"Parents Shocked at Drag Queen 'Pre-Show' Ahead of 'Star Wars' at Alamo Cinemas."
How good is your bullshit detector?
I went there from Instapundit. PJ Media is not a place I go on my own, and here's a great example of why I find it so off-putting.
December 29, 2019
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 226 of 226"Gee Ann, calling your efforts at deleting comments piss poor turns out to be one of the least offensive insults you have endured on this thread. I actually feel sorry for you."
What you need to do is apologize. Are you too blind to tell the difference between commenters I talk to and commenters I just delete? You really should apologize to me. I have engaged with you and given time to you personally, but you don't value it. I will not longer give personal time to you.
AA 3:11
I believe you have deleted posts. I am not the only one here to have noticed it, because even Michael K remarked about a missing post last week. Whether the posts you deleted made you look bad or not I do not know. Calling Gahrie a liar for saying so though, and threatening to ban him on that basis, does make you look bad.
Ok please stop the personal attacks on our hostess and her husband. Not cool.
The professor had a point about the missing word. I'm not otherwise interested in the theater issue, except to note that we're expected now to regard some biological men who present themselves as women as kidding, and strictly accept some other biological men who present themselves as women as actual women. It's too much. One of those categories will have to go, for the other to survive.
Some Like it Hot.
If you can't stand the heat, don't go into the kitchen.
Gee Ann, calling your efforts at deleting comments piss poor turns out to be one of the least offensive insults you have endured on this thread. I actually feel sorry for you.
Do you actually enjoy being a jerk, Freder?
Althouse has been tolerant of annoyingly petty and stupid commenters like you for a long time. Most of us have made dumb comments at one time or another. You seem to make a consistent practice of it.
I feel sorry for you.
Not!
Incredible what passes as entertainment these days, glad I’m a homebody.
Aside from Instapundit I too mostly avoid PJM. And now alas I have to avoid some of the Instapundit posts, those by Driscoll and Hoyt who relentlessly click-bait their headlines, and link to stories which do not justify the teaser. Glenn is a rock, but he is too generous to those two.
Laslo: "In today's world, you can never be left alone to eat your waffle."
Alas!
Shakespeare (through Polonius) responds:
"...'tis true,
'tis true 'tis pity,
And pity 'tis, 'tis true..."
And Cicero gets the last word: "O tempora! o mores!"
I have nothing to add to the above, but have done my duty by bringing attention to them.
Here's some advice I offer those of you not from the Northeast that are offended by drag queens and gay men: stay away from Ogunquit, ME. Whatever you do, don't go the The Front Porch piano bar. And don't attend any of the drag shows, like "Drag Queen Divas" that mrs. stevew and I attended. Don't stay at a B&B in town, most are owned and hosted by gay men. If you do go there and want to complain then just stfu, it isn't there for you and the rest of us don't care what you think.
That is a lie, Gahrie. You are about to fall into the category of bad faith commenter, which means that I will delete you every time regardless of what you write.
That would make me incredibly sad, but to be honest it's something I've been expecting for a while.
As to deleting posts: There was a post talking about a Supreme Court seat. It dealt with the incumbent and his predecessor. You insisted that the Justice had been preceded by one man, and we corrected you that it was someone else. You eventually conceded your mistake, and then deleted all the posts where you insisted you were right. If the posts where you called rape victims splooge stooges no longer exist, than someone deleted them too.
As for insulting me personally, and calling rape victims splooge stooges I stand by my claims. I'm kind of surprised you are disputing these facts now, I've been bringing them up for years.
In the past when I have felt that you went over the line I addressed you privately. Every comment I have made about you on the blog has been based on what you yourself have written.
Indeed I would argue that not only am I a good faith commenter, I am one of your most loyal, if not subservient.
Ken B: you should read Richard Fernandez (Belmont Club blog). He's on PJM like Instapundit but I go directly to his blog. He's got a fascinating personal history and an astute world view.
I've never been to an Alamo brand theater, but in my town our high-priced, bar-themed theater is in the mall. Because of the location, there are probably more groups with kids there than not.
I suspect because of the family-friendly reputation of the franchise that people assumed it would be fine. The PG-13 Star Wars films have been just barely so, and even then not because of sexual content. You don't go to a movie expecting the previews to be more risque than the movie.
That being said, the guy on the left is clearly meant to evoke Leia's Return of the Jedi metal bikini and I can't help but wonder if the same parents ever bothered to shield their kids' eyes from that scene.
"As to deleting posts: There was a post talking about a Supreme Court seat. It dealt with the incumbent and his predecessor. You insisted that the Justice had been preceded by one man, and we corrected you that it was someone else. You eventually conceded your mistake, and then deleted all the posts where you insisted you were right. If the posts where you called rape victims splooge stooges no longer exist, than someone deleted them too."
I have never deleted a post. Never. If there's something wrong in a post, I add a correction to the post. If you're talking about deleting comments, you should say comments. I don't remember what you're talking about, but it's possible that I've deleted irrelevant/repetitious comments of my own, along with an acknowledgement that something was wrong. I do not EVER do what you accused me of, which is making things disappear to protect or benefit myself.
I DID NOT call rape victims "splooge stooges." That expression was used to say: "Don't be a splooge stooge." That's not calling anyone anything but advising all men to keep track of their genetic material. And it was certainly never aimed at "rape victims." That's a scurrilous accusation and you should have apologized for it LONG AGO.
In the case of a man who is the father of a child, a state may require him to pay child support because it puts the care of the child ABOVE the man's interests. If the father could avoid this responsibility by claiming to have been raped, there would be some false claims or it could be hard for the state to deal with these claims. That's the CONTEXT in which I addressed these stories of men who have said the laws are unfair to them.
YOU should have taken the trouble to understand or refrain from accusations if you didn't bother to understand.
"As for insulting me personally, and calling rape victims splooge stooges I stand by my claims. I'm kind of surprised you are disputing these facts now, I've been bringing them up for years."
YOU have been wrong for years and YOU have been wronging me. YOU should be apologizing, not trying to use my failure to devote even MORE time to you as some sort of evidence that you are right. RIDICULOUS. How DARE you use MY blog, MY forum, which I work hard on every day, to indulge your flabby accusations against me.
"Indeed I would argue that not only am I a good faith commenter, I am one of your most loyal, if not subservient."
YOU have been WRONGING ME and TAKING ADVANTAGE of my forum and wasting my time.
I'm not going to just start deleting you, and I actually believe that you think you are right, but you are not. You're bullheaded on this topic of holding men responsible for their genetic output, and I'm absolutely sick of talking to you about it. I would say stop talking about it, because you are LYING about me. You are DEFAMING me. That needs to stop, even if you can't or won't understand your ERROR.
Gee this was an interesting comment thread. Liberals are deluded.
“RIDICULOUS. How DARE you use MY blog, MY forum, which I work hard on every day, to indulge your flabby accusations against me.”
Has he stolen your future?
What you need to do is apologize. Are you too blind to tell the difference between commenters I talk to and commenters I just delete? You really should apologize to me. I have engaged with you and given time to you personally, but you don't value it. I will not longer give personal time to you.
If you are talking about the one time I emailed you directly to ask you to remove comments that accused me, apparently because Michael K thought it was funny, of serious felonies, I did appreciate that and thanked for you for it.
As for you engaging me in the comments, the vast majority of the time it is to insult me or demand that I apologize for a comment I made about you (like when I made the initial comment about you doing a poor job--I will apologize for using the phrase "piss poor", that was a little too harsh, but at that point you had indeed missed several posts by she who must not be named and some replies to comments you had deleted). Why should I value you calling me an asshole (as you have on several occasions) or accusing me of deliberately misreading what you wrote?
I suspect that the decision to show this particular "tranny trailer" was made with full awareness of who would be in the audience, and with the intent to blindside people who would be offended by this material, and to access their children, who might otherwise miss out on the indoctrination. My guess is that Alamo expected the blowback, and considered it a small price to pay for advancing the agenda. Just like "gun control", the real motivation is to show the rubes who's boss. As I think Glenn has said more than once at Instapundit, "you will be made to care".
Greg the class traitor..might want to recognize that not everybody agrees on the same things..I reiterate that the best way to stop people from showing drag shows to children is to refuse to attend..boycott their business..hit them economically. I get you are upset..that’s clear..I don’t like it either..but you don’t correct things by by being a baby about them..you show people why it isn’t in their best interest to do it.
"I will give you exactly ONE chance now to write something that proves you are not in bad faith. You must deal with everything I've said to you thus far in this thread. If you do not redeem yourself, you are PERMANENTLY PERSONA NON GRATA, just like the person I have been deleting over and over today. A nonentity who is never read."
I've not been back to the blog for about a year. After reading the above it might be another year before I come back again. What happened to freedom of speech? When did you become this bitter person? This is not the Ann I used to read all the time.
So am I to understand that the omission of "Drafthouse" from the article was devastating, even though
1. Other Alamo theaters that aren't "Drafthouses" did the same thing?
2. Regardless of the name of the place, or that liquor was available to those over 21, the theater was showing a movie that children would want to see, and that anyone age 6 or over could come?
Also, according to Althouse, parents who want to shield their children from confusing sexual material are comparable to adults who can't tolerate political views at variance from their own ("snowflakes").
Not one of AA's better efforts.
I have an Alamo Drafthouse literally across the street from my house. I can see the sign from my front porch. I LOVE the movie experience there, and I go there all the time, as do most of the people in my social circle. It's definitely not an adults-only place, it's not a bar, it's not rowdy (they actually have very strict behavior standards as others have noted), and no one has any more reticence about taking a child there than they do any other movie theater. And lots of people just colloquially refer to it as "Alamo" without the Drafthouse because that's a mouthful.
Just like I said on the airline loyalty post the other day -- maybe those who don't have much or any direct experience with a particular thing should just take a pass on having strong opinions about it.
Ken B said...
“RIDICULOUS. How DARE you use MY blog, MY forum, which I work hard on every day, to indulge your flabby accusations against me.”
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Has he stolen your future?
LOLOL -- Now that, I would like to see! Ms. Althouse playing ms. thunberg next Halloween, giving out jumbo hersey bars with the other government employees in Madison!
Indeed I would argue that not only am I a good faith commenter, I am one of your most loyal, if not subservient.
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You will never win, with a strong-willed person, by backing down.
If you have the facts on your side, and you have a bit of lived life experience that you KNOW contradicts with what others are writing about people, places or facts, YOU HAVE TO SPEAK OUT.
Otherwise, the strong-willed people will take over, and implement their ignorance, which can affect all of us.
You will never "win" by backing down, only by being confident in your facts and directly confronting the person in error. (Do not do this privately, There are no witnesses. The Bible tells us, bring a friend as a witness, and confront your brother who has sinned against you... If he doesn't respond, try again, But never does the Lord tell you to back down when faith and reason are on your side.
Don't be subservient. When a hostess is wrong, politely correct her. OVer and over and over again, if necessary. (Do not "break the rules", but on a blog that accepts open comments in a moderated thead, maybe she will either "ban" people before commenting, or by having to delete everyone who corrects her, she too will learn.
We cannot let the most dominant dummies build our futures
We do not want to tolerate draq-queen shows that are not advertised, before a Star Wars movie, even if it is in a place where alcohol is served. In Wisconsin, bars and supper clubs too "host children". It is a gathering place to eat, socialize, and for the kids -- play too.
What is most offensive is when tolerant people who do not care what type of rock shows you brought your kids to (Dime Bag Darrell--RIP) are told that they must be subservient and a captive movie audience either has to up and ask for their money back, or exit the theater for a time, while the drag-queen pre-show is showing, that parents did not know was coming.
You have your opinions ann.
You are far out ahead of most of us.
But... you raised your kids and family. You're older now. It's not your place to dictate societal norms, nor to tell parents today how to raise their own (where to take them, what they can watch, etc.)
Grow up, and let go of the control a bit?
Just because you are aging and not working, count your blessings! You didn't have to get up with the sun, for years and years to work in the dark and cold. Only now in retirement, are you discovering "another world" out there.
Imagine if you left Madison more, how much you would see of other people's regular lives, how we live, and most importantly, you would lose some of that anger that you have inside of you. Madison is what you have demonstrated in this thread: Madison always knows better. Government beats family. You will be told what to do -- in the schools, in the communities, progressive values rule and you will be told that.
Privately, of course, there are many patriots and Christians in Madison. But around the school and the government up and down State Street, you would never know that.
Come up to Minneapolis, ann. Not too far a drive. Progressive city too, but full of everyday Americans -- immigrants, whites, frozen Chosen, and yes progs. But we keep them in check her.
Not by being subservient, but by using our collective voices and confronting good intentions with the realities of our live. Shared control in governments -- try getting out of Madison and seeing how people work together in the real world. It will help with the meltdowns, deletions and "fixes" on the blog.
Xmas said...
Nichevo,
PG-13 didn't exist until 1984, Empire came out in 1980. The re-release special editions may have been PG-13 though.
Begging your pardon, I believe the hand scene was inserted to get the PG rating. Thanks that explains the discrepancy. Otherwise apparently it would have gotten a G and been perceived as kid stuff. I think for the same reason they inserted some gratuitous profanity into ET the Extra-Terrestrial to avoid the G rating.
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