There's, oh, the existential anguish in failing to understand the alt-right but first we need to understand George Carlin and semantics. There is absolutely no horrible thing America cannot euphemize to make it sound, well, not so serious and, well, maybe even cuddly.
One example George Carlin uses is that of the term 'shell shock' which was widely used for the WWI / WWII eras and people knew what it meant since you can't subject a man to endless artillery barrages without expecting it to demolish him. In our generation, that became PTSD and no-one has any idea what the fuck it means anymore. Even li'l Buffy gets PTSD these days after she has seen a spider.
Ed: you can blame that on incompetent psychiatry
Oh, no, psychiatry is highly competent ... but it's also highly opportunistic and thanks for addicting the children to Ritalin, huh?
In America, NAZI became neo-NAZI because, well, they're really not quite as bad as the first ones, are they. However, they're worse and more dangerous since the minds of the neo-NAZIs are simple and stupid. Neo-NAZI is no longer in vogue and we're going with Alt-Right now, Hillary Clinton's abomination of euphemistic crap in trying to pass off those vicious bastards as anything more than walking hate crimes waiting to happen.
The Guardian: Lena Dunham: 'I can't even understand what the alt-right is saying'
However, we also note Hillary Clinton was a vicious hate crime and she had already happened (e.g. Libya). We came; we saw; he died. She went past hate crime to full out war criminal.
After supporting that, we're deeply suspicious of feminists who say they are not understood. I'm not sure why any would expect to be understood after pulling that stunt.
Lena Dunham, with Jenni Konner: ‘It’s when I thought I was being misunderstood … by other women who shared my politics that things were really hard.’ Photograph: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival
Political matters are never hard to understand. It's the mindless intolerance which is incomprehensible.
Girls, which Dunham directed, wrote and starred in, has been lauded for its groundbreakingly complex and multifaceted representation of women – but through its six seasons, as Dunham and co-creator Jenni Konner discussed at a Tribeca film festival event on Wednesday night, it was never far from criticism.
Lovers and haters of the show would hash it out in a seemingly endless array of thinkpieces, comment threads and forums, which ranged from thoughtful (if angry) critiques of the show and its creators’ white privilege brand of feminism, to straight-up misogynistic vitriol. Most, the pair tried to ignore. But some hit home.
- The Guardian
One example George Carlin uses is that of the term 'shell shock' which was widely used for the WWI / WWII eras and people knew what it meant since you can't subject a man to endless artillery barrages without expecting it to demolish him. In our generation, that became PTSD and no-one has any idea what the fuck it means anymore. Even li'l Buffy gets PTSD these days after she has seen a spider.
Ed: you can blame that on incompetent psychiatry
Oh, no, psychiatry is highly competent ... but it's also highly opportunistic and thanks for addicting the children to Ritalin, huh?
In America, NAZI became neo-NAZI because, well, they're really not quite as bad as the first ones, are they. However, they're worse and more dangerous since the minds of the neo-NAZIs are simple and stupid. Neo-NAZI is no longer in vogue and we're going with Alt-Right now, Hillary Clinton's abomination of euphemistic crap in trying to pass off those vicious bastards as anything more than walking hate crimes waiting to happen.
The Guardian: Lena Dunham: 'I can't even understand what the alt-right is saying'
However, we also note Hillary Clinton was a vicious hate crime and she had already happened (e.g. Libya). We came; we saw; he died. She went past hate crime to full out war criminal.
After supporting that, we're deeply suspicious of feminists who say they are not understood. I'm not sure why any would expect to be understood after pulling that stunt.
Lena Dunham, with Jenni Konner: ‘It’s when I thought I was being misunderstood … by other women who shared my politics that things were really hard.’ Photograph: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival
Political matters are never hard to understand. It's the mindless intolerance which is incomprehensible.
Girls, which Dunham directed, wrote and starred in, has been lauded for its groundbreakingly complex and multifaceted representation of women – but through its six seasons, as Dunham and co-creator Jenni Konner discussed at a Tribeca film festival event on Wednesday night, it was never far from criticism.
Lovers and haters of the show would hash it out in a seemingly endless array of thinkpieces, comment threads and forums, which ranged from thoughtful (if angry) critiques of the show and its creators’ white privilege brand of feminism, to straight-up misogynistic vitriol. Most, the pair tried to ignore. But some hit home.
- The Guardian
Unknown problem here when the movie stirs controversy. If that's a problem why not just shoot sequels to "The Brady Bunch" and bypass controversy altogether.
Here's the dime store Rockhouse shrink since Lena Dunham is not such a striking figure with a nondescript haircut, nondescript clothes, rejection of make-up, and rejection of traditional femininity in general seemingly. The confusion may not be entirely in her audience since there seems a measure of it in her as well.
The Rockhouse has not screened "Girls" and, frankly, we probably won't since focus on the miseries of any subset of people has faded into inconsequence relative to a global phenomenon. We do wish her well with it since any young hotshot can always use a break but we're really not interested.
Note: Saudi Arabia is on the Human Rights Commission in the United Nations. America does shitty things to women but it can't possibly match those bastards who will whip a woman for daring to speak.
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