/lit/ - Literature

Is there any real worth to English Exams?

"...Let’s not be coy: exams are bullshit. On its own merits, a three-hour exam is a pointless waste of your time. Exams are not a test of intelligence, or learning, or recall. Exams are a test of how good you are at passing exams. If your teachers haven’t been clear enough with you about this, don’t be cross with them. Most teachers got into the job because they wanted to educate and inspire young people, not teach them to be fact-regurgitating drones, and it’s not their fault that they have to teach to the test.

Exams are a measure of how well you can play the system. Some of the smartest people I know get poor grades at crunchtime because as soon as they hear “You may now open your papers and start writing”, they panic. This is because, again, exams are not designed to test cleverness but compliance. I’m not the smartest person I know and I’m also constitutionally nervous, but I’ve managed to ace almost every exam I’ve ever taken by training myself to go through the motions, until it came naturally, like playing an instrument...." --Laurie Penny

http://www.newstatesman.com/education/2014/05/laurie-penny-how-pass-your-damn-exams

Woah, what's going on in this thread? It seems like a middle-aged, white, privileged, bigoted, bourgeois male is trying to hawk his racists fantasy trash.

Laurie Penny.

It's time to admit that Laurie Penny is the true queen of /lit/. She embodies everything this board is.

>>3894027
>Please, I thought we were finished with all that LP shit.
Oh, no. It's time for round two, nigga. The first one was a warm up.

>>3644471

yeahthatsatrap/10

Prepare to set your rage dials to ten, it's Laurie Penny time:

"As well as being mightily entertaining, Game of Thrones is racist rape-culture Disneyland with Dragons. To say that this series is problematic in its handling of race and gender is a little like saying that Mitt Romney is rich: technically accurate, but an understatement so profound that it obscures more than it reveals. Take, for example, one single sub-plot: a very young princess, a blonde and beautiful thirteen-year-old virgin whose remarkable fairness of complexion is a motif of the series, is sold off as a child-bride by her unscrupulous brother, a man who likes to have sex whilst talking about dragons in the bath.

The unfortunate girl’s new husband is a dark-skinned, savage warlord from the Mystical East who, being a savage, is unable to conceive of any sex that isn’t exclusively rape-based, and as such violently assaults the little princess every night. But it’s all ok because a prostitute slave teaches the thirteen-year-old princess super sexy sex skills, and she proceeds to blow the warlord’s mind so throughly that they fall in love. Later in the series she uses her magical blondness and a bunch of baby dragons to free all the slaves in the Mystical East. If the enormous teetering pile of ugly stereotypes here is not immediately obvious, see me after class and we’ll go through it step by step."

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2012/06/game-thrones-and-good-ruler-complex

>dat undercut

>>3503607
I'm quite passionate about global economic change. I see the crippling poverty being forced on third world countries by western consumerism, yet I don't give to charity. I feel no need to stroke my ego by buying my redemption from consumerism.

The way our society is now, charity is ineffectual. You buy organic fair trade coffee and donate a tenner to a woman in the street with a high vis jacket and a stern look, but that makes it worse. The more the general public feels satisfied that their loose pocket change has countered the global disadvantage their lifestyle creates, the longer the situation continues. And yes, little Depak might get a used Manchester United T-shirt with his malaria shot, but the longer giving a used T-shirt is seen as a viable solution by the braying middle class fuckwits who indirectly send him down a mine for the cassiterite in their iPads, the longer Depak's living in squalor and earning 3p a month.

Posting in an epic LP thread.

"You filthy boy," she says. "What am I going to do with you?" Standing up, she grabs my arm and drags me across the floor to the foot of her bed. My cock is so hard that I can barely keep my privileged load from shooting. Mistress Laurie perches on the end of her bed and removes the stockings from her pale white legs. I groan in worthless delight at she presses her foot into my face, her toes spreading to allow my tongue to clean between them.

"You should be grateful to clean your mistress' feet," She tells me, and wraps the stocking around my neck.

"I am mistress Laurie," I groan. The stocking pulls tight and my head feels light. She kicks me in the side of the head before sticking her toes in my mouth again. There is no feeling in this world that can compare to the pleasure of cleaning your feminists toes.

I wriggle my right hand free of its restraint. Glancing up at her I can tell she permits this. I begin to stroke myself, laying there on the floor like the privileged trash I am. I pleasure my worthless cock for my queen.

She swaps feet and allows me to service her other toes. Oh, mistress, I am not worthy. I look up and see has slipped an empowered finger inside herself. She sticks another in, and looks down at me, beating myself into ecstasy and sucking on her toes.

I get a special treat from my mistress as she lets me taste her fingers, swirling them inside my mouth, then fishooking my cheek.

My cock is tensing now. I can feel I'm going to shoot so I slow down. She notices. Jumping down from the bed she squats over my face again and tears of joy fill my eyes as I'm granted a taste of her precious asshole. With my free hand I reach up to touch her, but she slaps me hard. I've angered my Mistress. What does a worthless male like me think he's doing trying to touch his queen?

"Oh mistress," I begin, but it's too late. She kicks me in the ribs and winds me. Picking her bag of feminist delights up from the bed, she pulls out a strap-on....

This is what happens when woman are allowed to have an opinion.

Such a disgrace /lit/... such a waste.

>>3485822
>but once you see her from a profile angle

“Education isn’t a gun held to your head: it’s a weapon in your hands.”
- Laurie Penny,