Legs
Sigh.
A Daily Mail front page picturing Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon and asking “who won Legs-it” has been condemned as “moronic” sexism.
The tabloid was scorned for focusing on the prime minister’s and first minister’s legs during talks on Brexit and on a second Scottish referendum.
Former equalities minister Nicky Morgan said it was “deliberately demeaning”.
The Daily Mail responded to the criticism in a statement which said: “For goodness sake, get a life!”
Of course it did. The Daily Mail lives in Trumpworld, where “jokes” that reduce even heads of state, if they have the bad taste to be female, to tits and bums and legs are normal and appropriate. Yeah sure she’s the PM but LOOK SHE HAS LEGS. The Daily Mail lives in Trumpworld, where “jokes” of that kind are hilarious and also a good way to make sure women don’t run away with the idea that they’re fully human and conscious and capable of thought. The Daily Mail lives in Trumpworld, where “jokes” of that kind keep women from getting too confident and above themselves. The Daily Mail lives in Trumpworld, where “jokes” of that kind take women down a peg many times every day.
Under the headline, “Never mind Brexit, who won Legs-it!” (sic) and alongside a photo of the two leaders sitting down for talks at a Glasgow hotel, the paper wrote: “It wasn’t quite stilettos at dawn…”
In her sketch, [Sarah] Vine wrote: “What stands out here are the legs – and the vast expanse on show.
“There is no doubt that both these women consider their pins to be the finest weapon in their physical arsenal.”
May’s are “demurely arranged in her customary finishing-school stance”, she observes.
Sturgeon’s “shorter, but undeniably more shapely shanks are altogether more flirty, tantalisingly crossed, with the dominant leg pointing towards her audience”.
She says the Scottish leader’s pose – at a meeting to discuss topics of state including the triggering of Article 50 on Wednesday – is “a direct attempt at seduction”.
Haw haw haw that’s a good one. Sturgeon is trying to seduce…erm…Theresa May? England and Wales? Nigel Farage? I’m a bit lost.
There’s an obvious misprint here: It’s Daily Male.
No, no, no. It’s spelled “Daily Mail”, but it’s pronounced “frothing pile of Nazi shite”.
Ah, thanks for the corrected correction. Not a native speaker you see, except when talking to myself.
And I never touched that rag, even in an outhouse without a bible.
That’s some nice work, Graham.
It’s beyond me how the staff at the DM can keep up the relentless awfulness that must be required, day after day, week after week. You’d think awfulness was a limited resource and they’d eventually run out but they seem to manufacture more of it anew every day. How toxic an environment must that place be to work in? The extraordinarily hypocritical stance they have on “smut” while every page drips with highly sexualised pictures of young girls is…. well, mystifying.
I’m bound to have posted this here before, probably more than once, but behold the daily mail song! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
Relentless trivialization of everything, heaped upon Himalayas of brain-dead bigotry in every conceivable form, piled sky-high and beyond, fueled by the unquenchable greed of Our Betters and their groupies, repeated, repeated relentlessly, wearily over and over again and then again and yet again in ever new forms…
When will it ever stop?
It looks as though the Raven had it right: Nevermore.
Oh, I almost forgot, also behold Charlie Brooker’s Daily Mail Island: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlEIryW8zA
To be fair, The Daily Fail is pretty sex blind when it comes to ridiculing or salivating over bodies, as they demonstrated in their next edition defending this page. Cameron got more and worse I reckon.
Beside the point. Men in power are the norm, women in power are the deviation from the norm. Mocking men in power does not function the same way that mocking women in power does.
If women were truly in power, they wouldn’t have to conform to such a ridiculous custom to be seen in ‘the right places’. Shaved legs in shinny nylons sticking out from under little skirts that make it impossible to sit without knees tightly crossed or smashed together.
To me it looks completely artificial and absurd.
Thank, whatever, that I no longer work at a law firm.
And no, men shaving in the morning doesn’t even come close.
Seems that women get two choices in this world. Display your body or pretend to disappear.