Scrutable

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

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

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

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'.

FlammableFlower wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 12:57 pm 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.

Gfamily wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 1:08 pm

FlammableFlower wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 12:57 pm 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...

Currently getting 404 from that link.

basementer wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 1:55 pm 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

Woodchopper wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 1:04 pm 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

Stephanie wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:05 pm

Woodchopper wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 1:04 pm 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.

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

EACLucifer wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:13 pm

Stephanie wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:05 pm

Woodchopper wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 1:04 pm 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

Let the twitter takes begin!

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.

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

Trinucleus wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:19 pm 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 ...

Little waster wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:36 pm 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

Little waster wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:49 pm

Trinucleus wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:19 pm 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.

Gfamily wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:55 pm

Little waster wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:49 pm

Trinucleus wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:19 pm 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.

basementer wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 1:55 pm 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.

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.

lpm wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 5:14 pm 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.

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.

jimbob wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 5:19 pm

lpm wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 5:14 pm 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.

FlammableFlower wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 12:57 pm 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