Julie Burchill forced to apologise for twitter comments , and pay out a fat wedge .
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SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
East Midlands Airport was never named after Robin Hood. Doncaster airport was, until someone pointed out that Robin Hood was clearly not from Yorkshire because his whole thing was giving money away.
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
Were there lemons in the lemonade?
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
I think it's upset at least two other people in the discussion a lot more.
Nah, I think it would make a fascinating thread of it's own for those involved. Just not so much here.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I can't keep up !
First she accuses Sarkar of trying to cancel her (Sarkar didn't cancel the original publishing deal) Then she apologies for being racist-y and encouraging a nasty pile on. Then she gets a new publishing deal with a dubious publisher , and cancels them for being a bit Nazi. So now she is touting a woke book to other publishers. What would be a cherry on top would be the publishers suing her for breach of contract.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Yeah, apologies for any confusion caused there - Doncaster airport is the one that was built by Robin Hood, East Midlands Airport is the one that was born after Brian Clough mated with Zeus in the form of a swan.
Treacle Toes
Time
I think the annoying thing about the discussion is the fact we seem to be playing along with the 'mythical' impregnation of women as a way of deifying them as 'immaculate' or 'otherworldly' which reinforces dodgey patriarchal views that women who have sex are somehow unclean/sinful/tainted whether they consented or were raped/coerced. These are stories that comforted men/fathers/husbands/brothers.
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littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
This shit sells, though, sadly. Piers Morgan's latest anti-woke drivel is currently at number 6 on Amazon. He will make millions of pounds just from that book.I can't keep up !
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
What I'm wondering is who the hell are the Burchill fans? Has anyone met one in the wild? Who is keeping her career going by even buying her books? It's baffling.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
no he won't.This shit sells, though, sadly. Piers Morgan's latest anti-woke drivel is currently at number 6 on Amazon. He will make millions of pounds just from that book.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Ties in with the celibacy of priests and nuns, verses in the Bible about women being unclean for twice as long after giving birth to a girl as for a boy - the standard drill, all relating back to virgins being 'clean' and probably relating to an older and more deep-rooted cuckoldry anxiety.
I'm not sure about that tbh. sure he'll do alright out of it, but millions sounds like a stretch
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
the number of people who make millions from one book can probably be counted on the fingers of one hand and they're going to be people like dan brown or j.k. rowling. so this oh noes he'll make millions is gross hyperbole. plus it'd take years for any millions to roll in, many years
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
If it stays in the top ten for any length of time, he'll get seven-figure sum, particularly as it is selling these numbers as a hardback. This isn't just a wild guess btw.
it's at number 8 now, so it doesn't look like it will be in the top ten for any length of time.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
no it's utter bollocks. a complete lie. to earn a million pounds off a hardback he'd have to sell about 500,000 copies @ £20 a throw - the society of authors report that the standard royalty is 10% of the hardback price and 7.5% of the paperback price. Buying Choices | The Society of Authors.
Sorry for the derail, but it seems Burchill’s saviour publisher is a Nazi. Lol.
Julie Burchill fires new publisher identified as a white nationalist
A supporter of the far-right group Patriotic Alternative identifying herself as Tabatha Stirling has been recorded apologising for publishing authors of colourwww.theguardian.com
Not even a philosemitic Nazi at that.
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
Believing that women who did exist, didn't exist seems to be a bigger leap-of-faith than believing that those women in one case was married to and in the other case bore men who were respectively fathered by God and God's best mate.
Aisha's existence is particularly well documented. After the death of Mohammed, she led an army, whilst sitting atop a camel in rebellion against Ali the fourth Caliph Battle of the Camel - New World Encyclopedia. In the early days of Islam, there were a number of powerful assertive women of the type that the Saudis, Iranians and other Gulf regimes are now so keen to lock up and torture.
bimble
floofy
What happens to make a person become that, a self avowed ethnonationalist?Sorry for the derail, but it seems Burchill’s saviour publisher is a Nazi. Lol.
Julie Burchill fires new publisher identified as a white nationalist
A supporter of the far-right group Patriotic Alternative identifying herself as Tabatha Stirling has been recorded apologising for publishing authors of colour
You wouldn’t guess anything from her author bio
Scottish Book Trust
We are a national charity bringing the benefits of reading and writing to everyone in Scotland.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
That’s interesting. Why?
bimble
floofy
Don’t know tbh, will think about it.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Didn’t mean to put you on the spot. Sometimes we don’t know why we think things.
I guess part of it is that fascism is pretty much inherently deeply sexist. White supremacism goes hand in hand with strong views on traditionl male and female roles.
I haven't been paying her much attention for the last 20 years or so, so I'm not sure where she stands on this now, but she had a lesbian phase and is generally pro-sex. I would be surprised if she took a gay sex is sin line, although that mean she has other prejudices about gay men/women.
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