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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Catherine Bennett

A few lines of poetry can propel a career misogynist like Joey Barton into a league of his own

The former football manager Joey Barton
Joey Barton has referred to two female pundits as ‘the Fred and Rose West of football commentary’. Photograph: Harry Trump/Getty Images

A career in misogyny might look like easy work for any man with qualifying levels of resentment. But in an increasingly competitive profession, with limits to public disquiet, practitioners face significant challenges.

How does a newcomer create enough misogynistic outrage to stand out, without generating retaliatory sympathy and thus better outcomes for his targets, inadvertently feeding the hand that bites him? Is it the fate of any successful misogynist ultimately to promote the very interests that peaked him into corrective action?

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