miss minnie
Well-Known Member
Apologise for your threat to her at least.
Jaw-dropping Brixton description in blog
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Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Maybe you missed this
miss minnie
Well-Known Member
No, I didn't. Maybe you missed what I said about your privileges as a moderator, with access to her email address and IP. Not to mention how easy it is to identify her via Google in less than a minute.
Aquamarine
Well-Known Member
I for one don't think she has anything to apologise for. I did'nt find her attitude sneering towards the poor. And what do you know about her attitude towards Brixton and her career?
Treacle Toes
Time
FWIW I do think I understand you Mrs M. I live in Hackney...this side of the river we have similar 'shit' (usually class or race related) being written by the in-coming trendy crew....I read and hear stuff all the time that gets my back up. I have personal experiences too, example: walking along the canal towards home, tipsy, a little ahead of my friends, seeing a group of blokes on the bridge ahead thought...no way back, it's okay I hope...approached them, about to walk past, watching out of the side of my eye...one turns...'you gonna stab us now then? I stopped dead in my tracks...he was drunk-ish...but WTF? I was really hurt/offended...there was me feeling vulnerable and all.... I told him to keep reading the daily mail and welcome to Hackney. Shock turned to rage later that night and kept me awake, fuck that shit.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
So you often remind us.
So was the blogger's. Everything else you have intimated about them is conjecture.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
@ miss minnie
Eh? I haven't done that and wouldn't do that. I'm not as computer savvy as you. I only go onto the admin board to ban spammers and the like and I find that hard enough technically speaking, never mind how hard that is because, as I've said before, it's not exactly VIP friendly. I can barely see beyond my nose as many can testify. She'd have to be less than two feet away from me to recognise her, and I have no idea what she looks like, as I've said before. I haven't looked at her twitter account, I don't even have a mobile, I haven't looked for her on facebook, I just looked at her blog posts before she deleted the bits that showed her up.
Eh? I haven't done that and wouldn't do that. I'm not as computer savvy as you. I only go onto the admin board to ban spammers and the like and I find that hard enough technically speaking, never mind how hard that is because, as I've said before, it's not exactly VIP friendly. I can barely see beyond my nose as many can testify. She'd have to be less than two feet away from me to recognise her, and I have no idea what she looks like, as I've said before. I haven't looked at her twitter account, I don't even have a mobile, I haven't looked for her on facebook, I just looked at her blog posts before she deleted the bits that showed her up.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Her blog, especially the bits she deleted
miss minnie
Well-Known Member
Stop wriggling.
Aquamarine
Well-Known Member
Her blog did'nt sneer at the poor. It is in your head!
Treacle Toes
Time
Erm, maybe not. SA says so now but....what she wrote could easily be interpreted/meant exactly that.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
That seems a little unlikely to me.
And, anyway, I respect people who move to Brixton, because they have ignored the still widely-held prejudices against the place.
editor
hiraethified
Parts of it really did come over rather sneery, you know.
Whether that was down to intent or her inability to articulate her opinions in an unambiguous manner is open to some debate.
I think she was foolish to take down her words, but I guess she'll file it under "live and learn."
Treacle Toes
Time
Yep, and through that kind of debate things can be learned about the power of language and the importance of qualifying a point adequately, which has nothing to do with being PC or censorship.
co-op
But....but cLoWnFiSh....
Oh do shut up. If you are so offended leave the forum. Honestly I haven't read such high-horse guff for ages. Who are you to issue demands for apologies? You're a typical bulletin board hysteric yourself, I remember you throwing a little fit because you thought I'd misquoted one word in a post of yours.
Young Sophie is an arrogant young snob and she'll doubtless have worse things said about her in her time. Mrs Magpie is a diamond.
TruXta
tired
Yes it fucking did. Whether or not she meant to. Audience reception is not for the author to authorise, nor anyone else. I read her blog and found both the RIS and Albert reviews to be exactly what Mrs M and others say - sneering, belittling and seemingly designed to elevate the author over the great unwashed masses of Brixton. And her one appearance on this thread did nothing to change my impression of her authorial intent.
co-op
But....but cLoWnFiSh....
Of course it did. I personally don't care if people like her don't like places like Brixton, that's part of what's nice about the neighbourhood - very low wanker count.
You're a real charmer eh ?
Mrs M was the one acting hysterically, going on about dishing out severe tongue lashings in the street, insinuating that the girl is illegally renting her flat etc.
And then wants an apology too after the girl has removed the offending articles and explained what her comments actually meant.
It stinks.
co-op
But....but cLoWnFiSh....
Do me best.
Fair does for sticking up for your chum but you're both talking bollocks. especially when you are such a touchy pair of old queens when you think a tiny misinterpretation has been made of your precious words.
Treacle Toes
Time
Thread....runway....takeoffffffffffffffffffff!
TruXta
tired
TBH the character assassination of Ms A is a bit crap. Attack the text, not the author. I just wish she'd bother to try and engage with the criticisms made of her POV and the way in which she's tried to get it across, instead of posting that we all misunderstood and could we please get off her back as she's as prole and chavvy as the rest of us.
Treacle Toes
Time
Given my example of personal experience above...'Don't move into an area and then objectify the people around you like you are in a position of authority/without empathy or understanding/ not think enough about how you describe and characterise them and think that makes you a cool, trendy, intelligent, homouros person.'
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Typical working class squabble.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
We've all had a drink
TruXta
tired
Sure, but if she wants to be a writer she needs a POV, a voice, even a smidgen of authority
. She chose a POV wherein she's trading on crap cliches about Brixton, poor Brixtonians and their poor tastes. Criticise that, no need to call her a cunt in the process. She's young and needs to learn a bit of humility. Like we all did at that age.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
That's more to do with the fact that there's not been a riot for ages I reckon, nothing to do with wanting to move to a multi-cultural, working class area, more to do with property prices at the time (ie. low, when nobody wanted to move here). Then you get a journo/media type that bigs it up, and suddenly the area's flooded with them.
TruXta
tired
As do I. You'd have to have Mrs M and her on mutual forced ignore for a while, maybe.
