Watching p.rn at work

[Stephanie]

This time it was a Tory doing it in the House of Commons

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... of-commons

[FlammableFlower]

It beggars belief - this was a front bench Tory MP - FFS, even without considering the obvious issues, there are people sat behind you...

[Woodchopper]

I suspect that it might have been a deliberate exercise in asserting how powerful the p.rn watcher is.

'Look at me, I can get away with anything, even watching p.rn in the chamber, and they aren't going to stop me'.

[Gfamily]

It beggars belief - this was a front bench Tory MP - FFS, even without considering the obvious issues, there are people sat behind you...

You don't get that when WFH.

[FlammableFlower]

It beggars belief - this was a front bench Tory MP - FFS, even without considering the obvious issues, there are people sat behind you...

You don't get that when WFH.

Now that abbreviation could stand for a few things...

[basementer]

Currently getting 404 from that link.

[Gfamily]

Currently getting 404 from that link.

Profanity filter replaces the 'o' in 'p o rn' in the url with a full stop - might be it

[Stephanie]

I suspect that it might have been a deliberate exercise in asserting how powerful the p.rn watcher is.

'Look at me, I can get away with anything, even watching p.rn in the chamber, and they aren't going to stop me'.

Yes, I wondered this

[EACLucifer]

I suspect that it might have been a deliberate exercise in asserting how powerful the p.rn watcher is.

'Look at me, I can get away with anything, even watching p.rn in the chamber, and they aren't going to stop me'.

Yes, I wondered this

No better than a flasher's mentality if that's the case.

[Trinucleus]

Was it Rees Mogg watching secretly filmed women's ankles?

[Stephanie]

I suspect that it might have been a deliberate exercise in asserting how powerful the p.rn watcher is.

'Look at me, I can get away with anything, even watching p.rn in the chamber, and they aren't going to stop me'.

Yes, I wondered this

No better than a flasher's mentality if that's the case.

The Mirror says "while sitting alongside a female minister" so possibly, yeah https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... n-26810579

[Stephanie]

Let the twitter takes begin!

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[Little waster]

I've just taken a break from editing the Mail On Sunday to say the Tory minister is the real victim here and all our criticism should be reserved for all those shameless harlots who are disgustingly taunting him by owning body parts that he finds stimulating.

[Tessa K]

the prime minister’s press secretary said the Conservative party did not have a problem with misogyny and sexism.

That could be read two ways ...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... of-commons

[Little waster]

Was it Rees Mogg watching secretly filmed women's ankles?

TBF JRM wouldn't stoop to using one of those ghastly modern mobile electronic communication devices.

All his erotica comes in the form of a series of black'n'white images in a What the Butler Saw machine to which his nanny furiously cranks the handle ...

[Gfamily]

I've just taken a break from editing the Mail On Sunday to say the Tory minister is the real victim here and all our criticism should be reserved for all those shameless harlots / hunks (delete as appropriate) who are disgustingly taunting him by owning body parts that he finds stimulating.

FIF21C

[Gfamily]

Was it Rees Mogg watching secretly filmed women's ankles?

TBF JRM wouldn't stoop to using one of those ghastly modern mobile electronic communication devices.

All his erotica comes in the form of a series of black'n'white images in a What the Butler Saw machine to which his nanny furiously cranks the handle ...

Of the machine, of the machine; god, you lot are disgusting.

[Tessa K]

Was it Rees Mogg watching secretly filmed women's ankles?

TBF JRM wouldn't stoop to using one of those ghastly modern mobile electronic communication devices.

All his erotica comes in the form of a series of black'n'white images in a What the Butler Saw machine to which his nanny furiously cranks the handle ...

Of the machine, of the machine; god, you lot are disgusting.

This thread is going to degenerate really quickly isn't it.

Toffs like JRM probably pay people to act out the p.rn for them in tableaux vivants.

[El Pollo Diablo]

A gentle reminder please to everyone here to be careful about replies and particularly to be mindful about how jokes might come across to all readers on a topic of this nature.

[jimbob]

Currently getting 404 from that link.

Shortened it by tweeting that story and using Twitter as tinyurl

https://t.co/tKsB0TocXA

A frontbencher, sitting next to a woman minister, when his party had been called out for misogyny.

I suspect EAClucifer is right about it being an expression of power.

[lpm]

No. It's nothing to do with power.

It's to do with men continually minimising p.rnography. The acceptance of the pornification of society. And the knee-jerk defence by useful idiots of one of the most vile capitalist exploitations on the planet.

[jimbob]

No. It's nothing to do with power.

It's to do with men continually minimising p.rnography. The acceptance of the pornification of society. And the knee-jerk defence by useful idiots of one of the most vile capitalist exploitations on the planet.

I think in general you have a point. However in this case, not just watching p.rnography at work, but publicly watching it were women colleagues will see him watching it seems more than just a minimisation of it.

[lpm]

Why wouldn't a moron Tory scum MPs be confused by it all and watch p.rnography publicly, if women colleagues constantly spring to the defence of the p.rnography industry, praise p.rnography for its sex positive aspects and demand sex work be treated as any other work?

Schrödinger's p.rnography. It's a good thing half the time on a progressive forum like this. It's a bad thing the other half. I mean, great that some people here saying sensible things, apart from the schoolboy giggling, but unfortunately I know you'll jump back to the opposite view on the next thread along.

[Tessa K]

No. It's nothing to do with power.

It's to do with men continually minimising p.rnography. The acceptance of the pornification of society. And the knee-jerk defence by useful idiots of one of the most vile capitalist exploitations on the planet.

I think in general you have a point. However in this case, not just watching p.rnography at work, but publicly watching it were women colleagues will see him watching it seems more than just a minimisation of it.

You're both right. Lpm sees the bigger picture. Jimbob is right that in this specific case it's also about power, men seeing themselves as above the laws/rules because of male privilege + class privilege. Watching pron where women can see it is a way of intimidating them/us.

[jimbob]

It beggars belief - this was a front bench Tory MP - FFS, even without considering the obvious issues, there are people sat behind you...

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/fo ... st13793346

Apparently it is two separate MPs

Now it's two male Tory MPs accused of watching p.rnography on phones in Commons

One MP said she had seen a male MP watching p.rnography in both Commons and at a committee and another Tory MP said she had seen a different male MP watching p.rnography and tried to take a photo.

Which makes LPM's point