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How Can You Be Put Off Something Because Of Events You Know Nothing About?
I wonder this because Diane Abbott has been saying women are put off becoming an MP because of sexist/abuse.
I think that is a rather simplistic view. Women are put off becoming an MP because of home, family, work and all sorts of reasons and in all likelihood not because someone like her keeps going on about abuse.
Seeing her smug mug every day would put me off more than being in a male dominated workplace.
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I think that is a rather simplistic view. Women are put off becoming an MP because of home, family, work and all sorts of reasons and in all likelihood not because someone like her keeps going on about abuse.
Seeing her smug mug every day would put me off more than being in a male dominated workplace.
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Why do you think that women who are thinking of entering a public role don't know what other women face in those roles?
There's no shortage of evidence of what female MPs face over and above their male counterparts. There is a demographic (predominantly inadequate males) who use social media and direct contact to make physical threats (rape being a particular favourite) to females in public office, if they have the temerity to speak their minds or opinions.
I don't necessarily think that women who fear the impact this may have on their lives are being nanny pamby at all. At best, it's dispiriting.
At worst...Jo Cox.
Why do you think that women who are thinking of entering a public role don't know what other women face in those roles?
There's no shortage of evidence of what female MPs face over and above their male counterparts. There is a demographic (predominantly inadequate males) who use social media and direct contact to make physical threats (rape being a particular favourite) to females in public office, if they have the temerity to speak their minds or opinions.
I don't necessarily think that women who fear the impact this may have on their lives are being nanny pamby at all. At best, it's dispiriting.
At worst...Jo Cox.
Do male MPs not have home, family and work before deciding on becoming an MP?
To a small degree, she has a point. A great deal of male MPs immature and have outdated views on women.
However, Abbott was the victim of some rather boorish antics by a drunken Conservative member, and she is rather milking the incident.
To a small degree, she has a point. A great deal of male MPs immature and have outdated views on women.
However, Abbott was the victim of some rather boorish antics by a drunken Conservative member, and she is rather milking the incident.
Diane Abbott first came to my attention when she stated she couldn't "...defend the indefensible..." which sent the very clear message to her constituents that her child's education was more important than theirs.
She came out with complete cobblers then, has continued to do so in the intervening period, and continues to do so with her comments here and in connection with the spit hoods in a different thread.
Women who aspire to be MPs are not shrinking violets, and nor would we want them to be, and will not be put off by the odd comment now and then. If they are, then they should consider a different career. Social media abuse (which is not just confined to women) can simply be ignored.
She has referred to David Davis antics last week as misogynistic, which they weren't - childish possibly, but it most definitely wasn't misogynistic, and to state as much suggest to me she does not know what that word means. She needs to stop playing the victim.
Absurd woman.
She came out with complete cobblers then, has continued to do so in the intervening period, and continues to do so with her comments here and in connection with the spit hoods in a different thread.
Women who aspire to be MPs are not shrinking violets, and nor would we want them to be, and will not be put off by the odd comment now and then. If they are, then they should consider a different career. Social media abuse (which is not just confined to women) can simply be ignored.
She has referred to David Davis antics last week as misogynistic, which they weren't - childish possibly, but it most definitely wasn't misogynistic, and to state as much suggest to me she does not know what that word means. She needs to stop playing the victim.
Absurd woman.
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