“We were there too, the other geeks and weird kids whose lives were hellish at school, who escaped into books and computers, who stayed up all night scanning obscure forums, looking for transcendence, dreaming of elsewhere. We were there too,… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump is a bloviating freakshow of the id whose job it is to articulate the ugliest parts of the modern psyche with enough… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself staggered by how much they have read, how creatively they think and how curiously bullshit-resistant they are. Because of the subjects I write about, I am often contacted by young people and I see it as a part… — Laurie Penny Copy Share
“It has been noted that many of the soi-disant ‘disruptive’ products being marketed as game changers by Silicon Valley startup kids are things that women thought of years ago. Food substitutes like Soylent and Huel are pushed as the future of nutrition while women have been consuming exactly the same stuff for years as weight-loss shakes and meal replacements. People… — Laurie Penny Copy Share
“Men, particularly nerdy men, are socialised to blame women – usually their peers and/or the women they find sexually desirable – for the trauma… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“At seventy-one, when I met her, she was small and delicate and dangerous, like a cupcake full of razors.” — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
Public ‘career feminists’ have been more concerned with getting more women into ‘boardrooms,’ when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms,… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
The problem is capitalism. The problem is that in order to sell seven billion people on the necessity of globalisation, we've created a moral… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“Without courage, our generation is doomed to another decade of political disenfranchisement and shit music.” — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“It is not elitist to look fascism in the face and reject it. It is not anti-democratic to carry on believing in a society where there is space for everyone. Fighting for tolerance, justice and dignity for women, queer people and people of colour is not frivolous or vain. Who decided that it was? Who decided that only those who… — Laurie Penny Copy Share
Those who are so eager for women and girls to go back to the kitchen might think again about just what it is we… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“I’m sure that Trump wants to sit in a shiny chair in the Oval Office and have people tell him all day that he’s… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
