Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags

[temper_tantrum]

Bit sad and obsessive and weird to be so fixated on her.

Yeah, it is, innit. Glad we agree on that

 

[butchersapron]

a one woman effort to prevent premature ejaculation - her face = anti-aphrodisciac

Did you really just post that? Get on that AA sharpish.

 

[temper_tantrum]

I read a Guardian Saturday supplement when she mentioned doing up her (and Will Self's) house in Islington. Then read somewhere else that their house was on the same street as a government minister's.
I can't remember where though.

They live in Stockwell. Next door or nearly to the attorney-general.

 

[Plumdaff]

I read a Guardian Saturday supplement when she mentioned doing up her (and Will Self's) house in Islington. Then read somewhere else that their house was on the same street as a government minister's.
I can't remember where though.

They live round the corner from me in Stockwell in a Georgian townhouse. See him around, don't see her. There is a Tory MP and a high court judge on that road too, but I forget their names.

 

[rekil]

she did a sex column in the indy once upon a time.

You have to type SEX in big letters. It's the rule.

 

[sihhi]

They live round the corner from me in Stockwell in a Georgian townhouse. See him around, don't see her. There is a Tory MP and a high court judge on that road too, but I forget their names.

Edit my bad apparently they do have kids but she is anti-people having kids:

"The politician who talks the most sense about social deprivation is Iain Duncan Smith. It is worth noting that he dates the development of the present welfare-dependent underclass from the 1970s. The leadership of his party may still be loath to put its hand up and admit that it enthusiastically fostered welfare dependency, in the 1980s, but it is worth bearing in mind that the last Conservative government did not cut public spending at all during its tenure, even though it has retained its image as the party that rolls back the state. It simply moved cash away from health, education and housing, and spent it on its new benefits instead. The real value of those benefits has barely risen since those days – unless you have children. Labour, in placing its emphasis on alleviating child poverty, has inadvertently made it pay – in cash, aspiration, intelligence and self-respect – to have children if you are poor. Well-meaning policies have encouraged those least equipped to have children to do so." (10 December 2008, Independent, The truth is only money can alleviate poverty, but it should not go to neglectful parents)

 

[articul8]

That really is a sexist comment. DO's problem is that she is a rich Lib Dem supporter, not that she's a woman. Is that hard to understand?

FFS its not that she is a woman...its that she is an arrogant m/c woman with a smug attitude. That look of disdain is a turn off

 

[sihhi]

FFS its not that she is a woman...its that she is an arrogant m/c woman with a smug attitude. That look of disdain is a turn off

Hmm.
Discussing sexual preferences is for here, although even there I doubt whether that comment would fly.

 

[butchersapron]

FFS its not that she is a woman...its that she is an arrogant m/c woman with a smug attitude. That look of disdain is a turn off

How dare she.

 

[Random]

FFS its not that she is a woman...its that she is an arrogant m/c woman with a smug attitude. That look of disdain is a turn off

I'm sure Terry Eagleton backs you up on this one, and there's sound materialistic Marxist reasons for slagging off a woman by calling her unattractive.

 

[articul8]

Her sex column was cited on this thread... I just don't think of her in that or any favorable context

 

[butchersapron]

Her sex column was cited on this thread... I just don't think of her in that or any favorable context

She didn't ask you to. Yet you think this is something you need to post about. Jesus. Really.

 

[articul8]

I'm sure Terry Eagleton backs you up on this one, and there's sound materialistic Marxist reasons for slagging off a woman by calling her unattractive.

You find her attractive? Whatever floats your boat I guess

 

[butchersapron]

Note, a sex column is an invitation for everyone to say this sort of thing.

 

[sihhi]

You find her attractive? Whatever floats your boat I guess

Damn, I liked your post by accident, trying to reply as quickly as I could to it. But I'm off. But you have to stop digging and apologise.

 

[articul8]

I will never think of her and sex in the same context ever again. No probs there

 

[butchersapron]

I will never think of her and sex in the same context ever again. No probs there

Star of the left.

 

[articul8]

Christ almighty...the hypocrisy here suggests Mp's in the making

 

[DotCommunist]

Think it was around the time of the indies 'legalise it' campaign which was when I thought it was the best paper eva. And then came the u-turn of 'oh noes this super-skunk wasn't what we smoked at university'.

fuck it

 

[butchersapron]

Christ almighty...the hypocrisy here suggests Mp's in the making

I think you're secretly something else now. Nasty stuff.

 

[articul8]

Right...I am jimmy saville now..?

 

[butchersapron]

No, not every sexist prick is savile. They don't have to be to post such lazy nasty stuff.

 

[articul8]

Sexist prick? For finding someone unattractive in both political and every other senses? Whatever... Not like people have made un pc comments about Maggie or owt

 

[tufty79]

Here are anarchists being _____________* at the Cuts Cafe



No I wasn't there and no I won't be going.

*Best inserted word wins a paper graffiti stencil courtesy of ALARM*.

I can't bring myself to watch it. What's she on about?

oh my. i daren't watch it.
that's my old housemate.

 

[weepiper]

Sexist prick? For finding someone unattractive in both political and every other senses? Whatever... Not like people have made un pc comments about Maggie or owt

You wouldn't have made that comment if she had been a man. And it's nothing to do with being heterosexual.

 

[killer b]

it's ok to back down y'know. we all make mistakes sometimes.

 

[Riklet]

you're such a fucking pratt articul8

 

[rekil]

Perhaps by some weird process of osmosis, a bit of Galloway rubbed off on articul8 that time they swept passed each other in parliament.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Sexist prick? For finding someone unattractive in both political and every other senses? Whatever... Not like people have made un pc comments about Maggie or owt

Look chief I take every other criticism flung at you with a pinch of salt but you're beyond the pale now...

This is disturbing

 

[articul8]

You wouldn't have made that comment if she had been a man. And it's nothing to do with being heterosexual.

I find her attitude deeply unattractive...is the basis of my point. Lack of sexual attraction is not essential to it.