She’s unfazed by threats from the men’s-rights lobby,unafraid to speak her mind about Corbyn’s shadow cabinet and will ‘have a word’ with Seumas Milne about his friendship with George Galloway. We meet the Labour MPJess Phillips is laughing at the top of her voice, recalling the inventive threats she received after she objected to the concept of a “men’s day that was recently mooted in parliament. In the worst of these someone threatened to pour molten metal into her vagina. “It doesn’t make me feel skittish. At all, and ” she says,sucking cheerily on a fruity electronic cigarette in her Birmingham living room, “because I recognise the internet can be a toilet for idiots who make those threats.”She pauses, and twirling one of her husband’s slippers on her bare feet. “I under no circumstances want to be seen as a victim. I have worked with victims of sexual violence and I don’t have a candle to hold to the experiences of those victims. I am a warrior,not a victim. But it makes me feel as whether I’m wading through treacle. Every time I speak out about anything feminist I will be shot down by people calling me chubby, calling me silly. And it’s all because I am speaking from a feminist perspective.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com