Australian Labor PM on Tory misogyny - Julia Gillard

[youngian]

Julie Gillard, You go girl-

 

[Treacle Toes]

Arse handed on a plate.

 

[Fez909]

Impressive. You can tell by his face he's thinking, "she's got me good here and there's fuck all I can do."

 

[ChrisD]

also listen to
0742 on BBC Today programme (Thursday 11th)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01n6s01/
at 1 hr 44:43
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's attack on the "misogyny" of the leader of the opposition has gone viral. Kathy Lette, bestselling Australian author, outlines why the video has attracted hundreds of thousands of views.
I like at 1: 47 where Kathy Lette points out Cameron's misogynistic attitudes too...

 

[yardbird]

I didn't expect to watch fifteen minutes, because normally I wouldn't bother, but my word I was captivated
by Gillard - she had him by the balls!

 

[Balbi]

She's in an arse of a hole though, with the speakers actions. Her government's looking shaky. It's a cracking rip through of the history of sexism and misogyny aimed at her, but it feels like she's wheeled it out only under extreme pressure. As if playing the feminism/misogyny/sexism card is a last resort because she felt that it would allow her to be characterised as a bra burning feminazi by what, I understand (which may be wrong), is a society with a lot more ouvert sexism and misogyny.

Still, as oratory - it's gorgeous.

 

[yardbird]

I thought that being caught looking at his watch demonstrates the man he is.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

He looked so self-assured and smug to begin with...it was great watching his façade crumble. By the end his face was a picture. His whole posture was that of a defeated man.....and that was long before the whole thing went viral and he realised that Australian women are not actually a marginal group who'd rather do ironing than bother their heads about what he might say about women.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

In years to come, he'll be remembered for that day.

 

[Balbi]

Castigated by women for being sexist, by sexists for being emasculated so efficiently by a woman

 

[Firky]

He's got a head you want to kick.

 

[cesare]

I watched all of that! She speaks well, doesn't she.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Her delivery was spot on here and she indeed achieved taking him down a peg or two, calling him on his own misogyny and his double standards.

I don't know much about this lady though and can't help thinking that I have read some very negative stuff about her at some point. Not for being a woman, more to do with her policies.

Anyone know more about her? Can you provide a summary of what you know?

 

[Balbi]

She's running a minority government, making unpopular and often contrary decisions. Embattled would describe her accurately.

 

[butchersapron]

Neo liberal scum would be better.

 

[butchersapron]

**

 

[Balbi]

Well yes, there's always recourse to calling someone scum.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

"Thwack" straight into his smug face.

 

[hipipol]

Brilliant
They've stopped shooting "Abo's" for fun, congrats
Hear some daft daft Ozzy dumb bag on the radio as I type blaming the UK for in some way causing this !
Fuck off sunshine. your daft culture is your fucking own
Stop whining you shit holes
Oz, your disgrace is your own
Accept it

 

[bendeus]

Brilliant
They've stopped shooting "Abo's" for fun, congrats
Hear some daft daft Ozzy dumb bag on the radio as I type blaming the UK for in some way causing this !
Fuck off sunshine. your daft culture is your fucking own
Stop whining you shit holes
Oz, your disgrace is your own
Accept it

Can't decide whether to read this as a poem or the rantings of a madman.

 

[bendeus]

They breed 'em tough in Barry

 

[treelover]

Her delivery was spot on here and she indeed achieved taking him down a peg or two, calling him on his own misogyny and his double standards.

I don't know much about this lady though and can't help thinking that I have read some very negative stuff about her at some point. Not for being a woman, more to do with her policies.

Anyone know more about her? Can you provide a summary of what you know?

She is very pro US/Blairite welfare reform, i think she has robustly promoted the electronic benefits card for ''indigenous Australians''

 

[treelover]

They breed 'em tough in Barry

I think she is form the Wirral...

 

[Quartz]

I just thought it was one politician ranting on at another and stopped watching after a few minutes. She's not a patch on Skinner or Benn or Hague

 

[Treacle Toes]

She is very pro US/Blairite welfare reform, i think she has robustly promoted the electronic benefits card for ''indigenous Australians''

Ah, now I remember!

 

[bendeus]

I think she is form the Wirral...

Nope. She's a leek-guzzling Taffy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Gillard

 

[ViolentPanda]

Julie Gillard, You go girl-

Not a Gillard fan, she's a bit too "Tony Blair in female form" for me. Good piece of oratory, though, although her political views mean that things will only get better if sexual equality can be made a profit from.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Nope. She's a leek-guzzling Taffy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Gillard

You do realise how stereotyping te whole leek-sucking thing is, don't you?







You should have said "daffodil-molesting Taffy" instead!

 

[ViolentPanda]

Well yes, there's always recourse to calling someone scum.

If you judge her solely on her deeds, she's a neolib par excellence, and an accomplished coup plotter too.

 

[sihhi]

In years to come, he'll be remembered for that day.

He could win the next general election Mrs M.