Fifteen minutes in the House of Representatives yesterday, as seen by Jezebel: Home of Shiny Happy Ladies (USA):
Australia's prime minister Julia Gillard is one badass motherf*cker. In an impassioned 15-minute smackdown in front of the house of Representatives, the country's first female leader gave a scathing speech calling out opposition leader Tony Abbott's extremely misogynistic comments, actions, views on abortion and single women, all while pointing in his face. She basically ripped him a new asshole. [asterisk added a word to avoid potential problems with filter programs]
At Business Insider (UK):
In addition to the intensity of the speech (which really picks up at the 3
minute mark), you can really see Abbott get increasingly uncomfortable as the
speech goes on. He starts by smiling at the charges of being sexist to appearing
deeply uncomfortable.
On Twitter from Britain:
Oh, dear - all of Margie Abbott's recent media spade work undone!
Background:
Hansard record of the Prime Minister's speech in response to the Leader of the Opposition's motion, starting at Page 48
Video of speech here.
On Twitter from Britain:
This is the best smackdown I've ever seen. Glorious. Advance, Australia Fair! http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-09/julia-gillard-attacks-abbott-of-hypocrisy/4303634 … (via @indiaknight, @shippersunbound)
Oh, dear - all of Margie Abbott's recent media spade work undone!
Background:
Hansard record of the Prime Minister's speech in response to the Leader of the Opposition's motion, starting at Page 48
Video of speech here.
9 comments:
I like this from The Telegraph newspaper in England the best.
"Abbott may have tried to feign not being bothered by Gillard’s blistering attack - by rudely looking at his watch during the middle of it – but amazingly he was the one who ended up being totally shamed."
A great blog putting an Abbott proof fence around women's rights.
http://womenagainstabbott.wordpress.com/
And for a real-world view read
"Slipper moment of clarity closes ghastly spectacle" http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/slipper-moment-of-clarity-closes-ghastly-spectacle-20121009-27bn3.html
Says a lot more about our hypocritical PM and what she thinks is a misogynist and what isn't than I can!
The New Yorker yesterday -
"After his performance last week, supporters of President Obama, watching Gillard cut through the disingenuousness and feigned moral outrage of her opponent to call him out for his own personal prejudice, hypocrisy, and aversion to facts, might be wishing their man would take a lesson from Australia."
And just for readers education, what else does feminist blog Jezabel recommend to it's readers?
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Makes Woman's Day and New Idea seem like magazines for rocket scientists, doesn't it? Yet it is presented as evidence of global approval of Gillard's rant, while all the time she looks after the proven misogynist Slipper. Please explain?
Dave Schwarz/yambaman.
I am well aware of your intense dislike of Julia Gillard.
I often get emailed links to your forum comments elswhere.
Like your discussion of the "real" Julia, whether the Prime Minister has a "brazilian" or not and your mention of and finally help from others with inclusion in a September 2012 forum thread of the image of naked redheaded female puppets with red pubic hair.
Or this effort from you in June 2012:
"They're now calling Julia Gillard Prime Minister Yabby*
* Yabby - a creature mostly red, happiest in the muck, with meat in its tail and crap in its head!"
Just trying to give this so-called forum some balance Clarence Girl, I'm still waiting to hear what you now think of Peter Slipper, the man you so vigorously defended back in July!
And whom your feminist hero JG (and yes, I admit I mock her but only for her hypocrisy and her deceit, not because of her sex) attempted to defend yesterday while playing the sex card against that other so-called misogynist TA!
Who is this Dave character? Does he seriously believe the colour & distribution of a prime minister's body hair is evidence of hypocrisy & deceit? What a tool.
Well, well, out come the bully-boys, personal abuse time, sorry (Al)Anonymous but anybody with half a brain awaits Clarence Girls explanation as to her vigorous defence of misogynist Slipper back in July - and while she's at it perhaps she can explain how A/G Roxon knew of Slipper's texts back in May and said nothing about him being a sexist woman-hater?
It is all absolutely nothing but a political beat-up; how sad that the PM of this country has to pull the sexist string when all else fails in her desperate attempt to cling to power and avoid scrutiny of her many failed policies!
PS And can I refer you to The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 19 on this blogs home page Anonymous, it would seem that you and others here like to dish it out but can't seem to take it?
Still, nice to get another gong to my post-nominals from this site, xenophobic, troll, tool, intense disliker, .... lucky I've a thick skin. By the way Clarence Girl, seems to me some stalking of Yambaman is going on, who is the dreaded emailer?
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