Well I (and the people starring my comments, funny how no one is doing that for you) find it hilarious that you are so staggeringly arrogant you think you can judge sexism in the UK when:

THANK YOU! I’m horrified by how many shops and people endorse these teas. You know what doesn’t help women lose weight? Unexpected pregnancy! Plus I’m pretty sure they can impact other medication too, and more to the point you’re essentially giving yourself food poisoning for the sake of being skinny.

That’s between me, my fully funded scholarship, the top university I attend and my examiners. We call it a thesis over here by the way, honey. Which you would know if you actually knew anything about British culture.

No you really don’t have to be essentialist at all, and I’m not poorly applying a buzzword. I am completing a PhD in intercultural communication in the UK this year, for God’s sake. “I’m just speaking from my experience” is used to justify all sorts of racist, sexist and xenophobic crap and it’s bullshit. Rather than…

If you get to go on about magazines, then news anchors are fair game too. Either way, you’re talking nonsense, and just because you don’t appreciate it being pointed out doesn’t make you any less of a cultural essentialist. You’re doing the classic thing of pointing out a speck in someone else’s eye and ignoring the…

But the extent to which women find penetration enjoyable IS dependent on various biological and genetic factors, such as the distance of the clitoris from the vaginal opening.

I’ve lived and travelled all over the UK, so you can leave that presumption out. If you’re a hyper analytical graduate type, you should perhaps reflect a bit more on your cultural essentialism. The types of ‘everyday’ sexism I’ve seen from American news anchors would have people sacked over here.

Ugh I didn’t like that joke, it reeks of testing the waters to hit on her.

Well because there were no others. It will have been meticulously scripted.

Thank you!!! This is exactly what I was thinking. And the trans person in particular could have been in real danger when they outed her to a stranger.

Sorry but you’re waaaaaaay off base here. We absolutely have issues with sexism still, but having been in both the UK and US I’d say it’s you guys who are lagging far behind. And I could say that while getting free of charge contraceptives, abortions and cervical cancer screenings. Maybe what you experienced was just…

The whole ‘give me your number, my girlfriend might not like it hurr hurr’ just had that undertone!

Also did you note the creepy kind of hitting on her he was doing at the end? Classic transphobe/chaser :/

I feel like maybe you’re projecting here lol

Well yeah it’s a pun based around a homophone

Because it’s the initials of the university?

I don’t feel like creepy addresses all of it but it’s definitely an element. And I certainly hope the average dude isn’t creepy like this. The men I know definitely aren’t.

There was a great documentary about it on BBC a while ago. Whole thing is on YouTube:

May is going to win with a huge majority. If she didn’t want to be PM any more, she’d resign and let another story take over. This is all about consolidating power, not relinquishing it.

Have you come across the documentary ‘All Change at Longleat’? Emma Weymouth is one of the first black members of our aristocracy, and she faced incredible racism from her MIL. And her father in law, Lord Bath, had some pretty creepy ideas about race too... Well worth a watch for insight into upper class and race…