Give us a break. Last I looked, most members of Parliament had left school.
Senator Feeney told The Australian today that it was the conservative side of politics which had initiated the heated gender war, as he defended Ms Gillard’s attack on Mr Abbott
“Conservatives cannot complain that there is misogyny debate going on in public life when they and Alan Jones started it,” he said. “I think Tony Abbott mis-stepped when he brought on the debate and I think it’s important to remember that this debate was brought out ultimately by Alan Jones and Tony Abbott and not the Prime Minister.”
Senator Feeney said Ms Gillard’s performance last week was a “superb political performance” and that it was “generally held and understood to be such”.
And is the Senator Feeney who helped Gillard roll Rudd in a dastardly betrayal – a real act of misandry if there ever was one.
And is the Senator Feeney who is expectd to lose his place in the Parliament because no one will be nice and step aside to give him a safe seat? I say one thing: Suck it, buddy, shit happens. And that is not even being sexist.
And now it turned out that this is the same Senator Feeney who has no reservation about issuing sexist and offensive tweets about Senator Milne.
Senator Feeney, the parliamentary secretary for Defence, recently tweeted a series of pictures that feature the same image of Senator Milne with the caption, ”The different emotional states of Senator Christine Milne”.
Senator Milne says the pictures are ”derogatory” and demonstrate sexism is ”institutional” political sexism.
Senator Feeney said they were a statement about the party, not Senator Milne. ”My complaint about the Greens isn’t about Senator Milne’s gender but the fact that they are uncompromising fanatics,” he said.
The tweets contain the same three unflattering shots of Milne (see below), entitled The Different Emotional States of Christine Milne: Euphoric, Boisterous and Sombre.
Is this even funny? I wonder whether Senator Feeney, had in been in the house, would have also voted to keep Peter Slipper as Speaker. I guess so. Is that funny?
Now some of the heavyweights in Labor are calling the end to the name calling (que?), it might just be the case that all this rubbish is not playing well out there in voter land.
Labor started the gender war, Labor lost the gender war, Labor calls for an end to the gender war. “Please let’s move on and talk about something else to do with Tiny Abbott”….
ar
14 Oct 12 at 2:00 pm
they are uncompromising because their voters are expressive voters: more interested in whether their party are trying rather than winning.
Jim Rose
14 Oct 12 at 2:05 pm
So the ALP, after a few days of unilaterally firing verbal Qassam rockets into the opposition benches, find they blow up in their faces, and waving their bloody stumps, now plead for an “end to the war”.
Cuckoo
14 Oct 12 at 2:06 pm
Yawn, misogyneee is just another gambit in the left’s push to criminalise the act of offending them.
Bailleau and Gillard are on board. I fear that welfare state Tony is also.
Alfonso
14 Oct 12 at 2:07 pm
the old circular firing-squad problem.
setting a high moral standard is difficult in a business where people tend to be nasty and mean to each other. Sometimes these (private) insults are rather crude.
Jim Rose
14 Oct 12 at 2:13 pm
Ummm, Judith, a couple of questions. First, how did Alan Jones start the gender war? His comment about the PM’s father dying of shame were tasteless and out of order, but were they sexist? Also, how are the joke photos about Christine Milne sexist? And they aren’t even that offensive. You could just as easily have had a photo of Bob Brown with that idiotic grin on his face, with the same caption. But I suppose that would have been homophobic…
I am just so over all of this. People need to learn how to brush off unfair and offensive criticism and jokes. By giving it oxygen and reacting, you let bullies win.
Skuter
14 Oct 12 at 2:17 pm
Prof. Sloan wrote:
Time to call BS on all this noise about Slipper.
Labor’s lip-service to due process was not about defending Slipper, who was obviously a blunder, a lingering liability and a lost cause. It was about defending the acceptance of Craig Thomson’s vote in order to avoid an early election. Anyone with a longer memory than a fruit fly can work that out. But because the issue ju jour is misogyny, Coalition supporters have to pretend that Labor was defending Slippery Pete.
Gavin R Putland
14 Oct 12 at 2:26 pm
What pisses me off the most about all this stupid sanctimonious bullshit is that it’s hardly as if these criminal morons have their (and the country’s) house in order and so can crap on about these utterly offensive trivialities (and no, I’m not referring to Jones’ statement).
In case you haven’t noticed, you malignant marxist morons – there are far more important issues faced by this country then whether or not that fat stupid criminal usurper is offended.
FFS, get over yourselves.
Rabz
14 Oct 12 at 2:32 pm
Judith needs to stop highlighting Labor’s idiocy and hypocrisy as it upsets the leftist trolls. Speaking of all things trollish, Feeney married to Liberty Sanger who is Turnbull’s admirer. What a cosy little world.
liberty sanger @libertysanger
@TurnbullMalcolm you just keep on giving me reasons to praise you! First rate leadership on Alan Jones issue. Thank you. #Lateline
Gab
14 Oct 12 at 2:42 pm
The ALP was always going to lose the gender wars.
Which party is defending a man who used the union dues of poor women to brothel crawl? Which party installed and then defended an unrepentant sleaze who chose to harass his staff & rort travel allowances?
Going into this “discussion” it was clear which side had a track record and skeletons to hide.
It was only a matter of time.
Token
14 Oct 12 at 2:44 pm
She’s married to Feeney? LOL, Liberty really is on track to achieve all she hoped for.
Token
14 Oct 12 at 2:47 pm
Liberty Sanger, a principal and board member of Maurice Blackburn lawyers. Cosy.
Gab
14 Oct 12 at 2:55 pm
In the Labor movement, it seems, if you’re more than three degrees removed from a principal, you’re obviously a no-body.
dover_beach
14 Oct 12 at 3:00 pm
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The word “misandry” goes mainstream in Oz « David Collard
14 Oct 12 at 3:21 pm
It started with the words ‘there will be no carbon tax under the government I lead’ and continued with words about ‘stop the boats’ whilst cruising Darwin Harbour on a Navy patrol boat.
stackja
14 Oct 12 at 3:39 pm
Interesting statement in the excellent article in Red State that was linked to on the open thread (sorry I don’t recall who did the link).
I guess marrying a political allie saves times for the man.
Token
14 Oct 12 at 3:54 pm
Yes, Skuter. Any time you hurt a woman’s feelings, it’s sexism.
Yobbo
14 Oct 12 at 4:12 pm
Yobbo, I really hope you are being sarcastic…because if you are not, under your criterion, I don’t actually know anyone who isn’t sexist.
Skuter
14 Oct 12 at 5:11 pm
Yobbo, thats how we have ended up with an industry of the serially offended. Stand back to let a woman through a door ahead of you the male, and you have hurt her feelings by being sexist.
Biota
14 Oct 12 at 6:36 pm
Ahahahahahahaha.
Their backroom pollsters have really sent them out this weekend to bury this latest eye-wateringly stenchful Gillard poo as quickly and as creatively as possible.
C.L.
14 Oct 12 at 6:44 pm
Yes it is.
Well I laughed anyway.
jupes
14 Oct 12 at 7:13 pm
Stand back to let a woman through a door ahead of you the male, and you have hurt her feelings by being sexist.
But don’t do it and you’re a misogynist asshole.
There are plenty of situations where this would be the case.
John Mc
14 Oct 12 at 7:16 pm
I think it must be very hard to be a man these days. The only option is a charm offensive while picking your way carefully through it, like Da Hairy Irish Ape does.
How do you manage? I ask, whenever a difficult female ‘gender’ issue arises.
Sure, ’tis only a little tanty de’re havin’ now, he says. ‘Twill all be gone soon.
His cyclical theory of anything female. Solved at home with a smoochy hug; elsewhere with the usual successful blarney. Somehow he gets away with it, keeping calmly above it all. And somehow, they all love him for it.
Just like me.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
14 Oct 12 at 9:50 pm
hahahahahahahahaha! Would love to have been him sitting opposite the Great She in parliament last week when The Great She was delivering her screech. Imagine at the end of her bellowing to have HIA say to her:
If only.
Gab
14 Oct 12 at 9:57 pm
Duh! My ju jour should have been du jour.
Gavin R Putland
14 Oct 12 at 10:04 pm
Skuter I think you nailed it, and most certainly Yobbo was waxing ironic. The cartoons about Milne are sort of funny, but thats beside the point, they can be used to show that under the current thought regime:-
A joke about a leftist female is sexist, the same joke about a homosexual is homophobic, the same joke about a male is hilarious.
I am puzzled however that Judith Sloan seems to think the joke as pushed by Feeney was sexist. Am I misreading this?
Jannie
15 Oct 12 at 11:04 am