"dollface" and other bad club turns.

[Daniel Davies]

Dennis wrote:

>I can take anything that I shovel, dollface. I wasn't 
>looking for pity, just making my argument, as I do. But 
>I'm flattered by your attention all the same.

>Get some sleep, hon

I thought that the use of patronising terms of endearment for women was
something that had been removed from polite society about eight years ago? 
I'd certainly be on a disciplinary charge if I spoke like this to a woman
at work, and so would the builders down the road.  There really is no
possible interpretation of "dollface" and "hon" in this context other than
to indicate that Dennis is belittling Kelley's arguments because they come
from a woman.  I don't see why anybody should be expected to tolerate that
in their email inbox.  And quite apart from anything, Dennis, you forgot to
remind us what a radical feminist you are in this post.  

If I want my socialist rhetoric mixed with disgusting sexual politics, I
always have the option of hanging round the Windle Labour Club in around
1985 (before the miners' strike, which is generally regarded as the
watershed for tolerance of sexism in the labour movement in the North of
England).  I probably still have the social secretary's number if Dennis
wants to take his comedy act there, though I must warn that Northern club
audiences can be pretty demanding.


dd


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