“Linkin Woke”

Fuck Off.

Did it tax your brain to come up with that one? or are you just trying to please some master that will never even acknowledge you exist? Accusing something of being woke is about as unimaginative as it comes these days. It’s regurgitated swill from the sheltered masses that don’t actually understand the deeper ramifications of anything, but they heard it on the internet from someone they vaguely recognise so have adopted it as some sort of identity to save them from coming up with their own.

INXS have replaced their lead singer approximately seventy billion times, but were never accused of pandering, or jumping the shark or whatever equivalent was around then. Yeah, OK sure, they had a few complaints from fans that didn’t know who they’d see on stage at any given point in time. They might’ve even had some lightly place jabs from the media back in the day or been the butt of late night talk show jokes, but nothing as targeted as some of the bile being spewed out in all directions here in the hopes that some rhetoric will stick.

It might just be a result of the timing, the US is gearing up for a showdown between Harris and Trump, so the sheep are going to be out in force trying to pretend that Harris somehow can’t do the job simply because of the configuration of her meat sack. Or the far more frightening discourse that certain configurations of meat sacks should be subservient to others because there’s no other way to explain why the self-described “alpha” class can’t attract a companion (bro, maybe you’re just a dick?)

Personally, I cannot fathom the thinking behind any of it, since all of the women in my life are infinitely stronger than any of the fragile ego internet warriors who call themselves superior in some way. I like to think of New Zealand as a nation that can (mostly) say we think of women as equals, hell, we’ve got a record of voting them into the prime minister spot because we know they’re the best candidate for the job.