FHRITP: That's apparently a thing.

[TimG]

For example, I bet people would have been twice as mad if this guy had been shouting racial slurs at a non-white reporter

I bet if he was non-white and hurled slurs a white male reporter the mob would not care. The mob outrage is very selective and often reflective of the opinions of a loud minority that can whip a crowd into a frenzy.

[Hal 9000]

To 12 year olds...

I think you're full of it, but I'm open to being proven wrong. Tell you what. There's a lot of FHRITP video clips on the internet. If you can find one where it happens to a male reporter, I'll concede that you're right.

-k

I don't think the comment is actually directed at anybody in particular. More like a very rude live TV photo bomb. Male reporters get it too, and females have been shouting it, albeit way less than men. It seems to be a phrase that was chosen for some unknown reason.

[Black Dog]

The guy was a jerk and his behavoir was bad. The issue is not everyone who is caught acting badly in public is subject to the mob vengeance. Only certain people unlucky enough to be rude in a certain ways. This selectively and hypocrisy grates on me.

It's selective, but it's not hypocrisy.

I bet if he was non-white and hurled slurs a white male reporter the mob would not care. The mob outrage is very selective and often reflective of the opinions of a loud minority that can whip a crowd into a frenzy.

I guess we'll just have to wait for something like that to happen. I won't hold my breath though.

I don't think the comment is actually directed at anybody in particular. More like a very rude live TV photo bomb. Male reporters get it too, and females have been shouting it, albeit way less than men. It seems to be a phrase that was chosen for some unknown reason.

Why does it have to be directed at anyone in particular to be offensive?

[Hal 9000]

It's selective, but it's not hypocrisy.

I guess we'll just have to wait for something like that to happen. I won't hold my breath though.

Why does it have to be directed at anyone in particular to be offensive?

I never said it did. You read my entire post right?

I was responding to Kimmey, who isn't aware that male reporters get FHRITP bombed too. The videos I saw (and no I haven't seen them all or counted exactly) seem pretty even as far as gender of the reporter go.

[Black Dog]

I never said it did. You read my entire post right?

I was responding to Kimmey, who isn't aware that male reporters get FHRITP bombed too. The videos I saw (and no I haven't seen them all or counted exactly) seem pretty even as far as gender of the reporter go.

I don't think the fact that some people use it on male reporters means it's not A. used mainly on female reporters and B. offensive to women in general.

[GostHacked]

This isn't shouting down speakers they don't agree with (which I also despise, btw). Rather it's just harassing a female reporter for being female.

-k

If you seen the clips online, it is male and female reporters that get the FHRITP. And personally I think it's f'n hilarious. Trying to interview drunk people after a sports game is almost asking for it. That's where it seems to happen the most.

[Guest]

Men who denigrate women and dismiss the idea of consent.

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Given that, I would appreciate answers to my questions to you in the thread on the subject. You seem to be accusing me of something here, in a mealy mouthed sort of way, and I would like to see that accusation made plain.

Edited May 13, 2015 by bcsapper

[Hal 9000]

To Black Dog -

As I said, I haven't counted them all to dissect the gender of the reporter, but the comment is not made to the reporter, its made toward the camera and the viewing audience. The reporter (who or whatever they are) is irrelevant to the comment. It's offensive - plain and simple.

Edited May 13, 2015 by Hal 9000

[H10]

To 12 year olds...

I think you're full of it, but I'm open to being proven wrong. Tell you what. There's a lot of FHRITP video clips on the internet. If you can find one where it happens to a male reporter, I'll concede that you're right.

-k

Bad humour is just bad humor. Has nothing to do with sexism.

[H10]

I don't think the fact that some people use it on male reporters means it's not A. used mainly on female reporters and B. offensive to women in general.

Why is it offensive to women?

[H10]

If you seen the clips online, it is male and female reporters that get the FHRITP. And personally I think it's f'n hilarious. Trying to interview drunk people after a sports game is almost asking for it. That's where it seems to happen the most.

Agreed, funny as hell. You go interview drunks who are at sports game, you deserve to be heckled. The worse was at st. patricks day, interviewing drunken irish men, you're just asking for it.

[H10]

???

Not the least bit funny and entirely unattractive.

But hey ... if losers want to make themselves even more unattractive to women ... !

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Do you believe men's lives revolve entirely around what women find attractive? If so you are very very mistaken. Its often the opposite. Men in general operate with complete oblivion of how to attract women save for a handful of ladies men. And I assure no such man would be going to a sports game. Typically they are more interested in woman than being a soccer hooligan.

[H10]

I don't think the comment is actually directed at anybody in particular. More like a very rude live TV photo bomb. Male reporters get it too, and females have been shouting it, albeit way less than men. It seems to be a phrase that was chosen for some unknown reason.

It originates from an internet troll who made it on youtube as a series of videos of him video bombing journalist where he jumped on the microphone and yelled it. and it goes on for 3 minutes, I nearly died of laughter

[Black Dog]

Why is it offensive to women?

Not sure if serious....

[Boges]

I notice an interesting paradox in society these days with the internet. We have a generation of people who seem to think any and all crude behaviour is acceptable. They also seem very open about making their sexuality public (sexting, nude selfies etc).

But on the flip side we have a faction of social media that's hell bent on being outraged at said behaviour to the point that they'll pursue people that offend them and try to ruin their lives. There are many examples of people who've had their lives ruined by lapses in judgement.

Justine Sacco. A WOMAN!!!! Is a perfect example of this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html?_r=0

Both realities I find quite objectionable.

BTW I love the irony that the lady that took a picture of a guy surfing the web to get him fired ended up getting fired herself for her behaviour. Karma FTW.

I met a man who, in early 2013, had been sitting at a conference for tech developers in Santa Clara, Calif., when a stupid joke popped into his head. It was about the attachments for computers and mobile devices that are commonly called dongles. He murmured the joke to his friend sitting next to him, he told me. “It was so bad, I don’t remember the exact words,” he said. “Something about a fictitious piece of hardware that has a really big dongle, a ridiculous dongle. . . . It wasn’t even conversation-level volume.”

Moments later, he half-noticed when a woman one row in front of them stood up, turned around and took a photograph. He thought she was taking a crowd shot, so he looked straight ahead, trying to avoid ruining her picture. It’s a little painful to look at the photograph now, knowing what was coming.

The woman had, in fact, overheard the joke. She considered it to be emblematic of the gender imbalance that plagues the tech industry and the toxic, male-dominated corporate culture that arises from it. She tweeted the picture to her 9,209 followers with the caption: “Not cool. Jokes about . . . ‘big’ dongles right behind me.” Ten minutes later, he and his friend were taken into a quiet room at the conference and asked to explain themselves. A day later, his boss called him into his office, and he was fired.

“I packed up all my stuff in a box,” he told me. (Like Stone and Sacco, he had never before talked on the record about what happened to him. He spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid further damaging his career.) “I went outside to call my wife. I’m not one to shed tears, but” — he paused — “when I got in the car with my wife I just. . . . I’ve got three kids. Getting fired was terrifying.”

The woman who took the photograph, Adria Richards, soon felt the wrath of the crowd herself. The man responsible for the dongle joke had posted about losing his job on Hacker News, an online forum popular with developers. This led to a backlash from the other end of the political spectrum. So-called men’s rights activists and anonymous trolls bombarded Richards with death threats on Twitter and Facebook. Someone tweeted Richards’s home address along with a photograph of a beheaded woman with duct tape over her mouth. Fearing for her life, she left her home, sleeping on friends’ couches for the remainder of the year.

Next, her employer’s website went down. Someone had launched a DDoS attack, which overwhelms a site’s servers with repeated requests. SendGrid, her employer, was told the attacks would stop if Richards was fired. That same day she was publicly let go.

Edited May 13, 2015 by Boges

[cybercoma]

The guy was a jerk and his behavoir was bad. The issue is not everyone who is caught acting badly in public is subject to the mob vengeance. Only certain people unlucky enough to be rude in a certain ways. This selectively and hypocrisy grates on me.

If only you had the same anger and criticism for the way they harass women, as opposed to the extremely dismissive euphemisms you've been using, such as "acting badly in public." It's incredibly sad that you're far more critical of the criticism they received than what they actually did. Perhaps you think about that and re-evaluate your values.

[cybercoma]

1. Could you please define 'rape culture'?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=rape+culture

[cybercoma]

I bet if he was non-white and hurled slurs a white male reporter the mob would not care. The mob outrage is very selective and often reflective of the opinions of a loud minority that can whip a crowd into a frenzy.

You're attempting to create false equivalencies when there is absolutely no social, cultural, or historic equivalent be made in these situations.

[cybercoma]

Given that, I would appreciate answers to my questions to you in the thread on the subject. You seem to be accusing me of something here, in a mealy mouthed sort of way, and I would like to see that accusation made plain.

You asked who raises people like that. She gave a pretty straightforward answer. If you think the shoe fits though, that sounds like a personal issue.

[cybercoma]

Bad humour is just bad humor. Has nothing to do with sexism.

Why do men always try to redefine sexism when women point it out?

[cybercoma]

Why is it offensive to women?

Does it matter why? You have a number of women in this thread and elsewhere who have said it's extremely offensive. It doesn't matter if you get it or not.

[Argus]

Why is it offensive to women?

Are you trolling? Seriously? It's offensive to anyone with a shred of class. It's verbal assault to a woman.

[Argus]

The guy was a jerk and his behavoir was bad. The issue is not everyone who is caught acting badly in public is subject to the mob vengeance. Only certain people unlucky enough to be rude in a certain ways. This selectively and hypocrisy grates on me.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. The fact everyone isn't caught means we should ignore crude and ignorant behaviour?

[Argus]

PS. people are wrong here, the guy who said f-h-r-i-t-p was not fired, he was not even punished, the guy who was fired simply said he thought it was funny. He was being grilled for having a poor sense of humor and fired, seems pretty lame and excessive, people can't control their emotions, and shouldn't be fired for laughing at vulgar comments.

I would tend to agree that a more appropriate punishment would be to PHRITF.

[Argus]

I bet if he was non-white and hurled slurs a white male reporter the mob would not care.

I bet they would.