Glasgow's Shame

Here's an extract of a article written by Rebecca Martin - a young student - who took part in a debate at the Glasgow University (Student) Union last week.

.."As an experienced speaker on the international debating circuit, I have fended off countless heckles from both men and women.

But I have never experienced anything like the misogynistic insults hurled at me by a group of male students during the finals of the Glasgow University Union (GUU) Ancients Debate last week.

I was booed and subjected to cries of ‘shame woman’ from the moment I stood up to discuss the motion, ‘This house regrets the centralisation of religion’, with my debate partner, Marlena Valles.

After the debate, we confronted the individuals involved.

When Marlena approached one of the young men, he shouted: ‘Get that woman out of my union.’

Female audience members who came to our defence were shouted down with more demeaning abuse and the retort: ‘What does a woman know anyway.’ One was even called a ‘frigid bitch’.

We later discovered the gang had openly discussed our appearance and made lewd sexual comments about the size of our breasts and body shapes."

Now after all the publicity given to allegedly 'inappropriate' and sexist behaviour in the Liberal Democrat party - it's strange to see such little attention being paid to the behaviour of these boorish male students at Glasgow University.

So I hope that the University authorities are on the case and that the idiots involved - are dealt with severely and forced to issue a grovelling apology.

Better still - maybe some enterprising journalist will find out what their mothers and  sisters think of their comments and ghastly behaviour.