After the workshop, I welcomed her into my life. I very rarely do this, because my past experiences with young Nigerians left me wary of people who are calculating and insincere and want to use me only as an opportunity. But she was a Bright Young Nigerian Feminist and I thought that was worth making an exception.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Translation: I thought with my penis

She spent time in my Lagos home. We had long conversations. I was support-giver, counsellor, comforter.

Translation: I ate her out

I just assumed she’d been emailed by a few princes before and found out the hard way they didn’t really need the money

Her name is literally a Taco Bell menu item

lmao

Where's the lie? I couldn't find one. The performative aspect of social media has turned many young people into narcissistic pieces of shit. That's why I hang out on r/drama - because it's nice to occasionally be around people who aren't soulless monsters cloaking their pathological sociopathy in the language of social justice.

Soulless monsters cloaking their pathological sociopathy in the language of Drama, on the other hand..

I unironically believe that most r/drama users are mentally healthier and emotionally less fragile than your typical twittard. There's something deeply maladjusted and neurotic about anybody who feels the need to be so concerned about what other people think of them that they suppress their true opinions and behaviors just to "fit in" in order to get likes and retweets (which 90% of the time are more worthless than World of Warcraft currency).

I mean, even MasterLawlz has been able to hold down a job, get dates, and be a reasonably well-functioning member of society. Some of the people doing these social justice callouts, on the other hand, look like the type of hags who used to attend witch-burnings because they were mad that the witches got laid more than them. These narcissistic sociopaths would sell out their own family members or significant others for internet clout. Yeah I'd totally prefer Lawlz to one of those inhuman status-seeking famewhores any day. Wouldn't you?

Shut up nerdಠ_ಠ

Disagree, I think anyone who ends up in a corner of the internet this smelly and jaded has got to be at least moderately fucked up on some level, the main difference is having a reasonable level of self-awareness, humility, and emotional maturity plus the canniness to recognize grifters

self-awareness, humility, and emotional maturity

Oh, stop it with all the compliments you! I don't know how to handle this embarrassing deluge of praise.

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If you’re going to be around pieces of shit either way, it’s a lot less unnerving when they don’t pretend to be all righteous about it.

I prefer to take a mask-off approach with my pathological sociopathy

respect the hustle

big oof

As a fellow longposter, this is what good writing looks like. Pizza could take some notes.

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I have seen it suggested that Chimamanda shouldn’t have posted her essay because the people she criticised are queer/trans and it’s Pride Month. Well, as a lesbian, let me tell you. Nobody’s sexuality or identity means they are above being held accountable for dishonesty.

So apparently there are people who tried to pull the LGBT card.

Imagine if that card actually worked. They would get three months of protection from all criticisms in Canada!

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Wait, so this isn't just a seethepost by Chimamanda Adichie? Some rando sniped her domain?

Like how Tolstoy abnegated all his great works late in life for the sake of Christian Anarchism, Chicken Chalupa here has rejected her own lifetime of work for the sake of her magnum opus: Totally Owning the SJWs Compilation (Parts 1 2 and 3)

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She didnt take it down, website crashed after so many people visited it.

The assumption of good faith is dead. What matters is not goodness but the appearance of goodness. We are no longer human beings. We are now angels jostling to out-angel one another. God help us. It is obscene.

What kind of monstrous entitlement, what kind of perverse self-absorption, what utter lack of self-awareness, what unheeding heartlessness, what frightening immaturity makes a person act this way?

We have a generation of young people on social media so terrified of having the wrong opinions that they have robbed themselves of the opportunity to think and to learn and to grow,” Adichie wrote. “I have spoken to young people who tell me they are terrified to tweet anything, that they read and reread their tweets because they fear they will be attacked by their own. The assumption of good faith is dead. What matters is not goodness but the appearance of goodness. We are no longer human beings. We are now angels jostling to out-angel one another. God help us. It is obscene.”

It is a very well written piece. Very elegant and very touching.

TL;DR My lesbian lover betrayed me for clout

She's now the Maya Angelou of drama.

/ourgal/

I love Chimamanda! Everyone should watch this: https://youtu.be/hg3umXU_qWc

An excerpt of it is in Beyoncé’s “Flawless”:

We teach girls to shrink themselves To make themselves smaller.

We say to girls: "You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man".

Because I am female I am expected to aspire to marriage I am expected to make my life choices Always keeping in mind that Marriage is the most important.

Now marriage can be a source of Joy and love and mutual support But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage And we don't teach boys the same?

We raise girls to see each other as competitors Not for jobs or for accomplishments Which I think can be a good thing But for the attention of men.

We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings In the way that boys are.

Feminist: the person who believes in the social Political, and economic equality of the sexes.

Ayooooo she’s being cancelled for being a “hwite feminist” by yt-er than desitin choo-choos on twt 🤦🏾‍♀️ can’t be Black if the hwites say you ain’t

If you support free speech, you must support people pinging other users. It's completely legal speech. If you won't defend pinging as free speech because you or someone else finds it disgusting, then no speech that you or anyone else views as disgusting is safe.

>if it is in fact on shaky legal ground it's reasonable to not want to be the case that establishes it as illegal.

It's not, The reddit admins are straight up lying to the ignorant (like yourself) to justify their prejudice. Pinging being protected speech has long since been estabilished, as it has undeniable artistic merit. The only time it's been included under any obscenity laws is when someone is being charged with possession of harassment, so the state can slap them with more charges. The courts have been very careful to not charge anyone for pinging, because they'd get their asses fucking annihilated by a higher court due to the firm precedence of pinging being completely legal speech. /r/Drama had nothing to worry about, this guy was just making shit up to fool people into thinking his censoring wasn't entirely personally motivated.

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In certain young people today like these two from my writing workshop, I notice what I find increasingly troubling: a cold-blooded grasping, a hunger to take and take and take, but never give; a massive sense of entitlement; an inability to show gratitude; an ease with dishonesty and pretension and selfishness that is couched in the language of self-care; an expectation always to be helped and rewarded no matter whether deserving or not; language that is slick and sleek but with little emotional intelligence; an astonishing level of self-absorption; an unrealistic expectation of puritanism from others; an over-inflated sense of ability, or of talent where there is any at all; an inability to apologize, truly and fully, without justifications; a passionate performance of virtue that is well executed in the public space of Twitter but not in the intimate space of friendship.

Snappy quote?

This reads like some Ted literature. I will be watching very closely.

TERF understands the purity spiral, is horrified

Fascinating read, brings up good points, dramatic, but agendaposting so fuck you

Any of you nerds know who she's talking about?

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