Yep, but that poster also said "Glad he didn't get away with it" immediately following the sentence you quoted. Which, to me, means his misogyny is also relevant to his spat with Arlene Foster. I was simply saying otherwise.
I can't comment on who he didn't target, but he targeted her because of a rumour about her, which I obviously won't repeat here.
My point is that all homophobia is bad regardless of the gender of the person who espouses such views. Trying to make this solely about Arlene's gender, while ignoring her homophobia, is disappointing.
I would say in response that it’s not about gender being more important than homophobia. In this case, it seems most agree that it’s about not publicly tweeting unverifiable rumours and encouraging pile-ons to public figures, regardless of their beliefs.
Just because Dr Christian Jessen may represent a noble cause (fighting homophobia) doesn’t mean he has the right to spread negative rumours about anyone, regardless of their beliefs. In my view he has done the gay community a huge disservice with the way he’s behaved.
And honestly, I think the idea of who else he could have targeted is very relevant, and expands the evidence of misogyny here. For example, it would have been very easy for Dr Christian Jessen to tweet about the proven controversies (not rumours) that DUP MP Ian Paisley Jr has been involved in, and yet a quick Twitter search brings up nothing.
Especially odd to me since Ian Paisley Jr’s homophobia is far more publicly intense and documented than Arlene Foster’s, who famously “softened” the party’s approach to the LGBT community, started a dialogue with LGBT groups and abstained from the vote on banning gay conversion therapy.
If the argument is he was targeting her as the figurehead of homophobia, I think he was totally off track. Then again, I don’t think that’s what he was intending to do, and I think this is yet another case of him hiding his misogyny behind a veil of half-assed gay rights activism.