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Helen Dale's avatar

Cheers! Some of the American stuff I haven't seen (I do know US higher ed is very far gone).

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Josh Slocum's avatar

It's very satisfying to read your terse and unconcerned dismissal of Boynton's mewling.

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Helen Dale's avatar

The sheer bloody sense of entitlement.

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EDIJester's avatar

Plenty of grip. Little of it on reality.

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EDIJester's avatar

Looks like a real oddball to these non academic eyes Josh.

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Josh Slocum's avatar

Not for nothin', Helen, but one of the ways you lift my spirits is by being an example of an educated, forthright woman who indulges in none of the passive, emotional, inappropriately. . "maternal" way of talking in public.

You are no-nonsense. There are many fewer educated female commentators of your disposition than there are of the other type.

(Note to Helen's other readers who don't know me: No, I'm not saying in toto "women are too emotional always" or "you, reader, I don't know, are like that too.")

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Helen Dale's avatar

Most people who subscribe to my substack should be aware I've written things like this: https://capx.co/what-kathleen-stock-gets-wrong-about-the-tories-trans-and-feminism/

:)

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Helen Dale's avatar

I'll read Stock's piece now, cheers for that.

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EDIJester's avatar

This is utterly brilliant. Though I'm sad my own swipe at the Shota Tosser was sadly missing from the article. A layman's view admittedly, but laughing at these absurd twats seems to me a vital public service

https://youtu.be/knG9h2lW9H8

Go on... have a giggle with me..😁😁😁

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Georgia McGraw's avatar

It's all so very patronising, isn't it?

"You silly bigots just don't understand. I'm not saying the taxpayer funded kiddie-fiddling-dick-twiddling was right, but that the wrong people said it was wrong, and in the wrong way. Now give us all more money while we sneer at your gammony ways."

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Helen Dale's avatar

Very tempted to beat all the humanities and social science idiots to a pulp with my Oxford law first ;)

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Georgia McGraw's avatar

No point. You're a right wing Brexiteer, that means your education counts for nothing because you weren't clever enough to become a leftwing postmodernist with a PhD in animé tits.

Christ on a bike, I'm really not looking forward to returning to work at a Uni. Even the admin staff is full of arseholes aping these Boynton types. Sickly sweet, faux concerned bullies.

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Helen Dale's avatar

Sadly true. I shall have to make like Scrooge McDuck and roll around in all my money ;)

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Bob.... just Bob's avatar

"down to B&Q, swallow a spoonful of cement, & harden up"

Swapping Bunnings with B&Q doesn't hide the pure Aussie-ness of that statement. You can take the girl out of the bush... ;)

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