I wasn’t able to trust Wilkinson’s article from the onset as the title was immediately reminiscent of a Daily Mail headline having a baby with one of those cringe Upworthy slogans: ‘Stranger Shaming: How one public meal got me 12000 online haters’. Now that’s just simply not the truth. I’d eat my hat (on the tube) if 12000 online people seriously actually cared about one picture of a woman eating.

No Sophie, what got you online hate was the fact that you panicked about the thought of an initially completely anonymous picture of you having a snack being online. You say it yourself: you spent days – literally days – worrying about it. I’d say that’s the root of the problem. You say yourself that you have ‘taken pictures of people to send to your friends’ and uploaded them to Twitter. So with that in mind, why so much panic before the picture had even gone online? WHY SO SERIOUS (sorry) if you’ve done the same to other people? Is it a case of it’s lighthearted if you do it to someone else, but not lighthearted at all if someone does it to you?

I’m sure we have all taken photos of strangers in order to have a little giggle. That’s the beauty of the crazy stuff around us. We’re a nation of piss takers and that’s what’s so world class about British humour. And alongside that, the ability to laugh at oneself is also very important. It keeps us from descending into being self obsessed. I’d argue that a lot of real problems in this country are based on inflated egos and feelings of self importance and that in-depth analyses of subjects such as these should be going viral and taking up space on our news platforms which are increasingly mediocre and over populated with the mindlessly average such as Sophie’s (and now everyone else’s) tirade against WWEOT.

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I was scolded during this debate with my mates because, of course, Sophie has the right to fight for something if it has upset her. And she has done, and she has largely been applauded for it and has a lot more than 12000 supporters now and probably LOADS more Twitter followers. What I disagree with however, is the scare mongering she is encouraging because she was unable to take an honest joke. She’s says she’ll never eat in public again. But why the hell not?

If she feels that she was being purposely shamed because of the eating, surely a better way to fight this apparent attack on women eating in public would be to buy a big fat fuck off kebab and eat it with a massive sign saying ‘I’M A WOMAN EATING ON THE TUBE AND LOOK HOW FUCKING BEAUTIFUL I AM’ or the equivalent.

The point of WWEOT is so far from being against women eating on the tube. I mean look at the name of the group: as the founders have said over and over again, it’s just a silly celebration of us fine creatures havin’ a good old scoff. They love it. And in its simplest form, it’s just kind of NOTHING. It’s a celebration of the mundane, done in a tongue-in-cheek docu kind of way. Like any part of life, there will be anomalies, people who just have to say something nasty. And as ever, we shouldn’t focus on them because it ruins the whole point of it in the first place.

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