Not
content with shaming women for their weight and making jokes about
Scottish life expectancy hours after the Clutha crash, Katie Hopkins
has now come out with not one but two controversial opinions this
past week. Unsurprisingly the reaction to her tweets has been as
positive as U2 ransacking your house and replacing your valuables
with a copy of their new album and forgetting to flush the toilet.
The opinions in question are about the rapist Ched
Evans and “comedian” Dapper Laughs, a duo that would resemble Ant
& Dec if they had read too many LAD Bible tweets. Evans has
recently been training at Sheffield United's stadium, causing Twitter
to explode with anger. Pouncing on the opportunity without a second's
hesitation, Hopkins opened her mouth, where common sense goes to die,
and had her say on it. “He's served his time, he needs to crack on
with his job. If he was a bin-men or sandwich maker you'd be OK with
it” she said, forgetting to point out that bin-men and sandwich makers don't make 6 figure salaries for hitting a ball full of air
into a net.
In
addition to sympathising with rapists, the former Apprentice star
also stood up for misogynistic character Dapper Laughs whose show On
The Pull manage to not just outrage women but anyone with a brain
apart from the self proclaimed “lads” of Twitter. He not only
jokes about rape and sexual assault but actively promotes it in all
of his tweets and vines yet Hopkins said anyone petitioning against
this was “spoiling the fun”, almost as if she would call anyone
who reported a robbery a buzz-killer. Daniel O'Reilly who played the
character apologised over the controversy like a kid caught stealing
sweets and Hopkins thinks that the backlash he received was not fair,
calling him a broken man. But hey, he was wearing really tight
jeans, he shouldn't have worn them if he didn't want that.
So why
are we still giving people like this a platform? This year feminism
has progressed by dismissing the myth that the movement is to benefit
one gender over another and now more than ever girls and men proudly
wear the title of being involved in it. We shouldn't allow Hopkins
and others to drag us back with their backwards thinking views. Maybe
if we all put on a few stones and claim benefits we could all annoy
her enough to make her disappear off the face of the planet.
Below are just a few of the columnist's fans
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