to want a cull of tediously self-obsessed columnists making up controversies

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like this woman:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/30/sweat-shamed-waited-for-my-coffee-at-starbucks

Someone smiles at her while making a casual remark about her having worked out (wotabitch!!!), she storms out without putting milk in her coffee and has time only to name-drop her expensive brand of workout wear and boast about how far she has run before banging out 500 words of poor-little-me victimhood. I am a proper old liberal leftie, and completely believe that any civilised society should embrace and support writers and thinkers but I just want to line up people like this and shout GET A PROPER JOB!!

YA SO NBU

She had just exercised, and someone commented that she had just exercised. Wft?? Maybe they wanted to chat about exercise? Talk about seeking offence. Get a proper job? Try getting a life. Jeeeeez.

YANBU. What a load of shite. The other woman was abviously just making small talk while waiting for the coffee.

I remember when Tara Palmer-Poshkinson got a column in the Sunday Times magazine back in the 80s and 90s and wrote about drivel it was considered an ironic, comedy spot. And at least she did it with some knowingness and a wink to the ridiculousness of it all. It seems to me that about half of the broadsheets are now taken up with these deadly serious ruminatings on middle-class "problems" with no sense of irony at all........

That is a parody, surely? it's bloody not, is it?

these deadly serious ruminatings on middle-class "problems" with no sense of irony at all........ And these 'problems' seem to occur in a very small area of the country i.e. fashionable parts of London

I am a ruminator and a sensitive soul and a runner who is a bit self conscious in public and I enjoy the Guardian and even I think that article is fairly ridiculous.

Absolutely derxa. I think these columns are written by and for a small group of women in Notting Hill who share the same dog psychiatrist and "clean-eating" nutritionist.

YANBU - what a load of crap.

I had a bit of parsley stuck in my teeth and I didn't notice until I got home. It was mortifying. I'm going to pitch to CiF wishing someone had herb shamed me.

My favorite comment was 'Ted, I'm going mad'

looks up price of "Lululemon Scuba"

judges

The other thing that bothers me (can you tell this has really p*ssed me off today?) is that she clearly thinks she is making a feminist point. It's exactly this kind of faffiness that trivializes real feminist issues and legitimises people who mock and ignore them.

I bet she has never in her life met or seriously thought about anyone struggling to find affordable childcare or return to work after a career gap. Grrrrrrrrrrr!

I think the writer is a New Yorker. I like the picture. It looks like she's swooning with outrage. I don't think that's her and the Guardian are using a model in order to protect her identity.

I blame the people who read this crap. If they didn't, it wouldn't exist.

There's a thread running somewhere about some woman in her 50s who gets paid to write about her dating/love life in a newspaper.

Each to their own, but I genuinely can't get my head around the fact that it interests complete strangers enough to want to read it.

On another note, why run 12 miles and still need to drive to wherever you're going?

bloody hell multivac - £98!!!!!!!!!!

For that price I'd expect a running top to give me the speed of Mo Farah.

Agree, OP, agree. But those column inches have to be filled somehow!

"For that price I'd expect a running top to give me the speed of Mo Farah."

...and I sure as feck wouldn't be sweating all over it...

There is probably an article to be written about it being much more socially acceptable for men to get hot and sweaty, while women are expected to look pretty and hygienic at all times.
This, however, is just ridiculous drivel.

When I am Queen of the World, I shall impose a lower age limit of 30 for columnists. Everyone should have to do non-attention-seeking job first in order to gain experience of working and co-operating with other human beings, some of whom might be a bit different from them. THEN they can pitch to me and maybe I'll let them write about it.

Same rule for politicians.

The stigmas surrounding women’s bodies are powerful, but they’re no match for how powerful I feel after running

Eh?

She scurried off milk-less, scrunched down into her car with the name drop hood up and did some more sweating.

What might she have done on a non-powerful day? Turned to shame-vapour and disappeared completely?

On a happier note, she completely vindicated my decision not to read the guardian because if this sort of over-extrapolating made-up navel-gazing drivel.

Hee. YA DEF NBU.

'Sweat shamed'. Ridiculous notion and ridiculously solipsistic writer.

The columnist should have declined to write that column and put it to the MN jury by doing it as an AIBU? instead.

I'm voting on receiving a 'let me hand you a grip' comment within first 5 replies.

Maybe she was too sweaty to hold onto her grip ovenchips

I like CiF because it's so nutty. I doubt they pay the contributors much, if anything.

I loved a Guardian blog on The Walking Dead by someone called Danielle Henderson.It wasn't for her writing - it was simply for the comments pulling apart her mistakes and her ludicrous social and political commentary.

It was such a shame when she flounced or they sacked her. They've replaced her with someone who does actually watch it but thinks a review is just a series of 'this happened and then this did. And then the zombies attacked and Michonne cut their heads off.'

TheOriginalWinkly Do you think a biscuit would be more manageable?