I grew up foolishly worried about the 1984 Scenario. Then I came to understand our real danger was the Brave New World Hypothesis.

No greater fool than I, our death was by Harrison Bergeron.

Over France one fine day, his P-51 fell apart around young Chuck Yeager as a German FW-190's 20mm cannon tore it apart. Chuck found himself falling, having been blown out of the cockpit; he delayed opening his chute just in case somebody decided to shoot American pilots.
He landed, buried his parachute and (slowly) made his way back to friendly territory.

Social warrior, what was that about something someone said that traumatized you?

Best cure for anxiety - lots of money.

Snoopy--

I've been poor and I've been rich. Rich is better, but not really for the things you can buy. The best thing about having money: The richer you are, the fewer the fools you have to put up with.

So-called "jazz hands", she said, encouraged an "environment of respect."

Lots of euphemisms for "obedience" out there. "Environment of respect" appears to be one of them.

At least they're not mandating that annoying snapping fingers thing.

I suppose UMan students, responding to an unpopular speaker, would only be permitted to express their displeasure via silent "thumbs-down" signs, right? Right?

At least they're not mandating that annoying snapping fingers thing.

Only if you're a beatnik attending a poetry reading at a coffee house.

I dunno, aren't they just a different sort of veteran?

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/09/29/hot-take-lets-expand-the-definition-of-veteran-to-include-social-justice-warriors/

Rad's telling of Chuck Yeager's incident puts into a new light his oft quoted remark I'd rather be lucky than good.

"Veteran" to include Social Justice Warriors(?). Great. I can't wait to see that parade.

Will that mean I have to go up to a hipster in my local coffee shop and thank him for his service?

Can't wait 'til the SJWs start giving medals to each other. Will Pajama Boy be strong enough to stand under the weight of all those medals?

I carry ear plugs just in case I find myself in a noisy environment. I don't make a scene of putting them in, either. If I want to participate in something I can make sacrifices; there's no need to make the world accommodate me.

Earplugs. If we insist that every possible phobia be accommodated all the time, nothing can happen. Many people are freaked out by crowds. Others by smells or traffic or dogs or hate babies.

The "jazz hands" thing is insane. You cannot hear jazz hands behind you so you have no idea how many are "clapping", only the performer does. There used to be a term for this sort of weird behavior: neurotic. Aren't the blind offended by not hearing clapping? There is no solution to perfect non-offense.

One cannot shelter from all the possible bad things in the world. Murders will still occur. You might get mugged or lose your job. Hurricanes happen. Your friends and family members will eventually die. Where will you hide from reality?

This isn't about helping people with disabilities, it's about controlling the behavior of attendees at student events.

Sounds like Sara Khan and her friends have been getting a negative ('disrespectful') response from student audiences, and now want to silence the audience.

Her medical claims are largely made-up and exaggerated. No students have complained about clapping. The purported injury to students is just a pretext.

This is a very common tactic among SJWs and one that should be confronted by schools as well as medical and psychiatric authorities.

They constantly fabricate diagnoses and effects to enforce their ideology on the claim that they are protecting people with disabilities. This is seldom the case and has the effect of discounting and marginalizing people who are actually disabled.

You see this with PTSD for example. Clinicians struggled for years to gain recognition for the disorder, and succeeded by developing a firm basis for diagnosing and treating it.

Then the SJWs coopted the term to give themselves the status of survivors of war and other atrocities. Now the term has been rendered almost meaningless, as nothing more than unpleasant memories. Even Dr. Ford misused the term during her testimony, either not noing better or trying to relate her condition in terms they understand.

I've been poor and I've been rich. Rich is better,

Grandma Elizabeth at October 5, 2018 4:18 AM
____________________________________________

From what I've heard, when the risqué singer/comedian Sophie Tucker (1886-1966) said that (she didn't become rich until after 1920, I think), it became permanently famous, not because it was laughably obvious, but because it wasn't, exactly, in her day. That is, her generation was taught that even rock-bottom poverty was good for building character and not something one should necessarily try to escape, morally speaking. "Poverty breeds crime" is a relatively recent theory. (Of course, most survivors of the Depression did NOT try to claim that it was good for anyone's character or that society would have suffered had it never happened. So 1940 was likely the end of pushing poverty as a moral good - as opposed to making sacrifices for WWII.)

From Wikipedia:

Tucker also began integrating "fat girl" humor, which became a common thread in her acts. Her songs included "I Don't Want to Get Thin" and "Nobody Loves a Fat Girl, But Oh How a Fat Girl Can Love."

(Also, besides her movies, she was on 16 episodes of Ed Sullivan.)

And, re earplugs, I HOPE it's just a matter of time before performers everywhere decide to turn down the volume a bit. (I saw Ringo recently and THAT concert certainly wasn't too loud.) Any people in the audience who aren't stupid will want to protect their hearing anyway, so why would they complain? For some, earplugs can be painful - not right away, but eventually.

Not to mention that, given how often parents bring babies to very loud concerts and not all of them bring those external sound-blockers - what do you call them? - I suspect that soon, those parents will sue the musicians for their kids' hearing loss. (Hint: Regular earplugs often don't fit into tiny ears properly.) So musicians may not have a choice.

Serious question: what happens when two special needs folks have opposite needs? What if the performer is blind and needs to hear applause to know they're reaching the audience? What if another special needs audience member is triggered by massive hand waving? What if the performers applaud as part of the production?

I don't like big, noisy crowds, flashing lights or big cities. So I stay away from those things for the most part. I do attend lots of theater and concerts knowing that the odds are good the crowd will be big and noisy and it's on me to handle it.

This is the 21st century. If sensitive folks can't attend the event, how about recording it and posting it so they can watch/listen later and let the rest of us who want the whole experience have it live?

I walk to work unless it's snowing in which case I hop on the bus.

....what happens when two special needs [performers] have opposite needs? ~ Nanc at October 5, 2018 12:42 PM

Well, if high school graduation ceremony requests to hold applause until the end are any indication, audiences can't follow simple instructions. This all may be moot.

Serious question: what happens when two special needs folks have opposite needs?

Burn it down. All of it.

Some grandpas had anxiety issues, others were Scottish.

"Millin is best remembered for playing the pipes whilst under fire during the D-Day landing in Normandy. Pipers had traditionally been used in battle by Scottish and Irish soldiers. However, the use of bagpipes was restricted to rear areas by the time of the Second World War by the British Army. Lovat, nevertheless, ignored these orders and ordered Millin, then aged 21, to play. When Private Millin demurred, citing the regulations, he recalled later, Lord Lovat replied: 'Ah, but that’s the English War Office. You and I are both Scottish, and that doesn’t apply.' He played "Highland Laddie" "The Road to the Isles" and "All the Blue Bonnets are Over the Border" as his comrades fell around him on Sword. Millin states that he later talked to captured German snipers who claimed they did not shoot at him because they thought he had gone mad."

"And, re earplugs, I HOPE it's just a matter of time before performers everywhere decide to turn down the volume a bit."

Hope not.
At least, not Babymetal, or Ozzy.

I find it charming to have the thunder shake my clothes.