{"id":21026,"date":"2017-03-15T01:12:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T01:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=21026"},"modified":"2017-03-15T01:12:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T01:12:59","slug":"hopkins-vs-monroe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=21026","title":{"rendered":"Hopkins vs. Monroe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cuckoo\"You couldn\u2019t make this sort of thing up. Level after level of complete stupidity.<\/p>\n

On one side, you have Katie Hopkins \u2013 anything she says or writes is usually complete bollocks, and with her unique way of putting it across, it is frequently even more bollocks than that. Back in 2015, she made a mistake (not a unique phenomenon for her) and got someone mixed up with someone else, made one of her trademark asinine and highly offensive comments to the innocent party, then followed it up with her trademark refusal to admit her error and apologise to that person once the error was noted. Indeed, even after the subsequent libel case went against her \u2013 leaving her with a legal bill likely to top \u00a3300,000 \u2013 she is still shit stirring.<\/p>\n

On the other side, you have the person she offended – listed as a \u201cfood blogger\u201d who goes by the name of \u201cJack Monroe\u201d. Something that struck me in all the media stories this week was that it wasn\u2019t possible to pin down whether Monroe was male or female. The name implies one thing, the photos are ambiguous (which is the only reason the question occurred to me in the first place), and none of the stories I read used the relevant personal pronouns. But I think I can now see why that was. That Huffington Post article starts off confusingly by using the possessive pronoun \u201ctheir\u201d to refer to Monroe in the singular. I initially assumed it was a typo or bad editing \u2013 something which is now standard in most media outlets \u2013 since \u201che\u201d and \u201cshe\u201d are singular, and the only grammatically correct asexual alternative is \u201cit\u201d. But it clarifies a few paragraphs later:<\/p>\n

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Monroe, who identifies outside the binary construct of gender and prefers the gender-neutral pronoun \u2018they\u2019 and title \u2018Mx\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I wonder how long it took to come up with that pile of crap? I mean, you could say quite simply \u201che<\/strong> or she<\/strong> is writing a blog article\u201d. It would appear that \u201cit<\/strong> is writing a blog article\u201d is not acceptable for some reason. Monroe apparently expects it to be rendered \u201cthey<\/strong> is writing a blog article\u201d. And what the f*** is wrong with \u201cMs\u201d if you live your life on a high horse, free from any sort of reliance on a filthy, putrid male? How the hell is \u201cMx\u201d any different, other than requiring a brand new construct?<\/p>\n

Any sympathy I originally felt has wafted away on the winds, along with grammatical correctness, and I now consider the match to be a draw. Mind you, it does mean we get two nominees for the 2017 Darwin Awards instead of just one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You couldn\u2019t make this sort of thing up. Level after level of complete stupidity. On one side, you have Katie Hopkins \u2013 anything she says or writes is usually complete bollocks, and with her unique way of putting it across, it is frequently even more bollocks than that. Back in 2015, she made a mistake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}