De Irish Times 'all men are bastards' thread

I don't know about you but I was debating the shrill and hysterical article in the Irish Times, there are no female Bob Dylans out there who we are denied hearing because of bad white men holding women back, also, the writer drones on about women playing bass guitar because it was an easy instrument to play, that fact exists only 'in her head'.

She got an article published based on the outrage caused by Wenner's comments, so he did her a favour with his off colour remarks.
Ah, so you were debating an article that only exists in your head.
 
No one takes issue with him saying that he prefers white male musicians to any other type of musician.

Saying that none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level is denigrating though.

He has acknowledged this himself.
What if he believes that though and if that was the reason he picked those seven?

If the question was why not boybands he could have used the same answer or similarly why those seven he may have said I don't believe any other musicians are as articulate or can compare on an intellectual level. Would there have been controversy, I'd say it would be unlikely. But it wasn't a general question relating to other musicians but one specific to women or black musicians. To be honest I'd prefer to see the interview as opposed to read the written word where context is often lost. He might be a prick I don't know, never heard of him tbh.

As for his acknowledgment I'm sure by the reaction he realised he was potentially in trouble hence the back track. I'm not sure how credible it was, again would like to see that in real time.
 
What if he believes that though and if that was the reason he picked those seven?

If the question was why not boybands he could have used the same answer or similarly why those seven he may have said I don't believe any other musicians are as articulate or can compare on an intellectual level. Would there have been controversy, I'd say it would be unlikely. To be honest I'd prefer to see the interview as opposed to read the written word where context is often lost.

As for his acknowledgment I'm sure by the reaction he realised he was potentially in trouble hence the back track. I'm not sure how credible it was, again would like to see that in real time.
The fact that he believes a racist or sexist view doesn't make it less racist or sexist.

Here is the full article

It is clear from it that the interviewer is trying to get Wenner to reconsider what he is saying, but he doubles down on it.
 
His area of interest is rock music, so his focus on the biggest and most influential practitioners of that musical genre should come as no surprise, he didn't deny the debt that rock owes to blues music afaik.

The fact is that the giants of rock music are mostly white men, the likes of Dylan, Lennon, McCartney, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Chris De Burgh, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Brian Wilson, Jim Morrison, Van Morrison, Morrissey etc.

Facts are stubborn things.
Morrissey and Chris De Burgh…oh my that’s quite a brave thing to do including them with the likes of Bowie, McCartney and Lennon. Not fit to lace their boots.
 
Some guy apparently wrote that he likes Bono and Bob Dylan and considers them masters of their craft.
Aoife thinks he should listen to fiddy cent and say he's the bestest.

What Aoife fails hard on is not noticing that the man said Bono was a master of his craft and that, therefore, his opinions are not to be taken seriously by anyone that likes music.
What Aoife fails even harden on is that everyone likes different things.
What Aoife fails hardest on is that different individuals hold different opinions and that one man's opinion is not everybody's.

In short, Aoife is trying to be right on, but comes across as a moron.
Louise O’Neill will have her woke bae Tupac on that list fo’ sho!
 
Would someone with an IT subscription be able to post Una Mullallys article today about commercial property? I'd be interested to read it

Thanks in advance

Edit: Just got it there. What a load of absolute bullshit. Una must really be struggling for content at the moment
 
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Here's her piece:

The facts of office vacancy in Dublin are well known. It is going to get worse. Where are the policies to address this huge issue?

Last Friday, Killian Woods in the Business Post reported on a new piece of analysis by BNP Paribas Real Estate Ireland, saying Dublin would require 78,000 extra jobs to fill the oversupply of 250,000 square metres of office space that will be embedded in the city by next year. This is the equivalent of more than 15 times the number of full-time Google employees in Ireland, 10 times the personnel of the Irish Army, more than twice the number of post-primary school workers in the entire country, and more than 14 times the size of Dublin City Council’s staff. On what planet is this even logical?

To put the size of this office space oversupply in context, an area of 250,000 square metres stretches from the National Gallery, westward to Marks & Spencer on Grafton Street, north to the intersection of O’Connell Bridge on the south quays, and eastward to Talbot Bridge, taking in almost the entire Trinity College campus. This is an area of 62 acres, or 34 soccer pitches.

Considering there are just currently 330 rental properties listed on Daft.ie (including student accommodation and bedsits for rent) across the entire city postcodes of Dublin 1, Dublin 2, Dublin 7 and Dublin 8 combined, someone is not joining the dots. The number of new workers that would be required to fill this space – should that even be possible, which it’s not – betrays the complete absence of any kind of cohesive planning, not just regarding labour market projections, but especially regarding housing.










[ How Dublin’s unloved offices could become homes: ‘It’s easier to convert Irish office buildings’ ]

Ghost offices pockmark the city. They are the new ghost estates. This was utterly predictable. When I cycle around the capital now, as I do almost every day, the streetscapes are becoming increasingly incoherent with vacant office buildings, most of which are incredibly ugly. Now we’re stuck with them. Vacancy and dereliction are often illustrated by the old and the crumbling, but that’s only part of the problem (and it is a big problem in itself). Dublin’s new era of vacancy is high-end office blocks. This is an astonishing, almost cavalier use of land, construction power, materials and time. For what? We don’t need any more of this stuff.


When I look at these hulking blocks now, in Smithfield, on Dawson Street, around Tara Street, all I can think of is how amazing it would have been had flats been built instead. There could have been thousands of affordable homes built in the city centre instead of this foolhardy construction. At a time when we’re told it’s almost impossible to build housing due to construction costs – despite the fact that there is an acute demand for housing – there appears to have been no issue in throwing up office blocks at volume, scale, and speed, despite the collapsing demand.

The depressing part is the waste. We’re not making any more land. For now, as people sleep on the streets, as families are holed up in hostels and hotel rooms, as refugees and asylum-seekers pitch tents, as adults fall asleep in their childhood bedrooms wondering when the day will arrive when they can decorate their own place and have friends over for dinner and solve the world’s problems across their own kitchen table, as immigrant workers are stacked in bunk beds in what are effectively tenements across the capital, as students fall asleep on buses while they commute to Dublin for hours to attend their college lectures, as couples and families queue in the rain to view flats with dozens of others, as young people travel to the airport and port as they are exiled by the rental crisis, and as people are evicted, the sound of silence already echoes through the countless empty corridors of dead-end office blocks in Dublin city. Their vast lobbies are desolate, the sunlight shaded by “to let” vinyl signs stretched across floor-to-ceiling glass. The boardrooms gather dust. And the clattering of construction continues. There’s still more to come.



Woods also reported that three-fifths of the office space under construction in Dublin has no future tenants lined up. This is madness. The pace of job growth in Ireland is slowing. A jobs growth of 78,000 – required to fill these new offices – is 1,000 more jobs than mayor Eric Adams is predicting for New York City for 2024, while that city’s comptroller is much more pessimistic, predicting a growth of 27,000 jobs. That’s a city of eight and a half million people, the largest municipal economy in North America, and characterised as the world’s largest financial, media and advertising centre.

The urban fabric of Dublin is increasingly becoming defined by dysfunction, and a key strand of this dysfunction looks and feels an awful lot like Celtic Tiger-era delusion – but this time around it is the commercial – not residential – property market that is on the brink. The wheels have come off, and no one is shouting stop.

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Thank you

Do you agree with her, or am I being unfair to call her analysis bullshit?
 
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