AIBU?
To find this sexist but I can't articulate why
popuphairbrush · 17/04/2013 11:13
Probably because I have baby brain and had no sleep and my mind is mush.
But Morrissey recently said that because of Thatcher (sorry, I know) there will never be another female prime minister. And that struck me as sexist. No one would ever say that after an unpopular male PM. But I can't really articulate further than that - does anyone agree, though?
BeerTricksPotter · 17/04/2013 11:18
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LessMissAbs · 17/04/2013 11:34
Yes, its sexist. It suggests something that's never been proven in fact, and is based entirely on the gender of the subject. He also seems to implicity be suggesting that if she had behaved herself and acted in a way that was acceptable to male sexists, another woman might been "allowed" to become prime minister.
TravelinColour · 17/04/2013 11:38
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seeker · 17/04/2013 11:39
However. It is an example of a phenomenon that happens a lot.
A woman screws up- it was because she was a woman,thereby proving that women aren't up to the job.
A man screws up- it was because he made a mistake/ the job was too difficult- thereby proving that he as an individual wasn't up to the job.
StephaniePowers · 17/04/2013 11:40
Perhaps he is saying that the electorate will never vote for a woman no matter how promising she is, because Thatcher damaged the status of women in the heads of the unthinking masses?
Which makes him a misanthropic git, but not necessarily a misogynist.
However, because it's Morrissey, I'm willing to believe that he is both misanthropic and misogynistic 
because he is all kinds of unpleasant rolled together.
OhLori · 17/04/2013 11:46
Strangeways Here We Come, probably one of the best albums ever.
He didn't explain what he meant, so I think people are jumping to conclusions. But why miss an opportunity to call people names, so grown up 
Personally, I am OK with his outspoken ways, even if I don't always agree with them. I see him as an eccentric, and an individual.
MadamePenguin · 17/04/2013 11:56
I read it as him saying that voters would be put off the idea of a female prime minister because of Thatcher- so he's not so much being sexist himself as accusing the British public in general as being sexist. (I don't know the context he said it in though.)
HolyMackerel, surely the reason no one would say people wouldn't elect another male to power after someone like Hitler because there have been many male leaders, and we know they are not all like Hitler. Thatcher is the only female prime minister we've had in the UK. People will generalise from her.
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