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Welcome to Worst Hot Take of the Week – a column in which @MULLET_FAN_NEO crowns the wildest hot take of the week.
This week Boris promised us a “very good deal" on Brexit had been struck, with the EU with all conviction of a man who just sold his wedding ring to lay a bet on a knackered stallion at the 14:20 at Wolverhampton.
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Writer Sara Gibbs then took this development to emphasise how former Prime Minister Theresa May was, actually, another victim of institutionalised sexism. Indeed, I'm sure every woman can relate to May's experiences of the workplace. Tfw you suggest "deporting LGBTQ+ refugees to their potential death" in a meeting, but no one listens, then a man suggests the same and you are incredulously left fuming, “That was my idea to kill the gays!”The frivolity in which middle-class commentators turn any woman of immense power and privilege into an “everywomen” simply weighs down the soul. We see the same spiel whenever the Queen is baselessly portrayed as a keeper of receipts and spiller of tea who “despises” right-wing Royalists. Unsurprisingly, Gibbs contributes to Have I Got News for You – a show whose axis has rotated on 29 years of Ian Hislop making a quips about the Tory party he undoubtedly votes for and Paul Merton turning his head like around incredulously and saying nonsensical bollocks like “a badger stole my wellingtons” to hoards of #FBPE cackling.Making out Theresa May to be “just like us” is insulting to the women she has stepped on since she became a MP in 1997. Is anyone meant to find it empowering that, instead of a man impoverishing their life, it’s a woman in Louboutins? It’s no surprise it’s predominately privileged, upper-middle-class women who think this is remotely “liberating”.
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Even in her desperate clout-chasing speeches May had the audacity to cite Grenfell without ever acknowledging the complicity of Tory governments, or pay tribute to asylum seekers when she fought tooth and nail to stop child refugees coming to Britain from Syria, opting to bomb them out of their misery instead. May might as well have tweeted: “equal opportunities to die via airstrike for young girls and boys”, punctuated by handclap emojis.I'm curious to know where on this checklist May exhibits “girl power” and comes across a tragic feminist character deserving of our pity:“Celebrating” women on International Women’s Day but refusing to rule out the closing down of women’s shelters?
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