She comes across incredibly sexist, ageist etc.I just find this so strange. I have a shaved head and tattoos- in the words of our Jackie, a masculine aesthetic, but am straight... How do you explain this one Jack?! But I wander through life pretty unbothered by comments on my appearance. How DOES she manage to cross with every individual in the country who has an issue with tattoos, short hair and traazers on a bird???
I'm a tattooed lesbian with a partially shaved head and while yeah I've had some comments (mostly from people my own age), I work with loads of old people and none of them have ever so much as given me a disapproving look, one complimented my hair the other day ffs. They aren't all racist, sexist arseholes and most of them aren't easily shocked at all.
She's the one obsessed with pigeonholing people and the way she writes these encounters reads like someone looked at her funny and she came up with a retort in the shower a week later. Men can be feminine, women can be masculine, she isn't comfortable with herself is she? She wants to be shocking and edgy and she just...isn't.
ETA: And she can duck off into outer space with her reference to addicts. She's clearly never been in that position even if she likes to imply she has, it's an exhausting, demoralising, generally embarrassing experience but it doesn't define a person nor speak to their character. Just showing her real views on the subject, just like she's shown her contempt for the working class and the elderly. She's one of those people who wouldn't say a thing to your face if you had a run in with her, then a few days later you find a blog post about yourself where she delivered a scathing put-down, kicked you in the shins, and everyone clapped.
Ok I'll stop now, it's been a long day
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