|
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
I thought feminist glaciology had taken the case, but I had yet to discover black feminist thought from gay whales.
Whenever you think academic wokeness jumps the sharks, it actually queers it. Courtesy of Naresh Krishnamoorti, if this isn’t a new depth, it’s certainly a new depth when measured in sea level.
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
“Undrowned is a book-length meditation for the entire human species, based on the subversive and transformative lessons of marine mammals. Alexis Pauline Gumbs has spent hundreds of hours watching our aquatic cousins. She has found them to be queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions humans have imposed on the ocean. Employing a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility, naturalist observation, and Black feminist insights, she translates their submerged wisdom to reveal what they might teach us.”
Still not sold?
“Gumbs’s narrative moves seamlessly between dolphins born in captivity and Black political prisoners giving birth behind bars, between the migratory patterns of dolphins and the Atlantic slave trade. An absolutely unique read!”
I know, you’re thinking to yourself, “Sure, Daniel, this sounds crazy but we live in an age where there’s a man in a wig who’s a fake admiral and a former nuke secretary who liked to wear dog collars and steal womens’ luggage. Do better!”
But give it a chance. Here’s an excerpt.
“I identify as a mammal. I identify as a black woman ascending with and shaped by a whole group of people who were transubstantiated into property and kidnapped across an ocean. And, like many of us, I am simply attracted to the wonder of marine life.”
And so, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, who identifies both as a mammal and a black woman, picked up a copy of the Audobon Guide and the Smithsonian Handbook, and was “confronted with the colonial, racist, sexist, heteropatriarchalizing capitalist constructs that are trying to kill me– the net I am already caught in, so to speak.”
“What I found was the languages of deviance and denigration (for example, the term ‘vagrant juveniles’ used to describe hooded seals), awkwardly binary assignments of biological sex, and a strange criminalization of mammals that escaped the gaze of biologists showed up in what would call itself the ‘neutral’ scientific language of marine guidebooks.”
And after posting about her ‘deep thoughts’ on social media about how whales are non-binary and sharks are criminalized, Alexis she wrote a “different kind of guidebook for our movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals”.
“If there was ever a time to humbly submit to the mentorship of marine mammals, it is now.”
This isn’t really about this stupid nonsense. It’s about the death of comedy.
We had these leftist crazies in the eighties and the nineties, and when they, like Karen Finley, tried this stuff, they were laughed off the stage. People refused to take them seriously. Then under the tutelage of folks like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert and John Oliver, comedy was canceled, and what was left was clapter and SNL high-school talent show skits about how Republicans suck.
And that created a safe space for…. “If there was ever a time to humbly submit to the mentorship of marine mammals, it is now.”
The thing about Communist dictatorships is no one is allowed to laugh or even enter a state of mind in which the regime’s most absurd things are mockable.
No one is allowed to even think about mocking their assigned, “I identify as a mammal” reading. At least not in public.
They say dolphins have a sense of humor, wokes don’t. They can’t afford one.
“Nature red in tooth and claw” applies to the oceans also, even if humans were not around.
Yeah, that “Krishnamoorti” broad is more whacked than a Hare Krishna, assuming those weirdos still exist. Her psychedelic ramblings are like a racist and female supremacist version of a stream of consciousness beat poem by a black tranny William Burroughs sitting on a giant mushroom and popping peyote buds while smoking a hookah full of who knows what.
I feel half deranged just having read a few excerpts of her psycho-delic delirium rant. No wonder that page has been pulled from Facebook. Even nut-jobs like her must feel regret the next day once in awhile.
She reminds me of the “ecosexual” broad who claims to be in an erotic relationship with a tree. I kid you not. I sure don’t want to see that.
I didn’t write the book. I made fun of it and brought it to Daniel’s attention through a FB post..
My bad. Sorry. I realized that after I saw the weirdo, Gumb’s,web page and Wiki entry.
Everything I wrote applies to her. She’s a whacko.
Hello Dr. Greenfield and AA, Dr Greenfield you say: “The thing about Communist dictatorships is no one is allowed to laugh or even enter a state of mind in which the regime’s most absurd things are mockable.”
Yes. And George Orwell gave us the vocabulary. We are required to Doublethink. If and when we do not, we have committed Thoughtcrime.
And AA, Re “nature, red in tooth and claw” I do want to remind you that the very first chapter of Genesis assures us that it was not created that way. All was at peace in Eden. And, famously, the Hebrew Scriptures promise us that the harmony of Eden will be restored, earthwide. Under the loving rule of the Kingdom of God, the heavenly government for whose coming Jesus taught us to pray, “the lion will lie down with the lamb”
And therein likes our hope. Isn’t the rescue promised in Genesis so close now? And how much we, the damaged children of disobedient Adam, need it.
I like your comment but you’re not taking into account the world outside of Eden, which had existed since long before.
Hello Jeff – Thanks, and yes, indeed, it was all up and running when Adam first opened his eyes in the beautiful Autumn Garden of Eden. I am assuming it was in Autumn as don’t the earliest calendars start in the Fall? And who knows how long the planet had been there, “forrmless and desolate”, before God’s spirit began to move across the surface of the waters.
But the first chapter of Genesis tells us that nature was not created “red in tooth and claw”. It ends this way: Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good…
This was not a world full of the hunters and the hunted. It was very good. It was perfect. It was paradise. And don’t both Hebrew and Christian Greek Scriptures – Old and New Testament – promise us a restoration of that paradise earthwide?
Yes, that’s true but it’s also written in Genesis:
24 And God said “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.”
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
It’s too bad about Paradise lost, though I suppose that was inevitable.
Cheers.
27 So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
I’ll bet a months wages she’s had a tuna sandwich..
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the new winner in the ever-popular “Dumb As A Rock” category. Congratulations to her for her latest achievement!!
Yes, she’s as stupid as she is full of it, and that’s as stupid and full of it as it’s possible for a human being to be. What a bigoted hate monger. And she can tease her hair out as much as she wants, she isn’t black, she’s mixed race and she only fools other stupid people. Of course, stupid people all want to be fooled into thinking reality matches their stupid beliefs. Lefties. What wastes of human protoplasm.
And Michael, how the heck did you get your avatar on here? I fail every time I try.
I’m obviously not Communist because I found her and her premise hilarious! Joseph McCarthy could have saved himself a lot of time, back in the day, by weeding out commies with “A guy and a dolphin walk into a bar…”
A mouse rode a dolphin into a bar. They were told, “We don’t serve Mickey Fins.”
A homosexual, moslem and communist walked into a bar. The bartender said “What can I get you, Mr Obama?”
Feminist glaciology? What is that? Frigid chicks? I thought they were a myth.
see if you can make it through 30 seconds
That’ll be a hard pass, Daniel. I ran into plenty of that nonsense at law school.
Thank you for writing about it. Just reading the quotes gives me a headache.
Happy New Year!
I had to skip ahead to the bit where she said “glaciers have rich social and cultural context” and only made it 3 seconds after that.
In French glacier is masculine and therefore glaciers are part of the patriarchy. They must be destroyed to restore balance to the planet by feminizing them, which is to turn them into water. That makes more sense than what this chick just said.
Sounds like a Disney movie to me.
Disney probably optioned the rights
A “meditation,” lol. BS unchained ahead. “Deep thought’s by Jack Handey,” has been superseded by a gay black woman. Wow, has it really been that long since I watched SNL?
Real life has long ago made SNL irrelevant.
Not to mention “The Babylon Bee,” which is indistinguishable from Dirtbagocrat/left-wing reality and is often mistaken as such – by the lefties themselves!
Perhaps Alexis Pauline Gumbs needs a candy gram?
If land sharks existed, the environ-mental cases would make them a protected species. Until then, the criminal class the Dirtbagocrats love will have to suffice. Lucky us, we’ll have about 20 million new ones by 2025.
And land sharks would be aligned with the evil white oppressors together with conservative blacks, Jews and Asians. Math, bird names, engineering and timeliness are all white oppression, so why not the beloved land shark?
Hope your Christmas was glorious, Jeff.
Yours, too! Mine was glorious, I guess, thanks to God. I always feel better when I think of him and it’s hard not to think of him a lot on Christmas.
So when is this Alexis Pauline Gumbs going to jettison her “slave name” and come out as “Flipper?” Inquiring minds want to know.
Or “SqueekSquawkOOOOO”
Clearly porpoises are more highly evolved than humans. They don’t wear work clothes of any description, yet they cooperate to hunt. They don’t pay taxes, yet they are safe from attack except by orcas. They compete to win the opportunity to impregnate females, but aren’t burdened by fatherhood, investment accounts, college tuition, or the cost of dealing with profligate offspring. They play with their lessers, for example by riding bow waves of machines created by mere humans to move through water. They speak a common language that humans only imperfectly understand. And they are free to travel to tropical water if winter affects their comfort.
Be like a Shrike and Impale your meal toa a Barbwire Fence
Starlings do that kind of stuff, too. They’re vicious little things. They stab other birds with their beaks open to poke two holes, too.
“This isn’t really about this stupid nonsense. It’s about the death of comedy.”
I don’t know, I got a good chuckle out of Gumb’s mental stumbling. It just confirms that following the philosophy of Karl Marx only leads to insanity.
Not myth, misses in two senses.
I also identify as a mammal. Most whitetards in the marine department identify as sharks.
They’re not very good sharks but most sharks are thankfully incredibly dumb so they’re getting away with it for now.
I mean obviously they do this because they think human beings are retards like sharks and if they can play the emotional heart strings like with dolphins then humans will conserve sharks like dolphins. Unfortunately they are only half smart.
Everything in the ocean hates sharks except human beings being half smart.
By half smart I mean they think they are special(this idea would never occur to any other species) even in the ocean where they are most especially not.
This is a joke, right?