{"id":25,"date":"2014-05-16T11:29:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T01:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mairivoice.femininebyte.org\/?p=25"},"modified":"2014-05-16T11:29:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T01:59:54","slug":"the-c-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mairivoice.femininebyte.org\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"The C&#8230; word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what did Christopher Pyne call Bill Shorten in the Australian Parliament?<br \/>\nWell watch the video and decide for yourself.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2014\/may\/15\/what-did-christopher-pyne-call-bill-shorten?CMP=twt_gu\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2014\/may\/15\/what-did-christopher-pyne-call-bill-shorten?CMP=twt_gu<\/a><br \/>\nBut is this what we would expect from Australian politicians?<br \/>\nAre we surprised by this?<br \/>\nHere are some examples of the Liberal National Coalition when they were faced with a female prime minister in the last parliament.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mr. Abbott: \u201cAre you suggesting to me that when it comes from Julia, \u2018No\u2019 doesn\u2019t mean \u2018No\u2019?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Joe Hockey \u201cWayne Swan is to surpluses what Paris Hilton is to celibacy\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Bill Heffernan [re the PM] \u201cI mean anyone who chooses to remain deliberately barren \u2026\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Convoy of No Confidence with the famous photos of 3 Liberal MPs including Mirabella, Bishop the elder and Tony Abbott, in front of signs \u2013\u201cDitch the witch\u201d \u2013\u201c Bob Brown\u2019s bitch\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mairivoice.femininebyte.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ditch-the-witch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26\" src=\"https:\/\/mairivoice.femininebyte.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ditch-the-witch-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"ditch the witch\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mairivoice.femininebyte.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ditch-the-witch-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mairivoice.femininebyte.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ditch-the-witch.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But this isn\u2019t just about misogyny in the Liberal National Coalition government.<br \/>\nIt reflects the misogyny evident in Australian society.<br \/>\nIt is this kind of disrespect, misogyny and sexist, abusive language which is at the core of male violence against women; rape and sexual assault; harassment and abuse of women.<br \/>\nWhere is the public outrage about this?<\/p>\n<p>Where is the public condemnation of this behavior and blatant sexism?<\/p>\n<p>Why isn\u2019t this major headline in every major media outlet in Australia?<br \/>\nEnough is enough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what did Christopher Pyne call Bill Shorten in the Australian Parliament? Well watch the video and decide for yourself. https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2014\/may\/15\/what-did-christopher-pyne-call-bill-shorten?CMP=twt_gu But is this what we would expect from Australian politicians? Are we surprised by this? Here are some examples of the Liberal National Coalition when they were faced with a female prime minister in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mairivoice.femininebyte.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mairivoice.femininebyte.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mairivoice.femininebyte.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mairivoice.femininebyte.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mairivoice.femininebyte.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mairivoice.femininebyte.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/mairivoice.femininebyte.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mairivoice.femininebyte.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mairivoice.femininebyte.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mairivoice.femininebyte.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}