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21 October 2016

“Grab Her By The Brain” is the worst feminist slogan ever – internet men, take note

Maybe just don’t grab her at all?

By Eleanor Margolis

Imagine if Alan Partridge tried to show off his feminist credentials. His response to Donald Trump’s horrendous “grab her by the pussy” comment, leaked earlier this month, would probably be something like, say, “I’d never grab a woman by her… part. If anything, I’d grab her by the brain.”

Which is probably why the real life “grab her by the brain” initiative that’s cropped up as a supposedly progressive response to grabbing women by their vaginas, Trump-style, is the most embarrassingly Partridge-esque feminist slogan ever devised.

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