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ayeforscotland · 10 months

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There’s a woman called Caitlin Moran who has written a book called “What about men?” and it is filled with the most presumptuous, outdated shit about men’s mental health and masculinity.

It is absolutely full to the brim with sweeping generalisations about why men never open up and I honestly believe it’s these upper middle class wankers that get given all the platforms they could possibly desire to spout this shit that prevents a proper discussion to be had.

#ayeforscotland #masculinity #Caitlin Moran

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thoughtkick · 10 months

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The world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

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quotemadness · 1 year

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The world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

Caitlin Moran

#Caitlin Moran #quotes #quote #lit #literature

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stay-close · 7 months

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The world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

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surqrised · 7 months

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The world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

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perfectquote · 1 year

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The world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

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auntieblues · 5 months

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“A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen instead” ― Caitlin Moran

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#caitlin moran #books & libraries #citizen #reading #auntieblues

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resqectable · 1 year

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The world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

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movietonight · 2 months

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My favourite bits from "why are you asking me this" by The Fence

#The fence #Why are you asking me this #Hugh Laurie #Annie Mac #werner herzog #Buckingham Palace #Ian Rankin #Richard Osman #Caitlin Moran #Marina Hyde #Jolyon Maugham #Michael Palin #T S Eliot #macks musings

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quotefeeling · 2 years

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The world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

Caitlin Moran

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siryouarebeingmocked · 6 months

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It’s just saying to men as a kind and loving mother with some wisdom that if there’s a woman who is mentally ill, disturbed or needy or unhappy or really drunk at a party, leave her alone. The last thing she needs is a penis. If she’s an upset, needy person and you [expletive] her and then the rumor starts going around school, she might need to, for the defense of her reputation, say, “He raped me.” You’ve put yourself in a dangerous situation because you’ve done a foolish thing.

“Modern Masculinity Is Broken. She Knows How to Fix It.” - Caitlin Moran interview, the NY Times (archive)

"She HAD to accuse you of rape! You were asking for it by having completely consensual sex with her!"

Honk.

>Caitlin Moran

And we come to the center of the Shrubbery Maze. She certainly lives up to her surname.

Where’s that copypasta about the stages of denial? Because I think we’re at “it’s happening, but it’s a good thing”.

Also, the feminist whose son was accused (Judith Grossman) wrote that WSJ article in 2013, long before MeToo. She openly admitted that her old standards were wrong, and she wasn’t actually aware of what happened to accused dudes in college.

And she literally says “unbridled feminist orthodoxy” was the problem.

KIA thread. Also, I tried looking for other Reddit threads, and I found even MensLib, which is pro-feminist, took issue with her new book.

#false rape #ny times #misandry #caitlin moran #crazy #lolgic #rape #rape culture #feminism

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nightlyquotes · 10 months

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The world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

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thoughtkick · 2 years

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The world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

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quotemadness · 2 years

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The world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

Caitlin Moran

#Caitlin Moran #quotes #quote #lit #literature

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denimbex1986 · 4 months

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'As we get ever closer to the brand new Christmas episode of Doctor Who, more snippets of information and interesting anecdotes about the show continue to come out – and, quite frankly, it's something Whovians will never tire of.

Is there any better feeling than discovering a lesser-known fact about one of your favourite series? We think not, and with the help of Imagine... Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me, fans have found out even more about the sci-fi than they could have... well, imagined.

One of the most intriguing parts of the one-off special was the admission that David Tennant originally only wanted a minor role in Doctor Who, perhaps as some kind of monster that would only appear for a day.

That's right, the fan favourite Doctor could've been little more than a temporary villain, but showrunner Russell T Davies had faith in the actor – so much so that he didn't even ask Tennant to audition for the role.

Speaking about the casting process for Tennant, Davies said in the Imagine episode that he was "already working with him on Casanova, and he turned out to be a Doctor Who fan".

Tennant continued: "I finally was on set and met Russell – one of the first things I said to him was, 'If there’s any little walk-ons in Doctor Who, I’d be very happy to come and wave a tentacle in a suit for a day.'"

But Davies clearly couldn't see the tentacle vision for Tennant, saying: "In my mind, he kind of melded over and became the Doctor quite naturally. There was no audition for him, it was a simple offer."

Of course, fans most recently got to see Tennant return to Doctor Who as the Fourteenth Doctor, being part of a surprise bigeneration with the Fifteenth Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa.

The new Imagine episode goes behind the scenes of Doctor Who as fans gear up for not just a much-anticipated goblin-filled Christmas special, but also a brand new series with Gatwa and Millie Gibson at the helm.

According to the synopsis for the episode: "Imagine… follows one of Britain’s most celebrated TV writers as he prepares to once again return as the showrunner of Doctor Who.

"Back in 2005, Davies was responsible for relaunching the action-adventure series after many years away from our TV screens. Few could have imagined the phenomenon it became. And now, in the programme’s 60th anniversary year, he’s back – with two Doctors and bigger ambitions.

"Imagine… goes behind the scenes at Cardiff’s Bad Wolf Studios to see the adventures of the time travelling hero being filmed, touring the enormous sound stages and meeting Ncuti Gatwa, the 15th Doctor, ahead of his eagerly anticipated tenure as the Time Lord following the unexpected regeneration of David Tennant."

It continues: "Doctor Who is just one of Russell T Davies’s many TV successes, and Alan Yentob traces the evolution of his writing, from his beginnings in BBC children’s TV to finding his voice as a queer writer on Channel 4’s landmark gay series Queer as Folk and to more recent successes, including 2021’s critically acclaimed AIDS drama, It’s a Sin.

"The film also features interviews with David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Ncuti Gatwa, Helena Bonham Carter, Olly Alexander, Sally Wainwright and Caitlin Moran."'

#Doctor Who #David Tennant #Imagine...#Casanova #Russell T. Davies #Alan Yentob #Catherine Tate #Olly Alexander #Sally Wainwright #Ncuti Gatwa #Millie Gibson #Caitlin Moran #Bi-generation

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sweetdreamsjeff · 4 months

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Hero of the midnight hour; Jeff Buckley

Byline: Caitlin Moran

May 5, 1995

Caitlin Moran tries to find out why Jeff Buckley has dreams about having his skin flayed by a mad sculptor.

The last time I attempted to telescope the emotions that Jeff Buckley's music inspires into mere paragraphs and words, the phrase Soon to be awe-inspiringly famous'' crept up with as much regularity as the wordgenius''. That was last August, when Buckley's biggest UK gig to date was before an exceedingly cramped hundred people Upstairs at the Garage in London. Nine months later, and Buckley has sold out the 2,000-capacity Empire and had his debut album, Grace, lauded as the best of 1994 in several magazines.

``I told you so'' is such a pinched-mouth phrase I won't even begin to utter it; but …

And so my powers of cognition have brought me to New York, Buckley's adopted home town, and a conference room in the massive Sony Records building. Buckley's been doing phone interviews all day. He's grease-haired and his eyes are bruised with lack of sleep, but he's as polite as ever, leaping around trying to make everyone comfortable before dropping back into his chair and spilling his Bad Dream beans when requested.

I tend to forget my dreams,'' he says.They seep out of the room as I wake, and the more I try and clutch at them, the more ferociously they wriggle … but I had a dream a couple of nights ago where, to cut a long story short, this mad artist wanted to cut my skin into strips and weave me into rococo shapes. So I'd be like a living sculpture, beautiful in his eyes, but horribly disfigured and unable to do anything but die.''

Erm, that's a bit heavy. I was kind of expecting the old, ``Well, I'm walking naked through a supermarket when I see my old maths teacher …''

I have those kinds of dreams as well, I guess,'' he says.It's just I don't remember them.''

Does he think the bad dream had anything to do with the reams of cod-psychology written about him in the past year by people looking for his dark side; for the fissures in his personality that mean he will turn into another rock ghost whose untimely death will haunt us all?

No one has really come anywhere near to describing me as the person my friends know, let alone me,'' he says.Perhaps my personality is all in the inflections and can't be transcribed.''

So let's see if Jeff can do the impossible describe his own music. Go on, give it a go. Music affects people in different ways,'' he says.We've all got different chemicals swishing around in our bodies; we've all got different emotional imperatives. With some people, the chemistry will cause an explosion, or a breakdown, or lust, or extreme joy. I can talk about what I feel when the music takes hold of me my posture changes. I hold my head high, stick my chest out; my bones seem to bend easier; the shape of my face seems to change. I feel I can do anything. It's almost sexual.''

That is the end of the interview. Buckley starts striding around the building, muttering ``And what's wrong with being horny?'' under his breath. Nothing at all.

Jeff Buckley's new single, Last Goodbye, is released by Columbia on Monday

"Hero of the midnight hour; Jeff Buckley." Times [London, England], 5 May 1995, p. 40. Gale OneFile: News,

#Hero of the midnight hour; Jeff Buckley #Jeff Buckley #Caitlin Moran #The Times #London England

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