Smyth Harper says what?
I saw this guy’s (disgusting) tweet this morning, but I didn’t realize he’s a PR honcho for the police.
The eight nurses who don’t want to undress in front of a man are the bad people here, for “humiliating” him. He’s not the bad guy for humiliating them, no, they’re the bad people for trying to make him stop humiliating them. And yet here we are.
PR honcho for the police.
Death threats? Pfft. Until she is the target of limericks, stickers, and ribbons, she has no reason to expect police attention.
And yet here we are indeed: on the back side of Mars.
Well, who gave him a crystal ball and made him God? How the hell does he know? Men kill women every single day. Murder isn’t the only measure of whether a woman is safe or unsafe. Easy for him to say. That’s always the way: men dismissing women’s legitimate concerns. New patriarchy so fuckingly, boringly the same as the old patriarchy. Restoring people’s trust in the police? Fat chance.
Jo Cox.
Exactly.
Harper has withdrawn the tweet:
I wonder if his bosses had a word.
From his Linked-In page (as visible on startpage.com) :
Looks like he’s in the wrong job.
So completely the wrong job.
A “communications expert” who can’t foresee the reaction to his own communication? “Strategic comms?” What “strategy” was he following? Piss off as many women as possible? “Crisis comms?” Given his performance here, he’s likely to tell terrorists to go ahead and shoot their hostages, and someone he’s supposed to be talking down from a ledge to go ahead and jump (which would, technically be “talking them down”). Now he needs someone to “manage” his own reputation. My own advice would be to shut the fuck up for a while. One has to wonder what qualifications he had to get this job in the first place? Let’s hope he doesn’t get to keep it.
Once again we see overenthusiastic support for gender ideology trash rational thought processes and professional standards. Was this even something he was called upon to do? Was this an unforced error that he didn’t see as an error at all? Why did he feel the need to speak out at all? Overenthusiastic support for misogyny, too? He couldn’t help himself, and thought that what he said would be uncontroversial and widely supported. Clearly he doesn’t think women matter, and doesn’t realize that they can see what he’s posting.Did he delete the tweet about the “ludicrousness” of Duffield’s feeling of unsafety in the face of death threats? That was at least as outrageous, if not moreso. What was his motivation for that, if not malicious misogyny? Even if he’s not tweeting in any kind of official capacity, it demonstrates a terrible lapse in judgement and professionalism, a toxic partisanship that makes him an enemy to half the population, and someone who cannot be trusted with any matter touching on women’s safety because he doesn’t think that women matter.
What exactly does he find “sad” about the case? Who is he sad for? (Rhetorical question: the man, of course.) Why does see hate women so much? And if the police services are so interested in restoring their reputation (as opposed to retaining the one they’ve put so much effort into acquiring), why hasn’t this hateful man been fired? Or do they see no fault in his words? If that’s the case, the police are going to have to start all over again, and do a lot of weeding out of “bad apples,” as there seem to be so few good ones in evidence.
His X account has disappeared, not surprisingly. Has anyone got a screenshot of his tweet about the nurses they could upload here for receipts / posterity?
I’ve heard on mumsnet he was ‘let go’ by the IOPC.