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Today's #VintageMagTweets are about the way women in politics are spoken of in the media. The clippings all come from the 70s or 80s.
Can you imagine a similar headline about Biden and Trump?
"Blonde bombshell"... "pin up".
I mean, what the flip??
Two world leaders meeting, this is.
Lawton said something about, oh, I don't know.
A comment on Margaret Thatcher.
And, let's be honest, that's what matters, isn't it?
Because male politicians are always super-trim.
Let's reduce a minister's government policy to a silly analogy about a dieting woman. Oh, and let's include a demeaning cartoon, too.
Impeccable clothes, sexy.
Hairstyling always such an important factor when assessing policies that will affect the country.
Terrible, isn't it, that we used to report on female politicians this way? How outdated! How passé!
Except that we still do. Forty years later and it's the same weary pattern. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/beauty/news/liner-lashes-lip-gloss-youthful-beauty-tricks-behind-kamala/
Let's give the final word to Edwina Currie, who for once says it like it is.
