Searching for similar outrage over a related celebutard article on the Huffington Post about Kelly Bensimon receiving only 2 days of community service for beating her boyfriend and giving him a black eye and cut face [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/08/ny-housewife-bensimon-get_n_212799.html]. Something about injustice, a double standard, how violence excused is violence encourage. Yet all there is is outrage over the antics of a known foul-mouthed abusive narcissist who suffers from the double damnation of being a male foul-mouthed abusive narcissist and therefore not nearly as forgivable, if not sympathetic, as, say, Elizabeth Wurtzel.

I'll keep looking for the piece about Kelly Bensimon. I know it must be here somewhere.

I'm Australian, and on the whole, we give Tracy Grimshaw a pretty hard time. A Current Affair is usually chock full of sensationalised rubbish, with only the occasional redeeming segment.

However, I must say that we are all a little bit proud of the way that she handled Ramsay. He's made himself a name being a rude, self-absorbed and chauvanistic pig, and it was really refreshing to see someone stand up to him with such eloquence and poise.

Oh, and @suzeqzee - c'mon, be nice! We're not all classless bogans, even though the media delights in portraying us as such.

berating men they do not like.

so why exactly is this considered a problem? Because it is a MAN that is getting away with it?

which makes you women EVEN MORE SEXIST than the men you criticize.

bwaaa hahahaa haha aa!!!! !!

was make her look wounded.

Besides, on Broadsheet, isn't it ok to be a lesbian and ugly anyway?

but that is one classy woman with a classy response. Kudos!

even for an Aussie. Good job, you!

Hell's Kitchen is not half the show that "Kitchen Nightmares" is. Even "The F Word" is tons better. At least on "Kitchen Nightmares" you see him use his temper to make kitchens better. Watch the episode where he goes to fix the restaurant "Dillon's" in NYC and you may find yourself saying "Thank God for Gordon Ramsey". That place really was Hell's Kitchen.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4922/kitchen-nightmares-dillons

That will leave a mark.

Hey, come over and take on some more worthless bullies! O'Reilly, Boehner, Limbaugh, McConnell, Palin...

PLEASE!!!

I don't believe that Ramsay is a chauvanist asshole so much as an asshole, period, who sometimes brandishes chauvanism as a weapon.

It's a complicated world, but actually taking the time to construct a picture of a kneeling naked woman with the features of a pig is a little beyond what I'd call casual chauvinism, especially if it was unprovoked. I'll grant that Ramsay may be an asshole with a great deal of ambivalent feelings towards women, particularly women with whom he must deal as social equals, but using props publicly to make some sad point pushes him, in my opinion, less in the direction of "simple asshole" and more along the lines of "outright egocentric nutjob with massive insecurities."

plain and simple. I'd rather eat slop from Denny's or Waffle House than food prepared by such a loathesome individual. Why do so many talented people seem to think that their talent gives them special rights to abuse and harrass those that they deem below them. Ugh.

For this section:

"I don't believe that Ramsay is a chauvanist asshole so much as an asshole, period, who sometimes brandishes chauvanism as a weapon. It's a small distinction..."

That is a terrific sign of perspective--one that is often lost on Broadsheet writers, and I would argue that it is not a small distinction but a large one. Either way, a very welcome distinction to see acknowledged here.