"These incidents are only trivial if you compare them to, say, the fact that women MPs are frequently mistaken for researchers, or that there are currently more British male MPs than there have been female ones in the entire history of parliament. And if the men who govern us aren't capable of seeing women as anything other than totty, sluts or dears then what hope do we have of them taking the issues that affect us seriously?"
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Refers to a House of Commons incident involving a British Conservative politician and a female journalist. Another journalist, Isabel Oakeshott, had tweeted: "I do not think she should have complained to whips over what seems to have been a trivial incident."
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