Australia: Feminist insists Abbott no misogynist

Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2013-01-10 21:35

Article here. Get around the login challenge for this story by Googling the first paragraph text and clicking the top result link. Excerpt:

'LEADING feminist and key member of the Women's Electoral Lobby Eva Cox has declared some of Julia Gillard's policies sexist and rejected the Prime Minister's claims that Tony Abbott is a misogynist.

In an opinion article for The Conversation website, Ms Cox says the Opposition Leader is not "feminism's worst enemy", as portrayed by Labor in its attacks against Mr Abbott.

"He is a somewhat inconsistent, confused conservative with the attached sexist views on gender roles, which he seems to be trying hard to minimise," she says. "He is not in my terms a misogynist."
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Ms Cox says she takes the definition of sexism as a "view of gender as the basis for entrenched discriminatory differences" and misogyny as having a deep pathological dislike of women.'

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Wonder when we'll see a male politician accuse a female one of misandry/sexism after she says something that is categorically critical of males.

Possibly we have so many female pols doing it that they figure they wouldn't be able to keep up. But I happen to think it's more likely due to fear of being labeled sexist for calling out female pols' sexism. Funny how that works.

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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2013-01-11 00:47