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# Piers Morgan
- URL: https://goodoil.news/piers-morgan/
- Published: 2021-03-14T21:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-03-14T05:20:53.000Z
- Author: Reproduced with permission
- Tags: Feminism, Media, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

**Lindsay Mitchell**  
[lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com](https://lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com/2021/03/piers-morgan.html?ref=goodoil.news)

I don’t know much about this guy **Piers Morgan**. His face is recognisable from a British talent show I watched for maybe a season? I live in New Zealand and don’t follow social media – or barely – so am unfamiliar with his views.

Verity Johnson’s column *[Stop shouting, Piers Morgan, we’re not listening](https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/124506827/stop-shouting-piers-morgan-were-not-listening?ref=goodoil.news)* in today’s DomPost presented the perfect opportunity to hear them.

She begins, *“…he’s basically just been that drunk dude outside a pub who yells at you when you walk past.”*

Then , *“…he constantly, publicly, screams at successful, opinionated young women like Meghan Markle, Greta Thunberg and Ariana Grande…”*

No example of what he screams at them though.

Regarding **Meghan Markle**, *“She continued to ignore him, causing ever more acidic outbursts, to the point where, on Monday, he trashed her mental health confessions (subsequently crossing a line that made even Meghan’s detractors draw in their breath sharply).”*

I didn’t watch the Oprah interview. What did Meghan say and what did Piers subsequently say?

Again no dialogue forthcoming.

Historically Piers’ offensive statements have apparently been made *“so openly and for so long”* they are *“part of the script that we as young women always struggled with.”*

I scrutinise Johnson’s own script but still no examples.

She continues, *“No-one stopped his ranting on Monday. And it took a calling out by his weatherman on Tuesday, the devastatingly rational Alex Beresford, for him to shut up and flounce off.”*

Rational! I love rational. At least we are going to hear what the rational weatherman had to say…

No such hope.

> “A good 40 per cent of social media is predicated on the formula of angry man rants about something a woman has said and gets increasingly annoyed when she ignores his @s and invitations to “enter into a rational debate”. I’ve had it myself when male broadcasters have loathed columns I’ve written, repeatedly trash talked me on air, and been infuriated when I consistently won’t engage with them to “defend my position”.But why would we? We know the difference between rational debate and a drunk outside a pub.”

Verity might yet grow up to be a Prime Minister who declares that Mike Hosking is the ‘drunk outside the pub’ simply because she preferred not to debate the ideas.

Whatever happened to the fearlessness of feminism?

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