UK Literary Luvvies #2 Vital reading

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Only two tagging mistakes this week, well done Alex babe :) 💅
 

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nogoodusernamesleft said:
Not like the widely-read, highly-cultured Panda not to know that no-one ‘wrote’ the Iliad 🙄 and get her opinions from a hot take in Twitter.

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Does she deliberately pepper her copy with grammatical errors to try and sound relatable? If that is the standard she submits to publishers, her work must take a lot of editing.
 
nogoodusernamesleft said:
Not like the widely-read, highly-cultured Panda not to know that no-one ‘wrote’ the Iliad 🙄 and get her opinions from a hot take in Twitter.

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Her newsletter is so cringe
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garfield123 said:
Does she deliberately pepper her copy with grammatical errors to try and sound relatable? If that is the standard she submits to publishers, her work must take a lot of editing.
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I think that's exactly what she does! Feels so try-hard
 
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Walkthehemline said:
Adding the screenshots here for posterity. The escalation here is amazing
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I can’t believe she called the woman a ‘ho’. I know ‘fuckwit’ etc is also offensive but insults that are gendered/sexualised are not de rigeuer. But then she won’t think that’s applicable to her because she’s not the kind of public figure that has to care about that - she is so above the law, she believes GDPR wouldn’t even apply to her (it applies to any ‘data controller’, public figure or not).
 
soph30 said:
It just sounds like she’s taken the follower’s question the wrong way tbh? I mean a please costs nothing, I always say please, but “who did your building work” isn’t rude enough for that reaction, I’ve seen that type of thing in comment boxes
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Yeah it’s a more modern way of communicating - Gen Z don’t bother with etiquette and punctuation on social media. Comments are pithy and to the the point.
 
Holy mother of god. I think the follower was actually being pretty reasonable. O should’ve been mortified at her overreacting instead of doubling down and continuing to share so much. And I don’t think there was anything racially motivated in what the commenter said. I think O was being rather dramatic in the first instant tbh. She was running late. That’s her bad, not London’s.
 
I honestly think Otegha is deeply misguided. She thinks this is being assertive, but you protect your boundaries by protecting your peace; you're selective about where you place your energy. If I take exception to the way someone has addressed me in my DMs, the instant consequence is that they will never receive a reply from me; if I really don't want them to engage with me again, I block them. It really can be that simple.

I wonder about her friendships with the other LLs. Is she more chilled in her private life, or are they frequently walking on eggshells?
 
I don't follow Otegha (or know who she is - I only heard of her on here) but might have to now as she looks AWFUL!

Crying racism sounds a bit of a stretch here. My (white) brother was complaining about how crap England was the other day and how great France was (he'd been there on holiday) so I said jokily said well duck off to France then. It's just what you say if someone is threatening something - go on then, do it.

Also think it's disgraceful sexism calling her a ho. The whole anger thing is WAAAAAAAAAY out of proportion.

FINALLY I think lateness is bloody rude and, nine times out of ten, inexcusable. If you live in London or even visit for work, you know you have to allow ages to get anywhere. Same as pretty much any big city. She should have got up earlier. Being late is avoidable - it's a choice.
 
SharkAttack said:
I don't follow Otegha (or know who she is - I only heard of her on here) but might have to now as she looks AWFUL!

Crying racism sounds a bit of a stretch here. My (white) brother was complaining about how crap England was the other day and how great France was (he'd been there on holiday) so I said jokily said well duck off to France then. It's just what you say if someone is threatening something - go on then, do it.
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That’s an EXTREMELY different situation. Telling a person of colour ‘leave if you don’t like it’ is so obviously loaded.

I think the stories are tacky and she shouldn’t have called her a ho but let’s not pretend that person wasn’t out of line or dismiss Otegha’s sense that it was racially charged. The stories are a bit nutty and unhinged and I can understand that tbh. If someone slid into my DMs using racist language like that I’d probably lose it too.
 
4dominoes said:
That’s an EXTREMELY different situation. Telling a person of colour ‘leave if you don’t like it’ is so obviously loaded.

I think the stories are tacky and she shouldn’t have called her a ho but let’s not pretend that person wasn’t out of line or dismiss Otegha’s sense that it was racially charged. The stories are a bit nutty and unhinged and I can understand that tbh. If someone slid into my DMs using racist language like that I’d probably lose it too.
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Mm not sure in this case. If Otegha had only complained about the traffic and the poster said 'well leave if you don't like it' I'd agree with you. But Otegha herself introduced the subject of emigrating. The following 'leave' comment was a continuation of that wasn't it?
 
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