This has always been the case though. Let's go back to the early 90's, before the internet. If someone had been standing on a soapbox in a town centre spouting off about how the victims of child abuse should be "more manly" there'd have been outcry then as well and a soapbox, when you strip it...
I don't feel I'm doing that, it certainly is not my intention.
I do, on the whole, believe that our society is wonderfully inclusive and morally sound but honestly you only have to look at this topic to see that there are others who don't see what he's done as being particularly egregious.
It's a fair point but whether he's representative of 1% or 10% of the population is neither here nor there for me; anyone holding these sorts of views should be challenged.
I hope to heck he is entirely unrepresentative of the population but I very much doubt it.
What's wrong with society is that people with archaic views aren't challenged often enough.
It's not about being "easily offended" or "a lefty" (when did that become an insult?) it's about knowing the difference between what is acceptable in a modern, morally conscious society and what is not...
I found his "footballers are wimps" comment to be quite funny. Let's have a quick think, in a straight up street fight:
Bristow vs Roy Keane
Bristow vs Vinnie Jones
Bristow vs Adam "The Hair Ruffler" El-Abd
My money, everytime, is most certainly not on Bristow.