curious that Hegseth didn't ban non-citizen green card holders from joining the military. Once a green card holder joins up, his relatives, even if they entered the country illegally, are eligible for the Parole-in-Place program, which allows them to remain in the US and apply for an expedited green card. Maybe that's how Hegseth plans to solve the military's personnel shortage -- fill it up with foreigners.
I guess it's better to have born-south-of-the-border Jaime Gonzales serve than Alice Armstrong, whose ancestors arrived in British North America before the Revolution and has ancestors who fought for this country going back to the French and Indian War.
When women were admitted to Ranger School, Special Forces selection, armor crews, artillery, etc., we were assured that the physical assessments and requirements for those positions would not be watered down, but would be retained and applied equally to applicants of both sexes.
That hasn’t been remotely true. If I was unclear, I apologize. I realize that there have always been varying requirements for physical fitness, both for sex and for age.
There have never been such varying requirements for age in Ranger school, for example. Until the last few years.
I would be somewhat sympathetic to a fat person who says the world of abundant calories they inhabit is a challenging environment for them that they struggle with - after all, there certainly are people who are genetically more prone to retaining weight than others thanks to their ancestry since calorie scarcity has been the norm for most people over history. It's even fair to say cis white men have specifically targeted you with a variety of additives in cheap food sources intended to make sure you eat a lot, since they make up such a hugely disproportionate share of scientists and businessmen in the food industry. On the other hand, you should also thank them for the abundance of good things in your life as well, since they have disproportionately contributed to that too. Like establishing and maintaining the museum and art ecosystem that allows wordy bodies like these ladies to earn an independent living in the modern era.
I used to represent several artists some good who made a living and one who wasn’t that good but sold millions. All had one thing in common. They produced art that someone liked and bought. If they didn’t the artist starved or became a bartender.
Come to think of it, none were fat and most were white men. Several were from Canada so do they count? No, none were First Nations or anything else that qualified them for government money.
If race does not exist, it logically follows that rac-ISM does not exist since the latter's existence is dependent upon the existence of the former.
The story they tell seems to be that “people who think they are white” tricked everyone else into believing that races are real. It’s analogous to the Marxist concept of false consciousness. Ironically it ends up making white men sound even more awesomely sinister by assuming they have the power to plant a mind virus in all of humanity. As Norm Macdonald said, “White men are so stupid. The stupidest thing the smart people ever did was giving them all the power.”
I think it's more like they believe that the characteristics of blacks are genetic but the categories we divide people into based on them are arbitrary. Or something like that.
Astrology is bunk yet a large number of people base decisions on it every day.
I wonder if teachers and museums staff get bored at repeating the same old "pale and stale" history. Their boredom metastasizes into resentment so they concoct hate history (history is all bad, filled with bad people, and you are bad if you don't listen and respect to them).
History isn’t boring, but the gobblygook I just read is pretty boring.
> "bodies attempting to survive and thrive in a world which frequently neglects to support, protect, recognize, or heal them."
She recognizes she has a fat body, but she is doing nothing to heal it.
It's hard to help ("support") people who don't want to be helped.
As a fat guy who has lost and regained weight many many times and finally become vaguely normal sized for a decade, but now finds himself drifting upwards, I have to tell you:
Man, it ain't easy.
I can see the appeal of giving up for a while and trying to convince yourself it wasn't meant to be, and maybe it would be ok for the world to not treat you like a piece of shit just because you are physically unattractive.
OTOH, I have long recognized that is unrealistic.
Okay, but did you ever promote yourself on the basis of being fat, as Ms. Penney did, or demand society admire you for your girth?
I suspect not.
She frames her fatness victimhood using Marxist gobbledygook. If she would state her case more clearly, she wouldn't be entirely wrong: beauty standards are in part socially constructed. There are societies where more fat = more good. She could move to one of those societies if she really believed those social constructs were better. But by unfortunate coincidence, the societies that have those more fat-favorable beauty constructs also come with certain downsides. (They are mostly in Africa.)
No, my cope never rose to that level. I much prefer self loathing. You have no idea what a time saver it is.
Watch out, Mauretania!
She's from Memphis which is culturally African.
“Unraveling intersections “; “addressing power dynamics “…certainly essential work that deserves taxpayer funding.
Perhaps we could consolidate management of this funding with tertiary sewage treatment and solid-waste disposal?
We're in the soft people part of the cycle. We've also apparently abolished scarcity e.g. these people make good livings for art nobody actually likes.
Pol Pot was right about intellectuals
Yes. First round up anyone who wears glasses. Then round up anyone who eats sushi. Then round up anyone who has seen a shrink.
Does watching Frasier count?
Owning a television would count.
As would not owning a television
.
This site focuses on the irritation created by intellectuals. It creates an illusion. Real intellectuals can be swell people. And anti-intellectuals are no treat as a group either.
When it comes to racism and hair, the worst racists are black women. They spend hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars every year straightening out their hair and adding color. The Afros of the 70s are out. Apparently Black is not Beautiful.
Are they all mentally ill, or just pretending to be to get the grift?
George Castanza teaches-- 'it's not a lie if you believe it'
For her biosketch, Ms. Penney wrote:
"[My] art practice confronts collective knowledge production’s ability to normalize the horrors of history through standardized visual formats while simultaneously elevating the obscure."
A pretty good self-description, IMO.
Penney's "art practice" *is* an instance of collective knowledge production.
Normalizing the horrors of history -- Penney proclaims that "hair" is the key intersection of race, culture, and identity that should and does shape our perceptions of style, beauty, and resistance. Those are pretty rancid ideas, arguably a pretty horrible way to look at history. As a prideful grift, it's incrementally horribler.
Standardized, stereotyped visual formats -- check.
Elevating the obscure -- check.
That's four for four.
Well, we can't deny at least one of her (Ms. Penney;s) claims. She is most definitely fat.
Just happened to visit the Smithsonian’s AAM two weeks ago. Been there lots of times over the years. Noticed that a lot of the great art that I was used to seeing there had been replaced; also noticed that a lot of the little art-related narrative plaques had become less factual and more opinionated. Heard about this, but had never encountered it. It’s disturbing, and insidious.
"Her ongoing research focuses on language translation and standardization policies in museum database structure and wall labels. She is interested in the ties between colonial tendencies and mimetic expectations in form and content relationships, prioritizing the impact on Black American and African contemporary artists"
So she's a DBA who stumbled upon a grift? I would love to read a paper by her on how third normal form is the white patriarchy's way of both deconstructing blackness and enforcing white power structures. While it is black people's nature to be mercurial and multifaceted, the white man's third normal form requires defining the black as the sum of its characteristics and requiring each characteristic to exist in a single place in the white power structure.
Secretary of Defense Hegseth has just announced that all those members of the military in combat arms will now be held to the same standards of physical fitness, regardless of sex.
This has provoked screams (mostly high pitched) from those who have, until now, assured us that females and males were of course being held to the same standards.
I suppose that sex, along with race, is a sociological construct, with no basis in biology.
I suppose I am wasting my time, but I have to point out that men and women in the armed forces have had different fitness requirements not just for years, not just for decades, but for generations. This is not secret knowledge.
Physical Fitness Assessments are done once a year. This includes the Physical Readiness Test, medical screen and Body Composition Test.
Fitness requirements vary by both sex and age. If you fail your PFA you are placed on a mandatory fitness program and restricted in advancement. If you fail a second time you are separated.
Here are the PRT requirements for young men and women:
Men --
https://i.imgur.com/sparCD4.png
Women --
https://i.imgur.com/scaAwWs.png
The only thing Hegseth's order will do, if it is enforced, is increase the severe personnel shortage the armed forces are already suffering from. We will lose flight surgeons, hospital corpsmen, meteorologists, ONI country specialists, interpreters and translators, air crew and all sorts of experienced specialized ratings that can't be replaced simply because there are no qualified male civilians willing to serve and those men in those occupations already serving are...already serving. They can't fill two billets at once.
I find it curious that Hegseth didn't ban non-citizen green card holders from joining the military. Once a green card holder joins up, his relatives, even if they entered the country illegally, are eligible for the Parole-in-Place program, which allows them to remain in the US and apply for an expedited green card. Maybe that's how Hegseth plans to solve the military's personnel shortage -- fill it up with foreigners.
I guess it's better to have born-south-of-the-border Jaime Gonzales serve than Alice Armstrong, whose ancestors arrived in British North America before the Revolution and has ancestors who fought for this country going back to the French and Indian War.
Thanks.
When women were admitted to Ranger School, Special Forces selection, armor crews, artillery, etc., we were assured that the physical assessments and requirements for those positions would not be watered down, but would be retained and applied equally to applicants of both sexes.
That hasn’t been remotely true. If I was unclear, I apologize. I realize that there have always been varying requirements for physical fitness, both for sex and for age.
There have never been such varying requirements for age in Ranger school, for example. Until the last few years.
I would be somewhat sympathetic to a fat person who says the world of abundant calories they inhabit is a challenging environment for them that they struggle with - after all, there certainly are people who are genetically more prone to retaining weight than others thanks to their ancestry since calorie scarcity has been the norm for most people over history. It's even fair to say cis white men have specifically targeted you with a variety of additives in cheap food sources intended to make sure you eat a lot, since they make up such a hugely disproportionate share of scientists and businessmen in the food industry. On the other hand, you should also thank them for the abundance of good things in your life as well, since they have disproportionately contributed to that too. Like establishing and maintaining the museum and art ecosystem that allows wordy bodies like these ladies to earn an independent living in the modern era.
I used to represent several artists some good who made a living and one who wasn’t that good but sold millions. All had one thing in common. They produced art that someone liked and bought. If they didn’t the artist starved or became a bartender.
Come to think of it, none were fat and most were white men. Several were from Canada so do they count? No, none were First Nations or anything else that qualified them for government money.