Snowflakes

This is an example of the stupidity, fragility and self absorption which many young Americans now display. The surprise that other countries have different customs from those we have is nothing new.

Why don't you buy me a drink?

I just finished another viewing of To Catch a Thief. This is one of my favorite movies. You can find it on Amazon Prime but you might find it elsewhere as well.

Grace Kelly plays the kind of woman from that Daily Mail article. She's spoiled, entitled, and has the weapon of "pretty" that gives her immunity from most criticism in this regard.

There are, of course, a lot of ways to parse the story of this spoiled American expat. That a beautiful woman feels entitled to be admired and pampered is hardly anything new or surprising. I just wonder why (according to her story) that American men fall all over themselves to buy her a drink even with zero promise (or requirement) of her putting out...while Aussie men don't fall all over her. Heck, they seemed suitable cautious as if they sense a trap.

I'd love to understand more about this. I didn't see a comments section so I can't gauge what other readers are thinking. I do know that it is true that a beautiful woman can get away with more. I don't find it surprising that American men would be falling all over each other to ply her with alcohol. The mystery is what Aussie men are somewhat standoffish.

Part of the fun of To Catch a Thief is that, yes, pampered Frances Stevens (Kelly) has a well-stocked arsenal of beauty, money, and self-indulgence. And her mother almost steals the show as she frequently dresses-down her fussy daughter:



Although Frances Stevens has an arsenal of charming weapons with which to pummel lesser men, she is just some small third-world country when she encounters the man who commands thousands of intercontinental ballistic missiles of charm, suave, wit, and good looks...John Robie (Cary Grant).

You might then ask yourself a logical question: Is this just a movie cliché or does a woman – whether beautiful and spoiled or not – need a man to kick these little princesses off their thrones, at least before putting them back on them on their own terms?

If so, the emasculation of men has taken away something vital that women need. They basically need someone to call them on their bullshit. And I bet not one man in twenty is prepared to do so...except perhaps for a few Aussies. Even so, I'm unsure what's up with that.

I Am a Dog Mom: Elevating pets at the expense of human beings is a troubling sign for the future of our civilization.

Imagine how serious the problem is if even pseudo-Pope Francis makes sense:



Let me just say that I can sort of understand the sentiment:



People are a pain in the ass. Dogs just love you. A good hunting dog is probably more enjoyable than a good friend.



I went out hiking yesterday and came across a couple fags. You could tell they were a couple even though they weren't holding hands or anything like that. They were in their early twenties. And what occurred to me is not "Oh, yuck. Fags." I could care less if they keep it to themselves. But what struck me is how creepy they are.

And I throw Millenials in there as well. They are becoming creepy.



And all that means that you don't even want to be alive to see the day when these dumb fucks (even more than now) populate all levels of industry and government. They will put one hell of a leash on everyone because of their anti-human views (which, I think, makes dog-loving a symptom, not a cause).



Because dogs love us and in this increasingly atheistic, morally obtuse age, you can trust people about as far as you can throw them. Everyone recognizes this now. This has always been the end product of socialism. It does the opposite to "socializing" anybody. It makes for a dog-eat-dog world where others are just objects, even impediments to your happiness and the ability to exercise your will ("emotions," in this modern maternal age) without restraint.



I'm sure that's true for a lot of dog owners. At first glance, you can't distinguish normal dog owners from the creepy kind. But I suspect that the default position (if one is under the age of 50) is "creepy."

There are two prospective and diametrically opposed outcomes in this:

A) By loving animals, people will be nicer to each other.
B) By loving animals, people will increasingly be nastier to each other.

The article is choosing "B." What I would say is that "B" is a symptom, not a cause. Take away the animals and we are now raising a lot of creepy, slightly sociopathic people in this country. Again, it's that equation of being "nice" superficially but morally corrupt on issues of importance. We are a selfish, self-centered, materialist, consumerist bag of morally vapid flesh whose moral training comes not from the Bible but from some idiot sitcom on TV.

I don't know. What do you think?