Daily Mail’s “legsit” front page – our favourite takedowns of this ’70s sexist crap on Twitter
So it was the two most important people in the country discussing the nation’s most pressing issue right now. And what did the Daily Mail zoom in on? Of course it did.
Tuesday's @DailyMailUK #MailFrontPages pic.twitter.com/QepUfSKKYN
— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) March 27, 2017
The condemnation on Twitter was swift and brutal. Here are some of our favourites.
1.
Hello, Daily Mail? 1972 called. They want their casually sexist & demeaning front page headline back #everydaysexism #legsit https://t.co/GZ6QNTawgm
— Sharon Glaas (@SLGlaas) March 27, 2017
2.
If you see a Daily Mail tomorrow… #ripitup
— Alastair Campbell (@campbellclaret) March 27, 2017
3.
If Daily Mail was a person you'd get a restraining order, frankly. pic.twitter.com/ZZOfoFzYe5
— Matt Haig (@matthaig1) March 27, 2017
4.
I'd like to think in an alternative brexit-verse far far away this is what everyone's getting cross over #dailymail pic.twitter.com/QlOg5Y6a0p
— Ashley Gould (@APJGould) March 27, 2017
5.
This is what happens when you let that drunk, pervy uncle at a wedding edit a newspaper. pic.twitter.com/FQcqjjQMNJ
— Jane Bradley (@jane__bradley) March 27, 2017
6.
The 1950s called and asked for their headline back.#everydaysexism https://t.co/s1W1XfhrhN
— Ed Miliband (@Ed_Miliband) March 27, 2017
7.
this is the prime minister of the uk and the first minister of scotland.
holy crap @DailyMailUK @DailyMail is a garbage newspaper pic.twitter.com/z12AJL6YNt— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 27, 2017
8.
It's 2017. This sexism must be consigned to history. Shame on the Daily Mail. pic.twitter.com/V3RpFSgfnO
— Jeremy Corbyn MP (@jeremycorbyn) March 27, 2017
9.
The Daily Mail. Edited by adolescent teenage boys. pic.twitter.com/D2EYTUpK4N
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) March 27, 2017
10.
It's 2017. Two women's decisions will determine if United Kingdom continues to exist. And front page news is their lower limbs. Obviously pic.twitter.com/AMp0YvtISa
— Yvette Cooper (@YvetteCooperMP) March 27, 2017
11.
Ah yes you can be a powerful woman running a country but fuck that look at those legs hey lads!
Fuck the Daily Mail pic.twitter.com/Bp3uYczfTp
— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) March 27, 2017
12.
Scottish Daily Mail has different headline. Would be good if they thought they couldn't get away with that 70's nonsense in Scotland. https://t.co/f7naYFk7mq
— Pete Wishart (@PeteWishart) March 27, 2017
FM and PM's oh so frosty meeting and Scotland's failing schools: Tuesday's Scottish Daily Mail. pic.twitter.com/eUezqAiA1X
— Michael Blackley (@Mike_Blackley) March 27, 2017
14.
We're living in the most political unstable era of my lifetime, and the Daily Mail are writing sexist articles about our leader's legs. pic.twitter.com/54uAuAE9Sp
— Angry Salmond (@AngrySalmond) March 27, 2017
15.
Breaking news: two women have four legs between them. Forget their brains – utterly immaterial. United by being unwitting pin-ups pic.twitter.com/RY64nVMLyF
— Emma Barnett (@Emmabarnett) March 27, 2017
16.
Moronic! And we are in 2017! pic.twitter.com/LTGEZdtNo3
— Harriet Harman (@HarrietHarman) March 27, 2017
17.
Oh fuck off. pic.twitter.com/MSyCdw3UdC
— Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian) March 27, 2017
18.
The @DailyMailUK sends clear message to every little girl: even if you become PM, we'll still only care about your bloody legs. #LegsIt #FFS pic.twitter.com/lU6V0rzPOO
— Zoë Kelland (@ZoeKelland) March 28, 2017
19.
Again and again I think of what an Italian journalist said to me last year: 'We thought you were a more mature country than this.' pic.twitter.com/2KUCixoQFD
— Jonathan Coe (@jonathancoe) March 28, 2017
20.
Nice pins. #legsit #newspaperoftheyear #nevermindbrexit pic.twitter.com/hXdK1KbrN2
— alan rusbridger (@arusbridger) March 27, 2017
BONUS!
A more appropriate front page for today's Daily Mail #legsithttps://t.co/szp5cEoLtW pic.twitter.com/We0fYpqKFJ
— The Poke (@ThePoke) March 28, 2017