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

They wouldn't know how to handle me if I was taller 🤣

Love this!!

No, but I am a language nerd.

That posts just drips snobbery. Nauseating.

It's not for either side to answer the questions. It's for the Government to answer questions. But they never do! They certainly shouldn't be asking questions of the opposition!. PMQs is for people to ask questions of the Prime Minister not the other way round

Its almost as if there is a clue in the name!

I’m short, calling this abhorrent and ableist is ridiculously dramatic. What do you call nonces or murderers if this ranks as abhorrent on your scale?

Regardless of the policies- which may or may not be crap- there is supposed to be appropriate language and behaviour in the house.

One can only call someone a liar if they are, for example. Boris.

Name calling isn’t in the spirit to use MN parlance.

I think abhorrent is a bit strong

I agree that references to height/weight whatever are unnecessary and make the person saying them look foolish, but no, not abhorrent

Oh! Were they talking about the thread?

Meh, I'm short. My kids call me Frodo. I aspire to being called pint-sized but I'm too fat, more like barrel-sized.

Waiting for you to post threads about the dreadful misogyny routinely aimed at Angela Rayner. Suspect I will be waiting a while.

You're like me then. I'm in shape. Round is definitely a shape.

That said, I am not short, I'm 6'2, but I should be 7'5 for my weight.

I'd reserve abhorrent for people who think it's OK to pay a shit ton of money to transport vulnerable people from one country to another against their will.

Presumably you weren't offended about the 'joke' about her claiming the HoC as her primary residence as she'd debated there so many times lately (to the delight of the baying Tories)?

Given your frequent goady posts OP you really should change your username so as not to cause offence to actual distinguished social commentators.

So you just don't care what happens to your country? Wow

You still haven't had a mad rant about addressed the point she was using a phrase coined by fellow Tory Nadine Dorries to describe him.

From a pint sized mumsnet poster (which may I guess make me a loser?)

That is a great gift

😂

So tell people to actually vote! If they care about this stuff they would get out there and vote

Yes.

Like the Tories running the NHS into the ground to sell it off to their salivating rich donor chums. Now that's something to get angry about.

Or shrinkflation - same price but smaller packet?

Yup!

Heh. You mean you are short of arse?

As for Rayner, they have rules in the House of Commons about unparliamentary language so the Speaker would have picked up anything that was out of order. I was vaguely listening to PMQs but didn't hear that comment or notice who was in the Speaker's chair yesterday.

I'm not a fan of Angela Rayner, but she absolutely demolished Dowden. She was stupid to give the Tories any ammunition to play the victim. It's let them get away with lying to the public again.

What I don't understand is why she, or Labour, aren't asking why Greater Manchester police (whose Police Chief not only spoke at the Tory Party Conference but is backed by MP James Daly... who advocated for the Rayner investigation's reopening.) are investigating a case that can't be prosecuted?

The calls for her to resign if found guilty seem a bit rich too, considering this is our second PM to have been found to have broken the law.

She's not left wing.