this whole poverty thing reminds me so much of Jack Munroe, it is just like they use it as it makes them "different" from most other famous people
this whole poverty thing reminds me so much of Jack Munroe, it is just like they use it as it makes them "different" from most other famous peopleI’ve always found her to be this way. I used to find it really confusing because her message is all about female empowerment and yet she was desperately always seeking male approval and wanted so badly to be ‘one of the lads’.
Her whole “I’ve been poor, me” Schtick is tired too, she lives in a million pound house & has done for years, her kids went to the whitest school she could find in London, Piano lessons, married in a castle and so on, it’s all been very basic bitch and very middle class for a very long time. She walked into her dream job as a young adult, had a published book as a child, was a TV host. The poverty angle is just a money spinner for her and her articles.
Yes. And I don't think any of them actually *had*working class roots to trade on which makes it more irritating - LL's dad was a sociology lecturer in Newcastle University, it's hardly down pit!My post got deleted for too many initials!
I think what struck me was Caitlin, Sali and Lauren all had these early fame/work experiences. Yes many of us lived in squalor as teens, but we didn’t have to go on television.
I think by extension the three of them trade too much on their “working class” roots when as rightly pointed out none of them have been short of a few bob for decades now. It’s like they had to hold on to that USP.
It did make me a bit sad I think because back then it was held up as some kind of amazing feminist takeover by a teenage girl except really it was Middle Aged men making cash off the back of a young girl. Even down to the loser boyfriend.
They’re always dining out on their working class roots when all of them have been successful and rich since they were really quite young. None of them have struggled financially as adults and certainly not as parents. They have no concept of struggling to feed their family, fear of bills or housing struggles. They have no idea what it’s like to be poor by any grown up standards. As you say, its just a USP.My post got deleted for too many initials!
I think what struck me was Caitlin, Sali and Lauren all had these early fame/work experiences. Yes many of us lived in squalor as teens, but we didn’t have to go on television.
I think by extension the three of them trade too much on their “working class” roots when as rightly pointed out none of them have been short of a few bob for decades now. It’s like they had to hold on to that USP.
It did make me a bit sad I think because back then it was held up as some kind of amazing feminist takeover by a teenage girl except really it was Middle Aged men making cash off the back of a young girl. Even down to the loser boyfriend.
sorry if I was working on a train and found some random passenger cleaning the loos I would find it really suspicious tbhAnyone read her Times column today? It seems designed to show just how *lovely* she is - she takes secateurs on her walks to trim the hedges for any poor pram-pushing mums who may follow in her wake, she cleans the loos on trains.... a veritable Mother Theresa!
But to those (many) of us who’ve noticed how absolutely vile she and her coven of nasty gal pals are online, this really, REALLY doesn’t wash.
the tone of her columns is always weirdly shouty and kind of frenetic, I used to read them but now I just find it draining to read tbhI actually had to stop reading today’s column because describing herself coming back to her colleagues on the train, boasting about how well she’d just tidied up a train toilet, really made me bizarrely angry and irritated.
I’m not even sure why? I just thought “oh what a total TWAT!” and that was that.
To be fair it’s how I respond to at least half of Caitlin’s journalistic output these days.
Or moron in her case!It should be More-in but British people say More-Ann
wtaf.. I haven't heard the word spinster in .. god knows how long, so feminist, as usual. So it is either spinster and cats or married? neither of which she "is" which makes it all the more insulting she says this (I use "is" in quote marks as there is no such thing as a spinster imo so it is not a real word)"Spinster"
Exactly, womens personalities are reduced to their marital status. How progressive, Caitlin Moron!Yes both types of women, the ones with the kids, and the ones untouched by males and who hoard cats. Fucks sakes.
Much better than just judging women by their bodies....oh wait
It is a real word though, on my marriage certificate I am described as a "spinster". The man is a "bachelor". It just means an unmarried woman but society has wrongly attributed many negative images onto it, like the word immigrant or migrant.wtaf.. I haven't heard the word spinster in .. god knows how long, so feminist, as usual. So it is either spinster and cats or married? neither of which she "is" which makes it all the more insulting she says this (I use "is" in quote marks as there is no such thing as a spinster imo so it is not a real word)
yes. It was used on wedding certificates up until 2005 from what I just read.It is a real word though, on my marriage certificate I am described as a "spinster". The man is a "bachelor". It just means an unmarried woman but society has attributed many negative images onto it, like the word immigrant or migrant.
Interesting! I got married in 2011, not in the UK, and my marriage certificate says I was ye olde spinster. So, I guess it's still in use elsewhere, I agree its archaic and outdated now.yes. It was used on wedding certificates up until 2005 from what I just read.
Caitlin actually misprinounces her own name.I avoid using the word moron as it was originally used medically and in relation to eugenics. Also her name only sounds similar if you mispronounce it in English.
Interestingly the Greek root Moros means “dull” which is very fitting
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