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I don't know anything about Peloton or its management, but the main takeaway from this deck is something I already knew: (1) private equity guys are assholes, (
by ltfey 5y ago
I don't know anything about Peloton or its management, but the main takeaway from this deck is something I already knew: (1) private equity guys are assholes, (2) who are obviously compensating for something inadequate three feet below the nose.
- nikanj 5y agoHow about we come up with a better way to insult men, rather than "hehehe peepee small"
- Aeolun 5y agoWe can call the thing two inch above the nose small? Or dysfunctional? I don’t know, I don’t necessarily agree with the message itself, but I certainly agree with the sentiment. Whoever made this deck is an asshole.
- ltfey 5y ago[flagged]
- SyzygistSix 5y ago"We had them almost defeated, at least on the cultural front, in the 1960s and '70s." Not even close. A relatively small amount of people with an outsize cultural influence were imagining a less stifling and less cruel world but it will take a lot more than just eliminating capitalism to do that, and nothing indicates that capitalism itself is the sole, or even main cause. "We have to remind people at every opportunity that, not only is capitalism not sexy, but its reason for existing is to funnel disproportionate sexual access to repulsive men--I'm talking 400-pound oil executives with body odor--who otherwise would be unlikely to get any." I assume it would be okay if said oil execs were fit, or women? As opposed to fictional non-elitist commissars? No, with attitudes like these, no one is any closer to curtailing the excesses or cruelties of capitalism and industry.
- nikanj 5y agoDoes your political affiliation change the size of your penis in any way? Why is it relevant here, aside from enforcing the age-old body shaming ideals that "big peepee good, bad peepee small, stupid man bad, bad man have small peepee"
- ltfey 5y agoTo be technical, I never said anything about size. I said "inadequate". Also, one can be opposed to patriarchy while, at the same time, pointing out that the men who run capitalism fail on their own archaic and patriarchal terms. That these self-asserted "leaders" fail at being what they themselves want to be makes it all the more probable that they fail at being what we in society want or need them to be.
- nikanj 5y agoSorry I misunderstood you. What did you mean by ”inadequate”?
- ltfey 5y agoIt actually doesn't much matter. My point is that these people fail on their own terms. Fascism runs on a certain archaic masculine presence, and that is true whether we're talking about Mussolini's centralized variety, or the kind we see here where we live under the petty tyranny of a thousand employer-states. Toxic masculinity is at the core of old-style fascism and neofeudalist corporate capitalism alike. If you meet the men (and, yes, they're mostly men) in charge, though, they're all lethargic and unattractive creatures who never had to fight for anything. The system largely exists because they need to compensate for this fact--it exists both to elevate their appeal to women and to dimininsh that of male competitors. Pointing out that they fail on their own terms (old-style masculinity) is useful, because it discredits them and brings to mind questions about what they are really doing.
- nikanj 5y agoIt seems somewhat futile to say you were misunderstood, but then refuse to clarify.
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