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And I have to say...…..He was very, very....drunk!
Disappointing it wasn't Laura, (in spite of brexit or because of brexit), Kuenssberg that got punched in the face, not that I would want to promote punching any one, other than those involved in the sport of boxing.ippy
I think "hilarious" might be over-egging it but it's faintly amusing. At least I find it faintly amusing when i talk about punching people I am never going to actually punch.
In real life I would not find it funny to see a man punching a woman or a woman punching a man, outside a boxing ring. Having witnessed both I found both equally horrible as neither victim hit back - it just wasn't in either victim's nature to be violent and the unfairness of someone taking advantage of that and showing no mercy was what made it worse. At least if 2 people are fighting each other it doesn't seem so jarring. But as a remark that is not seriously intended, I don't have a problem with a man talking about punching a woman, unless of course he wanted to punch her because she was a woman rather than because she was an annoying human being who happened to be a woman.I sometimes talk about punching my kids....to their face. And one or the other of them sometimes jumps me. But it's a joke....so long as I win.
I think maybe this needs to be seen in the context of the fact that Ippy is a man, and the people involved are men, and also that Kuenssberg has received so many rape and death threats that she needs her own security to attend political events. In a world in which 'joke' comments make women afraid to do their jobs properly, I don't find it funny.
I'm fine with a man talking about punching a woman, provided it wasn't because she was a woman and he would say the same thing about punching a man. I wouldn't see the relevance of rape and death threats made by other people. to the comment made by Ippy. I saw it as Ippy being facetious. I actually find it worse that a man was talking about whether a female journalist was attractive enough to do her job.
Worse? No. Offensive? Undoubtedly. Ippy's comment, if made say, with you and me sitting in a pub or in his front room would be mildly amusing to you and annoying to me. On social media though, it's a different thing. We may be a backwater of the internet in that sense, but it's still a public comment wishing violence on someone who needs security to do her job as it is. It wouldn't be acceptable on Twitter, it isn't here.
Punching women. Hilarious. Is that supposed to be a blow for equality?
I have had plates thrown in my face.By a woman.
And the relevance of that is what?
I would have thought the relevance obvious.But then you are a feminist.
A lot of people disagree with her, Ippy.Try asking a woman who has been punched by a man whether your statement is acceptable or not.
Dirty word to you that, isn't it?
I can understand that some women who have been punched by a man would find the statement unacceptable, and that's their right. I wouldn't generalise that to all women. And I think it would get pretty boring for some of us on here if we had to consider the feelings of every victim who might potentially be reading this forum before we post flippant comments. Also, women who box might not find it unacceptable. I've been punched in the face and got a fat lip and bruised jaw and I did not find the comment unacceptable because the comment didn't seem a genuinely held position - it seemed to be just a flippant remark.
