{"id":81224,"date":"2022-03-21T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81224"},"modified":"2022-03-21T12:57:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T17:57:10","slug":"the-unthinkable-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81224","title":{"rendered":"The Unthinkable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Big Left is slowly eating itself &#8211; a pattern all leftist institutions, from Mao&#8217;s Politburo to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55205\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"55205\">Pacifica News<\/a> eventually recap.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most lately: yesterday, I heard a couple of feminist congruence-checkers masquerading as NPR correspondents on the drearily, pointlessly breezy &#8220;It&#8217;s Been a Minute&#8221; fulminating about this next bit:  filmmarker Jane Campion has been raked over the coals for what, to be fair, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/movies\/jane-campion-apologizes-comment-venus-serena-williams-rcna19963\">may have been a bit of sloppy rhetoric (emphasis added)<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Venus and Serena, you are such marvels. However, you do not play against the guys, like I have to,&#8221; Campion said, referring to the four male directors who were also nominated in the best director category.:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I have to imagine Campion is horrified by how her statement was received; Campion, a fairly keen observer, has to know that it&#8217;s utterly politically incorrect to say any woman can&#8217;t kick any man&#8217;s ass at any activity whatsoever.  Have some faith, people.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of which:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1170\" height=\"1162\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_2597.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81226\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_2597.jpg 1170w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_2597-300x298.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_2597-1024x1017.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_2597-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_2597-768x763.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_2597-302x300.jpg 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Huh. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Left is slowly eating itself &#8211; a pattern all leftist institutions, from Mao&#8217;s Politburo to Pacifica News eventually recap. Most lately: yesterday, I heard a couple of feminist congruence-checkers masquerading as NPR correspondents on the drearily, pointlessly breezy &#8220;It&#8217;s Been a Minute&#8221; fulminating about this next bit: filmmarker Jane Campion has been raked over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81224"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81237,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81224\/revisions\/81237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}