Nadine ‘window lickers’ Dorries patient-shames women in car-crash interview
This woman is a health minister: Nadine Dorries once used a derogatory description of people with mental disabilities to describe her critics on Twitter. Now she has appeared on the radio, telling women that they can expect no help from her if they suffer sexism from doctors [Image: The Prole Star.]
The health minister who once used the description “window lickers” (an insult against people with mental disabilities)…
The Minister of State (Minister for Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health)
Just to clarify “Window lickers" is a derogatory term for people with LD and/or Autism. pic.twitter.com/YtI5d5ZcTU— 𝕷𝖔𝖗𝖉 𝕸𝖆𝖗𝖐 𝖔𝖋 𝕰𝖆𝖘𝖙 𝕮𝖑𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉 (@Jacxdad3376) June 4, 2021
… appeared on the BBC’s Woman’s Hour where she tried to shame female NHS patients while denying responsibility for any of their problems.
You can hear the interview for yourself:
Listen live now: How would you change women's healthcare for the better? Nadine Dorries MP @DHSCgovuk wants to hear your views in the Women's Health Strategy call for evidence https://t.co/2yv8cTuild pic.twitter.com/restwzgZNQ
— BBC Woman's Hour (@BBCWomansHour) June 9, 2021
Those who have already heard the car-crash interview had nothing but derision for Dorries…
Can't believe what I'm hearing on @BBCWomansHour. Nadine Dorries *health minister for patient safety!!!* @DHSCgovuk says the onus should be on women patients to push back against sexism in the system. Worrying lack of basic insight into patient-clinician power dynamics.
— Jess Falk Perlman (@jessfalkperl) June 9, 2021
Radio 4, Nadine Dorries, says women are to blame for poor Dr decisions, because they don't challenge the Drs.
OK, ask for a 2nd opinion, and it will be a colleague of the 1st Dr, who won't disagree.
Complain again, you'll be called a trouble maker, or refused further treatment.
— John England 🇬🇧 (@nhsDirtySecrets) June 9, 2021
So, according to Nadine Dorries, I should be going to my GP and demanding to be referred to a consultant. 'Don't be fobbed off' she suggests. Has she tried 'going to a GP' recently? @BBCWomansHour please could someone return her to reality
— Grace Hunter (@GraceHunter56) June 9, 2021
Nadine Dorries doing an amazing job at patient shaming today I see.
What a great thing for the Mental Health and Suicide Prevention minister to do…— Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 (@adamfare1996) June 9, 2021
Nadine Dorries on @BBCRadio4 #womenshour is an absolute disgrace. The level of hypocrisy and female patient shaming is sickening. Kudos to the presenter though, fantastic questioning.
— Ashley Maguire (@AislingLoulou) June 9, 2021
Currently outraged by Nadine Dorries. Being shouted at on how to behave as a woman. Thank goodness 99.9% of women are not like her. #womanshour
— victoria (@merrimum) June 9, 2021
https://twitter.com/ashepherdson2/status/1402556561004941312
Nadine Dorries 'No not me, no not my responsibility, no don't want to answer your questions.'
— Frances Maxwell (@Frances00494672) June 9, 2021
#womanshour Nadine Dorries once again proving she's thicker than mince
— Matt C #FBPE #ToryCorruption really f^cks me off (@partymatt71) June 9, 2021
https://twitter.com/aideence/status/1402556832900603907
https://twitter.com/gilli_clare/status/1402557105391931401
…and praise for her interviewer Emma Barnett:
Emma Barnett to Nadine Dorries, on 'Woman's Hour':
"That's not how it works here. You don't get to answer the questions you'd like to be asked."
Brilliant. A lesson for all journalists and interviewers.— John Haffenden (@johnhaffenden) June 9, 2021
https://twitter.com/zombiwombat/status/1402556566201638916
@BBCWomansHour and @Emmabarnett thank you for challenging and standing up to Nadine Dorries assertion that women should be confident to challenge their GP. The overwhelming evidence is that women are being failed, even when they challenge.
— Indigomama 💙 (@Indigomama1) June 9, 2021
The message is starkly clear: if you are a woman and you are being failed by the Tory-run health service, you will get no help from the Tories who are running it into the ground.
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Is there no vileness this woman will not stoop to?