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Jul 10, 2016 17:49

Hello from the UK, where we have spent the last fortnight in what can only be described as a national tailspin. At the moment the two main runners for PM are both women, which is nice, except one is Theresa 'Quite Possibly A Bond Villain' May and Andrea Leadsom gave an interview this weekend where she cheerfully described childless May as 'probably ( Read more... )

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littlered2 July 10 2016, 21:49:46 UTC
Andrea Leadsom gave an interview this weekend where she cheerfully described childless May as 'probably sad' that she has no kids but, you know, can't possibly have the same stake in the future as people who are mothers.
I am just so disgusted by all of it, but particularly the assumption that May is automatically sad about not having children. (Rob has said, admittedly, that she has apparently spoken in public before about wanting to have had children, but still.) I would very much like to be pleased that the next Prime Minister will almost certainly be a woman, but I wish it didn't have to be one of these women. (Or a Conservative at all.)

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