Last Monday Henry Ergas had an op-ed in The Australian that has obviously cut deep. It is the introduction and conclusion that has especially upset some people.
LITTLE Miss Bossy tells everyone what to do. Little Miss Naughty is badly behaved.
And Little Miss Fickle breaks her promises. But no one is as scary as Little Miss Ogyny, especially when she goes on the attack.
Not that she understands the difference between ad hominem and ad nauseam. Nor is she shy of veering into a Little Miss Statement.
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Ever shriller in tone, our Little Miss Ogyny ends the year as she began: howling at the moon. And not even Little Miss Magic can wave her crisis away.
Perhaps it is the word “Little” or “Miss” that is causing the offence? Who knows? As my good friend Chris Berg points out it is the year to be outraged. Here is Tim Dunlop responding to Henry Ergas.
It doesn’t matter how valid the rest of his argument is, what grown-up would take him seriously when he couches the entire piece in the sort of wordplay and name-calling that would make an intelligent 10-year-old wince?
Really? I thought Henry had a wonderful play on words. Indeed given that the whole range of Mr Men Little Miss characters are in the stores right now it is clear that Henry got his inspiration from his Christmas shopping.
So how does their ABC columnist continue?
The article is replete with the giveaway vocabulary of the ignorance-in-plain-sight sexist, including references to “rabid feministas” and “mummy bloggers”.
This is not clever, it is not insightful, it is not a reasonable approach to take even under the broadest interpretation of the truism that everyone is entitled to their opinions.
It is nothing more than the misogynist bile of an emotionally stunted boy-man who, if he ran a blog, instead of a column for an enabling mainstream media organisation, would be unread and unheard of.
Those evil bloggers.
Yet here is Tim Dunlop just two months ago:
But it is odd that we tend to get more upset about incivility than we do about matters of deep political import.
There are so many things we could devote our outrage to – from the political neglect over climate change to the plight of the poor in Australia to kids suffering mandatory, indefinite detention, or, indeed, to Julia Gillard’s own stance on gay marriage – but we don’t. Not really.
Well, at least, Tim finally got the memo. No concentrating on “matters of deep political import” Gillard is the victim here and anyone who says otherwise is a misogynist or worse.
She is responsible for this mess. How can she blame someone else?
I hope she pays.
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21 Dec 12 at 2:42 pm
Come on, you can’t seriously expect a committed lefty caricature to not be a hypocrite, can you?
Notch
21 Dec 12 at 2:42 pm
Well done Henry-and Sinc.
Tom Valentine
21 Dec 12 at 2:44 pm
Tim Dunlop, The Drum, December 2011:
RTWT – if you can stay awake.
C.L.
21 Dec 12 at 2:45 pm
My God. To think that that Australians are banned from owing semi-automatic weapons but Tim Dunlop is allowed to own a word processor. This country is truly buggered up.
Infidel Tiger
21 Dec 12 at 2:48 pm
Word have never directly caused a fatality. Scientific fact.
Dan
21 Dec 12 at 2:51 pm
Words have never directly caused a fatality. Scientific fact.
Dan
21 Dec 12 at 2:52 pm
Let’s invade Poland?
Sinclair Davidson
21 Dec 12 at 2:56 pm
And Miss Ogyny couldn’t even figure out what to say so Mr Ogyny had to write it down for her to recite.
Sad and pathetic.
Chris M
21 Dec 12 at 2:57 pm
“Ready, Aim, Fire!”
“Jump!”
“It’s alcohol free beer, sir”
Infidel Tiger
21 Dec 12 at 3:01 pm
“Yeah, installing pink batts, hey? Sure – where do I sign?”
C.L.
21 Dec 12 at 3:04 pm
Yea, shot down. My point is that, they are only words on a page, or sound made with the mouth. People need to relax
Dan
21 Dec 12 at 3:05 pm
“Harder!”
- Woman to Billy Snedden.
C.L.
21 Dec 12 at 3:05 pm
OK, that wasn’t nice.
C.L.
21 Dec 12 at 3:05 pm
Exactly – people getting annoyed by that need a sense of humour transplant.
Sinclair Davidson
21 Dec 12 at 3:06 pm
‘The American Institute of Doing Good Things for Rich White People.’
Comic Genius!!
Des Deskperson
21 Dec 12 at 3:13 pm
I enjoyed Henry’s column more than any for the whole year. He always has a way with words but he really outdid himself in that one.
Little Miss Ogyny is now in my dictionary.
DavidLeyonhjelm
21 Dec 12 at 3:14 pm
I wonder how it is misogyny to point out the character flaws of a person who happens to be a woman, or that a certain style of female blogger is recognised or that some feminists are a bit full-on about it?
Is it ok to call dunlop a fuckwit, but misandry to call him a fucking stupid bloke?
Pedro
21 Dec 12 at 3:19 pm
He’s an effwit living off tax payer funds to peddle his own views. A right nobody should have.
Dan
21 Dec 12 at 3:29 pm
Thank you Infidel Tiger of 2.48 on 28/12. Summed the whole thing up quite nicely.
HRT
21 Dec 12 at 4:03 pm
Dan – “Yea, shot down. My point is that, they are only words on a page, or sound made with the mouth. People need to relax”
“words”, whether spoken or written, are our strongest weapon – this should be obvious by the way the socialists, or anyone else bent on tyranny, are trying to curtail or eliminate our freedom of speech.
TonyO
21 Dec 12 at 4:06 pm
Such extraordinary gender self-loathing from ABC’s resident Mangina Man, Tim Dunlop.
In a patronising stream of conscious drivel Dunlop – via the public broadcaster – unleashes his ‘Defender of Women’ superhero manifesto in a way that should set off alarm bells amongst all rational X chromosomers.
All that’s missing are the red underpants.
Predictably Dunlop judiciously avoids Gillard championed House Speaker Peter Slipper’s rampant woman-hating mots and conveniently ignores the relentless character attacks on Abbott that have become a hallmark of the Left and their enablers in the media.
Oh sweet irony!
You could harden up too Tim.
Major Elvis Newton
21 Dec 12 at 4:06 pm
“Word have never directly caused a fatality. Scientific fact.”
If you are that certain take a holiday to a major city in Afghanistan or Pakistan and insult the prophet at the top of your lungs…. Make sure you pay the funeral insurance first.
True, only in the hands of people can words cause a fatality, but the same can be said for guns – without anyone to pull the trigger they are safe too.
ugh
21 Dec 12 at 4:21 pm
Right down to her myopic glasses
Myopic
1.Ophthalmology . pertaining to or having myopia; nearsighted.
2.unable or unwilling to act prudently; shortsighted.
3.lacking tolerance or understanding; narrow-minded.
Splatacrobat
21 Dec 12 at 4:34 pm
I quite like Little Miss Take. Works on all kinds of levels. Or maybe Big Miss Take.
Shorten by 1 April?
Bruce
21 Dec 12 at 5:17 pm
Dunlop needs to take a chill-pill. A one-off slightly cheeky approach for an article is not the end of the world and it’s not like Henry employs this tongue-in-cheek playfulness every time.
If Dunlop really wants to attack authors of articles “that would make an intelligent ten year-wince” then I suggest he scrutinize the numerous SMH jejune and vapid pieces of tripe served up daily masquerading as intelligent thought.
Gab
21 Dec 12 at 5:18 pm
When you have children in government it’s only fair to treat them like the juvenile delinquents they are.
Gab
21 Dec 12 at 5:20 pm
I wonder how she will react
http://www.cafepress.com.au/mf/42053952/no-kitchen-in-parliament_sticker
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21 Dec 12 at 5:38 pm
Miss Appropriation ?
Miss Chievous ?
Miss Feasance ?
jumpnmcar
21 Dec 12 at 5:41 pm
The “Little Miss” would’ve caused major offence.
It was funny – so the supporters of Little Miss would be upset.
Giffy
21 Dec 12 at 5:50 pm
Miss Anthropy.
Gab
21 Dec 12 at 5:51 pm
No doubt Dunlop hates the Australian classic, 7 little Australians, the house in the book was named ‘misrule’. What a prat, I thought Ergas’ article was very witty indeed.
nic
21 Dec 12 at 5:57 pm
I think that what hit the nerve, is that there is absolutely no doubt about the person to whom he was referring.
Gutho
21 Dec 12 at 5:59 pm
Miss Govern.!
That’s the winner right there.
jumpnmcar
21 Dec 12 at 6:09 pm
Miss Take? Miss Begotten?
nic
21 Dec 12 at 6:18 pm
Miss Tress.
Gab
21 Dec 12 at 6:19 pm
LOL.
Damn youWell done.jumpnmcar
21 Dec 12 at 6:24 pm
Miss Synthetic
A man made creature of the factions.
Splatacrobat
21 Dec 12 at 6:26 pm
Miss on-the-take?
thefrollickingmole
21 Dec 12 at 6:33 pm
Miss Hapen ?
jumpnmcar
21 Dec 12 at 6:34 pm
Miss Da Meaner.
Gab
21 Dec 12 at 6:37 pm
I’m calling Albanese MR Idangam.
jumpnmcar
21 Dec 12 at 6:41 pm
Miss Wonderful?
on behalf of Steves and MOnty so those lads don’t get upset …
candy
21 Dec 12 at 7:03 pm
Miss Conceived.
Septimus
21 Dec 12 at 7:07 pm
A mridangam and a vuvuzela could make an orchestra! Or more likely a very bad pub band.
Bruce
21 Dec 12 at 7:08 pm
Tim Dunlop would be right at the head of the queue for The Dumb’s hand wringing panty bunchers.
H B Bear
21 Dec 12 at 7:14 pm
Excellent Henri…
Dunlop’s bottom lip pouts wetly in everyday use. I always strain to see if he has a Death to Liberals tattoo on the overhang, in denial as he is at the twilight of the bogan gods.
The mass ABC comrade tantrum after Abbott gets up as PM is a 3 year continuous certainty.
If Abbott takes that continuous shit AGAIN from Their ABC without massive and easy retaliation….. I dunno….
Alfonso
21 Dec 12 at 7:18 pm
Dunlop is complaining? That fucking hypocritical asshat ran a hate site laced with conspiracy theories for years until it became so bad he closed the sewer down.
JC
21 Dec 12 at 7:23 pm
Miss Appropriation of Funds
Tracey
21 Dec 12 at 7:32 pm
Whatever names we might give to Miss Spent, she has gone to ground on the budget matter. Keeping her head down . . . Gutless . . . Stinking . . . Disgusting.
Septimus
21 Dec 12 at 7:56 pm
I’ll pay that one at 5:17 Bruce. The odds are “shortening”. And I have it on good authority that he’s “very ambitious”. Of course, if the Red Queen hears a whisper of that sort it may be “Off with his head!”
blogstrop
21 Dec 12 at 8:38 pm
Hey Tracey, that leads to aline by TA:
Mr Speaker I object, its misappropriate calling me Mr Rabbitt.
Jannie
21 Dec 12 at 10:00 pm
Poor Tim doesn’t get it at all…..the satire is on two levels …there’s the words and then theres the tone ……..the childishness reflects the tone of the government’s performances over the year ……
Gerry
21 Dec 12 at 11:08 pm
Who would be Sir Plus?
Kenny
22 Dec 12 at 1:36 am
She learned the value of keeping an open and respect for others from Dr N Aire.
Toiling Mass
22 Dec 12 at 8:13 am
open mind
Toiling Mass
22 Dec 12 at 8:14 am
OOooh yeah, It’s William Richard Ambitious Shorten. He took Ambitious as his confirmation name.
Tintarella di Luna
22 Dec 12 at 8:28 am
Much mirth could be made of Tony Abbott’s gait. He sways about 15 degrees left to right for every metre moved forward.
juanluissegundo
22 Dec 12 at 9:19 am
An example.
juanluissegundo
22 Dec 12 at 9:19 am
juanluissegundo
22 Dec 12 at 9:20 am
You-tube link down – but watch here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLAu2aY5UgY
juanluissegundo
22 Dec 12 at 9:20 am
http://trololololololololololo.com/
sdog
22 Dec 12 at 9:29 am
Tintarella
Willy Dick Shorten !?!?!
Really ??
WOW, some parents are cruel.
jumpnmcar
22 Dec 12 at 9:32 am
All in the interests of satire. That was Sinc’s point, after all.
juanluissegundo
22 Dec 12 at 9:52 am
Liberation theory? Dude you might be trolling but you cannot be serious.
Oh Lord, please save us from our fat arsed, ill spoken communist oppressor cohabitating the lodge with a cuckhold!
I wonder what she thinks of that!
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22 Dec 12 at 10:03 am