To think the article about Angela Raynor demean all women.

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I don't care what shade your politics are, you should be disgusted by the Daily Fail article claiming that Angela Raynor 'distracts' Boris Johnson by crossing her legs because her debating skills aren't as good as his.

*demeans. I'm so furious I can't type properly!

It is disgusting but I think it actually does more harm to the Tories, what kind of pathetic, weak minded little eejit actually says out loud that the person in control of the leadership of a country can be easily distracted by a women crossing her legs? And why the hell would they think that reflects badly on the woman rather than themselves?

The story is damaging to Johnson so it's probably been put out by one of his rivals manouevering for the top job - speculated on in today's papers as being Penny Mordaunt , Liz Truss and Jeremy Hunt.

It is absolutely is demeaning. I was a bit gobsmacked by that article this morning.
Also, are they implying she doesn't wear pants?

I do hope all those who are thinking of voting Tory "because they know what a woman is" see this

I'm as GC as they come but the tories are not friends of women

Ridiculous to think they are

I think it does far more damage to the tories & Johnson's brand. He's a known philanderer (sp?) and a lot of people think there should be more people in Westminster with backgrounds that don't include Eton>Oxford. I think on balance the Mail has printed far worse - it's very distasteful but I wouldn't be completely disgusted & furious about it.

'I'm as GC as they come but the tories are not friends of women

Ridiculous to think they are'

Totally with you. It's a disgusting, pathetic article. Shows you the dire straits they're in

Think it says more about sad wee Tory MP fuckwits and led-by-his-dick Johnson than it harms or demeans Angela Raynor.
They're probably narked that no female MP ever in the history of Parliament has been distracted by any of them flaunting their “ample assets”.

I like it that Angela Rayner clearly scares the Tories so much - but if the reporting of it I heard on the BBC this morning is accurate, that was a shitty article. Then again the Mail is a shitty shitrag so it's hardly a surprise.

The Daily Mail is a misogynist rag.
The Conservative Party does give a fuck about women.

That should be "doesn't" give a fuck about women.🙄

It's horribly misogynistic but it's the Daily Mail, so no surprises there. I agree that it reflects more badly on Boris Johnson than it does on Angela Rayner, but it's still shocking that people think it's OK to write this drivel in this day and age.

I completely agree. The only people it demeans are those who think this appropriate and who think the current apology for a PM is so easily distracted. It certainly illuminates all the claims that he knows what a woman is.

this
says a lot more about him than her.

@TooBigForMyBoots
Sadly that appears to be restricted to The Queen, Mummy, and Nanny. The rest of us, not so much.

@TooBigForMyBoots just seen your correction sorry!

And here's what the clown has to say about it.

Absolutely foul. I am going to complain. However, I do think that rather than paint AR as a harridan, it actually damages BJ rather more. A man who is so weak that he is distracted by a woman with legs.

I've complained to IPSO.

This is me and I know tories are not friends of women. But they are still getting my vote sadly as women cannot organise as a political group if they cannot talk about who is (and who is not) a woman. So sadly although the tories are awful, they are also currently the only party not trying to dismantle the definitions of women which are essential for any meaningful political action. If Starmer had his way we could not say that this is how the tories treat 'women' could we? We would have no language to draw attention to the inequalities and oppression on which misogyny is built. It's a sorry state of affairs and I consider the opposition to be in a disgusting state of affairs but sadly it's a choice between a passively misogynistic party and an actively male supremacist one. So worst of two evils.

We may have reached the bottom of the barrel folks.

@Whatiswrongwithmyknee

The tories will say whatever you want whilst it is expedient for them

DO NOT expect them to back it up with action

Good to hear. I would encourage all those people who find this article disgusting, appalling and misogynist to do the same.www.ipso.co.uk/complain/

This. A million times this.

I don't .That's not the point. The really just need to avoid taking the overtly anti-women action which labour are taking. I think you are missing the point. I just see the tories as the party least likely to fuck around with the actual definition of women. This leave the part open for women to take action. I am under no illusions that the tories are an ally. They are just not as actively an enemy as labour.