Depressed about Caitlin Moran

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I loved How to be a Woman but all her work since seems to have recycled the same ideas and it sounds as if her "new" book will be more of the same.

AIBU to feel she is ripping her public off?

I don't read her column regularly given the paywall and all, but liked Moranthology and How to be a Woman. No intention of reading her other books as they seem to retread the same ground, but fair play to her if she can drag the idea out and make some more money. I think her writing is often witty, sometimes wise, sometimes very touching and other times rather irritating. Most decent columnists have that combination in some shape or form. I'm surprised she gets so many pairs of knickers in twists.

As for the Guardian columnists, as well as those mentioned I like Bridget Christie and find the travails of the poor woman going on all those bad online dates very readable. But agree the Family section could have more teeth generally; it's a bit fluffy.

just thinking about CM and what it is I don't like about her writing

(and I have had to think about this)

I will pass HTBAW to my dds in a couple of years. I think it's an entertaining and useful read for a Young Modern Lady

but the bits I don't like- or rather, the bits that jar with me- are the women as super delicate feminine vulnerable tiny things. There's an article about how scared women are of men that was widely circulated on twitter a while back, where she apparently Nailed It. But I found it didn't chime at all with me- it didn't reflect my experience or attitude, or that of most of the women I know.

I'll try and find it bc I'm waffling and realise this doesn't hold any weight without (I don't pay any quids to Murdoch and only ever see what's shared outside the paywall, so I probably have a skewed view)

there's a line in HTBAW about a man 'laying me down' that's stayed with me, even though I've not read the book for years. I am a bit longer in the tooth than Moran, and I've seen more action than a policeman's torch had plenty of experiences with men. But not ONCE have I been 'laid down' by one. I've shagged/gone to bed with them! Do you get me? It's the sort of passivity that I find odd

for me, she is like Corbyn in that I am so relieved that some people actually give a fuck about the poor, downtread, dispossessed

and very few columnists speak to this - its all restaurants and MC twinkling

in these days of Celebrity BB, Dragons Den, BuzzFeed, Instagram etc- to have someone who actually speaks about real stuff

for example she did a column about that horrendous house fire that killed the family in derby, Giles Coren fucking didn't did he ??