Friday 8/23/24
I'm looking at this post where a meathead is advocating for how healthy burgers are. He has the word "fitness" in his profile name, which always seems to be how it goes with such a person. He's broken down the parts of a burger by food group--ketchup, in this argument, is touted as a vegetable--and unsurprisingly other guys like this guy are applauding from the gallery.
"A good burger is actually super healthy."
The term halfwit is really too fractionally generous.
Burgers are not good for you. The more burgers you don't eat, the better off you are.
This fellow goes on to state that there's no reason to think a connection exists between red meat and cancer, when science tells us that there is every reason to think there's a connection between red meat and cancer.
He also touts the cheese, and I can make this very simple: Unless it's Swiss cheese, that cheese is loaded in sodium and is terrible for you. Cheese is also addictive--cheese has a great shot of contributing to your heart attack. If you don't need to eat cheese that is high in sodium, then don't.
You know what's interesting about will power? A little of it goes a long way. When we utilize a small amount of will power, we begin to form good habits. Good habits build on their own strengths; they are their own form of positive reinforcement for themselves. A good habit, once underway, takes care of itself. It doesn't require much from you. The good habit says, "I got this! I can spell you! Let me drive for a bit!"
I then saw a post from a woman. These were back-to-back this morning. She was complaining about masks. How we all need to have masks on. Because one-way masking does not work. She had come down with COVID for the eighth time. Also--she's a writer. A pretend writer because there are no real writers. Has the cats. Hates white men. (Doesn't actually like any men or anyone, and hates herself, but at least if it's someone who has been deemed the right color she can try and hate herself a tiny bit less, which, of course, always backfires, because that's not how anything healthy works.)
This is the kind of person--because she's an editor, too--that I could send a story or book to today. How do you think that would go? What do you think it would mean to her to be able to be in that position of power with me? To be able to say no because she could? How about for a work about female characters on a level that no one could approach? From this particular man? Who does what he does, knows what he knows, even looks how he looks. I ask again: How do you think that would go? Now, they'd think they could get away with it, and they'd be able to, too, were it not for this blog. Because what could you do about the truth pulled into the light? Say it's not true? Defend yourself? Can't be done. They are also the kind of person who is on-the-nose typical of most people in publishing. This is who gets into it and is there in large volume.
What do you think followed in the comments? "I'm so sorry." "You're so brave." "OMG I'm sorry that's happened to you."
I wondered as I have been of late if people want other people to say to them, "I'm sorry that happened to you" more than they want anything else, but I realize that this still falls under the umbrella of people wanting attention above all. The "I'm so sorry that happened to you" variety of attention is particularly prized, though. A hot commodity.
I picture the ultra in-demand new toy at Christmastime that all of the kids want and stores being sold out but working like mad to get the stock back on the shelves and meet the demand. People outside of the one store that is rumored to have any of the items left pounding the shit out of each other before it opens to be the first to race down the aisle and grasp the treasure in their hands as others try to pry it away from them.
Just as I likewise picture these people, who do nothing, offer nothing, and are nothing, reading back an "I'm so sorry" reply and going, "Yes!!!!!!!" and having their version of the feeling one would upon hitting a walk-off homer or scoring the game-winner in OT.
It's almost as if people give themselves COVID, which is itself not a big deal and certainly was never a bigger deal than many other things that people come down with and then don't have anymore.
I know, this is very offensive what I've just said. But it's like they want it, and they get it, and they milk it like a cow's teat. They open themselves up to it, court it, hunt it down.
The body takes its cue from the mind. When the mind says, "I shall be a weak person," the body says, "Hey! Wait for me!"
Also not surprisingly, everything that wasn't COVID's fault for this person was the patriarchy's.
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