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Dnarever wrote on Oct 22 nd, 2015 at 7:10pm: Karnal wrote on Oct 22 nd, 2015 at 7:07pm: President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Oct 22 nd, 2015 at 7:01pm: the reviews after Gillards Hate Speech of men in Blue Ties.. Quote:Scathing reviews from the Left and feminists, including even one of the founders of Destroy the Joint:
Social commentator Jane Caro said it smacked of desperation and could blow up in the Prime Minister’s face…
Ms Caro added Ms Gillard’s abortion comments “smack of desperation, like it’s her last card’’.
“I am deeply worried about it,” she said.
She said the broader playing of the gender card “feels like a political tactic rather than a statement of real belief’’…
“ I’m worried it will create this very idea that we don’t want, which is that women in politics only represent women. We want women in politics because we want the brightest and the best of all available people.’’
University of Technology, Sydney, professorial fellow Eva Cox said voters shouldn’t be swayed by politics that uses gender to rally votes.
“This strikes me as part of continuing to push the misogyny thing,’’ she said. “If women want to vote for Julia, they should do it based on the policies that both parties are putting up, not on the possibility that there might be something on abortions, given the federal government control in that area is?minimal.”
More reviews:
It raised eyebrows within Labor, with some MPs believing the Prime Minister had “jumped the shark”.
Coalition women described the comments as desperate and offensive. Even one Labor MP, Stephen Jones, said he was surprised by Ms Gillard’s pitch.
He stressed he supported a woman’s right to choose but “I am not convinced of the wisdom of kicking this into a political debate’’...
And another:
And there’s Wendy Harmer, co-founder of The Hoopla, who says her readers haven’t been impressed. She told the ABC: “I’ve been getting emails all day saying ‘Did she really say that’?”
Hmm. Maybe we should indeed be scared of treasurers in blue ties delivering budgets aka Wayne Swan
But be aware: Gillard’s speech is not just an appeal to women to prevent her being replaced by Tony Abbott. It is also to appeal to prevent her being replaced by another man - Kevin Rudd. not to mention she was a godless, childless, unmarried, lying, backstabbing witch  Good point, Mechanic. You stone these types in Saudi Arabia, no? Apparently in Australia they can be taken to sea in a chaff bag. They can also be kicked to death, shot, ground up in a machine for grinding up old unproductive dairy cows etc. I guess the hatred is because Gillard was always on top of her brief, never referred a question to another minister like Malodorous has done several times now and accepted defeat with good grace and got high level employment soon after leaving Parliament. In other words, Gillard was better than the whole Lib Party combined and they recognised that and felt their inferiority deeply.
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