Abhorrent comments made about a persons height

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Calling someone who is below the average height, "pint-sized" is abhorrent
at the very least. A person's height is beyond the person's control and calling them "pint-sized," some may even say it's an ableist comment

Yesterday, during the PMQ's the lead was taken by the deputy heads of both Tories and Labour. Standing in for the Labour leader was Angela Rayner. She called the Tory leader, Rishi Sunak a "pint-sized leader" when she was losing the arugument

This reminds me of clowns at work who had nicknames for other people who did not fit in with their agenda. Often people will make disparaging comments about another when they feel threatened because of their own inadequacies.
Should she apologise for making these disgusting comments?

AIBU to believe these comments were necessary, inappropriate and disgustingly abhorrent.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/angela-rayner-oliver-dowden-house-of-commons-rishi-sunak-labour-b2533966.html

She’s unstable dynamite because she quoted Nadine Dorries’s book which calls Rishi “pint-sized”?!

Have you ever seen PMQ before? It’s normally way worse than this! It’s a national disgrace watching them all joke and insult and shout at each other.

I hope you get this worked up about the rest of the lying, rude, self-serving horrorshows in government. Would be awful if you only noticed when a northern woman says something a bit untoward.

Abhorrent! Really?

What has Sunak won, that would make him a winner?
The last election he stood in he was beaten by someone who was outlasted by a lettuce.
In the next election he stands in, he and the party he leads will be soundly beaten. AKA he is and will be a loser.

To be fair, I was unaware she was quoting Mad Nads, which puts an entirely different spin on it.

I reckon he's had a bet with Suella. She betting against getting any migrants to Rwanda and him saying he'll do it before he leaves office at next GE. He'll be a Winner if he doesn't rely on Philp for directions.

OP is known for creating threads like this just to get a reaction

I reckon OP is an AI, with the emphasis on the A.

I agree. Still working on what are normal interactions. Reminds me of the poster of exhausting links who only pops up on pro-Tory threads. Parallel interactions, not quite getting it. (Damn, what was that poster’s name? Someone help me out!)

Clavinova? She (like me!) pops up on every political thread. I’m surprised she’s not here.

Or is she?

Oh ffs, people. This is Nadine Dorries' term for him when he ousted Johnson. Rayner is taking the piss out of his divided party by QUOTING it. Stop the pearl clutching. Get angry about Cameron telling Corbyn that "if my mother were here, she'd tell him to straighten his tie and put on a decent suit" or Matt Hancock's appalling telling Rosina Allen-Khan she should "watch her tone" or all the filthy jibes about Rayner opening her legs to distract Johnson.

She was quoting Nadine Dorries, apparently. Not a good move but the whole place is like a barnyard and what she said was no worse than what others have said, including about her.

I don't think politicians should be commenting on the appearance of others to win political arguments. Seems a bit silly and childish and could potentially be very offensive. But politicians say all sorts to each other and their behaviour often appears like playground behaviour so I think this is far from the worst of it.

I am "vertically challenged" and wouldn't be at all worried et someone calling me "pint-sized". It's not really that bad that I would call it "abhorrent" although probably slightly more offensive to men as height and masculinity are linked by society. However I still think "abhorrent" is a bit too strong really.

It certainly wasn't an accident that Rayner quoted Dorries to Dowden.

Dowden was one of the first, if not the first, ministers to resign under Johnson and rather pulled the trigger on the end of Johnson's leadership. Sunak waited a couple of weeks before resigning himself. Sunak and Dowden are close friends and who knows, maybe Dorries has a point about Dowden, Jenrick and Sunak collaborating to get rid of Johnson.

(Obviously Johnson had significant input in his own downfall. By the time he resigned his polling was in the toilet.)

But there is still a section of the Conservatives that would love to bring Johnson back - they would do anything right now to save their jobs.

So the broader picture is that by quoting Dorries Rayner wanted to remind Conservative backbenches that Dowden/Sunak precipitated their current crisis.

Obviously alot of the focus has been on the pint sized reference but I think the main thrust of her quote was about Dowden/Sunak knifing Johnson in the back.

Students' Union elections, at least in my day ⏳, always had R.O.N. as a candidate. The acronym meant Reopen Nominations, literally a 'none of the above' option. I often always think of it on election days 😭

Don't really care to be honest. I do care about the fact that Sunak pays next to no tax though on an actual rate of about 23% of his massive wealth earnings because of how the Tories have gamed the tax system.

I dislike Angela Rayner and her party but she wasn't offensive, she wasn't ableist and she said nothing distasteful.

I'm tiny. I get called a shortarse. I call myself a shortarse. I don't weep about it.

It’s Sunak. He deserves to be insulted. I refer to him a the poisoned dwarf. Shoot me!

You remind me of the fool at work that used to call our manager, behind her back, "poison dwarf." That manager was was not that short but some people don't need an excuse to be abhorrent.

Is “abhorrent” word of the week?

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Absolutely. I remember a few weeks ago it was all about 'toxic femininity' (i.e. being feminist). I suppose if you're training an AI, you need to feed it a wide range of subject matter.

At least word of the week isn't 'interlect'.

I don’t think there is any evidence that Nadine Norris called Rishi Sunak a ‘pint sized loser. Body shaming is not acceptable and we should hold all our politicians to higher standards.

Whatever.

It’s in her book. 🤷‍♀️