xp I also read Blind Date purely so I can then read the Guyliner writeup.I have a content blocker on Safari for ads etc and it works very well on those Guardian begging messages.
― scampus fugit (gyac), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 09:38 (three years ago) link
lol i enjoy the begging messages! i'm like keep begging terfs lol
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 09:45 (three years ago) link
Blind Date is good, largely due to the Guyliner (xp gyac OTM!)
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 09:50 (three years ago) link
Crosswords, Letters and Country Diary here.
― mahb, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 10:54 (three years ago) link
I stopped buying the graun about a decade ago, but if I had a portable device with a kakuro app on it back then I'd have fucked them off much sooner.
― calzino, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 10:58 (three years ago) link
xp - I often just go straight to the Guyliner.
― hamicle, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 11:18 (three years ago) link
I was going to complain about "Harry Styles wore a dress on the cover of Vogue – and US rightwingers lost it" inanity, but then they've slightly redeemed themselves by covering a very valuable topic (to me as a downstairs resident)"Quiet please! How to exercise in an upstairs flat – without annoying your neighbours"
― Luna Schlosser, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link
ilx faves weigh in:
The demonisation of @suzanne_moore by 300 fellow @guardian journalists causing her to leave her job is disturbing. Identity politics is the curse of the modern left. Gifting the right with each 'woke' witch hunt. Difference of opinion is crucial for adult 'political' discourse.— Primal Scream (@ScreamOfficial) November 17, 2020
― Animal Bitrate (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
can't believe Bobby's politics are stuck in an imaginary 1980s
― big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
just needed "snowflakes" for a bingo
― big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
also i'm pretty sure the 300+ employees who complained about Moore's work making them feel harassed and unwelcome weren't mostly journalists but y'know, drugs
― big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
Methinks Bobby and his band have a few skeletons waiting to come out of their collective cupboard.
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
Boab's a bit like trevor phillips in a way - a right-wing reactionary blue labour bigot who thinks because they went through a radical lefty spell in the 80's it excuses all sorts of reactionary tory bullshit attitudes they have. And he's probably getting the same fear Nick Cave was getting a few months back, because he probably knows he's done enough to get me-tooed or even put on the sex-offenders register!
― calzino, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
https://guardian.gyford.com/ is handy if you just want to read today’s paper. The opinion section is in there but it’s all siloed off in one section.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
siloed is le mot juste
― big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 16:04 (three years ago) link
xp excellent link thank u
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
far less hideous to look at as well
*Such* an great piece. Superb in so many ways. Not the main point, perhaps, but I don't think anyone can drop an immaculately crafted gag (and there are several) into otherwise serious journalism quite like @helenlewis https://t.co/d9K2ty12zg— Tom Peck (@tompeck) November 16, 2020
HL retweets high praise of her article about why women should be allowed more access to aristocratic titles.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:42 (three years ago) link
It has taken me a while to come to understand what a terrible person HL really is.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:43 (three years ago) link
oh god that article which i didn't read tbf despite HL saying she thoroughly addresses any concerns you might have within it, but the whole premise of that article at least, is one of the biggest pisstakes I've ever seen!
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 14:17 (three years ago) link
I thought it was a very interesting article, describing a curious and bizarre world that I’ve not previously had sight of. I somehow missed the well-crafted gags though.
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
alright Helen, I knew you were lurking here somewhere!
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
You’ll notice HLew didn’t miss a chance to crowbar her pet subject in there.
― scampus fugit (gyac), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
always good to mix a bit terfery with class-baiting I presume?
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
anyways I can't understand anyone who wouldn't want HL fired from a trebuchet into oblivion, everything about her is rank. Although at least she has fucked off to the US for now, just need to get that passport revoked and they can fucking keep her!
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
"I can't understand anyone who wouldn't want HL fired from a trebuchet into oblivion"
That makes me laugh out loud! :D
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
There isn't any TERFery that I could see, she just mentions that the GRA has a clause in that says inheriting a title is the an area with a specific exception - you can't change your position in line by changing your gender.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
Look Andrew, as much as I love you doing your usual thing to jump into a thread to defend a woman no matter what a bad person she is, you’re still wrong here: she actually can’t resist going wELl YoU cAnT iNhErIt PrOpErTy BuT yOu CaN bE nOnBiNaRy because of course she does.
― scampus fugit (gyac), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
idg what is so singularly alluring abt helen lewis 2 u?
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
lol. also, helen lewis is just fucking awful.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
If lockdown has tipped you into problem drinking, you're probably not aloneit's definitely statistically unlikely that only one person reading this has started problem drinking, and that person is you.
― the 120 days of sod it (ledge), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
I'm not aware I'm defending her, I'm just pointing out that there's nothing TERFy there - but there doesn't have to be, if we just meditate on her badness long enough.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link
You did it again! Should start keeping a log.
― scampus fugit (gyac), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
Can you explain to me, then, why she manages to shoehorn in a bizarre, unnecessary, out of context reference to nonbinary people, in the midst of an article that otherwise has absolutely nothing to do with nonbinary people at all? Can you provide any context or meaning for that bizarre insertion, other than to make the recognition of nonbinary gender look strange, unnecessary or otherwise opposed to the putative rights of the cis women in the piece?
I mean, I cannot believe I had to read this PoS article to affirm that yes, it is weirdly obsessed with the existence of nonbinary people.
I agree, there is nothing *radical* about this article at all, in fact I’m struggling to see her portray it as even remotely feminist. But trans exclusionary? Yes, she definite drops a reference to nonbinary people in there for no other reason than to ride her hobbyhorse about how our rights and existence are... a weird joke to her?
― Branwell with an N, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
The context seemed to me to be that the article talks about gender and 'modern times' - the passage starts It reveals a country trapped between tradition and modernity, between the Middle Ages and the 21st century.
If you're talking about signifiers of modern attitudes to gender, trans rights and non-binary rights seem like a fairly obvious hook?
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link
with the context that helen lewis is thoroughly opposed to trans rights and one of the most prominent british transphobes, that section happens to come across a little differently! without that context i'd think wondering 'how many lords are nonbinary' etc. would just be a strange aside and i wouldn't think that much of it but considering she's an obsessive transphobe who no doubt considers the concept of nonbinary genders ridiculous, everyone else's reaction of "ffs helen you can't even write a stupid article about how the aristocracy needs to be less sexist in its rules without mentioning your pet issue" is very reasonable
― ufo, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
A recently unearthed Suzanne Moore classic:
https://twitter.com/myblacklife23/status/1329228698113990657?s=19
Goodbye England's rose or whatever I guess
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 19 November 2020 09:47 (three years ago) link
My friend just reminded me of this absolute stinker from S**anne M**re pic.twitter.com/DuJbf2kbSI— Madame Guillotine (@myblacklife23) November 19, 2020
Goes nicely with this column.
― Animal Bitrate (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 19 November 2020 10:21 (three years ago) link
Get on a bus and you will hear many a robust exchange about "ethnicity" which polite and political conversation is afraid of.
I got the bus to go to work every day before the pandemic but somehow never heard this chat.
― Animal Bitrate (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 19 November 2020 10:23 (three years ago) link
fbclid=IwAR2KgE5E6T8wKjB4uI0bbLEF6l5ONOGd4QA1rfX_JAhiXu1Q_ZGdtSDb_bo
― @oneposter (💹) (sic), Thursday, 19 November 2020 10:24 (three years ago) link
https://nostalgiacentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/otb1971film.jpg
some robust political debate happening beside a bus recently
― calzino, Thursday, 19 November 2020 10:28 (three years ago) link
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/08/14/23/Lewis-PA.jpg?width=982&height=726
― soref, Thursday, 19 November 2020 10:33 (three years ago) link
Labour on the meth
― nashwan, Thursday, 19 November 2020 10:43 (three years ago) link
Great photo! There’s probably a phd available on the semiology of buses in political campaigning.
― Luna Schlosser, Thursday, 19 November 2020 10:50 (three years ago) link
Think Keith could pick up a bargain here, bolster his hard lad credentials and see off a few tankies with this
https://tanks-alot.co.uk/product/margret-thatchers-armoured-bus/
― Piedie Gimbel, Thursday, 19 November 2020 11:15 (three years ago) link
good for driving roughshod over election pledges with as well!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 November 2020 11:42 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/20/jan-morris-historian-travel-writer-and-trans-pioneer-dies-aged-94
another guardian obituary with a nasty take on the 1970s. this time dredging up classic period terf rhetoric.
― plax (ico), Friday, 20 November 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link
theguardian.com what is yr problem
material interests 🤝 fixed progressive values
― scampus fugit (gyac), Friday, 20 November 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
should probably have posted trigger warning but i feel like that could apply to literally anything in the guardian uk media now
― plax (ico), Friday, 20 November 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link