Here we go:
numero uno-
2004: Bloom is appointed to the European Parliament's committee on Women's rights and Gender equality. Just weeks later he told reporters that "no self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age." eww man- not only is this a ridiculous suggestion because of the simple fact that would cut out a huge number of years of a woman's life, but also because just because a woman is capable of having a baby doesn't mean she is a less valuable worker than a man who is equally capable of impregnating that woman. we shouldn't be penalised for having wombs. jesus.
2-
"i am here to represent Yorkshire women who always have dinner on the table when you get home". classic.
ah yes, because the only acceptable, desirable and worthy women are those who conform to your twisted ideas of a woman's appropriate status and role within society. Those good, ideal women. It's not like women can actually choose whether they stay at home, or actually equally come home, after work (shock! Horror! A working woman?!) and have other things to do than prep a meal- they might even dare to ask their partner, f they have one, to cook. radical, right?
3-
"I just don't think [women] clean behind the fridge enough" - oh, it's dirty, is it? ah. shame. Here take this scrubbing brush and this bucket of water. Why don't you do something about it yourself, eh?
and on the same train of thought, women are apparently better at "[finding] the mustard in the pantry" than driving a car. hmmm. highly questionable. Especially as i don't even have a pantry.
4-
when writing about feminism in August of this year for politics.co.uk, he wrote it off as a "passing fashion" that had been created by "shrill, bored, middle-class women of a certain physical genre" and that any men who supported feminism were "the slightly effete politically correct chaps who get sand kicked in their face on the beach."
What is wrong with these comments? WHAT IS RIGHT WITH THEM?! i think it is particularly shocking that he suggests that men who support gender equality should be teased and mocked- i rather think it should be the other way round: Misogynistic sociopolitical dinosaurs should certainly be made to feel embarrassed about their primitive ideas.
5-
"This place is full of sluts"
I hate to break it to you, Godfrey, but it doesn't matter which way you try to paint it, this comment still demeaning and degrading women as it dismisses them as dirty, irresponsible and promiscuous... Also, on the "it means different things to different generations" argument, it's still offensive to call women dirty and lazy, generalise all the women in the room as one, homogenous group and, tbh, Godfrey ought to modernise his language and understand the implications of that word now. It's called not living in the dark ages and it's pretty darn useful.
i could go on, but i'm getting a little bored of regurgitating his foul comments, so there you have it: Godfrey Bloom's top 5 sexist slip-ups! (on point with the alliteration today) huzzah! plenty of fodder for feminist debate and argument- just what i like.
vida
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