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Do some people actually think like this? Have just seen a comment on the DM website which made me sick

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comewhinewithme · 16/02/2011 13:06

Fucking hell I was reading this about the attack on a reporter in Egypt when I scrolled down to the comments and some twat has posted this:

"Serves her right.. its about time women reporters started to get the picture and not go to these places - Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, North Africa, etc - the people in these countries in the main do not have the same values as this reporter. So although I do feel sorry for what has happened to her I sincerely hope she has learnt her lesson"

FFS Angry words fail me.

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BlackForestCake · 22/07/2021 15:33

@lospolloshermanos

Its disgusting I posted this in news and politics and noticed one comment at the bottom went something like..

' attractivewomen shouldn't be news reporters men will always distracted '

Senior management at the BBC were still making arguments like this in all seriousness in the 1970s.
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comewhinewithme · 17/02/2011 08:38

When I posted yesterday there were only two fairly twattish comments under the story.

I am glad others have now commented. :)

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SueWhite · 16/02/2011 20:40

But then loads of other people commented 'what is wrong with you' etc. so that person is a bit of a loan freak. If you let every random freak upset you, you will make yourself unhappy

Hatterbox · 16/02/2011 20:37

I often ponder which is worse, the fact The Daily Hate Mail is even in existence, or that people actually buy and read it.

AbsDuCroissant · 16/02/2011 16:40

Yeah, avoid the comments on the DM and the Guardian (and pretty much any newspaper that allows comments on it's sites) and you will live a happier, less stressy life.

Though one of the super self-righteous comments on a Guardian article made me laugh. It was Hugh Feararrdgiu-ritugobnw's column and he was giving pasta recipes and someone posted:
"why are they publishing such nonsense? Shouldn't this article be about Quantative Easing, or the Budget Cuts or the protests in Egypt?"
No you humourless moron. It's about FOOD hence it's in the FOOD section.

lospolloshermanos · 16/02/2011 16:35

These countries are notorious for this sort of behaviour well I'll say cultures.

but to say the reporter is someohow responsible is ridiculous, an Egyptian man ones said to me that women take a risk over here, men are always weaker and women should take it inot account whilst how they dress Shock

this is not uncommon in this culture its instilled, my dads muslim and sputs some crap it needs to stop

LadyBlaBlah · 16/02/2011 16:25

They are mediated comments aswell Shock

Lots of people genuinely are staggeringly prejudice about all sorts of things.

madwomanintheattic · 16/02/2011 16:22

i can't read the comments on the msn news page any more either. it's full of racist, sexist, disablist homophobic ranting. what scares me is these people are out there voting in a town hall hall near you...

from a statistical and democratic pov, i continue to hope that it isn't representative of the general population.

Unrulysun · 16/02/2011 16:17

I had many happy hours on Speak your Branes until I took someone to task for saying that when he was at school...blah blah...sluts...blah blah and was essentially accused of being a humourless dyke. I wasn't bothered about the dyke bit...

TondelayoSchwarzkopf · 16/02/2011 15:17

Second comments about Speak Your Branes - I have lost many hours there.

David51 · 16/02/2011 15:12

more info on women in those backward Arab cultures that don't share "our" values:

www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54439

David51 · 16/02/2011 14:41

harvalp
"the people in these countries in the main do not have the same values as this reporter."

Do you think that is untrue?. Because if you do, you are living in your own private little dream world.

So what's your point harvalp? Do you agree with what that mob did? Or are you such a racist that you think we can't expect anything better from those pesky foreigners?

harvalp · 16/02/2011 14:28

"the people in these countries in the main do not have the same values as this reporter."

Do you think that is untrue?. Because if you do, you are living in your own private little dream world.

lospolloshermanos · 16/02/2011 14:25

Its disgusting I posted this in news and politics and noticed one comment at the bottom went something like..

' attractivewomen shouldn't be news reporters men will always distracted '

BananaMad · 16/02/2011 14:24

WTF?! I knew commenters on the DM were bad, but I actually feel sick after reading that comment. Shock
My thoughts are with that poor journalist

TeiTetua · 16/02/2011 14:10

This is where the Daily Mail is the same as the Guardian--if people are allowed to make comments, there are some out there who want to unleash their inner 8-year-old. Maybe there are some gems to find, but I've given up on reading comments.

SmellsLikeTeenStrop · 16/02/2011 13:59

The article says 140 journalists have been killed or injured since January reporting these unrests, but only women should 'learn their lessons' and go home. What a fecking twat.

ThePosieParker · 16/02/2011 13:45

Oh I didn't notice the learnt her lesson crap....

David51 · 16/02/2011 13:43

You couldn't make it up, as Richard Littlejohn would say

For comic relief see the Speak youre branes website:

ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/

and dont forget to try out the 'Twat-o-tron' random comment generator

ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/the-twat-o-tron/

HandDivedScallopsrgreat · 16/02/2011 13:27

"learnt her lesson" - the implication being that beating a woman up is the way to teach her a lesson? If indeed a lesson needed learning in the first place!

ivykaty44 · 16/02/2011 13:18

comewinewithme - because their is very little reason why they can't print want they want. The readers want this type of story and paper - so blame them for the way it is written.

ivykaty44 · 16/02/2011 13:16

They always seem to get a better weather forcast Grin

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comewhinewithme · 16/02/2011 13:15

Grin@ Daily Mash.

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