MP berates 'immoral' Twitter users over abuse

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Conservative MP Louise Mensch has hit out at "immoral and misogynistic" Twitter users for subjecting her to abuse for her stance on Rupert Murdoch.
The Commons media committee, on which she sits, passed a Labour amendment describing Mr Murdoch as not "fit" to run a major international company - but Conservative members voted against it.
Mrs Mensch's criticism of the charge prompted tweets calling her a "whore"...
The MP for Corby has publicised some of the abuse she had received on the social networking website, including one message that branded her a "*****" and another that read "given half the chance, you'd strangle her".
Another Twitter user said they would "love to hit Louise Mensch in the face with a hammer". She was also called a "slut" and likened to diarrhoea.

(BBC News http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17936006)

The problem I have is, tho I dislike her politics, this kind typical online abuse that has no basis in anything except viscious misogyny is unneccesary (if she was a teenage girl there would be a significant backlash, but because she's an MP it's more acceptable to be abusive and infantile)

[Tenka]

Yes, misogyny is widespread and likes to make itself heard on the internet; there is no reason to call her most of those things -- scramblings for generic insults so unimaginative that they have to draw on sexist terminology. But it is acceptable to liken someone who supports Murdoch to diarrhoea.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

But it is acceptable to liken someone who supports Murdoch to diarrhoea.

Absolutely :) that one sticks..as it were

[Offbeat]

I remember when she was on Have I Got News For You moaning about Occupy London. Her main argument was that it's hypocritical for protestors to call themselves anti-capitalists while patronising Starbuck's, which is of course a hollow and infantile argument even by right-wing standards. Paul Merton gave her the ridicule she deserved.

[names_r_hard]

I remember when she was on Have I Got News For You moaning about Occupy London. Her main argument was that it's hypocritical for protestors to call themselves anti-capitalists while patronising Starbuck's, which is of course a hollow and infantile argument even by right-wing standards. Paul Merton gave her the ridicule she deserved.

It was quite beautiful to see Hislop and Merton gang up on her.