I listened to Enty’s podcast about the world of yachting and I want to share with those who don’t subscribe. I was going to transcribe word for word, but I think that would take me all night, so I’ll do the highlights. I have to say, on a sidenote, that Enty’s voice is incredibly sexy 😁 I wish he wasn’t so mysterious, but maybe that’s part of his charm hehee Anyway…..

- Right off the bat he says, I’m going to talk to you about how to recognize who the actresses, models and reality stars are who yacht. In fact, it’s incredibly easy (he lowers his voice) and says “hashtag Meghan Markle” LOL!

- He starts by explaining how actresses don’t see themselves as prostitutes. That if a teacher were to need extra money and she slept with someone for extra cash, that she would still call herself a teacher. So, that’s kind of the way an actress or model views it.

- He begins talking about how yachting goes way back. Kabuki dancers would sometimes “entertain” men after their shows. Also, hundreds of years ago, around the Ming Dynasty, powerful, rich men would hire entire acting or dance troops to put on shows for them. Part of what went along with that, was they were also expected to sleep with them.

- He says that prostitutes work to have a certain appeal to men who hire them, but actresses or models already have that appeal and don’t need to work for it.

- He explains that a person like Meghan Markle would do yachting to pay rent as she was a Deal or No Deal girl with no money, but he says, for example, Hayden Panettiere is popular and highly desired and has a fan base, so she would attract a higher price. Someone like Meghan Markle, when she was on Deal or No Deal, not on the national stage, she would have to concentrate locally.

- There was an actress in the 17th century named Nell Gwyn. He says laughingly, that’s kind of a meghan markle thing, she had a patron named King Charles II. He picked her because he wanted to see if he could get an actress and he did. She bore him two sons, they were given a ton of land and the title of Lord. So, he says, that was kind of a quick come up of what a woman could expect in the 17th century as an actress.

- He says, I’m not going to spend the entire time talking about the history of yachting, so fast forward to the 20th century and you had an actress named Grace Kelly (I’m so sad he says her name with yachting 😞) who had a patron, he stops and says, yes Grace Kelly was a yachter, a very, very frequent one, her patron was King Rainier. She basically set the bar for everyone to come. King Rainier wasn’t straight up paying her $300 an hour for her services, it was more subtle, that’s what yachting is, he says, it was more, hey come spend time with me, we’ll go out get you some jewelry, go out to dinners and hey, I know you can’t work this week, so here’s $20,000.

- He starts to talk about Bani, the celebrity sex broker. You’d be surprised at how many managers and handlers know him and how many shell companies there are that are set up exclusively for the purpose of putting celebrities together with patrons just to make it look like they’re working, he says.

Three years ago, Enty was contacted by Bani’s people. Bani had seen Enty on a show called, Secret Societies of Hollywood and wanted to meet him. Bani is backed by 2 middle eastern royal families and he runs the day to day logistics. Enty went to meet him at a very exclusive hotel. Bani’s bodyguard, Ravi, a navy seal, patted Enty down upon entering the suite. He says he’s pretty sure with that pat down that Ravi can tell whether he’s circumcised or not (LOL) In this meeting, Bani showed him a long list of names of those who’ve done yachting. The names go back about 4 decades. He says a lot of the names are very surprising.

- During his talk and subsequent talks with Bani, he told him there are receipts for these transactions, be it photos or a written record, that tied a certain celebrity to him as a sex broker.

- Bani gave him 500 names during that first meeting three years ago and since has given him 500 more.

- He talks about a few names he saw on the list.

Pippa!!! (Noooooo! I’m so sad he said Pippa 😞) **see end of post

- Oh god, no. He said Princess Diana. At this point, I don’t even want to post this on Tumblr 😞 **see end of post

- Bani said the backers he works for go all the way back to Grace Kelley. That these rich, powerful men wanted to be seen with or known to be with, someone like Grace Kelley, a popular actress. **see end of post

- He explains for the backers, it was like a competition to see who could get the bigger star and if they could, they must be more wealthy to be able to afford a certain actress.

- He starts talking about the Canne Film Festival. He says, if you look at the people on the red carpet and see someone who doesn’t belong there, ie: Farrah Abraham (from Teen Mom) you know they are there yachting.

- In Canne, they’ll have these spinoff awards shows, like the Golden Lion awards for example. Well, those are just a cover for these meetings (about yachting, setting people up ect.) These backers will invent award shows as a cover.

- Bani had two tables at the Golden globes. Why is he there? To get the assistants to some of the big buyers and players to get a look at many of the women in the flesh.

- These assistants basically go to the Golden Globes and SAG awards. They wouldn’t go to the Academy Awards because it’s mostly A listers and A listers are making 20 million a movie, a deal with them wouldn’t be as likely as actresses making less. They mostly go after B list celebrities.

- So many British reality show stars do yachting

** Ok, so that was the end of part 1. I’ve followed and read Enty since the beginning and was very disappointed to hear him say Grace Kelley, Princess Diana and Pippa Middleton’s names in talking about yachting. I was thinking last night, I don’t trust him anymore, but in writing this out, I remembered he said he got those names from Bani. Maybe Bani was trying to be shocking or show off and added those names to his list? Enty even said he was shocked.

There’s a part 2 that’s up, I just haven’t listened yet. I was originally posting, like I did last podcast, because he talks about mm. As you read, he didn’t really talk about her, so if anyone is interested in part 2, let me know and I’ll post something.

Putting my conspiracy theory hat on :-) Nothing convinces me more that CDAN is a right wing (possibly Russian) troll than this. Why? Well, the most politically active up and coming left wing group across the world are younger women. From a right wing point of view they are the people to attack. They have to be a target if the current order is to be maintained or if you think the Russians are involved then how deeper divisions in Western society can be created.

So, in order to sow division, they look at advertising and social media. They know even intelligent women can be shamed into anorexia etc so they look for spaces where women congregate and use push techniques to divide. Now, unfortunately one of those spaces woman still haven’t grown out of in their journey to equality are gossip columns and here’s where CDAN and other gossip sites come in.

Women, particularly left wing women or women in control of their own sexuality become targets. They have to be made to look evil, wrong, immoral etc.

Now, all relationships, be it giving your time to chat to someone at a bus stop or making a life long commitment to another person, are negotiations. We do something, we get something in return. As long as it isn’t coerced tthis isn’t a problem.

But you have to make it look as if these women are doing something immoral, when objectively, of course, they aren’t. They are people in control of their own desires, sexuality and negotiations. The tactics become those of  slut shaming, new Puritanism, endless blinds about young women acting up or doing wrong, the words shocked etc - the same message right-wing men and their allies have been pushing for hundreds of years.

Insecure men (and advertising etc is focused on making them insecure) think if every relationship is a transaction then the woman could just be tricking us and our relationship isn’t ‘real’. Which is a stupid way of thinking about the give and take of life. Women are told from an early age that only a certain type of behaviour is acceptable and even if you reject this there is a constant drip of reinforcing advertising and comment from both men and right of centre women. A woman who is liberated is good but a woman who choose to use that liberation to break the rules of society isn’t. That constant drip feeds doubt and division.

Honestly, giving up reading gossip columns is by far the best thing young women can do if they want to create solidarity.

Oh, and what about the gossip columns support for the MeToo campaign - and most have mentioned it. Yes a few men are being sacrificed but it’s also being done in a way to divide and demonise the left e.g. pics of Obama with Weinstein when there are also pics of Trump with Weinstein that don’t get widely circulated. And there’s also the subtle implication that women are either easily led/responsible for the assaults and rapes on them or are supporting abusers by having sex to get something in return by their own choice.

-the most typical reaction for non-Americans when seeing an American passport for the first time is to google for credibility, because someone is clearly taking the piss. 

- IT’S WHEAT!!!!!! NOT CORN!!!!!!!!!!!! and Americans are really particular about what you call their Freedom Grain (for the record: in US English, corn refers particularly to one specific grain, i.e. maize, whereas in other Englishes it can mean “any type of grain”. I use one of the many other Englishes on the planet)

-many americans were to not ready to learn that other countries’ passports are actually, like legible, so for comparison here’s a bunch of random examples that i found via google. these are all example/invalid passports

just top of the border, the canadian one:

the brazilian one:

the chinese one, and I’m pretty sure that blurb has copied the American one, sorry ‘bout that:

the british one, in which the bottom left corner kind of has that mid-00′s bedroom wall decal aesthetic going on:

so there you all are. 

The front page of passports around the world are generally designed for easy identification and legibility instead of PATRIOTISM - thus, pale, pastel designs on light background. That doesn’t mean that a passport’s design can’t be fun - both the Canadian and Norwegian ones are having a party under blacklight, the Finnish one has an animated moose, and those are just the ones i know of. 

It’s just that the American passport is really uniquely Like That.

2: Your xenophobia is showing, anon. Aeltri may be a latina, but she’s very much an American. The fact that you assume she’s not a citizen of the US because of her ethnicity is very problematic. Latinos can’t use the N-word, unless they’re black themselves. Aeltri is a white latina. Because latinxs can come in every race, something you would know if you read a book or two.

1. The N-word is a slur if and only if you speak English and live in a racist place, my friend. In my country we’ve never referred to black people as anything other than black people. Black people in Latin America have a radically different history than black people in the U.S, English and your biases are definitely not universal. Sorry.

2. Wasn’t Aeltri raised in Uruguay? Whatever her citizenship status or the colour of her skin, isn’t the fact that she’s from a different cultural background what matters to this argument? After all, Europe has accepted Islamic anti-Semitism because of the cultural differences. Don’t agree with either of it but I can honestly see where this anon has a point. The American and British obsession with the colour of people’s skin is baffling to most Latin Americans, and just the fact that you have to use Latinxs is sooo American it beggars belief, the cultural divide between, for instance, Chilean people and Peruvian people is gigantic! American Xenophobia shows when you try to group us all under the Latinx banner. And BTW, Latinos CAN use the N-word, we really can because the cultural history behind the word is radically different, we speak Spanish for starters and the word for black is “negro” so… Yeah, we can use the bloody word.

3. Again: the American & European experience is NOT the world-wide experience. My country has little history of anti-Semitism and no history of Islamophobia, it’s classist, not racist. And really I would love to discuss why the European situation is what it is but I honestly don’t think we should get into that in a post where through your leftist, ignorant crap you made me defend Aeltri. Seriously, guys, we’re better than using these serious accusations in such a fucking petty way.

4. I just found out about the parentheses thing and when I asked one of my Jewish friends she told me she had no idea either, so I honestly don’t see how we can say that it’s a universal thing. Listen, we really don’t need to brand Aeltri as a racist or anti-Semite to discredit her, she does that well enough on her own.

As to why I’m defending this shit? I don’t know man, I just don’t think we should throw those accusations lightly. I also don’t think that Aeltri is an anti-Semite, I just think she’s gullible enough to fall for the global conspiracy shit, no actual hate for the actual religion. And she hates Israel, fine, that can be construed from an antisemitic point of view but not necessarily (ok, fine, she likes Corbyn…). I don’t know, it irks me, it’s probably. Anyway, all who know me know I despise Aeltri, I’m not happy to come to the defence of a massive moron like that but hey, something about this whole discussion pushed my buttons and I agree with anon that we can crucify her over a ton of other shit.

Anyway! Have a nice day, sorry for the outburst if you wish to have a discussion do let me know, I’m reasonable. Love.

Please pick between:

That time Ben fell over.

That other time Ben fell over.

That time Ben tripped over.

That time Ben got confused while paraphrasing Shakespeare and ended up sounding like Joey writing Monica and Chandler’s adoption letter.

Reblog with your least favorite Shakespeare play

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Boring as heck.

Probably my least favorite Shakespeare play, though, is Julius Caesar, even though I know it is an objectively good play that I feel like I SHOULD like more! I would say that it’s because Brutus reminds me of an ex of mine but I didn’t like the play much before I met him either. I will admit though that I have enjoyed it in performance and that the last couple of productions I have seen have both handled the character well by not making him square-jawedly noble – one of them cast a fairly young actor which made his impractical idealism feel believable rather than just stubborn, and the other one just went “yeah, he is stubborn and self-righteous and that’s what brings him down even though his intentions are pretty good” and that worked even better.