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Laurie Penny

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Author, journalist, narrative designer, screenwriter. Geek, gender goblin, feminist killjoy, force of culture. Writer for hire, weirdo for free. They/them.
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There's Only One Wrong Opinion About The Odyssey.

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By Laurie Penny
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We’re all trapped inside modern fascism’s paranoid retcon engine, but it doesn’t work like they want it to. That’s one reason the fragile failsons of the New Right can’t cope with Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey - which is, among other things, a warning about what happens when vainglorious start stupid, self-serving wars and then run away from responsibility. Matt Damon’s Odysseus spends three soggy screen-hours being sorry for doing a genocide, even though we all know personal growth is for simps.
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The Boys Was the Show This Era Needed, and the One It Deserved, Too - Reactor

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By Laurie Penny
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Not long ago, I was in a bar with three drunk Norwegians, having a fight about Superman. They thought the world would be better if Superman really existed. I disagreed. Nobody, no matter how well-meaning or well-coiffed, should have that much power. “But Superman is a good man!” said the Norwegians, who come from a country with extremely high social trust on top of a giant oilfield. “Alright. But what if he wasn’t?” The Superman question is obviously, actually, about billionaires.
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Feminists began raising the alarm about the manosphere decades ago – and we were ignored

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By Laurie Penny
| MSN UK Verified
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