Author Topic: 'Bringing down the whole of womankind'  (Read 1175 times)

Nearly Sane

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'Bringing down the whole of womankind'
« on: January 09, 2016, 12:37:38 PM »
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

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Re: 'Bringing down the whole of womankind'
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2016, 01:40:40 PM »
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".

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Re: 'Bringing down the whole of womankind'
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2016, 02:06:48 PM »
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.

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Re: 'Bringing down the whole of womankind'
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2016, 08:58:47 PM »
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  ;D