Australia: The perils of the Prime Minister's feminist fantasies

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2012-11-07 16:33

Article here. Excerpt:

'The PM's political strategy is clear. An eight-page spread in Marie Claire taps Gillard into a younger demographic -- the 445,000 monthly readers of the magazine are mostly women aged 25 to 39. In fact, much younger women are also being encouraged to join the Gillard gender wars. Well-meaning schoolteachers have started showing Gillard's tirade to their female high school students as evidence that misogyny still happens. Disappointingly, when the YouTube video was played at one school, there was no classroom discussion of the underlying hypocrisy of Gillard's continuing support for Peter Slipper, whose distasteful texts about female genitalia should have required his removal from the Speaker's chair by any fair-minded and consistent feminist. Nor was there any real analysis of the man Gillard accused of being a misogynist.'

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"Gillard's continuing support for Peter Slipper, whose distasteful texts about female genitalia should have required his removal from the Speaker's chair by any fair-minded and consistent feminist."

The target of the distasteful texts was a male whom Slipper was in the process of sexually harassing. Labor were able to protect Slipper because his actual victims were male. Only when Slipper was presented as being nasty to women was he sacrificed.

It conforms to their track record. Labor in government have created institutionalised discrimination affecting male victims of abuse and victims of female abusers in many parts of the country. They continue along the same idealogical path today.

They have a fair gall accusing anybody of sexism.

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Submitted by gwallan on Thu, 2012-11-08 05:06