Women Politicians Strike Back At Sexism

Brut India

"Blot on all legislators", "Redneck", "Piece of s***". Here's how women politicians around the world have reacted to sexist comments in Parliament.

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00:00This is a blot on all legislators, including men, sir.

00:06Yes, yes.

00:07This is not a house where men come in

00:10so that a woman's eyes can be blinded.

00:12I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man.

00:17I am here to defend European women from men like you.

00:21You may have won this morning the palm of the misogynist buff of this assembly.

00:26You are a piece of shit.

00:30You are a piece of shit.

00:44You don't talk about here and there.

00:47Tell me why you looted the caravan.

00:50You don't talk about here and there.

00:53Tell me why you looted the caravan.

00:56You don't talk about here and there.

00:58You don't talk about here and there.

01:02You don't talk about here and there.

01:04I look at you so much that you tell me to take my eyes off you.

01:07No, no, no.

01:09You don't have to take your eyes off me.

01:11I like you so much that I want to keep looking into your eyes.

01:19I have never taken my eyes off you.

01:23This is a blot on all legislators including men, sir.

01:29Yes, yes.

01:30This is not a house where men come in so that a woman's eyes get blinded.

01:35The entire nation watched yesterday how this assembly was humiliated.

01:41If such misbehaviour with a woman was outside the assembly,

01:46she would have asked for police protection and she would have got it.

01:51This assembly passed the bill for sexual harassment at workplace.

01:55And we can't sit quietly and be a spectator.

02:00You cannot misbehave with a woman and get away with it.

02:04But just dramatising it and saying,

02:06I will resign or you are mistaken.

02:20Women must earn less than men because they are weaker,

02:25they are smaller, they are less intelligent,

02:28and they must earn less. That's all.

02:30Look, Mr Deputy, according to you, according to your theories,

02:34I would not have the right to be here as a deputy.

02:38And I know it hurts, I know it hurts and worries you

02:41that today women can be representing citizens in equal conditions with you.

02:47I am here to defend European women from men like you.

03:18Mr. President.

03:19The Majority Leader.

03:20The Senator has impugned the motives and conduct of our colleague from Alabama

03:24as warned by the Chair.

03:26Senator Warren, quote, said,

03:29Senator Sessions has used the awesome power of his office

03:32to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens.

03:37I call the Senator to order under the provisions of Rule 19.

03:42Mr. President.

03:46The Senator from Massachusetts.

03:48Mr. President, I am surprised that the words of Coretta Scott King

03:52are not suitable for debate in the United States Senate.

03:57I ask leave of the Senate to continue my remarks.

04:08There are often debates in our Assembly that in our differences,

04:12our oppositions, make our Assembly grow and grow.

04:15I fear that this morning's debate will be terribly regressive.

04:20I will go and see.

04:22Excuse me.

04:23You can repeat a little bit louder what you just said, Mr. Senator.

04:26You just said, because sometimes it would not be at the GOP.

04:29You just said, in my words, while I was talking about parity,

04:32who is this girl?

04:34I want her to be well registered.

04:35Your name, please.

04:37Mr. Sido.

04:39Here.

04:40Well, I note that Mr. Sido.

04:43So, I will spare you the reminder of the regulations,

04:46since I am currently intervening,

04:48but I think you may have won this morning

04:51the palm of the misogynist buff of this Assembly.

05:06I was offended too by the sexism,

05:09by the misogyny of the Leader of the Opposition

05:12catcalling across this table at me as I sit here as Prime Minister

05:17if the Prime Minister wants to, politically speaking,

05:21make an honest woman of herself,

05:23something that would never have been said to any man sitting in this chair.

05:28I was offended when the Leader of the Opposition

05:31went outside in the front of Parliament

05:33and stood next to a sign that said,

05:36Ditch the witch.

05:37I was offended when the Leader of the Opposition

05:40stood next to a sign that described me as a man's bitch.

06:05We are proud to be in the kitchen.

06:07A situation...

06:09We are proud to be in the kitchen.

06:12In the kitchen.

06:13Senator Laus.

06:15I think that the comment, the intervention of the Senator

06:19is perfectly in the prerogatives of a Senator

06:21to express himself freely in this Chamber.

06:23If there were any offences against the Opposition,

06:26I would be the first to call the Senator.

06:29I have not experienced them,

06:30so I would kindly ask you to finish the intervention.

06:35Mr Ravier, we'll meet in 1314, I'm warning you.

06:47Always the same hotel at the same time!

06:49It's a Goujard!

06:51It's a Goujard!

06:53It's a Goujard!

06:54It's a Goujard!

06:55Go on, go on.

06:57I don't need your excuses.

06:59You're becoming too much.

07:01Go on, go on.

07:09Anyway, it's not in my office.

07:11It's a scandal.

07:13This man is a scandal.

07:15And our two characters.

07:17You're a shit.

07:19But it's the same.

07:21It suits you very well.

07:27You're a shit.

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