Twitter: I Say Nothing

Art thing by @BeardedGenius.

"This is the home of the vain! THIS IS THE HOME OF THE VAIN!" - Mark E Smith

Passive activism with a side-order of hypocrisy, please!
Caitlin's use of a term like "bum boy" is clearly ironic - though I'm not sure how many readers of The Times would get this, and her "I love The Gays me!" shtick - though I know she does - just comes across as annoying and patronising.
It's pointless for Fagburn to comment further on this monumental act of folly - you've read everything that has to be said about that on Twitter today already.
Okay, I'll break my own self-imposed boycott to tell you quickly here's my favourite tweet on this crapola by @RichNeville...

"First they came for the communists, 
I remained silent; 
That seemed to teach them a lesson."

Fagburn is trying to think of a way to convince leading gay simpleton Patrick Smugtwit - who's taken to Twitter in the last few days to say he doesn't like sexism... wow, who knew!?? - and other self-important pious bourgeois bores to boycott Twitter forever.
The problem always starts when journalists are more concerned, not with communicating ideas, but with trying to become a minor celebrity.
Some columnists clearly get off on seeing their byline photo published - rather than their actual copy.

Update...

@holysmoke @caitlinmoran I won't be silent: No one makes more jokes about Aids than the friends of mine who nearly died from it.
— Patrick Strudwick (@PatrickStrud) August 5, 2013

The gay hysteric who continually cries "homophobia!" at everything and nothing, and told people to join #TwitterSilence to protest sexism and homophobia, defending a straight journalist who tweets Aids jokes.
Unbelievable.