Urban v's the Commentariat

[crossthebreeze]

"Individualism", "personal brand" "gender fluid" etc is all bullshit but if some shops (ie the ones i can afford to shop in, not selfridges) start making "menswear"-type clothes to fit (pear-shaped, big-breasted) women, or at least stock more stuff for women who don't like wearing dresses or particularly feminine clothes, and if shop assistants are going to stop getting flustered because I've taken clothes from the menswear department into the women's changing room then that'll be an upside to this nonsense. Menswear is often better made, warmer, and more practical than womenswear, and can look good too.

 

[J Ed]

Look who it is two minutes in

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Look who it is two minutes in

You must watch some very obscure videos to have come across that.

 

[J Ed]

You must watch some very obscure videos to have come across that.

I saw it posted on FB, it was a very strange watch I agree which is why I posted it. I suppose that Mason was a student at the nearby Sheffield Uni at the time

 

[J Ed]

Stay safe comrades

The Feminist Guide to Being a Foodie Without Being Culturally Appropriative

edit: I actually think some of the points in the article, like about food gentrification, make good sense but the general tone of it is grating imo

 

[DaveCinzano]

Stay safe comrades

The Feminist Guide to Being a Foodie Without Being Culturally Appropriative

edit: I actually think some of the points in the article, like about food gentrification, make good sense but the general tone of it is grating imo

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[J Ed]

I like this one though

 

[gawkrodger]

Surprised this Laurie tweet hasn't been posted. Y'all slipping

 

[cantsin]

Surprised this Laurie tweet hasn't been posted. Y'all slipping

plse tell us you invented that one ?

 

[LDC]

Surprised this Laurie tweet hasn't been posted. Y'all slipping

OMFG, that's brilliant on a number of levels.

 

[Bakunin]

 

[andysays]

OMFG, that's brilliant on a number of levels.

The responses are worth reading as well

 

[Bakunin]

The responses are worth reading as well

You may have to post them here as we're mostly blocked.

 

[andysays]

You may have to post them here as we're mostly blocked.

I'm not sure how to do that, but I'll have a go.

In the meantime, can't you simply log off your twitter account and read them that way?

(I don't have a twitter account, and when I click on the link in gawkrodger's post, her tweet appears with all the responses under it. I possibly don't fully understand how it all works though...)

 

[andysays]

Here's a selection

Fair do's. She's hidden that "clever" core identity well, since reaching adulthood.

Clearly a MENSA plant in deep cover.

In a crowded field, definitely a contender for weirdest tweet of the year.

I hope one day you gain enough self awareness to realise how awful your tweets make you sound.This one's a real peach

CAN'T. EVEN. BREATHE. This is the funniest thing you've posted in ages!

You clearly have no concept of just how fatuous and self-absorbed you appear to those outside your echo chamber.

You clearly have no concept of just how fatuous and self-absorbed you appear to those outside your echo chamber. #ItsAllAboutMe

And perhaps my favourite

...and then you signed up for Twitter, and it all went horribly wrong.

 

[Bakunin]

Here's a selection







And perhaps my favourite

 

[The Pale King]

It nicely implies that she 'instantly grasps' everything else as well

 

[equationgirl]

Is intellectual ableism even a thing?

 

[andysays]

Is intellectual ableism even a thing?

If the self-declared "smartest girl from a smart school" says it's a thing, then it's a thing...

 

[cesare]

Surprised this Laurie tweet hasn't been posted. Y'all slipping

She *has* to be taking the piss

 

[8den]

Is intellectual ableism even a thing?

I don't know but reading her tweets makes my "intellectual ablism" worse...

 

[8den]

She *has* to be taking the piss

It'd be amazing if she rips off her mask and we discover she is in fact Alexei Sayles.

 

[DaveCinzano]

It'd be amazing if she rips off her mask and we discover she is in fact Alexei Sayles.

MIND.BLOWN.

 

[friendofdorothy]

I hate the word queer, what about all the people 'triggered' by the fact that when they were at school it was used as a term of homophobic abuse?

Not sure I like the use of the term queer in any context, tbh (well maybe the original meaning of the word as something odd and quirky). I know it's supposed to be a reclamation of a term of abuse with the intention of turning it into something positive, but it still just seems like sweary offensiveness to me. Maybe I'm just becoming an old fuddy duddy.

Isn't this a very old debate? I thought we reclaimed 'queer' long ago. Or is it just 'genderqueer' that worries people.

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That all very old debate too, new langauge same old issues. Recall having those very discussions 30 years ago.
Hot right now? again...

 

[CNT36]

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[CNT36]

Who are "we"?

Edited because clusterfuck.

 

[friendofdorothy]

She claims this generation is braver and less naive than any other? Tell that to those who went into any number of wars when they were teenagers.

There seems to be a generation name for anyone born after the war 'Baby boomers' onwards.
But anyone born before is just 'old'. if you are 65-110 its all the same.

 

[fishfinger]

There seems to be a generation name for anyone born after the war 'Baby boomers' onwards.
But anyone born before is just 'old'. if you are 65-110 its all the same.

There are generational names for those born before baby boomers:

Generation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[friendofdorothy]

Who are "we"?

We as in me and people I know. I am a queer, lezza, dyke, gay, friend of Dorothy. I quite like the term, as it is inclusive rather than exclusive. I'm not that keen on non queer people using the term or on Queer as a term of abuse obviously.

Though I'm old enough to remember it being an acrimonious debate in the London L&G Centre (when it was only L&G and T and B was still debated too) and one man took to standing outside with a placard 'I AM NOT QUEER' as he was from the generation of men who fought to be called 'gay' but he was alone voice. I thought it was an old debate. Is it still debated?

 

[friendofdorothy]

• The Lost Generation, also known as the Generation of 1914 in Europe,[22] is a term originating with Gertrude Stein to describe those who fought in World War I. The members of the lost generation were typically born between 1883 and 1900.
• The Greatest Generation, also known as the G.I. Generation, is the generation that includes the veterans who fought in World War II. They were born from around 1900 through 1924, coming of age during the Great Depression. Journalist Tom Brokaw dubbed this the Greatest Generation in a book of the same name.[23]
• The Silent Generation, also known as the Lucky Few, were born from approximately 1925 until 1942.[24] It includes some who fought in World War II, most of those who fought the Korean War and many during the Vietnam War.

I've heard of the first one in literary terms but I thought it applied to the ones who died not the ones still alive now.

I don't hear people using these terms about themselves or their contemporaries, and I see a lot of people who are over 75. Don't hear these terms used in our media. 'Bed-blocker' 'pensioners' perhaps 'silver surfers'. Usually just 'elderly' or 'old'.