Calgary man fined for FHRITP attack on reporter doing story on FHRITP attacks

OK, so maybe Buddy wasn't the sharpest bulb in the toolshed.

You gotta love the way the national newspaper of record soft-pedals the story; "Calgary police have fined a man $402 for making an obscene remark to a CBC-TV reporter while she was doing a report on obscene remarks made at female reporters."

What is wrong with these guys?

Do they not have mothers? Sisters? Daughters?

How did we get to a place where impressing your buddies with your asshole skills trumps your respect for the women you love?

Toronto soccer yob loses job over FHRITP drollery

Apparently there's a trend afoot in the world 'o jocks to express their jocularity and reclaim their masculinity by disrupting female media types with misogynistic heckling while they are on air.

Isn't that hilarious?

It's got something to do with getting vengeance for the last fifty years of being emasculated by man-hating feminists who think they can do manly work like being TV sportscasters. Or something.

Shauna Hunt, a Toronto broadcaster covering a soccer game on the weekend, aired an exchange with a couple of these macho men and it's gone viral. Now one of the dudes finds his job is gone.

Engineer at Hydro One would be a good gig; well into the six numbers I'm sure. Being fired from Hydro One makes it tough to land another gig. That's because a) it happens so rarely everybody will assume there's something seriously wrong with the guy, and b) everybody knows that once you've worked at Hydro One for more than a few months your work ethic has been hopelessly compromised.

So good luck to Buddy on the job hunt, and here's hoping it'll make other guys think twice before impressing their pals with a little "harmless heckling" of the nearest female reporter.

FHRITP and the renaissance of Western masculinity

Oh dear! It's not a pretty thing, this renaissance.

Apparently the metro-sexuals are out, and the boorish yobs are in.

I'd heard nothing of this "trend" until I read CBC reporter Chris O'Neill-Yates' sad tale of being abused by an aficionado of the FHRITP fad.

Nice job boys!

You're reclaiming the ground you lost during the last 50 years of the feminist dictatorship that you blame for the fact that you still live in your parents' basement.

Keep it up, and you'll soon be as manly as those mobs of men in Kenya who rip the clothes off women they deem "inappropriately" attired.

Or those manly macho men in Egypt who like to molest women in those demonstrations for democracy.

You may even achieve the super-hero status of your boorish misogynist brethren in India, who are empowering themselves by gang-raping vulnerable women on public transit!

What a sad and despicable spectacle.

Ms. O'Neill-Yates' article has attracted over 1200 comments as I write this. What is truly disturbing is how many commenters seem to think the problem lies with her "over-reaction."