It's time to stop the vile vitriol about Prime Minister Julia Gillard

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It's time to stop the vile vitriol about Prime Minister Julia GillardPAUL SYVRET THE COURIER-MAILJUNE 18

LAST week the man likely to be federal treasurer come September fired off, in part, the following Tweet about Prime Minister Julia Gillard: "She has never deserved respect and will never receive it."

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Unlike the personal vilification and denigration of our Prime Minister, however, it is the stuff that tends to stay where it belongs in the nether regions of the blogosphere.

Which is what makes Julia Gillard and the big smear all the more depressing and extraordinary - so much so that it is now making international headlines like this one over the weekend: "Treatment of Julia Gillard shows extent to which sexism is tolerated in Australia".

The sub-head in The Irish Times newspaper reads: "Prime Minister is attacked relentlessly in contemptible, offensive terms".

"It is almost impossible to picture all of the above (abuse) happening in most other modern countries," the newspaper says. "Can you imagine the outcry if, for instance, a political rival had stood in front of signs calling (former Irish politician) Mary Harney a (edited:rhymes with witch)   or if a menu had referred to her genitalia?"

read in full :http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/its-time-to-stop-the-vile-vitriol-about-prime-minister-ju...

don't we look good ?

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Poddster, I think you are even more upset than me about this egotistical person (forget gender) and I am very peed off with her ridiculous rhetoric.

She is asked a question and raves on and on and on about nothing and everytime she changes it around to an attack on the opposition.

I think even WS is getting sick of her ravings, have you seen the bored expression on his face during parliament ? almost asleep.

MP's have been known to fall asleep NS

Indigenous people travelled for three days to get to Canberra to put their case to a Parliamentary committee; Tony Abbott walked in late, didn’t apologise, sat down and then fell asleep. Lavinia Projustice saw it all.

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Fiesta , I think they have said that they are women ?

[newstart2380]

Iza, what you call "vile vitriol" is critisism wher critisism is due.

I'm talking about the crude ,rude, sexual degradation of a female .That is not due any women no matter how much some people may try to excuse it 

When she decided to accept the position of PM and lead the labor party she would have known she would be held accountable and come under criticism same as anyone male or female.

Gender is irrelevant and I am sick of some people using this as an excuse to justify her behaviour.

[the_great_she_elephant]

She has managed to replace Gough Whitlem as the worst prime minister in this country's histort but in doing so she has set the role of women in politics back a few decades.

Interesting - so are we then assume that Gough Whitlanm set the role of MEN in politics back a few decades.

I think you have just exemplified to everyone reading this thread how sexism actually works.

[*mrgrizz*]

yes I agree she should stop talking

[debra9275]

I liked Gough, he ended conscription to the Vietnam war

[izabsmiling]

Things which would have those same harpies screaming blue murder if anyone dared apply it to them.

they would have given up very early in the game I'd say 

[poddster]

Gough set the role of humanity back a decade and increases the strangle hold by unions on the whole of Australia in the name of social equality.

[fiestas*girl]

really Isa??...mmmmm

ok, so who has been missing for some months??? possibly using alternate id in  place of their regular id. a person equally as nasty ....

i have suspected for a while a missing id is not 'missing' at all, some women can hate other women also. female hate is not only the domain of men....

if would have to be someone that has difficulty maintaining female relationships with family, and friends dont last more than a year or so......now i wonder who that could be???mmmm

[***super_nova***]

There will always be that element Iza.... fed by the media it increases the numbers but they will get tired of it, I hope.

Or maybe they will grow up, and start to think for themselves rather than just parroting some sick shock jocks' diatribe........ we can only hope.  🙂