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Sorry Sammy, I don't really understand the point your making, or why putting up the video? That she was threatened with rape because she said what she did about a 'men's day' in the video was disgusting, but isn't this thread about the comment 'I wouldn't rape you' being passed as humour?
Well it's done that, without a doubt, so I suppose it must be.
It means that there are some people who he would rape...
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SammyInnit
My point is the reason Benjamin made the comments in the first place was because of her attitude towards men.
She's very one sided when it comes to gender 'equality'.
Its hard to see how anything to do with rape can be made into a joke or satire, it just isnt something that should be trivialised
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But she's also correct in a lot of ways. It's a mans world, always has been. But I agree, if going to be equal, then it should be equal.
Just the simple fact she was threatened with rape on the back of the meeting shows that equality is a long way off.
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Exactly. It was a mother of all put-downs to this MP, but it wasn't humour.
It's incredibly common for all extremist political parties and groupings, both left and right, to fragment, re-form, and fragment again.
Now this is satire:
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I don't believe that to be true. We've had female speakers, we've had female prime minustera, we have a female monarch. We have female MPs currently at a rate of 32% (55% in the Labour party of which she is a member).
The only thing holding women back in terms of representation in the commons at least are women themselves.
Hmm...
I wouldn't trivialise this vile remark by suggesting a non-existent political bias
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I don't think much has really changed in the reality...
https://news.sky.com/story/abuse-an...iscuss-barriers-to-women-in-politics-11559632
https://www.independent.co.uk/voice...mons-westminster-gender-pay-gap-a8196666.html
The house of commons is an old boys club. As are many other industries... I have a friend who is a consultant, she's had never ending sexist comments throughout her career, was ignored over her male counterparts by consultants when she was training, and has had to work twice as hard to be taken seriously in her field of medicine than the men did. I heard on the radio just the other day about women working in construction were targeted for 'humourous' sexist banter in the workplace, because simply they are women - daily. (How tiresome must that be?!) There is the gender pay gap hoo-ha and the fact remains, that if a women makes a comment such as in your video and is then met with a ton of rape threats, sexism and the need to belittle & lord it over women is most deffo alive an kicking - and it remains, on a whole, a mans world but it is slowly getting better. I think your comment about women are holding back themselves is out of touch, with respect.
I could go on but I have things to do!!
True, but neither do you disagree.....
Very tiresome...
But just so you are totally clear, I would call out that comment regardless of whom it was aimed at...
Including you!
Thank you for the support
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