And completely ineffective against either of those two at turning votes around or getting anyone out of office. In the Doctor Who episode, she was out practically overnight.
I specifically wrote “tactic,” as in an action used against an enemy (or just someone he was mad at). Of course, I don’t have every episode at my fingertips, so it may not be “the most” sexist tactic he used against an enemy. My own reaction when I saw it was severe disappointment in the writers, at the end of what I thought was a very good episode. I thought she (the character) was very wrong, but then attack her for what she did, not for how she looks.
He wasn’t attacking her for how she looks. He was making use of an admittedly unfair but common prejudice to bring her down because of what she did.
Full disclosure: when I saw the episode, my impression was that we (the audience) were allowed to merely infer that the sinking of her political fortunes was to be an inevitable outcome of Dr. Who’s comment.
I don’t know if that’s a result of my not paying sufficient attention, or whether there was an edit for BBCAmerica.
They’re welcome to use America-hating fuckstick if they like that better. I haven’t trademarked the term (I’m just the guy who’s trying to make it happen).
To either go off on a tangent or merely make your point explicit, I thought the whole gag was that he wasn’t even doing that: that he told her he could bring her down with six words, and then showily strode over to utter that sentence (a) in front of her, but (b) to someone just out of her earshot — figuring, correctly, that it wouldn’t get repeated to her, and that she’d only then tire herself out trying to get someone to repeat it to her.
I can’t agree with that. Doxxing, apparently, puts people in the sights of some dangerous people. And nobody deserves to be the victim of any kind of assault.