Sunday, September 1, 2024

He's Not Wrong....

 

Steve Mudflap McGrew’s REMASCULATE podcast

@REMASCULATE

Have you noticed how the United States is starting to look like a bus station at 2 a.m.? It’s like we’re all just one missed Greyhound away from being found face down on a plastic bench with a bag of Funyuns as a pillow. People don’t care anymore—about how they look, about how they act, about basic hygiene. We’re all just one pajama-wearing Walmart trip away from complete societal collapse.

 

Remember when people used to put in the effort to look good? You look at old photos of people in public from, like, the 1950s, and everyone’s dressed like they’re on their way to a job interview at NASA. The men are in suits, hats tilted just right, like they're about to solve a mystery on a train. The women have their hair perfectly styled, lipstick on, clutching a purse like it contains the nation’s secrets. And that’s just to go grocery shopping!

 

Now? Oh, now we’re out here looking like we’re in the middle of a hostage negotiation with our closet. People are showing up to the airport in Crocs and pajama pants, like they’re expecting a four-hour delay at the gate and maybe an emotional support hamster to get them through it. You see a guy at the DMV wearing a tank top that says “I paused my game to be here,” and you’re like, “Yeah, I bet you did, buddy. I bet you did.”

 

It’s like nobody even knows what a mirror is anymore. You’ve got folks out here with hair that looks like it’s been styled by a leaf blower. And don’t get me started on the people wearing sunglasses indoors at night. What are you hiding from? The fluorescent lighting? Reality?

 

Let’s be honest, we’re all living in the ‘People of Walmart’ slideshow now. And it’s not just how we look; it’s how we act! People used to say “good morning” or at least grunt in your general direction. Now, you get on a bus, and it’s a collection of feral stares and people making TikToks like it’s a confessional booth at a dive bar.

 

It’s like the collective standard of public decorum has fallen so far that if you’re just wearing clothes that aren’t stained, you’re practically a Rockefeller. There used to be a time when people took pride in their appearance, where leaving the house in sweatpants was a cry for help, not a fashion statement. Now, wearing jeans is considered “dressed up.”

 

The United States in 2024: where the dress code is “Please just have something on,” and the only rule is “No shirt, no shoes, no problem.” We’re all just one Netflix binge away from showing up to work in a bathrobe and calling it “business casual.”

44 comments:

  1. Actually, he's totally wrong.
    Response out tomorrow.
    Thanks for the mill grist.

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    1. As promised:
      https://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2024/09/life-now-is-closer-to-naked-and-afraid.html

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  2. Born in 1954 I got to see America before. Nobody went grocery shopping lookin like crap. No curlers, no sweat pants. And if you were going to the airport,, WooHoo! Sunday Best..Hell, we got dressed up for a long distance phone call..

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    1. 10 years younger, too poor to go to a restaurant, hotel or airport, but always dressed with modesty and with clean clothes. Let's not talk about the polyester fashion. It was the '70's and I was a child!

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    2. Grew up in the 60's/70's. PLENTY of women went grocery shopping with curlers on! They covered them with scarves, but...

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    3. Born in the 40's. I can remember preschool going shopping with my mother. She would take an hour to get dressed and coiffured. And while waiting for the cab she would smoke her cigarette because she didn't believe "ladies" should smoke in public.

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  3. It seems to have started when they started taking God out of the schools.

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    1. I don’t think Steve mudflap McGrew should be talking go look at that twatter post

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  4. Surrender monkey wrote that. I wonder, is it to demoralize you?

    This last Wednesday, I dressed for a visit to the Dr. My body stove in, it takes upwards of 45 minutes to get dressed. But I did it.
    Just like every time I go on errands.
    I'm a slob but I look around to see that often I am the best dressed.

    I thought I'd seen everything. Then I saw a woman who had to be well into her 70s walking into a store while wearing PJs and slippers. In the middle of the day.

    People are what they think. Who doesn't know that? But what they think is guided, purposefully, to the lowest common denominator. I suppose it is a struggle of the intellect to not be like that.
    I think for myself, thank you. I tune out the bubble headed talking heads.

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  5. Sad but true. Born in 1951 and I remember going to get my First Suit! Even had a fedora "Just Like Daddy's!". Always put on our Sunday Best for Church, too.

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    1. Was born in '55. As a kid it was my job to polish my dad's and my shoes.

      Once got called to the front of the class at school as an example of how shoes should be done.

      School uniform was always in good shape. Mum made sure my pants always had a razor crease.

      I rarely dress fancy these days, but I never go out looking a slob.

      Often, when I look around I see things that make me wonder if the apparition owns a mirror.

      I keep myself in good shape too, which is just as important

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  6. Who are we meant to impress?
    I don't know and probably don't like 95% of them so why do I care what they think of my flash clothes and rig?
    I wore a Navy uniform for 30 years and now I dress like want to and don't give a rat's patoot about what anybody thinks about it.
    It occurs to me on this anniversary of the beginning of fighting in World War II that it was 85 years ago. Think about it! That war ended 16 years before I was born, in Germany. That era is totally and completely dead and never coming back and why should it? It sucked. On a personal note, I enjoyed it all thoroughly but I also let it go and slip away without regret. Probably 75% of college freshman today could not tell you when that war started, why, who fought on which side and who won and why. That's the reality.
    I'm never going to be the old man of my youth with his waist band pulled up to just under his chin so I have that to look forward to and that's enough. On the other hand I'm never going to have the public pay for my floozy-secretary to sit on my lap and take dictation like old time Congressman so there's that downside.

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  7. Work was getting an audit by the insurance provider. Every department head had to be there so they could ask us questions. 3 of us in suits, 2 dozen in dress pants and shirts no tie, several in business casual, one guy in jeans and UT head in anime t-shirt, sweats and crocks.

    Exile1981

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  8. Like any red blooded male i loved the days when the fair ladies dressed well, in those days us male natives of our respective countries generally knew how to behave with some decorum.
    We knew how to treat feminine women, ie with courtesy and respect, we didn't trash talk around them, we'd enjoy being around them without making them feel nervous, they were safe and could enjoy being the women they wished to be.

    These days, a woman who dresses well is likely to be pestered or verbally abused by certain alleged men who have no clue how to behave, and that's about as much as a Brit can say without getting carted away by the thought police.

    So glad i lived through the better years.




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  9. When I was a kid , people would call out bad behavior. Anything from uncombed hair to bad language. People just started tolerating anything now. When we all stop putting up with all the crap , it will stop. But it's not going to be pretty...

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    1. Winner winner chicken dinner!

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    2. I STILL call it out when I see it, but I'm pretty sure that one of these days I'm going to get my butt kicked for it.

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    3. Tolerance is not a virtue. Also, people deserve what they tolerate.

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  10. Hey Irish , check out this site for some films on people in the 30s and early 40s https://repository.duke.edu/dc/hleewaters

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  11. I blame it all on Global Warming - people just don't need all the heavy layers of clothing we did during the '40s

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  12. It's a sign that the country and society has disintegrated. We don't look on strangers as fellow citizens (and nowadays there are good odds that they aren't anyway!) but as potential threats. Thieves and assailants. Barbarian children raised to take what they want without impulse control or conscience. Tell the truth about it, and it's a "hate crime" and if you don't get assaulted by the actual perps, you get assaulted by the authorities.

    Dress nice and you draw attention to yourself. Draws a target on your back. Says "rob me first!"

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  13. Started in August 1971 - the collapse of a society is the result of a fiat currency

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    1. the truly dumbest move Richard Milhous ever made

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  14. True, for the most part, Irish. That being said, I am SO glad that ties went out of fashion except for formalwear! Ties HAD to have been thought up by WOMEN, who take great pains in dressing as uncomfortably as possible! It's like having a NOOSE around your neck all day!

    I'm not sure where the PJ's in public thing came from, but it likely had its start in the "pants around the ankles with the butt crack showing" porch monkeys. Both are disgusting as hell. You can SMELL them coming!

    As for me, I'm a "forever in blue jeans" kinda guy...

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  15. The degradation of a once cordial & civilized society, brought to you by the makers of DEI.
    CC

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  16. Automatic 45% reduction of trust if you're wearing a suit and tie. Best lie detector I have found. Politicians in general and the denizens of D.C. specifically.

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  17. I copied all of this post to my facebook page. Good read. I don't know if anything will change though. I pray it does.

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  18. Just saw a current vid of people in the streets in Moscow. Looked like 50's USA, except the women were waaaaay hotter.

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  19. Just wait until Mr. Mudflapper wonders onto any beach USA now and then compares it to how fit people were even in the 60's. I wonder If Mr. Mudflaps is fit?

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  20. Honestly…as much as i really enjoyed that read(rant) i really have to say Come on Man! Actually its been bad for longer than you want to admit right?
    Klaus

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  21. Mostly when the 60's hit is when all the world went to crap. Drugs, language, clothes, food, politeness and a lot I cannot remember, last century, went mostly by-by. Has not gotten any better either. Mostly worse, very worse.
    Heltau

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    1. Adults look better as adults-neat, attractively dressed, sober and dignified.

      See Ecclesiastes for confirmation.

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  22. It started when the catholic President Kennedy stopped wearing hats

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  23. All along it has been a targeted deconstruction of our once Christian, high-trust society that’s been accelerated along by social media and Mobil phones. An atomization of the nation’s fabric. As a fading Republic, it is most cities that are the ICU of the sick society. Get out into the countryside and form your strong communities, grow your own food, set up trade networks, etc. Prepare for the upcoming festivities. Good essay!


    CPGen

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  24. Thank the hippie thing (created by the KGB) for the Slob Culture.

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    1. Ruskies! Shiiiiieeeeettt how ‘bout LBJ, we did it to ourselves aided by the tiny hat brigades in the colleges, the most marxist of them all!

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    2. 'Fraid not. Yuri Andropov, master of counterintel, gave us the 60s; Black Power, La Raza, Feminutism, Pride No Fault Divorce. Bucketmouth Carter, Zippy Ozero, Willie Whitewater, the Hildabeast, The Chap of Quiddick, Chlamydia, Lurch, and, the most useless idiot of them all, the lying dogfaced pony soldier were all willing (or unwitting) in the cause of Glorious World Socialist Revolution.

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  25. Now I'm no fashion dresser as I wear blue jeans daily but there are no gaping holes in the knee caps or anywhere else. They might be well worn and faded but I have worked in them since the 70s. I can not see why anyone would buy new "designer"
    jeans with pre worn out sections at stupid prices and actually go out in public or to work in something like this. Just my take on the subject.
    Carry On!

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  26. Now I'm no fashion dresser as I wear blue jeans daily but there are no gaping holes in the knee caps or anywhere else. They might be well worn and faded but I have worked in them since the 70s. I can not see why anyone would buy new "designer"
    jeans with pre worn out sections at stupid prices and actually go out in public or to work in something like this. Just my take on the subject.
    Carry On!

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  27. The comment above about trust in folks wearing suits is spot on. What I take from this is since you do no real labor in a suit, read hard work, then wearing a suit makes you a useless lazy bottom feeder trying to get others to do work for you. If what I look like makes you have certain first impressions then the problem is with you not me. I dress comfortably, and in clothing that when that inevitable crisis arrives it won't matter if I get a little , dirt, grease, blood on it. I no longer own anything but jeans and t/sweat shirts. No button ups, (such a waste of time for no reason) as they require tucking to look proper and I will never tuck a shirt again for multiple reasons. The real issue here is the presumption about why folks choose to dress less than your expectations or assumptions about character with regards to what someone wears. What makes your opinion about what someone dresses like matter? That attitude simply confirms ignorance.

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  28. If I need to be extra presentable for work or whatever, I will do so, otherwise my perspective is similar to HMS Defiant's comment that I dress like I want to, and it is amusing when people need to be reminded to mind their own business. And no, I don't shop at walmart.

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  29. Since at least the 70's, white people have been told they don't have a culture so they adopted another one.

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