"Ex-barmaid Lady Hale"

[KenAdams]

I don't know why I'm surprised anymore but wtaf.

I can't think of many graduates or post graduates who at some point didn't work in a bar whatever sex they are. I just think it shows that rag off for what it is.

To be fair, (I can't believe I'm saying that when talking about the DM) that's just a shitty headline. The long article underneath it is full of admiration for her.

Typical DM. Fawning admiration on the one hand, and pulling the rug with the other.

Despicable rag.

The Daily Mail is getting more and more ridiculous, I can’t begin to imagine how they can publish such twaddle. Do they actually employ journalists and an editor, or do they just give free rein to any idiot who can use a keyboard ?

Lady Hale must be laughing her socks off

Yes, I saw that, and was really offended by it. I sometimes look at the DM online for amusement, but so much of it is so offensive.

What utter crap. I expect they found a holiday job somewhere. That paper lies and distorts, and its readers don't even care. No wonder they support Boris.

Not unlike John Prescott, who was famously a ship's barman.

But nowhere near as fabulous as Betty Boothroyd who was a Tiller Girl

You wonder how the "journalists" (??!?) can look themselves in the eye in the mirror

I wonder they didn’t claim she was Flaunting Her Curves and Showcasing Her Spider Brooch.

The DM trying to belittle her! There are an awful lot of powerful men and women who once earned a living behind a bar 🍺

The Daily Mail are truly grotesque. Not even trying to hide their misogyny now.

How come they don't extrapolate with the men and refer to Boris Johnson as "wife beater"?

I worked in a bar when I was studying at university too. Yay - I'm an ex-barmaid too

Pathetic Daily Mail - one of your worst attempts to belittle a great woman yet!

"How come they don't extrapolate with the men and refer to Boris Johnson as "wife beater"?"

Or any other choice of dipshit things he's done!

In a world where it is increasingly unacceptable to refer to women in this sort of manner I can't understand how the DM are still able to get away with this.

'Lady Hale ex barmaid.'

And what if she was?

Hmmm. At least Lady Hale can say she earned her wages honestly, unlike the DM.

Considering her stellar academic and career trajectory, picking up on her being a bar maid during her studies is belittling. She was ahead of her time and an inspiration.

The article is pretty admiring of her actually including
"Always immaculately turned out, Lady Hale has an undeniable star quality that has led some excitably to dub her ‘the Beyonce of the legal world’: Britain’s answer to the American Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsbur"

I put the snotty headline down to a shitty sub-editor - the article is actually quite good (for the Mail).

"The Beyonce of the legal world".

Agreed that it is a good article actually apart from the odd bit of daftness. The "barmaid" stuff in itself is not problematic (it shows that she didn't come from privilege), it is because they would never refer to a man by putting his student job in the headline. And they'd never refer to his fashion accessories in a headline either.

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Wouldn't happen.