Laurie Penny, the antifeminist

Apologies to Julie Bindel for publishing her brilliant Laurie Penny piece with Penny's preferred pronouns inserted. I should have sought permission! I thought it a good illustration of how, by requesting them of her, Penny wanted to make Julie sound ridiculous. These requests also serve as a way of distracting her audience from a bad review and avoiding the scrutiny that may come in its wake.

Besides, demanding linguistic gymnastics might cut down on future negative reviews for her book if she manages to get the heroic Bindel re-cancelled for not bending the knee. It also clears the way for more positive reviews from her ideological clones—of both sexes, but most of them under-35—inserted in every middle-class-dominated organisation like a dose of norovirus. You know—the Rosie Kay dancers whose misogyny destroyed their own careers, the Old Vic staff who robbed London of a Terry Gilliam/Stephen Sondheim production, the penguin people at Penguin bursting into tears at the idea of Jordan Peterson, and whoever is responsible for holding the Father Ted musical hostage.

Here's the brilliant, scathing original, hopefully, the first of many critical death knells for Penny’s male-centred brand of fashionable feminism; an antifeminism, in fact, that has already had grave outcomes for women at every level of society, but especially among the most vulnerable.

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