Me and K-Punk in agreement re: Mark Stewart. Good bit of text there, nice one. The stuff about not being embarrassed especially, is crucial, I think. It’s one of the cornerstones of alientation, isn’t it? The feeling that if you try and actually DO something which isn’t part of the prescribed list of acceptable work/leisure, that everyone will just laugh at you. And of course, maybe some people will.

Speaking of alienation I can’t believe Mark is still entertaining all that hogwash about femininity = capitalism. The original piece he refers to just seemed to be a very thin piss-take along the lines of “oh well women go shopping a lot so therefore an attack on women is an attack on capitalism”.