Urban v's the Commentariat

[equationgirl]

How is using prescription drugs a privilege?

Because in the US you have to pay for drugs and they can be quite pricey. So I'm assuming (assumption privilege) that if you can afford the drugs you score privilege points for having the money to do so.

 

[equationgirl]

1. I was not bullied as a child for any of my identities.
2. I have never tried to distance myself from any of my identities.
3. I have never been self-conscious about any of my identities.
4. I have never questioned any of my identities.

I was bullied as a child for being a bit posh. I've tried to distance myself from my poshness. I'm self-conscious about being posh. I've questioned the extent of my poshness.

OPPRESSION.

I too was mocked for my 'poshness' at school. We moved when I was quite young so my rural Oxfordshire accent was deemed 'posh' by the kids speaking with a Birmingham/West Midlands accent.

As my parents had no money, I rarely had new clothes unless my mum made them and was about as unposh as it got, I found this quite hurtful. Kids can be cruel.

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

That privilege test is horribly preachy, I didn't get past answering about 10 of them. Even the way people say that god-awful phrase, like they just picked up on it recently as the thing to say at the moment - it's exclusivist in itself. Maybe I'm having an off day, but what is PDA it refers to? Is it some fangled thing that only special people who know the latest lingo understand?

 

[JHE]

Public display of affection

 

[Greebo]

<snip>what is PDA it refers to? Is it some fangled thing that only special people who know the latest lingo understand?

Public display of affection

^This - holding, hugging, kissing, sitting on each other... anything which is neither a firm handshake nor full on sex but involves non-essential physical contact in a public place.

 

[frogwoman]

Also, not having student loans etc isn't an identity

 

[andysays]

Also, not having student loans etc isn't an identity

Being oppressed/under-privileged doesn't (shouldn't) have to have an "identity" associated with it, though I suppose if you can concoct one it's all to the good for maximum oppression points

 

[ViolentPanda]

How is using prescription drugs a privilege?

"Affordable" healthcare, I suspect.

 

[rekil]

Giving tramps your leftovers is a little bit communism. #LeftoversForTramps

 

[butchersapron]

She's been eating at that station since she was 7? This habitual exaggeration on even trivial things is bordering on outright lying.

 

[DotCommunist]

could she not have got him a burger of his own

 

[Pickman's model]

only people with more money than sense buy food in victoria station

 

[Pickman's model]

could she not have got him a burger of his own

people don't stay rich by buying dinner for the indigent.

 

[tim]

She's been eating at that station since she was 7? This habitual exaggeration on even trivial things is bordering on outright lying.

Lunch with Nanny before being put on the train for her first term at prep school.

 

[Westonman]

Maybe she bunked the train to ER.

 

[tim]

people don't stay rich by buying dinner for the indigent.

Stay rich! The poor woman's virtually on the breadline herself but clearly her heart's in the right place.

1. Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed Apr 11
2. I feel bad now for not buying him an entire meal. I'm not flush but I could have covered him. Next time I'll be less taken aback.

 

[DotCommunist]

Hint: he wanted you to give him enough for a tin or a pastie. It's not an existential crises. Just give if you have, don't if you aint. And give does not mean the remains of your fucking falafal

 

[equationgirl]

She wasn't in Calafou for very long then.

 

[Casually Red]

People at a place I used to work at would try and engineer situations where I would say the word 'parcel' so they could amuse themselves at my West Country accent. This sometimes involved putting me on shifts in the post room.

I demand a support group and to be allowed to speak in preference to anyone not suffering accent oppression.

I saw a filum about something like that once. When I was wee . So I did.

 

[Casually Red]

Now its struggles for a 'Freedom Budget' a set of 72 proposals that seeks to "eliminate systems of oppression including racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism and ableism" on campus.

though the author does seem to have some grounds for the protest, there are some crazy demands.

anyone have an idea why they use this apparent hipsterism

Latin@

 

[DownwardDog]

anyone have an idea why they use this apparent hipsterism

Latin@

Because it combines both gender specific forms latino/latina into one gender neutral form.

 

[Theisticle]

She wasn't in Calafou for very long then.

Too few entrepreneurs for her liking.

 

[barney_pig]

A

Because it combines both gender specific forms latino/latina into one gender neutral form.

long with a radicalish anarchy style, and a monetising link to with it e- commerce

 

[Casually Red]

A

long with a radicalish anarchy style, and a monetising link to with it e- commerce

so its hipster shite then ?

 

[rekil]

Giving tramps your leftovers is a little bit communism. #LeftoversForTramps

A line in this week's game of thrones raised a chuckle.

 

[equationgirl]

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed 14h
So I am going to Brussels next month to dig around in European politics before the elections. Who's around, who should I talk to?

We're crowdsourcing an article again...

 

[treelover]

Not defending her, but haven't journalists always tried to get sources/tips for their stories or to create new ones?, the net just facilitates it on a wider scale.

 

[butchersapron]

She's going to Brussels. The story is under her nose over here. But the sort of people that it involves are not racy enough.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed 14h
So I am going to Brussels next month to dig around in European politics before the elections. Who's around, who should I talk to?

We're crowdsourcing an article again...

It's like the shittest episode of Knightmare ever.

“Go left! GO LEFT! LEFT!!!”

 

[equationgirl]

Not defending her, but haven't journalists always tried to get sources/tips for their stories or to create new ones?, the net just facilitates it on a wider scale.

Getting sources and tips is one thing. Asking twitter to help you every time you have an article is another.