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Post by angra on Mar 25, 2013 20:30:30 GMT 10
I'm actually sympathetic to Bolt on this one.
"The Sexual Politics of Meat" by Alicia Simmonds is the most bat-shit crazy nonsense I have had to defile myself with for a while.
"Eating meat is associated with male power in its most vile and repugnant forms."
Well you could stop there, but you can guess what's coming.
"The ill treatment of animals makes the abuse of women tolerable."
WTF?
Then there's "Vegetarians, like feminists, care about language."
Is she for real or is this just a big troll?
She tries hard to sound like one of the PETA loonies, but I reckon it's all a big leg-pull.
What do you think?
I'm just off to the back paddock to torture a few calves, rabidly maul their flesh then go back to beating my wife and children.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Mar 25, 2013 20:43:19 GMT 10
"is the most bat-shit crazy nonsense I have had to defile myself with for a while"
Her first two points were bonkers. The other three were on firmer ground.
Whatever bolt might think about "second hand derrida", I don't think the problem is with the underlying critical theory ... as much as people who think it's a magic wand learnin' up the words without actually keeping any grip on reality. I still think hegel was a bozo, though (I haven't actually read anything by derrida - I've mentioned previously that I'm no humanities scholar). As soon as I hear the words "dialectic", I figure it's time to stop listening.
Men => Barbecues means Meat => Established Patriarchal Oppression is just lazy abductive reasoning. Plus, it tends to show a complete lack of awareness of the current reality of male TV chef saturation. You can't turn on a frikkin' TV these days without some famous chef-man (or teams of them) banging on about gourmet food of some kind. All of the female chefs/cooks recently on TV that I can think of have all been on SBS (sarah weiner, that lindy somebody-or-other) or the ABC (poh, maggie beer). Commercial broadcasting seems to think that women have lost the ability to boil an egg.
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Post by angra on Mar 25, 2013 20:51:43 GMT 10
MoC - you're forgetting Mrs Beeton, Margaret Fulton, Delia Smith, Lorraine Pascale, Two Fat Ladies and Nigella Lawson, who's "How To Be a Domestic Goddess", is a self-proclaimed “feminist tract.”
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Mar 25, 2013 20:59:46 GMT 10
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I do believe I did detect the blight of a university education
Uh-huh. There are only so many places in the world for people who make their living by peddling anger and error, based on laughable reasoning and cherry-picked or (too often) just flat-out wrong claims.
Most of us actually have to produce something of value in order to collect our paychecks. Something that somebody is actually willing to pay money for. How popular do we think andrew's blog would be if people actually had to pay for it?
We do actually need people who can make things. More often than not, that involves some sort of education. We currently don't have a TAFE-based system for producing engineers or physicists, or psychologists or statisticians or chemists or sociologists or accountants or economists.
So sure - it's possible to hang crap on the occasional university graduate. But it's also pretty easy to find bozos elsewhere too. Neither path in life is a guarantee of common sense.
"blight"? That's just sour grapes. I sure as heck don't regret my degree.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Mar 25, 2013 21:00:43 GMT 10
"MoC - you're forgetting Nigella"
You're quite right. I confess that I'm not an avid TV watcher. I do have a couple of her books, though.
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Post by angra on Mar 25, 2013 21:20:02 GMT 10
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Post by jack on Mar 25, 2013 22:00:47 GMT 10
"Japanese Chef Serves Own Genitals For Dinner"
So... we're back to the phallocentrism of male culinary power structures... or something...?
Oh and I can't look at Nigella without seeing her on Parkinson that time looking down her nose at Eddie Izzard like he was an insect. Just an impression (and, yes, I'm not an avid tv viewer either), but she didn't strike me as a particularly generous spirit.
Rather a smug, self-satisfied, nouveau riche twat. But hey, she's entitled to enjoy her undoubted success in any small, narrow way she chooses.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Mar 26, 2013 8:22:42 GMT 10
"Oh and I can't look at Nigella without seeing her on Parkinson"
I can't look at nigella without seeing (for obscure reasons) kathy lette practically drooling at geoffrey robertson on Hypothetical :-)
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Post by angra on Mar 29, 2013 12:59:46 GMT 10
Oops. "Aussie entertainer linked to Savile inquiry".
That was back in December. This morning he was arrested according to News Ltd, but just being 'questioned' according to Fairfax reports, and 'questioned under caution' according to the BBC. It may not be directly related to Savile, but to other allegations that have surfaced in the course of the inquiry.
We can't name names, but tie me kangaroo down!
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Post by robj on Mar 30, 2013 8:46:07 GMT 10
"We can't name names, but tie me kangaroo down!"
I'm wondering why he can't be named? They've named everyone else questioned or arrested during Operation Yewtree.
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Post by robj on Mar 30, 2013 8:46:49 GMT 10
Maybe he has a 'super-injunction'?
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Post by chookmustard on Apr 1, 2013 14:22:22 GMT 10
Isn't Nigellas dad part of a AGW think tank in England?
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Post by angra on Apr 1, 2013 14:35:00 GMT 10
Yes. He was Thatcher's hatchet man, dismantling public assets and overseeing the great sell-out to private interests in the interest of Friedman economics, thus enriching the coffers of his corporate colleagues.
At least his daughter Nigella has two genuine assets to sell, which she does so in spades.
And now he is on the anti-AGW bandwagon, along with the Mad Monckton, the PR guru who's sole claim to fame is the invention of a mathematical puzzle.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Apr 1, 2013 15:21:22 GMT 10
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Post by chookmustard on Apr 1, 2013 21:10:00 GMT 10
Fascinating, so inbred, considering the amount of people in Britain. monbiot, Lawson, Monckton!
Bolt would approve of the breeding.
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