Surely, an older man or woman chatting pleasantly to a young shop assistant is hardly the same as calling a female CEO “poppet,” or seeking to belittle a work colleague by using silly or offensive sexist names? And anyway I would hope that you would be soon ‘on-your-bike’ if that were the case.
Indeed, generally, I think that we are just talking about context here aren’t we? Now then, is it really that bad to be familiar in a friendly way to a fellow human being without being branded as offensive I wonder. Just as I would be called a sexist pig by merely uttering the word “darling” to a female personage, which I have to say I like to think that I haven’t done for nye-on 30 ears or more. No, nothing like that - it’s just that I have to make sure that I don’t call waitresses or shop assistants “love” or I will get the death-stare from a woman of my acquaintance. Nevertheless, I am a chap who does watch his P’s and Q’s regarding what he says to women in everyday life. Oh dear, yet another person who wanders the world seeking offence no doubt. Where do you stand dear reader, on the “patronising and offensive way” that many of us address women? This is not just a chap thing, because according to a certain Ms Belinda Barlow, who was addressed as “sweetheart” and “darling” by a Tesco checkout girl, it is both deeply patronising and offensive. Or is she as my old mum would have it - “Only as good as she should be.” Which if you think about it makes absolutely no sense at all - a bit like the blessed Madonna! When it’s best to say nothing at all If you ask me it is all very confusing for us chaps come on what are we supposed to do? If we applaud the lady’s chutzpah in this matter, will we not be condemned as a DOM’s (dirty-old-man) by other women who rarely dress in this daring fashion and frankly take a dim view of a woman who rather likes to flaunt herself semi-naked about the place? Indeed, maybe I am being terribly insensitive even drawing peoples attention to Madonna’s left nipple as I’m sure that her current outrage is just a smokescreen to cover the fact that she suffers from crippling shyness and abhors being the centre of attention. I have to say that I did try and look away from the more provocative pics of her like any gentleman would have done perhaps, but it appears that I am somewhat of a sexist monster for not fully enjoying the thrusting sexiness of an - er, er, mature lady now well into in her seventh decade.
However to be fair to them they did publish a string of pictures of her in which she is seen writhing both on-top and under a bed in fishnet tights, a cut-out bra that revealed parts of her breasts, alongside a thong and high heeled stilettos.
As a humble journalist in search of truth, I see that Madge’s ire would have been further incensed by the Daily Mail Online’s decision to ‘sellotape’ the aforementioned nipple on their amusingly named ‘sidebar-of-shame’ online feature.
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