In this clip, David Cameron said to a women, Labour's Angela Eagle, in the Houses of Parliament; "Calm down, dear!". Cameron has said this this was meant to be taken as a joke and used in a humour but could this just be an example of the dominance theory in gender language? Considering that the population is 51% females and 49% males, it is clear that parliament is dominated with the male gender and this could be one of the reasons that David Cameron thought it would be acceptable to use this phrase and not think it is offensive.
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