‘Pulling a pig:’ The cruel, disgusting prank against women exposed
A recent This Morning interviewee has pulled back the curtain on a disgusting prank committed by men against women.
Sophie Stevenson opened up to Holly and Phillip about allegedly being the brunt of a 'pull a pig' joke.
Sophie told the talk show duo that she had met a holiday romance while on a recent trip to Barcelona, and hung out with him the entire holiday.
Sophie alleges that they continued talking when she returned to the UK and he returned to the Netherlands, but it wasn't long before Sophie says she decided to fly to Amsterdam to meet her Barcelona beau.
When she arrived in Amsterdam, he ghosted her, leaving her at the airport to go to her hotel alone.
'I tried to call him, I tried to message him, I tried to message his friend but he'd blocked me already which I thought was weird,' she told This Morning.
When she arrived, she allegedly received a Snapchat message from the lad saying 'you were pigged. It was all a joke.'
This whole ‘pulling a pig’ prank is absolutely disgusting, how can someone be so fucking rude and shallow
— maddie (@maddie_burnard) October 10, 2017
She responded: 'I just replied saying 'How can you be so cruel though?' and then he just blocked me.'
Pulling a pig is the term for a stunt pulled by men against women, for no reason other than to humiliate someone for cheap laughs from what can only be immature friends.
Twitter users have pointed out that this activity has been around for decades, with rumours of fraternities in the USA hosting 'pig parties' where the pledges must bring a date they perceive to be unattractive happening for years.
why the fuck is there such a thing as a pig game? pulling the ugliest girl in the room? dude men need to get a fucking grip omfg made me so mad these poor girls being treated like shit
— kirsty (@ljpxhes_) October 10, 2017
Sophie told Holly and Phillip that she was devastated by the horrific prank.
'It’s embarrassing, it’s humiliating. The only reason I’ve spoken out about this is because I don’t want this to happen to other girls.'
Sophie's holiday love has denied all of the allegations against him.
"Lets play a game tonight when we're out called pull the pig; I have to choose an absolute minter in the club and you have to get with them"
— Matthew plews (@matthewplewsss) November 15, 2016
Speaking on The Niall Boylan Show on 4FM, a male caller from Dublin told Niall that he had played the 'pull a pig' game 'a few times.'
Laughing, the caller told Niall: 'Me and the boys went over to Liverpool, we were on a lad's weekend, and one of the boys goes, messing, look we're heading over here no one is going to know anyone from anyone, lets see who can pull the worst girl ever, like I mean the worst, so that was the goal for the weekend.'
'So we just had to plough through the worst girls in Liverpool, and the winner, we all put twenty quid in each and the winner got the pot at the end of it.'
'I found a horrible thing I did,' he said, when Niall asked him if he found a woman he perceived to be unattractive.
Watching that girl who was a part of "pull a pig prank" on thismorning breaks my heart. Breaking someones heart&confidence is not ok!
— Michaela cardone (@kaylacardone07) October 11, 2017
'If you're scraping the bottom of the barrel, it's easy. They're delighted you're giving them the light of day,' he said, laughing again.
'Anytime there is a big lads weekend we try and do it.'
When asked what this stunt makes him, the caller responded: 'It makes me a legend with the lads.'
There are actually no words for the sheer cruelty this so called 'prank' involves.
It is nothing but callous degradation of another human and we can only commend Sophie for speaking out and exposing this harsh stunt.
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