Morons of The Internet (03/06/14)

This is the segment where I scour my favorite forums around the internet and find some particularly interesting articles about current affairs told in the words from some of my favorite human beings.

This time we have a column on The Independent which is in response to one of footballer Joey Barton's comments on last week's edition of Question Time:

"Have you heard the one about four ugly girls and the sexist footballer?"
(http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/have-you-heard-the-one-about-four-ugly-girls-and-the-sexist-footballer-9462023.html)

For those of you who have not seen it yet, there it is the above.

Now Joey Barton is a footballer, not a particularly popular one and he certainly doesn't get any support from me. However on question time he seemed to be on good form, he was more aware of the current political situation than most of the panel and his contributions were to the point and overall very strong. That is of course until this comment, the exact words were: “So if I am somewhere and there were four really ugly girls, I'm thinking, 'Well, she's not the worst', because that is all you are, that is all you are to us.” Now that at a basic literary level is a metaphor, Joey is comparing the political parties in Britain to four women, and UKIP is the best of a bad bunch. I don't know where all this 'he's a sexist' comments come from, because all he's said is that four hypothetical women are ugly, not all women, not even real women, because it's just a metaphor.

Now our columnist here suddenly decides to link this innocent comment with other tragic stories in the news, all of them centered around the subject of sexism. To be honest she may as well have just pulled out a picture of Adolf Hitler and said all men are like this. The author seems to forget that comedy is an art, a subjective form of entertainment, and so she can't dictate whether a joke is funny or not, that's in the eyes of the audience, if she doesn't like a joke then she should just suck it up and quit wining, every comedian will tell you that the best jokes are based on real life and controversial situations. Not that this is a joke, remember it's just a metaphor, an innocent and valid comparison.

She then rambles on about pro feminism bollocks that has absolutely nothing to do with this issue. Joey Barton only mentioned four fictional women, not every women, just four. If this is sexism then society should view every woman as equal, that means every women looks average, who strives to be average? This column is the epitome of everything I hate about feminism, just making wild links between things that have nothing in common. What I'm basically saying is that this was an innocent comment, if you were offended by it then fine, please keep that opinion to yourself and stop crying about it over the internet, as in the end it really doesn't affect you in any way. If you'll excuse the expression, maybe she should just man up.