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WASP

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{{Hatnote|No. This page is not about the [[heavy metal]] {{wpl|W.A.S.P. (band)|band from the 1980s}} or the {{wpl|Women Airforce Service Pilots}} or the {{wpl|Wasp|insect||.}}}}
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The initialization "'''WASP'''" stands for '''W'''hite '''A'''nglo-'''S'''axon [[Protestant|'''P'''rotestant]].{{efn|The fact that, as {{wpl|Urban Dictionary}} observed, "WASP" can ''also'' stand for "'''W'''e '''A'''re '''S'''exual '''P'''erverts" is just an amusing [[coincidence]].}} These are the people who have traditionally run the [[United States]] of America, as the descendants of the original British colonists. In many cases, it was also easily substituted for "the Establishment", a term often used for the East Coast Ivy League-educated elites who used to run foreign policy and both the State Department and the [[CIA]]. In recent years, the hold of the WASPs has diminished, much to the chagrin of some [[racism|racists]].  

While the term was originally used to talk about the elite position held by some WASPs, today it is a mildly derogatory one. It has connotations of boring people with no real culture, living plastic existences while forever chasing after something "real".<ref group=note>See many early Kinks (and other sixties bands) songs.</ref> A synonym for this derogatory usage is "white bread".

==Political==
The term WASP has also come to be slang for usually right-leaning [[pundit]]s or [[politicians]] who try to relate to the lower-middle class "common man", despite having grown up in a middle-to-upper class home. WASP pundits tend to be rich and present themselves as "self-made men", even if they actually don't have to do much difficult work since they are paid more for pushing an ideological line than they are for being talented, which isn't exactly intellectual heavy work. Prominent WASPs include:

*[[David Cameron]] and [[Boris Johnson]]
*[[Rush Limbaugh]], the poster child for this. He was a college drop-out who came from a family of prominent lawyers (like they named a federal courthouse after his grandfather and it wasn't even particularly 
illegitimate
 prominent) and he got lucky enough to run into [[Roger Ailes]], who set him up with a nice gig pushing a radical right point of view on the [[radio]]. 
*At [[Salem Radio Network]], a good chunk of the hosts would qualify as this, such as Bill Bennett.

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Wagner

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*'''[[Charlie Wagner]]''', a [[cdesign proponentsist]]
*'''[[Richard Wagner]]''', an important [[German]] opera composer
*The '''{{wpl|Wagner Act||''',}} an important piece of legislation during the [[New Deal]]
*The '''[[Wagner Group]]''', an organization of [[neo-Nazi]] military contractors heavily involved in the [[Russia]]n army. Also classified as a terrorist organization by some countries due to their history of war crimes.
Wak mythology

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Among the Oromo of Ethiopia, there is a distinct story that underpins the ''gadaa'' social structure of the ethnic group, even though few believe it these days. It holds that their one god, ''Wak'', lived in the clouds.

==Wak this way==
Wak is described as a creator [[god]] (no definite pattern of capitalizing "creator" or "god" is consistent) who lived in the clouds. He asked humanity to build itself a coffin in which they buried themselves; Wak proceeded to make it rain fire for 7 years to create mountains.<ref>http://www.mythome.org/creatafr.html</ref>

Wak is a benefactor who does not [[Hell|punish]]; this is [[Great Flood|a mild contrast to the Abrahamic religions]]. 

Woman was supposedly made from the blood of Man, who was then married by Man.<ref>http://stepinafrica.com/african-myth-ethiopian-creation-myth/</ref><ref>http://www.pantheon.org/articles/w/wak.html</ref>

Man [[sex|reproduced]] creating 30 children. Man, who was apparently shamed by having so many, hid 15 of them, which Wak made into demons and other animals.<ref>http://www.gateway-africa.com/stories/Ethiopian_creation_Myth.html</ref>

==Tak this way==
The ''Gadaa'' belief system, though little-believed today except by one or two local groups within the Oromo, had a strong influence of establishing the social system used by Oromo men, and as the Oromo form over one-third of Ethiopia's population, that's quite some influence for a mythical cloud deity. On the positive side, the system encourages men to change their social role every 8 years, and is apparently [[democratic]] and [[egalitarian]].<ref>[http://www.meta-religion.com/World_Religions/Other_religions/oromo_religion.htm#.VavUQTxDvjo Oromo mythology]</ref> Perhaps the autocrats who have run Ethiopia for most of its history would have served their land better by having a little more ''gadaa'' in their activities, even if it's not based on firm rational principles.

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Waldensianism

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The '''Waldensians''', founded in 1177 by Peter Waldo, were a [[Christian]] denomination prominent in the western Alps (in today's [[France]]). They rejected the traditions of the [[Roman Catholic Church]], instead choosing to follow the [[sola scriptura |Bible alone]]. Thus one can view them as a form of proto-[[Protestantism]]. The Catholic Church declared their views heretical, and began to persecute them; many Waldensians were martyred, and many others had to flee to remote places (such as the Alps) to escape persecution.

Some Protestants - even in those Protestant groups that do not directly descend from them - widely admire the Waldensians as forerunners of the Reformation. After the [[Protestant Reformation]] developed in the 1500s, many of the Waldensians joined in, with the bulk of them adopting [[Calvinism]]. A Waldensian church survives in [[Italy]] to this day, the ''Chiesa Evangelica Valdese'', adhering to a broadly Calvinist outlook.<ref>http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiesa_Evangelica_Valdese</ref>

In 2015 [[Pope Francis]] asked the Waldensians to forgive the Roman Catholic Church for its historic persecution of them.<ref>
[https://web.archive.org/web/20191225144503/https://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/06/22/pope-francis-asks-waldensian-christians-to-forgive-the-church/ Pope Francis asks Waldensian Christians to forgive the Church] - "Pope Francis has asked Waldensian Christians to forgive the Catholic Church for historic persecution."
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==Pseudohistorical claims==

During the Protestant Reformation, the doctrine of {{wpl|apostolic succession}}, by which Christian priests had to have an unbroken line of ordination going back to the Apostles, posed a problem for the newly splintered sects. Many responded by disavowing this doctrine altogether; however, some groups began to claim apostolic descent through the Waldensians. For this, they needed to [[Negationism|deny]] the Waldensians' own claim to have been founded by Peter Waldo and instead claim that the Waldensian church was apostolic in origin. This involved the telling of a typical saint's myth, in which [[Paul of Tarsus]] visited the areas later known as the Waldensians' redoubts and established their churches.<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15527b.htm Waldenses] at the Catholic Encyclopedia (newadvent.org).</ref>

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Wall

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*[[Berlin Wall]], also known as the Wall of Shame
*[[Great Firewall of China]]
*[[Great Wall of America]] — something that just might come to mirror the Berlin Wall's ideology and the Great Wall of China's porosity
*[[WallBuilders]] — a [[dominionist]] [[Christian]] group
*[[WALL-E]] — a post-[[apocalyptic]] animated film
*[[Walled garden]] — an enclosed ecosystem, sometimes applied to [[cults]], isolated societies such as [[North Korea]], or [[creationist]] [[crankery]]
*''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' — a once esteemed newspaper, now in post-[[Rupert Murdoch|Murdoch]] decline
*r/[[WallStreetBets]] — stock trading [[Reddit|subreddit]] that became famous during the GameStop bubble
Walled garden

[[File:Walled garden - geograph.org.uk - 322486.jpg|thumb|left|300px|A walled garden: [[sheeple]] may safely graze<br>[[File:Sheep May Safely Graze BWV 208.ogg|thumb|280px|Sheep May Safely Graze by Johann Sebastian Bach ]]
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In technology, a '''walled garden''' is a closed ecosystem, analogous to the traditional horticultural meaning, where for example only pre-approved horticulture can be installed. Walled gardens are common in communities that cannot tolerate dissent or which have a strong resistance to outside input.

In a [[wiki]], a walled garden refers to a closed circle of pages which reference only each other.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Walled_garden Wikipedia: Walled Garden], which if memory serves is nicked from [http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/WalledGarden MeatballWiki], but there's nothing there now.</ref>

The subject is relevant to the study of [[cult]]s, where it is common to pressure adherents to only associate with fellow cult members and to cut off contact with dissenting family members and others who might be sources of differing views than the cult's teachings; to [[propaganda]] and [[government]]s which discourage or make it illegal to access news sources outside government-approved channels; and to [[pseudoscience]]s which cite only to each others' non-[[peer-reviewed]] journals.

==Examples==
[[Cold fusion]] advocacy is a classic walled garden: a small number of individuals running their own conferences, their own websites and journals, talking to each other, but rarely if ever engaging the mainstream at all. WikiWikiWeb summarises this neatly as "isolated little worlds".<ref>[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WalledGarden WikiWikiWeb]</ref>

[[North Korea]] is perhaps the most obvious example of a walled garden imposed by its own government. [[Communist]] [[Albania]] was also such a case until the death of [[Enver Hoxha]], as was Communist [[Romania]] under [[Nicolae Ceausescu]] until his death as well.

The [[Lyndon LaRouche]] movement and its [[front group]]s are another example. LaRouche publications cite almost exclusively other LaRouche publications as well as Lyndon LaRouche's writings and speeches, creating an ideology which is internally consistent to its adherents even though it contains many views that are simply absurd to the outside world.

[[Creationism]] and creationist advocacy are often walled gardens, exclusively citing other creationist writings and the [[Bible]], and addressing outside criticism by regurgitating the same [[PRATT]] arguments over and over.

==See also==
*[[Confirmation bias]]
*[[Echo chamber]]

==External links==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walled_garden_(technology) Walled Garden (technology)] on some random website somewhere.

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Wanting it bad enough

{{sources needed}}{{newage}}"'''Wanting it bad enough'''" is a "strategy" for achieving just about any goal promoted by a multiplicity of public figures, from [[self-help]] writers to mainstream celebrities, who all have one thing in common: they have already achieved their goals. These people like to talk up their own hard work by saying that:
#They got where they are simply or largely because they wanted it bad enough.
#'''You too can achieve your dream''', so long as you want it bad enough as well.

Of course, none of these people's success can be in any way attributed to factors outside their own direct personal control such as [[patronage]], [[privilege]], opportunity or simple [[Donald Trump|dumb luck]].

There is also the flip side, of "[[blaming the victim]]."  If you do not have the success you want, it is ''your fault'' because you didn't really want it badly enough.  It has nothing to do with a bad economy, or the flat out odds against something happening.

==Seductive appeal==
The idea of "wanting it bad enough" as a route to success is very attractive to large numbers of people, since anyone is able to want something, and everyone likes to believe that their own dreams are uniquely powerful and thus more likely to come true. Unfortunately, while there is an abundance of [[testimonial]]s from successful people endorsing the power of "wanting it bad enough," the sample tends to be somewhat self-selecting: only people who have already tasted success have the platform to tell their success story. While Britney Spears has undoubtedly had a level of success that must have been due ''in part'' to wanting success, [[history]] does not record how many other little girls from the [[The South|American South]] might have wanted to become famous pop singers just as badly as, or even worse than, Spears, yet somehow ended up with only multiple [[divorce]]s, [[drug]] problems and bouts of pant-mislaying [[insanity]] to show for it.

==Myth?==
If we accept that "wanting it bad enough" is something of a [[myth]], its piquant cruelty begins to become apparent. If a person fails to achieve what they want, they first blame themselves, believing that it is entirely their fault. They didn't want it bad enough! There are two possible responses to this crushing epiphany:
#Persist in the delusion, secure in the [[Blind faith|knowledge]] that since you definitely do want it really, really badly, you will succeed eventually.
#Somehow try to make yourself want what you already want even more badly, despite the fact that a person who somehow managed to achieve such mastery of their own desires would be better advised to focus on wanting things that were easy to get, or ideally that they already had.

==See also==
*"[[Law of Attraction]]" and ''[[The Secret]]''
*[[Name it and claim it]]
*[[The American Dream]]
*[[Hollywood values]]
*[[Will]]
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Warren Jeffs

[[File:Jeffs ws1.jpg|left|thumb|165px|He does look rather creepy.]]
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'''Warren Steed Jeffs''' {{lived|1955}} is a self-proclaimed prophet of God, the on-and-off leader of the [[Fundamentalist Mormonism|Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]],<ref>[http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-02-24-jeffs-church_N.htm Jailed sect leader retakes legal control of church]</ref> a [[Polygamy|polygamist]], and a [[pedophile]]. He made it onto the [[FBI]]'s Ten Most Wanted List in 2006 when he tried to escape prosecution for arranging illegal marriages. He also married all but two of his father Rulon's wives after his death, making him, literally, a motherfucker.<ref>http://www.nndb.com/people/950/000055785/</ref>

Jeffs claims that he is a [[prophet]] and is said to have at least eighty-five 
victims
 wives. In August 2011 he was convicted of two counts of sexual assault on a child and was sentenced to life plus 20 years in [[prison]].<ref>[http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52354441-78/jeffs-sexual-child-jurors.html.csp Salt Lake Tribune: Warren Jeffs gets life in prison for sex with underage girls] August 11, 2011</ref> This prophet threatened the judge and jury with divine punishment but judge and jury were prepared to risk all that and convicted the criminal.<ref>[http://houstonfamilyattorneysblog.com/2011/08/polygamist-mormon-leader-warren-jeffs-sex-abuse-conviction.html The Houston Family Law Blog: Polygamist FLDS Leader Warren Jeffs Gets Sex Abuse Conviction] August 5, 2011</ref> Once in prison, he threatened many countries of the world with divine punishment<ref>[http://kissmyleftbehind.blogspot.com/ Kiss My-- Left Behind: Warren Jeffs - a polygamist's latest manifesto] June 2, 2011</ref> and later had to be induced into a serious coma after a three day fast.<ref>[http://abcnews.go.com/US/source-warren-jeffs-coma-survive/story?id=14405162#.TzF7mVwV2Hc ABC News: Warren Jeffs In Coma, May Not Survive] August 29, 2011</ref>

Jeff was also a racist who said "If you marry a person who has connections with a Negro, you would become cursed" as well as other racist statements like "The black race is the people through which the devil has always been able to bring evil unto the earth."<ref>http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2005/spring/tempest-in-texas/the-prophet-speaks</ref>

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Waste analysis

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'''Waste analysis''' is a medical diagnostic technique that involves analyzing urine or feces. It is a legitimate medical practice, but many [[Alternative medicine|CAM]] [[Quackery|practitioners]] use it in a [[pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] way (see [[copromancy]]).

==Alkaline woo==
Proponents of the [[alkaline diet]] claim it is possible to see what the body's pH is by testing one's urine, and there are many expensive do-it-yourself urine testing devices available for this purpose. The basic foundation of the diet is that the blood is slightly alkaline, and that people should eat alkaline foods, in order to maintain the body's pH (promoters of this diet assume that the entire body has the same pH, for some reason). It is not possible to change the blood's pH with food, because any alkaline food is immediately neutralized by stomach acid, and even if it were possible, any significant change in blood pH would result in serious illness or death.<ref name=pharmacy>[http://sciencebasedpharmacy.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/your-urine-is-not-a-window-to-your-body-ph-balancing-a-failed-hypothesis/ '' Your Urine is Not a Window to Your Body: pH Balancing – A Failed Hypothesis''], Science-Based Pharmacy.</ref>

Even if the premise of the alkaline diet — that food can and should be used to change the blood's pH — were true, the urine testers would still be useless, as urine pH is not an indicator of the blood's pH, which remains relatively stable; changes in urine pH are due to eliminated food "ash," which does not affect the rest of the body, blood inclusive.<ref name=pharmacy/><ref>[http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/DSH/coral2.html ''Acid/Alkaline Theory of Disease Is Nonsense''], Gabe Mirkin, M.D, [[Quackwatch]].</ref>

==See also==
*[[Copromancy]]
* 
Dr
 [[Gillian McKeith]], the poo lady
* [[pH woo]]

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Watermelon

[[File:Citrullus lanatus (2002). (47006421381).jpg|thumb|right|165px|92% water, 8% melon.]]
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* A tasty fruit that, true to its name, is composed of 92% [[water]]. It has a number of health benefits, but as with other "[[superfood]]s", it shouldn't be taken as a [[panacea|miracle cure]] or anything of the sort.<ref>[https://www.webmd.com/diet/ss/slideshow-health-benefits-of-watermelon The Health Benefits of Watermelon], Stephanie Booth, ''WebMD'' 31 August 2024</ref>
* A common [[Anti-environmentalism#Stereotyping|stereotype]] of [[environmentalism]], that it's allegedly a front for [[socialism]] or [[communism]] (because a watermelon is "green on the outside, red on the inside")
** A [[James Delingpole#Watermelons|book]] by [[right-wing]] author [[James Delingpole]] that makes said allegation
* A [[racism|racist]] [[Alt-right glossary#KFC and watermelons|stereotype]] against black Americans, likely originating from a [[Jim Crow]]-era [[smear campaign]] against the fruit as emancipated blacks were the primary growers and sellers of watermelons at the time<ref>[https://www.businessinsider.com/watermelon-stereotype-african-american-history-food-racism-2022-8 How the watermelon stereotype came to be weaponized against Black Americans], Angelica Cheyenne, ''Business Insider'' 13 November 2022</ref>
* A symbol of [[Palestine|Palestinian]] liberation, first used as a stand-in for the Palestinian flag, which [[Israel]] had [[censorship|banned]], during the 1967 Six-Day War. The emoji form of the watermelon, 🍉, is frequently used to indicate that someone is a supporter of Palestine.<ref>[https://time.com/6326312/watermelon-palestinian-symbol-solidarity/ How the Watermelon Became a Symbol of Palestinian Solidarity], Armani Syed, ''Time'' 20 October 2023</ref>

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We Hunted the Mammoth

{{internet}}{{cquote|The new misogyny, tracked and mocked.|||The blog's former strapline.}}
'''We Hunted the Mammoth''' (formerly '''Man Boobz''') is a [[feminist]] blog dedicated to poking fun at various instances of egregious [[sexism]] on the [[Internet]] (and sometimes outside of it).<ref>Such as [http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2013/01/12/pickup-artistry-victorian-style/ when he commented on a Victorian painting.]</ref> Its usual targets include [[MRA]]s, [[PUA]]s, [[MGTOW]], [[Christian]] [[Patriarchy]] types, other assorted anti-woman [[crank]]s, and whatever else caught the author's attention, so you don't have to read them yourself (they're all duly linked, but after you've checked a few you'll be just fine with trusting the blog). It's also hilarious.

It is written by '''David Futrelle''', a freelance [[journalist]] who also blogs for ''Time'' and had previously covered the MRAs in various media.<ref>http://www.davidfutrelle.net/</ref> One good thing about the site is that the comment sections can go into hundreds of comments and still be relatively intelligent, apposite and written by (usually) nice people, but it's officially not a safe space. This is largely helped by the site's tightened comment policy implemented in July 2015, in which comments by all new posters are automatically sent through moderation (among other rules and filters).<ref>http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/comments-policy/</ref> The comment sections, however, tend to drift off-topic, although we can't blame them given the subject matter. Futrelle also created "Confused Cats Against Feminism",<ref>[http://confusedcatsagainstfeminism.tumblr.com/ Confused Cats Against Feminism]</ref> a viral Tumblr blog that parodies the "Women Against Feminism" movement.

We Hunted the Mammoth announced on August 15, 2023 that it was going on an "indefinite" hiatus.<ref>David Futrelle (August 15, 2023). [https://web.archive.org/web/20230816020121/https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2023/08/15/thank-you-and-goodnight-whtm-is-going-on-hiatus/ "Thank you and goodnight: WHTM is going on hiatus"]. ''We Hunted the Mammoth''.</ref> It came back on 24 July 2024 announcing a pivot to video.<ref>https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2024/07/24/we-hunted-the-mammoth-is-back/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1ecs6uf/anyone_remember_the_antimisogyny_blog_we_hunted/</ref>

==External links==
*[https://wehuntedthemammoth.com/ We Hunted the Mammoth homepage]
*[https://www.youtube.com/@HuntedTheMammoth We Hunted the Mammoth YouTube]

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