Is This Not Offensive And Also Sexist To Certain Overweight White Peers?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2546085/HEATH-Dasha-Zhukovas-chair.html

[woofgang]

shrug

[twofeathers]

Overweight White Peers? Finally a use for them!

[Baldric]

If I bump into one I'll be sure to ask!

[andy-hughes]

Of course it is - it's a political cartoon - there is no point in any political cartoon that does not lampoon someone somewhere.

It's the sort of cartoon that politicians who have a sense of humour and are not too up themselves, ask for an original, and hang it framed in their study.

[pixie373]

Why is it sexist?

[Gromit]

No. It is a parody.

The target of the joke is Lord Rennard. No other peers, be them white or black are the target. He is targeted for the joke due to his inappropiate behaviour to LibDem ladies.

Dasha Zhukova posed on a chair of a black woman trussed up black woman in a bondage position. It was quite striking, and had ever so slightly racist and sexist undertones.

The cartoonist has cleverly taken one story and applied it to another.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/roman-abramovich-girlfriend-dasha-zhukova-3046971

[Peter Pedant]

and if it were a black overweight peer - then it wouldnt be offensive ?

certainly a point of view, AOG

[cassa333]

And this is new how?

[cassa333]

Sorry supposed to be 'This is news HOW'?

[youngmafbog]

Even if it is, it's quite amusing though.

Personally I don't get easily offended, especially on behgalf of others so no issue to me

[anotheoldgit]

/// He is targeted for the joke due to his inappropiate behaviour to LibDem ladies. ///

Alleged inappropriate behaviour Gromit, alleged.

[Gromit]

An indepedent disciplinary investigation said his behaviour WAS inappropriate.

Just like a football disciplinary hearing can decide a player is guilty of violent conduct and penalise him.

It does not take a court and legal procedings to decide if behaviour is appropriate or not. Disciplinary hearings can do the same function without involving a prosecution.

[emmie]

call a spade a spade, if he is fat, why not say so.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// An indepedent disciplinary investigation said his behaviour WAS inappropriate. ///

*** In June Rennard was questioned under caution, but by September the police announced that no further action would be taken. Despite this, the Liberal Democrat leadership launched an inquiry headed by Alistair Webster QC. ***

*** In his findings, Webster said that the peer had “violated the personal space and autonomy of the complainants,” but it could not be established “beyond reasonable doubt that Lord Rennard had intended to act in an indecent or sexually inappropriate way.” ***

Surely you can't argue with that, especially coming from a web site such as this.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/01/27/renn-j27.html

[Gromit]

AOG

Websters report said

// “...it is clear that he did not behave in the way that a Chief Executive should behave. Lord Rennard must reflect on his actions and apologise to the women involved.” //

That is inappropiate. Not indecent, not sexual, just inapropriate.

// Surely you can't argue with that, especially coming from a web site such as this. //

Just because you have found a daft website does not give it any authority.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// Just because you have found a daft website does not give it any authority. ///

World Socialist Web Site, a daft website?

I would have thought by it's very political leanings it would be just your 'cup of tea', but then what they have put is in disagreement with Gromit's so perhaps we all understand.

[Gromit]

AOG

I am not a Trotskyite.
Not a Communist.
Not a socialist.
Have not voted Labour in the last 30 years.

So you are mistaken, NOT "my cup of tea".

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

So am I right in saying that you are not Tory or even UKIP?

So are you Lib/Dem or can we put you down as a non voter?

So 'come on out' Gromit tell us your political leanings.

[emmie]

he used to read the Daily Telegraph, but not a tory,

[Gromit]

Still read the Daily Telegraph. I voted LibDem last time, not a mistake I will make again.