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My theory re the bombast around Hyde is that these liberal men have come to regard how funny you find her column as a barometer of intelligence. They think that the more they praise her the cleverer they& #39;ll appear. https://twitter.com/chienontheloose/status/1307279220347990016">https://twitter.com/chienonth...
Some will read her column and feel stupid because they don& #39;t laugh and simp even harder over it to compensate. It won& #39;t ever occur to them that it& #39;s just not funny.
I used to think they must just get horny over her weird Geoffrey Boycott mouth or something but I now honestly think it& #39;s a cultural signpost. They& #39;ll all have done the same thing with Radiohead albums.
Ironically, part of its appeal is that it& #39;s so studiously middlebrow.
The conceit is that there& #39;s this really complex and grown-up thing called politics that we all understand very deeply cos we& #39;re all part of this educated elite, and by reducing it to a cartoon we& #39;re demonstrating our intellectual superiority.
They like it precisely *because* it& #39;s facile and ostentatiously tossed-off.
