Feminist ‘warrior’ Clementine Ford sacked by Nine

Despite stiff niceties from the SMH, there was relief at the exit of Clementine Ford after her increasingly hate-fuelled rants.

Sacked columnist Clementine Ford.

Nine Entertainment has claimed its first scalp since taking over the Fairfax Media stable, sacking its most incendiary columnist, self-styled feminist warrior Clementine Ford, after she called Scott Morrison a “f..king disgrace”.

Ford’s over-the-top vitriol has long been a cause of major heartache for her former Fairfax bosses, but her “third-wave feminist” man-hating rants clearly have no place under the new Nine management

Ford went into free fall on Twitter, turning to her legions of followers on Wednesday night to announce her “resignation” after management had the temerity to cite her with a caution for abusing the Prime Minister.

“ … here’s some tea and I can spill it now that I have resigned from Fairfax: in September, they threatened to fire me because I had called transphobic Scott Morrison a ‘f..king disgrace’ on Twitter and they said that new policy was we ‘didn’t disrespect the office of the PM’,” she wrote.

“From what was translated to me, ffx (Fairfax) were very concerned The Australian would write an article about it so needed to show some disciplinary ­action had been taken. Fine, give me 4 weeks paid leave, I said. Free $$$ woo!”

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The rant continued in full Ford-bile mode as she went on to declare her new employer “dead” to her.

“Anyway, bye Fairf..ked!” Ford wrote in another tweet before going on to explain she had reached a point where a “shitty salary with the shitty work conditions” wasn’t enough to justify her continued employment at the company, which publishes The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Despite some stiff “we thank her for her work” niceties in a statement yesterday from Nine’s Sydney Morning Herald, the former Fairfax masthead was clearly relieved to see the back of Ford after seven years of increasingly hate-fuelled rants.

Nine insiders told The Aust­ralian Ford had been on notice for some time and management would not continue to tolerate her abuse and often breath­takingly aggressive delivery.

“She’s done herself no favours,” one senior source said.

Ford has always courted controversy with her “men are all rapists” mantra but in the past year she has become increasingly persona non grata — even with her own tribe.

After she was invited to give a keynote speech for a Lifeline fundraising event last year, 14,000 people signed a change.org petition demanding she be removed.

The outrage was sparked after Ford tweeted “All men must die” and “I bathe in male tears” — decidedly off-message for the suicide prevention group’s “Recognise, Respond, Refer” event in Melbourne.

By yesterday morning, Ford had already gone into crowd-­funding mode, begging her social media followers for financial support.

She posted a link to her ­­Pat­reon account yesterday asking people to pledge money online so she can continue generating “feminist content … while also providing me a platform to signal boost the work of other women and non binary voices”.

“Are you regularly accused of being a misandrist? Do you bathe in a pool of male tears each night before bed?” reads the overview on her page.

As a sweetener to potential backers, Ford says for as little as $1 a month she will give a shout out to her donors on Twitter.

Better still, for $10 or more, she promises to “curse 10 men in your honour”.