I just googled a pal of my sister's from school. She's now a Sky Sports presenter, and I went to YouTube to see what she's like on the telly. First three comments on the clips were these:
i'd fuck this girl so hard in her ass and fannie that she wudnt b able to piss and shit for a week ;)
i want her to give me a blowjob, and i cum on her tits. wow wat a cocktease lol, i want to suck on her tits, i want to do her in every hole, bet shes a right slut who would do anything.
I would putt in the rough wiv this lil filly,, Then punt a goal kick thru her legs, might just pot a pink red brown on mill. Not forgeting to score and touch down a try, then if she bowls me a googley i will serve her a ace finished by wanking into her open gob!!! Oops... Well you get wot i mean..... WHOLLLOP!
She's a very pretty woman (and presumably got the job at least partly because of that - that's how the media work), but she's also very good at what she does. I've seen better presenters, but I've seen far worse. Of the sixteen comments on that clip, only one isn't directly about her looks (or her age - the consensus is "legal"), and even then it's by someone with the same surname as her just saying "go [surname]!". Of the remaining fifteen comments, six are obscene.
Why is this even vaguely acceptable? I feel like crying.
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Dear gods, that's horrifying.
I don't even know what to say. That's just awful.
God, when I first read this it made me so angry I couldn't think of anything at all to say in comment. I wonder if it's worth systematically reporting comments like these to YouTube? My experience of the Guardian talkboards, unforch, has been that a) sexist/misgynist comments are not seen as being as offensive as they are and b) all moderators are overworked and underpaid and won't do much to stop people who want to be so offensive.
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