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Laurie Penny

Slut-Shaming, Victim-Blaming, Grace Dent and Kids Today

Sian S. Rathore | Posted 25.03.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Laurie Penny, Unilad, Slut-Shaming, The Word, Victim Blaming, Ellie Mae O'Hagan, Grace Dent, Feminists, Tulisa Contostavlos, Feminism, Conversations on Campus, UK Universities & Education News
Sian S. Rathore

It's easy to decry the problems of today's youth with a voice of condescension that harks back to the good old days but conversely it's also easy to forget the problems of the past when using this line of debate.

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What Can You Say?

Judi Sutherland | Posted 18.03.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Laurie Penny, Transphobia, Suzanne Moore, Sexism, Julie Burchill, Racism, Gender Identity, UK Media, Gender, UK Lifestyle News
Judi Sutherland

Transgender people might be one of the last oppressed minorities. If Ms Burchill's rant had been directed against black or Asian people, homosexual people, Jews, or Muslims, I am pretty sure it would have been met with the full force of the law.

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Miller, Hunt and the Irrelevance of Viability to the Abortion Debate

Craig Purshouse | Posted 07.12.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Medical Ethics, Abortion, Laurie Penny, Maria Miller, Jeremy Hunt, David Cameron, Abortion Rights, Sarah Ditum, Tanya Gold, UK Politics News
Craig Purshouse

Debating the science of when a foetus is viable rather than the relevance of viability itself implicitly accepts that a late-stage foetus's claim on existence outweighs the mother's right to bodily autonomy.

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Fair Pay Campus Campaign: The Spirit of the HE Sector?

Zain Sardar | Posted 17.07.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Laurie Penny, Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett, Vice Chancellors Pay, The Spirit Level, Education Costs, Green Party, Universities, UK Universities & Education News
Zain Sardar

While inequality in parts of private sector are associated with a breakdown of social ties, bonds, alienation and the soulless insouciance of high financiers and captains of enterprise we need to put our foot down and say this is not the vision we want for higher education.

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Gay Marriage, Laurie Penny, and the State of Comment

Rupert Myers | Posted 11.07.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Laurie Penny, Comment, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Gay Marriage, UK Media, UK Politics News
Rupert Myers

Laurie Penny fails to present a nuanced article on why same-sex marriage should be legalised. She derides and underestimates her opponents on an issue with which deserves a mature discussion, wielding the sword of class and culture warfare.

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The Week That Was: The Dark Side of Twitter

Carla Buzasi | Posted 06.07.2012 | UK
Read More: UK, Laurie Penny, Louise Mensch Social Media, UK Tech, Twitter, Louise Mensch, Fabrice Muamba, UK News
Carla Buzasi

Twitter, at its best, is a great way to massage your ego (ooh, 15 more followers!), or given my day job, chat with readers (they loved X feature on the site, they thought Y was dull, or words to that effect) and, as I wrote last week, to get breaking news out quickly. At its worst, as Conservative MP Louise Mensch highlighted this week, it's a hot-bed of misogynistic idiots using it to abuse, scare and lambast women in the public eye in the crudest manner possible.

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