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Boycott, and I can't stress this enough ....

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MarieIVanArkleStinks · 08/04/2022 17:04

This GC book!, says a TRA, tagging the Oxford University Press, that bastion of critical thinking that is, you know, doing the job that an academic press should be doing.

twitter.com/jthomastremblay/status/1512212885627236352

Que a plethora of replies, memes of book-burning etc. The best responses are those saying they hadn't seen the book but thanks for the free advertising, and posting THANKS FOR YOUR ORDER screenshots from the OUP.

Fantastic own goal, but to see these overwhelmingly pro-GC, hell, even pro-free speech responses even on captured Twitter is quite a turnaround. Perhaps after all Emily Bridges, Lia Thompson and Kier Starmer have shone more sunlight on this than even they anticipated!

In the meantime I'm watching the replies roll out with popcorn in hand. Truly top-notch entertainment!

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SidewaysOtter · 10/04/2022 00:14

I’d not have heard of this without that tweet so Mr Tremblay, thank - and I cannot stress this enough - you.

nepeta · 09/04/2022 23:57

I might not have heard about this book for a while longer without this. So thank you, Mx Tremblay.

Voice0fReason · 09/04/2022 21:48

@NotAGirl

If you’re ordering from OUP this offer code from the authors website gets a 30% discount AAFLYG6
ooh, thank you
TheAbbotOfUnreason · 09/04/2022 21:12

@StrangeLookingParasite

Well, haven't you made a tit of yourself, Mx Tremblay.

Ordered the book.

Can someone possibly identifying as Mx make a tit of themself?

Tit sounds awfully gendered.

Maybe Mx Tremblay has made an awful chest of themself?

StrangeLookingParasite · 09/04/2022 20:42

Well, haven't you made a tit of yourself, Mx Tremblay.

Ordered the book.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 09/04/2022 20:29

@PrelateChuckles, yes, that's how I read it, but most on this thread see it as a call to boycott that particular book, unless I'm misreading that too.

M. Tremblay's book sounds like it should be serialised in Pseuds' Corner in Private Eye. Once it was explained, I could see the point in a book about air pollution and class, but hand on heart I didn't understand what it was about until someone translated.

thinkingaboutLangCleg · 09/04/2022 19:56

God, I love Mumsnet vipers! In the middle of all this misogynist bullshit, so much earthy female laughter.

TheAbbotOfUnreason · 09/04/2022 18:53

@VeryLongBeeeeep

And here’s me just breathing in … and out.

How very heterorespirationormative of you.

Can I get a t-shirt with that on?
VelvetChairGirl · 09/04/2022 18:44

@VaginaRegina

This is Mx Tremblay's own magnum opus. I have a degree in English from Cambridge and I can confidently assert that it is utter bollocks.
the line between reality and satire has truely been erased.
EdinburghFeminist · 09/04/2022 18:40

@AuxArmesCitoyens

Of course it's a real name, it sounds typically French Canadian to me though I don't know his background. And FWIW I agree, the premise of his book sounds solid, albeit wrapped up in specialist academic discourse.
I think it's the combination of Jean-Thomas (sounding similar to John Thomas - a euphemism for penis) along with a last name that sounds a little like 'tremble'. I appreciate it French/Québécois it won't have that connotation but to an English speaking ear it can sound a little unfortunate.
VeryLongBeeeeep · 09/04/2022 18:38

And here’s me just breathing in … and out.

How very heterorespirationormative of you.

ScreamingMeMe · 09/04/2022 18:37

@Saucery

It’s a real name. There’s a Paul Tremblay who writes horror fiction, hope he’s not a relation or I’ll have to burn all the books I own by him
Oh yeah I like Paul Tremblay.
TheAbbotOfUnreason · 09/04/2022 18:30

@VaginaRegina

This is Mx Tremblay's own magnum opus. I have a degree in English from Cambridge and I can confidently assert that it is utter bollocks.
Oh my.

Coda: A Queer Theory of Benign Respiratory Variations

That’s quite … something.

And here’s me just breathing in … and out.

AuxArmesCitoyens · 09/04/2022 18:21

Tremblay is a common surname in Quebec.

Saucery · 09/04/2022 17:37

It’s a real name. There’s a Paul Tremblay who writes horror fiction, hope he’s not a relation or I’ll have to burn all the books I own by him

FOJN · 09/04/2022 17:08

merryhouse

Thanks for the translation. I couldn't understand any of the pseudo- intellectual bollocks in that screenshot.

AuxArmesCitoyens · 09/04/2022 16:47

Of course it's a real name, it sounds typically French Canadian to me though I don't know his background. And FWIW I agree, the premise of his book sounds solid, albeit wrapped up in specialist academic discourse.

ScreamingMeMe · 09/04/2022 14:54

@NecessaryScene

One thing I'm struggling to get over is how, and I can't stress this enough, odd it is to see someone using "I can't stress this enough" without attaching it to, and I can't stress this enough, anything.

Unless he wan't to stress Oxford University Press for some reason?

I was thinking similar. Is he an academic or a writer himself? If so I hope he has a good editor.
PrelateChuckles · 09/04/2022 14:44

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

I read it yesterday as an attempt to get people to boycott the OUP itself, which struck me as one of the stupidest things I've ever seen an academic tweet, and that's from a crowded field.
Yes, that's what the tweet in the screenshot is saying!
Andante57 · 09/04/2022 14:44

Oh my god, reminds me of the word salad bollocks used to describe certain modern "art" that my toddler could do. It's all pseudo-intellectual garbage

There’s a website called Art Bollocks which specialises in this and comes up with suggestions for text for artists, eg

“what starts out as vision soon becomes corroded into a dialectic of power, leaving only a sense of nihilism and the inevitability of a new understanding"

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 09/04/2022 14:42

I read it yesterday as an attempt to get people to boycott the OUP itself, which struck me as one of the stupidest things I've ever seen an academic tweet, and that's from a crowded field.

PrelateChuckles · 09/04/2022 14:36

It's not odd. The account is locked so only people who were directly following them at the time they locked it will be able to see it.

I suspect locked due to attention they didn't want.

nepeta · 09/04/2022 14:32

I can't see his original tweet either. Very odd as I don't tweet enough or follow enough to be on any particular ban list. Perhaps he has just gone protected?

thinkingaboutLangCleg · 09/04/2022 14:17

@NecessaryScene

One thing I'm struggling to get over is how, and I can't stress this enough, odd it is to see someone using "I can't stress this enough" without attaching it to, and I can't stress this enough, anything.

Unless he wan't to stress Oxford University Press for some reason?

Grin
TheWayOfTheWorld · 09/04/2022 14:01

@VaginaRegina

This is Mx Tremblay's own magnum opus. I have a degree in English from Cambridge and I can confidently assert that it is utter bollocks.
Oh my god, reminds me of the word salad bollocks used to describe certain modern "art" that my toddler could do. It's all pseudo-intellectual garbage.
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