"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.