Caitlin Moran #did not stay at home.

[FrannyGallops]

How to be a woman has been made into a movie with beanie feldstein

I think it’s actually her novel ‘How to build a Girl’ that’s been made into a film. Not sure how you got them mixed up because one is an autobiographical account of her growing up in a large family in a council house then becoming a teenage music journalist sensation and the other is fiction about a fictional girl who grew up in a large family in a council house who becomes a teenage music journalist sensation. Neither of which is to be confused with her sitcom about a teenager in a large family growing up in a council house.

 

[Jelly Bean]

Yes she wrote an article for The Times yesterday called 'Lockdown is easy!' but then someone tweeted something like '@The Times are you sure you want to run with this story after Caitlin Moran was loudly breaking lock down in my neighbour's garden all yesterday afternoon'.
Silence from her ever since, which is a novelty in itself .

 

[PopperPet]

Good start, but NEEDS MORE CAPSLOCK otherwise HOW will anyone KNOW when I’m being AMUSING AND WACKY! xxxx So:

- I’m WORKING CLASS
- I grew up in WOLVERHAMPTON (ps don’t ever mention Brighton, that might make us sound less than AUTHENTICALLY WORKING CLASS)
- we had NO MONEY growing up but were such naturally gifted kids, we just endlessly entertained ourselves every day [subtext: we were JUST LIKE THE BRONTES but with telly and a lot more refined sugar in our diets HAHA!!]
- Libraries are THE ONLY THING poor people really NEED to lead contented rich successful lives LIKE ME!
- Women who remove any hair from their bodies are BRAINWASHED TRAITORS TO FEMINISM (what do you mean, ‘what about Islam and fitra’? Does that affect WHITE RICH NORTH LONDON WOMEN like ME? BLOCKING YOU NOW.
- [blocking]
- [blocking]
- quick, tweet something about an ADORABLE DOGGO those thickoes will instantly forget the bit where I was A BIT SHIT
- really, though I live in a huge four-storey house in NORTH LONDON and have holidayed in LUXURY all around the world FOR YEARS subsidised by the Times, the only place I feel truly at home is in a caravan parked on the outskirts of Aberystwyth.

... etc

 

[FrannyGallops]

Just remembered she had the cheek to try and crowdfund a final episode of her sitcom after it was cancelled for the bargain price of £350,000...and failed miserably. So I’m guessing we’ll never know what happened to the main character in Raised by Wolves but I’m gonna take a stab in the dark and guess that she became a music journalist. Random, I know.

 

[FrannyGallops]

Pathetic isn't it?
Plus he didn't tweet about it at the time, but only when he saw her 'lockdown is easy!' article. So he was reporting her hypocrisy, not the action itself.
She is on a crazy wage at The Times isn't she? I could be very wrong but isn't it about half a million p.a? Again I could be *very wrong.

*Can't be arsed to check.

I always found it strange that someone who is so vehemently left wing and pro benefits (nothing wrong with that btw) writes for a paper like The Times. Funny how those socialist principles fly out the window when there’s money involved.

 

[HarderFaster]

I think of Caitlin Moran as my gateway drug to feminism, like BodyPump is to powerlifting. The minute you read any actual feminist theory you realise what a daft cow she actually is.

The entire north London media set drive me insane: as someone mentioned above, they've experienced unfathomable privilege for far longer than they lived in or adjacent to poverty. Nothing they have to say could relate to more than about 4% of the population.

 

[Kikini Bamalam]

I will never forget or forgive CM for her comments about a woman who walked down her street wearing high heels was basically asking for rape... Link here Also when she interviewed Lena Durham about Girls and someone questioned her on Girls lack of BAME women said "I literally couldn't give a shit about it" Link here
CM is always about feminism for people that are like and look like her. She is a proper arsehole!

 

[Satisfying Click]

Lest we forget the appalling choice of words, describing how a boy would react if a bra was flung at him: He will run, screaming, away from you – like that Vietnamese kid covered in napalm.

I'm ashamed I spent money on that book all those years ago.

 

[TriviaNewtonJohn]

As we're slowly heading towards page 50

Thread title
Caitlin Moran #2: how to build a nepo baby

 

[maytoseptember]

Justifying Botox in this way is veering dangerously choice to “choice feminism”, which is absolute bullshit. I don’t really care if women completely wax off their pubes, pump their lips with filler or freeze their lines with Botox, but don’t tell me it’s empowering just because you chose to do it. We don’t make decisions in a vacuum. Women are socialised to feel shame for having pubic hair, for having thin lips and for ageing.

 

[Spilttea]

Caitlin and her equally twatty media/creative pals are the epitome of peak posh white lady feminism. She has made a whole career out of being a former fat teen who had the tremendous hardship of being raised in the Midlands.

She has spent more years living the London media type lifestyle than the amount of time she spent in alleged poverty however will still peddle it to sell her column and books.

Went off her when she was was questioned by someone on twitter as to why she didn’t ask the equally odious Lena Dunham about the lack of diversity on her show Girls during an interview,
Moran’s answer was that she literally couldn’t give a shit or words to that effect.

Expect Pete bore off Paphides to step in and tweet something oh so clever and witty to defend his wife as soon as he discovers this thread.

 

[antinoos]

Ive had the misfortune to hang out with these broads: Caitlin and India and some cunt called Louisa who let you know shed read Modern Languages at Cambridge even as she cadged her first fag. Moran was at the time their whiff of the street (well Avenue) - an unfunny Primark edition of the divine Miss Julie B with her tongue up their arses as she danced her way up the greasy poll of polyfiller fortune.

 

[NomDeGuerre]

Just had the misfortune of seeing Caitlin interviewed on TV - she said that 'Fleabag finally disproved the myth that women aren't funny'

Another great leap backwards from the UK's Foremost Feminist, completely forgetting the seismic cultural contributions of the likes of Victoria Wood, French & Saunders, Jo Brand, Julie Walters, Caroline Aherne, Kathy Burke etc...

She's such a North London poseur.

 

[AdoraDelano]

Here's the tweet - she has yet to reply or tweet anything.

 

[Ennui]

Saw this tweet and straight away thought of this thread!

 

[bottlewrapper]

How To Be A Woman is completely made up anyway....she was only single for a tiny amount of time - a year or less - before she met her husband, got married and had her kids. From HTBAW you'd think it was years and years. She carefully leaves out the dates, because her life bears closer resemblance to a 1950s housewife than anything else, which doesn't quite fit her 'I'm a liberated feminist, me' schtick.

 

[FrannyGallops]

I saw this yesterday and lolled, I must admit. I can’t fucking stand her. Every anecdote/article/book/sitcom she’s ever spoken about or written revolves around her upbringing as one of a big family in a council house. She’s been recycling the same old shite for decades. Can’t stand any of that Twitterati set (which includes Lauren Laverne). Glad somethings finally shut her up.

 

[Whiskers]

Ok, hands up... which one of you works for Private Eye?

Part 2

 

[Curio]

She’s got a new book out in September. I hope in some of the interviews she does to promote it, at least one of the journos asks her about breaking lockdown

WE WON’T FORGET CAITLIN!

Is it about growing up in a bohemian style council house and then getting a job as a music journo at an improbably young age? I feel like this hasn’t been done yet.

 

[Aude]

It's cringingly embarrassing the way she talks about How To Be A Woman as though it was some kind of epoch-defining feminist text. It really wasn't!

It displays not just an extraordinary degree of arrogance and self-delusion, but also ignorance - particularly ignorance of what has gone before as regards feminism. There was a 'wages for housework' movement - for example - that was started 50 years ago.

Also ignorance of other women's experience. Did she really, 10 years ago, think that:

'...once you got past, say, 40, life for women becomes a glorious time of supreme elegance and relaxation. [...] I thought middle age was the easy bit. The good bit.'?

Presumably she hadn't ever encountered a middle-aged women until she became one herself. And presumably that's the core problem with CM - she doesn't value or even understand any experience other than her own. Perhaps she doesn't even understand that there is experience other than her own.