Are women fickle?

[Martian73]

“The real reason why Blackpool is buzzing with glamorous women is surely that they scent victory. It is not the great smell of Brut that makes John Prescott attractive. It is the whiff of power. With the fickleness of their sex, they are following the polls.”
Boris Johnson on women voting New Labour back in the day.

Maybe a controversial comment but do you think there is any truth in it? Are women fickle or more fickle than men or vice versatile.
Cambridge dictionary def: “Fickle”

• likely to change your opinion or your feelings suddenly and without a good reason - changing frequently, especially as regards one's loyalties or affections.

No more fickle than men!! Boris is sexist. And a twat.

Nope. Used to think BJ was a cunt. Still think he's a cunt. No fickleness here.

Got a link to the reference for that quote? Cheers.

@AutumnCrow
He wrote it in a his Telegraph column in the late 90s. (Google is your friend.. ). He has a fair bit of form with making stupid remarks about women, from the comment in Malaysia about women “going to university to find a husband” to refering to capable female politicians as “Totty”. An isolated one off comment is perhaps a joke, but when it becomes a habit I think it betrays one’s beliefs/values.

Women are people, and people are all different.

I can safely say that my opinion of Boris Johnson has remained unchanged over several years now.

Are seriously asking if Boris Johnson opinion of women has any truth or value OP?

The man's sexist arse hole. Any view he has on women is governed by that mind set. And no I'm not fickle and won't be changing my mind about it.

I'm so shocked by this question that I've miss a word and an apostrophe 's' out of the first line of my post above

Oh it’s a bot thread.
Perhaps MN could colour code the bot threads by party so we could all wheel out standard answers

Yes, of course all women are exactly the same.

If it’s fickle you’re looking for, try football fans. If a manager wins three consecutive games he is a genius, if he loses the next three they are screaming for him to be sacked. If a player joins from a rival club he will be booed and called a donkey until he scores for your club then kisses the badge on his shirt, at which point he becomes a ‘legend’.

Please in future colour code bot threads. They are all the fucking same. Tedium. Boredom. They haven’t got an original idea between the lot of them.

@ChazsBrilliantAttitude
I do like my sci-fi novels, but I think calling me a “bot” is a bit of a stretch. I don’t think a bot would have just consumed two packets of crisps and three cans of Guinness on a work night.

@Agelikewine
Perhaps, but surely fans support the club, and are usually unflinching in their loyalty - the players, managers etc are just transistory and not deserving of the same devotion as the club/institution itself.

Name change fail?

@ChazsBrilliantAttitude
I usually change name when I start/contribute to any somewhat controversial thread as I like to get honest opinions free from any past user name baggage - as a result of expressing strong, sometimes unpopular opinions on other matters. Internet anonymity is a wonderful thing to be cherished, I think and something I love about MN. I do not lose any sleep over being "caught out" in an occasional/unexpected name reset. Anyway, any thoughts about Mr Johnson's assertions about the so called fickle sex?

I don't think women are fickle I think they're intuitive. To change ones politics alignment as policies change is just good sense not fickleness

Twice-divorced Johnson, who is alleged to have conducted several extra-marital affairs and admits to not knowing how many children he has fathered, describes women as 'fickle'.

Male here - an awful lot of women sure SEEM fickle, especially in the way they talk about their female friends and colleagues to me, then to their faces.

Also, the more they like a person, the more favourably inclined towards their opinion they seem to lean, no matter how dumb it is. People who hate MLM until bestie is doing it spring to mind.

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