Published: August 09, 2018
Fellow MPs criticise Green party co-leader Marama Davidson, who says term was used in death threat against her
Marama Davidson, the co-leader of the New Zealand Green party has launched an initiative to reclaim the word “cunt” for women, saying it had been used as part of a death threat against her and had been maligned as a form of abuse for too long.
Davidson repeatedly used the word at a public event on Friday last week and later backed her stance after it caused outcry among her parliamentary colleagues. “I stand by using that word,” Davidson told Newshub. “That word is a powerful word for women and shouldn’t be used as abuse.”
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