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Calm down dear, calm down...
A tad patronising?
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The House Of Commons is acknowledged as one of the last great bastions of sexism, and any woman MP is aware of that, and works round it.
This was a situation in the House Of Commons, and this was the Prime Minister speaking to an elected MP, not some joshing in a pub round the corner.
This was a situation in the House Of Commons, and this was the Prime Minister speaking to an elected MP, not some joshing in a pub round the corner.
19:16 Wed 27th Apr 2011
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A storm in a teacup - cant be too much other news of note, other than GDP for Q1,
Syria and the forthcoming WC show at the Abbey.
Not much different than most QTs in the House and the speaker intervened on Cameron 's behalf to get the Labour front bench to do what Cameron had said, "Calm down." Trading insults goes with the job when you are on the front bench. Puerile (and whatever the female equivalent is) maybe but it has always been like that - the art of the brilliant putdown may have been lost, e.g. remember the Churchill/Nancy Astor exchanges in the House.
Syria and the forthcoming WC show at the Abbey.
Not much different than most QTs in the House and the speaker intervened on Cameron 's behalf to get the Labour front bench to do what Cameron had said, "Calm down." Trading insults goes with the job when you are on the front bench. Puerile (and whatever the female equivalent is) maybe but it has always been like that - the art of the brilliant putdown may have been lost, e.g. remember the Churchill/Nancy Astor exchanges in the House.
boxy, i'm really surprised how you feel about this.
if my husband said this to me, then i would take it as a joke - probably, depending on the context and the situation. however, if someone said it to me in the way david cameron did, in a formal, work-place environment then i would most certainly feel it patronising, extremely rude/impolite and sexist.
if my husband said this to me, then i would take it as a joke - probably, depending on the context and the situation. however, if someone said it to me in the way david cameron did, in a formal, work-place environment then i would most certainly feel it patronising, extremely rude/impolite and sexist.
zebadee, not necessarily, because an opposition member can't patronise the PM the same way the PM can patronise an opposition member. But if Eagles were PM and Cameron the backbencher, yes, I'd say the same thing there too. No, courts don't convict anyone of sexism, but that doesn't mean it isn't there.
I feel like that because it's not worth discussing, IMO. I am tired of all this rubbish about Madam Chairwoman and person-hole covers and stuff. I can give as good as I get - if DC said something like that to me, a) I wouldn't mind and b) I'd put him down in public, at some other time, if I felt like it.
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