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6. You highlighting the word is important and thank you for doing so
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 01:51 PM
Jul 2014

This word demeans any to whom it applies; it judges them sexually without consideration of any other trait. The word in this case is more damaging than the politician to whom it applies, words like this shape the mind-set of the uninformed in relation to other people rendering them sex objects not people.

As to Ms May herself, she is Eurosceptic, anti-immigration, pretty authoritarian and a dyed-in-the-wool Thatcherite

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