So.... Is misogny OK when the targetted women are racists and thick?

[solidgoldbrass]

Just wondering
I'm not professing any great love for these women or anything, but 'barrel', 'fish' and 'shooting' does kind of come to mind. They are all young, poorly educated and short on life experience but a lot of the attacking seems to be on the grounds of their appearance.

Who knows if they're thick. They just sound utterly fucked over by lack of education. But no, obviously, not ok and I thought the tone of that was really unpleasant. Two wrongs don't make a right.

I think it's pretty stupid to take the piss out in that 'ooh, aren't racists bumbling idiots' way too - it makes out that racism isn't a serious problem, which obviously it is.

Serious sense of humour failure here, I'm afraid.

Vice is notoriously misogynistic.

In a really hip way, of course.

I think that the assumption that female BNP supporters are easily led, uneducated and stupid is a dangerous one. There are female supporters of BNP ideologies who are lucid, educated and sharp. Why were they not interviewed?

The rise of support for the BNP is terrifying, and needs to be addressed. Assuming that BNP supporters are all thick is not going to address the problem, IMO. Although, to be fair, the male supporters are sometimes portrayed (rightly) as evil- it's only the women who are exclusively thick.

I think these women have been exploited (at least) twice; once by the BNP as their poster girls, and again by the magazine.

As usual, that is what I was trying in a half-formulated way to think, and you've said it all tether.

That is really quite vile.

Agree with tethers.

That is used to make the women look like thickos rather than the BNP.

And the politicians we have now are not poorly skilled?
I've seen some pretty odd policies brought forward by both the labour and the conservative governments too.
The BNP are never going to get a majority in the house but their main aim is to take voters over to a more right wing stance. The middle political standpoint in this country is shrinking and just as in all times of financial hardship the left and right slog it out for centre stage.
Tasteless pictures btw they could have been more calendar girlish to have a better effect.

" The rise of support for the BNP is terrifying, and needs to be addressed "

I thought that support for the BNP collapsed at the last electon

I think the BNP are actually a right old Aunt Sally. Remember when there was all this terror and outrage at Nick Griffin being allowed to speak on TV? Best thing that could have happened; before that programme a lot of people were going, ooh he's so cool and charismatic, he'll attract a lot of idiots to the BNP - and the man made a total arse of himself. If that twitching, sweating, smirking overgrown schoolboy is really their Best Hope then there is not much to worry about. I have never seen or heard anyone from the BNP come across as anything other than a thick petulant loser.
HOWEVER the real problem is that the BNP provide a target for 'decent' people to boo and hiss at, and their existence distracts the more emotional from the creeping influence of the more subtle racists who are too smart to associate with the BNP.