Knoyleo wrote:It's pretty disappointing that whilst we were all keen to jump on the Daily Mail "Legs-it" bullshit and call out sexism, plenty of people on here, rather than attack Teresa May for legitimate reasons like policy or performance in government, would rather just call her banana split/bitch/witch and attack her over her appearance.
I hate comments like these because they put you against a wall. If you think the commenter is being unfair then you better watch out, 'cause one misstep in your reply and you're left wide open to "so being insulting is
okay when you do it, huh?"
Well, anyway...
Look, in an ideal world no-one would use personal insults against people they disagreed with. I totally agree with that. But what we have on here is a bunch of nobodies on an internet forum chatting to a few dozen (tobias.gif) anonymous friends, blowing off steam about a politician they hate because her policies are grotesque. This is obviously completely different to the prejudice-reinforcing deliberately-controversial vitriol given a national platform in the guise of 'news' in the Mail. The comparison between the two situations is completely ridiculous.
EDIT: Quoting so it doesn't get lost, I agree with this too:
Moggy wrote:Knoyleo wrote:It's pretty disappointing that whilst we were all keen to jump on the Daily Mail "Legs-it" bullshit and call out sexism, plenty of people on here, rather than attack Teresa May for legitimate reasons like policy or performance in government, would rather just call her banana split/bitch/witch and attack her over her appearance.
Those two things are not related. Nobody here is attacking her or calling her names because she is a woman, but because they think she's a horrible person.
I'd call Gove or Hunt the exact same names as I call May.
Policy wise it's hard to find much to agree with. The only decent ones she's come up with were stolen from Ed Miliband.