Lionel Shriver - ‘We Need To Talk About Ezra’

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TheClogLady · 22/08/2022 18:27

Lionel Shriver talks to Freddie Sayer’s at Unherd about Ezra Miller (Miller played the eponymous Kevin in the film adaptation of Shriver’s book ‘We Need To Talk About Kevin’ back in 2011).

m.youtube.com/watch?v=9SIs9vhjI1w

Shriver’s palpable annoyance at serious publications sacrificing proper grammar by pandering to Miller’s demands for they/them pronouns and rendering their own articles nonsensical is my favourite bit (and Freddie’s reading of the long list of Miller’s alleged crimes is proper eye popping).

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Lottapianos · 25/08/2022 16:06

'And I love her thoroughly unlikable characters. No froth or sentiment'

Me too. I love her total lack of people pleasing and pacifying, and all that sort of feminine bullshit that girls are marinaded in from birth. As others said, she's always interesting. You certainly don't have to agree with her

unwashedanddazed · 25/08/2022 16:29

Abhannmor · 25/08/2022 09:46

Yeah ' when you put it like that ' she is a nasty vicious racist. But , hold on lads , she is an equal opportunity hater so it's all fine and grand.

She screams abuse at people and claims not to recall it. The old right wing Republican Party Reptile tactic of PJ O Rourke. Throw a brick through a window and say ' easy fella , it's satire , don't hate me'

But maybe she really doesn't recall these episodes? Psychopaths are human too , right ? She has lots of fans on Mumsnet though , so I guess she knows the buttons to push...

Don't like her? Then don't read her. The sky won't fall in because there are people out there you don't like or agree with.

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