• Theresa May calls for a “sensitive approach” to gender issues.
• Compares being asked if she is a ‘woke’ woman to being asked if she is a feminist.
• Says she is “woke and proud” and “recognises that discrimination takes place”.
Theresa May has said she is “woke and proud” during an interview with Ruth Davidson, the former leader of the Scottish Conservatives. She made the remarks for Times Radio ahead of the publication of her first book since leaving Downing Street.
Mrs May compared being asked whether she was a woke woman to having been asked in the past whether she was a feminist, adding: “Well, I wore a T-shirt which said ‘this is what a feminist looks like’.”
Ms. Davidson asked the ex-Prime Minister about a line from the book in which she discusses the term ‘woke’. When asked if she was “woke and proud”, Mrs May said, laughing, “I am, yeah!”
Mrs May called for a “sensitive approach” to issues surrounding gender and said the term “woke” has come to be used as part of the “absolutism and polarisation of politics”.
Mrs May’s remarks have caused a stir as she is the first Conservative Prime Minister to openly embrace the term.
Theresa May has said she is “woke and proud” as she called for a “sensitive approach” to issues surrounding gender. The Telegraph has more.
The former Prime Minister compared being asked whether she was a woke woman to having been asked in the past whether she was a feminist, adding: “Well, I wore a T-shirt which said ‘this is what a feminist looks like’.”
Mrs May’s remarks came in an interview with Ruth Davidson, the former leader of the Scottish Conservatives, for Times Radio ahead of the publication of her first book since leaving Downing Street.
Ms. Davidson asked the ex-Prime Minister about a line from the book, entitled The Abuse of Power, in which she discusses the term ‘woke’.
“When you were writing about wokeness, you said: ‘The Oxford English Dictionary definition of woke is well-informed, up to date and chiefly alert to racial discrimination and injustice. And on that basis, who would not want to be woke?’”
Ms. Davidson added: “It invites the question, Theresa, are you possibly a woke woman?”
Mrs May responded: “In the terms of that definition of somebody who recognises that discrimination takes place. Sadly, that term has come to be used… as part of this absolutism and polarisation of politics.”
When pressed on whether she was “woke and proud”, she said, laughing, “I am, yeah!”
That’s a former Conservative Prime Minister, folks.
Worth reading in full.
