Page 2 | Good review of 'Hags' in the Guardian

Tricyrtis2022 · 2023-02-27T10:43:07+00:00

A good read: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/27/hags-by-victoria-smith-review-welcome-to-the-age-of-rage What could be going on at the Guardian? Is there a bit of a reverse ferret happening?

Scr3wed · 27/02/2023 18:33

Xiaoxiong · 27/02/2023 13:04

How have you lot already got Time to Think, let alone finished it - I went into two different Waterstones last week, on Thursday and Saturday, and neither of them had it in stock yet.

I will ask for Hags when I check back in store tomorrow (trying hard to support the high street and not to buy everything through Amazon but they're not making it easy!)

The shop in Chester had both yesterday, along with a few genderist books. I can’t afford hardbacks though, will have to wait 😏

flyingbuttress43 · 27/02/2023 19:03

I must read Hags. I will be looking at it from an entirely different perspective of someone in their 80th year to whom a 50-year-old is still just a youngster and as someone who manned the barricades for equal pay, equal rights etc. in the 60s and 70s. All I know for sure is that I won't get angry - I will shrug and laugh because there is nothing new under the sun.

If you think it's annoying being identified as a Karen, wait a few more years and see what happens when you go to update your laptop and, as happened to me recently, the sales person,all of 20, speaks to you slowly and loudly as if you are deaf and just made your escape from the nearest care home. I let him pontificate for 10 minutes, then launched into a highly technical explanation of why his explanation of this particular laptop's merits was bollox and why treating this old crone as if she should be dribbling in a corner was not the way to make a sale. All the while smiling sweetly (of course) as I was just a dear little old know-nothing lady.

Not sure which is funnier - being hated as a Karen, or patronised as a walking corpse.

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Tricyrtis2022 · 28/02/2023 07:43

@flyingbuttress43 I would love to have seen you in action and hope you gave the young man something to think about.

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PinotGroggio · 06/03/2023 22:57

flyingbuttress43 · 27/02/2023 19:03

I must read Hags. I will be looking at it from an entirely different perspective of someone in their 80th year to whom a 50-year-old is still just a youngster and as someone who manned the barricades for equal pay, equal rights etc. in the 60s and 70s. All I know for sure is that I won't get angry - I will shrug and laugh because there is nothing new under the sun.

If you think it's annoying being identified as a Karen, wait a few more years and see what happens when you go to update your laptop and, as happened to me recently, the sales person,all of 20, speaks to you slowly and loudly as if you are deaf and just made your escape from the nearest care home. I let him pontificate for 10 minutes, then launched into a highly technical explanation of why his explanation of this particular laptop's merits was bollox and why treating this old crone as if she should be dribbling in a corner was not the way to make a sale. All the while smiling sweetly (of course) as I was just a dear little old know-nothing lady.

Not sure which is funnier - being hated as a Karen, or patronised as a walking corpse.

Try being a black woman and dealing with this shit from childhood.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 07/03/2023 08:03

Finished this last night. Such a relief to see everything I have suspected nailed down and articulated so precisely.

Abhannmor · 07/03/2023 10:34

RethinkingLife · 27/02/2023 16:24

I never think of those descriptions without this.

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