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It's a guy thing

An informal discussion of a likely trajectory of the word 'guy'
Fascinating that the word "guy" gained popularity in early 19th Century America.

Apparently "guy" was a Britishism that stems from the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in which Guy Fawkes was caught planting enough gunpowder to blow sky high the Parliament building, along with the Protestant king, queen and heir to the throne. In an annual national celebration effigies of Fawkes and the other plotters are burnt.

So an informal designation of any effigy was "guy," as in "we need another guy for the bonfire." Of course those guys were always dressed in rags. Who wants to burn good money?

Well, you never know which twist in meaning a word might take. Human language is essentially metaphorical. So it's very natural that the word guy would come to denote any badly dressed man or loutish sort.

Now we come to 19th Century America. In that era, after Jefferson defeated Adams, the newly empowered "common man" was overturning every idea and term that smacked of elitism and privilege (Hamiltonism was OUT). So at some point a group of "lower class" men began referring to each other with friendly disdain as "just another guy." After all, America gained great vigor from these poorer classes.

The phrase "just another guy" is similar to the phrase "just another bozo on the bus," which could easily be rendered in Britain as "just another bloke on the bus." Bozo the Clown was a TV entertainer of the 1950s. "Blok" is/was Dutch for "block" as in "dimwit." "Bozo," "bloke" and "guy" all derive from the idea of "here comes another dummie."

Or think of American infantrymen referring to themselves as "grunts." No grand titles needed when men really talk.

It seems highly plausible that the gallows humor of enlisted men contributed to the popularity of "guy" (War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War), "bloke" (Crimean War, Boer War and First World War) and "bozo" (Korean War, Vietnam War).

"Bloke/blok" seems to have entered British vernacular via Australians, probably via Australian military contingents used in the wars of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. This makes sense, as Australia was then in close contact with Dutch East India colonies.

Eventually, of course, the humorous origin of the term "guy" was lost and it became an acceptable informal synonym for any grown American male. Children and animals often are tagged as "little guy." Similarly for "bloke." You never know, "bozo" might one day become a vernacular synonym for "man."

It's funny that feminists persuaded everybody that we should not use the word "man" when "man or woman" is meant. But ordinary young women quickly turned the tables, letting "hey guys" mean a mixed group or a group of girls only. Well, they are the equals of men, so I see their point. Guys quickly picked up on the usefulness of the catchall "you guys," which sounds cooler than "you all" or "hey, people" (depending on who is listening).

You know, the paradox really shows two sides of the same coin. In the first case, women want to be recognized as having the same rights and social status as men. In the second case, women are expressing that girls want to be boys or at least to be treated the same as boys -- pretty much. (Please guys, these last two paragraphs are not meant as fightin' words, but only as a feeble male attempt at humor in line with the jocose origins of the word "guy.")

Ladies, what do you say?

DeSantis raps 'nauseating' media on Jan. 6 protest

Questions for press on D.C. events of Jan. 6

✓ Should the event(s) of Jan. 6 be termed an "attack," a "riot" or a "disturbance"? Note that the first two terms are not, under the circumstances, politically neutral.

✓ Should the events be characterized as a "violent protest" or a generally "vigorous but peaceful protest tainted by acts of individual violence"?

✓ Should the occupation of the Capitol Building be viewed as an "insurrection" or as a protest taking its cue from various occupy-building protests, such as by Occupy Wall Street or by many student protests against the Vietnam war and draft?

✓ Should the the Jan. 6 protest be viewed as an "insurrection" or as a political statement in the tradition of the Boston Tea Party, the faceoff that led to the Boston Massacre, and John Brown's Raid, which enraged the South and won great admiration in the North?

✓ Is it responsible to fail to mention that the Democratic Congress is utterly uninterested in a thorough examination of the BLM riots and disturbances that erupted across the nation with little initial attempt to shut these disturbances down on the part of state and local Democratic officials. How can there be so much attention on Jan. 6 and none on the BLM disturbances that left a great measure of real heartbreak, billions in property damage and a scarred nation?

We note that the press would sometimes fail to distinguish between genuinely violent disturbances and peaceful occupy-type protests in the summer of BLM.

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Who is at the door? It's the Thought Police, dear

Rep. Marjorie Greene, R-Ga., was kicked off Twitter for life for repeatedly "spreading misinformation" about covid, the social media firm asserted.

Greene released this statement:

Maxine Waters can go to the streets and threaten violence on Twitter, Kamala and Ilhan can bail out Black Lives Matter terrorists on Twitter, CNN and the rest of the Democrat Propaganda Media can spread Russia collusion lies, and just yesterday the Chief spokesman for terrorist IRGC can tweet mourning Soleimani, but I get suspended for tweeting VAERS statistics.

Twitter is an enemy to America and can’t handle the truth.

That’s fine, I’ll show America we don’t need them and it’s time to defeat our enemies. They can’t successfully complete a Communist revolution when people tell the truth.

Social media platforms can’t stop the truth from being spread far and wide. Big Tech can’t stop the truth. Communist Democrats can’t stop the truth.

I stand with the truth and the people. We will overcome!"

I don't have all the facts behind this matter. But judging from the content, she may have been quoting tech entrepreneur Steve Kirsh's untested claims about adverse covid vaccine statistics. Whatever the merits of those claims, I find it interesting that he uncovered the point that the CDC did not notice the effect of elevated heartbeat in a small percentage of injected persons. Apparently, the Defense Department spotted that effect as it vaccinated uniformed men and women and civilians. That seems like quite an oversight by the civil health professionals.

Another strong possibility is that Greene's visceral language -- as in "Communist Democrats" -- made her a target for the "liberal" vigilantes of social media. Can't you hear, "Kick her off! Get rid of that bitch! Now!"

But the problem with Twitter's position is that its brass hats think they must regulate thought. Americans as a whole, they think, are too dumb to weigh words uttered by "demagogues." They must be led by their herders, who have so much more insight than the silly rabble "out there." That is the typical attitude of the monied elite toward true democracy.