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Farmers should stop using the phrase “farmer’s wife” as it reinforces gender stereotypes, the National Farmers Union (NFU) in Scotland has said.

So when do we English get the vote on their leaving and we can tell ’em all to bugger off?

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Simon Neale
Simon Neale
11 months ago

I could understand that if we were talking about Wales, where the dialect word is “ewe”.

The Meissen Bison
The Meissen Bison
11 months ago

The scotch NFU should have their tails cut off with a carving knife.

Stonyground
Stonyground
11 months ago

It looks as though the NFU could save a bit of money by ridding their workforce of people who don’t have enough to do.

Grist
Grist
11 months ago

So, if you have a woman, a real woman as opposed to a 21st Century TTK “woman” who is married to a farmer, calling this woman is reinforcing gender stereotypes. And silly old me thought it was describing her…

NFU Scotland are a steaming pile of farmyard ordure. Just describing…

Norman
Norman
11 months ago

And what if the farmer and wife are married lesbians? Both are “wives”. They really don’t think this through, do they?

John B
John B
11 months ago

To avoid all “stereotyping” shouldn’t “farmer” be replaced by “farmperson”?

Steve
Steve
11 months ago

A new “diversity and inclusion” strategy highlighted examples of language that had been heard at NFU meetings that it deemed “inappropriate”, including identifying a farmer as “he”.

Arguing that “the ‘farmer’ is not a man”, the report said that they could be a woman and warned: “People in leadership positions need to use correct terminology. Don’t use farmer’s wife.”

Among the other language that “reinforces stereotypes and alienates particular segments” was encouraging male farmers to attend the NFU’s annual conference by saying: “Bring your wife, the shopping is great in Glasgow.”

What a bunch of poofs.

Gamecock
Gamecock
11 months ago

Farmers should stop using the phrase National Farmers Union, as it reinforces idiocy.

Sam Duncan
Sam Duncan
11 months ago

How can farmers be confident that the NFU will stand up for them against all the other bollocks if it’s actively promoting this bollocks?

Chris Miller
Chris Miller
11 months ago

As the CBI is to ‘industry’, so the NFU is to ‘farmers’.

bloke in spain
bloke in spain
11 months ago

This we discover a law of nature. Any group of very busy people will end being being represented by a few lazy cunts with reality bypasses.

Charles
Charles
11 months ago

Can we say “farmer’s husband”?

Marius
Marius
11 months ago

NFU = No Fucking Use.

when do we English get the vote on their leaving and we can tell ’em all to bugger off?

I used to be very much in favour of this, but now I fear that the porridge wogs would create a failed state within six months of independence and we’d have Chinese subs in Faslane within a year,

Boganboy
Boganboy
11 months ago

‘To avoid all “stereotyping” shouldn’t “farmer” be replaced by “farmperson”?’

I think the ‘son’ in that word is a bit stereotypical John B. It really should be ‘farmperper’!!!

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