Brendan O’Neil is worse than Topman Tshirts, and Topman Tshirts are shit.
Rather typically, anger has inspired me to once again put fingers to keyboards after a quiet spell on tumblr.
I’m about to be one of those moaning internet bloggers for five minutes. I’ll try to post something artsy-fartsy afterwards, or something astoundingly hilarious. Failing that i’ll just reblog a mildly amusing meme like everyone does….
In a piece about ‘feminist’ reaction to the two awful Topman Tshirts, (you know the ones, the really misogynistic ones, the one’s full of ‘LAD’ banter, you know, Oh wait you’re right, that’s ALL of them, but remember the two that likened women to dogs and might have suggested that there’s always an excuse for domestic violence, well we’re talking about those ones) Brendan O’Neil (telegraph) named his article ‘Why are feminists getting their knickers in a twist about Topman T-shirts?’. I hoped, upon stumbling across this title, that the article which followed would rightly explain why these T-shirts caused such a stir -namely that it made such derogatory ‘banter’ a worrying part of normal day-to-day life, thus making his title rather witty- directly drawing attention to the danger of a casual sexist behavior developing.
But no. Brandon was not being witty or ironic. He instead went on to claim that the reason feminists were angry was because feminists
“are driven by the elitist belief that there are some people out there (whisper it: working-class lads) who cannot distinguish right from wrong and therefore must have their eyes and ears protected from poisonous words”.
How a man can get so confused as to honestly suggest the feminist movement is secretly about class, and not gender at all, is quite ridiculous.
It’s more worrying that Brendon doesn’t realise that he himself, evidently middle class from his profession, doesn’t realise that he might be the feminists problem, since it’s just those ‘working class’ men the feminists don’t like. It says far more about Brandon’s own ideas of social classes than it ever does about the feminist.
He hasn’t realised that his commentary is exactly why feminists are angry.
What a posh, snobbish, sexist git.
