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UKIP, idiots

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Tweet2tweet · 20/09/2013 20:17

So the latest mess is that Bloom referred to women as 'sluts' , as a joke of course! Is it just me or does anyone else find it deeply depressing that it is seen as okay to refer to women as promiscuous etc and if you get offended by this you're seen as being too sensitive or a 'radical lesbian feminist'!

I am very scared about the ugly trend of women bashing that seems to be rearing its ugly head in recent times.

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NiceTabard · 20/09/2013 21:07

Doubt you will be able to find minutes.

If the peeps on the gender equality thingy are all like bloom, then none will have been taken. Minuting meetings is a woman's job.

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DebrisSlide · 20/09/2013 21:06

As if he didn't know what he was saying.

kim147 · 20/09/2013 21:03

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NiceTabard · 20/09/2013 20:57

holy shamoley I am LITERALLY flabbergasted.

CaptChaos · 20/09/2013 20:55

Godfrey sits on the 'Gender Rights and Equalities Committee' (FFEM) within the European Parliament. from his (soon to be deleted) bit on the UKIP website.

Dear lord and all his saints and pixies we have entered a parallel universe!

tribpot · 20/09/2013 20:55

Sorry I should have cited my source; it was the Beeb but here it is on the EU Parliament website

NiceTabard · 20/09/2013 20:50

"I note that Mr Bloom sits on the European Parliament's women's rights and gender equality committee"

WHAT?

tribpot · 20/09/2013 20:47

Ah yes, one of my fine MEPs. We also have a member of the BNP, which bring shame to this region in my opinion.

Anyway, I note that Mr Bloom sits on the European Parliament's women's rights and gender equality committee - presumably to add balance by presenting the view from the opposition?

That said, OP, I don't know who you're hanging out with who regards you as a radical feminist lesbian (nothing wrong with any of those things, either singly or together) for not finding Bloom's comments funny. I don't know anyone who would expect me to think so.

Mintyy · 20/09/2013 20:42

Of course it is vile that a policitican would refer to a woman as a slut but at the same time I can't help but feel pleased about it (severely mixed feelings) because of the widely reported and un-hideable discredit to that disgusting party.

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NiceTabard · 20/09/2013 20:34

I saw it on the news earlier.

I do believe that he meant it in the older usage as a woman who doesn't clean properly / dress well etc. Like slovenly.

HOWEVER the fact is he was still saying that in homes women should do the cleaning, including behind the fridge (!) and that if they didn't they were slovenly.

So an outrageously sexist perspective quite aside from the use of the word slut.