Taoiseach so afraid of women, he can’t even call them knickers! He got my ‘enclosure’. @KnicksEnda #knickersforenda pic.twitter.com/RLJl0wNFms
— Karen Mulreid (@beatingblog) October 13, 2014
As part of the Knickers for Enda campaign, you can put pen to panties paper and post your smalls to:
An Taoiseach Enda Kenny
Government Buildings
Merrion Street
Dublin 2
Give him a frill..
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Enclosure (n): An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
Fair enough, I say…
But Enda isn’t the one who wrote the letter. His PA did.
Let’s celebrate the fact this woman apparently can’t read and thinks Enda answered her mail.
enclosures to you !!!!
Tom Jones is probably in a fit of envy
He’s probably glad for a break from it all
An enclosure? Them’s big knickers…
This is stupid.
The knickers symbolism is just all wrong. Plus making any politician squirm like that is not going to yield any action. Really childish stuff.
Meh
Totally stupid.
Oh what a hoot.
Hahaha. Not.
When Enda is the one looking dignified in an encounter you know you’ve done something wrong.
I’m thinking this is an act for the giver more than the receiver.
Like a hashtag on twitter.
Rather than do something productive like try to change someone’s mind or encourage people to contact representatives, they are trying to embarrass a guy into doing what they want.
I mean what do they hope to achieve?
Bully the Taoiseach into submission?
Do they honestly think that will work?
Or are we after the awareness fairy again? That’ll be something.
Imagine the hordes of people who already agreed with them in the first place baying in support.
A pro-choice circlejerk.
It is an action, but has no more effect than a hashtag.
+1
Hashtags have worked in the past. They spread awareness and are an excellent source of information for the prevalence of discussion of a particular topic. Twitter activism works.
Spreading awareness is a proxy for complete inaction except when they are spreading awareness of actions to be taken and even in those cases, most of the time the action a useless action and may as well have been a pointless hashtag.
Like this for example.
Twitter activism tends to work on people who are on and pay attention to twitter. Which isn’t as many as people seem to think.
There is a huge portion of the population who pay no attention to twitter or facebook whatsoever.
+Kony ’14
Some civil servant just wasted time replying to a woman who sent her knickers to the Taoiseach. How depressing.
Probably makes a change for them to have something a bit weird to reply to
You have obviously never worked in a Minister’s Private Office. It’s a loon magnet.
The PA wouldn’t have batted an eyelid.
How often would they get pants though?
Christmas, usually? Nothing fancy, just Marks and Sparks standard. The elastic goes to quickly on the Dunnes ones.
*too, even.
What, no sexy Valentines Day pants?!
Dear Patricia, 14/2/14
Here’s a little something for the day that’s in it. I hope Mr Collins likes them.
Yours,
Enda
xx
He totally would
That’s a pretty urbane reply from Ms Collins, actually.
As to the campaign, I think it’s clear what they’re trying to achieve. They want to make it impossible for any government politician to appear in public without the risk of being festooned with knickers. If you don’t think that might encourage a bit of action on our abortion laws, you’re underestimating the vanity of politicians.
Jesus this is stupid
Yea I’d have to agree. I’m all for amending the legislation, but shut up with your stupid knickers campaign, this is a serious matter.
Childishly moronic.
I’mma send Leo a jockstrap. ‘Cause solidarity and heya, gerrup the yard.
And there was me thinking the Slutwalk was the lowpoint of narcissistic, utterly silly feminist protest.
Soiled or unsoiled?
What a toilet of a thread.
Childish? …..Or: “The Imeldas’ mockery is important as a counterpoint to Fine Gael’s po-faced ‘statesmanship’. For the government, abortion is a matter of deep moral and political consequence for the entire populace – to be held away from the ballot box until the moment is exactly right. It is the constitutional issue of our time. It is a matter for cautious unpublished advice by the Attorney General. A referendum cannot be rushed. A proper political debate should not be allowed to excite undue passion. Reform cannot be triggered by the mere facts of any individual case, but must be preceded by careful weighing of abstract propositions. The purpose of any legislation is to keep the floodgates of choice firmly closed. ….And then, in Cricklewood, the Taoiseach is ‘knickerbombed’ into embarrassment. The mockery, with its connotations of sex and scandal – dirty laundry – creates a space in which he can be reminded of troublesome reality. His dinner is, for a moment, spoiled.”
http://humanrights.ie/constitution-of-ireland/sparing-endas-blushes-speaking-of-imelda-and-knickersforchoice/