Prime Minister Julia Gillard can't hide behind a skirt

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Why nice men have turned off Gillard and her sexists

NO, LADIES, the Prime Minister isn't in strife because she's the victim of men being sexists. She's the victim of women shouting "sexists" instead.

That's why so many men turned from Julia Gillard in disgust last week. It wasn't just because they were offended to be called sexists for concluding their Prime Minister was, on the evidence, incompetent, divisive and deceitful.

It was also because they were infuriated by a tiresome hypocrisy.

There was Gillard giving a sexist speech - telling women to vote against "men in blue ties" - but then whingeing about a sexist menu which crudely lampooned her.

Line crossed. A Nielsen poll this week showed a quarter of Labor's remaining male supporters gave up on Gillard. Only 24 per cent of men now back Labor, compared with 34 per cent of women.

No wonder. This was the kind of stuff men have copped too long - hypocrites demanding a fair go for women while giving men none

Even this week, Gillard ally Nicola Roxon still hadn't learned that lesson.

First the sanctimonious former attorney-general complained: "(Gillard) has been subjected to some of the most crass, silly, petty, sexist and just plain rude behaviour for years."

But in that same speech she boasted of her own sexist baiting of Opposition Leader Tony Abbott - how she'd accused him in Parliament of being weak, before holding up golf balls and leering: "I am prepared to offer him some balls."

Do Gillard's team know how such stuff grates on men? Do they realise many men would privately think, "But if I did that to a woman, my God ... "

Yes, here was another Labor woman playing the gender card not to get a fair deal, but an edge.

Men know there's a certain tribe of women hyper-alert to any insult to a female politician, but deaf to the same insults to a male

Take Age writer Stephanie Peatling, who asked whether any male leader had suffered the intrusive questioning Gillard got last week from the clown broadcaster who asked if her partner was gay.

"Was (former prime minister John) Howard ever asked about the intimate details of his marriage?" she fumed.

Er, yes. In 1998 Howard had to deny rumours he'd had an affair with the then sex discrimination commissioner - rumours which former Labor leader Mark Latham referred to again in 2005.

Worse, Labor speech writer Bob Ellis published defamatory claims about the sex lives of Abbott and former Liberal treasurer Peter Costello for which he was successfully sued.

Costello then had the Melbourne Theatre Company stage a play depicting him as a murderer, his wife a fool and his son a junkie. Nothing done to Gillard seems worse than what is done to Liberal men.

The difference is in the media outrage.

ABC commentators were (rightly) furious when children threw sandwiches at Gillard.

But when an anti-war protester threw his shoes at Howard on the set of Q&A, the ABC happily auctioned them off for a charity in Iraq. Snigger: for victims of Howard's war.

Again, the media said nothing when Labor 's national president, Carmen Lawrence, endorsed a Rock Against Howard CD with tracks including John Howard is a Filthy S-- lut and Gun Him Down and lyrics such as: "Kick him 'til he's dead."

But men reading this know if Abbott endorsed a CD attacking Gillard like that he'd be dead himself.

MEN rarely complain about these double standards. Too wussy. But to then be called sexists by sexist women ... enough!

Truth is, few men mark down Gillard for being a woman.

Newspoll detected only a small gender gap in Labor's vote at the 2010 election - 34 per cent of male voters, to 38 per cent of female - and even some of Gillard's toughest male critics today admired her early on.

Broadcaster Alan Jones, now painted as a sexist monster, campaigned to have her replace Kevin Rudd.

I called her "warm" and "pragmatic" and even suggested - forgive me - she could have a touch of Margaret Thatcher, a female leader I admire.

Have men who once backed Gillard suddenly become sexists now they don't?

Or is the truth that Gillard failed as Prime Minister and now hides behind a skirt?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/prime-minister-julia-gillard-cant-hide-behind-a-skirt/story-fni0ffxg-1226666505054

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Labor has its scapegoat:

A comparison of Age/Nielsen polls in the 2010 campaign with those in the first half of 2013 shows Ms Gillard’s net approval rating has slumped by a massive 33 percentage points.

This implies a 16 per cent swing against Ms Gillard as prime minister, compared with a 6 per cent swing against Labor. Labor is now polling better than its leader.

Yes, men have turned away from a woman they once narrowly endorsed, the sexists.

But what of the two demographics Gillard has particularly courted by snuggling up to Kyle Sandilands, yukking it up on The Project and showing her wounds to Women for Gillard?

Surely the young and the female have… Oh, wait:

The biggest shift has been among young voters.

In 2010, people aged 25 to 39 were one of her core support groups, giving her a 56-34 approval rating.

Two-and-a-half years later, they have become deeply hostile to her. Only 39 per cent now approve of her, while 57 per cent disapprove…

Ms Gillard has cultivated female voters as a core support group. But the poll shows that while she had overwhelming support from 2010, with a 55-36 approval rating, they too now reject her.

Now 54 per cent of women disapprove of her leadership, while just 41 per cent approve.

What are these women? Misogynists?

[izabsmiling]

nor hide behind a headscarf ..

is she like an uncovered piece of meat in your opinion NW ?

[i-need-a-martini]

Why do you keep responding iza.

Why make it possible to keep these threads at the tops of the pages?

Why ask the OP for an opinion when you know she won't provide one?

Why respond and then wait like sitting duck for the others to come in to abuse you?

?:|

[poddster]

I feel that the reason she is being rejected by both male and female voters is because she has no redeeming features whatever. Nothing to do with gender.

[silverfaun]

Any right thinking person can read what all media are now publishing about what Gillard has done to Labor.

It beggars belief that her caucus are still not moving against this most divisive PM this country has ever had.

The politics of sexism, gender, envy, & using the disabled & children to push her monstrously expensive policies that may never come to fruition is blatant.

She has polarised this country to an extent that the toxicity has permeated all walks of life, people in malls now scoff & deride her & her failed government if it's brought up, checkout people, taxi drivers, road workers, wait staff.

This division can be likened to Hollywood stars not game to say they are Republican because Democrats run Hollywood but the opposite is in fact in play here in Australia.

Labor supporters are running away from Labor, they don't want to be associated with this poisonous failure, they deny  Labor.

The Gillar/Rudd failure will take Labor to a place only nightmares are made of. The abyss they are facing, the destruction of their creed, the loss of hope is what they have visited on their faithful.

[silverfaun]

nor hide behind a headscarf ..

is she like an uncovered piece of meat in your opinion NW ?

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Martini wrote: Why do you keep responding iza.

Why make it possible to keep these threads at the tops of the pages?

Why ask the OP for an opinion when you know she won't provide one?

Why respond and then wait like sitting duck for the others to come in to abuse you?

 Iza,  have you disobeyed. 😉 have you broken the law of the Gin drinker?

[poddster]

😄 Elm street,Timbuctoo?]:)

[nero_bolt]

Why do you keep responding iza.

Why make it possible to keep these threads at the tops of the pages?

Why ask the OP for an opinion when you know she won't provide one?

Why respond and then wait like sitting duck for the others to come in to abuse you?

?:|

[poddster]

Prime Minister Julia Gillard can't hide behind a skirt

A wide bottomed tent might do the trick 🙂