Basically Like

32 thoughts on “Basically Like”

1. Caroline August 10, 2015 at 4:49 pm

   More interested in how Evoke came up with their snappy tagline…
   1. Funk August 10, 2015 at 5:23 pm

      Did Ewok leave broadsheet to set up Evoke?
      1. Clampers Outside! August 10, 2015 at 7:46 pm

         Ba-dum-thud :)
   2. Parochial Central August 10, 2015 at 7:54 pm

      here’s how: http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/news/features/2015/06/10/signs-you-are-a-basic-bitch
2. human August 10, 2015 at 4:52 pm

   Ireland is always at least 2 years behind the rest of the civilized world
   1. Mike August 10, 2015 at 8:56 pm

      Blah blah blah. Typical pseudo liberal middle class self loathing. Idiots can be found everywhere. Try Rakkah right now
3. Dόn Pídgéόní August 10, 2015 at 4:53 pm

   Meh. We get worse so you just get used it.

   Having said that, calling women basic is very lame.
4. fluffybiscuits August 10, 2015 at 4:55 pm

   Makes the journal.ie look like Pulitzer prize winning stuff and thats hard to do
   1. Custo August 10, 2015 at 5:33 pm

      Oooh some serious ‘shade’ thrown there

      ©thejournal
   2. dhaughton99 August 10, 2015 at 5:42 pm

      Isn’t it an off-shoot of the ‘Irish’ Daily Mail?
      1. fluffybiscuits August 10, 2015 at 5:43 pm

         One saucer of milk to go thanks
5. Spaghetti Hoop August 10, 2015 at 4:56 pm

   A tin foil skirt and an Aran gansy doesn’t exactly shout ‘bitch’ to me…but I’m no fashionista I tell yiz.
6. Small Wonder August 10, 2015 at 4:56 pm

   Don’t worry. Feminists don’t read Evoke.ie.
7. Mr. T. August 10, 2015 at 5:23 pm

   Nobody cares.
   1. Truth Told August 11, 2015 at 3:16 pm

      Precisely. One whingebag engages in a whinge and Broadsheet consider it worthy of a post. FFS. I can look on Twitter for this kind of moany plop.
8. nellyb August 10, 2015 at 5:28 pm

   Haven’t seen feminists here, only egalitarians… Or feminists disguised as egalitarians. Or post-feminists. Or whatever label thou printer can print
   1. Don Pidgeoni August 10, 2015 at 7:47 pm

      There are quite a few of us
9. Person August 10, 2015 at 6:13 pm

   Is it not a reference to this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaghIdSJKvQ
   1. Clampers Outside! August 10, 2015 at 7:57 pm

      I believe it is. They’re basically (sorry) every hipster’s worst nightmare
      1. Parochial Central August 10, 2015 at 8:12 pm

         This is the lady to really stick it to the fashion-averse right-on Portobello MVP set:

         http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/watch-kate-moss-re-enact-basic-5852972
10. ___ August 10, 2015 at 6:35 pm

    But…”basic bitch” really isn’t a “woman-hater” term at all…
11. missred August 10, 2015 at 7:09 pm

    Well I’m a feminist and the term doesn’t offend me in that way at all. Far more embarrassing is white people co-opting black vernacular in an attempt to sound cool
    1. P August 10, 2015 at 8:06 pm

       I’m not really sure what “black vernacular” is. Is it like blue vernacular at all?
12. Jess August 10, 2015 at 7:32 pm

    Well im a feminist and i think it is bloody stupid for the independant to be adopting this language. but this is little more than typically crap independent journalism which is no better quality than a university paper.
    1. Jess August 10, 2015 at 7:38 pm

       oh wait this isnt the independent. oh well, even less to care about so
13. Parochial Central August 10, 2015 at 7:50 pm

    It isn’t hip-hop slang.

    Try Kate Moss.
14. Parochial Central August 10, 2015 at 7:52 pm

    Plus, if it’s good enough for Glamour Magazine:

    http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/news/features/2015/06/10/signs-you-are-a-basic-bitch

    Cue next week’s article from Una Mullally. Widely read by er, Basic B…
15. KirkenBrenner August 10, 2015 at 10:11 pm

    Ah sure it doesn’t take much to upset the auld feminists. Not having a mickey usually gets them all riled up.
16. Inopro August 10, 2015 at 10:36 pm

    Provoke.ie ?
17. Domestos August 10, 2015 at 11:37 pm

    aka Normcore, an anti-hipster response. Or you could have an academic discussion on the sociolinguistics of the term, with a most certainly intentional pun contained herein.
18. Domestos August 11, 2015 at 12:16 am

    More news from the front:
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/frigid-offices-freezing-women-oblivious-men-an-air-conditioning-investigation/2015/07/23/bdd1b4b4-30ae-11e5-97ae-30a30cca95d7_story.html
19. dereviled August 11, 2015 at 6:29 am

    GQ has a feature on “How to Look a Total Bo11ox” in a daring piece of self-awareness,
    (Spoilers- No jeans-and-sports-jacket!) while Dear Simon deals with questions on penis envy down the gym.

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