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Caitlin Moran - no more sold out gigs?

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FourLastSongs · 05/12/2024 22:21

Saw in Popbitch (so it may be complete bollocks) that Caitlin 'Voice of Modern Womanhood" Moran is having trouble selling out her public events.

"Weekly seat filler update: Using the service to fill out their gigs this week... Caitlin Moran (in discussion with Alex James)"

It is almost as if the kind of women who would buy tickets to her events are not massively impressed by her seeming inability to say that maybe locking up male sex offenders with vulnerable women is not the best idea.

Years ago I would have loved to go see her talk. I really enjoyed 'How to Be a Woman', and rated her as a columnist. But I now actively avoid her. And even though I have a subscription of The Times I never read her now.

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PinkArt · 05/12/2024 23:03

Surely this reflects on Alex, not Caitlyn? It's his new book that she's hosting a conversation about, presumably.

50Balesofgrey · 05/12/2024 23:01

I used to read her columns, now I feel I've heard everything she says before. She's the writers' epitome of recycling. Fucking tedious.

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FourLastSongs · 05/12/2024 22:52

@MaggieBsBoat “But there’s something horribly arrogant about downplaying the safety of your own sex and that of the majority of your readership and expecting them to still pay to see you”

Absolutely this! You put what I was trying to say perfectly.

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MaggieBsBoat · 05/12/2024 22:38

Yes. Sad. I don’t have to agree with everything a writer says or even anything they say. But there’s something horribly arrogant about downplaying the safety of your own sex and that of the majority of your readership and expecting them to still pay to see you/read you. It’s like crazy hubris and taking us for granted.

KateShortFirBob · 05/12/2024 22:35

Recently I reread a review of a project from years ago. I have aged better than the review.
It appeared there could only be one woman in a genre. The multiple men involved got off rather lightly.

Shame. I think she used to be hear occasionally when it was all fields. You'd find echos in her columns.