It’s March Madness, Feministe-style: We’re doing a troll run-off to highlight some of our all-time favorite comments and pick the winner of Feministe’s Next Top Troll, Season 4. This is Bracket Three, the simple but satisfying GET A BRIAN, MORANS! Bracket.
Potentially triggering troll comments below the image. Vote for your favorite of the GET A BRIAN, MORANS! Bracket at the bottom.
Joe:
you guys are stupid
VESUS
Jeo, who from his email address appears to actually be named “Joe”:
Wow u guys are a bunch of worthless feminist idiots
Tough. Not much between them, but I think ‘Jeo’ gets it, for the use of ‘u’ and the misspelling of his own name.
Jeo. Hands down, no contest.
Triggering? It’s also shaming, othering, silencing, and reeks of privilege!
Another vote for Jeo here.
Not to be the party pooper, but, due to the category, I highly suggest that you add an “R” to “VESUS”… :)
folks debate whether or the feministe bloggers should do the next top troll every time a new one pops up and the same arguments ensue. i see how it can be othering, and the whole point is shaming, but i think we need to be able to find humor in the insults we, as feminists, deal with on a far-too-regular basis. certainly people know that when they send letters to the blog editors, their comments are liable to posted on the website (whether they’re supportive or not). and they very well know what they’ve written is inflammatory and insulting.
I went for the underdog; I kinda like the succinct “you guys are stupid.” No qualifiers of any sort.
I had to vote for Jeo- you’ve reached a new level of trolling when you misspell your own name while doing it.
Ha. I will admit that I’m lazy and I just copy and pasted the same intro into all of the March Madness posts.
Jeo, if only because he can’t spell his own name.
Dude…he spelled his own name wrong. How can that not get a vote?
Also, who the hell is Brian Morans and why should I get him?
Hmm, this one is tough, but Joe appears to have some command of the English language, while Jeo could spell out “worthless feminist idiots,” but couldn’t take the time to type out “you.” I’ll go for Jeo.
Hmmm. This is hard. Neither of them use punctuation or proper grammar. Joe doesn’t capitalize “you,” but Jeo uses “u.” Both of them seem to be saving time so that they can troll elsewhere, so they must have wrote the book on trolldom. But then there’s the great possibility that they’re the same person. That’s a whole new level of trolldom, forming two nearly identical usernames to double trolling and make it like someone agrees with them. I might have to think about this today and vote later.
Jeo the genius, no contest.
Stupid vs. Worthless Idiots… Hurm… I take the worthless idiots!
Llencelyn, I’m guessing Jill wrote VESUS as a joke.
Sorry, but any troll who can’t spell his own three-letter name wins.
Though I do feel like both entrants here are pretty junior varsity – both comments are “casual drive-by commenter at major media website” caliber, not the kinds of crazy which are actually interesting or even the sort of troll who might actually succeed whipping the nice liberals into a frenzy.
Ha. Apparently jokes I think are funny and clever just appear to reflect stupidity on my part. Jess is right, it was a (bad) joke. Although your very sweet correction made me smile :-)
Not to be the party pooper, but, due to the category, I highly suggest that you add an “R” to “VESUS”… :)
Aww, I’d initially read the “VESUS” as an attempt by Joe at yelling “JESUS” at us. Now I’m sad…
Jeo, just for the name, otherwise the messages are equally brilliant/stupid.
Jeo. Ya gotta get extra points for misspelling your own name.
Gosh, there you guys go, jumping to conclusions. You know, it could have been Leo who managed to misspell his own three-letter name. Or Jeb, or Jed.
Or just maybe it might have been Jennifer Lopez, didja think of that?
Jill, thank you for restoring laughter to my life today.
Jeo is the champoin!
love the image.
my boyfriend saw it and said, “whoa! are we at war with ireland or something?”