Why do women hate tony abbott

Her denunciation echoed and fuelled their anger at being unfairly judged because they were women and missing out on what they believed was their dues. However, once the strategists recognised their errors, both sides decided to elevate their version of the gender card to enhance their election chances.

Will this sudden interest in women by the political strategists either influence voters or the policy options on offer? If so, who will benefit? There was already a wide grassroots feminist debate on how to ensure that Abbott would not be our next prime minister because of his retrograde attitude and actions on a range of fertility control issues. He is a somewhat inconsistent, confused conservative with the attached sexist views on gender roles, which he seems to be trying hard to minimise.

Julia Baird surprised me on the Drum by equivocating over whether he should be labelled as such. I have always understood and used the word in its old sense, exactly a hatred of women. And I remain convinced that Tony Abbott, along with many others, is worthy of such a label. Why would I think so, when he clearly does love his wife and daughters, and likes many other women?

The answer is that I do not think of hatred merely as a feeling, but as an act, a verb. Macquarie currently defines the word as a noun. News News archive. The Herald Sun responds to Gillard's speech. Tony Abbott speaking in front of signs that attack Gillard on gendered grounds.

Julia Gillard at home in Altona with the famous 'empty fruit bowl'. Tony Abbott with wife Margie and daughter Frances. Related posts. As well as…. Rather than taking the initiative and leaving Slipper to fall on his sword, Labor went to full-blooded battle and tried to make political gains in its obsessive war on the Liberal leader.

Jonathan Holmes for Media Watch , October The gallery, almost to a man and woman, focused on the hypocrisy, as they saw it, of Julia Gillard attacking Tony Abbott for sexism while defending Peter Slipper.

It was an analysis that many outside Canberra utterly rejected. Judith Brett for the Monthly , November This is why the claim that Labor was inconsistent to attack Abbott for misogyny yet support Slipper as speaker seemed weak to so many women. Abbott had it coming. Annabel Crabb for Fairfax , 14 October