November 11, 2022

"Have you seen how miserable and how miserable-looking a lot of the students are. They're deliberately uglifying themselves. You see them on TikTok..."

"They're out of shape. They're asexual. They're, like, rejecting the truth in beauty. They all look like rejects from a loony bin. I'd steer clear of college too."

Said Greg Gutfeld on "The Five" a few weeks ago, and it's become a much-used sound on TikTok. Videos collected here. You can scroll through them for yourself. I'll just select one to show you how young people are arguing back at Gutfeld:


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63 comments:

RideSpaceMountain said...

Boy oh boy theirselves sure told him! Mrz. Nancy nosering sprxlybrat doesn't need the likes of boomer gutfeld telling theirs-elfs about how much trouble they can be for Chinese hordes on some pacific island. They told his deadass on tiktok no less, fr fr no cap on god.

Spiros Pappas said...

I was forced to watch a teeny bomper zombie movie. It is true. Even the 20 something actors are way uglier now than they have ever been.

It used to be that the gargoyles and schlubby men were directors or writers or whatever. Now they're actors and actresses.

Kay said...

Just looked up a picture of this guy, and it’s pretty obvious that “rejecting beauty” isn’t just for college kids.

What's emanating from your penumbra said...

Disgusting and misogynistic. (Replace "students" with "incels" and you're in the clear, Greg.)

Inga said...

Who the hell made Gutfeld the arbiter of human beauty? He has always been ugly inside and out and that is why rightists like him are being rejected by the majority of Americans, especially young Americans who will now be voting in ever increasing numbers.

Jeff Vader said...

He’s 100% correct, gen z is very sad in every way

Jim at said...

Who the hell made Gutfeld the arbiter of human beauty?

Nobody did. He expressed an opinion.
Don't like it? Tough shit.

Butkus51 said...

Ella Emhoff (Inga in drag)

all her fault

unibrows are so in

oh wait, shave them off.......even better

Fetterman is a genius, Joe is all there.

Racist

Ted said...

Have things really changed that much? The generation-defining 1994 movie "Reality Bites" was just a bunch of doughy, depressed recent college graduates complaining about how they couldn't get through the day without coffee and cigarettes.

I think students these days are actually much more likely to eat healthy and lift weights.

Wince said...

"Have you seen how miserable and how miserable-looking a lot of the students are. They're deliberately uglifying themselves... They're out of shape. They're asexual. They're, like, rejecting the truth in beauty... College doesn't look like it's fun anymore."


I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be

effinayright said...

Inga said...
Who the hell made Gutfeld the arbiter of human beauty? He has always been ugly inside and out and that is why rightists like him are being rejected by the majority of Americans, especially young Americans who will now be voting in ever increasing numbers.
***************

Who the hell made neuron-depleted Inga the arbiter of ANYTHING????

Gutfeld at least draws a very large audience.

Inga draws flies.

Narr said...

Aww, Gutfeld criticized young people!

Aww, young people have responded to his observations!

Now Althousers have to weigh in (I'm up to 230+ alas).

Gutfeld trolls w/o trying.

Earnest Prole said...

I’m a little surprised how tall Gutfeld is in real life. I mean, he’s a little fellow, but not circus-midget little, as his reputation would suggest.

Mike said...

Well I don't know about "deliberately uglifying themselves". Not unless you count nose rings and massive body tattoos.

But if you recall the girls from your high school and college days (in my case 1957 to 1965) most of the girls and the guys weren't packing 30 extra pounds they didn't need.

Walk on a high school or college campus these days and it's all "Chunky Monkey" body styles.
Now as one rather zaftig college sophomore of my then acquaintance told me, she was "built for comfort not for speed". Well okay--I don't see too many speedy folks on the current high school and college scene.

Michael K said...

that is why rightists like him are being rejected by the majority of Americans, especially young Americans who will now be voting in ever increasing numbers.

The resident dullard reminds us that the young and ignorant will be voting in increasing number. I have a book for her to read. It's called "The Dumbest Generation Grows Up."

Happily, I won't be around for the worst of it. Unless I inherited my mother's longevity. (103)

What's emanating from your penumbra said...

"I'll just select one to show you how young people are arguing back at Gutfeld:"

I was expecting some arguing back in the tiktoks. From what I saw they seemed to be saying his criticism doesn't hurt them because they embrace it. They showed him, I guess?

I hope he doesn't call them dumb. I don't know if I can stomach an avalanche of glue-eating tiktoks.

Anyway, it's sort of expected that the yutes will follow ridiculous fads that will embarrass them in the future. This era might break some records, though.

"Who the hell made Gutfeld the arbiter of human beauty? He has always been ugly"

Who the hell made Inga... eh never mind.

rhhardin said...

Society needs more acting skill and weaponized irony.

FOWFan said...

I was at Ole Miss a few weeks ago. I can tell you that the girls there are everything I remember from the 1980s.

readering said...

Trying to picture what a reject from the looney bin looks like. If he thinks they are all asexual, no wonder he plays down the significance of post-Dobbs abortion rights politics. I wonder which campuses he selected for his investigation.

Wilbur said...

"especially young Americans who will now be voting in ever increasing numbers"

Nothing else matters to a Leftist, that is, assuming they will vote as the Ingas of the world expect them to. The Left has done their best to poison their minds growing up.

One day, many will realize how they and their future were screwed over by the Ingas of this world.

Lurker21 said...

Well, she's got a sense of humor. And she's not unattractive. She is uglifying herself with the nose thing, though.

The uglifying trend goes back further than Gen Z, though. Gutfeld belongs to the generation that still might have had an uncle who got tattoos in the Navy or Marines in WWII. Tattoos became strangely attractive to later generations. Piercings and whatever some people are doing to their ears have also been around for a while.

tommyesq said...

I think students these days are actually much more likely to eat healthy and lift weights.

Not so sure about the lifting weights part of it - skinny and anemic or pudgy and doughy seems more today's style.

tommyesq said...

Proving Gutfeld's point - NYT published an article slamming LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne for making money (around $2 million) in sponsorships for cashing in on her good looks (quoting a rival college gymnastics coach, all the proof the Times needs these days) because being beautiful is now seen as "bad."

To see her response, look here - https://www.outkick.com/olivia-dunne-instagram-photo-new-york-times-response/.

NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...

Can't say that I disagree. I've started thinking something similar once I noticed how many pretty women I see with a whole raft of bad tattoos. It's almost like they are trying relieve themselves of the burden of being attractive.

Yancey Ward said...

Without question, teens and people in college are much fatter than when I was college in the 1980s. It isn't healthy, and it definitely isn't attractive in either gender. I suppose we could pretend this isn't so, or try to convince ourselves that it is attractive to be overweight and pale but, good luck with all that.

Gusty Winds said...

My kids are Generation Z. My daughter is actually quite beautiful. But she's got cheap tattoos and at the moment her hair is half jet black and half bright green. She's got that center nose ring too. I want her to be whatever she wants to be. More than ANYTHING I just want her to be happy, which it seems most in her generation struggle to achieve.

Leave them alone Mr. Gutfeld. Most of their problems are because their Generation X parents helicoptered them. Brought juice boxes to soccer practice. Posted only their successes on social media, and hid everyone's common failures. The age of make believe.

Generation X let the schools dose the boys with Ritalin and put the girls on anti-depressants. They were never allowed to just "get lost", and they've had social media following them around every minute of their lives.

Schools never made them run around the block everyday. Maybe that's why they are overweight. They were always pushed with "new math" and taught to pass standardized tests so their school could get an atta boy from the Dept of Education.

The public schools gave them homework in the first grade, rather than get the work done at school...and let them just be kids after. They are so insecure, they want to reject the body God gave them.

College drives them into massive debt, they are young and dealing with 10% inflation, soaring rents, and are probably priced out of the housing market until they are 40.

My friends don't like it when I say it, but the problem with Generation Z was being raised by The Breakfast Club.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

I think he's referring to these folks.

rcocean said...

That's the comeback? Really?

Mark said...

Gutfield, king of incels.

Leland said...

that is why rightists like him are being rejected by the majority of Americans

Not according to Nielsen.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

happiness can be found in a box of green hair dye.
Gusty - I feel ya - but you're the parent. You can take charge.

JaimeRoberto said...

My daughter dresses in a way that we think is unattractive. Nose ring, round glasses that aren't flattering, much like the girl in that video. But every generation seemingly has done that. The big hair and punks of my youth didn't look that good either in retrospect. Heck, Julius Caesar wore a loosely belted toga. Who does that?

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

We don't have cable - so I watch Gutfeld on Youtube.

I think Gutfeld is funny and clever. Biting - but often goofy. He's not always funny - and sometimes his jokes fall flat. He is able to laugh at himself when that happens. The refreshing part of Gutfeld's show is that he isn't the cookie-cutter leftist democrat propagandist like Colbert or Kimmel. (Or Saturday Night Democrat) That's why people like him. Also - his guests are great. I love Tyrus! I have a crush on Tyrus.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Interesting that the thin young people are responding.

Howard said...

You Cucks and Incels don't get around. I swim at a college pool all the time it's right next to the football field. The place is crawling with beautiful athletic intelligent genZ women. Exactly the kind of women whom intimidate and shun you short dumpy mouth breathing CPAP wearing betas. That's why you are left with the cat ladies.

effinayright said...

Earnest Prole said...
I’m a little surprised how tall Gutfeld is in real life. I mean, he’s a little fellow, but not circus-midget little, as his reputation would suggest.
************

Yeah. His ownership of late-night TV is a sure sign of how bad his reputation is.

SNORT

Richard said...

Fifty-plus years ago, the campus left insisted that good looking women, women who took care for their looks, were superficial and shallow.
Thus, lefty girls didn't try for any kind of the usual makeup and dress for out in public that even casual going-to-class times ordinarily generated. And on the basis of if some is good, more is better, some went frump with a vengeance. Sandals are one thing, but half-size snow shoes made from uncured water buffalo hide were The Thing in some circles.

It would have been different if it were merely a matter of distancing oneself from the bourgeois dress requirements. But dissing the more fortunate so viciously was unnecessary.

effinayright said...

Gusty Winds said...
My kids are Generation Z. My daughter is actually quite beautiful. But she's got cheap tattoos and at the moment her hair is half jet black and half bright green. She's got that center nose ring too. I want her to be whatever she wants to be. More than ANYTHING I just want her to be happy, which it seems most in her generation struggle to achieve.

Leave them alone Mr. Gutfeld.
*******************

Sounds to me like you're an utterly incompetent parent. What if "whatever she wants to be" is a whore, hooker, tweaker or just a skank?

Would you give that advice to a boot camp drill sergeant addressing new recruits, AT ANY TIME during our country's history?

IOW "You're talentless, overweight, uneducated, can't engage in critical thinking, are self-mutilating, helpless and lacking in initiative or leadership skills.....but that's OK.

Now grab those weapons, get on those trucks and start firing wildly as soon as you're at the front lines."

(I suspect that's what Russian conscripts hear."

How's that working out for them?

Rocketeer said...

“Incel” is the new “racist.”

effinayright said...

Brain-dead Mark said...
Gutfield, king of incels.
***********

"As of 2018, Gutfeld resides in New York City with his Russian wife, Elena Moussa. He met the photo editor in London, where he lived for three years."

You flaky fuckwit.

Narr said...

The modest and demure look was a good choice, but I thought she might have something to say.

She's a better looking young woman than Gutfeld is as an old fart in the making. FWIW and as if it proved anything one way or the other.

I was on campus the other day and saw the usual diversity of fauna. Maybe a little heftier than previously. Maybe, but there was plenty of lean too.


FullMoon said...

Commenter Inga breaks her silence to claim, without evidence, that Greg Gutfeld is allegedly the arbiter of human beauty?

SAD!

Carol said...

Gee I don't know why girls wouldn't want to look their best for the porn-addled gropers in Geometry class.

Mason G said...

"Nobody did. He expressed an opinion.
Don't like it? Tough shit."


Progressives need their leaders to tell them who to like and who to hate. The idea that someone might have an independent thought is completely beyond their ability to comprehend.

Ampersand said...

Gutfeld generalizes shamelessly. The vein of truth that he has tapped into is associated with the neo-Puritan strain in progressive thought. There is a sort of Calvinism within the woke world in which only the elect have the capacity for salvation, and their saved status is manifested in severe self denial and relentless self-criticism. The simple pleasures of the flesh (good food, good sex, relaxed conversation) are regarded with the utmost suspicion. Making oneself physically attractive is a distraction from doing the work of progress. It can lead so readily into disgusting heteronormativity, ableism, and lookism. In the case of people who couple within their ethnicity, it can even be a sign of potential racism. The planet is dying, and under these emergency conditions you cannot allow yourself any of the frivolous pleasures.

You could write a book about it.

Ampersand said...

Gutfeld generalizes shamelessly. The vein of truth that he has tapped into is associated with the neo-Puritan strain in progressive thought. There is a sort of Calvinism within the woke world in which only the elect have the capacity for salvation, and their saved status is manifested in severe self denial and relentless self-criticism. The simple pleasures of the flesh (good food, good sex, relaxed conversation) are regarded with the utmost suspicion. Making oneself physically attractive is a distraction from doing the work of progress. It can lead so readily into disgusting heteronormativity, ableism, and lookism. In the case of people who couple within their ethnicity, it can even be a sign of potential racism. The planet is dying, and under these emergency conditions you cannot allow yourself any of the frivolous pleasures.

You could write a book about it.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Howard - you make me laugh.

You're not altogether wrong...
Here in my College town - many young women are really fit, and run around in tight yoga pants. I hate them. ;-?

William said...

Young people can get nose rings and tats and half shaven heads, but they still look better than old people. I guess that's part of the appeal of uglification.

Josephbleau said...

I am reluctant to say anything here. 23 year old graduate girls from state schools are plenty arousing. Generally visibly tattoo free, smart, and willing to work. We pay them well. They are paid more than men, because we like the diversity, girls are 60% but we pretend they are the minority.

Gusty Winds said...

effinayright said...
Gusty Winds...Sounds to me like you're an utterly incompetent parent.

Maybe I am. You might be right. Feels like it sometimes. What parent doesn't struggle with that thought? It extends from the unconditional love humans don't know how to handle. Dogs handle unconditional love better that human parents. That's the truth.

Here's another. I'm not disingenuous.

You just called me out on something universal. Bravo.

chuck said...

and lift weights.

Don't know about that, I've seen plenty of young guys with toothpick arms. It looks bizarre. Women too, but that isn't as odd. Maybe it is all that healthy food.

Gusty Winds said...

Blogger Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker said...
happiness can be found in a box of green hair dye.
Gusty - I feel ya - but you're the parent. You can take charge.


If green hair makes her happy, I'm in.

I'm a Father. That makes me a real feminist.

Gusty Winds said...

Not in any order of #1 or #2, the two biggest Free Speech advocates I know of are Ann Althouse and Elon Musk.

I don't think Elon Musk would have a problem with the Althouse blog and its comment community. Nor the way the Professor and Meade handle it.

Today I'm baffled. Why does Professor Althouse have a problem with Elon Musk? My only guess is she thinks he's not being genuine. Why? I'm interested... I don't see it.

Left Bank of the Charles said...

“Have you seen how miserable and how miserable-looking a lot of the students are. They're deliberately uglifying themselves.”

Maybe the students, the women students at least, are angling for better grades.

effinayright said...

Gusty Winds said...
effinayright said...
Gusty Winds...Sounds to me like you're an utterly incompetent parent.

Maybe I am. You might be right. Feels like it sometimes. What parent doesn't struggle with that thought? It extends from the unconditional love humans don't know how to handle. Dogs handle unconditional love better that human parents. That's the truth.

Here's another. I'm not disingenuous.

You just called me out on something universal. Bravo.
*************

No, your failures are not "universal" at all. First of all, for millennia, children had to knuckle under to societal demands placed on them---if only to perform agricultural and other physical labor to keep their families alive.

Historically, it's the husbands who have offered conditional love, a love which the child perceives as "I better do what Dad says, or else I'm in trouble".

THAT'S THE HISTORICAL NORM. It helps civilize children, boys and girls alike. There's never been a successful society where "whatev" is an acceptable standard.

And ignoring that fact is precisely why "single moms" are not capable of filling the missing father's role.

Just look at fatherless American black families, fer crissake. Back when such families had both a mom and a dad, they did not turn out feral, lawless, sociopathic children.

Yet women---some conservatives, but mostly on the left---seem not to notice this FACT; instead you have embraced perverse ideas that devalue masculinity itself. Try reading "The War on Boys" by Christina Hoff Sommers.

Much worse, if you have a husband living with you who's been cowed by feminist harpies to allow his kids to do what the hell they want, he's a wimp. He's a failure as a man, husband and father.

At his funeral, I bet the song sung to commemorate his life will be, " I did it HER way."

Poor bastard.

n.n said...

because we like the diversity, girls are 60% but we pretend they are the minority.

Yes, diversity is sexism, but also racism, ageism, and other class-based bigotry.

Big Mike said...
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Big Mike said...

@Hunter Biden’s Hooker. there’s no college close by but my local gym attracts a lot of women who are in their 20s and 30s and who are very physically fit. Their yoga pants are so tight that if they had a dime in their pocket you could tell whether it’s heads or tails. (Not that the pants have pockets, to the best of my knowledge, but you get my drift.)

I asked my wife, who works out right alongside me, where those pants were when I was still single (almost a half century ago). She just smiles. At 76 I’m not gonna make a fool of myself over women a third my age, but old doesn’t mean dead.

Bitter Clinger said...

Exactly when does Gusty think Gen X gained control of the education complex? Only now is the older half of Gen X in its late 40s to early 50s when an individual’s institutional power usually peaks. Moreover Gen X is smaller than Boomers and Millenials. Go ahead and blame Gen X for being crappy parents, but you can’t lay the failures of institutions at our feet.

lonejustice said...

I remember when Biden and the democrat party campaign strategists held special meetings with Tik Tok influencers and talked with them about how they could influence the 2022 election. The Tik Tokers were even invited to the White House. I, along with so many on the right, laughed at this and mocked them.

Then last Tuesday's election happened.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Big Mike -
"Their yoga pants are so tight that if they had a dime in their pocket you could tell whether it’s heads or tails."

haha - yes. I agree - if these young ladies what to show it all off- what heck guys - you might as well enjoy it.

Narr said...

Being an old married man is like being a diabetic at a fancy restaurant--you can't eat the food but you can sure look at the menu.

n.n said...

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