Opinion: Why Miss Jones?

It's straight out of Rising Damp... Miss Jones, desperate to have a baby, fluttering around relationships and counting off her dwindling supply of ova... Then it gets X-Rated... she decides to simply have sex with someone who doesn't actually want to procreate with her, something he makes abundantly clear by using a condom,  a condom she promptly stole (Somehow) and... delicately... applied the resultant mess to the... appropriate place.

Ok... It's only Liz Jones doing what she appears to do best... throw out a wee bit of controversy and wait for the Anti-Trolling to hit overdrive... The DM gets a nice spike in hits from people who would never usually go to their site and any news can get snuck passed the Media savvy whilst they are all making jokes on Twitter (As I was)

Of course... like most of Liz Jones's work, it's almost certainly not 'True' in it's specifics. Most Condoms contain spermicide, most gentlemen would question where you were going with the used condom... (What an amazing piece of excuse wrangling you'd have to come up with for that one) and of course if you left it for even a few minutes to cool down, all of the wrigglies you are attempting to harvest will be dead...  She knows this of course... it' never meant to be taken as statements of facts.. and if it were there may even be some legal implication... I'm sure there is provision in law for theft of genetic material.

Now I enjoy the rare (Very Rare) guffaw at her hyperbolic style, her almost total disregard for facts, people's feelings, or even her own descent in to parody... it's as if she's a pen name for a 'lefties' parody of Nadine Dorries. Sometimes though, also like Dorries, she can be a distraction and decoy from some real news. In fact I would say that it was largely her job, why else throw out lines like: "Speaking as a feminist" and then follow it with a line about disliking "Mumsy" types. Blimey.. that's really supporting women there... all those 'Mumsy' types who have children out of love, not to 'Get something' out of a relationship. So you read... You Rage

But that's the point... she throws it out.. it rattles our cages and people bite. At the time of writing she has been trending ALL day (8ish Hours) she has her own, masterful Konnolsky spoof entry and she's made my Twitter feed resemble a thesaurus entry for the word 'Semen'. In that time I've read jokes, rage some terribly crass 'Appearance led' insults and even the odd well meaning attempt to defend a serious point perceived in her rorschach tumble of words, something about how 'some women' are driven to do this or that because of societies expectation of them to have children... a potentially interesting point.. But not what her article is about. No it's about us... The reaction. The Howls and the Protest and the Jokes... even the utterly terrible ones about her appearance.

So... I guess in that respect she won.