don't get me wrong - if you feel it's acceptable to resort to being a misogynist arsehole to get your point across, you should be shut down and ignored faster than you can say "tips fedora", however using incidental expressions of sexism to discredit & shut down legitimate criticism is a pretty shitty thing to do, even tho it looks like this was actioned with the poll-makers consent.
I don't think they were doing it to get the petition shut down. They were doing it because they can't cope with a woman being mentioned on the internet outside of a porn or sandwich making context. On a digital scale, we really are seeing men split into the Morlocks and the Eloi.
don't get me wrong - if you feel it's acceptable to resort to being a misogynist arsehole to get your point across, you should be shut down and ignored faster than you can say "tips fedora", however using incidental expressions of sexism to discredit & shut down legitimate criticism is a pretty shitty thing to do, even tho it looks like this was actioned with the poll-makers consent.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/10/laura-kuenssberg-petition-sexist-abuse-38-degrees-bbc