"Playing the 'gender card'? As if Julia Gillard has a choice"

Article here. Excerpt:

'On Tuesday Julia Gillard ignited a "gender war", today, menugate went some way to justify it.

In a progressive world, her gender should not be an issue – but we are a long way off that being an everyday reality. How far off is best illustrated by a photo doing the rounds taken of a menu at a Liberal fundraiser in March this year, which describes a Moroccan quail dish as: “Julia Gillard Kentucky fried quail – small breasts, huge thighs and a big red box Moroccan carrot salad and sumac yoghurt.”
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Gillard warned the issue of abortion would become the "political plaything of men" if Tony Abbott became prime minister, and invited us to imagine him as a man with a blue tie who goes on holidays to be replaced by another man in a blue tie. It seemed an odd request, even for someone who made their international political mark with her much praised misogyny speech.'