CBC writer gets really mad at "FHRITP", writes angry article about it

[Mr. Ambien]

If you've been living under a rock, for the last 2 years or so there's been this "FHRITP" meme based on a hoax this fake reporter guy and a dude named "Fred" created, which has spawned a meme of actual idiots trolling live news reporters yelling "FHRITP".

Apparently to one writer, these incidents which don't seem to be directed at any one gender, just as a backlash at media in general by yelling shocking stuff on TV, are misogynistic and "violence against women".

Even further, she states how this is an attack on her workplace, as if the media isn't intruding enough.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/chris-oneill-yates-sick-depraved-104110432.html

A disgusting and filthy fad known as FHRITP is making the rounds in North America, a type of abuse intended to objectify, humiliate and demean female television reporters.

In more than 20 years as a journalist. I like to think I'm practically unshockable and that I've seen every form of sexism there is.

When we go out to report on location, it's not uncommon to hear whoops and catcalls from men in passing cars as we stand outdoors for a live hit, or to tape an "on camera."

That is bad enough.

But the popularity of a recent online phenomenon — one in which the perpetrator pushes beyond the bounds of decency and invades our workplace — is something only the most diseased and misogynistic mind could come up with.

More than half a century after the first International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the last thing we should be talking about is the "F--- her right in the P---y" trend, but here we are.

I should say upfront that I'm not looking for sympathy, consolation or pity. Part of me feels that the trolls who have popularized this disgusting internet meme have already gotten far more attention than they deserve with millions of hits on YouTube.

But abuse in all its forms needs to be challenged, and if those of us who can speak up don't, we are complicit in our silence.

A sickening experience

I must admit I hadn't heard about this most recent perversion until about a week ago when a colleague in Montreal posted on Facebook.

While she was doing a live hit, a man came up behind her and, with a smile on his face, said to the camera: FHRITP. Shortly thereafter, it happened to one of her female colleagues — three times in one day.

And last Friday, it happened to me.

I was shooting with my videographer outside the FFAW office on Hamilton Avenue. A light grey car drove by, slowing down long enough for a young guy of about 20 to stick his head out the window and yell "F--- her right in the p---y" before the car sped off.

I was completely taken aback. Like many women, we automatically revert to the default position and ask ourselves: "What did I do wrong?"

But I knew I had done nothing wrong.

The experience made me sick, and then it made me angry.

Depraved phenomenon

In case you don't know what this depraved phenomenon is, it was apparently started by an American internet prankster named John Cain back in January.

Cain's story is that he was fired by Fox News when, while reporting a story about a missing woman, he inadvertently said live on air that he'd like to "f--- her right in the p----y".

However, Cain appears to never have been a reporter at all. He invented the whole thing by editing himself together with actual TV footage to give his stunt the air of authenticity.

Shortly thereafter another video appeared on the internet with a hooded, bearded man named "Fred" interrupting a female reporter, snatching her microphone and shouting FHRITP. The trend has spawned numerous imitators who have accosted female reporters across the continent.

I can't help but ask, what kind of man behaves this way? Would this guy have found this kind of abuse so hilarious if it were HIS sister, mother, daughter, niece, girlfriend?

I couldn't help but wonder who raised this creep. When I was growing up our parents taught us respect — for everyone regardless of gender. My father raised my brothers to respect women and to stand up for them. He believed any man who didn't respect women had no respect for himself or anyone else.

And I believe that's where the fight to eradicate violence begins. If the perpetrators of this FHRITP filth can so easily abuse women verbally, what else are they capable of along the continuum of sexual and physical violence against women?

Unfiltered and lightning-fast

Throughout history, those prone to abusing women have always found an outlet for their depravity. But in the age of social media acts of exploitation spread unfiltered and with lightning speed.

Let me be clear, I am not blaming technology for the sins of its users, but social media is kerosene to the flame of a contaminated mind.

John Cain and his copycat trolls think demeaning women on the job in front of the audience they serve is funny.

It's not funny. It's offensive, degrading and sick.

But every time we allow an act of violence to go unchecked we are enabling the abusers.

So for the first time in my life, I'm speaking out publicly about violence against women. I'd like all my colleagues to know about it and to keep their guard up. I'm just saddened that in 2014 we need to be having this conversation.

This hilarity made my morning to read.

[Bocivus]

Why... I'm OUTRAGED!!! How dare you expose the start of this as being a hoax! This is more women degradation and victimization! You misogynist pig! As if people haven't been trolling live camera feeds for years anyway. This is just some moronic behavior feeding the people who need to feel the need to be offended and mad about something. The story, though, is quite entertaining.

[Heretic]

I agree, it's not funny. It is offensive. It is sick. People need to grow up.

[RUPERTKBD]

Yeah, I read this story on CBC yesterday.

I honestly did not know that this was a thing, but I can't say I'm surprised. The capacity for grown adults to act like they're still in 7th grade knows no bounds.

[Warhippy]

Was it funny initially?

Sure.

But that was it.

The saddest thing is that this just keeps going on and on and on. No originality, no class and no hope for the future of the human race at this point.

Seriously, can someone just throw some chlorine in the gene pool and hit the reset button?

[Captain Aerosex]

Fred changed my life, you haters can go shove it

My yearbook quote is 'FHRITP', I've already contracted somebody to engrave it on my tombstone, I got a tattoo of it running down my...

[Lockout Casualty]

If you've been living under a rock, for the last 2 years or so there's been this "FHRITP" meme based on a hoax this fake reporter guy and a dude named "Fred" created, which has spawned a meme of actual idiots trolling live news reporters yelling "FHRITP".

Apparently to one writer, these incidents which don't seem to be directed at any one gender, just as a backlash at media in general by yelling shocking stuff on TV, are misogynistic and "violence against women".

Even further, she states how this is an attack on her workplace, as if the media isn't intruding enough.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/chris-oneill-yates-sick-depraved-104110432.html

This hilarity made my morning to read.

Here is the latest example, an ESPN reporter got trolled -- his response was great: (language)

You have a weird sense of humor, "Haha a person got mad at something I don't find offensive, this is hilarious!"

[Bocivus]

You have a weird sense of humor, "Haha a person got mad at something I don't find offensive, this is hilarious!"

Indeed! I find it to be quite funny!

[Chalky]

The CBC article was a bit of a farce, it's not really sexism, or even directed at women as much as it is the typical "say the worst thing you can" attitude that is now so prevalent in society. When John Cain did it the first time it bordered on humour (if you find that stuff funny, I don't), but the problem is that 12 and 13 year olds think it's the funniest thing they've ever heard and want to mimic it. This new culture of saying shockingly vulgar things for all to see and hear is very much dissociative behavior and is the death of civility. It's severely narcissistic and selfish to think it's OK to make people that uncomfortable because it doesn't bother "you". Honestly, if someone did that in front of my Mum, I'd drop them like Prout did Lucic.

[Mr. Ambien]

You have a weird sense of humor, "Haha a person got mad at something I don't find offensive, this is hilarious!"

It's always been a fascinating thing to me how easily people get offended by things, increasingly so as I've gotten older.

It's actually this attitude that makes these idiots bother wasting their time. If people didn't care, they'd find other crap to be shocking about.

[nuckin_futz]

The saddest thing is that this just keeps going on and on and on. No originality, no class and no hope for the future of the human race at this point.

It's better than the knock out game.

[Warhippy]

It's better than the knock out game.

Nothing is better than the knock out gam....oh wait ya.

Sorry the increasingly stupid internet fads sweeping North America just have me shaking my head, the knockout game, the light yourself on fire game, the fall and break jugs of milk game, FHRITP game.

I mean great ya, initially entertaining from the first person who did it. But then carried over and out of the bounds of incredulous by stupid kids and now adults.

Like what is it those "pranksters" do in New York? Go around targeting African Americans trying to take phones from their hands and such, and they ONLY target people of African American ethnicity.

For an ever increasing audience that needs ever decreasing levels of intelligent humour I pray to the gods we can soon see the jump the f*** off of a cliff game.

[etsen3]

She clearly just doesn't understand cerebral humour.

[nuckin_futz]

Nothing is better than the knock out gam....oh wait ya.

Sorry the increasingly stupid internet fads sweeping North America just have me shaking my head, the knockout game, the light yourself on fire game, the fall and break jugs of milk game, FHRITP game.

I mean great ya, initially entertaining from the first person who did it. But then carried over and out of the bounds of incredulous by stupid kids and now adults.

Like what is it those "pranksters" do in New York? Go around targeting African Americans trying to take phones from their hands and such, and they ONLY target people of African American ethnicity.

For an ever increasing audience that needs ever decreasing levels of intelligent humour I pray to the gods we can soon see the jump the f*** off of a cliff game.

The light yourself on fire game was my personal favorite. Especially the guy who's mother was filming him do it.

I love how you need a license to drive a car or own a dog but any moron can breed to their hearts content. And then inflict their maladjusted offspring on the rest of society.

I've decided just to embrace these trends. Like an older and wiser buddy of mine once said "I love dumb bast*rds". It makes it so much easier to identify the imbeciles in life and avoid them. Especially when they decide to document their idiocy all over the internet. Like a badge of honor. Good luck explaining why you lit your balls on fire in that job interview.

[Jägermeister]

It's not funny, but it's certainly not offensive either.

[Warhippy]

The light yourself on fire game was my personal favorite. Especially the guy who's mother was filming him do it.

I love how you need a license to drive a car or own a dog but any moron can breed to their hearts content. And then inflict their maladjusted offspring on the rest of society.

I've decided just to embrace these trends. Like an older and wiser buddy of mine once said "I love dumb bast*rds". It makes it so much easier to identify the imbeciles in life and avoid them. Especially when they decide to document their idiocy all over the internet. Like a badge of honor. Good luck explaining why you lit your balls on fire in that job interview.

I've by and large ignored them until such time as articles like this crop up then I find myself shaking my head at the stupidity of people.

[TheOgRook]

The CBC article was a bit of a farce, it's not really sexism, or even directed at women as much as it is the typical "say the worst thing you can" attitude that is now so prevalent in society. When John Cain did it the first time it bordered on humour (if you find that stuff funny, I don't), but the problem is that 12 and 13 year olds think it's the funniest thing they've ever heard and want to mimic it. This new culture of saying shockingly vulgar things for all to see and hear is very much dissociative behavior and is the death of civility. It's severely narcissistic and selfish to think it's OK to make people that uncomfortable because it doesn't bother "you". Honestly, if someone did that in front of my Mum, I'd drop them like Prout did Lucic.

Fully agree with you.. They need to grow up stop and acting like Dbags. If somebody pulled this in front of my daughters, my girls would learn two lessons... What's socially unacceptable (screaming vulgar profanities in public), and what's socially acceptable (teaching said person a lesson in manners).

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