JCO keeps right on demonstrating that nobody’s home.
So JCO has never had the faintest idea why toilets are designated for women or men? She’s never been assaulted or spied on in a women’s toilet? That would be odd, because it’s a very common experience for women. She thinks there’s no need for prevention, it’s enough to do something unspecified after it happens?
And she calls us “airy, vacuous”…
And she will still be calling you ‘airy and vacuous’ until the day she is assalted herself in a womens’ public dunny by some galah who chooses a ‘want to play at being female’ disguise for himself. Which makes me wonder if her own apparent naivete is masking her real identity. She could always dress up like a nun, and go everywhere carrying a plastic bucket around under her habit, so that she is never caught short; after a nasty experience that she is in denial about.
I have nothing–absolutely nothing–to do with any of these cases. no idea what they even are.
Is she channeling Trump? And what’s with the ridiculous writing style? The lack of capitalisation (except for the first person singular ‘I’) and double hyphens? Is it an airy and vacuous affectation to appear ‘down’ with the kids?
I noticed that too, also a lack of misspellings. Maybe it’s her autocorrect and talk to text settings, but that doesn’t explain the random hyphenations. AI? Drunkposting?
It’s an affectation of some sort, a “style” – but then it just goes back to her being stupid again. It’s stupid of her to think that’s a useful or impressive or charming or whatever presentation of self.
And yet she’s still using two spaces after a period. As an old man, I can relate, but I got that pounded out of me long ago.
The ampersand abuse too. I know an editor could easily fix the punctuation, but probably not the content.
I hate to be a pedant–actually, I don’t–but JCO is using the em dash correctly. In the days of typewriters, a double space after a period was standard, as was a double dash to indicate an em dash. Even today, a double dash will produce an em dash in most word processing programs. The em dash is used without leading or trailing spaces, and looks strange to modern eyes. https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-to-use
But correct for what medium though? Or not so much correct as usual/normal/expected for the particular medium that is twitX. It’s not “wrong” but it’s a style affectation. As AoS said, “the ridiculous writing style”. It’s annoyingly “different” and showy and tiresome to read. She’s tiresome altogether.
I agree with Sumi in comment #7, that JCO is correct entering double ASCII hyphens on X, as Wikipedia explains (where Wikipedia writes hyphen‑minus to mean the original ASCII hyphen that is readily available on most keyboards):
In informal contexts, a hyphen‑minus (‑) is often used as a substitute for an en dash, as is a pair of hyphen-minuses (‑‑) for an em dash, because the hyphen‑minus symbol is readily available on most keyboards…
When an en dash is unavailable in a particular character encoding environment—as in the ASCII character set—there are some conventional substitutions. Often two consecutive hyphens are the substitute.
Note 1: In AoS comment #2, in the blockquote, WordPress converted JCO’s double ASCII hyphens to longer Unicode dashes that display the same length that Ophelia displays in comment #4. All of that is consistent.
Note 2: If my blockquote from Wikipedia displays their double hyphens correctly, it is because I entered Unicode non‑breaking hyphens to fool WordPress.
I agree, it really looks like she’s trying to post on Xitter in a half ass “cool kids” style, but why? It distracts from the messages it tries to convey, not that the messages aren’t ill conceived despite the style, if we’re calling it that. I agree it’s ridiculous, like some kind of adolescent rebellion against standard literary diction. Cool, man.
Because she’s a twerp.
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