http://rousingdepartures.com/2012/09/07/assuming-the-mantle/ 'Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.' – Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness, 1930. Tue, 14 May 2013 20:14:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://rousingdepartures.com/2012/09/07/assuming-the-mantle/#comment-5116 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:23:28 +0000 https://rousingdepartures.wordpress.com/?p=4778#comment-5116 [...] cultivate a troglodytic public image in the hope of adoration. It’s not enough for me to say that I don’t like being expected to play along with the game of treating misogyny as a defining trait o…. I mean, I do encounter lads who are okay with my not joining in, but still expect me to be somehow [...]

]]> http://rousingdepartures.com/2012/09/07/assuming-the-mantle/#comment-5074 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:32:53 +0000 https://rousingdepartures.wordpress.com/?p=4778#comment-5074 [...] Denny of Little Atoms pointed out to me this piece on comedians using their fans to gang up on critics yesterday. Being a public figure on the internet means having to deal with a barrage of abuse, [...]

]]> http://rousingdepartures.com/2012/09/07/assuming-the-mantle/#comment-5072 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:01:40 +0000 https://rousingdepartures.wordpress.com/?p=4778#comment-5072 [...] shibboleths that I’m expected to observe” By Carissa on September 7, 2012 I didn’t get it, and I haven’t got it for most of the time. I’m only just getting it – the faux-masculine shibboleths that I’m expected to observe, in [...]

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