{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "As an Irishman, I have to speak up: For one thing, starving yourself is not fundamentally pathetic. It takes great strength of...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/51854971175/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: As an Irishman, I have to speak up: For one thing, starving yourself is not fundamentally pathetic. It takes great strength of will to ignore one of your most base instincts. And two, everything but the last sentence made absolutely no sense whatsoever. I'm sorry to say that, because I've enjoyed your tumblr, and I don't hate you or anything, but your kinda speaking out your ass on this one.</div>\n<p>I have Irish readers? That\u2019s cool.<br/><br/>Well, makes sense to me, I\u2019m the one who thought it, though I guess that means some of the conceptual and rhetorical connections might be left in my head rather than on the page.<br/><br/>If you take the strikers as heroes that\u2019s cool, you\u2019re right about the willpower thing and they make good ones, unsuccessful in a way that renders them tragic rather than discredited. The Irish are good at that.<br/><br/>Guess I think of it like the Cairo swordsman in that Indiana Jones movie - skilled and disciplined, bold and brave, hero and champion to the locals that this random foreigner from nowhere started beating up, but from the other side the correct course of action is obviously to just shoot the guy.<br/><br/>I\u2019m Irish on one side, but dear lord are we shitty loyalists, the family left for England at one point to make money and changed the name from Mc to Mac to make people think we were Scottish. Moved to America and became the WASPiest people I personally know. Like, we rock our alcoholism in a quiet scotch rocks and passive aggression way.<br/><br/>Hopefully we\u2019ll have more enemies in common from here out.</p>"}