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

Max Prophet

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Louise is in the Irish Times Magazine this week end and guess who asked her the questions?
Una Mullally, so it should be a hard hitting interview.

Thank fook its paywalled. Protects the innocent !

buried

The front cover of the paper magazine is some laugh. Posing like the Virgin Mary Mother of God. All that's missing is her feet stomping down on a snake.

NewbridgeIR

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Louise is in the Irish Times Magazine this week end and guess who asked her the questions?
Una Mullally, so it should be a hard hitting interview.

Circle jerk.

hatrickpatrick

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Louise is in the Irish Times Magazine this week end and guess who asked her the questions?
Una Mullally, so it should be a hard hitting interview.

That's not an interview any more than Donald Trump appearing on Fox News is an "interview". It'll be an SJW circlejerk and nothing more.

Sonics2k

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Circle jerk.

A bit like this whole thread really.

DavidLyons_

Sonics2k wrote: »

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Circle jerk.

A bit like this whole thread really.

Howya Louise.

hatrickpatrick

Sonics2k wrote: »

A bit like this whole thread really.

Absolutely. The difference is that this thread makes no claim, nor has any legal requirement, to be in any way impartial. A mainstream journalist interviewing a subject, on the other hand, has both an ethical and as far as I know, legal requirement (under Irish BAI rules) to do so.

JRant

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Louise is in the Irish Times Magazine this week end and guess who asked her the questions?
Una Mullally, so it should be a hard hitting interview.

Good Lord, what were they thinking?

Someone at the Times has a tremendous sense of humour.

_Dara_

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Absolutely. The difference is that this thread makes no claim, nor has any legal requirement, to be in any way impartial. A mainstream journalist interviewing a subject, on the other hand, has both an ethical and as far as I know, legal requirement (under Irish BAI rules) to do so.

I don’t think interviewers have to be impartial really. They’re not reporting news. They often make comments on their subject, in fact I think many interviewers excel at being pretty judgemental. Read some of Lynn Barber’s interviews and you won’t think that being impartial is a requirement of the job. The subject is often filtered through the writer’s own worldview.

Same as columnists really who write opinion pieces. They aren’t held to impartiality either.

Yer Da sells Avon

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

A mainstream journalist interviewing a subject, on the other hand, has both an ethical and as far as I know, legal requirement (under Irish BAI rules) to do so.

With all due respect, they do in their hole.

JRant

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

That's not an interview any more than Donald Trump appearing on Fox News is an "interview". It'll be an SJW circlejerk and nothing more.

Louise: I think you're great Una
Una: No, I think you're great Louise
Louise: Patriarchy
Una: Patriarchy
Louise: Patriarchy
Una: Patriarchy
Louise: Patriarchy
Una: Patriarchy
Louise: Patriarchy
Una: Patriarchy

"Next week we will be back with another hard hitting interview on the topic of 2 balls bad, no balls good"

Sonics2k

DavidLyons_ wrote: »

Howya Louise.

I actually can't stand the woman. I'm just baffled that you people insist on giving her more hits and recognition.


She's a bloody nobody, but people here act like her opinion actually has any impact.

Sweetemotion

Sonics2k wrote: »

I actually can't stand the woman. I'm just baffled that you people insist on giving her more hits and recognition.


She's a bloody nobody, but people here act like her opinion actually has any impact.

Her crazy man hating views get published in a national newspaper so I wouldn't say a bloody nobody.

Yer Da sells Avon

I have an Irish Times subscription (because I'm a very wealthy man) and I skim-read that interview earlier (because I'm a very busy man). Didn't contain anything particularly noteworthy, or anything that would cause offence to even the most easily offended and, let's be totally honest here, obsessive contributors to this thread. No better or worse than any of the usual puffery you'd find in a Saturday paper.

Certainly wouldn't report it to the Bewspaper Authority of Ireland (sic) anyway.

freshpopcorn

Sonics2k wrote: »

I actually can't stand the woman. I'm just baffled that you people insist on giving her more hits and recognition.


She's a bloody nobody, but people here act like her opinion actually has any impact.

To be honest I don't think her views have much of an impact unless you totally agree with her. I find she near does more harm than good.

CatFromHue

Yeah i read it too and it was grand. Just a bit of a back story on Louise, how she writes, her eating troubles, and the like.

The only thing that annoyed me was the choice, by the editor, to use the quote "The hardest place to maintain my feminism is in a relationship with a straight male" in the heading, online heading can't remember if it was in the written edition. This isn't discussed in the piece and is only referenced by I think Una was writing about watching a clip of Louise talking to TCD students and that's where Louise mentions the line. It's a very poor choice of heading as it's nothing to do with what they actually talk about.

buried

The article actually wasn't too bad because it had some information about her Dad's butcher shop which looked good and worth checking out.

darkdubh

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

I have an Irish Times subscription (because I'm a very wealthy man) and I skim-read that interview earlier (because I'm a very busy man). Didn't contain anything particularly noteworthy, or anything that would cause offence to even the most easily offended and, let's be totally honest here, obsessive contributors to this thread. No better or worse than any of the usual puffery you'd find in a Saturday paper.

Certainly wouldn't report it to the Bewspaper Authority of Ireland (sic) anyway.

Sweetemotion

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

I have an Irish Times subscription (because I'm a very wealthy man) and I skim-read that interview earlier (because I'm a very busy man). Didn't contain anything particularly noteworthy, or anything that would cause offence to even the most easily offended and, let's be totally honest here, obsessive contributors to this thread. No better or worse than any of the usual puffery you'd find in a Saturday paper.

Certainly wouldn't report it to the Bewspaper Authority of Ireland (sic) anyway.

It's the hypocrisy of it all that bothers the "obsessive contributors".

You could be damn sure if that was a male talking it would cause huge offence to the most easily offended and he would find himself on the dole queue.

Yer Da sells Avon

Sweetemotion wrote: »

It's the hypocrisy of it all that bothers the "obsessive contributors".

You could be damn sure if that was a male talking it would cause huge offence to the most easily offended and he would find himself on the dole queue.

What are you on about?

Sweetemotion

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

What are you on about?

I have no idea. What was the question again?

Yer Da sells Avon

Sweetemotion wrote: »

I have no idea. What was the question again?

I can't remember. Are those my feet?

Sweetemotion

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

I can't remember. Are those my feet?

They smell like yours.

freshpopcorn

Guys try and keep this on topic!

Yer Da sells Avon

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Guys try and keep this on topic!

Apologies for dragging such a serious and important thread off topic.

Birneybau

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Guys try and keep this on topic!

They sure do

_Dara_

Sweetemotion wrote: »

Her crazy man hating views get published in a national newspaper so I wouldn't say a bloody nobody.

She’s clickbait! Most newspaper have a few clickbait journalists on their payroll. Why can’t people get this? And going by this thread, it works.

Bunny Colvin

Where is Sam Boland. I'm not on Twitter but I want to know if he is.

freshpopcorn

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

Where is Sam Boland. I'm not on Twitter but I want to know if he is.

He had a Twitter account and would have being considered a male feminist. He rose to fame a few weeks ago when he said he always knew Friends(TV series) was homophobic!

Bunny Colvin

freshpopcorn wrote: »

He had a Twitter account and would have being considered a male feminist. He rose to fame a few weeks ago when he said he always knew Friends(TV series) was homophobic!

Sure I know him well. Myself and Sam go as far back as this thread.