el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
nope. he means it!
Urban v's the Commentariat
- Thread starter Belushi
- Start date
Theisticle
Well-Known Member
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Ah the 'didn't feel safe' card. Often played because they're not being agreed with and fawned over about their right-on politics. Which just reduces the effectiveness of the phrase for those who might genuinely need a safe space.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
That is a very nasty thing to do indeeed, especially when you are about as far as you can get from a rape apologist.
Know any lawyers? That's potentially libellous.
I can pass on details of one who's happy to send out defamation letters, literally no questions asked...
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i offer a complementary service, being happy to send out defamatory letters
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Has anybody else noted the tendency of some Twatterati to libel people if they think they can get away with it and then grovel when they realise they can't?
Rural
Active Member
I'm absolutely sick to death of ppl throwing around the phrase *rape apologist* when the person its aimed at is nothing of the sort. I'm just grateful that ppl I know irl never use insults like that. In fact most of my friends would not know what it means. It seems to be a twitter catchphrase to describe what these types also call *the very worst* when the ppl they r describing r far removed from the actual very worst. Or they've lived very sheltered lives.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
it's pretty tempting tbh but life's to short to engage in legal spats over facebook arguments.
The Pale King
Well-Known Member
LP: That’s part of the reason it has so much memoir in there. It was difficult to strike a balance between that and polemic – because you have to have the personal gossip that moves polemic along, and there’s a lot of stuff that is straight up polemic. And the memoir bits explain where my politics come from and how they developed. If I were going to write straight memoir – but I’m 27 and far too young to write memoirs – here I barely talk about my family at all – and there are very good reasons for that – and I don’t talk about Oxford at all. University was my least political time, because I went there very young – I was just 17 and just out of hospital. I spent a couple of years just getting myself well and doing a lot of theatre and drinking gin and being a reprobate and scraping through my exams. It was a couple of years off serious politics. I needed to use the time for other things – self-care is radical. People go on at me about Oxford – and sure it’s important to acknowledge privilege.
from: http://www.feministtimes.com/left-tendency-to-eat-itself/
...got that? Drinking gin and doing theatre at Oxford is radical. Liked these as well:
"Stories have always fascinated me – the more engaged I’ve got with writing, the more I have realised that politics is a story we tell ourselves about what life is about, what identity is about, and the more you can change the story the more you can change the future."
"I could no longer do this kind of unremitting engagement without a physical break. If I hadn’t got that fellowship, I would still have taken a year off of some kind. It’s been really difficult to fight my corner and look after myself and do the work – which doesn’t mean it’s not been worth doing, but I have to think long term and not burn out. That would be sad – no one wants to be in the 27 club. I’m 27 but my birthday’s in September, so I am probably all right."
We can only hope she doesn't have to take her rightful place alongside Brian Jones et al and that Harvard will prove recuperative. She works so ruddy bloody hard on our behalf we really should be more grateful.
from: http://www.feministtimes.com/left-tendency-to-eat-itself/
...got that? Drinking gin and doing theatre at Oxford is radical. Liked these as well:
"Stories have always fascinated me – the more engaged I’ve got with writing, the more I have realised that politics is a story we tell ourselves about what life is about, what identity is about, and the more you can change the story the more you can change the future."
"I could no longer do this kind of unremitting engagement without a physical break. If I hadn’t got that fellowship, I would still have taken a year off of some kind. It’s been really difficult to fight my corner and look after myself and do the work – which doesn’t mean it’s not been worth doing, but I have to think long term and not burn out. That would be sad – no one wants to be in the 27 club. I’m 27 but my birthday’s in September, so I am probably all right."
We can only hope she doesn't have to take her rightful place alongside Brian Jones et al and that Harvard will prove recuperative. She works so ruddy bloody hard on our behalf we really should be more grateful.
Anyway we know where he drinks :thumbs :
Humberto
Justice is order
That was the message I found we were meant to take on board during her short contributions here. That and you were also being rather beastly.
Rural
Active Member
She is on urban? I didn't know that lol
Humberto
Justice is order
Yeah she dropped in for a couple of posts months ago. Called us all ungrateful basically.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Your call obviously, but if he does it again, at least you know it's an option.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
And then heavily used some of our discussion points for her articles, but all the journos do that.
Humberto
Justice is order
Bastards!
Shows its all worthwhile if your contributions can be ripped off by dim careerists in not so high places.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
There was a massive argument about some aspersions she'd cast on a couple of the posters here (via twitter) and it all became quite heated until she "apologised". She's since visited again a couple of times when she's been alerted to something someone or other has posted or said.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
No wonder the working class aren't heard - the twitterati are stealing our words and shouting them instead of us.Bastards!
Humberto
Justice is order
Theres worse problems though. Its easy to become a nuisance after all.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
True.
Rural
Active Member
The posts I read from her were exactly I expected. Didn't see her tweets, she's not someone I'd follow on Twitter.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
You may have either your PlagiarismChecker or TediumBlockPro settings too high - you need to go to the Arsehole Filters part of the User Control Panel to change them.I cannot actually see the Laurie Penny posts, did she put me on ignore?
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Can you see the search results? http://www.urban75.net/forums/search/32132681/I cannot actually see the Laurie Penny posts, did she put me on ignore?
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
Me neither?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
nor I 
Similar threads
