{"id":4838,"date":"2013-06-14T10:13:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T00:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?p=4838"},"modified":"2022-05-02T00:35:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T14:35:08","slug":"ffsf-what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-you-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/ffsf-what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-you-people\/","title":{"rendered":"#FFSF What the hell is wrong with you people"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4839\" style=\"width: 860px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4839\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4839\" alt=\"Parenting Tip: Don\u2019t encourage your daughters to aspire to the highest office in the land, may take until many more generations before the dinosaurs die out :(\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/i.jpg?resize=850%2C385\" width=\"850\" height=\"385\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parenting Tip: Don\u2019t encourage your daughters to aspire to the highest office in the land. The dinosaurs still direct the public conversation.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>by <a title=\"Noely Neate\" href=\"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/noely-neate\/\">Noely Neate<br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;\">June 14, 2013<a title=\"Noely Neate\" href=\"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/noely-neate\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/yathink.com.au\/article-display\/ffsf-what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-you-people,77#.UbpX4X8is98.twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yathink.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enough is enough. This grubby\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jun\/13\/julia-gillard-howard-sattler-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Howard Sattler<\/a>\u00a0business is the last straw!\u00a0\u00a0 I may not be an academic like the everywhere \u2018Feminist for Hire\u2019 Eva Cox, or a so-called \u2018Woman\u2019s Authority\u2019 like Mia Feedman. I am just a punter. A punter who is a mother, a daughter, a wife, a niece and a sister, and I am seriously pissed off.<\/p>\n<p>To be perfectly frank, I am not sure I even really like\u00a0<strong>Prime Minister<\/strong>\u00a0Julia Gillard (note my use of her title, Australian media). \u00a0I was totally feral with the changes to single parents \u2013 again media, it is \u2018parent<strong>s<\/strong>\u2019 not just mums, as it was a ridiculous, heartless decision. \u00a0The bright sparks who came up with that idiotic policy should take themselves outside and give themselves a good uppercut.\u00a0 Why the\u00a0<strong>PM<\/strong>\u00a0even agreed to that policy we will never know. \u00a0We don\u2019t live in a dictatorship and I am pretty sure the PM doesn&#8217;t get everything her own way.\u00a0 I will also hold her to account on this issue, but I will not wipe everything else this woman has done over ONE issue.<\/p>\n<p>Bloody Hell, Howard took us to war on a lie and has received nowhere near the same condemnation. \u00a0Having said that, this is the one point that the so-called feminist\/women\/whatever the hell David Koch has decided this week are the experts use to bash the PM with with regard to the big scary \u2018Women\u2019s Issues\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>I say get a grip!\u00a0 I am really sick of someone I used to really respect like Eva Cox being an apologist for Mr Abbott.\u00a0 Really? \u00a0The MSM seem to love to clarify things for us in regard to Tony Abbott.\u00a0 I would love a buck for every time I have heard a commentator say, \u201cMr Abbott has changed his position on&#8230;\u201d.\u00a0 Ya Think?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yeah, let\u2019s just forget him standing in front of \u00a0Ditch the Witch signs, not once but twice.<\/li>\n<li>Let\u2019s forget\u00a0 2010, &#8220;<em>Are you suggesting to me that when it comes from Julia, &#8216;No&#8217; doesn&#8217;t mean &#8216;No&#8217;<\/em>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Let\u2019s forget another pearler from 2010, \u201c<em>What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it&#8217;s going to go up in price, and their own power bills when they switch the iron&#8230;<\/em>\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>God forbid we forget my personal favourite from 2004, \u201c<em>abortion is the easy way out<\/em>\u201d&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I could go on all day with instances of Mr Abbott\u2019s serious \u2018form\u2019 when it comes to women\u2019s issues, but just look at Mr Abbott trying to stop\u00a0<strong>RU486<\/strong>,\u00a0<em>enuff said<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It is most likely true to a certain degree that the Prime Minister&#8217;s address to the <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pm.gov.au\/press-office\/transcript-remarks-launch-women-gillard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women for Gillard<\/a>\u00a0event\u00a0was a manoeuvre to gain more support amongst women. Hello, she is a politician. \u00a0It was actually a good speech if you read it all, not just paid attention to the Blue Ties and Abortion lines the media flogged relentlessly.\u00a0 Maternity allowances, federal funding for childcare, hell, even references to women being able to work in farms and factories in the 1940\u2019s was mentioned, all ignored. Obviously \u201cpulling the gender card, how dare she\u201d was the theme of the day.<\/p>\n<p>From Alan Jones to Tony Abbott, I do not think there has been a female in this country that has been reviled in the media as much as Julia Gillard.\u00a0 I am sure in the future there will be many a thesis done on this very subject and a whole new generation of political talking heads will be talking about the \u201c<em>shameful depth of Australian politics back in the day&#8230;<\/em>\u201d Or proudly claiming \u201c<em>Haven\u2019t we come so far now since those shameful sexist days when we as a nation could not respect a woman in power<\/em>\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independentaustralia.net\/2013\/politics\/the-mal-brough-menugate-cover-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yathink.com.au\/i\/article\/img\/smokin-joe-200.jpg?resize=200%2C158\" width=\"200\" height=\"158\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Even with the latest #MenuGate fiasco, everyone is more interested in whether Brough saw it or not.\u00a0 I don\u2019t really care.\u00a0 I find it very difficult to believe Joe Richards would put that much effort into his so-called joke menu and would not have bragged about it to his LNP mates.\u00a0 The whole explanation just defies belief and is way too convenient.\u00a0 My pet peeve in this whole debacle is the glee in which media reported Mr Richards \u2018<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/opinion\/political-news\/menu-comparing-pm-to-quail-an-inhouse-joke-says-restaurant-owner-20130612-2o4dg.html#ixzz2W7krIeN7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>\u2019, conveniently arriving to them via Mr Abbott\u2019s office, BUT not one that I saw (<em>and if you did and I missed it, accept my apology now<\/em>) took issue with the following sentence where he apologises to Mr Brough:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As you know no one at the dinner was privy to such a menu, and it is so unfortunate that an in-house joke between myself and my son has caused you great problems and embarrassment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep, Mr Brough got an apology for being embarrassed. WTF!\u00a0 Our Prime Minister has been publicly ridiculed in an utterly vile manner by this man (if he is indeed actually solely responsible) and there is no apology to the VICTIM of the sexual denigration?\u00a0 No-one in the media thinks that should be raised?\u00a0 We would all be OK for our mothers, daughters, sisters or aunts to be referred to in this manner?<\/p>\n<p>Ms Gillard has copped flack for everything, even her choice of glasses, a haircut, tripping in heels in India. You name it and it has all been acceptable for some reason. It almost feels that Mr Abbott and his Ministers, since the day a Hung Parliament was announced, have tried to lower the position of Prime Minister and a complicit media has been their accomplice.\u00a0 Seriously, he didn&#8217;t get the job he felt entitled to so if he can\u2019t have it no-one can? We won\u2019t worry about inflammatory language, we won\u2019t worry that if the PM raises her voice it is not \u2018strong\u2019 it is \u2018shrill\u2019, if someone needs to be \u2018explained\u2019 it is \u2018defending\u2019 and on we go.\u00a0 Journalists make a living from words. They fully comprehend \u2018connotation\u2019 and they have used it well in the past few years. Well played Australian media, you must be so proud. Job well done :(<\/p>\n<p>Even the ABC, which should be above petty tabloid reporting, can\u2019t bring itself to say Prime Minister Gillard or even toss in a little \u201cPM\u201d, yet is happy to give \u201cOpposition Leader Tony Abbott\u201d his title, and of course no report on Kevin Rudd is complete without the &#8216;Former Prime Minister&#8217; moniker. \u00a0As I have stated in the past <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/yathink.com.au\/article-display\/prime-minister-julia-gillard-and-opposition-leader-tony-abbott-do-not-deserve-equal-billing,35\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott DO NOT deserve Equal Billing!<\/a>, nor do they deserve equal respect and air time. One is PRIME MINISTER, the other is NOT!\u00a0 As we are not in an election, they do not deserve equal coverage either &#8211; this false balance is a bloody joke.\u00a0 Look at the title in the video on that link &#8211; do you really think that anywhere else in the world at this time would give preference to the lower entity instead of the leader of the country?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, we have been groomed to accept that the office of Prime Minister whilst held by Julia Gillard does not deserve any respect, and that as a woman she does not deserve any respect, and that&#8217;s because it is politics, so stiff bikkies just cop it.\u00a0 I say NO!\u00a0 The past few years Mr Abbott and the Australian media have set a seriously low tone in political debate. They have encouraged sexist language and attitudes, and worse, when it has been called out by PM Gillard in her misogyny speech she is slapped down.<\/p>\n<p>Basically the moral of the story here to young women of Australia is &#8216;Don\u2019t run for Parliament&#8217; because you will be subjected to double standards, pilloried from pillar to post and cannot fight back because you will be accused of playing a Gender Card.\u00a0Be a good girl and know your place ok?<\/p>\n<p>I am not a big fan of Prime Minister Gillard. I never cared too much apart from the initial tingle that we finally had a female PM. But the denigrating treatment of our first female Prime Minister has pushed me over the edge.<\/p>\n<p>I have found the inner feminist in me that I really didn&#8217;t feel I needed in this day and age. I will back her to the hilt now just to push back at the bloody media, Tony Abbott\u2019s boys club and the ignorant bloody fellow Australians who have bought into this behaviour.\u00a0 Sorry Mr Abbott, your plan actually backfired for me and a few of my friends.<\/p>\n<p>Is this really the Australia we want to live in?\u00a0 Is this really what we want for our daughters?\u00a0 This sexist and bullying behaviour should not be acceptable.\u00a0 We would not accept it for a family member we loved or cared about so we should not tolerate it for our Prime Minister, regardless of your politics.\u00a0 I may only be a punter, not an expert, not a journalist, not a Canberra Insider or the like &#8211; I really don\u2019t give a stuff about your policy nuances or perpetual political polling &#8211; \u00a0BUT I am a decent human being and I say enough is enough!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"500\">\n<p>Wow! Politics and the Army really knocking it out of the park when it comes to sexism this week. Keep it classy Australia!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brendan Maclean (@macleanbrendan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/macleanbrendan\/statuses\/345030968052174848\">June 13, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If there is a female in your life you should care about this.\u00a0 Fellow Australians, take a good hard look at yourselves, the sexism and denigration of women in our culture, politics, sport, defence forces, you name it, should not be tolerated in any way shape or form regardless of your political persuasion.\u00a0 As they say in football, the culture of a club starts at the top and the standard is set by the leaders in the club. So you don\u2019t have to like Ms Gillard, you don\u2019t have to like the Labor Party, but you should respect the office and you should respect another human being and stand against sexism and bullying in our society.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly &amp; with great shame as an Australian<br \/>\nNoely (@YaThinkN)<\/p>\n<p>PS: I know she will never get this message, but, &#8220;<em>Ms Gillard, fight back, call it as it is, tell Mr Rudd to pull his head in.\u00a0 Next time you are asked a pathetic question like Sattler\u2019s, stand up, tell him to shove his disgraceful question up his Khyber and walk out!\u00a0 Fight back.<\/em>&#8221;<br \/>\nWhile I am giving unwarranted advice LOL!\u00a0 &#8220;<em>Mr Garrett, grow a pair, go back to the schools in Queensland and put that trumped up self-important little Premier Newman back in his place, stop letting them push you around.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>IMPORTANT: Top graphic from &#8220;<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ExposingTonyAbbottTheLnpMemesStuff?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Exposing Tony Abbott &amp; The LNP &#8211; Memes &amp; Stuff<\/a>&#8221; is extremely apt &#8211; if I have not given credit to the correct creator please let me know so I can rectify that and give credit where credit is due :)<\/p>\n<p>For a trip down memory lane with Mr Abbott\u2019s form over the years, visit \u201c<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phonytonyabbott.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tony Abbott&#8217;s Infamous Quotes<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; by Noely Neate June 14, 2013 Source: Yathink.com.au Enough is enough. 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