Feminism: chat
Egghead68 · 29/06/2022 23:04
news.sky.com/video/share-12642633
Vile and sexist. He would not have done this to Keir Starmer.
Surprised there’s not a thread about it already.
Discovereads · 29/06/2022 23:09
The whole climate is toxic. This type of roasting goes on all the time in Parliament. I often tune in to watch the lunatic MPs as they try and win the creative insult of the day award. It’s rather like watching ice hockey games purely to see the fist fights. MPs think jeering at each other is their job. They don’t give a shit about governing.
Discovereads · 29/06/2022 23:17
Egghead68 · 29/06/2022 23:12
It’s the patronising sexist aspect to this that is so vile imo - it’s not just standard roasting although I agree that they/we could really do without that.
I didn’t see anything particularly sexist about it. I’ve watched a lot of Parliament TV in my day. They simply don’t hold their punches just because an MP is female.
Egghead68 · 29/06/2022 23:18
Discovereads · 29/06/2022 23:17
I didn’t see anything particularly sexist about it. I’ve watched a lot of Parliament TV in my day. They simply don’t hold their punches just because an MP is female.
Egghead68 · 29/06/2022 23:12
It’s the patronising sexist aspect to this that is so vile imo - it’s not just standard roasting although I agree that they/we could really do without that.
Do you think he would have winked at a man?
Discovereads · 29/06/2022 23:22
Egghead68 · 29/06/2022 23:18
Do you think he would have winked at a man?
Discovereads · 29/06/2022 23:17
I didn’t see anything particularly sexist about it. I’ve watched a lot of Parliament TV in my day. They simply don’t hold their punches just because an MP is female.
Egghead68 · 29/06/2022 23:12
It’s the patronising sexist aspect to this that is so vile imo - it’s not just standard roasting although I agree that they/we could really do without that.
I don’t see why not. I’ve seen men that sort of unfriendly wink at other men specifically to incite them to throw the first punch.
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I didn’t see it as a sleazy wink. It was more of a “ha ha got you” wink. When you listen to what he is saying when he winks, it makes no sense to think of it as a sexual/sleazy thing.
bodylanguagecentral.com/what-it-means-when-someone-winks-at-you/
MangyInseam · 30/06/2022 04:13
What did AR think of it?
MPs don't always have the adversarial relationship that the public tend to assume, even across parties. There was one MP in my country who was widely considered to be an aggresive blowhard by the public, I was quite surprised to find out that civil service staff thought he was one of the best MPs to work for and he was really popular with them. My point being I wouldn't assume I understand the specifics of what's going on in an interaction like this.
I don't think it's necessarily the case that because a social interaction is different between opposite sex people than it i between same sex people that it is sexist. But winking is not very parliamentary in any case. But I'd put it at the level of a minor bad judgement rather than something more serious.
Egghead68 · 30/06/2022 06:41
Let’s not forget it comes on the back of this:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10746873/amp/Tories-accuse-Angela-Rayner-Basic-Instinct-ploy-crosses-uncrosses-legs-PMQs.html
PurpleDaisies · 30/06/2022 06:47
Dominic Raab thinks misogyny can be directed at men. He doesn’t know Dover is and important port and thinks the sea can be closed.
Some village is missing it’s idiot. There’s such a pathetic lack of talent in the cabinet. That’s what happens when you choose people for loyalty rather than any skill.
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