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Day: 24 October 2017

  • Hopkins’ blast police force for taking part in pride parades

    Katie Hopkins takes issue with police forces taking part in annual pride parades.

    Policing with Pride – Police in Liverpool march in Liverpool Pride 2017

    Katie Hopkins has taken a swipe at police forces in the UK for taking part in pride parades – and described them “as part of the problem”. The former LBC presenter was making a statement after it came to light that some police chiefs in the UK might have to pull their support from Remembrance Sunday parades due to lack of funding.

    Speaking to her 823,000 followers on Twitter taking aim at police chiefs she wrote, “You can’t afford our Remembrance Parades (for fear of offending) but you can afford this vanity exercise?” before republishing a video of a police force taking part in a pride parade. 

    The tweet generated a huge backlash, with at least one person asking if the officers in the video were “real” and added that they were “an embarrassment”. Hopkins responded by writing “They describe themselves as ‘real officers’. We describe them as ‘part of the problem’.

    This isn’t the first time Hopkins has commented on police inclusion in pride events, earlier in 2017, she remarked on Sussex Police spending £750 on pride decals for two of their cars.

  • Kit Harington says he was “wrong” to say that men can experience sexism

    The Game Of Thrones actor, Kit Harington has backtracked on comments which suggested that men could experience sexism in the entertainment industry.

    CREDIT: Gage Skidmore – Cropped from: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/14588046768/

    Kit Harington has stepped back from remarks he made about men experiencing sexism in the entertainment industry. Last year, the GoT actor suggested that he felt subjected to sexism. Most notably when he stripped off for photo shoots.

    Speaking to The Times, last year, Harington said, “There’s definitely a sexism in our industry that happens towards women, and there is towards men as well…

    “At some points during photo shoots when I’m asked to strip down, I felt that.”

    He continued, “I like to think of myself as more than a head of hair or a set of looks. It’s demeaning.

    “Yes, in some ways you could argue I’ve been employed for a look I have. But there’s a sexism that happens towards men.”

    Now stepping back from calling it sexism, Kit told the Guardian, that he was “wrong” adding, “sexism against men is not something I should have really said“. He made the clarification that he should have said, “being objectified”.

    “I think what I meant was, being objectified. At that time, I did feel objectified, and now I’ve learned how to control that.

    Explaining about the objectification of men, he continued, “Look, I do think men can get objectified. I do feel I have been objectified in the past, sexually as well, in pieces that have been written about me. Has that made me feel uncomfortable in the past? Yes. Do I think my position is the same as a woman’s in society? No. They’re very different things, and I should have separated them. I was wrong.”