Caitlin Moran - no more sold out gigs?

[FourLastSongs]

Saw in Popbitch (so it may be complete bollocks) that Caitlin 'Voice of Modern Womanhood" Moran is having trouble selling out her public events.

"Weekly seat filler update: Using the service to fill out their gigs this week... Caitlin Moran (in discussion with Alex James)"

It is almost as if the kind of women who would buy tickets to her events are not massively impressed by her seeming inability to say that maybe locking up male sex offenders with vulnerable women is not the best idea.

Years ago I would have loved to go see her talk. I really enjoyed 'How to Be a Woman', and rated her as a columnist. But I now actively avoid her. And even though I have a subscription of The Times I never read her now.

I agree. I remember reading it and thought all of her whacky childhood and teenage anecdotes read like the worst kind of chick lit comedy fiction. I also hate the way she claims to be working class, simply because she was raised on benefits. Everything about her childhood is middle class, from her boho parents’ backgrounds to her homeschooling (which would be called unschooling nowadays IMO).

Anyway, I digress. I read that book expecting righteous feminism and instead got an autobiography sprinkled with weak libfem takes.

Did you know she was a teenage writer prodigy? She never mentions it.

Yes her claim to be working class is laughable she is as mc as it comes its patronising

I knew families like this middle class boho types they usually didn't have tv's which the rest of us found astonishing and wore odd knitted jumpers (ok maybe not all of them) anyway they were recognisable

I did not know that, she must have kept that quiet 😆

This. She is dull and cowardly (woke?). I read one of her books but now I turn the page and don’t read her column. TBH I wish they would get rid of her.

She had to share a bedroom with her sisters. Not sure if she's ever mentioned that.

she's a proponent of fun feminism, the kind which centres men.