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Mummy bloggers (2)

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One of these is not a mummy (blogger). According to Australian Women’s Agenda, Julia Gillard has met with the mummy blogger crowd quite frequently. Maybe Julia can try mummy blogging as her next job?

Written by Samuel J

March 11th, 2013 at 1:02 am

Posted in Federal Politics,SJ

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  1. You’ve got to give Gillard some credit. I didn’t think there was anyone who wanted to be associated with this odious woman. Well done McSporran.

    H B Bear

    11 Mar 13 at 1:11 am

  2. ‘Look at us – we’re girls and we’re in The Lodge!’

    C.L.

    11 Mar 13 at 1:16 am

  3. That photo and the circumstances is further clear evidence that it is a really bad idea giving a job of consequence to a wimminses because she is that. A mindless, stupid idea.

    Mick Gold Coast QLD

    11 Mar 13 at 1:21 am

  4. And we’re not very diverse either.

    Fisky

    11 Mar 13 at 1:21 am

  5. Good to see gillard suck up to the “popular” crowd. Hell, never mind the workers in western Sydeney. The unwashed masses. No, those people were not good enough to meet the PM, only handpicked Labor supporters were graced by duckbum’s magnificent presence (must’ve taken the advance party weeks to find some Labor voters out west). Never mind, the rest of us will just quietly bide out time and vote this ridiculous excuse for a PM out.

    Gab

    11 Mar 13 at 1:22 am

  6. Every single woman in that photo, except perhaps one, is white. That is totally unrepresentative of Australia, and the organizer of that gathering should have been arrested for discrimination.

    Fisky

    11 Mar 13 at 1:23 am

  7. True, Fisky not even a gratuitous Muslim in portable post box.

    Gab

    11 Mar 13 at 1:25 am

  8. It’s disgusting. A racist white power event posing as women’s liberation.

    Fisky

    11 Mar 13 at 1:27 am

  9. “Every single woman in that photo, except perhaps one, is white.”

    I guess some of them might be Aboriginal, then.

    “it is a really bad idea giving a job of consequence to a wimminses”

    Is a wimminses different to a woman?

    Jarrah

    11 Mar 13 at 1:28 am

  10. Now, now. For all we know some could have been Aboriginal females.

    Gab

    11 Mar 13 at 1:28 am

  11. Just beat you to it, Gab.

    Jarrah

    11 Mar 13 at 1:30 am

  12. I guess some of them might be Aboriginal, then.

    No, it is an all-white event. I can’t believe in this day and age that a progressive Prime Minister would still be advocating racial purity.

    Fisky

    11 Mar 13 at 1:32 am

  13. Hilarious banner:

    Australian Women’s Agenda,

    Hello? 1950s calling.

    Gab

    11 Mar 13 at 1:32 am

  14. Hello? 1950s calling.

    Truly! I have never read anything so archaic in my life.

    Fisky

    11 Mar 13 at 1:34 am

  15. ‘Look at us – we’re girls and we’re in The Lodge!’

    I’ll pass on my observation over years in business and professional life of the grand irony surrounding that crew – they pursue only the wealthy and successful men, obsessively and continuously; they then boast to each other just how wealthy and successful they are, both loudly and subtly all the time – all the time, comparing and judging each other; ostentatious material adornments are a fundamental pre-requisite to life its very self; anything done for other than self (a rare thing) is performed conspicuously, in a self congratulatory manner; mob mentality rules – they instinctively perform a check on what is the popular view before adopting a position; they hunt only in packs; and they reserve their most evil and destructive efforts for each other.

    I think that last bit is just grand, and pretty to watch – I’ve seen them in action and they are simply unscrupulous when turning on each other.

    Mick Gold Coast QLD

    11 Mar 13 at 1:45 am

  16. Don’t be unfair to the 1950s.

    That was a far more liberty-cherishing, freewheeling era than today.

    It was also the era wherein the Menzies government began the process of abolishing the White Australia Policy – much to the aggressive disgust of the ALP (one of the world’s most viciously racist political parties).

    C.L.

    11 Mar 13 at 1:45 am

  17. It’s a good point, though.

    Why does Gillard dislike blacks?

    C.L.

    11 Mar 13 at 1:46 am

  18. That was a far more liberty-cherishing, freewheeling era than today.

    No, you are absolutely on the mark. Nowadays you can be arrested for anything. In fact, there is probably a law against organizing a racially-exclusive cocktail party, rather like the one in the photo.

    Fisky

    11 Mar 13 at 1:53 am

  19. Funny how Bess Price was not invited, despite her being a mother. That in itself is proof of deliberate racial exclusion. Gillard should be arrested for hate speech along with spin doctor McHaggis.

    Fisky

    11 Mar 13 at 1:55 am

  20. There is a certain type of glasses that denotes membership of the left elite.

    Samuel J

    11 Mar 13 at 2:14 am

  21. They’re not as monocultural as all that- there’s a token Asian, and the Gaydar suggests that there are at least two lipstick lezzos in the assembled coven.

    Cold-Hands

    11 Mar 13 at 2:40 am

  22. I’m tipping Angela Priestley (whose blog SJ links to) is the only one among the commo tartery to think out loud: “I hope I can also be part of Tony Abbott’s strategy for talking to women in the lead-up to the next federal election.” If you open your legs for one side of politics, you’ll have trouble gaining access to the other side, especially when the other side is run by a six-foot Amazon named Peta.

    Tom

    11 Mar 13 at 5:01 am

  23. There are at least two mini-me’s in this group. One even boasts on her site of dying her hair to get Julia’s colour. These are grown women, right? Not teenagers with a crush?

    Roger

    11 Mar 13 at 7:55 am

  24. It’s the Ladies Who Lunch.
    You’ll find a representative sample daily at a favoured caff, a few doors up from Kevni’s Church of the Holy Doorstop, singing their middle-class-nothing-to-be-blue-about blues.

    lotocoti

    11 Mar 13 at 8:04 am

  25. There are at least two mini-me’s in this group. One even boasts on her site of dying her hair to get Julia’s colour. These are grown women, right? Not teenagers with a crush?

    Reality check required in aisle 14, reality check…

    Token

    11 Mar 13 at 8:15 am

  26. Funny how Bess Price was not invited, despite her being a mother.

    That’s not racist, Fisky. It’s bloggist.

    Bess Price is out working for her people’s benefit and not blogging. It’s got nothing to do with skin colour at all.

    nilk

    11 Mar 13 at 8:19 am

  27. White men can’t jump, but their wimmins can type.

    Splatacrobat

    11 Mar 13 at 8:26 am

  28. Is that Fran Barlow on the far left in the red jacket?

    She’s HOT

    Forester

    11 Mar 13 at 9:13 am

  29. I’m with Mick of Gold Coast.

    Steve at the Pub

    11 Mar 13 at 9:16 am

  30. Hello? 1950s calling

    C’mon you guys are a bit mean I think. They just want to be mummies I understand? And some are quite sweet looking to my eye (i.e. the least Gillard looking essentially).

    Chris M

    11 Mar 13 at 9:17 am

  31. Obviously a 1950′s meeting of the Minnie Mouse Club to raise funds for rampant lateral cervical scoliosis enough to put R III’s lower curvature well in the shade.

    James of the Glens

    11 Mar 13 at 9:28 am

  32. They just want to be mummies I understand? And some are quite sweet looking to my eye

    I have not read the blogs too deeply, but on a number of the entries I read, they seemed to cross the line of promtion without disclosure in a way that smells like the “cash for comments” scandal.

    Token

    11 Mar 13 at 9:32 am

  33. Wonder if organisers sought out any single mummy blogger? Know they exist, but perhaps their stories not on ‘modern family’ message.
    PR Practitioner

    Colleen Sheen

    11 Mar 13 at 9:33 am

  34. You’ve hit the nail on the head Token.
    Mummy blogging is the most lucrative genre. They are pretty much one long advertorial, interspersed with a few flouncey homespun stories to muddy the water a little.
    Disclosure level is usually zero.
    Some of the better ones overseas are making $1 million per year, or more, out of their “from the kitchen table” blog.

    Steve at the Pub

    11 Mar 13 at 9:37 am

  35. @James of the Glens
    How’s that referral to ANZMI working out for you?
    Do tell……..

    1735099

    11 Mar 13 at 9:47 am

  36. How’s that referral to ANZMI working out for you?
    Do tell……..

    I don’t understand. What does that have to do with the topic of this thread?

    Gab

    11 Mar 13 at 9:51 am

  37. Lying Ranger’s new workplace flexibility decree makes sense now. It will allow these vacuous moral supremacist women to take up senior grade public service jobs whilst still generating advertising income from their Fabian propaganda.

    Agree it would be a most suitable vocation for Juliar post votergeddon, subject to her being granted computer privileges at DPFC.

    Empire Strikes Back

    11 Mar 13 at 9:51 am

  38. in a portable post box

    That’s rolled gold Gab. LOL

    Popular Front

    11 Mar 13 at 9:54 am

  39. Digital Dude is back again, on another thread, with another ‘me, me, me.’comments.
    Your Cease and desist request is needed now!

    Winston Smith

    11 Mar 13 at 10:05 am

  40. Don’t worry about your questions, Numbers, worry about your answers, sirrah.

    James of the Glens

    11 Mar 13 at 10:09 am

  41. Mick, your summation is correct.

    “and they reserve their most evil and destructive efforts for each other.”

    This came up at a staff meeting in a small hospital I was running. After pointing out that the problem was one of their own making, and all they had to do to stop the infighting and bitchiness, was act like adults.
    The fact that I laughed out loud at the women concerned, didn’t help much.
    It’s the dominance game and most women are addicted to it, no matter what the personal cost to themselves and others.

    Winston Smith

    11 Mar 13 at 10:14 am

  42. That photo and the circumstances is further clear evidence that it is a really bad idea giving a job of consequence to a wimminses because she is that.

    Nonsense. Maggie, possibly one of the great leaders of the 20th C.

    Golda Meir?

    These were gals with serious sets of cahoonas.

    JC

    11 Mar 13 at 10:48 am

  43. There is a certain type of glasses that denotes membership of the left elite.

    Lol… You picked that up too. I’ve had a hunch that was the case. You can spot them a mile off.

    JC

    11 Mar 13 at 10:50 am

  44. We can infer that their husbands are either terrible pasty white beta males, or corporate high flyers always found on a golf course or in bed with 20 year old blonde chicky babe.

    Dan

    11 Mar 13 at 10:59 am

  45. Dan

    I’d be going with the former. Just a hunch. :-)

    JC

    11 Mar 13 at 11:01 am

  46. What’s with the live action glamour shot? i.e. the wind-swept look

    Gee, I wonder why it’s hard to take them seriously!

    Luke

    11 Mar 13 at 11:08 am

  47. I’m guessing the daddy in most of those mummyz lives was a turkey blaster.

    Infidel Tiger

    11 Mar 13 at 11:08 am

  48. Mummy bloggers,what a stupid name

    Tal

    11 Mar 13 at 11:15 am

  49. A bunch of women desperately seeking self-affirmation that they are doing a good job at something important and worthwhile.

    Without even meeting that red headed woman in the stupid glasses (no – the other one) you just know she is a vacuous, self-important pain in the arse.

    H B Bear

    11 Mar 13 at 11:23 am

  50. Do you reckon it could have been intended as a group-shot of clients of “Vision Australia”, and she has just snuck into the shot before they realised she was there?

    Up The Workers!

    11 Mar 13 at 11:35 am

  51. I’m guessing the daddy in most of those mummyz lives was a turkey blaster.

    Wow, where can I get me one o’ them turkey blasters? They sound like fun.

    cuckoo

    11 Mar 13 at 11:36 am

  52. That photo and the circumstances is further clear evidence that it is a really bad idea giving a job of consequence to a wimminses because she is that.

    Nonsense. Maggie, possibly one of the great leaders of the 20th C.

    Golda Meir?

    These were gals with serious sets of cahoonas.

    Ah, but they earned their positions and authority. They didn’t type “lookatmelookatmelookatmeIAMWOMAN” on a blog, they just got on with the job.

    nilk

    11 Mar 13 at 12:20 pm

  53. Amazing that none of them had anywhere they had to be all day.

    C.L.

    11 Mar 13 at 12:24 pm

  54. Looks to me like someone with a “man problem”.

    vlad

    11 Mar 13 at 12:37 pm

  55. Amazing that none of them had anywhere they had to be all day.

    That’s what nannies are for.

    cuckoo

    11 Mar 13 at 12:38 pm

  56. II have a loose association with mummy bloggers via my previous job. Thank god I have a new job where I don’t have to deal with them regularly anymore.

    In Australia, you don’t have to declare if you receive goods and services in return for opinion. These mummy bloggers look fat and healthy because they eat on the PRs’ checking account or – in Juliar’s case – on our taxes.

    They are the John Laws of their industry. They will shill for whoever, wherever and whenever so long as there is a feed and a swag bag. The hypocrisy is that their blogs often opine the lack of civility and integrity in society.

    As I posted on Michael Smith’s website, the scary thing is these creatures breed miniature feeder versions of themselves.

    JaneS

    11 Mar 13 at 1:22 pm

  57. “Nonsense. Maggie, possibly one of the great leaders of the 20th C.

    Golda Meir?”

    Not nonsense JC, read what I wrote, then read nilk at 12:20pm – he understood it.

    I’ve commented at Catallaxy several times about the exceptional capabilities and leadership of Thatcher, Meir (she was a beauty), Indira Ghandi and the courageous Cory Aquino (Marcos’ lot assassinated her senator husband, Aquino saw Marcos off in an election a couple of years later and he had to flee the country. Her son also later became President).

    Mick Gold Coast QLD

    11 Mar 13 at 9:10 pm

  58. “Every single woman in that photo, except perhaps one, is white.”

    I guess some of them might be Aboriginal, then.

    HATE SPEECH! I FELT THREATENED!

    wreckage

    11 Mar 13 at 10:34 pm

  59. They’re parents. Parents come in female and male varieties.

    Like we’d ever see a Daddy Parent type event. Perhaps DOCS would round up some ‘dead-beat dads’ and make a show of them.

    Harold

    12 Mar 13 at 1:15 pm

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