Urban v's the Commentariat

[stethoscope]

Why?

No transitional soundbytes for Idris, its full sentences or nothing.

 

[killer b]

whatevs.

 

[stethoscope]

...

 

[emanymton]

Because I DEMAND IT.

OK

 

[Rural]

Quite. On the subject of US weirdoes, when I taught at the "Dumb Blonde School" I had a class featuring a 'horsey set' girl and a goth chick. . . the former had a US passport I remember her telling her gothic colleague that she would, in fact, experience hassle if she walked down the street in the US. . .

Do they not have goths in us? I don't see them very often in uk now, hadn't thought of us. That's if lp's a goth or similar? Idk

 

[Rural]

I haven't the faintest Idea, and nor do I think it's something worth speculating about, and certainly not something to attack her about.

Maybe if she concentrates more on her hair & less on her role as voice of anarchist revolution she'll stop offending so many ppl. Tho I don't think it went so well for her last time she wrote an article on her hair.

 

[fogbat]

It's just irrelevant. Plenty to criticise her for, but fucking hair? As a response to harassment?

 

[killer b]

Maybe if she concentrates more on her hair & less on her role as voice of anarchist revolution she'll stop offending so many ppl. Tho I don't think it went so well for her last time she wrote an article on her hair.

yeah, she shouldn't bother her pretty little head about serious things like the revolution.

 

[Rural]

yeah, she shouldn't bother her pretty little head about serious things like the revolution.

I don't care what she does with her hair, just fed up with another in the long line of posts where lp claims to b victim of extreme circumstances. Maybe I'm being too mean to her, I'm finding her really annoying lately.

 

[killer b]

I don't think being the subject of street harassment is an extreme circumstance particularly. Depressingly mundane, in fact.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I don't care what she does with her hair, just fed up with another in the long line of posts where lp claims to b victim of extreme circumstances. Maybe I'm being too mean to her, I'm finding her really annoying lately.

You could always unfollow her.

TBH I have to agree with killer b here. And I think it undermines the claims made on this thread that it's all about the politics when every single thing she says is on here to be pointed at.

 

[Rural]

I don't think being the subject of street harassment is an extreme circumstance particularly. Depressingly mundane, in fact.

I think claiming ur harassed every single time u leave the house cos of ur hair is extreme. No sadly Street harassment isn't rare.

 

[killer b]

Has she claimed that?

 

[Rural]

You could always unfollow her.

TBH I have to agree with killer b here. And I think it undermines the claims made on this thread that it's all about the politics when every single thing she says is on here to be pointed at.

I don't follow her, I know her irl & so do lots of my pals. So altho I try to avoid her twitter my tl does get ppl talking about what she posts at times.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

@PennyRed: I've dyed my hair back to its natural colour temporarily. Partly because of street harassment.

Nothing about 'every time I leave the house.'

 

[Rural]

Has she claimed that?

I will try to find the tweet

 

[Rural]

@PennyRed: I've dyed my hair back to its natural colour temporarily. Partly because of street harassment.

Nothing about 'every time I leave the house.'

That's not the tweet I am trying to find

 

[Rural]

I call bullshit RT @PennyRed: @nomez_7 @swafieldst people yelling at me in the street every day, each time I walk between home and work.


This is the tweet sorry I can't embed it properly on this phone

 

[Rural]

I call bullshit RT @PennyRed: @nomez_7 @swafieldst people yelling at me in the street every day, each time I walk between home and work.


This is the tweet sorry I can't embed it properly on this phone

I didn't write the "I call bullshit" bit, that was someone else replying to lp

 

[el-ahrairah]

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/09/30/hollaback-boston-state-of-our-streets-survey/

 

[el-ahrairah]

i doubt she gets it every single time she leaves the house though. unless of course, everyone in boston already knows her by sight.

 

[Idris2002]

A bit of exaggeration in a tweet isn't exactly the Hitler diaries.

 

[killer b]

quite. followers of me on facebook might notice that yesterday I claimed to have broken my spine in the pit last time I saw the Subhumans. I didn't break my spine in the pit last time I saw the Subhumans.

 

[fogbat]

Clearly a slight exaggeration for emphasis. I bet it can feel like every fucking time .

 

[Rural]

A bit of exaggeration in a tweet isn't exactly the Hitler diaries.

I dont think it is comparable.

 

[Rural]

QuoTE="fogbat, post: 13489084, member: 20505"]Clearly a slight exaggeration for emphasis. I bet it can feel like every fucking time .[/QUOTE]
Dont think its that clear myself.

 

[weepiper]

Oh for fuck's sake. Attack her for the gaping holes in her politics, not because she posted a slightly mememe tweet about dyeing your hair an unnatural colour attracting unwanted attention seriously.

 

[FNG]

FFS Its hardly suprising she feels a bit unsafe being subjected to abuse living in a new city halfway round the world from friends and family . Castigating her for expressing those fears through the medium she presumably finds enabling is to my eyes wankerish.

 

[Rural]

Didn't see anyone having a go at her for feeling unsafe.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Anyway... How's this for a bit of quality sleb-on-sleb snarking?