Australia has just sworn in their first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. She has taken over leadership of the Labor party after they decided that the current PM would cost them the election. She was once accused of being “deliberately barren” by her political opposition. I’m not sure why this was a concern of his. Whether or ...
Has anyone noticed that most of the really successful women leaders are conservatives? If you look at the short history of women in politics, you find a lot of broken dreams, a few assassin’s bullets and even fewer healthy governments. And the most successful of all has to be Margaret Thatcher.
The Other Man
A weather-beaten eye cast over the media: HatManJim looks at a story in the headlines and as a feminist with a penis (Menimist? Femi-meni-mist? I just believe i n women’s rights, I’m not having gender-reassignment. OK?), attempts to map the sexism inherent in the press, without inadvertently saying anything lecherous about breasts.
A weather-beaten eye cast over the media: HatManJim looks at a story in the headlines and as a feminist with a penis (Menimist? Femi-meni-mist? I just believe i n women’s rights, I’m not having gender-reassignment. OK?), attempts to map the sexism inherent in the press, without inadvertently saying anything lecherous about breasts.
A weather-beaten eye cast over the media: HatManJim looks at a story in the headlines and as a feminist with a penis (Menimist? Femi-meni-mist? I just believe i n women’s rights, I’m not having gender-reassignment. OK?), attempts to map the sexism inherent in the press, without inadvertently saying anything lecherous about breasts.
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