No more Comrade

[Lilith7]

Indeed it was; especially valid was the point comparing the treatment meted out to Jacinda Ardern to that shown to John Key or Jim Bolger or any other PM really.
There's been nothing on the same level of nastiness towards other leaders that i can recall; apart from a few jibes towards Helen Clark when she was PM & even that was tame by comparison.


Interesting article by a UK MP.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...nda-ardern

Good article.   What is emerging following the PM's resignation is that many people weren't aware of the level of abuse she had to deal with, every day.   I think there was a degree of male gaslighting, I have certainly experienced some of that along the lines of "You're overreacting" or "That can't possibly be true" or ""It was just a joke", but also there was complacency and lack of interest.   Also an inability to identify misogyny in the name-calling and insulting jokes that litter message boards and media comments-sections.

Agreed - I sometimes wondered what their reaction would be, if the shoe was on the other foot & male politicians were copping similar abuse.

Probably that would be different.....