Urban v's the Commentariat

[barney_pig]

 

[rekil]

Avril Lavigne getting it from the intersectionalistas. New video is cultural appropriation. Having a few words of forrin in your tune is racist - official.

I'm going to see Shonen Knife in a couple of weeks. What happens there? I might have to protest against myself.

 

[Balbi]

Laurie realises UKIP aide went to Brighton College with her, and was a 'mean' girl.



Someone does their duty...

 

[Theisticle]

Who the fuck brags about having a booking team?

 

[butchersapron]

Laurie realises UKIP aide went to Brighton College with her, and was a 'mean' girl.

I call bullshit on that - penny didn't go there until she was 11 in 1997 - at which point this Vaid was just about to leave and wouldn't be anywhere near first year kids.

 

[rekil]

Next week's column forming already - "Attack UKIP Vaid for her politics, not her nudey photos (or her class or where she went to school)"

 

[Balbi]

And, backpedal...

 

[Theisticle]

Jesus, could she be anymore vain?

 

[rekil]

Matt the scab Taibbi is in this Occupy fillum.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2201488/

Only a matter of time before there's a drama out. PD need to put a treatment together, we're falling behind in the loon gap.

 

[rekil]

And, backpedal...

Is it just me or is she engaging in a bit of thinly veiled schadenfreude rather than 'calling out' a straightforward case of rotten sexism?

 

[Nigel Irritable]

Arguments about "cultural appropriation" as they are expressed through social media rage are really crudely essentialist. The operating assumption is of discrete, eternal, cultures, with hybridisation cast as violation.

 

[DaveCinzano]

The operating assumption is of discrete, eternal, cultures, with hybridisation cast as violation.

You've got another 43 characters to go!

 

[Bakunin]

And, backpedal...

 

[tim]

Avril Lavigne getting it from the intersectionalistas. New video is cultural appropriation. Having a few words of forrin in your tune is racist - official.

I'm going to see Shonen Knife in a couple of weeks. What happens there? I might have to protest against myself.

Odd considering the amount of "cultural appropriation" in Japanese popular culture. Kitty herself lives in a fictionalised felinised version of the 1970's London n which the rather more real me grew up.

Hello Kitty is originally Japanese, "Hello Kitty" refers to the group of related characters, while the main character herself is known as Kitty White (キティ・ホワイト, Kiti Howaito?), or affectionately as Kitty-chan (キティちゃん, Kiti-chan?). According to the official character profile, she was born in the suburbs of London, England on November 1. Her height is described as five apples and her weight as three apples. She is portrayed as a bright and kind-hearted girl, very close to her twin sister Mimmy. She is good at baking cookies and loves Mama's homemade apple pie. She likes to collect cute things and her favourite subjects in school are English, music and art.[2][8]

Even Kitty's seemingly generic sounding cat related name was meant as an act of overt cultural appropriation

] Shimizu got the name Kitty from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, where in a scene early in the book Alice plays with a cat she calls Kitty.[

 

[tim]

And, backpedal...

Let's hope the UKIP libel lawyers have been let loose on poor old Penny!

 

[Pickman's model]

Let's hope the UKIP libel lawyers have been let loose on poor old Penny!

a win-win situation

 

[Pickman's model]

Next week's column forming already - "Attack UKIP Vaid for her politics, not her nudey photos (or her class or where she went to school)"

"don't be mean to lizzy vaid"

laurie penny says: she's just a hardworking girl from brighton who fell in with a bad crowd

 

[flypanam]

Jesus, could she be anymore vain?

#cancelsueypark's8o'clock

 

[Theisticle]

Her stance on Snowden was bad enough but feminist hashtag creator wants U.S./UN intervention in Nigeria after Boko Haram kidnapped over 200 girls.

 

[Idris2002]

Her stance on Snowden was bad enough but feminist hashtag creator wants U.S./UN intervention in Nigeria after Boko Haram kidnapped over 200 girls.

The facepalmfulness is even stronger with this one than you might imagine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse_by_UN_peacekeepers

 

[Fozzie Bear]

http://www.varsity.co.uk/culture/7107

Hannah Wilkinson talks to Laurie Penny about the lack of opportunities young people are facing today, and what we can do about it

In Varsity.

 

[el-ahrairah]

http://www.varsity.co.uk/culture/7107

Hannah Wilkinson talks to Laurie Penny about the lack of opportunities young people are facing today, and what we can do about it

In Varsity.

this has made me and my girlfriend cry with laughter. if you invented that, people would think you'd gone too far!

 

[seventh bullet]

'Never meet your idols,' lol.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

this has made me and my girlfriend cry with laughter. if you invented that, people would think you'd gone too far!

Solid gold classic, a quote for this thread in every paragraph.

 

[J Ed]

http://www.varsity.co.uk/culture/7107

Hannah Wilkinson talks to Laurie Penny about the lack of opportunities young people are facing today, and what we can do about it

In Varsity.

This is a goldmine of horror

 

[Nigel Irritable]

Her stance on Snowden was bad enough but feminist hashtag creator wants U.S./UN intervention in Nigeria after Boko Haram kidnapped over 200 girls.

God help her if she used the wrong pronoun for somebody, but apparently full on cruise missile feminism is ok.

 

[J Ed]

“I graduated in 2007 before the crash, and I look at my friends who graduated just after the crash and the difference is just astonishing” She explains. “People my age and older believed that if we worked hard and did all the right things it would all be fine eventually. Now people know that’s bullshit.”

Yes, pre-2007 all mediocre writers with big fuck off entitlement issues could get a regular gig in the New Statesman, Independent and Guardian. That's why you have been successful in your career...

 

[rekil]

Odd considering the amount of "cultural appropriation" in Japanese popular culture. Kitty herself lives in a fictionalised felinised version of the 1970's London n which the rather more real me grew up.

Even Kitty's seemingly generic sounding cat related name was meant as an act of overt cultural appropriation

Lavigne denies all charges btw. She blames the Japanese director and crew.

 

[Nigel Irritable]

She has now set up a petition asking the US government to intervene, thereby showing a solid grasp of the mechanics of power as well as her usual touching faith in the role of the US military as a force for good.

 

[J Ed]

Lavigne denies all charges btw. She blames the Japanese director and crew.

How long before speaking a foreign language is considered 'cultural appropriation' by these knownothing dickheads?