Tory MP Facricant, ‘punch’ comment crosses the line.

[Isitmebut]

What is wrong with this older and uglier Boris J ‘Mini-Me’, he appears to always think that he is funny, even playing to the unappreciative gallery when approached by Sky on his doorstep earlier.

“Michael Fabricant blasted for tweet saying he would 'punch Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in the throat'”

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/michael-fabricant-blasted-for-tweet-saying-he-would-punch-yasmin-alibhaibrown-in-the-throat-9551175.html

We already have 'a Boris', god help us, who has his faults but IMO does a good job, we don't need another mop top Conservative jester.

[AnyFucker]

Yup

[AskBasil]

And as for the "apology".

Well, I shouldn't have, but she is annoying, right guys?

Giving support and succour to every domestic abuser out there who knows he shouldn't have punched his wife, but let's face it, she is annoying, right?

Hammering home the message to women who live with violent men, that it's their fault because they can be annoying.

This is the context. This is why we're angry. Men simply don't face this context and it's just another way of denying inequality, to pretend that all contexts are the same and women and men have the same experience of violence. We simply don't but it's convenient to everyone who has a vested interest in being in denial about inequality, to pretend we do.

[AskBasil]

It's all about silencing women.

To address your wotaboutthemenzing BBJ, the OP in that thread is not trying to silence her husband in a context where men have only just been allowed to enter into public (ie male) space and where many men are so angry about women standing up and speaking in public (especially when we say things they disagree with) that they regularly threaten women with all sorts of violence.

That is the context of Fabricant's remarks. Every time a high profile man (and FFS an elected member of parliament) engages in the same silencing techniques the violent trolls do, he gives support and succour to those trolls and he ensures that a few more women out there think twice before they tweet, blog, comment etc., because they're reminded how violent some men are when women say stuff they disagree with and all you need is one slightly loopier and more violent than the rest, and you too could be one of the 2 women a week murdered by men.

That's the context of Fabricant's remark. The attack on women's freedom of speech, under the guise of preserving men's freedom of speech.

[SnowinBerlin]

If you think Fabricant was bad, you should see what a totally malignant Daily Telegraph journalist put up to defend him on said. I lurch between gobsmacked and depressed.

[basgetti]

Just took a look at his twitter feed, he apologised to YAB 'if she actually thought he would hit her', but then ended it with 'but you are utterly infuriating.' And kisses. Prick.

[Scarletohello]

Since there's been quite a lot of these kinds of threats of violence towards women in the public eye recently, I think it's sending a message to all women to STFU and know their place. It's not ok.

[LeonardoAcropolis]

Re punching in the throat, Ibelieve that there's men out there with the type of mentality who would threaten to punch both men and women in the throat, if they should be so bold as to disagree with them. Whether Fabricant is one of them (may threaten to punch a man) I don't know, but he should be made to apologise properly for this incredibly stupid and offensive remark.

[Scarletohello]

Oh dear I just did a really stupid thing. I read the article on this in the Daily Fail. And then the comments underneath. Absolutely hate filled ( towards her of course )

Feel sad that so many people feel this way. The UK seems to be a more intolerant place every day. And organisations like UKIP legitimise this (IMO, don't want to start yet another bloody thread about UKIP )

[AnyFucker]

Yes. I am thinking that too. Also the throat is an extremely vulnerable part of the body. Somehow worse than a punch on the nose in this context. All punches can kill someone, but ....

[Scarletohello]

Re punching her in the throat, it's significant as it's a way of silencing her voice. Chilling. Cameron is a coward to not sack the cunt.

[AnyFucker]

There is something a bit "off" about a threat to punch in the throat and I cannot put my finger on what it is

Has a man ever threatened another man to punch him in the throat, I wonder ?

[AnyFucker]

I have seen many, many broadcasts by Yasmin and she is a very intelligent woman. Some men will do everything in their power to reduce that, including using "jokes" to threaten their peace of mind, thus unsubtly threatening every woman's peace of mind who wishes to stand up to men as a group

[AnyFucker]

I didn't say you were, but you do have an irritating habit of popping up on the flimsiest of premises to try and get women to talk to you about how bad men have it too.

[edamsavestheday]

Fabricant is a deeply strange person who has at least revealed his contempt for ethnic minority women, unlike Cameron et al who try not to be too obvious about it. Fab also said YA-B should be deported. She cane here as a child in something like 1972, fleeing the mass murderer Idi Amin. More than 40 years a Briton but still only on sufferance according to feckers like Fabricant.

[BoneyBackJefferson]

Honestly, I'm not all bad.

[AnyFucker]

On that, I agree with you Boney.

[BoneyBackJefferson]

Anyfucker

fabricant has been caught out and will like all mps get away with it.

He should be made to give a proper apology and he should suffer some sort of punishment from his party.

But I can't see either happening.

[AnyFucker]

Yes, it has to be said these nincompoops who reveal their agenda publically and comprehensively are less dangerous than those who are cleverer and more underground

[Greenrememberedhills]

Op and Boris has charm. Which of course makes him dangerous as it helps hide his very right wing agenda.

[Greenrememberedhills]

Op you are not wrong.

[AnyFucker]

Fabricant goes back to Twitter to say "If anyone believes I would seriously threaten someone with violence, I of course withdraw and apologise."

A smashing example of an "apology" that is so far from being sorry it is laughable.

he then gets his wife to take a picture of him at an anti-DV protest march

It seems he also thinks the general public, and particularly women, are stupid as well as convenient punch bags. The trouble is, some of them are.

[BoneyBackJefferson]

"but an immediate need to minimise it by trying (and failing) to find an equivalent example done by a woman."

I have already posted that violence shouldn't be minimised.

Yet you are the one who has said that a post entitled AIBU to kill my is just lighthearted and should be ignored as its a term that in common use.

[AnyFucker]

Thanks

[BoneyBackJefferson]

So AF's passive aggressive posting style shuts down another debate.

Well done.

[basgetti]

X post AF. I think I will!