Here in Australia there’s been a lot of talk about how former Labor leader Mark Latham did a spot as a reporter last Sunday night. He was almost universally derided for the segment.
However, I thought Latham’s Sixty Minutes gig wasn’t all bad.
Here’s a very lively debate between two Australian women diametrically opposed politically. They represent the Australian Sex Party and Family First, respectively.
It’s feisty, fast-paced and very entertaining. This is what you have in an open, democratic society in which women are free to express themselves and pursue their ideals.
Amazing that feminists still complain that women are oppressed by some mysterious patriarchy in the western world, yet are largely silent when it comes to the treatment of women in Islamic societies.
Would anything like what you see in this video ever be possible in, say, Afghanistan under the Taliban?
My jaw nearly hit the floor when I heard that Kristy Fraser-Kirk was suing David Jones for a massive $37 million because she was allegedly sexually harassed by the company’s former CEO.
Rather than highlight the problem the astronomical claim trivializes it, in my opinion. While she may have gone through some unpleasantness it was pretty mild in comparison to what is described in other sexual harassment cases, and a lot less severe than the suffering of rape victims. Needless to say these victims never ask for such massive compensation, let alone win it.
It looked like Ms Fraser-Kirk was desperately trying to draw attention to herself more than anything else. Just a publicity stunt, really.
Here’s a good Miranda Devine article in which she makes a similar point, and others.
