To find caitlin moran as annoying as fuck?

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New articlr in the guardian, going to read now, I'm sorry because shes generally really popular with all my female mates but...I just find her really annoying and disingenuous and anti-intellectual. Is it just me? Her (faux) grey streak also annoys me, as does the face pulling. Anyway i know its mean, but i just dont identify

www.theguardian.com/global/2018/jun/16/caitlin-moran-everything-i-know-about-sex

Also all those posters saying she doesn't really come form a working class background ffs, her parents were ill unemployed and didn't even do home education properly. She had no formal secondary education. One poster even claimed that because she was born in Brighton she must be middle class, such tosh, Brighton has some of the most deprived estates in the UK. ha ha to all you paying a fortune for private schools and NEVER producing a Caitlin.

I thought How to be a woman was missing something. She failed to give single women enough praise. She did state how badly they were treated but didn't follow it up with how single women should be proud. Partly as she has not ever been as angle really herself.
Not that it is a negative reflection on her but she has never truly experienced that discrimination.

Single even...

Fucking hell. What a nasty thread.
This made me laugh though:
I think I have thought, ''i could do this'' I could write this type of article but possibly better, and funnier.
Yeah...but you didn't though didja??
Shame.😂
Caitlin's alright. Pick on someone who really deserves it. Or don't and make your own lives more interesting.

I think her parents were more ''alternative'' than traditionally working class. They were a bit off-grid.

@ifnot, I wrote that, and I was merely trying to understand why she's not more popular. I like her, I agree with her. I'm surprised she's not more popular and I apologies if my post expressed begrudgery, I completely agree with you, I've never had anything published and I take my hat off to anybody who has been published.

Yes iirc her parents came from quite wealthy privately educated backgrounds but decided to live an 'alternative' lifestyle that involved not doing much work and having more children than they could properly look after.

How hurtful and unnecessary some of these comments are. Yes everyone is entitled to an opinion but ffs what a pile-on. She's not kicking kittens!

I think she is great. I enjoy reading her columns and I liked the book. She comes across to me as entertaining and thoughtful. I can see that others disagree, as is their right, but there are a lot of us out there who enjoy her work.

With regard to the gurning in pictures, I'm fairly sure she spoke about this. I don't think she likes her photo taken / didn't want to conform with the convention of trying and potentially failing to look attractive in a photo.

Paraphrasing, she said if she was going to be torn down or criticized, it would be better to do so for making a silly face than for trying to do a natural pose, as at least that was deliberate and her choice. Does that ring a bell with anyone? Can't reference I'm afraid but I'm sure I've seen it before.

Aw sorry NobodysMot-I probably didn't read it properly. I get what you mean.
I don't read newspaper columns but I liked How to be a Girl, I thought it was honest and funny.

It is a nasty thread. And the OP has started another thread saying how lovely it is when women are nice to each other!!

I've only skimmed the thread but I've not seen anything truly nasty about her. People have said they don't like her writing, or the faces she pulls in photographs. Given that she writes and appears on social media for a living, I don't see why people can't say that they don't care for her oeuvre.

They have also said she needs make up lessons and that her hair is shit. Nice!

at least she's got the courage to be out there, despite the horrific online abuse an openly feminist public figure is guaranteed to receive

I agree with this. Jeez. Look at the shite women get. Mary Beard, this one, the new royal one, it's endless and of a completely different tone to the criticism men get and it's really undermining and horrible.

@BrendasUmbrella
Not seeing the link tbh. My other thread is about complimenting women when they display something you appreciate.

"Yes iirc her parents came from quite wealthy privately educated backgrounds but decided to live an 'alternative' lifestyle that involved not doing much work and having more children than they could properly look after." Your evidence for this please, her mum went to uni, working class people do you know, her dad was a session musician with a disability. Why not tell the daily mail of this great rich family , having too much kids to love after and living off the state. I find this attitude sickening and utterly snobbish and I'd love to know if your children have novels written at 12 BASED ON LIVING IN CRAMPED CONDITIONS AND NO MONEY.

To be fair to Sali Hughes, whatever you think of her journalism or social media style, she has been at the centre of the BeautyBanks project, designed to help women and children in hygiene poverty. I think it’s a bit unfair to point the finger and say she’s a champagne socialist who doesn’t care about poor people now she isn’t one.

I’m not a Caitlin Moran fan, I find her style overbearing, self-obsessed and shouty, like a teenager showing off.

I actually wanted to like her but didn't.