Sentences with phrase «affront to women»

The Liberal Democrats» failure to deal with allegations of sexual harassment by its chief strategist Lord Rennard when they were made was a grave affront to the women concerned.

In fact, some say laws against polygamy are an affront to women's sexual agency.

Now some women look upon the harem as a demeaning and sexist affront to women that the Biblical author should have denounced.

Not exact matches

The president of the university (sic) making a statement while denying insurance coverage to women is an affront; these religious nuts should be charged with intellectual fraud!

Because those things are a greater affront to the dignity of women.

This is fully compatible with the intro to my answer: «In a nutshell, the European reaction to everything they don't like is to try to ban it or to exterminate its practitioners»... Europeans think Muslim women wearing the veil is an affront to feminism, so the first solution they come up with is to ban it.

A policy which disproportionately affects ethnic minorities, LGBT people, women, the disabled and those living in less affluent areas is not only an affront to basic principles of fairness and social justice but also exacerbates the inequality crisis which continues to worsen across the UK.

«As a son, brother, husband and father, I believe that committing an assault against a woman is an unacceptable and unconscionable affront to our families and our communities,» he said in a prepared statement last Thursday, but avoided discussing what he thought Monserrate should do.

I've not yet had the opportunity, (because my experiences have always been with male friends, and that's a whole other dynamic) but I'd love to ask the random guy on the street who wants to know (essentially) why you don't love him (because, as we all know, black women dating non-black, ESPECIALLY white, men is a personal affront to black men) if he could really be honest and tell methat had I been alone he would've wanted to get my number.

It is an affront not only to Rose but to the hundreds of women who have come forward with their stories of harassment, sexual abuse and rape perpetrated by Mr. Weinstein and those like him.

April 22, 2014 • A 37 - year - old British woman was detained in the island nation after a taxi driver noticed her Buddha tattoo, which is viewed as a religious affront to the country's dominant religion.

Around that same time, the police union in Cleveland went into uproar after Browns wide receiver Andrew Hawkins wore a T - shirt emblazoned with the names of Rice and Crawford as well as a call for justice on their behalf; the union demanded the NFL franchise to apologize for the football player's supposed affront to men and women in blue.

A woman getting the better of him had to have been an affront to his masculinity.

Recognising the pernicious and repugnant legacy of apartheid; race and gender based marginalisation and exclusion of black and women legal practitioners; the unfair privilege enjoyed by white male legal practitioners; the assault and affront to the dignity of black and women legal practitioners; and the structural distortions created in the skill sets of black and women practitioners;

I recognize that the term benevolent sexism can seem quite the affront to men who learned that valuing women involves putting them first.