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Referring to a woman as 'stunning' is sexist you fiends
Referring to a woman as 'stunning' is sexist you fiends
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The lawyer who published a “sexist” LinkedIn response from from a fellow barrister is an outspoken feminist who has complained about the “ritual humiliation” of male-dominated workplaces.
Charlotte Proudman, 27, who has been building up her media profile for the past three years by writing for the Guardian, the Independent and several magazines, as well as being a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, believes men make workplaces a “repugnant world”. Her public profile is larger than ever after she shamed Alexander Carter-Silk on Twitter for complimenting her on her “stunning picture” when she invited him to connect to her on LinkedIn, the professional networking site. She has been accused of cooking up the row as a publicity stunt, but insisted yesterday that “if people don’t experience the repercussions for their actions, which are plainly wrong, then their behaviour will never change, and neither will sexist culture”. Alexander Carter-Silk messaged human rights lawyer Charlotte Proudman on LinkedIn to say she would "win the prize for the best Linked in picture I have ever seen"Alexander Carter-Silk and Miss Proudman's LinkedIn photo, which he described as "stunning" ADVERTISING One former colleague of 57-year-old Mr Carter-Silk said: “He is not a sexist pig. He just doesn’t have a filter on his mouth.” That appeared to be borne out by a comment Mr Carter-Silk made on his own daughter’s Facebook page next to a picture of her working out in a gym. He wrote: “Whilst I should not encourage lascivious comments about my daughter…Yeee gods she is hot!!” Ellie Carter-Silk, a personal trainer, is the same age as Miss Proudman. Ellie Carter-Silk was described by her father as "hot" Miss Proudman, whose great-grandmother was a Suffragette, said Mr Carter-Silk, a partner at the law firm Brown Rudnick had “objectified” her, describing his message as “unacceptable and misogynistic”. Her response has divided the legal community, with some accusing her of over-reacting and others praising her for “calling out” the married father-of-two. Miss Proudman has written at least 35 articles in the past three years for national and online publications. She is also a member of the Fabian Society, the left-wing think-tank dedicated to advancing socialism. • LinkedIn lawyers: Did this man's weak sexism really warrant perv-shaming? Earlier this year she used the left-wing website Left Foot Forward to explain that she was a campaigner for feminism, not equality, because: “Men live and work in a brutal society, which is maintained through stratified social order based on ritual humiliation, gentleman’s clubs, fights, rites of passage, sexism, and banter. “When women enter the male realm whether law, politics, or a construction site, they find themselves in a repugnant world in which their only means of survival is by undergoing a fundamental transformation leaving them with little opportunity to make any change.” If men and women were truly equal, she said, “men’s genitals would be sliced up” in the same way that some women are subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM). She added: “Equality is harmful to women and most men, as they are required to replicate behaviours that are degrading and dehumanising.” |
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Bloody hell, her attitude reminds me of Millie Tant from Viz!
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Very disturbing that she implies slicing up mens' genitals is the route to equalty rather than eradicating FGM.
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whats the difference between equality and feminism then?
Maybe it would help if they wore a badge, a bit like the nazis did then others would know not to compliment them or something? I really do not know, but I'm actually thinking I might have backed the wrong horse with socialism  |
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Turns out it's not family law but human rights she does.
A feminist named 'proudman'? The mail now finding evidence of her commenting on male photos, errrrg man the trenches boys think this un gunna get ugly....or beautiful....or em, oh bugger it me noggin is truly boggled now. |
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What we want to know is..... Is she a rug-muncher?
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She's average looking but looks older than 27.
Most comments I've read online are mocking her and rightly so. |
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The problem as I see it with the objectification argument is that the elephant in the room is the make up bag.
Sure she has a point if she argues that she called men sexy or whatever in her spare time and he called her stunning on a 'work' website, but psychologists will tell you the basis of applying make up is about emphasising verility. Babies arnt born with max factor kit bags, so the application of make up is in itself a contrivance. She is free to apply make up as she wants, but if she believes it's inappropriate to receive such comments on a work site then why use the photo that subconsciously encourages it? |
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As somebody inferred, she has blown any chance of a proper job at a decent firm. Who would want to employ somebody that froths at the mouth over a casual remark (no matter if it was dubious). I still get slightly annoyed that the feminists troy out all these figures that there are more men in prominent jobs than women. Thats always gonna be the way. Biology ensures that women take time off to give birth, and many dont come back to work. If you were an employer and had two equal candidates, it would probably always tip the balance in favour of the man.
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Just hunted all over the guardian site - the story has disappeared. It must be there somewhere - the gruniad has a story to flog men mercilessly and appear to given it up! Can anyone find it?
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That's her best pic. In the other ones I've seen she's a 3 at best.
Id bet my mortgage on her not liking **** |
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C0ck
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Miss Proudman is a disgusting specimen of the weaker sezx
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I think her attempt at some free publicity has backfired somewhat.
But then again, perhaps she always had an appearance on "Celebrity" Big Brother in mind. |
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this made me laugh;
Optimist- The glass is half full. Pessimist- The glass is half empty. Feminist- The glass is being raped. |
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LinkedIn is supposed to be a professional network, not a social media playground. Problem is they let anyone on there, and you get a lot of tards who treat it like facebook and start stupid discussions or make inane comments. I've been on it for years and I still get inundated with requests to connect. It's not FB FFS ! If I don't know you or haven't heard of you, emailed you, messaged you, or traded comments with you on some forum, then p1ss off, you're about as welcome as a cold caller.
In this case tho, I think she over-reacted. The message/reply back to him was enough. And no, she is not "stunning" either. Nowhere near. |
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Didnt she request him add her on Linkdin?
Her grandmother was a suffragette I believe, cant imagine what that household must have been like for her old man |
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perhaps left his sp0nk in a saucer and went and slept in the shed?
ofc not grow up ffs   |
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Yes, she made the initial approach and was obviously fishing for some kind of reaction.
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If women cannot be admired for their looks
then what possible use are women???????????????????????????? Women only exist for men to have sex with, so women can give birth, and our species survives For that women must be sexually attractive to men, or men will not bother...that is why women exist and to raise our young, otherwise we might as well all be men, no need for women |
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If the women is so concerned about being admired for her looks(do what Muslims do....cover yourself in a black bin liner)
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27? I was gonna ask her if it was an old photo.
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Stunning my arse, I would describe her as a "plain Jane" and that's me being very generous.
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I think the nurse must have tipped ebul's bedpan over him this afternoon.
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Ebul is halfway to the truth. According to many biologists, sexual reproduction is a strategy which emerged, according to the Red Queen hypothesis, as a defence against the evolutionary strategies of parasites.
Without parasites therefore, we wouldn't have male and female members of species and probably wouldn't have humans either. |
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my sexual reproduction strategy involves plenty of alcohol.
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 Clouseau |
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That hypothesis reminds me of the radioactive life of an isotope or the probability equilibrium that is always realised in logic between Hawks and doves.
I remember wondering for quite a while why the human genome would effectively sacrifice half its own structure during reproduction if it's end game is about survival at the cost of other things. The whole thing is fractural. I recall listening to an interview between scientists recently that I was only half hearing, but they all seemed to agree on a seemingly preposterous phenomenon; that the collective of cells inside you that you'd reasonably believe to be 'you' is out numbered by the total number of cells you have no 'control' over and affectively are alien. |