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Ruth Davidson‏Verified account @RuthDavidsonMSP Jun 30

Right, I'm off for a fortnight. In the mean time, here's @GillianA just sitting round the house in stilettos & seamed stockings. As you do.

https://twitter.com/RuthDavidsonMSP/...30019253227521


SCOTTISH Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has triggered a social media sexism row after she posted a provoactive picture of actress Gillian Anderson on Twitter.. Ms Davidson posted the image of the X-Files star in lingerie before she jetted off on holiday for two weeks. Ms Davidson is a lesbian woman.

Alongside the picture, the openly gay politician wrote: “Right, I'm off for a fortnight. In the mean time, here's @GillianA just sitting round the house in stilettos & seamed stockings. As you do.”

SNP politicians were quick to condemn their Holyrood rival’s post, which has been liked more than 4,000 times.

James Dornan, the SNP MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, called Ms Davidson an “eejit”.

Gillian Martin, the SNP MSP for Aberdeenshire East, asked if Ms Davidson's constituency office was “like the inside of a 70s building site Portakabin with Page 3s cello-taped to the wall”.

There were users who suggested that if a man had uploaded the same picture it would have been deemed unacceptable.

One Twitter user replied: “Not questioning Gillian Anderson's right to be photographed. However, imagine for a moment Alex Salmond or John Swinney etc had tweeted this.”

The author Yvonne Ridley, who once herself sued The Islam Channel for sexual discrimination, said: “I just can't believe the leader of a political party who wants to be taken seriously would be so demeaning to women.”

The tweet came less than a week after Ms Davidson publicly challenged the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to drop its opposition to gay marriage.

Last month, the Conservative politician said that she had received assurances over gay rights from the Prime Minister before the Tories agreed a deal with the DUP.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/823...llian-Anderson




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