Joe Rogan defends use of word ‘c—–‘ to describe female MMA blogger
From: Joe Rogan Posted: 6/3/11, 1:00 AM Member Since: 1/1/01 Posts: 5190 Never did I imagine that so many people…
From: Joe Rogan
Posted: 6/3/11, 1:00 AM
Member Since: 1/1/01
Posts: 5190
Never did I imagine that so many people would get their panties in a bunch about the use of the word “cunty” to describe a female blogger, but in this “gotcha” era of online “journalism” we find ourselves in any controversy that can be exploited to fill headlines and pad mandatory blog obligations will be pursued to the extreme.
My use of the word cunty in retrospect was unfortunate, and more of a symptom of my stand up comic vernacular than what more verbally conservative people would interpret the word as. Cunty is just another word for bitchy.
It means exactly the same thing to me, it’s just that cunty sounds better and is more fun to use.
The term bitchy to describe the style of the writer in question and her take on things is both accurate and appropriate.
Here’s an example of one of her articles about me and Mike Goldberg that reads more like a forum post written by a nit picky attention whore borrowing his mom’s laptop than someone that calls themselves a professional journalist employed by a reputable site like Yahoo.
Here’s another article where she makes fun of Stephen Quadros’ appearance.
These are just a few of the entries from her that have annoyed me over the years. I could look for more, but I think you get the point.
Is that journalism? Is that good writing? Is that the kind of thing you could stumble upon while reading the New York Times? Would it make a fine entry in FIGHT magazine? Is sports illustrated pissed off that they missed out on publishing these gems? No, it’s bitchy bullshit. “Cunty” writing, if you will.
The sport of Mixed Martial Arts is fairly new, and one of the very first sports to be supported and defined by new media. We have an extraordinary amount of websites dedicated to the sport, and in the dark days of being exiled from cable television these sites (including the one I’m posting this on, mixedmartialarts.com) helped keep this sport alive.
Now that the sport is incredibly popular and thriving however, we’ve reached this saturation point where anyone with a website that writes about this sport wants to be considered a journalist. People that 20 years ago wouldn’t have a shot in hell at a career in writing are now demanding to be taken seriously with their snarky, poorly thought out offerings.
This sport is infested with these people, and what they’re going to have to realize is that if they want to be writers and they want their stuff to be read and ingested than they themselves must become public figures in the process, and that includes being shit on for what you put out there. The illusion of anonymity and a lack of repercussions available to the subjects of your work is a thing of the past.
Writers should expect to be openly critiqued and criticized online by anyone any everyone, because guess what – those people writing forum posts shitting on your work are just as much a legit journalist as any of these website people.
My apologies to Maggie Hendricks for calling her cunty, and I truly hope I didn’t hurt her feelings. My forum post was honest and off the cuff, and I didn’t think out the possible reactions to it. I don’t know the woman, and I’m sure she’s probably a nice person in real life, but if I have a point with any of this it’s that when you put negative shit out there in the form of bitchy blog posts, that shit is going to come right back at you, and you better not be surprised.