Theisticle
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On a second reading, that Guardian review is full of backhanded compliments, I'm pretty sure Penny retweeted too, which once again demonstrates her delusion.
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The Pale King
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Yeah, of the three things she says she could be doing (Twitter fighting, 'massive manifesto' writing, and demo organising), she seems to have got stuck on number one...
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
I'm not sure I'd be admitting to massive manifesto writing after the last person who wrote one and sent it to loads of people shot and killed 6.
rekil
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Schools like brighton college teach leadership - it's drilled into 'em, like in full metal jacket, except their gunnery sergeant hartman shouts about how smart they are.
Theisticle
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You can read parts of her book here:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=thu7AwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=thu7AwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Rural
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There is nothing geeky about arguing on twitter. Stupid & pointless maybe but not geekyhttp://www.heraldscotland.com/books...enny-on-the-politics-of-the-personal.24686346
What demonstration did she organise?
Honestly, unless there's a fast-tracking of workers bomb development or a mass outbreak of Chijon Family style activism, I believe the private school and elite university educated (Oxford is 3rd in the world) shall inherit the earth.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Au contraire, Twitter spats can be a useful way to gain free publicity and tart your wares around the web if you're so inclined. If you have a thick skin and a shameless attitude to self-promotion then it's a marketing tool that you can use as a shop window if you know how.
Rural
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Yep i forgot the narcissistic aspects of it & was thinking in actual practical terms! My mistake
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
I tried. I really tried. But her style of writing is very shouty and makes my brain switch off after a few sentences. So I didn't get very far.
Pickman's model
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but why did you try?
Theisticle
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Christ, the ability to write a paragraph but say nothing at all is pretty evident:
The Pale King
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Christ, the ability to write a paragraph but say nothing at all is pretty evident:
That's just faux-radical wordsoup. A tin of alphabetti spaghetti dropped on the floor. 'Two or three generations ago'? The passive voice covers a multitude of sins. Bullshit.
Rural
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*everything* I read from lp reads like a 6th form essay
MAD-T-REX
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What's the 40,000 years of human history referring to? Humans have existed for about 200,000 years, we began behaving like pretentious apes about 50,000 years ago and recorded history began after 3,000 BC.
Before the agricultural revolution, there were no political or skilled classes. Men were doomed to a life of chasing around rabbits every day and women looked after the kids. Women were/are oppressed in virtually every society that later emerged, but it's a bit of a stretch to impose a gender struggle narrative on the long period of human history when there was nothing for men to hoard (including political power).
Also - 'Women will not return to sexual and political subjection without a fight to the death'. Putting aside the difference between LP's rhetoric ('throw a punch!') and the reality (avoiding protests with a police presence), groups that have chosen death over political subjugation are very few and far between, and most people don't really care about their political rights unless it brings some sort of material disadvantage. I think what LP means is that the Twittersphere would go up in flames.
Before the agricultural revolution, there were no political or skilled classes. Men were doomed to a life of chasing around rabbits every day and women looked after the kids. Women were/are oppressed in virtually every society that later emerged, but it's a bit of a stretch to impose a gender struggle narrative on the long period of human history when there was nothing for men to hoard (including political power).
Also - 'Women will not return to sexual and political subjection without a fight to the death'. Putting aside the difference between LP's rhetoric ('throw a punch!') and the reality (avoiding protests with a police presence), groups that have chosen death over political subjugation are very few and far between, and most people don't really care about their political rights unless it brings some sort of material disadvantage. I think what LP means is that the Twittersphere would go up in flames.
Theisticle
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What a prick
rekil
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The Pale King
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"the gays"?
rekil
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Pickman's model
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if she was interested in the truly momentous events in the world she'd have been watching the recent congress of the chinese communist party which installed the leadership for the next ten years instead of watching the results come in from the us presidential farce.
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comrade spurski
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yeah ... the gays...they live next door to us blacks and across the road from the disabled
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actually, i'd say it has most of the characteristics of first year uni student. it's written in a way that says the author is trying to write academic language without properly understanding the purpose of academic language isn't to make her look clever. the passive voice, the overuse of big terms, mixed in with some immature(in an academic writing sense) phrasing that only succeeds in convincing that she dosen't really understand the terms she is throwing about. I'm also going to say that it reads like someone hasn't understood that you have to learn the rules of sentence construction properly before you can properly understand where to ignore them. basically, the main failing is that she is trying to use a writing style she isn't able to do properly to try to give an impression of ability and understanding 9and authority) that she dosen't have.
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