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Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
just like that
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Did that pic come from either Exaro or Cafcass?
sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
A possible adventure from anarchist Stewart Home's blog:
"I’ve known Nick for some time now. ... When I turned up fashionably late at The Duke of Wellington in Crawford Street, Nick asked: “Where’s Tom McCarthy?” I’d introduced him to Tom, so it became my job to phone McCarthy and find out why he wasn’t present. Sickness was the answer. Nick had plenty of old friends around for his birthday drinks. ...
Samson seemed to be enjoying herself and I had a bit of a laugh by bringing up one of her friends and calling him Trike (a deliberate mispronunciation on my part). I didn’t let on that I’d met him at the launch of a Joe Boyd book and he’d been banging on about his connection to Pink Floyd. This old school rock group are of no interest to me – but Samson has sung with them and co-written some Floyd songs in recent years (although she’s best known as a journalist).
Ultimately I didn’t have much to say to Samson and vice versa. It only occurred to me later that I should have told her that while I found her son Charlie Gilmour swinging off a flag at the student demos in 2010 mildly amusing, it is much better to burn the Union Jack…. Maybe Nick was right and if Tom McCarthy had been present we’d have had more cross-talk – given three very different cultural and social perspectives. I didn’t bother telling Samson my mother (Julia Callan-Thompson) saw Pink Floyd quite a few times in London back in the sixties when Syd Barrett was still in the band (way before Samson’s involvement)…
Anyway the booze flowed freely and everyone at Nick Lezard’s birthday drink up had a good time"
Harold Wilson smoked a cigar in private and a pipe in public. Some things never change...
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
'hero' means 'great fellow' in this kind of 'banter'.
I doubt Owen Jones would big up LP any more than Lezard would.
Where are you going with your stab against her popularity?
She has just been considered one of the world's top 50 feminists by Susie Orbach, that's pretty good going.
Who is Susie Orbach? Ive never heard of her. And look at Lez and his massive glass of wine. And how can you be one of the world's "top 50 feminists"
This is it. It's all image. Everything they do and say, from the forced glottal stops to the posing with roll-ups, it's cringeworthy.
Next time I get some stabbing pains in my chest and cough up some blood-speckled lung butter, and reflect on how I've spent 5-10% of my income for the last 10 years on a product designed to slowly kill me, I'll console myself by looking at how cool Penny looks with her worker's "it's a little bit communism" rolly and maybe it won't feel so bad.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Who is Susie Orbach? Ive never heard of her. And look at Lez and his massive glass of wine. And how can you be one of the world's "top 50 feminists"
Feminist psychotherapist, had a few books published by Virago. Also treated Princess Di. Had a regular column in the Guardian back in the early 90s.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
So a celebrity feminists basically? These people
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
I think I'd call her high profile, rather than celebrity. She's written for a number of magazines and newspapers over the years. She's also written these books:
Fat is a Feminist Issue II (1982)
Understanding Women: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Approach (1983) (written with Luise Eichenbaum)
What Do Women Want? Exploding the Myth of Dependency (1983) (written with Luise Eichenbaum)
Hunger Strike: The Anorectic's Struggle as a Metaphor for Our Time (1986)
Bittersweet: Love, Competition & Envy in Women's Friendships (1987), published as Between Women in US (written with Luise Eichenbaum)
What’s Really Going on Here (1995)
Towards Emotional Literacy (1999)
The Impossibility of Sex (1999)
On Eating (2002)
Bodies (2009)
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Now that, I will agree, is a bit silly. After all, how does one become 'a top 50 feminist'? Is there a points mechanism each year for approved feminist activities perhaps?the whole "top 50 feminists" is just so stupid though, like it's a competition
sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
And how can you be one of the world's "top 50 feminists"
Be a part of the Virago/Little Brown 50 Shades of Feminism anthology, as selected by Orbach and Lisa Appignanesi.
I suspect going to a private school would be a good place to start.
Not for the likes of you y'know equationgirl.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
"Germaine Greer and Bell Hooks are tied for the top spot this week for two weeks in a row. Edging into 3rd place is Andrea Dworkin with "Men Possessing Women" while Catherine McKinnon with her new hit "Against Pornography" has knocked Naomi Wolf into no.11 after a solid three-week run."
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Who is Susie Orbach? Ive never heard of her. And look at Lez and his massive glass of wine. And how can you be one of the world's "top 50 feminists"
Orbach is Penny in thirty years (actually thats not true)
sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
I find Lezard an odd media person. He tweets this with Latin to his daughter in public (who then corrects him, I am not blaming her)
"Ah, wine o'clock. Nunc est bibendum. And also nunc est fumendum, come to think of it. (@MissEarlGrey, is that correct?)"
Is it just me who finds it odd?
"Ah, wine o'clock. Nunc est bibendum. And also nunc est fumendum, come to think of it. (@MissEarlGrey, is that correct?)"
Is it just me who finds it odd?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
It's almost certain that nicks kids call him by his first name and have done since aged 7
Is that a bad thing? I call my folks by their names, always have done...
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Richey Manic occurred to me, too, but we both know Laura isn't Richey, and isn't 4 real.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Is that a bad thing? I call my folks by their names, always have done...
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ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Looking at fucking actimel, the ponce twat!
That's a joke, surely? She's taking the piss out of her dads former lodger...
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