So, this 'Tedlines' fella. What a wanker! And not just in the self-described way of his viewpoint article. I had already cooled to him in the last piece of his I read, deriding the Lower Rents Now Coalition for being, er, y'know, a campaigning group. Patrick O'Hare responded handily to that one, but his new article enrages me afresh.
It's not just that it's a load of misogynist twaddle. That's annoying, and not really funny, but I'm post-post-feminist enough to overlook a bit of sexism in the name of humour. If, that is, there is any humour to be had. My real issue is this: bitch can't write! He introduces his piece with an anecdote about a magazine photo that supposedly illustrates the difference between male and female senses of humour. Except that he forgets to ever actually *describe* the photo that supposedly illustrates his point, so that the point itself is utterly lost. What's left is an incoherent, directionless, sexist blather about how men and women are, like, different, innit? If I didn't enjoy getting worked up into a healthy furor, I wouldn't bother reading this jerkoff at all.
I am not so arrogant a writer myself as to pretend to be able to offer advice to this budding columnist, nor do I think any tips I could give could even penetrate the viscous cloud of willful ignorance with which he so evidently enshrouds himself. Thus, I have just one thing to say to him: IRON MY SHIRT.
ETA: Okay, okay, okay. Ironic point called. The rest still stands
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