We’re publishing an original piece today – Valentine’s Day – by regular contributor Dr. Sinéad Murphy, an Associate Researcher in Philosophy at Newcastle University, about some research published by Cardiff University showing that women find men in facemasks more attractive. According to Dr. Murphy, this is not a cause for celebration.
Now that recommendations/mandates/rules/guidance regarding mask wearing have been more or less lifted, it is dispiritingly clear by the numbers continuing to cleave to them that there are many among us who rather like their masks. But not the wildest speculation on why this might be was likely to have settled on the explanation that masking your face makes you more desirable.
How can such a contradiction be, that we are enhanced as we are effaced? Shouldn’t we wish to see more of an attractive person rather than find them attractive because we see less of them?
There is nothing to whet the philosophical appetite like such a paradox – resolution of apparent contradictions is its bread and butter. So here goes:
Paradox: we like to see less of what we like to see.
Resolution: there are two things to see in this case, not one, and we can see more of the thing that we like to see (abstract personality) by seeing less of the thing that we don’t like to see (actual person).
When men wear a medical mask, women do see more of what they like to see because what they like to see is not real men but generic characteristics – Kind, Safe, Caring, Healthy – characteristics that real men can expect only to channel and only at the expense of their realness.
Sadly, this effacement of what is real by polished abstractions is not confined to the realm of romance. It is the overarching trajectory of our times, increasingly promoted as the promise of ‘personalised’ living.
Worth reading in full.
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…for fuck’s sake.
“Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.”
If the child is a wolf, surely he or she should not be required to attend school?
So as a logical consequence, seeing any child can make this claim, compulsory schooling is de-facto abolished.
Compulsory schooling does not exist in the UK. But many children would benefit greatly from being “de-schooled”.
Not only that – wolves are pack animals, and it’s cruel to separate him from other wolves. He should be released into the wild in Canada, or at least sent to a zoo.
or in the Ukraine?
The only book they ever need to read will be “White Fang”.
Perhaps that was the child’s plan, then quietly to become human again once out, but not let on. But it hasn’t worked out. Kid thinks: “What do I do now?”
I consider this to be a very effective and successful move by the boy. He is following the principle of reductio ad absurdum. He rejects the whole “choose whatever gender you want to be today” mantra, and so is fighting fire with fire. He is saying, OK, let’s follow all this to its logical conclusion, and if the conclusion is absurd (my being a wolf), then the premise is false.
Good luck to him, I say.
I hope it’s like this, at least. Or the boy could indeed be well and truly disturbed and betrayed by all those figures of authority around him.
As with everything that’s well outside the parameters of what’s considered ‘normal behaviour’ I’d be straight away looking at the parents. I’d be asking what on earth this kid’s home life is like because this is where the parents have to step up and take responsibility. I’m all for kids being a bit crazy, testing the boundaries or acting in some eccentric way, because teenage years and high school life do come with their own specific set of stresses and challenges, but for crying out loud, if you’re going to cosplay being an animal then just make it a hobby, something that you do for fun outside of school. Anything else requires immediate psychiatric input before it escalates further.
Girfecoff?
I can’t make up my mind about this. Is this about a clever youngster taking the Micky out of idiot adults? Are we dealing with a disturbed child having a personal crisis? Or is it yet more sign of the disintegration of our civilisation?
Its possible, but more likely a fad that the modern socialist-progressive teaching mind has dangerously indulged. I remember a few kids around 11-12 a long time ago when I was a school kid, came up with this sort of make believe in school, were humoured or ignored and simply grew out of it.
The council knows exactly what they’re doing.
All part of the agenda to normalize bestiality.
Liberal progressivism is a virus and it is spreading all over the western world faster than covid on speed. One of its aspects is to turn every human behaviour, no matter how absurd into a malady, a condition or an illness and then categorise it and label it and then government and the NHS must spend time and money treating that absurdity. Once someone has been diagnosed, everyone else is supposed to blindly accept the nonsense, or they will likely get into all kinds trouble. —-This would all really be quite funny if it were not so pathetic.
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Let me guess: This is a vegan wolf?
Comment of the day.
A vegan wolf which identifies as a schoolboy
He could just identify as a werewolf, I suppose. Best of both worlds then. As long as he doesn’t try re-enacting some of the scenes from An American Werewolf In London ( which traumatized me when I was a kid. Special effects stood the test of time, though
) or even Dog Soldiers.
”Stick to the path, keep clear of the moors. Beware the full moon” I used to think werewolves really did exist for years after that.
They shouldn’t just allow it they should encourage it. In other cultures that child would be identified as a future shaman, an intercessor with other worlds. They should provide him with a pelt and a head dress at least. And try to make him understand that one day in times of dire need his service may be needed.
I have a lot of time for shamanism/shamanic practices but I’m not convinced a shaman would identify as a wolf (or any other species) rather than identifying as human and having the wolf as their spirit guide. I doubt this child has the faintest idea about shamanism so this is unlikely to be why they identify as a wolf unless, for reasons we don’t know, the wolf spirit has reached out to them.
I fully support this childs transition and suggest the following methodology;
Goes naked at all times
Is kept in an enclosure to keep it away from the children identifying as sheep
Is fed raw meat and or left to hunt own food
Is left to set own territorial boundaries by urination and defecation within it’s enclosure.
I suspect after a while it won’t be ‘lycan’ that lifestyle
Very good
I presume children who identify as wolves would soon drop the idea if they were only offered raw meat to eat.
You must remember that for a wolf child or a wolf man the moon is very important. Even for dogs they will behave differently when it is a full moon and some people as well. Nuture him and instruct him but let him obey his instincts and fulfil his destiny.
As a child, I identified as a wolf cub.
So tell the child-wolf that from now on its diet consists of raw meat it has hunted and killed itself.
And wait patiently until it demands human food …. about 6 hours, I would guess.
“……rather than being told to snap out of it and get to grips with themselves, which would be the common-sense approach.”
Exactly.
Oh what a “head slap” wouldn’t cure
“Doctor, doctor I think I’m a pair of curtains”
”Pull yourself together man”.
I used to be a werewolf but it’s all over “nowwwwwwwwwwwwww!
What is a Woke Wolf called?
Aware wolf.