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It's like everything Labor does.
A bloody mess.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...s_for_one_good_man_to_consult_his_dictionary/
Misogyny, to me, is a - in the language which I understand it to have been used most recently is a view that there are some people who have a prejudice about women in certain occupations and they have an unexamined view in their own head about the status of women and the equality of women to do a whole range of things…
What ever it takes.
Changing the dictionary - easy.
Stupid for Gillard to call Abbott a misogynist, doesnt ring true to me.
Shame on the Maquarie.Interestingly, I heard on the radio this morning that the Macquarie Dictionary, as a result of the current social discourse, is going to update its definition of misogyny. A spokeswoman for the dictionary said that its meaning in usage for the past twenty years or so has diverged from the traditional definition of hating women. Heard it on Radio National.
Indeed. They should keep out of partisan politics.Shame on the Maquarie.
The Macquarie Dictionary has announced it is broadening the definition of the word "misogyny".
As it stands, the reference book says misogyny is a hatred of women, the kind that's pathological.
But editor Sue Butler says it's time that changed to reflect what Ms Gillard really meant last week when she accused Opposition Leader Tony Abbott of sexism and misogyny during a speech to parliament.
It was the same tired, trite question as Emma Alberici asked Tanya Plibersek the previous night. That Leigh Sales asked Penny Wong.
Yes, over the past couple of days ”” ever since Julia Gillard flayed Abbott for his undeniable sexism ”” even the sober types at the ABC were singing from the same song sheet as the right wing claquers like Piers Akerman, Andrew Bolt and Paul Sheehan. Or, more correctly reciting from the same page of an abridged dictionary.
And all of them equally inane. For the English language is a far more nimble and subtle thing than much of Australia’s political commentary this week.
Don’t take my word for it; take the Oxford English dictionary, and New York Times writer on language, the late William Safire.
Safire, incidentally, was no leftie. He was, as well as being a peerless authority on the language, a right-wing columnist and former staffer for both Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew.
But just over four years ago, Safire flew to the defence of Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, when she complained of misogyny during her primary campaign against Barack Obama.
Here’s what Safire wrote:
“Senator Hillary Clinton used a word recently that has been changing its meaning. In charging that she has been treated more harshly in the media because of her gender than Senator Barack Obama has been treated because of his race, she said, ‘It does seem as though the press at least is not as bothered by the incredible vitriol that has been engendered by comments and reactions of people who are nothing but misogynists.’
Worth a read
Word Of The Day
By Mike Seccombe
http://www.theglobalmail.org/blog/word-of-the-day/421/
OK
So we render the word "sexist" redundant by making sexism "misogyny".
Fine.
So what then do we use for wha used to be referred to as misogyny?
Pffffft ridiculous.
On a number of occasions her comments both inside and outside of parliament have attracted controversy. In 2008, Sophie Mirabella stated in parliament to Julia Gillard, who is childless, "You won't need his (ex-PM Kevin Rudd) taxpayer-funded nanny, will you?"[25] The following day a comment to Mirabella from Belinda Neal, former Labor MP for Robertson, ignited controversy when she made attacks on Sophie Mirabella's unborn child. Neal stated that "Your child will turn into a demon if you have such evil thoughts. You'll make your child a demon, you'll make your child a demon. Evil thoughts will make your child a demon."[
This will be what you're thinking of, Miss Hale. It was Belinda Neale, not Tanya Plibersek.
from Wikipaedia:
Sophie Mirabella has imo brought much upon herself. She has handed out her share of insults and silly comments.
The Libs would be the better for replacing her on the shadow front bench with e.g. Kelly O'Dwyer.
Of course it is.To hear Gillard say in her now infamous misogyny speech that she had to endure misogyny and sexism every day from Tony Abbott was just sick making because it's simply not true. Every day? What utter rubbish.
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