• The best way to defeat this disgusting attack on Julia Gillard is to support her re-election. If she were to succeed in being re-elected it would send a powerful message to her bigoted detractors. Would certainly put a lot of twisted bitter people back in their proper place. - JohnB
  • I'm a big fan of classical music and rap, maybe it's because i'm from the ipod generation but i don't see why it has to be one or the other. I totally understand not liking rap, but that doesn't mean it has no value. Maybe it's unfair to specifically target Mandy's article, because this is one of many articles reinforce a myopic view of misogyny in music by specifically using rap as an example when it is in all genres, but i felt the readership of the hoopla is intelligent and considered enough to consider my point, which is the double standard when it comes to criticism of misogyny in music. Rap is a genre created by black people and has clear connotations towards it, and this article isn't without context. I realise it was unintentional but it reinforces negative stereotypes about rap, and by extentsion black culture. One doesn't have to mention race for it still to be relevant to the discussion. I am in complete agreement with her otherwise. Anyway I feel i've made my case and it's for others to judge whether i'm right or not. I don't want to continue this because i don't want to diminish the point of this article, which is that we as a society don't take rape a tenth as seriously as we should. That i'm sure is something that you and i can agree on Tony. - Ash
  • Fight, flight or freeze Katie? I froze. I recommend self defence training even if it might complicate your life you know that block, run and scream for help. It did not help me asleep, but I had the moves automatically to resist unlawful use of force when grabbed from behind, notwithstanding what my girlfriend felt at the time.. - ro.watson
  • Tony Windsor stands out like a beacon in Canberra. If the people of New England fail to re-elect this man I will be very surprised. Country people recognize the genuine article when they see it; Peter Andren is the proof of that - he recorded the largest proportion of votes in an election without party affiliation. A good independent will achieve more for an electorate than any party hack will. - JohnB
  • Glad you're on board, Germaine. - Rhoda
  • MicheleS - yes, it is unsafe for people to walk outside their homes late at night and slightly inebriated. So I have a solution - as most of this violence is perpetrated by men, let's put a curfew on all men. They have to be indoors by 10pm every night so women can safely drink some wine and walk the streets. That would work brilliantly. Why are women expected to change their behaviours to cater for *some* men's lack of self control? Let's make men change their behaviour - then the good (majority of) men will put pressure on the others. - Tess
  • This is a classic example of setting the bar higher for women. She's a politician. Of course that involves spinning her message to advantage her position. Why do we think she should be 'above' that? How come when Howard did it, it was taken as a sign of his great political genius? How many other pieces of the standard political toolkit is she expected to operate without? - anon
  • Couldn't agree more! Great piece, Germaine. - Aunty Penny
  • If for NO OTHER REASON (and how many reasons we already have) JUST TO HEAR THE EXASPERATION FROM THE PARROT!!!!Please,please,please let's make her get back in and leave Tony("In your guts ya know he's nuts") Sluggo-boy to concentrate on his work of "raising the tone and being all of us better in Parliament" - brendan
  • Well said Germaine. It's well past time that decent people should speak out against this potential travesty of Ms Gillard's personal and electoral justice. Where are the rest of our moral and social "leaders" on this subject? The silence is deafening. - JohnB
 
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  • JohnB: The best way to defeat this disgusting attack on Julia Gillard is to support her re-election. If she were to succeed in...

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