So here’s a thing. Regular followers of this blog will no doubt be aware that I rather passionately hate Nadine Dorries for her concerted efforts to peer into my uterus.
However, there’s some hate she’s getting that just isn’t cool. There’s a lot of misogyny thrown in her direction–calling her a bitch and so on. There’s also the “Mad Nad” moniker, which is hugely fucking offensive to people with mental health problems. There’s a lot to attack Dorries for, but the fact she’s a woman isn’t one of them.
I mean for fuck’s sake. Her politics are just dire. She’s frighteningly right-wing, and she’s fucked up the job she was elected to do by swanning off to munch on ostrich anuses in a jungle half a world away. And let’s not forget her curious obsession with uteruses. She really wants to try to control what we do for them.
Now, a nickname is a useful thing, but let’s stick with nicknames that aren’t oppressive, eh? Here’s a few putative suggestions, but feel free to add more!
- The Womb Botherer Of Bedfordshire
- Disappointingly unraptured
- Tory scum
- Nadir Dorries (from Jonnie Marbles)
November 15th, 2012 at 1:38 pm
I will definitely be using that first one from now…
I usually just use the names of such politicians as the pejorative. Thus I suggest instead of giving her a moniker we start calling other people Dorries…
November 15th, 2012 at 1:41 pm
As in “Dorries off, you awful Gove?” Love it!
November 15th, 2012 at 2:08 pm
Exactly so, yes.
November 15th, 2012 at 11:21 pm
Don’t forget how much she despises disabled people. Especially those who can’t work, but can use Twitter. I mean, what lazy scumbags! Stealing from the public purse by not working and getting thousands a month in benefits, and free houses and cars, when they’re clearly fit for work, as shown by their ability to use a thumb to compose a tweet
I’m a woman and disabled. I relish her hate, because if a loathsome Tory slimedweller hates me? I’m clearly doing sometimg fucking right.
Dorrth Vagina ‘Vader.
November 16th, 2012 at 1:38 pm
I get what you’re saying, I really do. I just find it waaay hard to dig any sympathy out of my soul for the lovely Nadine…
November 18th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
It’s not La Dorries you have to feel sympathy for: it’s the mentally ill people who are being smeared when you imply she’s one of us. Sorry, mentally abled people, I reckon she’s actually your responsibility.
November 19th, 2012 at 11:47 am
I was really referring to the main thrust of your post, about the misogynistic aspect of the abuse. Not being a mentally abled person, Dorries isn’t my responsibility. But I don’t feel offended, because I don’t regard people with mental health problems as ‘mad’, though I can accept the point that others may.
November 18th, 2012 at 7:09 pm
I think having her referred as “M.P. for Mid Narnia” sums up her thinking and personality very acutely.
November 18th, 2012 at 10:36 pm
Thank you. This is something that bothers me when it comes to the critique of any woman. This tendency to attack her as a “bitch”, a “cunt”, a “slut”, a “whore”, or just “crazy” instead of attacking her positions. I can despise someone for her positions, and I make a bigger impact than I would if I attacked her personally. And I don’t prop up misogyny when I choose that route.
November 18th, 2012 at 11:37 pm
Tory scum. To the point and gender neutral
November 20th, 2012 at 1:17 am
Damn, I thought I had a monopoly on being the Womb Botherer of Bedfordshire…
November 24th, 2012 at 7:26 pm
Where did this “mad nad” thing come from? I’ve not heard of it yet. (Although I pointedly steer clear of tabloids and the such so I’m guessing that’s why.
December 30th, 2012 at 12:34 pm
I have mental health problems and I fully endorse the Mad Nad moniker.