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Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life
has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just
completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark
is a smile
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Julie Burchill
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Youth, health, wealth and beauty are meant to be fuel, to be burned in pursuit of pleasure, and not fruit to be pickled in anticipation of some future famine. (Hang on a minute and I'll get my sequins out and give you a quick rendition of 'My Way')
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Julie Burchill (The Guardian Columns 1998-2000)
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ΠΠ°Π·Π²Π°Ρ, ΡΠ΅ ΠΊΡΠ°ΡΠΈΠ²ΠΎΡΠΎ Π»ΠΈΡΠ΅ Π΅ ΠΏΠ°ΡΠΏΠΎΡΡ. ΠΠΎ Π½Π΅ Π΅ ΡΠ°ΠΊΠ° - ΡΠΎ Π΅ Π²ΠΈΠ·Π°. Π ΡΡ ΠΈΠ·ΡΠΈΡΠ° Π±ΡΡΠ·ΠΎ.
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Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.
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We sat there smiling at each other, shimmied to a standstill, thinking about all the boys that had wanted us that day, and how none of them had got us, not for a minute; how we'd let them pay for drinks and candyfloss and then run away laughing, their cries of 'Slags!' and 'Bitches' ringing in our ears like respect rather than derision.
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Julie Burchill (Sugar Rush (Sugar, #1))
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It was the flashing lights, and the noise of the machines, and the loud, loud music, all seeming to refract and contract around her, her eyes widening, her hair swooshing, her slow smile shining. She seemed an actual part of the place - all fun, all joy, all shimmery skittering energy.
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Julie Burchill (Sugar Rush (Sugar, #1))
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Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
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Julie Burchill
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As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.
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Julie Burchill
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Diana'
What if she was here to show us a third way? Between pleasure-seeking and piety, between self-obsession and self-denial; a life which is lived to its fullest, with the fact that we are human animals and want to have fun seamlessly blending into the fact that what diminishes others, be it homelessness, illness or war, diminishes all of us?
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I can't help but think of a particularly vicious parody of Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man. First, she is an aborted female foetus, then a cyber bullied schoolgirl, then a raped and trafficked victim of a grooming gang, then a adjudged predatory Lolita responsible for her own molestation by some dirty old man. And that's just before she's old enough to vote. In young adult life, at the height of her beauty, she will groped, grabbed and molested in the street as she goes about her daily business, Seeking refuge from this, she may put herself under the protection of one man through marriage or cohabitation. If he doesn't kill her, she will lose her beauty and become the despised battle axe butt of a million mother in law jokes until she will be an unwanted older woman dying for a drink of water on an NHS hospital ward. Considering that life under the patriarchy can be such a slog, it's a feat of evil genius and the throat-choking cherry on the cake that the 50 Shades of Grey franchise managed to beautify male bullying of women and sell it back to them in their millions as exciting erotica.
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Julie Burchill (Welcome to the Woke Trials)
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Porn is a cheeky abbreviation of a long and ugly word with a history rooted in female slaves bought and sold for the purpose of sexual use, but now reborn as a lovely little chum to all.
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Julie Burchill (Welcome to the Woke Trials)
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What pornography has done is to make life far harder for those women in the front line of sexual servitude in that men now expect prostitutes - not just *civilian* women - to act like porn stars. The repulsive reviews of punters on various online forums bear this out as women are rebuked most often for "staying still" and "looking sad" rather than pretending to enjoy being penetrated by strangers as porn performers do.
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Julie Burchill (Welcome to the Woke Trials)
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It is the proud boast of many a modern man that he has never paid for porn, but he doesn't need to; women pay for it with their physical and mental health everyday. And with their lives. Whereas the average life expectancy in the USA is 78 years old, the average life expectancy of a porn star is 37 years. Not shelf life - actual life.
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Julie Burchill (Welcome to the Woke Trials)
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In the age of cosplay, being a women has been reduced to the ultimate white male privilege; like Buffalo Bill from the Silence of the Lambs, a certain sort of man believes that he can construct a Woman Suit from words and rob us of the privileges which he believes we have. They are not actually murdering us in order to fashion their outfits, but they are attempting to remove our freedoms piece by piece. And they are leaving the bloodied body parts of those too young to understand what their feelings mean as their calling card.
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Julie Burchill (Welcome to the Woke Trials)
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When I see the Woke media supplicating over minorities for their own narcissistic and performative ends, I see the nihilism of white riots to match the black ones. Because the trouble with identity politics is that you make being white an identity too. And if you split yourself off from others of your class because of their colour, dismissing their lived experience as privilege, blaming them for things they haven't done, eventually those people will say "Ok you win. I'll talk to, live among, and vote only with my kind".
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Julie Burchill (Welcome to the Woke Trials)
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It's worth remembering that cheap immigrant labour doesn't just damage indigenous people, but also the people doing it; the Chinese Morcombe Bay cockle pickers died because they had no knowledge of local tides, unlike the local workers, who they replaced by virtue of being paid a pittance.
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Julie Burchill (Welcome to the Woke Trials)
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By championing racial diversity the Woke ruling class has happened upon a smart way of swerving the far greater injustice which exists in this country - the class system, which wastes more lives than any other form of oppression ever invented. So you'll hear a beautiful Bajan accent reading the BBC news - but never a pleb Brummie. Despite those expensive educations, the Woke ruling class don't understand what the uneducated UnWoke working class ask of them, simply because they talk differently; to be dismissed as a CHAV, gammon or Karen, in a milieu which would rather cut out its tongue than dehumanise any other group so, and thus have 99.9% of all life opportunities stifled at birth.
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Julie Burchill (Welcome to the Woke Trials)
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Generally, once men have said that they are feminists, they feel free to behave in whatever scummy manner they see fit towards women. The reason I loathe virtue-signalling so much is not because I'm against people bigging themselves up [...] but because boasting only makes sense when it's about something you do well. People who do nothing worth talking about will invariably boast about the way they are; their virtue-signalling is not a prelude to virtue but rather a substitute for it. In fact in can encourage them to behave even worse than they would otherwise; one thinks of those men working for charities who will happily head into a disaster zone and make whores of the poverty stricken female population.
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Julie Burchill (Welcome to the Woke Trials)
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It's fair to say that men of all classes, creeds, and political colours frequently stand united over the broken body of the universal woman, Their squabbles frequently forgotten.
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Julie Burchill (Welcome to the Woke Trials)
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Wokeness is King Midas in reverse, tarnishing any noble cause it touches, but on no body of struggle has is left as many filthy finger marks in inappropriate places as on feminism. With smoke and mirrors and sleight of hand worthy of a wicked misogynist magician, it has midwifed a monstrous creature, a fauxminism which is centred solely around the stations of the hallowed penis.
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Julie Burchill (Welcome to the Woke Trials)
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The Woke are by their nature young and still crave popularity to a pathetic extent, especially the young middle class women involved; thus the type of feminism they perform for male approval often appears to have been influenced more by the sex industry than by the Suffragettes.
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Julie Burchill (Welcome to the Woke Trials)
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Has anyone noticed that one of the main actions which women appear to play in Woke's Rich Tapestry is ceaseless apologising? Saying sorry for their TERF words, their "cis privilege", their sheer taking up of space in a world where cocks in frocks demand access all areas? It's a wonder we ever got the vote - imagine the Suffragettes today going around apologising to race horses for being insufficiently sensitive to their shared cultural oppression.
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Julie Burchill (Welcome to the Woke Trials)
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There is a lost-girl quality in the nude feminists of Instagram; a topsy-turvy land where women show men their disapproval of manmade rules by delivering up exactly what men want from them. Women have spent decades protesting about wanting to be seen as more than bodies by men - and now the trend is to literally make tits of themselves in a bid to prove that they're independent women.
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Julie Burchill (Welcome to the Woke Trials)
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If a racial or religious minority faced the same scale of ceaseless attacks that females do, we'd call it terrorism, persecution or genocide. When it happens to females, we seem to see it as the luck of the draw.
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Julie Burchill (Welcome to the Woke Trials)
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It's extremely illogical how attacking a man dressed as a women is a hate crime, but attacking an actual woman is not; many trannies are built like brick shit houses (albeit ones which have bad wigs perched atop them) and therefore more than capable of fighting back.
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Julie Burchill (Welcome to the Woke Trials)
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Other hatreds come and go - but it's always open season on women. The threat of femicide is always there in the background, like white noise - the mood music which accompanies the danse macabre of misogyny - and authorities seem intensely relaxed about statistics which would provoke a frenzy of breast-beating if it involved any other group.
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Julie Burchill (Welcome to the Woke Trials)
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I sometimes wonder if we can truthfully call sex offenders fully human; of course they are biologically, but when ones own sexual satisfaction has become the governing principle to the extent that other people are only meat-puppets which act as objects to facilitate it, surely they lose that intangible yet recognisable quality we call "humanity" - the stranger who runs towards danger to help someone they have never met or who queues up in the rain to give a vital part of their body to some poor soul lacking a vital part.
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Julie Burchill (Welcome to the Woke Trials)
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Whenever the rights of women clash with the rights of others, those in power seem extraordinarily keen on letting the side who aren't women win - and their attitudes seem creepily in accord with those of the woke bros. For example, the British police force - PC Plod has been born again as PC PC - seem far more interested in bothering people for online "misgendering" than they do investigating threats by blokes in brassieres to rape TERFs.
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Julie Burchill (Welcome to the Woke Trials)