Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

it's almost as if the Graun is deliberately trolling us for clicks

"gaslighting", if you will

in today's priggish, censorious culture would a classic of the canon like If I Did It make it to print?

conflating prudish and homophobic Mary Whitehouse style censorship with a publisher bumping a book by a filthy old nonce is a very dodgy argument.

it's just Brendan O'Noes using a nom de plum innit?

Moore out.

Moore out.

So good you had to say it twice.

This is also real. pic.twitter.com/8jq35GXzdm

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) March 8, 2020

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

People you were surprised and disappointed to find out were still alive

Anyway cheers for the dn Suzanne, sorry that other people's human rights drove you to psychedics

The Spectator has got your back tho, maybe get a gig with them, your values seem to align

psydechics with ernie reyes jr tbh

Dammit that wd've been better

No wait

There we go

sorry, just off to write a graphic novel about Suzanne's psychedelic terf odyssey

nice

not just the Spectator that has her back, Irvine Welsh was one of her other apologists last night

She’ll probably end up there. Saw Alex “Petain was underappreciated” Mass13 sneering out his support for her.

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.

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.

The real glory days of Max on holiday

which ilxors no longer spark joy

All goth ILXors iirc.

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.

pinefox write for the guardian

He can't. Suzanne Moore is still writing for them.

Is that confirmed? I thought her incoherent posts meant they had parted ways.

yeah I thought she had quit and then spotted her 'not sorry' piece. they really are out to bait.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/10/i-wish-everyone-strength-however-they-identify-suzanne-moore?CMP=share_btn_tw

yep, it still says Suzanne Moore is a Guardian columnist under today's piece.

UGH

Read 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.

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.

i would love to live in a world made only of discourse.

i would love to live in a world made only of discourse.

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.

A Tanya Gold comment piece on the same day, truly our cup runneth over.

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.

No, something about the Royals that’s probably completely inoffensive other than that it points to the Guardian commissioning Tanya Gold again.

Is Tanya Gold worse than she used to be?

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

I think a lot of it is linked with controversies regarding the no-platforming of certain views.

“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.

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

finger on the pulse as always

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.

Gosh, can’t believe terfs are ok with the bit of casual homophobia. Totally out of character.

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.)

Blame the psychedics

Psychedelics are supposed to obliterate the ego

Some people need bigger doses than others I guess