We've reached peak narcissism: controversial Fresno professor, Randa Jarrar, creates 'artistic' video...

That is absolutely gorgeous! She's a star!

Is that Lens?

Send her off to the middle east. Surely she'll sort thing out.

Beached whale.

Think this woman is dead, not sure. I remember reading something about a late obese female photographer in a NY Times article. Perhaps it was another obese dark haired female 'artist' who photographed her body in graphic poses.

I can use that fan right about now.

DON'T CLICK ON THE LINK!!

[quote]To mark the last few weeks of our exhibition, “Laura Aguilar: Sow and Tell”

There-- FIFY!

You just know it's less about honoring the original artist and mostly just about: "LOOK AT ME!"

Lizzo is her inspiration

Good grief. Who thinks this is a good idea?

These fat bitches are going to die of diabetes. They’re not stars; they’re cautionary tales.

She's looking at the camera like she's thinking: "You can't handle my confidence and sexuality" but really everyone is just laughing 'cause she looks ridiculous!

The backside didnt look too bad... and then they showed the front. It always amazes me how some women gain weight on their stomachs like men.

Aside from her obvious future with diabetes, heart disease and increased cancer risk, what is this shit? A tasteful dress would have looked more beautiful. I dont get what this is supposed to be.

She's FIERCE! and ROYAL! R13! That's what it's about.

This is not art; I am not even sure it's a call for self-love. She's just a big fat girl with strings wound around her hoo-hah and tits posing on a beach and ruining the view. I'm fat and neither proud nor ashamed of it. But I certainly would not parade my shortcomings on a public beach with breathy portentous voiceovers from my lady friends. You fine, girl, you fine, come to my city and sit by me. You fat, you fine. The world does not need more ugly.

Roxane Gay should have joined!

And here’s the daring art piece by Randa Jarrar, titled “Tied Roast on the Rocks”.

Yikes!

What the fuck is wrong with people? Some people will do anything for attention.

Thanks a lot, OP. For making me want to throw up.

They are close friends apparently, R16. I wonder what she thinks of this privately?

It's not art as R15 says. You could definitely make some wonderful body positive art, but this is not it.

R19 has hit it on the head. She wants everyone looking at her all the time, and she doesn't care how far she has to go to get it. I saw an interview with her a couple of months ago where she was STILL going on about how horrible it was that white women belly dance - desperate to keep that 'controversy' (ie the one piece of writing people actually know from this woman) alive.

Egad!!!

Is it wrong that I was waiting for the fan to fall on her head?

The Palestinian flag was a nice touch, but I didn't get the purpose of the fan.

Could someone enlighten me?

Don’t give Chrissy Metz any ideas!!!!

The fan is such an odd touch to an already extremely odd video...

"Randa Jarrar is the Arab femme daddy of my dreams and her voice is nothing short of ROYAL."

"Does this macrame plant hanger make me look fat?"

I had a look at some of these Laura Aguilar pics to see if the fan made sense. There is one picture of her lying on a chair under a big open window with a fan in front of her, but whatever Jarrar is doing, it's way too clumsy to be an homage to that. If that's what she's going for, she's really fucked it up:

Good Lord. Welcome to the 4 years of hell I went through in Film School sitting though hours of this garbage! Fucking liberal arts grossness, run amok!

Surely under her own rules about these things, it is 'approppriative' for her to use the work of a Chicana (or Chicanx as I see people saying online) artist like this?

I don't believe this myself, but aren't these the very rules she is always criticizing others for not following?

Hmm....I shall go find a rock to sit upon and ponder the significance of that fan.

Her Onlyfans.

With a thong in my parts, my big hole in your face,

and when thongs come apart it's a large, open space

Good heavens, I can still see that thumbnail image when I close my eyes.

What in Randa Jarrar is going on here?

I dont see art. I see, "look at my fat. Fat is beautiful. If you dont agree, you are a vile pig. Like me. Im a pig. Pigs are beautiful. Look at my fat".

R33:

What I think of this picture: "Free Willy!".

God that sounds tedious, R30!

It would have been an interesting video if it wasn't for that bitch that keeps talking over the movie.

induces projectile vomiting ...... my god what a disgusting pig

Sweet baby Jesus. Somebody send out a search party for that black cord that went up her ass. Gonna need a colonoscopy to get it out.

Fatty, Fatty, 2 x 4

Fatty couldn't get through the bathroom door

So she shit on the floor

Wiped it up and did some more.

I can't believe she's lying on a flag. I assume from her name she is Palestinian? Her people must be so proud!

Well, at least ONE of us is full!

Yeah, how exactly is she helping the cause of the Palestinian people? Even her activism is all about her and not the people she says she wants to help.

No wonder STEM people laugh humanities folks out of the room

How the hell would people even notice the flag unless they sit through the whole video? Yes,it's next to her, but that's not exactly where the camera is focused. Pretty fucking stupid.

QUICK! Somebody call Greenpeace and have her towed back out to sea!

I'm not gonna lie, I would've laughed so much if other people on the beach saw her and ran over to her, throwing buckets of water on her to keep her alive 😂

Lena Dunham is [italic]not[/italic] playing.

R2 EXACTLY! I just read your post, lol.

Somebody commissioned her to do this? What is going on in the world?

It's certainly jarraring.

I think she's tremendous.

Quite big tits.

To add insult to injury, she has the most fucking annoying Valley Girl accent. For someone who hates white women so much, she sure likes speaking like them!

R58 Maybe it was an artistic choice.

I just actually played the video and wow this video came to mind oddly enough…

No, R59. It's her regular speaking voice:

Many of the responses in this thread have done a great job of helping break up my chest as I recover from this awful cold I caught, due to all the laughing! Thanks guys!

I'd eat her out!

I can see a few great places there to gather up some starter for sour dough!

I don't get it, what is her point here?

I'm just laughing imagining her creative writing students seeing this and then going in to class with her and not being able to look at her, haha.

R16, apparently she's from a similarly wealthy family like best pal Roxane too. Their constant telling off others from privilege is quite funny in this respect.

R67, I went to Jarrar's website, she once lived in Old Greenwich, CT (I'm guessing that's rich people country) and went to Sarah Lawrence College.

Yeah, she apparently grew up very well off, R68. Also not above making up some crazy (potentially defamatory) stories to cast herself as a victim in many situations, from what I've read.

Like a lot of immensely privileged people, she desperately wants to imagine she is THE most oppressed person out there.

Is there a transcript of what she's saying? So much babbling!

I’m an art dunce, but I did find the older photo by the other artist, a fat woman chilling out naked in front of a fan, surprisingly beautiful and serene.

Tangled up in cords on rocks with a fan - clumsy, awkward, meaningless.

Fanny Flag

It's so hard, because there are at least two overlapping voices from what it sounds like to me. I'll give it a go:

VOICE ONE: Dear Laura, you once said there was a time when you felt ashamed of the color of your skin. When you discovered art, your culture and the history of others with struggles and that the knowing led you to find yourself. Laura - I'm the same. From Palestine to Mexico, our hometowns are one. I live in your hometown now in East Los Angeles. I see you, your nudes in the rocks, in the mountains around my home. Your beautiful nature portraits. Your nude body being your body of work. But it is when I visit the ocean that I can feel you and your power the most. Out here, it's like I'm a sand (?) needing the wind. I bounce. I bounce and cover myself in bondage rope. Pleasure, rather than captivity. I celebrate you Laura, and I thank you for helping me understand how to celebrate myself.

VOICE TWO: Dear Laura, it's Randa. Um, I'm at the beach with my girlfriend, she took me to see you, so... Yeah, I, I just really want you to know that you mean a lot to me. You fucking rock. You inspire me so much, as a Palestinian, as a fat, fuckin' queer, as a fat femme. I'm showing my face in these, I know that you usually had your body turned away and I respect you for that. There's a part of me, I guess that just feels like, it's - I'm protecting myself by having my pretty but fat face in these videos. Boo, I'm, you know, leaving you a voice mail, um you're in the beyond, but I'm hoping that your gorgeous, gorgeous self gets this. Um, here, here's an ass bounce for you, just for you, Boo. Feel it? Get it! Anyway, my Palestinian self is so, so grateful to you for everything you've done, everything you've done for all of us. I love you!

God that was painful! Can't say it's 100% correct, but it's the gist.

Exactly, R71! I will admit, those pics aren't necessarily my style, but I can see she had an artists eye (and a sense of humour) and I can see why people would like them.

Whatever Randa was doing on the rocks? 'Amateur hour' isn't even the half of it!

I don't understand how Mexican Laura Aguilar helped inspire Randa as a Palestinian... do these people just say words to pretend they are deep?

I wonder if it's killing her that no one is engaging with it on Twitter? She's constantly trying to get back that 'fame' from when she criticized Barbara Bush, or Gal Gadot playing Cleopatra, but it just ain't happening.

She should be thrown into prison.

OP, you should have included a warning.

I blame Lens Dunham for this.

That wasn’t an ass “bounce,” that was an ass and back tremor.

Pigs are adorable. She is not.

[quote]I blame Lens Dunham for this.

Can you really blame Lens and her ilk or the media, which so happily embraced her navel-gazing privileged bullshit?

Hahahaha, R79!

Apologies, R78, you are right. Mea culpa! I hope you didn't lose too much of your dinner.

That look on her face as she flashes her cunt at the camera is so hilarious. You can tell she thinks she's really making a statement! And she looks like a fool! Or, I mean, sorry, I should say a fat, queer, femme, Palestinian fool.

I really want to time-travel back to 1950s and show them this. Blow some minds.

Could she get arrested for doing this?

She'd probably love that, so she could then write a Salon article titled: "How I was unfairly arrested after I deliberately broke the law".

How many cheeseburgers is that?

She's so edgy!

Directed by Violet Price…

Randa, I need you to be a huge chunk of ambergris washed up on these rocks over here. Can you do that for me hun? Look like a huge chunk of whale fat quivering on these rocks? Can you?

The performance of a lifetime, R88 - and she nailed it!

[quote] We've reached peak narcissism:

And that is as much OP's fault as it is the so-called narcissist herself, because it's OP who draw the attention to her.

What kills a narcissist? Indifference, being ignored. What keeps a narcissist alive? Paying attention to him, draw attention to him.

Sorry, ... because it's OP who drew attention to her.

Oh dear, I knew an enjoyable and funny thread was too good to last. Hall monitor R90/R91 has turned up to set everyone straight!

I'd love to know if what she did was illegal, because I wonder if that was part of the thrill for her. She believes in abolishing the police entirely, so I imagine she'd love an altercation she could write about that too.

She deliberately tried to enter Israel by lying to authorities and going the wrong way about it, and has used that as fueling her own victim narrative for years.

r92. There's no power in the universe to set an imbecile like you straight.

Part of her "suit" does a hell of an impression of the equator.

Women are held to such a low standard of behavior in the West. If this had been an obese man taking these photos, he would have been arrested.

This is what interests me, R96 - surely she was in danger of it too? Like personally I don't actually care about public nudity like that, but I mean, it is the law isn't it? And she wasn't really hidden in any way. I just get the feeling she would've loved to have an arrest story to complain about.

R98 A fat guy doing these stunts publicly would land him on a sex offender list. No one would call this art if it was a fat bear with a mushroom dick lying in the beach. Men are the only ones held to a social standard, and women are given a pass for morally gray behavior.

I've heard of cases in the US of young guys streaking getting put on a sex offender's list (which seems excessive, here in Australia, streaking is almost a national sport haha), so I would absolutely believe someone rolling around on the rocks like this woman is here would get arrested.

Agree that the earlier linked picture of the fat lady chilling with a drink in front of the fan isn't bad--it says something.

This fatso rolling around on the rocks seems to be saying nothing more than: I love myself and rope up my butt, I got the idea from the other photo with a fat lady and a fan, my identity as fat and female isn't enough--Palestinian must be shoehorned in.

[quote]This fatso rolling around on the rocks seems to be saying nothing more than: I love myself and rope up my butt, I got the idea from the other photo with a fat lady and a fan, my identity as fat and female isn't enough--Palestinian must be shoehorned in.

Haha, spot on!

Seriously, she throws out phrases like: "I'm fat, I'm Palestinian, I'm queer, I'm femme..." like some juvenile teen trying to be daring and shock the adults would. Like people are going to think: "Oh my god, a fat, queer Palestinian, how DARE she?! I am so triggered!" when really people are just like: "What a strange woman!"

The way she says: "Feel it? Get it!" in that video with that tired old "Yaas kween!" cadence really eye-roll worthy. This poor artist probably has no inclination to see this woman "bounce" her ass for her, dead or alive.

R48, an acquaintance of mine, a journalist and writer, posted something rather ludicrous on her Twitter a month ago. She wrote that only Liberal Arts students will save the world and that no one would even notice or care if all the STEM graduates disappeared overnight.

She got a lot of congratulatory tweets affirming this nonsense from her echo chamber.

Jesus, really R103? Look, I believe that Arts subjects are valid and it's a good thing we have them, but "no one would even notice or care if all the STEM graduates disappeared overnight"? How on earth was she able to say that with a straight face?

I'm sorry, but there wouldn't be much change if this Jarrar woman was no longer rubbing herself on rocks at the beach, or Roxane Gay wasn't publishing her latest "hot take", that is the truth of the matter.

R104, this acquaintance has become increasingly loony in the last couple of years. She unashamedly embraces conspicuous capitalist consumption and is obsessed with fashion, but will lecture others on the evils of a capitalist society. She grew up very upper middle class and has only ever lived in affluent neighborhoods in various cities, but she often criticizes other middle class acquaintances for not wanting to live in rough urban neighborhoods. She has lived a life of privilege and seems to believe that the world's problems are all due to greedy, capitalist white men. She also immediately jumps on every "socially conscious issue" bandwagon, tweets or lectures endlessly about it, and then forgets all about the issue when she moves on to her next pet issue.

She used to work in academia and then got into writing and journalism due to her dad's contacts. She has never had to struggle for a single thing in her life and is blithely unaware of the irony of ranting about the uselessness of STEM graduates while using her mobile devices to use a social platform when riding a cab she booked on Uber.

Very interesting R105! Thanks for sharing. She sounds... well, exactly like many of these other academics, including the subject of this thread. The blatant hypocrisy seems to be par for the course.

[quote]I'm protecting myself by having my pretty but fat face in these videos.

Huh? What nonsense is this? Protecting herself, how?

r58 She's "white passing."

This fat woman said the late 'Barbara Bush was a racist who, along with her husband, raised a war criminal,” who enjoys other people's grief.

She has lots of enablers and is on the public payroll.

Fat people have really become emboldened lately.

Oddly, there is no shortage of hot straight guys who would line up to fuck that thing. Women have it so easy.

R106, I haven't spoken to the woman for a while now. She and I had a big falling out after she made some sweeping statement about how gay men (not "some gay men", mind) are racist, Islamophobic and transphobic. She won't listen to anyone who points out the rampant homophobia in Islamic countries and will immediately resort to whataboutism. She's another of the privileged straight women who use the term "queer" and lecture gay men and lesbians on all "the problems with mainstream queer culture."

Oh god, R112, sounds like you are way better off away from that. I cannot bear people like her who think it's ok to lecture gay men and lesbians on our community. Ugh. I knew someone a little bit like that, who would tell me I 'had to understand' where countries that killed gay people were coming from, you know, a kind of cultural relativism.

She hates white women solely because they look better belly-dancing than she does, I'm sure. She's white herself, of course, but seems to think she's an exception. This article is full of bad faith arguments, but when called out on them, she just resorted to calling people names. Supported by her ol' pal Roxane Gay who referred to people with actual facts as a 'white belly dancing mafia'.

Ugly, fat, White, stupid skank trying to get over. Treat her for her STIs, detox her, put her on a hold, then deport her fat ass back to “Palestine.” Ugh.

Isn’t Fresno a big drug center?

$50 says this poseur cannot wipe her own fat ass.

The sad truth is that this type of body is all too common in America and she isn't even addressing that major social issue. Yesterday, I went clothes shopping with my roommate who went from a size 6 to a size 10 and not even fast fashion hellholes like Zara or H&M carry size 8. We looked it up and the average size of American women is size 16-18! Why isn't this woman addressing THAT major social issue? How our food is laden with hormones and how unhealthy that can be? She needs to be addressing American issues not Palestinian issues (cuz only in America would she get away with that).

I think she's one of those 'talking about healthy eating is fatphobic' types of people, R118.

R114 belly-dancing could only help her become fitter and lose some weight, the way it has for thousands of women of all creeds and colour.

Due to concern about a couple of concerning extra inches on my waist & belly, I have recently started to learn (as a white Jezebel!), and it’s definitely doing me (and my future partner) good. I will likely never do it in public, because I’m not an exhibitionist narcissist nor am I a skilled natural enough dancer to do it justice, but I will practise privately if I want to and no random Middle Eastern lady is going to forbid it.

It’s called cultural exchange, not appropriation. If she wants to learn Morris or English/Irish line-dancing, I wouldn’t have a problem with that and I don’t have a right to order her not to.

She seems to be a bit of a dangerous person too, though I obviously don't know the full ins and outs of this story, so will be careful not to say anyone is lying, but...

She has a real problem with the author Colum McCann, who apparently she had an affair with at one time (while he was married maybe?). Anyway, he may be a real piece of work, I don't know. But he recently got a lot of acclaim for his novel Apeirogon: nominated for awards, a potential movie being made of it, etc. This book is about the Israel-Palestine thing. She is very upset, because her books about her Palestinian self are not getting as much attention, and he isn't Palestinian (or Israeli) so it's "cultural appropriation".

Then, she started spreading a story around that he sexually assaulted her. And people took it up and started commenting on Twitter about it, under mentions of him. His book never did get through to the finals of whatever prize he was nominated for after this, but that may have been coincidence.

Her proof that he sexually assaulted her was an article she wrote about it that she told everyone to read, as all the facts where in there.

According to her own words, the facts were that they were in a BDSM relationship. One night he said to her: "what can I do to you?" and she answered: "anything". So he started doing things to her and she really enjoyed it. Then, at one point, she stopped liking it and wanted him to stop, but didn't say anything because she didn't know how to. Finally, she told him to stop and he "immediately stopped".

This... and believe me, I'm not into defending guys who assault women at all, but this seems to me a much greyer issue, and perhaps more bad communication than anything, especially if he immediately stopped when she communicated that to him. I just don't think this would stand up in court. Roxane Gay says that it absolutely happened because she was there afterwards when Jarrar rung her, for what it's worth.

But I dunno, this woman just seems really... off.

Good on you, R120! Also, she's an idiot, because the roots of belly-dancing predate the Arab conquest of Egypt, so she has no more right to it than anyone else, plus it's a tradition in many non-Arab countries, and modern belly-dancing takes a lot from 19th century vaudeville too. It's actually a beautiful mish-mash of things, the way cultures are meant to work.

In that article she goes on about how this famous woman Fifi Abdou is the correct type of belly-dancer, but Ms Abdou is well known for PRAISING western women taking up belly dancing, haha!

R119 - sure like the hag at my company who at 34 is the only morbidly obese female out here and immediately calls HR to complain that my roommate saying she needs to cut out carbs is a "trigger". Like bitch, if you don't cut out six pack a night, chips, cheese pies and sweets you will be dead at 43.

^Every move made by these personalities is in the hope they can take revenge on someone, it seems.

Why don't people who are obsessed with Palestine live in Palestine?

We have enough issues of our own without hers.

i would love for any Palestinian queer american to try any of this shit in Gaza or West Bank and see how they are treated….

like they have this “idea” of Palestine but have no clue how it actually is. You can be excommunicated and killed for gayness and nudity. In fact many Palestinian gays secretly escape to Israel and they are fine there

also i wish Americans would go hard for Kurds being tortured throughout the Arab world but Hamas and the PA are Pan Arab Colonists and truthfully hate minorities not just Jews. Imagine if Americans knew anything about Kurdish justice but that would break their fantasy of the poooorrr down trotted Palestinian who is just an Arab colonist pitted against Jews……..

also this fat person is white and white passing and if i saw her in Kurdistan i would think “why is this fat white woman here being crazy”

BPD cuntress.

I can't believe this thread got to over 100 posts and no one has mentioned that the obese photographer, Laura Aguilar, this kook is "honoring" with her sad video died in 2018 at 58 y/o FROM DIABETES---a totally preventable disease that can be reversed with proper diet (very low carb), exercise and maintaining a healthy weight.

[quote]“She died in peace having spent her last day with many loving visitors,” said Sybil Venegas, an independent curator and friend who helped manage the artist’s affairs toward the end of her life. Aguilar had long contended with diabetes and was suffering from end-stage renal failure at the time of her death.

This fat Ex-Palestinian in living off the fat of the land in Fresno while this link says most Palestine are starving.

I can't believe it's not meant to be satire on current selfie culture, especially with the long shot of her holding a fan to fake a breeze, the irritating upspeak voiceover, and a flag being used as a prop. That's brilliant satire, but it's not intended as satire. I'm so confused.

Why is your roommate telling your coworkers what to eat, r23? That's weird.

Sorry, R131 was meant for R123, not r23.

R131 - she wasn't telling them what to eat. They wanted to have a virtual pizza party from this Italian restaurant and, when everyone messaged the team lead on what to order, she said said she wanted the burrata and veal salad. When our PR girl innocently said "you seriously don't want the pizza?" (because the two of them like trying new restaurants and talked about how good the pizza at this place was) my roommate said "I need to cut out carbs as much as I can with my pandemic weight gain and trigliceride issues". This on our WhatsApp group. Ms. SJW immediately fired at her that "talking about weight is triggering for many who may be struggling with eating disorders". My roommate fired back "well, as I said, I am struggling with my own issues and the doctor told me less sugars, so I am going with the salad...no dressing!". Immediately got reported to HR.

Fucking hell, R133. There just aren’t enough grease fires to cover all the deserving candidates, are there?

My question was more about why your roommate was even involved in an event at your job r133, but I'll just assume you both work at the same place.

R134 - the bitchiness was truly DL-worthy.

R135 - yeah, same company, same team, same "joy" of being on the "fun" team events like "virtual lemonade", "virtual pizza party", and the most vomit-inducing "virtual mock-tail party". .

The woman in the picture had sex with Colin McCann who is a decent looking guy? I thought she was gay. I guess some guys will literally have sex with anything. I assume she allows herself to be completely degraded to get these guys to have sex with her.

With that rope and the sand, her cooter must be itchin real bad, y’all. I’m serious!

R110 because they can hide behind a Twitter and cartoon avatar. I keep telling you it’s homely fat while women on Twitter who are responsible for this “woke” and cancel culture shit. They’re always felt powerful; now they are drunk on power. I’m sure it was a horde of permanently indignant fat fraus like this who got that YA book author’s book stopped. These gelatinous cunts all love YA fiction, for some reason.

Above that should read, “they’ve always felt powerless.”

I wonder if she went nude at Palestinian beaches?

Jarrar will tell anyone who will listen about how she tried to go to Palestine years ago, but the Israelis refused to admit her and tortured her for awhile at the airport, before sending her back to the US.

She admits, however, that she lied about why she was entering the country, making them immediately suspicious, and lied about where she was going and who she was staying with, and she also knew she was going in the wrong way (she could've entered through Jordan, but deliberately chose to come in through Ben Gurion, where is clearly states she couldn't enter due to having Palestinian ID).

When I read that, I realized that she is one of those people who purposely makes things go wrong in her life so that she can complain about them and be the victim. There are certainly valid points to be made about the treatment of Palestinians - unfortunately, she is much more concerned with using them to get attention on herself, than to actually help in any way.

R126, I have some Kurdish friends - the things those people have had to deal with is terrible, and to have fought so hard and established control over a decent chunk of land, to be continuously let down by Western powers who promise to help and then leave them in the lurch, well, it's heartbreaking.

Her on only fans is such a craven sell out to capitalism.

Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea when they arrested people for doing things like this in public.

Haha, that's a very good point R144! And yet, she is apparently an anarchist who wants everything to fall. What a weirdo.

R128, thanks for adding that, I hadn't realized that was what the artist had died from.

I mean, sorry... "How dare you be so bigoted and suggest that being overweight caused her death! Stop the violence! I am wiggling my bum right now so that Laura sees it in the afterlife!"

[quote]I can't believe this thread got to over 100 posts and no one has mentioned that the obese photographer, Laura Aguilar, this kook is "honoring" with her sad video died in 2018 at 58 y/o FROM DIABETES---a totally preventable disease that can be reversed with proper diet (very low carb), exercise and maintaining a healthy weight.

Type 1 diabetes is a disease of the pancreas and usually cannot be reversed. Type 2 is preventable but that is not always as easy or simple as you state. It doesn't only affect fat, sedentary people, by the way.

"Randa Jarrar" sounds like a Star Wars character.

The entire Humanities field has been taken over by poor-little-rich-girls. It’s become a narcissistic hobby for useless, talentless people who don’t have to work for a living. They act belligerent, not because they are persecuted minorities fighting for their lives, but because they are entitled rich kids who can’t accept that they’re nothing special.

I think you may have hit the nail on the head R150. That does seem to describe a lot of these people!

R150 I think it’s also about wanting to believe they’re acting heroically. Everyone wants to think they’re living in a time of significant change and that they are a part of that.

Oh, look what I found - the answer to people's ... on what her thoughts on healthy eating might be. LOL!

[quote]1, when you talk about your diet, it is reminding people around you who have had eating disorders or cruel caregivers of awful times in their life. Stop doing it. 2, if you're talking about being fatter than you'd like to be, ppl fatter than you don't wanna hear it. At all

She sounds very similar to your roommate's colleague, R133!

^The answer to people's questions, that was meant to say.

The tweet at r153 is nuts. If someone I follow is starting to post a lot of shitty stuff, even if I've followed them for years, I'll just unfollow or block. It would never have occurred to me to post a list of things my followers are "allowed" to say.

I don't even think she limits it to her followers, I think she thinks that should be a rule for everyday conversation.

Sorry, it just sounds like she doesn't want to ever have to hear people saying something that reminds her that she's unhealthy.

This is a glaring example of someone who has ZERO SELF AWARENESS,

You mean it’s NOT an SNL video spoof?

R51 - actually, I think it would have been more of an 'art statement' if she was on the beach, people came up with buckets of water and then a team of them pushed her back into the water.

I think that would have been a more provocative and thought-provoking statement, as blatant as it may be. Many fat people have that 'beached whale' metaphor in their heads when they go to the beach. And it could be a commentary on how those bodies don't belong on the beach and need to be rolled back into the abyss of the water and out of sight.

Of course, people would have said it was dehumanizing - which would have been the point.

R148, the dead woman wasn't Type 1. T1D's are all skinny. They can't put on weight.

The artist (and I guarantee Randa Jarrar as well) was T2D....and yes, it absolutely IS always reversible for anyone motivated to radically change their relationship with food. You have to eat right (keto) and exercise. I did it myself. I'm down 45 lbs and my A1C dropped from an alarming 12.1 down to 5.8 in 6 months. All my health markers are now in the normal range. I feel amazing too. Everything is better-- sleep, energy, moods, mental focus, flexibility, joints, hair, skin, nails.....on and on. I feel better than I have since I was a teenager.

[R143] that’s why you will find many Kurds with sympathy to Israel because if the Western world woke up and saw what’s happening to Kurds millions of us-they would have to admit that Hamas and PA work for Iran and Iran is funding and supporting the terror of our people across the world. All Hamas is a tool for all Justice for Palestine is a tool for is a return to the Caliphate pan arab continent. It is not a dream for anyone but western delusionals and hard core Islamists. Kurds, Yassidis, Armenians, Druze, and yes Israelis will suffer more under a “free palestine”. Turkey invaded and kill people in Turkish villages.

Also where is the outrage for Egypt who unlike Israel shoots any Gazan on site for trying to illegally pass the border-yep Egypt hates Hamas led Gaza. Until the world wakes up to the horrors of Iran and keeps getting distracted by fake hate for Israel-the rest of minorities in the middle east continue to suffer without attention

Also very nice of Arab countries colluding with China and letting their Uyghur citizens be kidnapped back to china to be put in concentration camps

like ok….no offense the West is stupid and wrong and this little fat WHItE right privileged palestinian whining about how she misses pan arab colonization and rule under islamic calaphate is anything but laughable and misinformed by high fives in her champagne lgbt circles-so righteous. Maybe actually learn some word history Americans even American Palestinians and American Jews who ignore everything else bad in the world-get out of your ass and pay attention not binocular attention-but real widespread attention.

R158 SNL could never come up with something so funny and tragic.

I can hardly wait for Amy Schumer to steal this bit.

Who the FUCK is this BITCH?

[quote] Men are the only ones held to a social standard, and women are given a pass for morally gray behavior.

Because historically, men have been the police, the judge and jury. Woman had no power, women were subservient, women were to be protected but also pursued and ogled. Woman have been under the male gaze since the beginning of time. Nudie pictures, stag films, calendars, mud flaps, novelty glasses, Playboy, Hustler—created by men. Looking at nude women is acceptable because men have made it acceptable.

R165 then if you want to change that, then stop acting like fucking children.

R159, I like your idea, it would be a much more interesting statement!

This charmless woman says "all of us in the literary community must DEMAND that white editors resign. It’s time to STEP DOWN and hand over the positions of power. We don’t have to wait for them to fuck up. The fact that they hold these positions is fuck up enough."

She STILL can't stand white belly dancers! LOL, her sad attempt at being above it all: "I just wrote the article in two hours and YOU are all obsessed with me!" type stuff, uh, no. You clearly wrote it quickly and that's the problem. Then she goes through all the criticisms, except she doesn't touch on any of the real, fact-based criticisms of course, because she has no answer for that.

How does someone like this have tenure as a professor who teaches writing when she can't even make a simple argument work?

She wants to be careful with that, R168 - she looks pretty white herself, will end up hoisted by her own petard if she's not careful.

If that happens, she'll land on Mars.

Isn't there something productive she can do with all this anger of hers? Doesn't she write? I guess not enough to get this anger out of her.

She has recently written a road trip memoir, except there's no road trip in it, and when people said they had picked it up expecting a road trip because that was how it was advertised, she went on and on about how she was 'deconstructing' the 'colonialist' idea of a road trip or something. Woman is nuts.

[quote] Doesn't she write

She only writes about being a Palestinian. And how she loves Palestine but would rather live in USA.

This graceless woman is half-Palestinian and half-Egyptian.

She may be aspiring to match this Egyptian woman.

From what I know, outside living the majority of her life in the US, she grew up in Egypt and Kuwait. It sounds like she is really romanticizing something, without having a real understanding of what things are like on the ground.

To be honest, her focus on Palestine seems much more about her than them, kinda like how her video above is more about herself than the artist she is supposedly honoring.

I wonder what it'd be like to take her creative writing class? I feel like she'd be quite vindictive if you didn't write in the exact way she wanted you to.

I see she deleted her big thread about how evil it was that Gal Gadot got cast as Cleopatra - the thread where everyone made fun of her for doing so.

Guess she's not so "brave" and "fierce" and "royal" as she thinks she is.

[quote]A fat guy doing these stunts publicly would land him on a sex offender list. No one would call this art if it was a fat bear with a mushroom dick lying in the beach. Men are the only ones held to a social standard, and women are given a pass for morally gray behavior.

You're as much a parody of yourself as Jarrar is. This is paranoid MRA talk, and a quick glance at your posts shows you are obsessed with women not being punished for their actions 24/7. You sound like some crank who spends all day on the internet, going from forum to forum, screaming about women not behaving themselves and men being the victims of cruel misandry.

What is that fucking beached walrus doing? And I thought Venus and Serena were the ugliest bitches around. Jesus.

"Goo goo g'joob!"

“All white editors should just resign?” Right. This woke bullshit gets stranger by the day.

Yeah, she's not exactly the most nuanced thinker out there, R180, that's for sure.

What she doesn't realize either is that any change she wants to make will always be ignored when coming from her because she has such a ridiculous way of putting things. She's only hurting her own causes. Which is probably just as well for the rest of us considering some of the dumb things she wants done.

She left Muslim countries because they don't eat pig.

Jarrar the Hutt

A few "awful" ratings here, and then a stack of "awesome" ones, but there is quite a time difference between the early "awesome" and the later "awful". Perhaps she's given up in recent years? An interesting comment from one of the good reviews though:

[quote]She has a list of what she will and will not accept for stories, which can be scary, but there are reasons for it.

I wonder what her list involves and what the reasons for it are?

This may explain the reasons behind her list:

[quote]teaches through postcolonial/ feminist/queer lenses.

I've never seen a gay man teach queer theory.

She's teaching it in relation to creative writing too, which seems a bit weird. Like she's probably telling them they have to write stories through those lenses, I guess.

That's what struck me too, R183!

That rate my professors page is interesting. DL fave Roxane Gay:

[quote]Not helpful at all. Inconsistent with what she says. Offers to work with student who struggles but does not do so

[quote]She was boring, and I didn't appreciate her attitude at times.

Haha!

Clearly not a fan of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie:

Randa be jelly

Randa is rage eating right now.

Just right now? 😜

People like this woman are a good reminder that it's not just the younger generation behaving this weird way on social media. In fact, I doubt many of them would!

Slutty Pole-dancer

[quote] We've reached peak narcissism:

Here's a picture of peak fatness.

R196 What a fucking ugly cow cunt. Yuck. No man would ever fuck that. Lesbians like ugly so they'd hit it.

I was with her until "a culture that wants smaller women is pedophilic"

Oh that's so gross, R198! But typical of her argumentative style - throw out words like "pedophilic" to try and force everyone into thinking her body type is the right and desirable one, try to shame men for finding slim bodies attractive in the most disingenuous way possible. Ugh, she's so fucking desperate.

Any scum who pays attention to her is just as repulsive as she is. Block this cunt.

"all bodies are good and equal" and then "a culture that wants smaller women is pedophilic" a couple of lines later. She is terrible at making a point.

"this is your reminder" - one thing I've noticed about teachers is that they simply cannot stop talking to everyone as though we are all their students.

[quote]TONIGHT 7pm (EDT)/ 4pm (PT). Don’t miss “Aguilar's LA: Three Love Letters”! Artists Randa Jarrar, Raquel Gutiérrez & Amelia Bande will be in conversation with Ethnic Studies & Critical Gender Studies scholar Roy Pérez.

She was probably a fat little girl anyway.

So Jarrar considers that rolling around naked on some rocks, flashing her cunt, a "love letter", does she?

She seems unbelievably impressed with herself.

I know, right, R206. I keep thinking back to that look on her face in the video and start cracking up. She really thinks she's doing something controversial. Instead she just looks like an idiot, haha.

R108 Bitch, she's White. She's a White Palestinian.

^LITERAL VIOLENCE!

It would be hilarious to see her face when someone tells her she's white, she'd have a conniption!

Oh, R197, you don't know straight men. At all.

She'll worry about Britney Spears if she damn well wants to!

Miss Thang is a privileged and rich White woman herself (especially compared to real Palestinian women). STFU and sit down, nashty skank. Talentless poseur.

How dare you deny her the opportunity to be the biggest victim in the room, R213?!

Or, in other words, I totally agree with you.

[quote] nashty skank

Welcome to DL, Miss Minnelli. Or is it really you? Wouldn't the real Liza with a Z have written "nashty shkank"?

Narshisshisht Frezhno professhor flapsh her pusshy on the rocksh in embarrasshing performanshe pieshe.

[quote] How dare you deny her the opportunity to be the biggest victim in the room

“Biggest” being the operative word.

[quote]I was with her until "a culture that wants smaller women is pedophilic"

That is a really old fashioned take, the kind of thing you see in academic talk from decades ago. For a while the hot take on the fashion world was that men liked Twiggy and other stick thin models because they were hot for little girls, then it changed to the idea that gay men wanted women so thin that they looked like boys. Both tropes are considered outdated and offensive these days.

This woman really is a walking parody, if she suddenly announced she'd been trolling people all along, I would completely believe it.

That's a great point R218 - kinda hilarious how intelligent she thinks she is, and doesn't realise what a parody she is instead.

The only thing is, I think for her to be trolling/doing performance art she'd have to have a sense of humour though, and quite frankly she seemly utterly humourless.

Mona Eltahawy has just hosted a panel of MENA LGBTQIA authors, including Ms Jarrar, who Eltahawy calls "gorgeously visible" and around the 20 minute mark she starts lavishing praise on Jarrar for the Laura Aguilar video above, calling it an "incredible video" and is [italic]outraged[/italic] ("for fuck's sake!", "fascist fucks of Instagram!") that Instagram took it down, censoring it "during Pride!".

Jarrar thinks "it's an honor to be censored by Instagram" which she calls a "trashcan". She shows us what a brave trailblazer she is as she proudly declares: "Fuck Instagram! Fuck Facebook! Fuck Israel! Fuck Saudi Arabia!"

Her explanation of doing this video is that her "quest" is always to remain vulnerable and angry and naked. She looks so pleased with herself as she says these things.

This fraud needs a Yashar Ali expose.

^I'm here for that. Her ex husband tried it once I seem to remember, but he seems crazy too, so it never really took off.

On the recent Madonna Vogue Italia thread, a poster said this about her, and I think something similar is happening here with Jarrar (bolding mine):

[quote]She’s become Lena Dunham, with that insistence to make herself look as terrible as possible, in the worst clothes and then shove herself into our faces, [bold]daring us to be appalled[/bold]. It’s a desperate kind of theater. Any attention, even contempt, is better than none.

[quote]pride dance parties were so fun tonight i wish i could celebrate in palestine. i wish i could walk through the old cobblestone streets drunk and joyous to belong and be home at last

R224 welll….she could do that in Arab Israeli cities like Jaffa but hell as not in West Bank or Gaza. Arab Israelis don’t want Hamas or the PA to take over-sex, weed, shorts, and gay shit are for keeeping thanks. What she wants is to be an Arab Israeli citizen - unless she wants to be covered and shrouded and have a man walk her home. Yep in Gaza the queer liberation movement known as Hamas passed a law that single women MUST be accompanied by a man ANYWHERE.

Ramallah is beautiful West Bank city-but you still can’t be gay not that it matters because people shout Pinkwashing. Ok then all of Europe, South Korea, Thailand, the UK, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and the US are also Pinkwashing because yeah imperialism but also we don’t get murdered for being gay so uhhhh yeah I’m fine with it. You don’t like it- go live in Iran and Iraq and West Bank.

There's a guy who goes around Israel and Palestine doing interviews, and there was one where he asked them about their opinions on gay people. The Palestinians were almost unanimously against gay people, and when they heard there were gay people who supported Palestine, they basically said: "Well, of course they do, it's the right thing to do, but we don't need THEIR support".

Interesting, half the guys that said it looked like they'd probably enjoy sucking dick.

But it wasn't all like that. There was one lovely woman who spoke about the gay people she knew in Palestine, her support for them and gay people everywhere and how things need to change. She was open about it and actually did do as much as she could to fight for gay rights. It was a very interesting video.

With Jarrar's tweet above, it's a beautiful dream to have, but it's not all because of Israeli policy that she can't do that, as she seems to be implying when you see all her tweets in context. She wouldn't be allowed to do that due to the Palestinians either.

Could we be seeing more of her on our screens soon?

[quote]Putting out into the universe that I would like to get back into acting. I was just getting started when pandemic hit.

^^^She would be good in some John Waters remakes. She could start as Babs Johnson in Pink Flamingos.

The only problem is R228 that she hasn't got an ounce of humor in herself to be able to pull off those kind of roles.

...

Now we'll have to hear about how she's "queering monogamy," R230-- as if monogamous gay/lesbian couples haven't existed since forever.

Oh god, R231, you are right! That is exactly what she will talk about next.

I'm not even sure there is anything queer about this woman, except maybe in the original meaning of the word.

Hahahaha! So edgy!

234 replies and no one has given a link to the video OP refers to.

Too lazy here to wade through the google list of videos with this woman in them.

Uhm, OP gave the link, r235.

To mark the last few weeks of our exhibition, “Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell” (on view through June 26th) we commissioned artists Randa Jarrar, Raquel Gutiérrez, and Amelia Bande (3 Angeleno artists) to choose any work(s) from the exhibition and create a new short work in response. These videos will be unrolled this month, beginning with Jarrar's response to “Nature Self Portrait 6”, “Three Eagles Flying”, and “In Sandy's Room”, directed by Violet Price.

On June 22nd at 7pm, all three artists will be in conversation with Ethnic Studies and Critical Gender Studies scholar, Roy Pérez as part of "Aguilar's LA: Three Love Letters". RSVP: zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwscuyqrz8uG9BMAXETsQ0EZ3FiVoGN8MZ3

Randa Jarrar is the author of the memoir Love Is An Ex-Country, the novel A Map of Home, and the collection Him, Me, Muhammad Ali. She is also a performer. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Bitch, Buzzfeed, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a Creative Capital Award and an American Book Award.

R236, where?

There is no link in the original post, so what reply did OP post the link in?

There are lots of links in the thread. I have looked at most, but do not want to guess which one OP was writing about. So giving up on this thread.

Mate, it's the link to vimeo in the post that begins the whole thread.

If a thread's been greyed out (which this one has, and I'm on Asbestos Eyeballs), then any links in the thread's first post will disappear.

Um, it's not on greyed on to me...

^greyed out, sorry.

My mistake, my setting was at the default position - right in the middle between Delicate Flower and Asbestos Eyeballs (not sure why, I definitely have adjusted it in the past towards the latter). Anyway, this is what is linked at the OP, for anyone who currently cannot see it:

Thank you, R244.

OP is greyed out for me even though I unblocked everyone. I thought the graying was due to blocking.

I do not know about the settings. you refer to. I guess it is a browser thing since DL does not have settings.

Ah well.

Actually, I found settings. I did not know DL had them.

I guess DL wants to protect people's eyes from that image of her on the beach, haha!

Fat White chick trying to get over.

[quote]Anyway, this is what is linked at the OP, for anyone who currently cannot UNsee it:

The real issue, R244. FIFY.

Haha, R249. That is a good point!

Wow, this annoying cow really gets around. Here she is with DL fave Riz Ahmed at a Discostan event.

Mooooo!

She's younger than me and she looks like she could be my grandma. Retinol, Sweetie, retinol.

Clown makeup

She has two grown kids? Ugh, who procreated with that gelatinous mess?!

Laughing at this delusional bitch trying to pretend that Palestine is some sort of liberal paradise for "queer" people. For all her shrieking about "apartheid in Israel" and "Islamophobia" I bet she doesn't utter a word about how Islamic countries treat their non-Muslim residents and citizens.

I can't bear looking at the weals on those flabby cheeks.

R255, she seems to be either very naïve or deliberately obtuse when it comes to that subject. Supporting the rights of Palestinians is one thing, claiming it's, as you say, a liberal paradise for queer people is quite another.

She complains all the time about her experience at Ben Gurion airport when she tried to go to Palestine, but she deliberately did the wrong thing in order to end up feeling like the victim. She knew that she would have to go through Jordan, considering her heritage, but deliberately ignored that and then wondered why she got treated so badly at the airport when the Israelis found out she was lying about her background, who she was staying with, and when she threatened to piss on the floor.

I can't with these people. In their obsession for making themselves the victim, they end up fucking things up for real victims.

R257, I don't think she is naïve at all. Deliberately obtuse and selectively outraged is more like it. She reminds me of many acquaintances who go on about how Muslims are persecuted in "the West", China, Israel, India and Myanmar. But any mention of how non-Muslims are treated in Islamic countries is immediately brushed away and rejected because, according to them, even the mention of this "comes from a feeling of Islamophobia."

It's hypocrisy and utter nonsense, but these types will just scream, "Israel! Myanmar! The evil West! India! China!" if you so much as mention anything about how intolerant Muslim majority societies are.

R258, I think you're right when you say it's a case of "deliberately obtuse and selectively outraged". I was definitely being a bit too fair to her. When you see the stuff she writes, you can tell so easily how badly she wants to be offended over everything, and then have an excuse as she sees it, to tell everyone else off.

It surprises me not that she is such good friends with Roxane Gay.

How long has she been trying to make herself a thing?

Hmm, R260 - when was that article about white women bellydancing? 2014? Since then, at least.

I wonder what Myriam and Randa hope will happen after?

I hate Randa! Dumb smug ugly cunt!

Smug is a good word for her - and hilariously, she has nothing to be smug about, hehe.

Of course this hideous hypocritical cunt would immediately scream "Islamophobe! Israel" if anyone tweeted that they would happily celebrate the end of Palestine. Or any of the other awful hellholes in the Middle East.

I'd watch a reality show of her living in Palestine.

R266, it would be very interesting to see the realisation grow on her that no place in the world is ideal, especially over there. But probably she will just scream: "Israel is evil!" at all her problems.

PS, I feel I have to say, I definitely don't support or not support either side in this issue, but I just want to say that I think she's being way too simple minded about the whole situation in some cases.

She definitely would R265. And not even accept that it was hypocritical either.

I wonder what she would find most problematic about living in Palestine: the lack of fast food, the slow internet, or having to wear a Burqa?

None of those, R268. She would complain constantly about the existence of Israel and blame "the West" for anything that she doesn't like about life in Palestine.

R269 has it exactly right. You can totally see that. Would be interesting to see how she could spin not being able to roll around in the desert naked and wrapped in bondage rope as being the fault of Israel and the West, but I'm sure she'll give it a damn good try!

She does realize she is white herself, doesn't she?

She comes across awfully a lot like the stereotypical white woman centering herself in the struggles of others.

I don't think whites can bitch about white supremacy since you are the enemy. Just like Nazis bitching about Nazis. Good fucking grief. Idiocracy.

Oh, r272, ain’t nobody can bitch about white women like white women can. They can make Datalounge look like amateurs.

The best part is for all her blathering and attempts to court controversy, her twitter engagement level is laughably low.

R273 This is why I have always loathed SJWs (who are mostly white). If you are white, only white issues pertain to you. It is none of your fucking business about everyone else's lives or choices. R274 Good point. How can some people have 5 million followers yet none of these people ever engage with the one they're following or each other? That is why one intellectual is worth more than a million stupid ones.

Haha R274, that's what I've noticed too. She even tried to retweet her own tweets about Barbara Bush awhile back, saying: "I don't regret it and would do it again" or some similar sentiment, and NO ONE responded haha!

Its pronouns on Twitter are he/him/she/her. Don't forget cunt/twat/git/cow/cooze.

I thought you were joking R277, but those really are her pronouns! He/him/she/her! I've never actually seen someone say that before.

Speaking of narcissism, this is so gross. Making it ALL about her:

[quote]i cant sleep because i cant stop thinking of how palestinians are being killed, evicted, pepper sprayed, humiliated, abused, and dehumanized thanks to our disgusting government's support. my grief is deep and unending.

Ms Jarrar doesn't want to hear about your diet!

[quote]1, when you talk about your diet, it is reminding people around you who have had eating disorders or cruel caregivers of awful times in their life. Stop doing it. 2, if you're talking about being fatter than you'd like to be, ppl fatter than you don't wanna hear it. At all

Truth be told, I don’t want to hear about anybody’s diet either.

The end of the USA = the end of pampered and useless “academics”.

What’s with fat chicks who have pancake asses? Isn’t one of the perks of being fat usually having a large round ass?

How dare you not revel in the beauty of her body, R283?!

I'm sure she would feel that's a hate crime.

This woman puts the "twit" in Twitter.

R283, that's one of the ironies of body positivity--all those huge models still have to have curves, i.e., significant waist-to-hip ratios; the celebs famed for having fat asses have had procedures to get the round-ass look. Maybe Jennifer Lopez' is real, but we never see her bare ass because it's probably full of cellulite.

People like Random make me laugh. I have had the opportunity to live in many different countries over the last 20 years. I know from my own experiences that they can get away with bitching about America and "the West" precisely because of the generally liberal values of the West. The cultures that so many of these types love to romanticize are more often than not much more rigid, conservative and far more racist, classist and cruel. But Random and her ilk will never acknowledge that.

Those are the shades of grey that people like her never like to acknowledge, R287. And you'd think a university professor would be more aware of this, but instead she just blindly glorifies places other than where she lives. It's almost as if her criticism of the place she is in stops her criticism of the places she dreams about.

I will admit, I've only travelled to certain places in the Middle East, and I don't want to be too general because I freely admit I don't know enough, but during my limited time there it was amazing how a sense of censorship seemed to hang in the air. I didn't go there thinking it would be like that, but by the time I left, I was really aware of it.

There was also a real beauty in the relationships I formed with people there, a sense of community and welcome-ness unlike I had experienced in other places. But I certainly wouldn't be marching in a Pride parade in most places over there like she seems to think she will be able to do in Palestine.

[quote] And you'd think a university professor would be more aware of this, but instead she just blindly glorifies places other than where she lives.

I know some people in academic or journalistic circles who are like RJ. It isn't so much a case of criticizing where they live but more that they have a pre-defined narrative in mind. And they look for viewpoints and opinions to suit that narrative.

One such academic acquaintance is very much in the "West bad and evil and imperialistic, Muslims are misunderstood, What about America/Israel/Myanmar/India?" mold. When she travels around the world her reactions are so predictable. Any visit to Europe will result in her constantly bringing up racism in those countries, how Islamophobic France and the UK are, how homophobic Eastern Europe is and so on. She returned from a work trip to India two years ago and talked non-stop about every Muslim there being oppressed beyond belief and on the verge of being lynched and killed. The same with trips to Japan or Hong Kong or Argentina.

And the same woman, after trips to Iran, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia would only talk about the glorious architecture, how much the Middle East has contributed to modern culture and how misunderstood the region (minus Israel, of course) is. There is no attempt whatsoever to be objective. Her agenda are plain for everyone to see. When you bring up the treatment of religious minorities or gays in those countries she would get huffy, dismissive and start lecturing about the imperialist tendency to impose our cultural beliefs on "other cultures far richer than ours." (her exact words)

The old cliche about none so blind as those who won't see is true in her case.

Wow R289, thanks for sharing that, it is very interesting, and I know people like that too. Especially:

[quote]When you bring up the treatment of religious minorities or gays in those countries she would get huffy, dismissive and start lecturing about the imperialist tendency to impose our cultural beliefs on "other cultures far richer than ours."

I remember so clearly a friend of mine saying a similar thing to me once.

This fug bug-eyed cow doesn't even know how to apply her lipstick properly.

If this annoying pig hates the US so much, then she needs to fuck off back to 'her country'.

I honestly don't understand these poseur supposedly liberal 'academics', especially those who seem to so vehemently hate the US, yet live in the US and earn quite a decent living in the US. These types continue to reap the benefits of living in the US, yet are always saying negative things about the US.

Would she be able to have such a loudmouth in her country, would she have the freedom to pose naked, exposing her disgusting vile body? She'd be stoned to death, she'd be considered a second class citizen there. Back in her patriarchal country, she'd probably be murdered. Women have been murdered for much less in the countries she champions.

^ Deep down I'm sure she must know that it wouldn't be paradise for her in Palestine. The cognitive dissonance must be part of what makes her so irritable. But conveniently for her, she never has to own up to that if she just stays in the US complaining all the time, I guess.

OMG, guys! She either reads Datalounge and is trolling us, or...

[quote]Hello world! I'm trans and femme. I use the names Ra and Randa. He/him/she/her/habibi/habibti/daddy/goddess are my pronouns Remember: trans people don't owe you any particular appearance. And my tits aren't going anywhere.

I'm a supporter of trans people, I just want to say first up. This seems so "look at me!" though. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but trans means being born in the wrong sex, yes? She seems to think it means she's everything all at once (more like "pan"?). I mean, she can be whoever she likes, obviously, but given her track record she seems like the kind of person who would say this just because she wants to get under the skin of other people.

I thought posters would get a kick out of this anyway. Do you think she's legit?

She must be happy though. She has 13 responses, that's more engagement she's had since she last complained about Gal Gadot!

Habibi?

In a bout of CIS "COVID Induced Stupidity" I got her book from the library. Essentially a glorified journal. She complains about lazy white editors, but her "book" appeared to have not been edited in the least. Her approach to life is she is always a victim of something or someone. Zero self awareness.

"Her approach to life is she is always a victim of something or someone. Zero self awareness." That describes most Millennials. Big whoop.

[quote]I got her book from the library. Essentially a glorified journal. She complains about lazy white editors, but her "book" appeared to have not been edited in the least

Hahaha, that's hilarious. I've wondered what her books are like. I can't bring myself to read one of them, her articles are badly written enough.

[quote]Habibi?

Arabic for "my love", but mostly used as a pet name for friends and family members. Habibi is what you use for men, habibti for women.

At least we don't have to worry about what pronouns to call her considering she has TAKEN THEM ALL!

She’s about as trans as Trumputin. A poseur with BPD is more accurate. I would be willing to bet she’s not the least bit Arab. Just another Rachel Dolezal situation. Regardless, she’s a dirty skank who needs to STFU and sit down.

What will this attention whore stoop to next? Has she auditioned to be a suicide bomber for some Palestinian terrorist group yet? Given her size they could strap enough explosives on her to take down an entire country and still leave some jiggly ass for her fellow terrorists to fuck after she has blown herself up.

Jesus. She really set herself up for embarrassment by filming this on a beach covered in ropes that look like seaweed. Poor little sea hag.

R301, you sound nice.

I'm not sure why, but she reminds me of that crazy girl at brunch fingering herself and squirting.

R304 AHHHH AHHHHHH AHHHHH 💦 💦 💦

Puhlease that girl is way cooler r304

Probably because that's the kind of thing I imagine Jarrar really would consider doing R304. But she'd do it defiantly, claiming people being grossed out are oppressing her or something.

I can't find it now, but I remember her not that long ago posting a tweet about how she had just "squirted in the shape of a heart". I think she even shared a picture of it, but I am too traumatised to remember.

R302, there is certainly something of the Ursula about her isn't there?

R300, this is the thing - I get the feeling she's not really trans either, but I obviously don't know that for sure. If she is doing it just as a narcissist thing, that's really very insulting.

I doubt this ever happens...

[quote]Every time I drive my car (a convertible) alone, a man makes sure to stop nearby to tell me how sexy I am. I always respond with, "I know." Stop mansplaining my hotness to me, LA creeps.

Yeah right. Nobody is telling her that

She lives in such a strange, little world of her own making...

She is hard of hearing and delusional. They are telling her she looks hot and sweaty, not hot and sexy. They are acting out of concern that this blubbery whale might overheat and explode.

R300, I have an inkling you are right. For years she was describing herself as "queer" but only seemed to be into men... this whole thing comes off like she wants MORE attention. I wouldn't say that about anyone else, but with her..? I think she's nuts and so desperate for everyone to be looking at her.

Stop mansplaining to me, LA creeps!

She's so delusional, haha!

If I were trans I'd be so pissed off that this woman is just glomming on to the community for attention and saying her pronouns are basically everything under the sun. She's sick in the head. Typical of people who were brought up in privilege, she's desperate to have something to feel victimised about.

Hmmm... I'm not sure graphic design is her career path...

R315, I always used to assume that the trans would be pissed off with these kinds of people but they actually like it. The more people adopting and promoting their gender identity ideology, the better for them. The trans have no problem with full-blown lineback-style men who have undergone no physical transitioning "identifying" as women.

Of course, people with actual gender dysphoria may have an issue with this stuff, but they don't exist in the minds of the new-style trans activists and, if they do, then they should just shut up.

To add r315, that's why the trans love the whole pronouns thing and are pushing organisations to adopt pronouns in emails for all their members as well as on social media, even if the majority will be "cis" because it promotes the concept of gender identity ideology.

Hmmm...

What on earth does this mean? "I am a Palestinian flag"??

[quote]no you are because you have a Palestinian flag in your profile pic and meanwhile I am a Palestinian Fag and I don't want your support

I think she might be in the midst of a psychotic break right now. She's just gone mad on Twitter, insulting everyone she can.

Oh dear, she's gone off on one again, haha:

[quote]Zionax® When you want to blame and torture a population that had nothing to do with your oppression and murder, try Zionax. Side effects include not making any sense, selective memory, and rampant hatred

Is this someone from DL?

[quote]This whale again?

She's such a hypocrite, surprise, surprise. For someone so up in arms about white women belly dancing, she has no problem with her family celebrating Christmas.

And for the record, I believe she should be able to celebrate Christmas AND white women should be able to belly dance. It's just the fact she's a huge hypocrite with the whole 'cultural appropriation' thing.

Now that Randa identifies as all three (and a host of other things to boot), I wonder if she thinks she's going to be entitled to three times the submission fees hehe.

Shouldn’t she be driving down the highway getting told she’s sexy (allegedly)

[quote] What on earth does this mean? "I am a Palestinian flag"??

She wrote "I am a Palestinian f*g". Typical of a straight woman claiming to be 'queer', she thinks it's OK for her to use the f-word slur to refer to herself.

I hope she posts something stupid like "Palestinians are the n-word of the Middle East, oppressed by everyone. I am a n-word." and gets canceled immediately.

[quote]She wrote "I am a Palestinian f*g"

Oh wow, I seriously couldn't see that until you pointed it out. That really annoys me, she doesn't have any reason (in my opinion, at the same time I'm not trying to stop her) to use that term to describe herself. There are other terms available to her. I guess what I'm trying to say is that she tries so hard to police what others can and can't do, but her rules never seem to apply to her. And that second paragraph R326, I wouldn't put it past her.

She just seems so unlikable.

It does crack me up that it feels like earlier today she was just running around on Twitter trying to be offensive and to take offense to as many people as possible. And yet no one really responds to her, that must grate on her so much, desperate for attention as she is!

R325, while she yells out: "stop mansplaining my hotness to me!"

She really doesn't hold to her own so-called values. Or maybe she does, I think her values might just be: "I hate white people" haha:

I love how she now calls herself Ra, like the Egyptian sun god - speaking of narcissism!

Habibi is a cunt

I reserve 'habibi' for people I actually am fond of, would never refer to her as 'habibi', lol!

There's a lotta junk in that trunk.

And none of it very appealing, R332.

People like her only exist in academia right? I can’t imagine this woman having a real job with responsibilities, where she’s forced to deal with real-life diversity.

I think they must, R334. In their domain they can be king (she has tenure as a creative writing professor), I can't believe they would be very successful outside of it.

Nothing I've seen of this woman ever makes me think she is getting ahead on her own merits. She seems to be trying to get success by claiming oppression and bullying people into loving her work (or else they're bigoted). And yet, she's not even very successful at THAT! Haha.

She's calling herself "BeefyBaba" now. So many identities, she might as well just call herself Sybil!

[quote]i am fully knocked out by the grief in the world

Once again making everything about her.

Oh, god. She is ALWAYS the victim! It's interesting she posts this:

[quote]I watched The Chair. And yeah, it's too real in parts. But I also deeply disliked the way they explored campus controversy. There is ONE nazi student acknowledging the disgraced prof, but not a huge group of them protecting him, which is what is actually happening on campuses 1/3

[quote]A major lost opportunity. Seeing the students of color go off on the republican/nazi students would have been so much more interesting and realistic. Instead it's v obvious that the production team decided to lean into stereotypes about "overly woke" students (as iffffff) 2/3

[quote]In reality, the professors being attacked on campuses are those who are anti-Nazi, anti-fascism. I speak from experience. Speaking of: every fall I am reminded of the time I had to teach with nazis yelling outside my classroom, and administrators siding with them. (3/3)

Not long after she is posting things like:

[quote]i cannot express enough how much joy I experienced at the white hetero girl losing e v e r y thing for investing in a white man

and

[quote]lol i still get hate mail for that essay years later, caucasians gonna caucate

Ooh, she showed him!

[quote]Colm McCan't

Anyone fancy a writing workshop with her? She's barely published any novels, but...

[quote]This September, Mizna is pleased to offer a writing workshop with @randajarrar! In this 2 hour class, Randa will discuss techniques in drafting a prose book.

[quote]Registration is limited, priority to Black & Indigenous writers, & writers of color.

She sure thinks a lot of herself. Who wants to ask her for a favour? What does Jan 6th and vaccines have to do with her book which could be summed up as "me me me ME ME ME!"

[quote]if you're ever wondering "I should ask Randa for a favor," buy 20 copies of my new book instead

[quote]it came out after the insurrection and before vaccines and it deserves a bigger readership

We know, Random. We all saw it.

[quote]my pussy has a high BMI

"EVERYTHING is about me!"

[quote]i was in the car wash during the earthquake so i didn't notice it

[quote]can't help but see this is a metaphor about my trauma

Randa gets her gunt out for another short film she is doing!

[quote]Wrapped another short film and i'm in ecstasy. Acting is all I want to do.

Her gunt is not as impressive as Trump's.

Eww, don't even want to think about his, R345!

I this a Lane Bryant commercial ?

^ 😂😂😂

And what "performance piece" will Randa be inspired to create from this?

[quote]etel adnan was a badass visual artist & writer who modeled how to live outside borders. i look up to her and know she was complicated-- she came from ottoman $$$$$$. but she used it to publish on her own terms and showed us another way to be. rip bb

(and does she even KNOW these people she's assuming a familiarity with?)

This woman is such a weird "perpetual victim" type personality. She is literally on Twitter talking about her PTSD because, get this, the owner of the house she is renting decided to sell, gave her notice (and an offer to buy if she could), and then went about looking for buyers. Apparently this evil home owner is re-traumatising her and giving her PTSD because she's Palestinian, and this brings up memories of Palestinian displacement? Despite the fact she grew up in the US, Kuwait and Egypt?

She also sometimes identifies as a gay man or a "fag". This is ridiculous.

Also:

She fully deserves to have to live in Fresno.

Haha, R352! Shitty place, is it? I've heard of it of course, but don't know much about it.