Dozens of rich men trapped on a boat with short haired feminist Laurie Penny
12-05-2018, 05:02 PM
Laurie Penny : Previously, previously, previously, previously
Somehow people still give her money to write stupid shit on the internet.
Four Days Trapped at Sea With Crypto’s Nouveau Riche
https://breakermag.com/trapped-at-sea-wi...veau-riche
Spoiler alert: after 4 days her unspoken dream of finding a charming billionaire to save her from her empty boring life is still unfulfilled. Crypto nerds and businessmen alike don't want anything to do with a dumpy short-haired feminist harpy, I guess.
"I am incompetent and incapable of functioning as an adult"
"See above note about professional incompetence"
Hey, look at that! Nobody gives a shit about listening to a woman complaining.
Because insinuating younger hotter women are prostitutes is a feminist action.
The other girls are still younger and hotter though.
Thanks for femsplaining the motivations of successful businessmen. It couldn't be that men have money and men like attractive women.
Yep, nobody likes you yet you still expect them to care about your bleatings.
Josh sounds like a homosexual. Alternatively, conversations that never happened.
Intelligent, educated, yet completely ignorant beyond tabloid details about somewhere that millions of Britons have visited.
Somehow people still give her money to write stupid shit on the internet.
Four Days Trapped at Sea With Crypto’s Nouveau Riche
https://breakermag.com/trapped-at-sea-wi...veau-riche
Spoiler alert: after 4 days her unspoken dream of finding a charming billionaire to save her from her empty boring life is still unfulfilled. Crypto nerds and businessmen alike don't want anything to do with a dumpy short-haired feminist harpy, I guess.
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Two months ago, an editor from BREAKER called and asked if I wanted to go on a four-day Mediterranean cruise with hundreds of crypto-crazed investors and evangelists. We’ll cover the travel, he said. Write something long about whatever you find, he said. It was 2 a.m. and I was over-caffeinated. I remember explaining that I know almost nothing about either cruises or blockchain, in the way that Sir Ian McKellen, in the criminally underrated series Extras, explains that he is not actually a wizard. Five days later I was at the port of Barcelona, boarding a ship. By which point it was way too late to wonder for the umpteenth time about my life choices.
"I am incompetent and incapable of functioning as an adult"
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and I knew, too, that cryptocurrencies are the pet untraceable funding model of the far-right.
"See above note about professional incompetence"
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After his event, the attendees mob the aisles to get closer to their heroes—entirely ignoring the “beautiful ladies” who the host tells us have just taken the stage for the “women in blockchain” panel. It’s a shame, because they miss moderator Olga Feldmeier’s summation, delivered in a pitch-perfect Russian lilt: “Being a woman in blockchain,” she says, “is like riding a bicycle. Except the bicycle is on fire. And everything is on fire. And you are going to hell.”
Hey, look at that! Nobody gives a shit about listening to a woman complaining.
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The sea-swell swaying hallways are full of moody Eastern European teenagers in impractical heels. “We’re here as…as help,” one of them tells me in the elevator. She doesn’t look up from her phone.
Because insinuating younger hotter women are prostitutes is a feminist action.
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The men I meet are only too keen to tell me how refreshingly different I am from the other girls here. They’re right. I’m different from the other girls in that I’m older, have more social capital, and am probably getting paid more. That means I can afford to have less patience.
The other girls are still younger and hotter though.
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One of the ways men bond is by demonstrating collective power over women. This is why business deals are still done in strip clubs, even in Silicon Valley, and why tech conferences are famous for their “booth babes.” It creates an atmosphere of complicity and privilege. It makes rich men partners in crime. This is useful if you plan to get ethically imaginative with your investments. Hence the half-naked models, who are all working a lot harder than any of the guys in shirtsleeves.
Thanks for femsplaining the motivations of successful businessmen. It couldn't be that men have money and men like attractive women.
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She is skeptical about the all the evangelizing. “When these women talk about how it’s a new industry, there are not as many barriers, we can build it to be how we want it…I just think that’s bullshit, because the crypto space didn’t just evolve out of nowhere. A lot of the evangelizing of it came from places that are actually hostile to women, like 4chan. Blockchain doesn’t need more women, it needs more feminists.”
“I guess neither of us are a lot of fun to be with,” I say, quoting the women-in-blockchain panel. She giggles, then grimaces.
Yep, nobody likes you yet you still expect them to care about your bleatings.
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Not every guy is having a blast. Josh, an Australian activist and hacker who was sent on this cruise “as a treat for work,” is not enjoying himself. Why? “Because of chauvinism, misogyny,” he says. “I’ve witnessed people who are supposed to be thought leaders in this space talking over women on panel discussions when the woman was right.” He gestures to the hostesses, who surround us on the neon-drenched deck. “And they—they don’t wanna be here, it’s work for them. It’s just another misogynistic exercise to make us nerds look like we’re cool in the photos. It feels a little bit like a brothel. It’s gross.”
Josh sounds like a homosexual. Alternatively, conversations that never happened.
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Growing up in the U.K., the Spanish island of Ibiza was a byword for drunk British jocks on holiday, heading out to pick up exotic new tunes and entirely predictable infections. I didn’t realize it was also a stunningly beautiful place
Intelligent, educated, yet completely ignorant beyond tabloid details about somewhere that millions of Britons have visited.
"I'd hate myself if I had that kind of attitude, if I were that weak." - Arnold