UK: "Is 'feminist' a term you'd use now, Julie Bishop?"

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'"Feminist [is] not a term that I find particularly useful these days," Julie Bishop famously announced to the National Press Club while launching a "Women in Media" group in 2014.

In that same speech, Bishop, who yesterday announced her retirement as Foreign Minister and signalled her ambivalence about contesting the next election, also refused to acknowledge the existence of the glass ceiling in her career, saying that she would never “blame the fact that I’m a woman” for any career limitations.
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I’m not suggesting that gender was the only factor at play. The leadership spill was triggered by the vocal and aggressive minority of MPs and shock jocks motivated by enacting Abbott’s revenge. And Bishop is unpalatable to the pack of pale, male, stale, sexist, and racist homophobes who speak the loudest in the Liberal party room.

But if, as the Liberal Party and their supporters consistently claim, the office of Prime Minister is based on both merit and numbers, then Bishop is easily the preferred Prime Minister.'

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... filled floor to ceiling with stale male pale sexist racist homophobes?

I can only imagine what she thinks of the Tories.

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