MOAR INCENSE! MOAR CHANTING! MORE BEARDS! MOAR!!!1

I’m reading way too many comments on the Wa Post about how #metoo has ruined courtship, and it’s all the femi-nazis are to blame.

I hate to break it to you, but your grandfather was fighting in favor of another despotic regime and was complicit in the destruction of an entire country and deaths of millions of civilians whether he knew it or not.

As someone with a daughter who loves Legos, I have grown more and more angry with the Lego Friends sets over time. At first it was like - cool, Legos with animals and stuff she likes - but the purple and pink and “OMG shopping!” themes are just shitty. The set for female heroes of the DC universe while gendered wasn’t…

What? They have women in their pod casts all the time. This whole comment is bizarre.

I understand what you’re saying, and for the most part I agree. I do think there is something about being raised surrounded by death - not just abuse, not just violence, not just manipulation, but in seeing death every day- that changes people on a fundamental level. I can’t imagine what that does to a person, or what…

Sorry, meant the old Icelandic proverb:

I did not know that- it definitely makes me less sympathetic to her. Still, in brutal regimes like this, there is a fluidity between victim and victimizer that I find hard to judge too harshly. It’s the same way I feel about people who join gangs and kill people, or terrorists in the Middle East- it’s incontrovertibly…

Thank you. Best case, she’s been scared and brutalized into total submission. Worst case, she’s at her brother’s side willingly. Either way, this naive, doe-eyed praise thrown her way is shameful.

Thank you for being able to iterate what I cannot at the moment. I’m too busy foaming at the mouth over the ridiculousness of it all. Time for a self-imposed media blackout for a couple of days...

I agree with you that she is not one to be admired or looked up to for any reason, but isn’t she just doing what is required of her for her own survival? As you noted, her brother already killed her other brother and their uncle. That looks like the trained, forced smile of someone who knows that if she doesn’t show…

Hopefully she is going to poison her brother. If she keeps getting positive attention, she’ll end up sprayed in the face like the other brother.

I finally gave up and googled this nasty and yeah, you’re right. She’s barely 30. There’s pictures of her from Il’s state funeral looking like a soft 23, and then she was received leadership of ‘Propaganda and Agitation’ like you said and my god the feeling that gave my stomach. This one doesn’t just drink the…

I believe she is the younger half-sister of Fat Boy and supposedly only 30 years old. As you pointed out, she looks like a smirking ghoul. “Enigmatic,” my ass. Media really is so silly sometimes.

She looks just like my sister when she was only consuming 900 calories a day. Her hair is flyaway and appears brittle. Her skin, while clear and unlined, still looks dry. Her cheek bones are prominent and her entire temporomandibular joint is visible in the lede image.

PF, I like and believe most of your post, but there’s no real sign of malnutrition there. Some Koreans’ faces are like that. And truly, as one of the elite during the famines of the 90s, she would have been one of the last people to suffer from hunger.

Gods, I’m glad I’m not the only one. Watching the footage of her on CNN, I got the strict impression of haughty condescension from her. It’s the way she holds her head, with her chin out and elevated. It really communicates a message of “you’re all beneath me.”

I can’t believe anyone is calling this human ‘idol,’ regardless of her side eye skills.

What is the best case scenario for either North or South Korea when it comes to unification? When you think about it, it’s an unfeasible nightmare for either side. For South Korea to eventually govern a fallen north democratically with a significant stunting population with no education or knowledge of the outside…