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    Last edited by Your Usual Table; 02-11-2021, 17:31.

    #2
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    I've not, but I think I've read most of it already. (It's a compilation of recent articles, isn't it?)

    She's really good, incredibly prolific and - the occasional pessimistic "all/no Xs think Y is fine/bad" generalisation aside - pretty difficult for anyone to disagree with, I would have thought. Of the people writing in the op-ed genre, she's one of the few who's resisted the temptation to write lazily provocative talking points. She's done it properly instead, which involves three times the work and ten times the backlash. It's quite a public service.

    I-rahn-ically, she's one of the smartest champions of digital freedoms out there, which you'd think the dickhead trolls would be grateful for. But there's the troll paradox: they wouldn't be them if they were capable of such insight. I must admit, it's not often a psychological trait completely baffles me (much as many might repel me) but that one does. The twerps who constantly hound her on the Twitters and now with obviously fake one-star, one-line reviews on Amazon - what the fuck? We can see you! They're the fanfare for their own exit out the back door of history.

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      #3
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      The thing is, what she argues in her articles isn't particularly radical or - I'd expect - potentially forbidding to the twittermen. She's often quite positive about pornography, for example, which I'd guess they have a certain enthusiasm for. Andrea Dworkin she ain't.

      But they won't even have read them. This is where Twitter comes into its own as one of the worst communication platforms ever to take off - every tweet is read out of context, often by people who aren't even interested in the subject, and anyone can wade in with unmoderated abuse the recipient can neither delete nor block. Why did the woman who campaigned to get Jane Austen on the £10 note get bombarded with death and rape threats accompanied by her home address and contact details that time? We'll never know, but I bet it's got nothing to do with Jane Austen.

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        #4
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        I think they're a bunch of fucking crybabies who start wailing every time they hear a woman's voice, and feel like they're missing out on being psychically suckled.

        That misogynist murder guy: I think it was both, wasn't it, depending how far back you stand? He was - as far as I could tell - a one-off man-mental who'd probably also been emboldened by a handful of twatty messageboard mates. There would have been cultural forces afoot for sure, but the actions themselves seemed so indiscriminate that any sensible explanation is going to come up short. It's a bit like teasing out "islamic" terrorism from the "culture" of a quarter of the world's population. Worth looking at, but difficult to say anything conclusive about.

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          #5
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          Echoes of is Anders Breivik a nutcase or a terrorist, there.

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            #6
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            Yeah, same deal really. One could throw Charles Manson and other nazi-sympathising serial killers in there too, probably, just to make everything even less understandable.

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