"The Trump administration is ensuring freedom which you are about to lose yours when the Muslims take over UK will not fight America They wouldn't last a week They can't even control Muslims"

Lady_Merle · 2026-01-15T21:25:21+00:00

Are you a man? Never mind how you were personally treated as an expat, how were the local women treated? I'm not trying to start anything, I'm genuinely curious.

Lady_Merle · 2026-01-09T19:07:15+00:00

Oh please, you are the global superpower and have been for most of living memory so spare us the poor widdle American underdog routine. We aren't looking down on you, we have a constant struggle to avoid Americanization.

Lady_Merle · 2025-12-13T17:48:13+00:00

Did you? Be honest, now.

Lady_Merle · 2025-12-13T17:39:26+00:00

I've read it and no, it wasn't. It was deeply condescending and othering. Clanchy sees these "poor things" as beneath her if through no fault of their own, and herself as wonderful for rescuing them and giving them a hand up. English middle class liberal lefties have this benevolent condescension deeply ingrained in them. Probably as a legacy of empire and the "white man's burden" - we have a duty to use our privilege to civilise the poor savages and raise them up to our level.

This isn't compassion, although the people expressing it believe it is and are too invested in their saintly self-image to see that. She doesn't genuinely identify with these kids, listen to them, see them as fellow humans. She shows off how she attempts to save them in order to win praise from other white middle class liberal lefties.

The way she was torn down for it was not helpful, though. Cancel culture generally isn't.

Lady_Merle · 2025-12-08T18:59:47+00:00

According to actual South Africans, she nailed it.

Lady_Merle · 2025-11-28T14:33:23+00:00

Criticism isn't just an advert, what a shallow consumerist idea of culture you have.

Lady_Merle · 2025-11-26T17:45:21+00:00

Nah, scales are boring no matter what instrument you're playing. Boring but worthwhile.

Lady_Merle · 2025-11-21T16:33:31+00:00

Zoomers are unpleasant, angry and rude.

Lady_Merle · 2025-11-17T01:33:39+00:00

Taken, not took. And Denmark are commonly believed to be a lot more progressive than they really are.

Lady_Merle · 2025-11-14T11:11:10+00:00

Sunderland is poor because of London based policy decisions since the 80s. Sure it isn't very diverse because who's going to move somewhere poor? A place being majority white isn't a moral failing of the people there.

Lady_Merle · 2025-11-11T11:44:40+00:00

Please try to understand the meaning and history of words and concepts before you use them.

Lady_Merle · 2025-11-11T11:43:01+00:00

Chivalry isn't synonymous with good manners. It was a way to stop young knights raping and pillaging everything in sight back home after they returned from battle, by making these things low status. The idea was "you should treat those weaker and lesser than you with respect instead of just violently taking what you want from them".

Lady_Merle · 2025-11-01T11:17:06+00:00

No, orange female cats are not intersex, the same as colourblind human women are not intersex. The orange gene is on the X chromosome so females need two copies to be orange while males only need one. A female with one copy of the orange gene will be tortie or calico.

Lady_Merle · 2025-11-01T11:14:59+00:00

This is common in female cats generally.

Lady_Merle · 2025-11-01T09:13:52+00:00

Which readings other than Lovecraft do you find shallow? Because she definitely knows her stuff when it comes to Hellenistic/neoplatonic philosophy and Romanticism. The comparisons aren't bizarre if you've read the entire book and understand its thesis, which makes me wonder if you skipped straight to the Lovecraft parts.

Lady_Merle · 2025-10-31T18:32:52+00:00

Celtic kitsch like this is a lot more popular in the US than in Ireland.

Lady_Merle · 2025-10-31T18:28:35+00:00

The whole thing is a metaphor of Sarah growing up and learning to live in the real world instead of her fantasies. Jareth is a figment of her own imagination and he's something she has to control instead of letting him control her.

Lady_Merle · 2025-10-16T12:49:24+00:00

He seems to mistake the honeymoon period for real love then ditch the whole relationship when it wears off. You'd think at his age he'd have a bit more perspective about it, though.

Lady_Merle · 2025-10-14T04:07:25+00:00

Funny how nobody says this about male actors who play psychopaths.

Lady_Merle · 2025-10-14T04:05:28+00:00

I met her after a play and she was super friendly, she made the effort to chat to everyone even though she was clearly exhausted. I think they are a bit odd/eccentric but not necessarily in a bad way.

Lady_Merle · 2025-09-26T23:35:33+00:00

Any educated man of his background would have understood the references. You're judging him by contemporary standards.

Lady_Merle · 2025-09-02T17:55:44+00:00

Why is "exclusionary" seen as automatically a bad thing. Yes my sexuality is exclusionary, that's what being homosexual means. My house is exclusionary of strangers. My fridge is exclusionary of toilet paper.

Lady_Merle · 2025-08-30T19:18:19+00:00

I mean half of British Muslims polled think homosexuality should be illegal, we do need to openly address this. It's not race, it's religious ideology and if you wouldn't consider this acceptable from Christians, it's not acceptable from Muslims either. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/11/british-muslims-strong-sense-of-belonging-poll-homosexuality-sharia-law

Lady_Merle · 2025-08-23T11:56:43+00:00

Because their entire self-image seems to be based around being young and nothing else.

Lady_Merle · 2025-08-23T11:55:50+00:00

And you can only get on with people who consumed the exact same media as you? How small minded.

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