An Alastair

Dang, for imperturbably immovable male confidence this really takes the biscuit.

Punch line:

“I don’t know as much about it as you do, and I will tell you what to do anyway.”

Biscuit taken as no other biscuit has ever been taken.

Comments

5 responses to “An Alastair”

  1. Nullius in Verba Avatar
    Nullius in Verba

    If he doesn’t know as much as she does, why does he feel confident in opining on what the debate needs? Wouldn’t that be something that knowledge of the issue might touch upon?

  2. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Well quite. That was my point. It takes really astounding nerve to announce you know less about it and go right on to say shut up anyway.

  3. Mike Haubrich Avatar
    Mike Haubrich

    Yeah, it’s just not important to listen in order to have a decent debate. Listening is so divisive.

  4. iknklast Avatar

    Mike H, I’m sure that listening is a colonial imposition by western colonizers on indigenous people. No one ever considered listening before the patriarchal racist imperialist westerners forced it down everyone’s throat.

  5. Nullius in Verba Avatar
    Nullius in Verba

    I mean, things like free expression and epistemic adequacy are considered by wokeness to be tools of oppression, so …