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French MP clucking at woman in parliament sparks anger over sexism
Source: The Guardian
French MP clucking at woman in parliament sparks anger over sexism
Kim Willsher in Paris
theguardian.com, Friday 18 October 2013 17.57 BST
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From parliament to local councils, via national media and regional newspapers, storms have erupted as French men indulge in misogynist outbursts that could have come from the cave age.
Now, thanks to the name-and-shame tactics of social media networks, France's long-suffering women, who might previously have shrugged off such attacks as everyday sexism and machismo, are hitting back.
The backlash came after a banal enough event: a male member of the UMP opposition in the Assemblée Nationale humiliated a female opponent by making clucking noises as she spoke during a late-night debate on the Socialist government's controversial pension reforms.
The noise suggested she was a poule, an insult that can be translated as bird, but conveys in French a woman who is, among other things, an airhead.
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Kim Willsher in Paris
theguardian.com, Friday 18 October 2013 17.57 BST
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From parliament to local councils, via national media and regional newspapers, storms have erupted as French men indulge in misogynist outbursts that could have come from the cave age.
Now, thanks to the name-and-shame tactics of social media networks, France's long-suffering women, who might previously have shrugged off such attacks as everyday sexism and machismo, are hitting back.
The backlash came after a banal enough event: a male member of the UMP opposition in the Assemblée Nationale humiliated a female opponent by making clucking noises as she spoke during a late-night debate on the Socialist government's controversial pension reforms.
The noise suggested she was a poule, an insult that can be translated as bird, but conveys in French a woman who is, among other things, an airhead.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/18/wave-sexism-french-politics-backlash
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