Louise O'Neill on manned mission to Mars: "Why not go to Venus?" (MOD Warning post 1)

backspin.

The Examiner is embarrassing itself letting this girl write such cringy rubbish. She is like a parody at this stage.

The J Stands for Jay

[Deleted User] wrote: »

No, we're all doing it now

I'll tell the wife so.

She mentioned in that article that she didn't like Gone Girl. I thought everyone enjoyed that book, did she ever state why? (A lot of you guys seem to know an awful lot about her)

razorblunt

McDermotX wrote: »

Clicks link..

....wants me to login/register to see article

Nice.

Closes tab.

Yeah, sorry I hadn’t realised it was behind a paywall.

razorblunt

Deleted User wrote: »

She mentioned in that article that she didn't like Gone Girl. I thought everyone enjoyed that book, did she ever state why? (A lot of you guys seem to know an awful lot about her)

It didn’t have 17 typos on a page and poorly structured sentences were non existent also.

Bunny Colvin

McGaggs wrote: »

Is there a large liking for anal sex here? I thought it was just an American thing.

I was thinking the same thing about hamburgers and hotdogs.

Omackeral

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

I was thinking the same thing about hamburgers and hotdogs.

Don't you mean culinary gangbang? My god she's an idiot.

cursai

How did the op know what was on her twitter page?

Wibbs

backspin. wrote: »

The Examiner is embarrassing itself letting this girl write such cringy rubbish.

Not really, as people are clearly interested in her enough to get clicks. Media outlets love her kind of controversy writer. All the red tops have them, but so do the sniffy broadsheets.

fullstop

professore wrote: »

This is an insight into the mind of a mentally ill person. Pretty much everything written here is wrong on every level and presented as fact. If this is how young women think there is no hope for the future.

And yet the examiner are giving her a platform to spew this ****e. Beggars belief.

neonsofa

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

I was thinking the same thing about hamburgers and hotdogs.

That was an excerpt from the book No? Not her own writing?

alchemist33

I wonder how much the "tenants of the patriarchy" pay in rent each month, and if the patriarchy have any apartments near the city centre.

Outlaw Pete

Here's what she was referring to (well, the film version of it at least) but what it has to do with us, I've no idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaoQNDIf6pY

RacoonQueen

neonsofa wrote: »

The title, I've read it five times, is it a typo or am I just not understanding the structure of the sentence? I can't make it make sense in my mind.

Yeah I can't get past the title myself. It's not a sentence and makes no sense.

Serious question, who is she? (I'm guessing a feminist but I'm guessing she is also famous somehow?) Genuinely never heard of her aside from seeing this thread pop up now and again...

Nermal

Can we stop calling people who we disagree with mentally ill?

markodaly

Nermal wrote: »

Can we stop calling people who we disagree with mentally ill?

Unless of course they are? LON is bat**** crazy. The stuff she wrote and published about her Grandfather was disgusting.

darkdubh

RacoonQueen wrote: »

Yeah I can't get past the title myself. It's not a sentence and makes no sense.

Serious question, who is she? (I'm guessing a feminist but I'm guessing she is also famous somehow?) Genuinely never heard of her aside from seeing this thread pop up now and again...

She writes "Young adult" fiction or YA.

TerrorFirmer

I have removed this quote actually because I mistook another authors piece for Louise O' Neills! My mistake. Though I still think my comment generally reflects what LON is about

Her whole 'bit' is to project her own massive, glaring insecurities and unresolved issues onto the entire female populace, treating them as if they're a hive mind connected by gender.

I cannot believe she gets paid for these wild, swinging rants.

HandsomeBob

Nermal wrote: »

Can we stop calling people who we disagree with mentally ill?

Most certainly not very nice.

I'd agree with what someone else said about her articles. They just come across as her response to someone she knows saying something that pissed her off, and then tries to paint it as the experience of other women.

neonsofa

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Her whole 'bit' is to project her own massive, glaring insecurities and unresolved issues onto the entire female populace, treating them as if they're a hive mind connected by gender.

I cannot believe she gets paid for these wild, swinging rants.

That quoted part of your post is her quoting another author though??

ofcork

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Her whole 'bit' is to project her own massive, glaring insecurities and unresolved issues onto the entire female populace, treating them as if they're a hive mind connected by gender.

I cannot believe she gets paid for these wild, swinging rants.[/QU
Isnt that a quote from an article she was talking about not her own words.

Pero_Bueno

suicide_circus wrote: »

I cannot think of a single instance of a man of my acquaintance describing someone as a "cool girl".

I think it's a new thing here, and has been around in the states for a bit, when I lived there it meant - well a nice down to earth person that was easy to get along with.

Just like a cool guy.

Louise is going on about anal sex, eating hotdogs, farting ... WHAT ????

She is an unhinged nutter.

CatFromHue

ofcork wrote: »

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Her whole 'bit' is to project her own massive, glaring insecurities and unresolved issues onto the entire female populace, treating them as if they're a hive mind connected by gender.

I cannot believe she gets paid for these wild, swinging rants.

Isnt that a quote from an article she was talking about not her own words.

I remember the first time I read this passage from Gillian Flynn’s novel Gone Girl

Yeah, it is a quote from somewhere else.

TerrorFirmer

neonsofa wrote: »

That quoted part of your post is her quoting another author though??

Yep, I got that mixed up sorry, I've removed it now, though my general comment stands.

_Dara_

Bambi985 wrote: »

After reading a thing or two about her background, there is something very sad and obvious in her pathology that plays out in every single article, tweet and Instagram post that she publishes. And no doubt her books too. It's like the driving force behind her writing career and her brand of "feminism" is this continuous "FCUK YOU!" and "I'LL SHOW YOU!" she feels the need to give to the things in her past that she has not reconciled with - her bullies, the men that rejected her, her eating disorder.

I know, I thought I was a heavyweight grudge-holder but I'm a Zen master compared to her.

Wombatman

I hope my daughter never ends up as angry and unhappy as she comes across. Her world view is genuinely pitiful.

darkdubh

markodaly wrote: »

Unless of course they are? LON is bat**** crazy. The stuff she wrote and published about her Grandfather was disgusting.

That bit was just weird. I hope he wasn't alive to read it.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/louise-oneill-i-wonder-if-my-ex-boyfriends-thought-female-sexuality-was-something-to-be-laughed-at-383021.html

suicide_circus

Washing your mental linen in public

The_Kew_Tour

What did she say about her Grandfather?

limnam

Richard Hillman wrote: »

She has mental health issues. She was bullied as a teen by girls who got all the attention from the boys. The girls were your typical girly-girls that put on a show for the boys. Louise, bless her, was more angry at the boys for falling for the act.

Every note and article she writes is a passive aggressive message she is sending to somebody she knows.

Good point, well made.

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