'Bringing down the whole of womankind'

[Nearly Sane]

As ever very little can not be made more depressing in its idiocy than by looking at comments on newspapers.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/632891/Labour-MP-Tulip-Siddiq-Deputy-Speaker-Eleanor-Laing-pregnancy-card-House-of-Commons

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Female politicians can be just as nasty as can male politicians. This has been said before, but those who did were shouted down as being "misogynist".

[Nearly Sane]

Female politicians can be just as nasty as can male politicians. This has been said before, but those who did were shouted down as being "misogynist".

All of them? That's odd because I've said it in the past and wasn't shouted down. Anyway surely the point is that this specious and hypocritical (see difference in reaction between SNP MPs clapping in House and what happened after Hilary Benn's speech) regard for tradition is something that has to be looked at.

[Bubbles]

Female politicians can be just as nasty as can male politicians. This has been said before, but those who did were shouted down as being "misogynist".

Except with Margeret Thatcher 

Those that didn't like her made her an exception to the rule  ;You didn't need to be labelled a misogynist to criticise her