![]() ![]() Athletes might ski on fake snow, robots are “disinfecting the air”, and events “are staffed by workers not in sportswear but hazmat suits”. “Imagine a dystopian Olympics,” says Lindsay Crouse. Kay is “utterly oblivious to the intensity of female shame”, but “you can’t expiate your pain at the expense of women at their most vulnerable”. The “misogyny”, says Gold, “is relentless”. Women “are reduced, consciously or not, to a series of stinging and repulsive orifices with imbeciles attached to them”. ![]() So instead, “we have his disgust, for instance, for old women”, or “for the sex worker who has a Fireman Sam sponge trapped inside her”. He “plays” the tragedy of a baby dying “for laughs”, in part because “the book he should have written would have been too truthful, and it is not a book people wish to read”. Its gaze is so masculine the TV show had to invent a leading female character out of nothing, for balance.” In his memoir, Kay “is in denial”, Gold says. ![]() It contributes to the already swollen canon of female shame. Kay’s memoir “is riven with self-hatred, and hatred for female bodies. The BBC’s televised series of Adam Kay’s 2017 memoir This Is Going to Hurt is “a travesty of the book”, says Tanya Gold at UnHerd she suspects the broadcaster considered the story “unfilmable”. Now “the all-seeing eye of technology” looms large, and while “people will act sneakily, horribly or hypocritically”, “the space for ‘getting away with it’ has shrunk considerably”. For centuries humans thought they were “watched and judged by an all-seeing God”, and “the fear of divine punishment shaped private behaviour”. 10 flat or the one of the PM sinking shots of sambuca off the Hands, Face, Space podium?” Today, digital kompromat is “the thread running through many of the scandals of our times”, the players of which have “made the mistake of thinking they were operating in the private realm, failing to realise how far digital kompromat has eaten into the very notion of privacy”. Foges imagines “ the mastermind behind all this pondering which pictorial bombshell to drop next: the one of the conga around the No. Last week a photograph of Boris Johnson “in a party-like situation, a bottle of champagne in the frame as well as a tinsel-wearing colleague”, emerged. This type of warfare “is not only the business of operators in the Kremlin”. “Kompromat that smoke-wreathed, le Carre-evoking, Soviet-era word,” says Clare Foges at The Times. Last month Defence Secretary Ben Wallace warned that “kompromat” is among Vladimir Putin’s weaponry. As “agony uncle”, Hatfield’s advice is to find someone who “really does want to go to Fulham v Huddersfield with you”, though perhaps wrap it up “in a red-silk bow”. And couples can also feel the “strain” too. How many of us say this,” he continues, “yet still book that swanky restaurant three months in advance”? Some single people “will feel painfully conscious” of their relationship status today, “perhaps even lonely and depressed”. To couples, Hatfield says: “ignore the day at your peril – even if you’ve both professed profound disdain for kitsch roses, heart-shaped helium balloons and teddy bears with love message t-shirts. The 14th of February is “pregnant with pitfalls”, and it’s also “one of the most difficult things to get right”. “We all know it’s nonsense, don’t we?”, one of several occasions that are “the cynical constructs of greetings card manufacturers… florists and chocolatiers”. “If you’ve only just realised it’s Valentine’s Day, the only possible course of action remaining is to go big,” says Stefano Hatfield at the i news site.
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