Urban v's the Commentariat

[Delroy Booth]

The Red Sea also appears to have become a lake and an entirely new island appeared off the coast of Yemen.

I think it's meant to be Socotra

 

[Theisticle]

Look at the people I sketched! Gotta insert herself in the story somehow.

http://www.vice.com/read/theater-of-justice

 

[kavenism]

Hang on a second here. We are talking about an MRA involved with the rabid website "A Voice For Men". We can take it for granted that he's a misogynistic wanker. Most of Penny's article may be an exercise in liberal smugness, but I very much doubt if she had to misrepresent this guy at all to make him look bad. MRAs are rather like Loyalists in full "Fenians Out!" mode in that regard - reliably obnoxious.

Let's not start making every prick that liberals don't like into some silenced exemplar of proletarian grievances.

That website is hilariously bad. This example of their highly calibrated 'humanist counter-theory' had me spitting my green tea over the table.

"In Plato’s Republic (or the Symposium – I no longer remember which one and do not care to look it up) the Greek generals were talking about their own penises. One general made a comment to the effect that when he was in his younger years, he wanted to cut it off so he could spend just one day thinking about things other than sex. (No, he was not transgender, nor did he despise masculinity: he was joking; men do that.)"

 

[rekil]

Self-styled radical journalist in no idea wtf is going on shock.

 

[rekil]

but what has the evil russian bear got around its throat? it looks like a waxy red disc. Is that supposed to represent crimea or something?

Maybe it had been a star of david. Makes you think.

 

[DaveCinzano]

but what has the evil russian bear got around its throat? it looks like a waxy red disc.

Russians really like Mini Babybels.

 

[butchersapron]

Self-styled radical journalist in no idea wtf is going on shock.

Nothing Laurie, as you weren't here. We were just waiting for you to come back. For an internet booster (sorry radically horizontal communication device) you'd think she'd at least be able to use the bloody thing to read the news from the UK whilst helping the homeless abroad.

 

[frogwoman]

Capitalizing pronouns can invalidate social justice struggles apparently

 

[Bakunin]

Capitalizing pronouns can invalidate social justice struggles apparently

Unlike monetising social justice struggles, obviously.

 

[equationgirl]

Self-styled radical journalist in no idea wtf is going on shock.

There's no excuse for such laziness now you can read the internet on your phone, even from abroad, or local internet cafes, or a mate's computer. It's just a 'look at me' tweet, in her typical 'you lot be my researchers' style.

 

[equationgirl]

Where was she, anyway? Oooh, did she go to that thing with Molly Crabapple at that private club in New York last Thursday? That members only thing?

ETA: Yes, she was in New York.

 

[Balbi]

LP going down like a water balloon filled with shit

 

[frogwoman]

To be fair I like not going on the internet when I am on holiday

 

[Balbi]

It's a talk about Sex Workers, with SW's in the audience and Laurie's gone off on a me, me, me angle. The SW's are NOT happy bunnies.

 

[equationgirl]

It's a talk about Sex Workers, with SW's in the audience and Laurie's gone off on a me, me, me angle. The SW's are NOT happy bunnies.

Understandably so. It's not a talk about LP, after all.

 

[Balbi]

Understandably so. It's not a talk about LP, after all.

One of my twitter follows has gone "I'm not there, but I guess it's gone as I predicted" to a chorus of ayes from within Foyles

 

[equationgirl]

To be fair I like not going on the internet when I am on holiday

But the second you're back you don't send a tweet saying 'What happened while I was away', you just start perusing the interwebs.

 

[Balbi]

LP now fighting a rearguard action, claiming illness as her reason for her misgendering and cissexism and that. Oops.

 

[Theisticle]

All kicking off

 

[Greebo]

All kicking off <snip>

Excuse me while I book the electron microscope in order the play the world's smallest violin...

 

[weepiper]

What the fuck? Really. These people are truly living in a different world.

 

[treelover]

All this is really bizarre and a head fuck, maybe the sixties were like this, but there were other better movements around as well.

 

[andysays]

What the fuck? Really. These people are truly living in a different world.

None of them noticed or commented on the class assumption of "this lady here" then...

 

[rekil]

To be fair I like not going on the internet when I am on holiday

She was posting on twitter every day over there, and anyway, the teachers strike was announced ages ago. She has no interest and couldn't be bothered to pretend to be interested so it didn't get the mention.

 

[frogwoman]

Why does everything have to be an act of solidarity lol?

 

[weepiper]

Boring old heteronormative teachers and their tedious worries about 60-hour weeks and working til they're 68.

 

[rekil]

Boring old heteronormative teachers and their tedious worries about 60-hour weeks and working til they're 68.

You saddo normals don't understaaand.

 

[Belushi]

She comes across like a fifteen year old.

 

[Greebo]

She comes across like a fifteen year old.

A fifteen year old would be slightly more self aware.

 

[Theisticle]

She was sick though! Oh man, it's parody levels now.