'F--- Sister Jean'

First, the Internet is not a soft place. That’s a strawman. McClure’s full of it. Ask any female sportswriter. Ask the psycho who posted his murder of former colleagues on a TV remote.

Second, you know your friends. And there’s probably only a few of you. By writing that on Twitter, it’s equivalent of walking downtown, in a crowded sports bar, and yelling it at complete strangers, and expecting, what, for everyone to get the inherent humor of that moment?

You’re liable to get your ass kicked.

And if you said it on the radio, you’d be fired - in an instant.

The Internet. Soft. You buy that argument? Cmon.

 

I think a lot of this stuff actually comes down to Internet culture and our decreasing capacity for recognizing that a human being is a human being. I don't think the Internet has gone soft. I think the Internet has made real life hard.

 

My take on the quote is that the Internet - mostly fueled by mob mentality and a top-this outrage culture - fosters outrage where previously there would be eye rolls.

David Haugh is really this offended by a profanity?

 

Couple pages back I called bs when he said the internet is soft. Guess a lot of people agree with McClure because didn't see anyone else dispute it.

 

Kind of think he is offended by profanity directed at a nun. Agree whens you said if I'm watching the game with my buddies one of us may say something like that. If you're watching the game with your wife and kids or mom I wouldn't think the chatter is the same.

 

Your take on the quote is charitable.

I agree that Twitter culture has an outrage problem. I’m not sure this guy, after writing that, is the man to make the argument

 

My wife would laugh. My wife is one of my buddies.

 

As would mine. Of course, we both know plenty of people with easily bruised sensibilities. World's full of them. Internet comment sections and Facebook are full of them.

 

Conversely, everyone thinks they have a sense of humor.

They do not.

 

Money quote

 

As a matter of general principle, I agree. I mean, do you think some of the wars that take place here would escalate the way they do if it were two guys on a pair of barstools?

But I think there is a difference in kind between, say, the kind of snarking Deadspin and the like do on people and what happened here. The guy didn't fail to recognize that Sister Jean was a person. He thought that no one in their right mind would think he was seriously cursing her. He was play-acting. It was the kind of line Vince Vaughn or Adam Sandler would say in a movie. Cursing a sweet little old lady. Har, har, har. I have to guess that David Haugh's feelings are more bruised over this than Sister Jean's.