ABBOTSFORD, BC

After hundreds of people called a fictional woman in a satirical article “stupid” for mortgaging her house to buy Taylor Swift tickets, satirist Andrew Unger decided to see if the same reaction would follow the news of a fictional Abbotsford man in a similar situation.

“Some folks still have trouble detecting satire,” said Unger. “It’s pretty ironic that these are the very same people calling other folks ‘stupid.’ It doesn’t help that they’re usually just reading the headline.”

Unger says it will be interesting to see if angry borderline illiterate folks on the Internet judge a man who pays a lot of money for a concert the same way they judge a woman who does the same.

“We’ll just post this article and see what happens,” said Unger. “Should be interesting. Get out your p

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