{"id":137,"date":"2006-11-17T08:54:15","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T08:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/137"},"modified":"2006-11-17T08:54:15","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T08:54:15","slug":"pretty-vacant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/137","title":{"rendered":"Pretty vacant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidcameronmp.com\/\">David Cameron<\/a> had made a speech in which he referred to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patricia-hewitt-mp.co.uk\/\">Patricia Hewitt<\/a> as &#8220;Quite pretty but a lightweight&#8221; there would have been an uproar and shouts of &#8220;sexist&#8221;. The speaker would probably have had to suspend the sitting whilst order was restored; the fallout may have affected his chances in the next election. But it seems that when the situation is reversed then it is quite acceptable; there was barely a murmur when she patronised him in that manner. Perhaps this is an indication that non-PC language is now acceptable, and I say three cheers to that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If David Cameron had made a speech in which he referred to Patricia Hewitt as &#8220;Quite pretty but a lightweight&#8221; there would have been an uproar and shouts of &#8220;sexist&#8221;. The speaker would probably have had to suspend the sitting whilst order was restored; the fallout may have affected his chances in the next election. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}