Adam Boulton summarises Ann Widdecombe as ‘a spinster, an old maid and a virgin’

It is an interesting insight into a certain male mindset that sex is a way for men to control women, and that women who decline to be controlled by men must be vilified.

It used to be voiced more often.

However some of us do unfortunately know exactly how much men hate us - which is why some of us choose to live alone and only socialise with women. Unfortunately this appears to be a red flag to a certain type of male who decides single and lone women are easy targets.

Herbert's pictures and vitriol have made it onto quite a number of local community FB groups here in England. I was surprised to see him on ours amongst the pothole complaints and planning posts and an update on the local cadets.

The hundreds of responses to him, are very angry and mostly unrepeatable on here. Just ordinary people who aren't AW supporters particularly, but are shocked at her murder.
It's not going how he thought it would.

Here's another of the same ilk speaking of Ann Widdecombe, though The National refers to him as 'she':

https://www.thenational.scot/news/26273103.aberdeen-university-statement-amid-employees-sick-widdecombe-post/#Echobox=1783857998

I don’t think it’s enough

Has Adam arrived on the thread?
Welcome to Mumsnet Whispering

They are mocking women who didn’t have children. It’s usually disguised behind “she should have had them while fertile but she wasted her time doing “feminist” things”. They assume all these women are mired in misery and regret and they’re honing in on that. Quite cruel really.

Never mind that a lot of older childless women might have spent years trying for children but were always infertile.

Theres no male equivalent as these men love reminding us they can father children any time they like.

There is no way in hell that he would have spoken about a male politician this way, by commenting on their sex life and marital status before any of their political accomplishments. She deserved more respect than that.

And I didn't even like the woman, not one bit.

Boulton has now issued an apology admitting he got the tone and timing wrong.
An understatement to say the least.

This was good in response to his pathetic apology: https://x.com/artemisfornow/status/2076051599147888662?s=61&t=HeTVV02FVbA_mwnXH0ymWg

I fear you are probably right.
There are probably also quotes from Widdecombe putting it in the public domain.

Not entirely sure what you're getting at there, the comment is a bit WTF does that mean🤔, but with free speech comes the right to freely tell people to STFU when they express views that are considered repulsive.

@suburberphobe
How dare you deny my own account of my experience?

It is not ‘bullshit’. I have genuinely not been served, been given a shit table or been turned away when alone in places where I have previously been treated very well when with my DH.

And who the fuck are you to tell me that I need to get out more by myself? I commuted into London for years, have travelled all over England solo for work purposes, gone on solo trips in Europe and travelled to NYC solo.

Ju because it didn’t happen to you doesn’t mean that it won’t happen to other women. Have you ever considered that different people might have different experiences?

Oh and the reactions on my post suggest that others didn’t share your view.

The dead can't answer back, so cowards insult them.

The free speech police would have you believe incivility aka down right hate speech is a necessary tradeoff for liberty & certainly gender critical supporters are no strangers to subscribing to this new 'cultural more'. So why you would come here of all places to cry about it seems a tad 'out of context'.

Live by the sword…………

He looks like a man who is poisoning his own body with his bile - he hardly looks healthy. Pompous odious man.

Fabulous. Back in the 80s afriend of mine wore a badge that simply declared "spinster" and I always wanted one..I also wished I could use "Mrs" in its original sense of "property owner in charge of her own destiny"

(Which would describe Anne Widdecombe I think.

She was politically poles apart from me, and some of the vile comments from people who I might have thought I agreed with has been extremely dispiriting.

I don't watch sky so have no idea about boultons politics but that was utterly disgusting and despicable.from.him. To think that people who have just lost a beloved relative, friend, neighbour or colleague, will have heard that remark...The self absorption to not consider them.for a nanosecond is repulsive.

I don't believe in heaven and hell any more but I would love to be wrong purely for this. Adam dies and his soul presents itself to a tribunal chaired by Anne. He thinks "Oh fuck" but she shows chistian forgiveness.

It is late and DH is wedded to the footy.

So she knows what loads of other women think and know better than they do themselves?

It makes me think automatically of the Germaine Greer quote “Women have very little idea how much men hate them”.

How is it in any way necessary or appropriate

I really don’t get it, I think he should be ousted.

I was thinking this too.

Can only wonder that he didn't make some inappropriate remark about her being a closet lesbian, because in the male brain, many if not all are "virgins".

Just another man talking through his penis.

The virgin mocking is particularly horrible. By what sort of flawed assumption could he imply she was she missing out, or something was wrong with her? If she just had not met the right person for her, then she wasn’t missing out, and nothing was wrong with her. Sex for the sake of it with someone like him would not have somehow made her a better, or a happier, person.