http://www.slate.com/articles/technology...onger.html
Ahh, Amanda Hess.
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The question that presents itself: Would you bang?
Here is a great representation of who she is:
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With respects to children, she likes the words "burden," "responsibility," "nonmonetized," etc. She views children, purely, as work. That is not healthy whatsoever. Notice her rhetoric is focused exclusively on the children's effect on the mother, not the mother's affect on her children. Heh. Three cheers for progressivism!
I recall a liberal Tweeter that GLP linked to, in which he had a discussion about worrying privileging taking care of his children over other's children. It is a bizarre but predictable sentiment. Supremely confident in other's ability (read: not his own) to raise his children, he wants to abdicate personal responsibility for raising his children: avoiding emotional commitment while also being able to proclaim loudly to others that the reason his kids turned out bad is others - sexism (daughter)/racism/underfunded schools/those damn regressive conservatives/etc. They are all defenses against change: developing positive relations with others (the ultimate other: your children) and learning to accept responsibility for his actions.
Back to Hess, she makes the typical point to not-so-subtly suggest that the past was terrible, "Aren't you glad you live in 2013?" (admitting people are unhappy with today's arrangements) and starts to talk about the future.
It is true if you have no past, you have no future. Hess is obsessed with the present age and terribly fears old people and growing old. She claims older women are discriminated against because they...don't look young. She doesn't seem to understand that people like her ARE the reason many people look on elderly people with unease. For fucks sake, get over your reverence for 20-somethings. Which will, of course, turn into an obsession with personal transformation via fake therapy - gestalt therapy, sex therapy, etc - in her 30's and most likely a hail-mary identity crisis when she has kids in her late 30's and 40's.
Hess has a long paragraph at the end talking about gays and how marriage has changed, for the better. It is better for people like her because women get a socially-approved and a family-court lubed eject button when she invariably tires of her feminist-friendly husband who pisses her off immensely because what she truly desires from a man is necessarily precluded by her politics. See how radical politics (yes, stereotypical social justice adherents ARE radicals) is a defense against true human connection?
Generally, Hess' collected work is known for her self-absorption. She once disputed the 2012 vote for sexiest man alive because she considers liberal, feminist men to be the real reason women should be attracted to men (read: it is what I think is attractive, therefore it is universal). She claimed, I believe, the true pulse of the modern woman isn't relationships and families, but smashing patriarchy and working a job (notice how she does neither). Further still, she has an obsession with violence (anti-gay and rape, in particular) and displays virtually no empathy for people, instead using the perilous mental construct of ideology to allow her to feel for people, instead of learning to care for them apart from their skin color or professed ideology.
Reconsidering her original piece, it suggests that a narcissist is terrified of growing old, but not just growing old but not having a clear script in hand to go by. Without truly knowing the self, it can be incredibly unnerving to not have clear social scripts in hand to guide yourself blindly through life. She spouts the usual jealousy towards older men, but that belies she is terrified of the self.
Narcissism, properly understood, has a rage competent that undergirds the personality disorder. As they say, the more dangerous prisoner, the thicker the jail-cell walls. Women like Hess will live a long life, but not a happy one, if she doesn't know herself. Go ahead, accuse her of being rageful on her twitter. You will get a rageful response as the defenses on defenses (narcissists have two levels of defense, not one) she has built in her head are all there to deny the infantile rage that boils up within her, but can never truly be denied. So she denies all emotions to prevent accepting that rage within her.
Of course, that rage is directed at men but you are foolish to think it really is misandry. I hate that term. I am planning on a fire-and-brimstone post for ROK that ethers that silly concept. Anyways, all that rage is simply pent-up rage at a paternal/maternal figure. She burns it off at people who mean nothing to her, when she should have a constructive dialogue with those who actually hurt her - giving her mental space to come to terms with her past.
Musings on narcissism aside, this piece is part and parcel of the closing of the American collective emotional heart. Sure, women like Hess are mostly 20-something losers but the truth is many women read her stuff and nod along silently. There is crucial difference between actual narcissism and social narcissism. Hess is a narcissist, but she inculcates social narcissism in her readers. I actually have a post coming on this, using the TV show "How I Met Your Mother." I think. I can't decide if Ted Mosby is an actual narcissist or just the average self-absorbed American.
TL;DR: Amanda Hess is an ugly-ass sack of shit that isn't even good at her narcissism.
Ahh, Amanda Hess.
The question that presents itself: Would you bang?
Here is a great representation of who she is:
With respects to children, she likes the words "burden," "responsibility," "nonmonetized," etc. She views children, purely, as work. That is not healthy whatsoever. Notice her rhetoric is focused exclusively on the children's effect on the mother, not the mother's affect on her children. Heh. Three cheers for progressivism!
I recall a liberal Tweeter that GLP linked to, in which he had a discussion about worrying privileging taking care of his children over other's children. It is a bizarre but predictable sentiment. Supremely confident in other's ability (read: not his own) to raise his children, he wants to abdicate personal responsibility for raising his children: avoiding emotional commitment while also being able to proclaim loudly to others that the reason his kids turned out bad is others - sexism (daughter)/racism/underfunded schools/those damn regressive conservatives/etc. They are all defenses against change: developing positive relations with others (the ultimate other: your children) and learning to accept responsibility for his actions.
Back to Hess, she makes the typical point to not-so-subtly suggest that the past was terrible, "Aren't you glad you live in 2013?" (admitting people are unhappy with today's arrangements) and starts to talk about the future.
It is true if you have no past, you have no future. Hess is obsessed with the present age and terribly fears old people and growing old. She claims older women are discriminated against because they...don't look young. She doesn't seem to understand that people like her ARE the reason many people look on elderly people with unease. For fucks sake, get over your reverence for 20-somethings. Which will, of course, turn into an obsession with personal transformation via fake therapy - gestalt therapy, sex therapy, etc - in her 30's and most likely a hail-mary identity crisis when she has kids in her late 30's and 40's.
Hess has a long paragraph at the end talking about gays and how marriage has changed, for the better. It is better for people like her because women get a socially-approved and a family-court lubed eject button when she invariably tires of her feminist-friendly husband who pisses her off immensely because what she truly desires from a man is necessarily precluded by her politics. See how radical politics (yes, stereotypical social justice adherents ARE radicals) is a defense against true human connection?
Generally, Hess' collected work is known for her self-absorption. She once disputed the 2012 vote for sexiest man alive because she considers liberal, feminist men to be the real reason women should be attracted to men (read: it is what I think is attractive, therefore it is universal). She claimed, I believe, the true pulse of the modern woman isn't relationships and families, but smashing patriarchy and working a job (notice how she does neither). Further still, she has an obsession with violence (anti-gay and rape, in particular) and displays virtually no empathy for people, instead using the perilous mental construct of ideology to allow her to feel for people, instead of learning to care for them apart from their skin color or professed ideology.
Reconsidering her original piece, it suggests that a narcissist is terrified of growing old, but not just growing old but not having a clear script in hand to go by. Without truly knowing the self, it can be incredibly unnerving to not have clear social scripts in hand to guide yourself blindly through life. She spouts the usual jealousy towards older men, but that belies she is terrified of the self.
Narcissism, properly understood, has a rage competent that undergirds the personality disorder. As they say, the more dangerous prisoner, the thicker the jail-cell walls. Women like Hess will live a long life, but not a happy one, if she doesn't know herself. Go ahead, accuse her of being rageful on her twitter. You will get a rageful response as the defenses on defenses (narcissists have two levels of defense, not one) she has built in her head are all there to deny the infantile rage that boils up within her, but can never truly be denied. So she denies all emotions to prevent accepting that rage within her.
Of course, that rage is directed at men but you are foolish to think it really is misandry. I hate that term. I am planning on a fire-and-brimstone post for ROK that ethers that silly concept. Anyways, all that rage is simply pent-up rage at a paternal/maternal figure. She burns it off at people who mean nothing to her, when she should have a constructive dialogue with those who actually hurt her - giving her mental space to come to terms with her past.
Musings on narcissism aside, this piece is part and parcel of the closing of the American collective emotional heart. Sure, women like Hess are mostly 20-something losers but the truth is many women read her stuff and nod along silently. There is crucial difference between actual narcissism and social narcissism. Hess is a narcissist, but she inculcates social narcissism in her readers. I actually have a post coming on this, using the TV show "How I Met Your Mother." I think. I can't decide if Ted Mosby is an actual narcissist or just the average self-absorbed American.
TL;DR: Amanda Hess is an ugly-ass sack of shit that isn't even good at her narcissism.
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