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

[ViolentPanda]

she must be in touch with plenty of friends from private school and oxford who are earning telephone numbers. That probably keeps her feeling edgy and martyred.

Apparently a lot of her friends are hard done by and earning less than Laura herself, according to Laura herself.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I have to admire her drive...

She plays golf, too! Is there no end to her vileness?

 

[articul8]

she'll be voting UKIP soon then

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Apparently a lot of her friends are hard done by and earning less than Laura herself, according to Laura herself.

I suspect that a lot of people wouldn't mind earning less than Laura; whether or not they'd want to be her friend is another question entirely.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[Bakunin]

she'll be voting UKIP soon then

Only when it becomes a good career move.

 

[rekil]

(although saying that, apart from her usual appropriating usage of 'our' and 'we' her recent guardian article wasn't too bad, well i mean there wasn't as much wrong with it as is usually the case)

Didn't Sarah Teather, heh, do essentially the same piece a couple of weeks ago? It's just more bottom feeding hackery phoned in from lower manhattan or wherever as she's incapable of going out and finding a story.

 

[rekil]

Laura should meet Niamh Nic Mhathuna.

She's Niamh Ui Bhriain now as she shacked up with her fancyman like a cheap slattern and apparently she's had SEX at least twice because I've seen her with two children. She would run rings around Laura.

My book's going to be about feminism and activism and gender anarchy and socialism and sexual deviance and basically all the things I like.

Actually signed the contract for this book almost 2 years ago, but put it off because needed time to travel, do politics, grow up some more.

It should be a hoot.

 

[weepiper]

Listen I'm all for going 'fuck you I won't do what your society has assigned to me by accident of which sperm got to the egg first', but 'gender anarchy'?

 

[ViolentPanda]

Listen I'm all for going 'fuck you I won't do what your society has assigned to me by accident of which sperm got to the egg first', but 'gender anarchy'?

I strongly suspect this boils down to Laura's right to one day say "I'm hetero", the next day say "I'm gay" and the day after that say "I'm bi".

Oh, hold on, she's already claimed all those positions in the last couple of years, hasn't she? Gender anarchy in action!!!

 

[rekil]

Listen I'm all for going 'fuck you I won't do what your society has assigned to me by accident of which sperm got to the egg first', but 'gender anarchy'?

A brief google suggests that it involves playing at dress up in order to shock you pustulent dullard normals out of your torporific wastelives.

 

[love detective]

Actually signed the contract for this book almost 2 years ago, but put it off because needed time to travel, do politics, grow up some more.

Laurie Penny, 23, never imagined she would find herself enmeshed in a world of poverty

 

[el-ahrairah]

A brief google suggests that it involves playing at dress up in order to shock you pustulent dullard normals out of your torporific wastelives.

cool, can i dress up as an astronaut?

 

[love detective]

John W ‏@hplyevraftr5OCS
Think there must be an alt-universe where @PennyRed &@mollycrabapple are a superteam fighting injustice. Then realize that it's this one.

 

[Balbi]

Im going to dress up as a journalist.

 

[love detective]

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
Got an email from a reader saying he plans to kill himself when his disability benefits are cut and can I write about it? No idea what to do

Bet she's secretly hoping he kills himself so she gets a 'better' story

 

[butchersapron]

Im going to dress up as a journalist.

This actually is what she does - privilege meets personal post-modernism. I deserve to be everyone i want to be. So i am. That can be a really healthy and inspiring thing coming from someone with insight, sense, humility and respect for wider society. Coming from her it just inadvertently demonstrates how shallow she is. I want a pony.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Im going to dress up as a journalist.

It's a good look.

Will you be going for the Big Mac...

...or the Little Nev?

Spoiler: Somewhat NSFW

 

[Orang Utan]

Who's the nekkid chap?

 

[butchersapron]

is that Paul Mac shortly after drinking the nights takings? Again.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Who's the nekkid chap?

NOTW's star reporter Neville Thurlbeck demanding to be wanked off (on expenses).

 

[Orang Utan]

NOTW's star reporter Neville Thurlbeck demanding to be wanked off (on expenses).

What's the story then?

 

[Balbi]

This actually is what she does - privilege meets personal post-modernism. I deserve to be everyone i want to be. So i am. That can be a really healthy and inspiring thing coming from someone with insight, sense, humility and respect for wider society. Coming from her it just inadvertently demonstrates how shallow she is. I want a pony.

Spot on.

 

[butchersapron]

This actually is what she does - privilege meets personal post-modernism. I deserve to be everyone i want to be. So i am. That can be a really healthy and inspiring thing coming from someone with insight, sense, humility and respect for wider society. Coming from her it just inadvertently demonstrates how shallow she is. I want a pony.

She's Katie Price basically.

 

[Balbi]

She's Katie Price basically.

That's a tad harsh on Katie Price.

 

[love detective]

Ellie Mae O'Hagan ‏@MissEllieMae
.@MrHarryCole Funny, first time I met Luke Bozier was at your Christmas party.

mates, all mates

 

[love detective]

Ellie Mae O'Hagan ‏@MissEllieMae
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has."

No room for the masses/ordinary people being the agent of change, only a small elite of privileged kebab bum fingers can do that

 

[butchersapron]

Why is she quoting something that's a)wrong and b) a view derived from the elite and privilege soaked life of Mead. (Not to mention the debate over her actual work which at worst has been called academic fraud see (idris for more details) - or working for the RAND corp).

 

[Random]

Why is she quoting something that's a)wrong and b) a view derived from the elite and privilege soaked life of Mead. (Not to mention the debate over her actual work which at worst has been called academic fraud see (idris for more details) - or working for the RAND corp).

That quote is popular with people who see themselves as thoughtful and committed, and wonder why oh why they are such a small group. As an officer of a union with a membership of hundreds of thousands, why should she be all about this small is beautiful stance? FMC

 

[rekil]

1000 words of hatin' on kate'n'wills.

We are becoming a colder, meaner place, and love, a force that is supposed to be more powerful even than class, is harder than ever to fight for.

We are becoming a place? Have the subs just given up?

The lesson is: know your place. The lesson is: know your class, and its limits, and who, ultimately, is in charge.

Sounds like a pep talk she'll be giving to a new wave of 30k a year brighton college brats in a few years time.

 

[weepiper]

OH JUST FUCK OFF LAURIE. Ta.