Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags
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She's another one who looks like you'd be well advised to give a fair bit longer than ten minutes to.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Good book though .
I heard Laurie Penny on the radio this afternoon. She's not especially articulate. She stumbles repeatedly, contradicts herself and seems to specialise in bizarre non-sequiturs. Best of her, her schtick seemed to be that the 'British commentariat is an incestuous cabal' who have failed to understand the new digital paradigm like our plucky heroine. She seemed to be making a bid for a permanent column in the guardian since she's clearly a young outsider who's not tied in to the mutual appreciation society of existing commentators.
Given her background, and that of Burchill and Moore, this is a worrying development. I can't decide if I find the notion that she's a new broom sweeping away a calcified self-intrested elite hilarious or offensive...poor little public school Laurie denied her rightful place by two working class dinosaurs...however demented.
It's also a bit odd when dismissing cabals and vested interests to continually answer questions using 'we'..."the British commentariat as WE call it"..."WE call it click bait"...and apparently editors are unaware of "Activist space where WE' are talking about..."
Who is this WE she's talking about?...'her' generation?...the left...of which she's the spokesperson? ..or her new cabal of Oxbridge mates who would make a much better job than the old-guard. She's a fuckin idiot...no self awareness...nothing to say save a predecided set of buzzwords and cliches and a seeming inability to express herself orally. A fuckin joke.
Given her background, and that of Burchill and Moore, this is a worrying development. I can't decide if I find the notion that she's a new broom sweeping away a calcified self-intrested elite hilarious or offensive...poor little public school Laurie denied her rightful place by two working class dinosaurs...however demented.
It's also a bit odd when dismissing cabals and vested interests to continually answer questions using 'we'..."the British commentariat as WE call it"..."WE call it click bait"...and apparently editors are unaware of "Activist space where WE' are talking about..."
Who is this WE she's talking about?...'her' generation?...the left...of which she's the spokesperson? ..or her new cabal of Oxbridge mates who would make a much better job than the old-guard. She's a fuckin idiot...no self awareness...nothing to say save a predecided set of buzzwords and cliches and a seeming inability to express herself orally. A fuckin joke.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/media/media_20130116-1730a.mp3
Seriously listen...she's fuckin hopeless.
From 22:25
Seriously listen...she's fuckin hopeless.
From 22:25
Buckaroo
Donkey piss and tractors
She should lay off the helium, she sounds like Noddy (off Noddy and Big Ears...no Juggist offence to Big Ears intended)
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Dreadful Israel apologist and maybe an even worse writer than LP (worse hair too).
I was just watching the Attenborough thing on Africa. Some kinda birds came on who apparently "mate for life". My youngest lad's mate was round and he shouts "result!"...? Then..."what...don't they ever sleep or eat or shit?"
I'm looking at him feeling all kinda Michael Gove.
I'm looking at him feeling all kinda Michael Gove.
I think I'd have picked the Big Ears version without the hint. There's only him and Noddy Holder afaik...and I don't think anyone would have gone that way. Are there other Noddies I've missed?
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Bit inconsistent, it should have never been published but also not be taken down?
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Him from Byker Grove
Bit inconsistent, it should have never been published but also not be taken down?
Yeah, that's odd. But I don't think she has the ability to listen to the question and form a coherent answer while remembering the finely honed and brilliant phrases she thought up before hand. They all sort of come out all together, half-arsed and poorly sequenced. She's a fuckin flake.
Fuck...forgot
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
the bloke who plays Jax the cobain look-a-like in Sons of Anarchy started his career on byker byker byker grove *annoying laugh*
Buckaroo
Donkey piss and tractors
Probably sounds more like Holder than that fella tbf. And as they were talking about transexuals, according to the sex slang dictionary a 'Noddy' is a non-operative transexual (something to do with nodules) so erm....that's interesting or something.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
She's certainly not skilled in deploying a soundbite.
Should you have said that? ...you may have just started a twitterthing. I hope you've got Julie Burchill's number.
kavenism
Progressive misanthrope
Nothing to do with wearing a red hat with a bell on the end and driving a little toy car? That's no fun at all.
She can't help having a daft voice though. Give her shit for the things that matter - Like having a cheap and nasty looking shiny green quilt cover. Saying that though it's probably raw silk or something. Mind you can you machine wash silk? Coz I'm thinking if you can't it'd be a nightmare trying to get spunkstains out of silk bedclothes.
Yes - low temperature, delicate cycle, short spin, no bio, no bleach, no problem. But why bother when you could just avoid shooting your load over the duvet cover in the first place?
love detective
there's no love too small
articul8 may be able to help with that
I always suspected he'd be enough to put anyone off their stroke.
SpineyNorman
Inappropriate content removed
A tad inaccurate; I don't dislike all men, let alone all the ones I've ever interracted with, but articul8 is an urbanite of the male persuasion whose posts just happen to also be disliked.Misandrist
Here's a thing...
http://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/tweeting-suzanne-moore-a-random-sample/#comment-17952
Maybe 2013 is the year identity politics slips while chasing its tail and accidentally gets its head rammed right up its arse.
http://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/tweeting-suzanne-moore-a-random-sample/#comment-17952
Maybe 2013 is the year identity politics slips while chasing its tail and accidentally gets its head rammed right up its arse.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Eh, I've read all sorts of defences of this stuff tonight. Main gist being "SHE'S got a voice, WE don't, so in this case misogyny is justified - after all The Powers That Be are oppressing us by calling for polite discourse."
Steel Icarus
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Oh aye, it's dreadful. It's getting really ugly. If I can use that word without being called an enemy of whatever.
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