A few minutes ago, Australia got its first female Prime Minister. Never did I think I’d live to see this day in the land that feminism forget, the land where women earn 83% of what men earn …
Overnight, a surprise challenge was brought on to oust Kevin Rudd, the man elected by Australian voters to lead Australia only two and a half years ago. And this morning, in a Caucus meeting, his Deputy, Julia Gillard was installed as Prime Minister.
This is stunning. It’s a total surprise to this Rudd voter at least. There is no precedent for ousting a first-term Prime Minister. And that a woman should become Prime Minister, a woman who’s never been married and has no children, who was once taunted by the Cro-Magnon, Bill Heffernan, for being “barren”, is gobsmacking.
What a red letter day it’s going to be watching our first female Prime Minister being sworn in by Quentin Bryce, our first female Governor-General.
After this, truly anything is possible …
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Image: Julia Gillard, photograph by Glen McCurtayne for The Sydney Morning Herald (top); Quentin Bryce and grandchildren, photograph by Paul Harris for The Brisbane Times (bottom)
This is a momentus day. I for one will be watching with baited breath to see how the feminists will reform their inevitable victimology, now.
Since you seem to be all about the gaps, I was wondering how many gaps you’re interested in. The “women get x to men’s y” on Australian soil. It’s truly a transcontinental farce this one. So is this the full extent of your gappery? Or don’t you take an interest in the death gap? You know, the one that exemplifies males as more flexible, committed willing workers. I heard someone whine a little while back that the majority of guys that drive the trucks for her company, make more money than she does for sitting in her office directing them. I was all like “Gee sister, go drive a truck then”. Oddly she didn’t go for the theory.
Women don’t do what men do when it comes to pursuing financial gain on the whole. Period. You ladies have the answers right in front of you, if you want to attain the average gain of “a man”. Ready? It’s a little stinging in it’s most distilled form: Work like a man. I’m not talking about accounting for your hours. I’m talking about accounting for your decisions. Hey! I know someone who’s looking for a boilermaking apprentice. Want to risk screwing up the oxy-acetylene mix, or firing up the grinder at the wrong time and quite literally, blowing your head off? I’ve fallen off a few rrooves due to various lubricant and anti-freeze spills and been lucky . I’ve been involved in infrastructural installations hanging four and five stories while swinging in harnesses with a lot of trust in safety supervision. Interested? I’ve spent whole days crawling around dank, itchy, VERY confined, low-overhead spaces, straddling cramp-inducing lumps of timber, avoiding falling through the roof the get jobs done. Interested? How about spending your whole day shovelling concrete batches, or shunting brutally heavy barrows around, often up and down platforms with planks for ramps, with high-price of failure. Now, it may be some time since I was “in the trenches” or “digging” them so to speak. And a many of these jobs aren’t especially lucrative, some are. The point remains however, that as it pertains to flexibility and willingness to work in the pursuit of financial gain, combine with the societal expectation men are encumbered with due to their “GENDER ROLES” (thought you might like that one), men have it all over women, as all aroudn workers. This is why they earn more on average. If you want your sisters to “close the gap”, tell them to work like men.
So again, I wonder what the eternal victims will turn their hands to, now that one more bane has escaped them. I mean, that always was the ultimate goal, right? When you’re into demographic agendas, it’s the genitals not the make that gets the idealosues all excited, right? Nevermind what is truly the compelling dynamic to observe here, which is the capacity for industry to gather their strings and oust the elected forces that interfere with their profits. The dark-horse factional presence with represents the interests of industry that is the REAL head of this country. Gillard has been appointed to do what is wanted of her, and it begs the question of what the purpose of such leadership really is. No, what is inevitably the matter of triumph here, is the appointment of a female, excellent though she apparantly is.
And here lay the problem with idealogues like feminists. The toxic preoccupation with the superficies. Nevermind the pragmatic implications, is she a she? Those who prize the agenda above all else would have the best outcome fall by the wayside to accomodate their petty feathers in the cap. The thing is, I’m rather satisfied with the fact that Gillard is so eminently likable and ethically sound, seeing how as the feminists would have been sounding the horns of elation no matter what the outcome.
Yes, that’s me. A “feminist … sounding the horns of elation no matter what the outcome.” Yesterday was a famous, historic day because a woman became Prime Minister. End of.
If she’s likable and ethically sound and she makes a great contribution to our country, it will be a happy bonus.
You say women just need to “work like a man”. The research report I referred to in the previous post said that in many cases women are paid less than men when they are doing exactly the same job. How would it be for you?
This is what really hurts. That women earn less AND the gap is denied or explained away. No matter how hard or bald the statistics, it is explained away.
Yes, I’m into gaps so stay tuned cos I’m going to say a lot more about them.