Never understood the rabid fascination and obsession with this woman. Anyone who is “consistently unapologetic” has clearly refused to evolve. This moment we are in right now is begging for us to take a sober stock of all our feigned coolness and prefer instead to spontaneously fall to our knees in humbled repentence, not keep barking “tourists go home” (for over FORTY years now, this is her boring old refrain) to anyone not appearing smug and with eyes that say “fuck off” -- which is still, clearly, sadly, the kind of face all you young NYers seem to continue to be drawn to. Ugh. This moment is calling for something much more extraordinary and reverent than our “consistent” hate and smugness, or our heightened sensitivity to cringeness. It is not calling for the maintenance a mere surface look of “coolness” -- if her look can even be considered “cool.“ This authors says, “The catharsis of witnessing all our anger and fears vented and defended by an intimidatingly consistent voice is a somewhat communal experience.” Honey, please go to church. It’s time to grow up -- if your heroes are “intimidating” and you don’t recognize the face of hubris in them, you’re a long way off from the path toward real liberation. Sorry -- this ultra sincere super cringey rant is now over. Yours sincerely, a fellow fool.
Never understood the rabid fascination and obsession with this woman. Anyone who is “consistently unapologetic” has clearly refused to evolve. This moment we are in right now is begging for us to take a sober stock of all our feigned coolness and prefer instead to spontaneously fall to our knees in humbled repentence, not keep barking “tourists go home” (for over FORTY years now, this is her boring old refrain) to anyone not appearing smug and with eyes that say “fuck off” -- which is still, clearly, sadly, the kind of face all you young NYers seem to continue to be drawn to. Ugh. This moment is calling for something much more extraordinary and reverent than our “consistent” hate and smugness, or our heightened sensitivity to cringeness. It is not calling for the maintenance a mere surface look of “coolness” -- if her look can even be considered “cool.“ This authors says, “The catharsis of witnessing all our anger and fears vented and defended by an intimidatingly consistent voice is a somewhat communal experience.” Honey, please go to church. It’s time to grow up -- if your heroes are “intimidating” and you don’t recognize the face of hubris in them, you’re a long way off from the path toward real liberation. Sorry -- this ultra sincere super cringey rant is now over. Yours sincerely, a fellow fool.