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Pussification Chronicles Part 1

June 22, 2020 Kim du Toit Pussification Parade

Here we go. As part of the free service you all get from this blog, here’s a new department. At various intervals as they occur, I’m going to display examples of Extreme Pussification — whether applied to a person, a country or an institution or a combination of all three doesn’t matter.

Herewith a couple of examples:

We all know that since hooking up with Duchess Caringslut, the Royal Ginger has continued to abase himself — giving up hunting, drinking, eating meat, and many more of those fine activities which help us to differentiate real men from girlymen. Here’s his latest PC blowjob:

Prince Harry has backed the moves to ban Swing Low, Sweet Chariot from rugby games due to its association with slavery.
He has sung the rugby anthem many times since childhood and he is a fan and patron of the Rugby Football Union (RFU).

Not for much longer, I’ll bet; unless the RFU also loses their balls and keeps him on. But here’s the good part.

The song was written by a freed Oklahoma slave named Wallace Willis.

So here we have a song commemorating freedom from slavery, but its very association thereby taints it? A whole bunch of stupid is contained in this bullshit, and Harry is a spineless, testicle-free fuckwit.

Here’s another example, this time of institutional pussification:

The curator of [the Houses of] Parliament’s art collection said the presentation of their artworks is being ‘reevaluated’, as many statues and paintings have a ‘racist history’ and were bought with wealth from the slave trade.
The Palace of Westminster lobbies, which are open to the public, are lined with artwork featuring 18th and 19th Century politicians, many of whom were connected to the slave trade.
Melissa Hamnett, the head of heritage collections and curator of works of art, said officials are looking at the presentation of the collection in light of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Just wait till the Italian Government orders the Coliseum torn down because it was built completely by slave labor — and if you think I’m exaggerating…

Ultimately, of course, it is impossible to remove (or the modern word, “de-couple”) Western Civilization from slavery: all the ancient societies used slavery to one extent or another in the construction of both their buildings and their societies. Was that a bad thing? Of course. But is that an excuse to do all the vile nonsense — pulling down statues, removing works of art, defacing memorials etc. — that we are being “asked” to do by the Bastards Of The Left and their helots in BLM?

That ought to be a rhetorical question, of course, but it’s best not to leave anything unspoken in this modern age of historical ignorance, so “NO!” has to be shouted out, and loudly.

More examples of pussification as they occur. To echo Insty: I may need a bigger blog.

Monday Funnies

June 22, 2020 Kim du Toit Funny Stuff

So it’s Monday… and already the wheels are coming off.

Off with the wheels, and on with the levity. Today, we’re gonna hate on women:

Here, too:

With skills like that, a career in the NYPD awaits her… oh, wait.

And to prove it, here are a few women who aren’t so bad… at least to look at.

Hallmark Holiday

June 21, 2020 Kim du Toit Entertainment

Happy Father’s Day to all you motherfuckers [sic] out there. For us old farts, a couple reminders of what it all means:

I’m hoping I get to see at least two of mine this year.

Must-Have Movies — Part 1

June 20, 2020 Kim du Toit Entertainment

Earlier this week I talked about the benefits and/or wisdom of having all your favorite movies on DVD, against the possibility that they could be “canceled” (i.e. censored or maybe worse, bowdlerized) by The Usual Suspects.

So here’s the first part of a list of movies I think one should have in one’s video library, or the stars / directors thereof, just on case they appear on some lefty’s Enemy Of The People list.

Actors:

Clint Eastwood — pretty much any or all his movies (even Bridges Of Madison County , but not Paint Your Wagon ) because a) Clinty and b) the Left hates him for being a conservative.

John Wayne — ditto, except for the appalling The Conqueror (Genghis Wayne? No.)

Lee Marvin — ditto, except for Paint Your Wagon as noted above, and especially The Dirty Dozen.

Steve McQueen — yeah, he was a wife-beater. So he’ll be on someone’s list sooner or later.

Paul Newman — as an Eastern liberal, he’s probably not going to be “canceled” anytime soon, but everyone should have The Sting, Butch Cassidy, Hud and The Hustler on their shelf anyway.

Directors:

John Frankenheimer — just about all his movies, but especially The Manchurian Candidate, Birdman Of Alcatraz, Grand Prix and Ronin. Quite possibly the best action-movie director ever.

John Milius — we all know him from Red Dawn, of course, but there’s also Conan and Flight Of The Intruder.

Clint Eastwood — he’s already up as an actor, but his solo (non-acting) directing shouldn’t be ignored, either. Think of Bird, Sully and American Sniper.

We’ll talk about specific must-have movies in the next part of the series.

Feel free to add your favorite “bodies of work” in Comments. Leave specific movies till next time.

Indecision

June 19, 2020 Kim du Toit Food & Drink

I have been informed that for Father’s Day this year, I am allowed to choose what breakfast to be served. My choices are English, or American:

I know: First World Problems.

Chick Cars

June 19, 2020 Kim du Toit Drive Time

When Fiat announced its re-entry into the U.S. market with the teeny revamped 500 model a few years back, their ad campaign was unashamedly aimed at the female car buyer, the theme being: “The Italians Are Coming!” It was a brilliant piece of positioning, because the small car / indifferent performance / cute factor was never going to attract too many heterosexual or non-metrosexual men. And it wasn’t the first time Fiat had gone down that road, so to speak:

…which led to this:

VW, of course, had used the same positioning with their relaunch of the revamped (and awful) Bug — less overtly, but with the standard accessory of that cutesy little single-stem flower holder on the dashboard, the target market was quite obvious.

Marketing aside, however, quite a few cars have always appeared to me to be perfect “ladies’ cars”, as much for their petite-ness as for anything else. Here’s the Lancia Fulvia of the late 1960s:

Even the Mercedes 230 SL of the same era was, I think, positioned in the same niche:

Both had engines that were respectable enough — for sure, neither was underpowered — but the cars were definitely not hot rods, by any stretch of the imagination. My mother always dreamed of having a “pagoda top” (never happened, sadly — she had to suffer with an Austin Healey 3000 instead), and even New Wife, on seeing a beautifully-restored 230 SL poodling around Plano, was impressed enough to comment.

The difference between the two eras, by the way, is that in the so-called “pre-feminist” era of the early 1960s, neither the Fulvia nor the 230 SL were ever overtly marketed at women. Whether it was because, in those days, men made the car purchase decisions on behalf of their wives or daughters, or whether the car manufacturers’ marketing departments didn’t want to risk alienating potential male customers by positioning those models as “chick cars”, I have no idea.

Of course, the modern take on positioning your car in the female market reached its apogee when Subaru made their cars the choice of lesbians. (Think about that if you’re considering a new Outback or Forester.) And while the Mazda Miata became the fashion statement for West Coast homosexual men, it was never marketed as such. (For those who want to find cars to avoid because they’re associated with lesbians and homos, this tongue-in-cheek [sic] list will spell them out for you.)

I don’t have a problem with cars best driven by women. I think a woman looks better in a Lancia Fulvia than in a Pontiac TransAm or Camaro, by the way. But then again I’m a sucker for classy, feminine women, so take that anyway you want. No prizes for guessing which one of these I think is more appealing: