Urban v's the Commentariat

[J Ed]

Primaries need to check their first in line privilege!

 

[SpineyNorman]

Is polyamory still an oppression?

 

[belboid]

Is polyamory still an oppression?

just ask the mormons!

 

[Pickman's model]

just ask the mormons!

yes. there is a difference between POLYAMORY (not traditionally associated with mormons) and POLYGAMY (often associated with mormons)

 

[rekil]

Is polyamory still an oppression?

It's not registered on the wheel, so no.

 

[Pickman's model]

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed 15h
Polyamory problems: picking a Valentine's card which is sweet whilst not coming over as presumptuous to someone's primary partner.

i'd have thought one of the drawbacks to polyamorous relationships would be a great expenditure at this time of the year.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed 15h
Polyamory problems: picking a Valentine's card which is sweet whilst not coming over as presumptuous to someone's primary partner.

That is such a "look at me, aren't I liberated?" tweet.

 

[J Ed]

I'm just imagining what if Laurie Penny had gone into the Big Brother House...

I think that there are very few people who would be given a dose of something closer to reality than their every day lives through that experience but she might just be a candidate for that.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm just imagining what if Laurie Penny had gone into the Big Brother House...

I think that there are very few people who would be given a dose of something closer to reality than their every day lives through that experience but she might just be a candidate for that.

you think she should get a dose?

 

[J Ed]

you think she should get a dose?

Don't we all deserve a dose?

 

[Pickman's model]

Don't we all deserve a dose?

not a dose of lp

few people deserve a dose of lp

 

[frogwoman]

laurie penny in the big brother house with various z-list celebs would actually be slightly entertaining

 

[Pickman's model]

laurie penny in the big brother house with various z-list celebs would actually be slightly entertaining

might lead to the first murder in the bb house

 

[J Ed]

What about a Big Brother House full of twittersectionalistas?

 

[J Ed]

Today in the Big Brother House Sam Ambreen and Helen Lewis have mostly been assembling twitter possies against each other while refusing to make eye contact across the living room

 

[SpineyNorman]

laurie penny in the big brother house with various z-list celebs would actually be slightly entertaining

Also, at parties I'd have been able to take vicarious pleasure in her increased fame by saying, 'you know laurie penny, that irritating trendy lefty off big brother? She called me a racist on twitter once'

 

[The Pale King]

That is such a "look at me, aren't I liberated?" tweet.

Yes it is - the quest for subcultural capital continues!

I was struck by the 'primary partner' thing though - it would seem polyamory is rather more hierarchically organised than I had imagined. Rather more traditional too if exchanging valentines with 'secondary' and 'tertiary' partners is the done thing - sounds all rather courtly and formal.

 

[revol68]

primary partner, sounds sterile, like something from some horrible sex workshop for pragmatic navigation of polyamory.

I'm with Zizek,

“Yeah, because I'm extremely romantic here. You know what is my fear? This postmodern, permissive, pragmatic etiquette towards sex. It's horrible. They claim sex is healthy; it's good for the heart, for blood circulation, it relaxes you. They even go into how kissing is also good because it develops the muscles here – this is horrible, my God! It's no longer that absolute passion. I like this idea of sex as part of love, you know: 'I'm ready to sell my mother into slavery just to fuck you for ever.' There is something nice, transcendent, about it. I remain incurably romantic.”

 

[Theisticle]

Facebook have added a new “custom” gender selector, which is live for users in the United States. This is great news for people who, for a variety of reasons, did not want to pick “male” or “female”. My own friends feed erupted in mild excitement, with several of my friends even switching to the US interface just to see the choice.

Selecting the “custom” option lets you pick from around 50 more pre-defined options, with various combinations of trans*, as well as non-binary options including “agender”, “androgyne”, “bigender”, “gender non-conforming”, “neither”, “neutrois”, and “non-binary”. The choice of which pronouns the site should use to refer to you is also unlocked: this is orthogonal to the gender per se, you get to pick from “he”, “she”, or English’s second-person gender-neutral singular pronoun “they”. You can lock down your specific gender so that only your friends (or subgroups) can see it, but your preferred pronouns are public – presumably for reasons of grammar in messages such as “wish [them] a happy birthday!”

I'm up to date on trans issues but other gender binaries seem new to me. Is there a Tumblr account I can read up on?
http://www.newstatesman.com/sci-tec...s-choice-50-genders-why-cant-we-write-our-own

 

[rekil]

Yes it is - the quest for subcultural capital continues!

I was struck by the 'primary partner' thing though - it would seem polyamory is rather more hierarchically organised than I had imagined. Rather more traditional too if exchanging valentines with 'secondary' and 'tertiary' partners is the done thing - sounds all rather courtly and formal.

♫ What's the story in polyamory, ♪ wouldn't ye like to know? ♫

 

[Nigel Irritable]

He's not part of the "commentariat", but as he's been discussed on this thread already, here's a new piece by Andrew Flood defending intersectionalism against Mark Fisher. Flood is the most prominent Workers Solidarity Movement activist (he probably wouldn't appreciate being called their leader, but...).

http://anarchism.pageabode.com/andrewnflood/intersectionality-vampire-castle-reply

 

[Bakunin]

Also, at parties I'd have been able to take vicarious pleasure in her increased fame by saying, 'you know laurie penny, that irritating trendy lefty off big brother? She called me a racist on twitter once'

Hmmm, not the worst small claim to fame. My weapons of choice are having seen a couple of bands before they were famous and once having met Edward Woodward. That and giving Monbiot a tip or two for his latest piece on Syria and foreign fighters.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Also, at parties I'd have been able to take vicarious pleasure in her increased fame by saying, 'you know laurie penny, that irritating trendy lefty off big brother? She called me a racist on twitter once'

“...But she was happy to make it clear that she didn't think I was a racist...”

 

[DotCommunist]

Also, at parties I'd have been able to take vicarious pleasure in her increased fame by saying, 'you know laurie penny, that irritating trendy lefty off big brother? She called me a racist on twitter once'

you will be dining out on that story for years

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

you will be dining out on that story for years

I've just run a quick post analysis using business analytics and he has mentioned it 1,7023 times on here since it happened - of which 1,486 times were without prompting.

 

[J Ed]

Hmmm, not the worst small claim to fame. My weapons of choice are having seen a couple of bands before they were famous and once having met Edward Woodward. That and giving Monbiot a tip or two for his latest piece on Syria and foreign fighters.

You're responsible for that terrible article??

 

[Bakunin]

You're responsible for that terrible article??

He was researching it and asked about laws against joining foreign conflicts. I pointed him in the direction of the 1870 Foreign Enlistment Act and mentioned the one single prosecution under the Act in 1896 (the officer was acquitted).

 

[Nigel Irritable]

Rihanna backs right wing Venezuelan protesters. Shakira meanwhile is a Chavista, so we can always hope she'll stab Rihanna with a broken champagne flute in some backstage VIP area.

 

[revol68]

He's not part of the "commentariat", but as he's been discussed on this thread already, here's a new piece by Andrew Flood defending intersectionalism against Mark Fisher. Flood is the most prominent Workers Solidarity Movement activist (he probably wouldn't appreciate being called their leader, but...).

http://anarchism.pageabode.com/andrewnflood/intersectionality-vampire-castle-reply

opportunist prick

 

[Nigel Irritable]

opportunist prick

What's with the personal antipathy? I don't agree with his politics, whether he's arguing for anarchism or intersectionalism, but he's always struck me as a nice lad.