Gingerbread men banned at Scottish Parliament as part of a new drive to 'stamp out sexism'

The Daily Mail ^ | 12/14/18

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Gingerbread men have been replaced by gingerbread persons in the Scottish Parliament’s coffee shop in case the traditional name causes offence.

The move comes as a strategy aimed at stamping out sexual harassment and sexism was introduced at Holyrood this week after a survey found 30 per cent of women working there believed they had been sexually harassed.

But the decision to rename the sweet treat has not gone down well with everyone.

Scottish Conservative equalities spokesman Annie Wells said: ‘Surely the Scottish Parliament has got better things to do than worry about what to call gingerbread men? This is an utterly pointless gesture which simply trivialises the real issues of gender equality.’

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

These people govern others.

[Songcraft]

Watch out for "Transgingers"...

       

[rlmorel]

[4Liberty]

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

[Chode]

it's Scotland, i mean it's not like they have any pressing business to attend to or something...

[Kalamata]

They better watch out. Those cookies look to be gingerbreads of color. Racists.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Run, run as fast as you can.
You can’t catch me,
I’m the gingerbread person.

See? It doesn’t work, haggis brains.

[Kalamata]

Maybe they need to be Ginger-fluid.

[Publius]

The Mike Curb Congregation: "Sweet Gingerbread Man"

[HighSierra5]

I resigned my Scottish heritage when they gave sanctuary to the Pan Am bomber.

[weston]

And what about lady fingers?

[econjack]

This is what takes up the politicians of the world’s time?

[gundog]

Pass the rum balls, please.

[jonrick46]

Send over a box of these to those sexually deprived Scottish lawmen. Life is short:

[Rurudyne]

Embrace sexism. Embrace whiteness. Laugh at and mock social justice warriors for the pathetic sad misguided examples of human wastes of space that they are.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Gingerlybred men

[KarlInOhio]

it's Scotland, i mean it's not like they have any pressing business to attend to or something...

Half the time I get angry about governments wasting their time on crap like this. The other half I'm relieved because if they weren't worrying about genderbreadpersons they would be doing something dangerous.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Hmmm...quite a front bulge in Ms. Gingerbread Person. Did Michelle Obama do the modeling?

[BenLurkin]

What happened to Scotland? Seriously, it has gone from a place of courage and prowess and sunk to this.