This Week In Stupid: Let's Set Women's Equality Back AT LEAST Three Decades, 'Kay??

Because what the world needs now is to see almost-naked women playing Twister...right??

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

Carl Bernstein

“The fantasy is coming to life this spring 2023.” I don’t know about you, but when I think of women’s sports, I think of how hard women have fought to be taken seriously as athletes. And it’s been a long, hard road. When I was in college, female athletes were barely noticed. Men’s sports got the most attention, the best facilities, and the most financial support. Women? They might have been allowed to play on a cow pasture out on someone’s back 40. They were an afterthought…when they were thought of at all.

Today, women’s sports have made tremendous progress. No, they’re still not anywhere near equal in treatment, opportunity, or compensation, but the gap continues to shrink.

This brings us to the Xposed Sportz League, the brainchild of former Golf Channel and Fox Sports host Holly Sonders. The idea isn’t complicated, and the uniform budget is…well, small.

HOLLY SONDERS has launched her own sports league with a unique selling point.

The former Golf Channel and Fox Sports host will be running the 'Xposed Sportz' league, which will feature Instagram and OnlyFans models.

The competition will see people's favourite models compete against each other while in very little clothing.

They will compete in up to eight different sports, including basketball, bowling and tennis….

She told BroBible: "Imagine your favourite IG models all competing against each other...playing your favourite sports...while wearing next to nothing.

If you think the idea is to set women back 20-30 years, you’ve pretty much nailed it, though I doubt that’s what Ms. Sonders would cop to.

I have ten girls, and we're going to play seven, eight sports.

"And when I say sports, some of them want to play basketball or bowling or tennis, but there's also ping pong.

"There's also twister. Fun stuff like that, and these are girls who make most their money on OnlyFans or an OnlyFans type of site where some of these girls are making hundreds of thousands of dollars making their content."

So who says sex doesn’t sell? Meanwhile, women who are actual, legitimate athletes will no doubt be wondering if they will ever be evaluated for anything more than their sex appeal.

The answer is that, as long as men have penises, probably not. I mean, have you seen Paige Spiranac?

Sure, you can talk about a fabulously talented female athlete, and maybe she has an impossible-to-defend left-footed shot off her dribble, but would guys want to schtup her?

And suddenly, it’s the ‘80s all over again, eh?

“The Lord has determined I am a woman, and my pronouns are U.S.A.” If I told you that our next spoonful of stupid came to us from Fox News Channel, would you believe me?

Of course you would, because A) I wouldn’t lie to you, and B) few do stupid quite like our friends at Fox News. They’ve been shoveling stupid like it was 100% USDA Prime cow dung since 1996, and they’re professionals, so who am I to question their bullshit bona fides?

Right. And my pronouns are “WTF?” and “STFU.” What’s your point?

I’m unfamiliar with the Harris Faulkner-bot, which sounds like she’s been wound just a wee bit too tight for her own good.

"The Lord has determined I am a woman, and my pronouns are U.S.A.," said this idiot clown woman who is a serious journalist for a real network who definitely has a human soul. The picture above is approximately the very serious and somber and grave face she was making when she said her pronouns were U and S and A, which sound more like initials to us, but what do we know. We guess Fox News isn't making money on convincing the country's stupidest people that there is a woke initials virus plaguing the nation. (Yet.)

In this next clip, Faulkner tells an obviously fake story about something that did not happen, when she was kicked out of a restaurant for saying grace. "We know who we are, and we know whose we are," said Faulkner, delivering a specifically Christian sermon on Monday night on the real news channel, as one does. (She's a huge fuckin' Bible beater, it's gross but it's also transparently grifty.)

Yeah, and because she’s been horribly persecuted for, of all things, praying in restaurants. GTFOH, right??

Oh, the humanity….

So what? I’ve been asked to leave a restaurant because I didn’t have a tie and a collared shirt…in America.

HOLD ME; I’M SKEERED….

She said, "When you gather in public places pray thankfully over your food, even when the server gives you the stink-eye, or tells the manager that your peaceful grace is triggering them! Had it happen to me! I've been asked to leave a restaurant for openly bowing my head in prayer hands! In America! It's all good, they don't deserve my money anyway."

To which we reply bullshit, asshole, that did not happen. Or if it did happen, she is leaving out some serious details about why her "peaceful grace" might have been bothering other patrons. Maybe she was trying to make the entire restaurant join hands, or maybe she gets up on the dinner table to say grace or maybe ... oh fuck off, it didn't happen.

We would of course note that the Gospels' instructions for prayer are directly opposed to what this pious dickhead is teaching. Jesus wasn't real big on being a "look at me" asshole about your praying. “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites," says Matthew 6:5-6 in the New King James version. "For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly."

The Harris Faulkner-bot could stand to remember the instructions of her Lord and Savior as laid out in Matthew 6:5-6. I have nothing against prayer, but those who insist on being showy about their religiosity also tend to be the ones who are overly intolerant and judgmental of others.

(I’m holier than thou; what are you going to do about it?)

She might also consider that her “peaceful grace” might be neither as peaceful nor graceful as she believes.

Or perhaps if she stopped singing “Kum-Bah-Yah” and “Amazing Grace” at the top of her lungs after finishing her peaceful, graceful prayer….

Yeah, I feel for those tasked with watching Fox News as a career path. Man, that can’t be good for one’s mental health. I’ll bet they drink far more than other journalists…and with good reason.

Because the Harris Faulkner-bot says that you’re not entitled to your own facts. You’re entitled to the REAL facts- her facts- because she says so. And that makes me want to bang my head against a wall for two hours, knowhutimean??

Of course, it’s possible the Harris Faulkner-bot is full of shit, as in up to her eyebrows and maybe beyond, so full of righteous indignation is she. I could try to describe it, but Steven Colbert does a masterful job of mocking her, so I’ll leave it to him. Colbert’s a professional, after all.

"I'm a lateral thinker and I'm not vaccinated, shedding is real, so vaccinated people are hardly an option.” Have you ever wondered where QAnon and other conspiracy theorists go to find love? It’s not like they can go where “normal” people do because they’d never make it through a first date without getting laughed out of the coffee shop/restaurant/leather bar.

So where DO those who see themselves as incompatible with mainstream society go to find love or hook up with horny like-minded souls?

Conspiracy theorists are setting up their own dedicated dating sites, in response to what they see as their growing incompatibility with mainstream society.

The latest, schwurbeltreff.de, was launched last month in Germany, and claims to have gained 1,500 users in its first three weeks. 

Like most dating sites, there are the usual “get to know you” questions:

• How many weeks of food and water do you have stockpiled in case of a government vaccine mandate?

• Have you built and hardened machine gun emplacements in your backyard?

• Have you stockpiled rolls of razor wire in case of a zombie apocalypse?

• Do you believe the COVID-19 vaccines are bioengineered to contain miniature tracking devices that will allow the government to monitor your movements?

And so it goes.

When you REALLY don’t trust the government and don’t believe that vaccines are safe (even though they are), it helps if you can date people who can confirm and reinforce your biases.

Evidence? Who needs proof when you know what you believe and you’re sleeping with someone who feels the same way?

Alongside the standard dating profile bio questions around height, hobbies and favourite movies, new users of the site are asked to list which conspiracy theories they consider to be real – such as coronavirus, QAnon, New World Order or prepper ideology – and to disclose the number of coronavirus vaccines they’ve taken. New users are also asked to describe where they get their information about current events, and to explain how they think the world will change in the next 20 years.

It’s not unusual for people convinced of their correctness to look for like-minded people, especially when they’re a pronounced minority and their beliefs are unpopular and lacking evidence. They may know what they know and believe what they believe, but it helps to have a support system of people around you who think similarly.

And it’s not so much about the accuracy of one’s beliefs as it is finding someone who shares and reinforces those beliefs- the “us against the world” syndrome, if you will. Misery loves company.

Nicholas Potter, a researcher at the Amadeu Antonio Foundation, an anti-extremism group in Berlin, told VICE World News that conspiracy ideology could “alienate people from their social environments, as friends and family refuse to accept their increasingly wild claims about chemtrails, 5G and chips in vaccinations.” 

“They then seek comfort among like-minded people,” he said. “This can lead to a spiral of radicalisation.”

He said the dating site wasn’t the first he had come across that targeted the conspiracist scene. One, registered in Switzerland, was launched specifically for anti-vaxxers during the pandemic; another, initially launched in Germany in 2015, had come to parrot the rhetoric of the Querdenken movement in its social media since the start of the pandemic. He cited an Instagram post on the platform’s page that read: “Back then: ‘Jews won't be served here.’ Now: ‘Unvaccinated are not wanted’.”

It can be easy to see people like conspiracy theorists as ignorant or paranoid, and some certainly fit those parameters. But some are highly intelligent but unable to accept scientific evidence for what it is without viewing it with a healthy dose of suspicion.

They don’t trust the government, educators, scientists, politicians, religious figures, or anyone and/or anything that doesn’t pass their smell test. That test may be evidence-based, but more often than not, there’s a chain of reasoning based on a mixture of logic, fantasy, anger, and paranoia.

But even paranoiacs and conspiracy theorists want to get laid now and again, no? We can only hope they aren’t planning on breeding.