Unsurprisingly, the C-bomb isn’t heard that often in Parliament.
While it’s probably said all the time in private conversations across Westminster, it has never been officially spoken in a Commons debate – until now.
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The SNP’s Mhairi Black revealed that the she’s continually called a ‘c***’ by misogynistic trolls online, and she repeated just a fraction of her abuse in parliament today.
The 23-year-old MP said she felt uncomfortable reading them out but warned some people felt ‘comfortable flinging these words around every day’.
She added when such language is left unchallenged and is normalised it ‘creates an environment that allows women to be abused’.
Ms Black’s speech came during a Westminster Hall debate in which calls were raised for misogyny to be treated as a hate crime.
Labour’s Mel Onn urged the Government to formally extend the current five strands of centrally monitored hate crime to include misogyny and provide for appropriate reflective sentencing.
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Speaking during the debate, Ms Black explained how she is regularly called a ‘wee boy’ and told she wears her dad’s suits – adding her and her pals ‘have a laugh’ about this level of insults.
But she said: ‘I struggle to see any joke in being systematically called a dyke, a rug muncher, a slut, a whore, a scruffy bint.
‘I’ve been told you can’t put lipstick on a pig, let the dirty bitch each shit and die.
‘I could soften some of this by talking about the C-word but the reality is there is no softening when you’re targeted with these words and you’re left reading them on my screen every day, day in, day out – she needs a kick in the c***, guttural c***, ugly c***, wee animal c*** – there is no softening just how sexualised and misogynistic the abuse is.’
Ms Black added: ‘I’ve been assured multiple times that I don’t have to worry because I am so ugly that no one would want to rape me.
‘All of these insults have been tailored to me because I am a woman.’
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The MP also referred to US President Donald Trump after noting how she regularly sees men on Facebook talking about ‘getting pussy’, adding: ‘Should we really actually be expecting any better, given the man sitting in the Oval Office thinks it’s OK to grab a woman by the pussy and face no consequences?’
Opening the debate, Ms Onn said the topic had provoked a backlash of ‘vile fury’ that she was a man hater, had no sense of humour and should learn to take a compliment.
She said: ‘Today’s society is awash with misogynistic acts such as groping, sexual comments, upskirting, revenge porn, sexual remarks, leering, stalking and as the nature of harassment changes so must the laws which govern it because there are currently too many incidents not meeting the criteria for assault, discrimination or public order offences.’
Tory Philip Davies asked if misandry should also be a hate crime in exactly the same way, adding: ‘If she doesn’t could she explain why she thinks there should be one rule for one and one rule for the other?’
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