Carry On: Fur Coat & No Knickers!
Come get your bacon bits!
The idiom “fur coat and no knickers” was a figurative and derogatory slander deployed to cast shade on a woman of superficial elegance and class. I say was because this week it ceased to be metaphorical and became literal. For those who missed it, I am talking about Bianca Censori’s appearance at the 2025 GRAMMYs. Ostensibly, the Grammy Awards is a major annual event in the US entertainment calendar, meant to honor outstanding contributions to non-classical music, the other events being the Acadamy Awards (for movies), the Emmy Awards (for theatre) and the Met Gala (for posers). Censori caused a censation (sorry) when she dropped her fur coat to reveal a totally transparent dress and, yes, nay knickers or underwear of any description. I pitied the soft furnishings.
Not since 2014, when Kanye West’s previous ‘Hottentot’ wife broke the internet with her nudes has the media been so enthusiastically appalled. Being versed in evolutionary theory, back then I couldn’t help but draw attention to the atavistic nature of the images and use one in a presentation about species’ differences in the secondary sexual characteristics of females and the unique phenomena of hidden ovulation in humans, specifically.
Incidentally, I’ve always wondered at the fact that feminists tell people not to “slut-shame” women whilst calling the person they are defending a slut. I’ve an interview in the can with evolutionary psychologist Tania Reynolds who specializes in this kind of female self-deception: supposedly defending a woman while also revealing information that harms their reputation.
Unlike Kardashian’s, Censori’s turn was more front-facing once the fur coat was off. Kim also showed her mim, but that’s yesteryears news. I have broached the subject of a lady’s poached eggs from an evolutionary perspective however. If you’re interested click below.
In other news, now Trump is at the helm and signing off executive orders faster than Lia Thomas at a girls’ swimming gala, the news cycle is hard to keep up with. In just two weeks, the Biden administration’s woke crops have withered under a hefty dusting of DJT. Notable mentions include:
Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship
Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity
Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation
Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling
and the most controversial
Implementing the Department of Government Efficiency aka DOGE
Free speech is unarguably the bedrock of a functioning democracy. One should always be wary of those who want to censor you, even if you’re Kanye West who, as I write, appears to be having an episode: An episode of what is more difficult to tell. Just yesterday a New York Times article reported him declaring he had autism rather than bipolar disorder. It’s common for people with bipolar and other less attractive diagnoses such as cluster A and B personality disorders to seek out a different diagnosis. This is very common in the woke “neurodivergent” movement and is known as “diagnosis surfing".” If you have the money, finding a doctor who will give you the autism diagnosis you’re after is just a matter of time. Unfortunately, people with manipulative personality disorders are exactly the kind of people you need to keep easily manipulated people with autism far away from. Worryingly, Kanye also said that since the ‘autism’ diagnosis, he had stopped taking his bipolar meds. What we’re seeing might be a consequence of that.
Wednesday saw TDS aficionado and fading intellectual Sam Harris write,
“It is…ominous that our political culture now celebrates figures who are obviously unethical—liars, bullies, and conmen—many of whom see no reason to even pretend to harbor deeper values or virtues.”
Is he talking about himself? Of course not. Strangely, for someone who is constantly thinking about himself, he has zero self-awareness. He’s talking about Trump and hallucinating about the “further atrocities” Trump will commit this week. He also includes the “vile” Elon Musk. “President Trump has said and done a thousand things that should make it impossible to admire him as a person—and he will commit further atrocities this week. Elon Musk has achieved a similarly vile orbit—lying with abandon, making common cause with racists and lunatics, and pointlessly defaming ordinary people—it seems, just for the fun of it.”
Harris seems to have forgotten the times he has defamed “normal people”, specifically one Sarah Braash whom that other supposed moral titan Jon Haidt defamed on Harris’ podcast as a racist. All calls for him to address the issue are ignored. Braash was an early victim of cancel culture and unlike the celebrity victims has had no high-profile defenders, exoneration, or career offers. As a “normal person,” she finds she cannot get a job, lives in a tiny studio apartment, and is mocked and derided for the mental health difficulties she has developed since her cancellation. The very people who say they live and work to help such victims dismiss her because of her mental health difficulties. They are fond of telling her to get therapy, somehow missing the fact that without a job one has no health insurance to get said therapy. I’ve written about this in much more detail in the link below.
Enlightenment Now? Out, Out, Brief Candle.
This essay was first published in The Post Millenial in November 2020.
What Harris doesn’t understand is that Donald Trump is a hero to people who have been bullied. He is the most bullied person on the planet. They threw everything they had at him. He's an inspiration. That's what progressives, leftists, & never Trumpers like Sam Harris don't get.
Lastly, I’m currently editing a long interview with Iranian dissident and anti-terrorist activist Niyak Ghorbani who has been arrested by London’s Met Police a total of eight times in the last ten months for, among other things, holding up the sign below at a pro-Palestine rally…
…and eating a banana. Yes, Niyak was arrested for eating a banana and threatened with the charge of a “hate crime.”
This lunacy apart, Niyak has some interesting things to say about the parallels he sees between the UK now and 1979 Iran, the year Iran fell to the Islamic State.
Here’s a clip. Carry on with your weekend and I will see you next week!
I haven’t heard/seen that for years! Can almost hear my mom’s voice “‘ark at ‘er thinking she’s better than everyone else! All fur coat and no knickers, she aye foolin’ no-one!” 😂😂😂