[The Lizard of Oz]

"Please, Mother, Enough"

It is a translation of a piece by some Japanese "writer" bitch who whines about how long her mother lived and how she spent years wishing her mother would finally die.

Then she wrote a "novel" about it and got passionate responses from other Japanese confessing to how they too have wished that their parents who seemed to live forever would finally croak.

In the beginning of the article this fucking bitch describes how her mother had the temerity to be in the hospital while she was trying to finish some worthless "book" by some meaningless "deadline". For real.

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TOKYO — It was the mad, busy time just before New Year’s, the most auspicious holiday of the year, when the hospital called to tell me that my mother had just been brought in by ambulance. She had slipped on the sidewalk and broken her shoulder and hip.

“Not again!” was all I could think as I rushed to the emergency room. I did not at first realize that the call marked the beginning of the end of what little independence my mother had left.

Despite five hours of surgery and two months of rehabilitation, she became wheelchair-bound and had to enter a nursing home. There, she slid rapidly into dementia, and became more difficult and demanding even as she grew frailer.

A year and a half later, she was back in the hospital with aspiration pneumonia. Day after day, I sat by her bedside, exhausted, while I struggled to finish work on a book for which the deadline was long past.

“Mom, when are you ever going to die?”

I get angry about as often as cardguy, but this angered me.

These people -- the baby boomers -- have the easiest, most luxurious, and most comfortable lives of any generation that's ever lived.

And all they ever do is WHINE about the very few burdens that they actually have. And they are so cowardly and so afraid of "pain" that they are obsessed above all with their coming old age and the loss of some bodily comforts. And they are so idiotically nihilistic that they always wish to hasten death just because the end of life is relatively difficult and painful.

And the fucking scumbags in the New York Times feel that it is their place and obligation to publish this ghoulish drivel in time for Mother's Day, so that the "truths" that they believe are contained therein would not be forgotten for one moment as normal people get together with their families and try to enjoy a beautiful spring day.

[deuce]

Any PR is good PR...especially for a dying medium. This is just the print version of clickbait.

Too little, too late NYT.

When are you ever going to die?

[durangotang]

And this is one if the many reasons I do not read the toilet paper record.

[The Lizard of Oz]

(05-11-2014 04:02 PM)deuce Wrote:  

Any PR is good PR...especially for a dying medium. This is just the print version of clickbait.

Too little, too late NYT.

When are you ever going to die?

Yes, but it's worse than mere clickbait.

There are still plenty -- a very large number -- of otherwise decent people who read the NYT because they feel they need to to keep up. Many normal people with average or above average education in the NY Metro area, and elsewhere. They trust this paper, especially people who are a little older.

And to repay their trust they get slammed with this savagely nihilistic hatred of the old, timed especially for Mother's Day, and farmed out to a Japanese female writer for good measure.

[Chemistry]

If the Internet has taught me anything, it's that people and companies will print, write, create and publish absolutely anything if it means extra clicks and views.

[tarquin]

(05-11-2014 03:48 PM)The Lizard of Oz Wrote:  

These people -- the baby boomers -- have the easiest, most luxurious, and most comfortable lives of any generation that's ever lived.

And all they ever do is WHINE about the very few burdens that they actually have. And they are so cowardly and so afraid of "pain" that they are obsessed above all with their coming old age and the loss of some bodily comforts. And they are so idiotically nihilistic that they always wish to hasten death just because the end of life is relatively difficult and painful.

They only wish to hasten the death of their parents, not their deaths. Baby boomers happily ignore all advice regarding exercise and diet, but then endlessly medicate and go screaming and kicking when their poor decisions bring untimely disease and death- having doctors do all sorts of medical procedures which may or may not extend life with who-knows-what kind of quality of life. Too little, too late.

Not saying that anybody should ever just give up, but many of these folks gave up years ago and somehow think things are different for them.

[Sailor]

What? The broad was born in 1951? and you guys all claim they made good girls back in the good old times

[cooledcannon]

Japan be crazy.

[Sombro]

And in the same vein…

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Monogamy Envy: Why do supposedly brave reconsiderations of a cherished notion sound so trite?
By James Lileks

With Mother’s Day nigh, you brace yourself for pieces in Slate and Salon along the lines of “To Hell with Motherhood: The Case for a Holiday to Celebrate the Real Victims of Kermit Gosnell, His Underpaid Staff” or “I’m Sick of Pretending I Love My Child.” Since no one’s written it yet, I’m reduced to imagining how they’ll sound:

Was I the only one who watched The Da Vinci Code hoping the secret message about Christianity was that some Roman version of Hallmark made up Jesus to sell greeting cards? I’m certainly not alone in regarding Valentine’s Day as a manufactured excuse to underscore historical gender norms with a little kiddie porn thrown in (really, what’s with all the naked babies with wings and bows and arrows?), but I know I’m probably in the minority when it comes to Mother’s Day. Hate it.

And so on with the brave, fearless reconsideration of all our cherished notions. One of these days someone will write “My mom hit me with a baseball and I threw up apple pie on the flag” and they’ll close up the sites, having said it all.

Until these pieces are posted, let’s amuse ourselves with The New Republic, where an author wrote “It’s Time to Ditch Monogamy.” A piece from the archives of 1970? No, bold new thinking, spurred by Cameron Diaz’s insights on the superiority of drifting from one chap to the next. Monogamy doesn’t work for Diaz, or the author of the piece, so Ditching must begin. It’s not enough to say, “I just can’t imagine sticking with one person the rest of my life. I foresee a series of satisfying relationships of varying duration and intensity, after which I retire to Nice and become known in the neighborhood as the iconoclastic woman who turned to pottery at the age of 74.” No, you have to decide that everyone should rethink the idea of faithfulness…

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/377497/print

I don't have a dog in the fight for or against monogamy, but it just seems a lot of women hit middle age with a string of failed relationships behind them, and the Hamster comes along to tell her, "It's allright, everything you've done is right and natural.

From the comments:

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The fairytale here is that a woman's ability to command men into "satisfying relationships" after they have slept with dozens of men persists much beyond their early 30s. In fact, a la Maureen Dowd, women become sexually invisible to men at this time, and if they haven't managed to snag one and hold on to him by being a good wife, find that they're lonely and the guys their age (40s-50s) can still pull good looking, fine women in their 20s and 30s. Even in their 60s they dip into 40s etc. The gap is enormous. And the loneliness and ripoff of female "sexual liberation" is palpable. Also, let's keep it real conservatives; marriage also exists to tame the shiny object, attention deficit, ego pumping worst instincts of men. It's nto men, after all, who initiate 2/3 of divorces.

[ElBorrachoInfamoso]

The parents of the baby boomers were the ones with the most power to stop feminism from infecting the developed world in the 60s and 70s. I love my grandparents, but as a generation, fuck those people.

They raised the children they deserve.

[Wutang]

(05-11-2014 05:12 PM)tarquin Wrote:  

(05-11-2014 03:48 PM)The Lizard of Oz Wrote:  

These people -- the baby boomers -- have the easiest, most luxurious, and most comfortable lives of any generation that's ever lived.

And all they ever do is WHINE about the very few burdens that they actually have. And they are so cowardly and so afraid of "pain" that they are obsessed above all with their coming old age and the loss of some bodily comforts. And they are so idiotically nihilistic that they always wish to hasten death just because the end of life is relatively difficult and painful.

They only wish to hasten the death of their parents, not their deaths. Baby boomers happily ignore all advice regarding exercise and diet, but then endlessly medicate and go screaming and kicking when their poor decisions bring untimely disease and death- having doctors do all sorts of medical procedures which may or may not extend life with who-knows-what kind of quality of life. Too little, too late.

Not saying that anybody should ever just give up, but many of these folks gave up years ago and somehow think things are different for them.

Applies to those who grew up in the US during that time but remember the broad being discussed in this thread and her mom are Japanese. My (East Asian) parents are about 10 years too young to be baby boomers but still fairly close to that generation and they are pretty much the opposite of all the spoiled, entitled baby boomers that get shat on constantly by our generation.

[The Lizard of Oz]

I don't feel like starting another New York Times thread so I'm going to bump this one to report on a truly insane and glorious fact related to more Year Zero antics at the NYT.

As was widely reported, the NYT executive editor, a SUPERHAG named Jill Abramson was fired yesterday because of management issues. While that is excellent news (Abramson had turned the NYT into the hardest core feminist propaganda rag to a degree that exceeded even what came before her), what really caught my eye was this nugget from the NYT's own story about this momentous event:

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Both Mr. Baquet and Mr. Sulzberger praised Ms. Abramson for her efforts, but at a newspaper where executive editors generally serve until they are 65, her tenure was five years shorter than many thought it would be. When she was named the paper’s top editor, Ms. Abramson called it “the honor of my life.” She recently got a tattoo of The Times’s gothic “T” on her back.

So this 60 YEAR OLD HAG



TATTOOED THIS ON HER BACK



And now she's out.

[Dusty]

^^^

I'm enjoying the schadenfreude of this cunt being fired too.

They say part of her problem was her controlling and abrasive management style.

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Only nine months ago, Sulzberger invited Newsweek to breakfast with chief executive Thompson in order to show conspicuous support for Abramson, who had been the subject of a negative story in Politico that asserted that her editorship was already a failure, and that her abrasive manner had alienated so many Times employees that she was “on the verge of losing the support of the newsroom.”

Let me translate the above quote from corporate-speak to English. She was a ball cutting cunt that no one could stand including other women.

I have a theory about female leadership which I wrote about here that helps explain that.

Tuth also has some good insights on female "leadership."

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Tuth:Worst still is the pant-suit-wearing, “Lean In,” you-go-girl, make-believe-I’m-a-man-style leadership that’s being encouraged by today’s popular media. These women, failing to understand the true nature of male leadership, attempt to replicate masculine poise, but end up with little more than aggressive power-tripping. They become plain-and-simple bullies who, rather than commanding respect, command nothing but hate and fear. Both male and female employees, in turn, work to keep their jobs rather to improve the company bottom-line or help their co-workers. Innovation turns into self-preservation.

[The Lizard of Oz]

(05-15-2014 09:24 PM)Dusty Wrote:  

^^^

I'm enjoying the schadenfreude of this cunt being fired too.

They say part of her problem was her controlling and abrasive management style.

I have a theory about female leadership which I wrote about here that helps explain that.

Dusty, it's good she was fired and you're right that these hags suck at "leadership" and would be hell on wheels to work for.

But what really stunned me is that this 60 year old hag actually went out and got that T tattooed that on her granny's choice dry-aged back.

It is the Mother Of All Hag Tats.

[Dusty]

(05-15-2014 09:34 PM)The Lizard of Oz Wrote:  

actually went out and got that T tattooed that on her granny's choice dry-aged back.

[The Lizard of Oz]

I have long been obsessed with hag ink, as evidenced by this post from early in my posting career:

(09-05-2013 09:07 PM)The Lizard of Oz Wrote:  

(09-05-2013 01:30 PM)Wutang Wrote:  

There's going to be a lot of grannies with tramp stamps in about 40 years.

Exactly.

Think about the mortician who has to deal with "granny's sleeves". Those dudes are going to be taking a lot of grief once these inked-up wretches start to croak.

Can you imagine being a kid growing up, maybe you come out with your mangina coder daddy to see your divorced granny living in one of those nasty/glorious Florida burgs. Then granny bends over and you see some large black Chinese characters on the small of her back. You realize at that moment that your entire family needs to die, by your hand if need be.

Seriously, guys need to to talk with bitches about what will happen when they're old. There is a way that a tat on parched and wrinkled skin looks that surpasses in ugliness anything I've ever seen.

The epidemic of tattoos is the single worst thing happening to American women today -- and that is really saying something. When will it peak?

However, I mostly envisioned vintage tats from the hag's nominal pre-wall youth that age alongside the hag in a paired desolation.

But this fresh wound -- like a missile of driest black rock launched into the Sahara desert -- leaves me dazed and speechless.

[iknowexactly]

(05-11-2014 03:48 PM)The Lizard of Oz Wrote:  

These people -- the baby boomers -- have the easiest, most luxurious, and most comfortable lives of any generation that's ever lived.

Tasteless article by an arguably rather narcissistic woman. Generalizing about boomers from it is maybe not the most justified logical leap. It's just one person.

This urge to find a "them" who have screwed everything up, without whom everything would be OK, is a primitive and immature way of thinking that lends itself to non-productive overgeneralization and vengefulness.

Maybe we could compare, say, a boomer nurse to what you do for humanity? I'm interested in what you yourself do that is so unselfish, so good for the collective you claim the boomers abuse.

I'm a boomer and have worked in health care for about ten years, though I admit I'm lazy and could have worked more full time.

Tell us why you're any better.

[The Lizard of Oz]

(05-15-2014 11:21 PM)iknowexactly Wrote:  

I'm a boomer

I know, but you get a pass because you love young pussy so much and because Mech likes you.

Though you're starting to get a little grumpy as the PHILS high wears off...

There is no "vengefulness" lol but boomers are a bunch of whiners and this article and the fact of its publication on Mother's Day are an outrage.

(05-15-2014 11:21 PM)iknowexactly Wrote:  

I'm interested in what you yourself do that is so unselfish, so good for the collective you claim the boomers abuse.

I put guys like yourself on much needed 1 year drinking wagons.

[TigerMandingo]