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Daily Mail shoots itself in the foot?

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MawBroon Tue 28-Mar-17 12:05:56

www.theguardian.com/media/2017/mar/28/daily-mail-legs-it-front-page-sexist

Or put another way, the 1960's called and asked if they could have their headline back hmm

MawBroon Tue 28-Mar-17 12:07:06

1950's not 60's !!

whitewave Tue 28-Mar-17 13:13:57

What ever does the Daily Mail think of the type of person who reads it's paper. I would feel jolly insulted, never mind the sheer sexism.

Lazigirl Tue 28-Mar-17 13:29:05

I think it's fairly typical of the DM unfortunately.

Jayanna9040 Tue 28-Mar-17 13:33:23

Sarah Vine's career going the way of her husband? I hope!

vampirequeen Tue 28-Mar-17 13:49:50

What a ridiculous headline. Even DM readers must be appalled by this one.

Grannyknot Tue 28-Mar-17 14:05:45

People have taken them on on Twitter, see link below:

twitter.com/search?q=daily%20mail%20front%20page&src=typd

Grannyknot Tue 28-Mar-17 14:07:18

Oops sorry wrong link, hope this one works:

twitter.com/HuffPostUK/status/846665770486693888/photo/1

Lazigirl Tue 28-Mar-17 17:31:55

Had a good 10 minute titter reading Twitter posts Grannyknot grin. There are some brilliantly witty ones on there. DM getting a lot of free publicity over this which is probably making them extremely pleased. When you think about it, It is quite clever getting a woman to write such a piece about another woman.

rosesarered Tue 28-Mar-17 17:40:31

Gets them sales, and free publicity.

mostlyharmless Tue 28-Mar-17 18:26:29

I'm not really a fan of Theresa May but this is a terrible insult to the Prime Minister of our country. I suspect that the Daily Mail would be "furious" (as they often are) if another country used this photo and headline on their newspaper front page.

Iam64 Tue 28-Mar-17 18:54:14

I heard Sarah Vine interviewed on the World at One. She put on a sound fact but in fact, I thought, sounded a tad uncomfortable, as well she should have.

Sadly, as roses said - it's great free publicity for the Daily Wail. That's why they do this kind of thing. It causes a curfuffle and generates hours of free publicity.

It's also a fairly disgusting way to treat two senior politicians. Radio 4 has been running a piece about male politicians and their legs, which has been quite entertaining but also of course, adding to the free publicity for the DW.

Rigby46 Tue 28-Mar-17 19:57:12

roses are you critical of the DM on this issue? This is just another example of the utter disgrace that this 'paper' is. SV joins her colleague KH in embracing misogyny and denigrating women and of course she's married to that lying, stupid , opportunistic MG.What a shower they all are.

rosesarered Tue 28-Mar-17 21:11:20

In a word....yes