conflating prudish and homophobic Mary Whitehouse style censorship with a publisher bumping a book by a filthy old nonce is a very dodgy argument.
― calzino, Sunday, 8 March 2020 10:40 (four years ago) link
it's just Brendan O'Noes using a nom de plum innit?
― calzino, Sunday, 8 March 2020 10:52 (four years ago) link
Moore out.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 8 March 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
So good you had to say it twice.
This is also real. pic.twitter.com/8jq35GXzdm— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) March 8, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 March 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/08/the-coronavirus-outbreak-shows-us-that-no-one-can-take-on-this-enemy-alone
gaslighting u say
― plax (ico), Sunday, 8 March 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
People you were surprised and disappointed to find out were still alive
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 March 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
Anyway cheers for the dn Suzanne, sorry that other people's human rights drove you to psychedics
― The Psychedic Terfs (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 March 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
The Spectator has got your back tho, maybe get a gig with them, your values seem to align
― The Psychedic Terfs (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 March 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
psydechics with ernie reyes jr tbh
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 March 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
Dammit that wd've been better
No wait
― The Psychedic Terfs (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 March 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link
There we go
― Psychedics with Rosie Swash (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 March 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link
sorry, just off to write a graphic novel about Suzanne's psychedelic terf odyssey
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 8 March 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
nice
― calzino, Sunday, 8 March 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link
not just the Spectator that has her back, Irvine Welsh was one of her other apologists last night
― calzino, Sunday, 8 March 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
She’ll probably end up there. Saw Alex “Petain was underappreciated” Mass13 sneering out his support for her.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Sunday, 8 March 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
This is not as serious as the shit that usually clogs up this thread, but still!
What, I wondered, was I doing all this for? Was it worth it simply to spend the evening with a couple we didn’t really like, drink insipid wine and make shallow small-talk about other people we don’t really know or want to spend time with?
It started with something of an online “cull”. The “friend” who always tried to make her life look like something out of a Boden catalogue with never-ending perfect images of her children along with the nauseating hashtag #blessed.
i stopped making the effort with the people who leave it to me to initiate every meet-up and nurture friendships that, in the words of Marie Kondo, no longer spark joy. Those who I had to bite my tongue with, who looked at their phone constantly while I was talking to them. Those who cancelled meet-ups one too many times or who I saw out of a sense of obligation and duty rather than want. The friend who said “Have you really?” in an incredulous way after I told her I’d lost weight.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Monday, 9 March 2020 14:26 (four years ago) link
There appears to be an almost limitless demand for pieces like that, makes me nostalgic for the glory days of Tanya Gold being disinvited from her friend's wedding in the Guardian comments box.
― Matt DC, Monday, 9 March 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link
The real glory days of Max on holiday
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Monday, 9 March 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link
which ilxors no longer spark joy
― mark s, Monday, 9 March 2020 14:59 (four years ago) link
All goth ILXors iirc.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
The friend cull article is insane.
If you actually don't value people, don't make an effort to see them. If you do, then maybe do.
That's about it.
― the pinefox, Monday, 9 March 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
pinefox write for the guardian
― mark s, Monday, 9 March 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
He can't. Suzanne Moore is still writing for them.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 07:59 (four years ago) link
Is that confirmed? I thought her incoherent posts meant they had parted ways.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 08:11 (four years ago) link
yeah I thought she had quit and then spotted her 'not sorry' piece. they really are out to bait.
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 08:13 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/10/i-wish-everyone-strength-however-they-identify-suzanne-moore?CMP=share_btn_tw
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 08:14 (four years ago) link
yep, it still says Suzanne Moore is a Guardian columnist under today's piece.
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 08:15 (four years ago) link
UGHRead the first sentences and fuck’s sake. Why can these fuckers never stop reducing women to their body parts?! I was raised to think that kind of thing was reductive and at best misogynistic. Like, being female is more than your ability to bleed and breed ffs.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 08:16 (four years ago) link
Like she has literally never got past the self-mythologising and the symbolism and I bet she’s 100% one of those people who used to scoff at people painting with period blood, but now sees that with a fresh respect. I’m sorry, I hate it.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 08:18 (four years ago) link
i would love to live in a world made only of discourse.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 08:23 (four years ago) link
Yeah that is a joke. Promise me to haul me off if I ever start spouting nonsense like this, as I'll probably have lost my mind.
Apart from the very true points you already mae Gyac, what also annoys me about her pieces is that they're lathered with this sense of 'last woman standing' faux courage. She's posturing as some self proclaimed Jeanne d'Arc ffs.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 08:54 (four years ago) link
A Tanya Gold comment piece on the same day, truly our cup runneth over.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 08:58 (four years ago) link
Are you talking about the Woody Allen piece, because “he wasn’t convicted” is an argument you’d expect to see on Reddit and not being made in earnest by people being paid for their opinions.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 09:05 (four years ago) link
No, something about the Royals that’s probably completely inoffensive other than that it points to the Guardian commissioning Tanya Gold again.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 09:10 (four years ago) link
Is Tanya Gold worse than she used to be?
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 09:13 (four years ago) link
What the fuck is with sour terfs and their rush to defend Woody Allen? I thought the whole reason they were terfs was because they were always trying to justify their bigotry by saying they were worried about men raping women and children?https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESvkYt-XQAEZ7uw?format=png&name=large
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 14:04 (four years ago) link
I think a lot of it is linked with controversies regarding the no-platforming of certain views.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 14:10 (four years ago) link
“Should small children in poverty be fed?” asks the Guardian. https://t.co/yg3NpmXWmM— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) March 10, 2020
asking the big questions here so the Taxpayers Alliance don't have to.
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
People are dying you self-centred fool
Just want all colleagues I know personally who signed a letter without naming me but linking me to trans people leaving The Guardian (I never go there ) None of you have the guts to talk to me or defend free expression. You are entitled to disagree with me as I am to name you.— suzanne moore (@suzanne_moore) March 18, 2020
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 13:03 (four years ago) link
finger on the pulse as always
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link
Apparently she’s saved ‘abusive’ DMs from a colleague she’s allowing her followers to think is OJ.
A good friend of mine is friends with her on FB and he says all her social media acolytes respond to self-pitying status updates with the most sick-making level of arse-kissing he’s ever seen.
― santa clause four (suzy), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
Gosh, can’t believe terfs are ok with the bit of casual homophobia. Totally out of character.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 13:57 (four years ago) link
As far as I can see, that tweet is illiterate.
This person is a long-standing professional writer.
(Leaving aside, as Gyac says, the utter irrelevance of the complaint at this time of seemingly unprecedented global disaster. Astounding.)
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
Blame the psychedics
― ---------------six feet----------------- (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 14:14 (four years ago) link
Psychedelics are supposed to obliterate the ego
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
Some people need bigger doses than others I guess
― ---------------six feet----------------- (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
Some people are bigger doses...
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
Bingo
― ---------------six feet----------------- (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
New development! I am reliably informed that SM has a little list... and uploaded it so all her FB friends could see it and kiss her arse harder,
― santa clause four (suzy), Thursday, 19 March 2020 12:18 (four years ago) link