Back in Ye Olden Dayes they used to kick the young 'uns out of the nest at an early age, either to school, or into service or apprenticeship, depending on class.
Now Ye Parentes are so anxious about their little darlings that even after they are legally old enough to vote, drink, have sex, and go to university, they monitor every detail of their ( Read more... )

I was mystified, and going 'what's your motivation here, luvvie?' by that guy who said he was playing the piano in a Bristol park to win back his ex and would not stop until he had.
Which seemed to me, along a spectrum from 'aw, romantic gesture' to 'equivalent of holding breath until turns blue', a lot closer to the latter.
Do we not think when ( Read more... )

I suspect that you either see this as a lovely romantic story or as dangerously pathological and encouraging a very dodgy mindset: Canadian searches for Irish girl who stole his heart.... dentist from Kelowna, British Columbia, has travelled thousands of miles back to Ireland to find a red haired, freckled girl he saw once in a café in County ( Read more... )

Dept of, Hope I Die Before I Get Old. Discussion about article by Some Guy in his 50s saying he thinks the desideratum is to just fade away at 75. I dunno, this strikes me, if he is nowhere near that age as yet, pretty much like 'life is completely downhill after 30!', and is possibly due to similar failure to imagine that there could be any other ( Read more... )

[H]e claimed he sent the messages to exercise his right to freedom of speech and to “satirise” the issue of online trolling.
Labour MP says Peter Nunn, who was jailed for 18 weeks for threatening her on social media, led her to install panic button
And he's claiming that it was what, some kind of performance art?
Or classic case of 'That Word, I Do ( Read more... )

I am sorry for the distress that James Lasdun experienced from his stalker, but I am just a tad weary of the popularity of the motif of stalker-is-female, and being A Story, when I am led to believe that, statistically, far more men stalk women than vice versa.

This is perhaps because it resonates with my feelings aroused yesterday, not so much by ( Read more... )

But o dear, Naomi Wolf's orgasms DO.NOT.WANT. And am I just being unduly cynical or is it with her not so much 'no knowledge but I knows it' but knowledge doesn't exist until she knows it and then it is AMAZING NEW DISCOVERY.

Because how is this new information? (Stella Browne was saying this c. 1915, and the Big Science stuff was surely being ( Read more... )

Two instances, I would suggest, of Point Thahr Misst:

Yet another case of some bloke fixating on a woman he's never met or only had fleeting contact with or who gave him the heave-ho a good decade ago, with added not-the-way-to-woo-her:
One morning I did a U-turn and followed her into her car park - I parked and she came out smiling. I pulled out ( Read more... )

I had thought that at my years I was probably reasonably safe from obsessed stalkers, but am given pause by this:
Restraining order for pensioner who tried to woo the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire
(saw this in today's Guardian print edition but can't find it online.)
She's 90. He's a young sprig of 75.

I will concede that maybe the being a Duchess ( Read more... )

I was bothered by reading this the other day: U Be Dead is a TV drama based on the real-life case of a stalker and her victims.

This seems to me one of those tropes where the fictive presentation of same is inversely proportional to its real-life occurrence - see also, for another example, The Story of Adele H, also 'based on a true-life case'.

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