The gender card again...

[catsnknots]

Sorry to interrupt your no politics idea  but I still find the subject important and want to rant... 

How dare Gillard make abortion an election issue... There is no way that is acceptable and to even suggest that the Coalition will remove your right to one is scare mongering to the max. 

In this modern day time it is incredibly important that we don't use these topics to inflame a false war. 

Even if a person in any party did not like the idea of abortion there is no way that they would get the support to make it illegal. Or limit your access to one... or even make you feel bad for having one. 

So if Gillard wants to launch a campaign called "Labor Women for Gillard" then fine... but don't pull out the gender card and make something out of nothing.. 

And personally I find it sexist to have a women's only group calling for women to support Gillard. 

I have two sons and I also want their future to be positive and not forgotten but it seems that this PM only want to think of the future of women. 

[newstart2380]

"Nah, I am having a little trouble respecting someone who jumped the gun today and shot from the hip before they had any proof as to what they were saying and criticizing. That's a pretty serious thing coming from a lawyer, far less the PM, regardless of gender, considering the magnitude of the situation.

I think the LNP acting with decorum and skill by apologizing for the content of the menu and expressing their distaste for it.

Today, regardless of whether the menu is legitimate or not, it was the LNP who acted in a professional manner, not the leader of our country"

So all you NLP bashers we will accept your apologies so line up and be humble enough to say sorry for accusing Joe Hockey and other LNP members of producing or allowing such a disgraceful document which was not used at the fund raiser.

The PM is a bitter unfulfilled person (forget gender) who is doing exactly what she accused TA and the LNP of doing, she is gender bashing and that just shows how desperate she has become.

[donnashuggy]

They are back peddling, if it wasn't used of course nobody saw it.

Why the apology from Brough then?

Latika Bourke ‏@latikambourke3h

Email re menu claiming no-one else saw it but staff member and fr and son doesn't make sense. When I rang Mal Brough he knew of it.

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[polksaladallie]

yeah, I got the general idea of what a Men's shed is, so what is the female equivalent? There are also women's support groups and women only organizations.

There are none which are free.  Women don't get to escape from their husbands every Thursday morning.

[***super_nova***]

[silverfaun]

Come & get it while it's hot luvvies.

[newstart2380]

Come & get it while it's hot luvvies.

You may need to cut it up into vey small mouthfuls so there is enough to go around and also not choke.

[newstart2380]

#163

Please explain any times that TA has dealt out the gender card, be honest and factual.

No made up stories, no second hand accusations just plain first hand knowledge.

Look forward to your first hand accounts.

[***super_nova***]

Surgery is a desperate measure for keeping weight under control.

And often it does not work because the person will find a way around it.  I know people who lost the weight after the op, but 10 years down the track they are even bigger, and have a whole array of problems caused by the op, on top of all the other problems caused by their obesity.  They cannot eat all sorts of stuff, but it does not stop them from having 5 teaspoons of sugar in their coffee, and have a cuppa 20x a day.

Yes, I know all about metabolism; I put weight on just looking at the cake shop window, so I do not.  I can imagine it is hard for people who crave food and are all day long bombarded with ads for junk food & snacks. 

[izabsmiling]

#163

Please explain any times that TA has dealt out the gender card, be honest and factual.

No made up stories, no second hand accusations just plain first hand knowledge.

Look forward to your first hand accounts.

I'll make a start .Tony Abbott quotes on women

 ‘The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.’

I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons’

I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak’

 ‘What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up, every year…’

[***super_nova***]

#163

Please explain any times that TA has dealt out the gender card,

These quotes are well documented, I am sure you find them somewhere on U-tube:

1 - ‘The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.’

2.  ‘I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons’

3. ‘I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak’

4.  ‘What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up, every year…’