Race politics and gender segregation at Oldham by-election.

How do you know that the audience didn't naturally self-segregate?

Anyway, the idea that their is segreagation is wrong. There was no segregation. You can clearly see women on the left in the "men's" area.

Yep...all of them white women.

Indeed - therefore not segregated based on sex.

I did also however say: "It tells us something about the people who vote Labour in Oldham if they voluntarily chose to self-segregate."

That was in reference to the (presumed) male and female Muslims who seemed to have segregated themselves voluntarily.

I think it tells us more about the political party which is eager to appeal to people who 'willingly' (pfft, please) segregate.

There are no men amongst the women. Why wouldn't anyone, in a fricking liberal democracy, and worse, in a position of social responsibility as representatives of the United Kingdom, raise this? Why are people incapable of joining the dots and identifying the wider implications of such an action?

This is a political event. It's not a mosque. It's a disgrace and tells me everything I need to know about the self-loathing Labour Party and how far it is willing to bend to keep its minority vote sweet. They are vapid and devoid of the very moralities the exploit and promote on an incessant basis.

They are implicitly condoning religious conservatism while they campaign along gender lines to secure votes. It's outright hypocrisy and fundamentally dishonourable; what's worse, it's becoming a trend and begs the question: what's the next sacrifice to secure the minority vote?

tbh its just what primary school children would do...take what you want from that