Bot misogyny
Hey if you’re going to write a piece attacking feminism in a major newspaper, at least get the author details right.
Serbia’s [well known] daily newspaper, Politika, has been accused of using made-up commentators to promote misogyny after publishing an anti-feminist article allegedly written by a scientist, but illustrated with the photograph of a German actor.
The commentary accused feminists of using the recent murders of two women at the hands of their ex-husbands to spread “propaganda”.
“Agressive feminists came to the fore in order to abuse the tragedies for their political agenda,” the article said, also reminding the readers that “almost all infanticides in the world are committed by women”.
The women in question were murdered at social centres where they were bringing their children to meet their fathers. In one horrifying case, the father murdered both child and mother.
The column in question was signed by “Dr Petar Velickovic”, but the accompanying photograph is that of a German actor, Andreas Kaufmann, who has since called the article “disgusting”.
Politika said oh oops sorry, Dr Velickovic sent the wrong photo, not our fault.
However, searches of the internet have yet to reveal a forensic psychiatrist under the name Petar Velickovic.
In the meantime, the Journalists’ Association of Serbia, has revealed another anti-feminist article in Politika, also attributed to a questionable scientific authority, using the photograph of a deceased person from Germany.
Milovan B Vucic, the alleged psychoanalyst from Los Angeles, wrote a comment entitled “Injustices of Feminist Judiciary“, published on May 5.
“This practice by Politika is reminiscent of Slobodan Milosevic’s reign, when the newspaper published made-up letters of support to the regime,” the Journalists’ Association said in a press release.
Tamara Skrozza, from Serbia’s Press Council, said the views expressed in both articles constitute hate speech towards women and feminists, and should not be present in the media.
“It is truly terrible if Politika deliberately promotes discriminatory, chauvinist opinions,” Skrozza told BIRN.
Uh… I can’t help noticing that the sentence “in one horrifying case, the father murdered both child and mother” in an article about the murder of two women seems to imply that the murder of the other woman was not so bad. And come to think about it, the child doesn’t even register as a person or murder victim in it’s own right, but only as a component of the woman-and-child unit. That’s some unfortunate writing.
You see, Donald, that’s what fake news looks like.
“Political agenda”? So this is what they call “not wanting to get killed simply for being a woman” these days. Makes me want to chop some balls off.
It’s also similar to Donald Trump making up a persona to call reporters and give them “news” of his exploits.
And saying he’s going to donate a million dollars to Houston relief when he’s not.
It’s a check written on the back of his tax return.