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'''Fuck her right in the pussy''' (FHRITP) is a [[Misogyny|misogynic]] phrase used to [[Videobombing|videobomb]] [[News broadcasting|newscasts]].  It originated in January 2014 from a series of [[hoax]] television newscasts. The continual [[Social phenomenon|phenomenon]] spurred debate and criticism and changes to [[newsroom]] policies. 

==Origin==
The phrase "Fuck her right in the pussy" originated in January 2014 from a series of hoax videos.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://gawker.com/creator-of-fuck-her-right-in-the-pussy-admits-it-was-1677160604 |title=Creator of &quot;Fuck Her Right in the Pussy&quot; Admits It Was All a Hoax |last=Hathaway |first=Jay |date=2015-02-01 |website=[[Gawker]] |language=en-US |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mediaite.com/tv/those-fck-her-right-in-her-pssy-tv-news-gaffes-are-a-hoax-stop-sharing-them/ |title=Those ‘F*ck Her Right in Her P*ssy’ TV News Gaffes Are a Hoax; Stop Sharing Them |last=Kirell |first=Andrew |date=2014-03-19 |website=[[Mediaite]] |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref> The videos were created by a [[YouTube]] comedian named John Cain.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/12/canadian-reporter-shauna-hunt-men-broadcast-sexist-remarks |title=Canadian reporter confronts men who disrupted broadcast with sexist remarks |last=Hackman |first=Rose |date=2015-05-12 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077 |quote=The practice of FHRITP kicked off in January 2014, when comedian John Cain uploaded a video of himself pretending to be a television reporter who was being broadcast live – but had not realized he was – and told his pretend cameraman that he “would fuck” the missing 20-year-old woman he was pretending to report on. |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref> The original video was inspired by the case of a missing 20-year old woman. The woman was later found alive in the [[Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2015/05/13/how-that-vulgar-phrase-was-born-menon.html |title=How that vulgar phrase was born: Menon |last=Menon |first=Vinay |date=2015-05-13 |website=[[Toronto Star]] |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref>

==History in society==
=== 2014 ===
In [[Brazil]] during the [[2014 FIFA World Cup]] two instances of people using the phrase. The first being during a post-match interview after [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]] defeated [[Chile national football team|Chile]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://gawker.com/dumb-fake-fuck-her-right-in-the-pussy-meme-is-now-re-1599219607 |title=Dumb, Fake &quot;Fuck Her Right in The Pussy&quot; Meme Is Now Real, Even Dumber |last=Hathaway |first=Jay |website=Gawker |language=en-US |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref> The second being on [[Univision]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/the-guy-who-says-the-gross-thing-on-tv |title=Here's Why Two Different People Now Have Said "F#@k Her Right In The P#$&y" On Live TV |newspaper=BuzzFeed |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref>

It was tweeted by [[Florida State University]] students that [[quarterback]] [[Jameis Winston]] had "stood on a table in the middle of campus and shouted" the phrase. Winston was suspended for one game for the incident.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/sep/20/jameis-winston-fsu-ban-comments-football |title=Jameis Winston suspended for whole game as FSU extends quarterback's ban |last=Glenza |first=Jessica |date=2014-09-20 |newspaper=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077 |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/comlrtj17&div=24&id=&page= |title=Sharing Stupid $h*t with Friends and Followers: The First Amendment Rights of College Athletes to Use Social Media |last= |first= |date= |website=heinonline.org |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref>

An electronic traffic sign in [[Florida]] was hacked to display the phrase.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mediaite.com/tv/traffic-sign-hacked-with-fck-her-right-in-the-pssy-because-america-in-decline/ |title=Traffic Sign Hacked with ‘F*ck Her Right in the P*ssy’ Because America in Decline |website=www.mediaite.com |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/09/obscene-roadsign-florida-acme-barricades_n_5572328.html |title=Roadside Sign Hacked To Flash Obscene Internet Meme (WARNING: Graphic Language) |last=Moye |first=David |date=2014-07-10 |website=The Huffington Post |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref>

In November 2014, reporter Tanya Birkbeck was interviewing a [[Canadian football|football]] fan outside of the [[Percival Molson Memorial Stadium]] when a bearded man wearing a [[baseball cap]], [[sunglasses]] and a black [[hoodie]] walked up to her and shouted the phrase into the [[television camera]]. Followed seconds later by another man doing the same thing.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://rrj.ca/fhritp-confront-it-or-keep-rolling/ |title=FHRITP: Confront It or Keep Rolling? |last=Gritzan |first=Elena |date=2015-10-27 |website=[[Ryerson Review of Journalism]] |publisher=[[Ryerson University#Faculty of Communication & Design|The Ryerson School of Journalism]] |access-date=October 12, 2016 |quote=She forged that armour as part of a 12-person committee—unofficially called the National Safety in the Field Committee—of reporters, editors, executives and HR staff that met to decide how to protect reporters from FHRITP and other forms of harassment.}}</ref>

=== 2015 ===
While reporter Charlsie Agro was reporting on the final night of the [[2015 Pan American Games]] on live television, a man appeared to yell the phrase.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/canada-fhritp-videobombing-incident-sparks-backlash-against-vulgar-videobombers-10419043.html |title=Canadian journalist takes #StopFHRITP action after vulgar videobombing |date=2015-07-27 |newspaper=The Independent |language=en-GB |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref> The phrase was shouted at [[CityNews]] reporter Shauna Hunt outside of a [[Toronto FC]] soccer match.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a34997/interrupting-reporters-joke/ |title=The FHRITP Meme Is Sad, Shameful, and Embarrassing for Men |last= |first= |date=2015-05-14 |work=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]] |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref> She then confronted a group of men that she heard "conspiring to shout it again".<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.straight.com/news/515021/sarah-leamon-sexual-harassment-female-journalists-must-stop |title=Sarah Leamon: Sexual harassment of female journalists must stop |last= |first= |date=2015-08-25 |newspaper=Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly |quote=Unfortunately, the FHRITP trend seems to have become a cross-Canada sensation, with incidents occurring in nearly all corners of our country. |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref> One of the men was identified as Shawn Simoes and fired from his job as a hydro engineer at [[Hydro One]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.newser.com/story/206746/reporter-strikes-back-at-hecklers-yelling-fhritp.html |title=Reporter Strikes Back at Hecklers Yelling 'FHRITP' |last=Quinn |first=Rob |date=2015-05-13 |newspaper=Newser |language=en-US |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.elmundo.es/television/2015/10/27/562f62b346163f4b648b45fe.html |title='Fuck her right in the pussy' y otras agresiones que soportan las reporteras |newspaper=ELMUNDO |language=Spanish |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref>

In [[Ontario]], [[CBLA-FM]] television reporter Shannon Martin told ''[[Metro Morning]]'' host [[Matt Galloway]] that while she was filming a television segment outside of a high school around half a dozen different groups shouted the phrase at her within a few minutes of her arrival. In [[Manitoba]], while interviewing people at a [[homeless shelter]] about two [[homicides]], videographer Sara Calnek said she had the phrase shouted at her. Another videographer, Holly Caruk, said she had the phrase shouted at her while she interviews a father with two small children and another time while talking to students who had organized a fundraiser at a high school. In [[Saskatchewan]], reported Tory Gillis said she has had the phrase shouted at her and her colleagues as well. In [[Alberta]], Meghan Grant said that while covering a story about a movement to end sexual harassment among hockey fans two men pulled their car up behind her, shouted the phrase and drove away. In [[Quebec]] male [[Radio-Canada]] reporter Pascal Robidas, tweeted, in French, that while covering a [[Montreal Canadiens]] game, fans shouted the phrase numerous times during his segment.<ref name="Provinces">{{Cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/fhritp-phenomenon-cbc-journalists-share-mortifying-experiences-1.3072191 |title=FHRITP phenomenon: CBC journalists share 'mortifying' experiences |last= |first= |date= |newspaper=CBC News |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref>

The ''[[Toronto Star]]''{{'}}s most read story of 2015 was "Hydro One firing employee involved in vulgar incident at Toronto FC game".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/12/31/thestarcoms-most-read-stories-in-2015.html |title=Thestar.com’s most-read stories in 2015 |last=Grzincic |first=Natasha |date=2015-12-31 |website=[[Toronto Star]] |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/05/12/fhritp-could-be-a-crime-say-toronto-police.html |title=Hydro One firing employee involved in vulgar incident at Toronto FC game |last=Pelley |first=Lauren |date=2015-05-12 |website=[[Toronto Star]] |access-date=October 12, 2016 |quote=A crude on-camera confrontation between Toronto soccer fans and a reporter has cost a Sunshine List employee his job.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thestar.com/sports/2015/12/27/vulgar-fans-reporters-reaction-is-years-top-local-sports-media-story.html |title=Vulgar fans, reporter’s reaction is year’s top local sports media story |last=Mudhar |first=Raju |date=2015-12-27 |website=[[Toronto Star]] |access-date=October 12, 2016 |quote=No other story in Toronto was more telling about how we react to things now.}}</ref>

=== 2016 ===
In July 2016, while reporting on a group of ''[[Pokemon Go]]'' players, a man interrupted [[CTV]] reporter Sarah MacDonald by using the phrase.<ref name="Pokemon Go heckler">{{Cite news |url=http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/vancouver-police-investigating-after-fhritp-heckler-interrupts-tv-reporter-during-live-broadcast |title=Vancouver police investigating after FHRITP heckler interrupts TV reporter during live broadcast |last= |first= |date=2016-07-23 |newspaper=National Post |quote=That same obscenity is the latest in a viral phenomenon that flared up about two years ago where hecklers interrupt live television reports to yell the comment into a reporter’s microphone. |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref> MacDonald filed a [[police report]] about the incident.<ref name="Pokemon Go heckler" /> While interviewing two [[duchess]]es of the Quebec Carnival for [[CBC]] reporter Claudia Genel was interrupted twice by people who shouted the phrase on camera.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2016/10/07/fck-her-right-in-the-pssy-propos-disgracieux-en-direct-a-quebec |title=«F*ck her right in the p*ssy»: propos disgracieux en direct à Québec |last=journaldemontreal.com |website=Le Journal de Montréal |language=French |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref>

In April, [[CityNews]] reporter, Anna Vlachos was live on a story about construction in the [[Little Italy, Toronto|Little Italy]] neighborhood of [[Toronto]], when a man walked in front of the camera and used the phrase.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.680news.com/2016/04/27/citynews-anna-vlachos-considers-charges-after-latest-fhritp-incident/ |title=CityNews' Anna Vlachos considers charges after latest FHRITP incident |date=2016-04-27 |website=680 NEWS |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref>
<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.torontosun.com/2016/04/28/citynews-reporter-may-call-cops-over-fhritp-encounter |title=CityNews reporter may call cops over FHRITP encounter |last= |first= |date=2016-04-28 |website=[[Toronto Sun]] |access-date=October 12, 2016 |quote=But concern over what will happen to the boor has put Vlachos in a debate with herself over whether or not to get police involved. “I feel like, what if this guy comes forward ... and feels really bad?” Vlachos said. “I don’t want to ruin his life. That’s why I’m considering the charges. I’m trying to figure out the best course of action at this time.”}}</ref>

In [[New Zealand]], an FHRITP incident at the 2016 [[St Jerome's Laneway Festival]] involving reporter Kim Vinnell from [[TV3 (New Zealand)|TV3]], Vinnell "tracked down" the men involved to discuss the incident. She was criticized for her actions.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/76523520/tv3s-kim-vinnell-slams-accusations-of-vapid-reporting-after-laneway-louts-incident |title=Kim Vinnell slams 'vapid' accusation|website=Stuff |access-date=2016-10-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.newshub.co.nz/tvshows/story/laneway-live-cross-bomb-what-were-they-thinking-2016020219 |title=Laneway live cross bomb: What were they thinking? |last=Vinnell |first=Kim |date=2016-02-02 |newspaper=Newshub |access-date=2016-10-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/470642/journo-copping-heat-for-confronting-creepy-laneway-punters.htm |title=Journo Copping Heat For Confronting Creepy Laneway Punters |website=www.tonedeaf.com.au |access-date=2016-10-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11583542 |title=TV3 reporter Kim Vinnell was groped, claims boyfriend |date=2016-02-03 |newspaper=New Zealand Herald |language=en-NZ |issn=1170-0777 |access-date=2016-10-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3427635/Watch-moment-TV-reporter-harassed-group-men-swear-yell-vile-slurs-live-cross.html |title=TV reporter is harassed by a group of men during a live cross |newspaper=Mail Online |access-date=2016-10-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/news/reporters-boyfriend-says-she-was-groped-live-tv-in/2919717/ |title=Reporter's boyfriend says she was groped in live TV incident |newspaper=Grafton Daily Examiner |access-date=2016-10-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.listener.co.nz/current-affairs/social-issues-current-affairs/fighting-chance/ |title=Fighting chance |last= |first= |date=2016-04-29 |newspaper=[[New Zealand Listener]] |language=en-US |access-date=2016-10-11}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite news |url=http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/journalist-harassed-laneway-festival-auckland-abused-social-media-speaking/ |title=Journalist Harassed At Laneway Festival Auckland, Abused On Social Media For Speaking Out - Music Feeds |last= |first= |date=2016-02-06 |newspaper=Music Feeds |language=en-US |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref>

== Criticism ==
In 2015, [[St. John's, Newfoundland]]-base journalist Chris O'Neill-Yates called the phrase "a filthy and disgusting fad," and "a type of abuse intended to objectify, humiliate and demean female television reporters." To be catcalled that way while reporting was "very unnerving, very unsettling and quite frightening, actually," she told CBC News Now host Carole McNeil.<ref name="Provinces" /> In 2016, [[Adrienne Clarkson]] criticized FHRITP as a call for [[rape]], by saying: "I was being interviewed ... and a man walking by and yelled “Fuck her right in the pussy.” Let’s be clear what that comment means – it’s a call for rape. That moment and so many others are a clear reminder to me that we have so far to go."<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/eleven-canadian-women-on-sexism-and-the-struggle-for-gender-parity/article29030612/ |title=Canadian women on sexism and the struggle for gender parity |last= |first= |date=2016-03-04 |newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]] |quote=I was being interviewed ... and a man walking by and yelled “Fuck her right in the pussy.” Let’s be clear what that comment means – it’s a call for rape. That moment and so many others are a clear reminder to me that we have so far to go. |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref> That same year, [[Christie Blatchford]] was quoted: "But FHRITP was never aimed only at female reporters and seemed to me to be less a function of chronic misogyny in the culture than it was of the more troubling hunger of idiots to get their mugs on the tube."<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/christie-blatchford-how-i-fell-out-of-love-with-the-canadian-justice-system-especially-judges |title=Christie Blatchford: How I fell out of love with the Canadian justice system (especially judges) |last= |first= |date=2016-09-15 |newspaper=National Post |quote=At the time, the FHRITP phenomenon — the initials stand for “Fuck her right in the pussy,” which morons the planet over, usually in their cups, had taken to yelling at TV reporters — was much in the news, and CBC’s The National had just convened “a solemn panel,” as a friend called it, to discuss this terrible business. The discussion had kicked off with anchor Peter Mansbridge, sighing with the pain of it all, asking, “What does that (FHRITP) say about us as a society?” |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref> The academic journal ''[[First Monday (journal)|First Monday]]'' said: "the hashtag #FHRITP, an acronym of the phrase, was co-opted by Twitter users to further discussion of the public harassment of women (Leconte, 2015). The discussion among users of the hashtag, which included thousands of tweets referencing the incident, spoke to how this type of harassment and discrimination for women in public had more or less been normalized."<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=O'Hallarn |first=Brendan |date=2016-09-16 |title=The public sphere and social capital: Unlikely allies in social media interactions? |url=http://128.248.156.56/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6961 |journal=[[First Monday (journal)|First Monday]] |language=en |volume=21 |issue=10 |doi=10.5210/fm.v21i10.6961 |issn=13960466 |quote=As an example, consider the social media activity that arose following a vulgarity yelled into the camera during a live television broadcast, which turned the public discussion in an entirely unexpected direction. In May 2015, television reporter Shauna Hunt was heckled by fans outside a soccer game in Toronto, one of whom yelled the obscenity “fuck her right in the pussy” into the camera (Teitel, et al., 2015), a vulgar trend started when a January 2014 hoax video showed a Fox TV reporter allegedly saying the obscenity on the air (Braganza, 2015). After the incident in Canada’s largest city, a surprising thing happened. In addition to outing the man who yelled the obscenity into the camera as an employee of government power utility Hydro One, leading to his dismissal (Canadian Press, 2015), the hashtag #FHRITP, an acronym of the phrase, was co-opted by Twitter users to further discussion of the public harassment of women (Leconte, 2015). The discussion among users of the hashtag, which included thousands of tweets referencing the incident, spoke to how this type of harassment and discrimination for women in public had more or less been normalized. It made the forum an instructional one. Twitter’s version of “society” (the set of users of the hashtag) sent the message that #FHRITP isn’t simply a prank, it is sexual harassment (Hawken Diaz, 2015). This generation of informed public opinion as a normative force is also an impressive display of social capital being rapidly developed from an unconventional source.}}</ref> [[Chris Hayes (journalist)|Chris Hayes]] on [[MSNBC]] said: "Hey, America! If you see someone who’s doing a live shot, and you think it’s funny or smart or clever or disruptive in any way to say what that guy just said, it’s not. Grow the hell up. Thank you."<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://freebeacon.com/politics/chris-hayes-angered-prankster-yells-right-msnbc/ |title=Chris Hayes Angered When Prankster Yells Vulgar Expression Live on MSNBC |last=Rutz |first=David |date=2016-05-27 |newspaper=[[Washington Free Beacon]] |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref> Claudia Genel of [[Radio-Canada]] said: "Dégradant, inacceptable! Nous dénonçons évidemment ce geste et ces paroles disgracieuses prononcées durant le Téléjournal Québec. C'est gratuit, facile et désolant, en 2016, d'assister à ce genre de geste."<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |url=http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/quebec/2016/10/07/003-insultes-micro-journaliste-intervention-canada.shtml |title=Radio-Canada dénonce des obscénités lancées au micro d'une journaliste |last=ICI.Radio-Canada.ca |first=Zone Justice et faits divers - |website=Radio-Canada.ca |language=fr-ca |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref> Kim Vinnell of TV3 was quoted as saying: "I know this phrase that this guy used has been popular on the internet, but it still doesn't make it OK, I think it's important not to over dramatise{{sic}} this but also not to condone that sort of behaviour."<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11583542 |title=TV3 reporter Kim Vinnell was groped, claims boyfriend |last= |first= |date=2016-02-03 |newspaper=[[New Zealand Herald]] |language=en-NZ |issn=1170-0777 |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of viral videos]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
{{External media
|video1=[https://archive.org/details/fuckusedontv4times 'Fuck Her Right in the Pussy' hoax videos (2014)] in the [[Internet Archive]]
|image1=[http://www.gettyimages.nl/license/473209422 Toronto news reporter with security after a FHRITP incident on May 13, 2015] by Steve Russell, [[Toronto Star]] via [[Getty Images]]
}}
* {{YouTube|c=therealfhritp|TheRealFHRITP}}
* [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fuck-her-right-in-the-pussy-fhritp Fuck her right in the pussy] from [[KnowYourMeme]]

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