Caitlin Moran

[Boogers]

Special snowflake if ever I encountered one. Blocked me on Twitter after she posted a comment about British jobs going to British people, to which I asked which country her Topshop jeans were made in. Hardly inflammatory, more inviting discussion. Her Times columns have taken on a new vibe since being blocked for a seemingly innocent observation. I have her books and until recently bought The Times Saturday for her musings. Since the Twitter block I've come to the conclusion that Caitlin Moran is an attention seeking, self-publicising dolt. Her name isn't even Caitlin, it's Catherine, and she says her version of the pronunciation of Caitlin is 'cat lin', not 'cayt lin' as most of us know. Look at me, look how different I am.

I'm going to get flamed for this but she can be summed up by the sentence 'I grew up on a council estate in Wolverhampton and was home educated, moved to London, got lucky in writing bile for a music magazine, got luckier in attracting the interest of a bloke who I make a career out of extolling the virtues of his ineptitude as a human, and I am better than you because I am a council girl done good who writes for a right wing newspaper, so up the bum to you'.

I hadn't realised she was from Wolverhampton, yes they do have books in Wolverhampton
I was brought up just down the road

I shall lob in my dislike of CM too.
She seems to have one idea (girl from council estate makes good) and re-writes it endlessly. Totally agree with above comment "I did read 'How to be a Woman' and felt it should have been called 'How to be Caitlin Moran'."

Perhaps 'dislike' is too animated. I'll give her a 'meh' instead.

Wouldnt be the first time. I had heard of them but don't own a pair. All my jeans are supermarket but I reckon CM could afford a pair.

I quite like her but she's a bit repetitive these days, isn't she? I liked How to be. Woman, about her childhood growing up in a large home schooled family in Wolverhampton, so I watched Raised by Wolves, a fictionalised account of growing up in a large home schooled family in Wolverhampton, and then my husband bought me How to Build a Girl, a novel about a girl growing up in a large home schooled family....and now I'm done.

I know people say to write what you know, but it's a little tedious.

Moln - if you're of the view that you should only buy British goods to support British workers (as CM wrote in that tweet) then a quick Google of 'British made jeans' brings up a whole website dedicated to British made goods www.stillmadeinbritain.co.uk. Maybe CM should take a look at some of the goods on offer here before she purchases her jeans made in a sweatshop in Pakistan by children younger than her own and produced for a shop owned by a non-dom who kindly pays a bit of tax out of the goodness of his own heart, but that's for a whole different thread.

M48294Y - you're probably right, but we've all done cringetastical things and not regretted them in the cold light of day. In context of what I've written subsequently (everything in context if you please) I started the post as a result of DH asking if CM's new book would be an idea for Mother's Day. Got me thinking how precious she was for blocking someone for a seemingly innocent comment. I wasn't telling her to go fuck herself, I wasn't telling her I hoped she'd be raped. I was questioning her opinion on that particular thing, something that is allowed to happen in the flow of discourse. Yes she blocked me, yes I was a bit put out by that, yes it has changed my opinion of her. I've gone from someone who owns her books and bought The Times Saturday mainly for her column (and Giles Coren's and Bob Crampton's) but being blocked for making what wasn't an exactly contentious comment, I felt, is being, well, a bit precious. And I'm no more childish than you for the way you were put out by that person last time they did such and such.

Not disagreeing with you Boogers. If someone believes in buying British and is making noise that this is what others need to do too, they should certainly only buy British made products. I genuinely had no idea that it was possibly to buy British made clothing or not - I don't live in Britain.

Though if someone is going on about British jobs being for British people then it's not quite the same thing no matter what I feel about that opinion personally.

I'd be more in the same thinking as you. The jobs of producing the product should be considered too and not just the job in the shop.

The British made jeans linked earlier I noted the demimi isn't milled in Britain. This fact would also make me feel a little argumentative about their British claim

My point is if Caitlin was tweeting about the jobs (a principle far easier to hold than only buying British products) then your comment wasn't really relevant. If tweet was about buying British products then she was quite obviously didn't like it being pointing out and hiding her hypocrisy from herself (and others).

Mind you either way she was being silly if her opinion was of the former she should have pointed that out by tweeting you back explaining that.

It was more about things that could be made in Britain being made abroad at the behest of British jobs, which is a fair sentiment when 1000s of steelworkers in the north east and elsewhere were laid off before Christmas, but if you yourself don't support the sentiment of buying British by not actively seeking British made alternatives then it's just hollow words. Tarrif. It was the hypocrisy that irked me.

She has spent most of her career being paid by Murdoch (I boycott Murdoch press so don't read her column). In her first book she devotes a chapter, from memory, to the horror of page 3 in The Sun. Yet she's happy enough to accept the proceeds of such publications from her boss's coffers.

I stopped following on Twitter but mainly because I found it all a bit cloying.

Caitlin Moran tbf doesn't often block and does engage with followers.

The biggest echo chamber must be Galloway who blocks anyone who dares disagree with him.