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Have you ever started listening to video and almost immediately start to cringe?
This, gentle readers, is precisely one of those happenings. Contained within are the soft headed feckless meanderings of some christian ministry that is ostensibly meant to “help” women by employing all (ok, many) of the viscous patriarchal tropes that afflict women in our society. This video is poorly narrated, and so thick with the stupid that I’m crowd sourcing this one out. I’m warning you now that this video is so inane it makes trying to pay your credit card bill at the bank with Cheetos look like a perfectly rational idea.
Let’s dive in though kids, the water is wet and the pickings are good.
So much fail all…in…one…spot. The only problem(?) is that there is no transcript to this trainwreck so, dedicated readers, pull your favourite quotes out of the video and let’s discuss them.
I’ll kick it off with this polished turd that starts at 0:53 in the video:
[…] “it is so sad when we see that women today are dealing with so many internal issues and because of that they will do things like dress provocatively just to get this attention from men and this power over men and thats not good, that’s destructive. ” […]
Really?
Which internal issues are you talking about buckwheat? Patriarchy? Rape Culture? Misogyny? Oh no, let’s get straight to the mansplaining that ‘girls’ (holy infantilization batwoman!!!) with issues dress provocatively because they want attention from men. Wow, you fucking nailed it. Not only that, you doubled down because you know women girls want to be treated like sex objects (because sex objects are totally regarded as humans with agency, amiright?) so they can have power over the poor hapless men.
Oh my bitter feminist rage boils with the heat of thousand suns at the pants-on-head cluelessness of this dude and his prescriptions for women. This gloweringly-flatulent ziggurat of stupidity reveals its dire thesis only a minute in, which means that of course, the remaining twelve minutes are going to be to totally awesome.
Have fun picking your quote and takedown. :)
My cynical atheist soul just went a few shades darker because of this.
“The advertising pitch says it all: “Put some Ham in MoHAMed.”
Jihawg Ammunition, based in Dalton Gardens, Idaho, has recently begun selling bullets laced with a pork coating, promising “patriot” gun owners that the bullets “will strike fear into the hearts of those bent upon hate, violence and murder.”
Consumption of pork is forbidden in Islam. The idea behind the bullets is that a Muslim hit by them would be desecrated and unable to go to heaven.”
*singing along with Bon Jovi * “Shot with a pork bullet and who’s to blame, you give humans a bad name. ”
*clears throat* – Enjoy the 80’s hair rock-out, its the happiest part of this post.
Welcome to the world in 2013. In our supposedly advanced state of civilization we have the merchants of death selling ammunition that have been coated with pork(!). The selling point being that this is Anti-Muslim ammunition, and as we well know, Muslims are known for their terrorism and hatred of bacon. Thus, even if we just wound terrorists with our bacon bullets we’re fucking him/her over because then they can’t go to heaven because they have been contaminated by the evilz pork.
Checkmate, my Muslim terrorist friends. Check-frakking-mate.
Sweet merciful spaghetti-monster, why does the bat-shite crazy come so densely backed on a Saturday morning? I’m not even fully awake. Trying to wade through how insipid this story and make sense of the awful is like trying to spread butter on your toast with the buttocks of a cat, a no-win situation for all involved. Never the less, we shall forge ahead through the thick chaparral of inanity as best we can.
Contrary to what the US news media likes to write, Muslims as a rule, are not terrorists and do not deserve the terrorist label in the first place. When we pejoratively label another human being we begin the process of making them less human and thus, to our primitive minds easier to irrationally hate. Dehumanizing people invariably leads to tragedy: see any war/genocide. And yet, we have in this shining example of xenophobia exactly the case I’m arguing against.
Putting some Ham in Mohammad – as if a bullet laced with pork will make you any more dead. Feh!
Only from a society that is full to the bursting point with nonsensical religious thought can Anti-Muslim pork bullets become an reality. These bullets exist because the fairy tale notion of heaven is so firmly implanted in the psyche of much of the United States. Ruining heaven for your enemies doesn’t win any extra points (well maybe ones rewarded for delusional behaviour), it only antagonizes them further making the pursuit of peaceable relations that much more difficult. Peace time pork bullets don’t sell very well either, so lets not count on our ‘defense industries’ to help this sad state of affairs.
The terrible worm of religion is cackling with glee when in promulgates ignorant fearful bullshite like pork bullets.
We must remember, Bacon is our friend and must never be used in anger.
The CBC Signature Series hosted by Paolo Pietropaolo forges on with A-flat major.
A little bit more on A-flat major from Wikipedia:
The A-flat major scale consists of the pitches A♭, B♭, C, D♭, E♭, F, and G. Its key signature has four flats (see below: Scales and keys).
Its relative minor is F minor, and its parallel minor is A-flat minor.
It was used quite often by Franz Schubert; twenty-four of Frédéric Chopin‘s piano pieces[quantify] are in A-flat major, more than any other key.
Beethoven chose A-flat major as the key of the slow movement for most of his C minor works, a practice which Anton Bruckner imitated in his first two C minor symphonies and also Antonín Dvořák in his only C minor symphony.
Since A-flat major was not often chosen as the main key for orchestral works of the 18th Century, passages or movements in the key often retained the timpani settings of the preceding movement. For example, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C minor has the timpani set to C and G for the first movement. With hand tuned timpani, there is no time to retune the timpani to A-flat and E-flat for the slow second movement in A-flat; accordingly, the timpani in this movement are reserved for the passages in C major. In Bruckner’s Symphony No. 1 in C minor, however, the timpani are retuned between the first movement in C minor and the following in A-flat major.
Charles-Marie Widor considered A-flat major to be the second best key for flute music.[1]
Sir Edward Elgar‘s Symphony No. 1 in A-flat major is probably the best-known symphony in that key in the standard orchestral repertoire.[citation needed] However, Arnold Bax‘s 7th Symphony is also in the same key.
A-flat major was the flattest major key to be used in the keyboard and piano sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven, with each of them using the key for two sonatas: Scarlatti’s K. 127 and K. 130, Haydn’s Hob XVI 43 and 46, and Beethoven’s Op. 26 and Op. 110, while Franz Schubert used it for one piano sonata. It was also the flattest major key to be used for the preludes and fugues in Johann Sebastian Bach‘s Well-Tempered Klavier, as flatter major keys were notated as their enharmonic equivalents.
Felix Mendelssohn, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, John Field, and Friedrich Kalkbrenner each wrote one piano concerto in A-flat (Mendelssohn’s being for two pianos); they had the horns and trumpet tuned to E-flat. Max Bruch‘s Concerto for Two Pianos in A-flat minor has its last movement in A-flat major, which is the parallel major; this concerto plays with the contrast between the two keys.
Works for stringed instruments in this key include Antonin Dvorak‘s String Quartet No. 14 and Benjamin Godard‘s Violin Sonata No. 4.
Of course not silly, and here is why… :)
Notice that unlike religious ‘truths’ we can test this stuff out empirically and thus can ascertain whether it add or subtracts to our understanding of the world around us.
[ed. Damn ytube playlist, apologies for my oversight. Correct video now embedded.]
You know those people who use their mouths but not their brains, this video is for them. The gullible fall for conspiracy theories with alarming regularity and will attempt to suck you into their own vortex of stupidity. Potholer54 has the antidote to their claims – basic research and fact checking FTW!
One of the few times that adding beer to the equation will make things better – an analogy between competition and diversity in the forest, and the supermarket.
And no, you may not have a Dude Beer. : )
I’ve almost finished Susan Jacoby’s book titled the Age of American Unreason. There are a few passages that wanted to make me stand up and cheer and qualified themselves as sharing material on the blog. Of course, I can never find them when I want to do the actual transcription, but here is one quote from the chapter on “junk thought’ stating how important grounding in scientific principles are.
“It ought to be unnecessary to have to state that scientific literacy and respect for the scientific method should not be equated with blind trust in experts and scientists and that antagonism toward evidence based science should not be confused with an entirely healthy concern about the need for ethical oversight of scientific research. But junk-thought has become so pervasive in the United States that as soon as someone criticized, say, religion-based restriction on stem cell research, the hucksters of illogic inevitably remind the public about Nazi doctors who performed cruel and scientifically useless experiments on human subjects; about Lysenkoist biology in the Soviet Union; and, last but not least, about the false and widely publicized claims of successful embryonic cloning by South Korean researches. The last were of course exposed by other scientists, because all real scientific research must be and is subjected to rigorous scrutiny by peers. That is what separates science for pseudoscience and junk thought. Without a basic understanding of what constitutes good science, neither ordinary citizens nor the politicians that represent them can hope to make thoughtful judgments separating quacks, con men, and practitioners of bad science from thoughtful experts whose advice ought to be taken seriously.”
-Excerpt from Susan Jacoby’s The Age of American Unreason. p.230
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