Abbot’s Outback Drama…
My opinion on Tony Abbott is well known in some circles but in case you’re not part of those circles; the man is a genius! His views demand respect, admiration and support from the nation as a whole.
The stuff of nightmares
And if you believe that you really don’t know me at all. I can honestly say that in the entire history of the world there has never been a politician that creates more anger and frustration in me than Tony Abbott, and that includes the former holder of this honour; Mr Howard.
This particular story initially thrilled me. Fuelling me with high expectation and then let me down with such disappointment it can only be likened to coming so close to orgasm and then having your partner fail you at the critical moment.
Basically, with the ridiculous (yet obvious) comparison to Harold Holt, Tony Abbott went for an exploratory trip in Central Australia. He was about 350km west of Alice Springs when his guide went walkabout and left him sitting in the desert for a couple of hours. Then his guide returned and they quad biked back to the safety and luxury of the resort in which they were staying, granted a couple of the quad bikes failed on the return trip, but that was the extent of the drama.
What I loved about the story is why his guide went walkabout – apparently he was in search of pitchuri, a bush narcotic! Presumably because to spend any time in the company of the alternative prime minister you require whatever narcotics you can get your hands on!
Read the original article here…
Why Women dislike Lara…
Whenever I read a Susie O’Brien opinion piece there is always mention of something which happened in January. It’s getting boring! She has even started admitting it herself:
“I had promised myself never to write about this again, but in this case it’s hard to avoid. Most readers are probably rightly bored by the fact that I dropped my dress to make a point about body image in January…”
Yep, we are bored. You posed naked, well done, so did 5000 people in Sydney this week but you don’t see them harping on about it! Anyway, this niggle aside, the article was yet another piece on the hot news of the week.
Footballer Brendan Fevola had an affair with model Lara Bingle several years ago, during which he snapped a non-consensual photograph of her in the shower. This photograph has done the rounds of footballers over the last few years and has now hit the nationwide press courtesy of the hard hitting magazine Woman’s Day, and all hell has broken loose – once again thrusting Australia into discussion about the representation and treatment of women by men. However, with vast swathes of the public failing to notice that it was a female editor who printed the photograph in Woman’s Day; with other news outlets run by men sitting on the photograph for months. So in my opinion this story seems to have become just as much about how women treat and view each other as well as how they are treated by men.
This opinion piece in particular has some truly wonderful generalisations:
“I know she represents the victory of the vacuous over the substantial…”
“I know she represents everything that Melbournians hate about Sydneysiders…”
“And I know she is every married woman’s worst secret nightmare…”
C’MON! You’re painting her into the antichrist! The vacuous Beelzebub of Sydneyside who invades the nightmares of every married woman in Australia on a nightly basis!
“Most women hate Bingle for being younger and more beautiful than they are. And this makes her a threat. What chance would we stand if she turned her baby-blues on our husbands?”
It’s not exactly saying much about men and women in Australia is it? Do women have so little trust in their husbands/partners – and so little belief or worth in themselves – that they lie awake at night scared that Lara Bingle is going to seduce their husbands? It’s ridiculous to HATE someone because they are younger and more beautiful than you are; in all honesty it’s ridiculous to hate someone period. Especially in this instance, when most people would never have met Lara Bingle.
In the same newspaper a poll was conducted which asked “Do you feel sorry for Lara Bingle?” The poll received 14,685 votes and resulted in nearly 11,000 people saying no, they do not feel sorry for Lara Bingle.
Why not?
A non-consensual photograph was taken of her in a compromising position, she had no control over the image, no say in its distribution and it was published without her consent. Even the media outlets condemning the publishing of the photograph have hypocritically published it alongside their articles.
Does this mean if it happened to you, you wouldn’t expect people to feel sorry for you?
I have compromising photographs of all of my previous ex girlfriends, all of them (by the way) taken consensually. Never in a hundred million years would I ever think about showing these photographs to anyone, let alone leaking them to the press to have plastered across a tabloid magazine. Why? Because I have respect for my ex-girlfriends (and women in general) and I would never dream of demeaning them in this way.
In this instance I do feel sorry for Lara Bingle, however, another quote from Susie O’Brien also states that”
“The real villain of this story is not vacuous vixen Bingle but meathead Fev,”
In some sense this is true, he should never have taken the non-consensual image in the first place, let alone shown it to anyone – but is the media going to be blamed at all for reproducing the image? There was no real need for it to be published in Woman’s Day and it must have been known it was going to cause embarrassment to Lara Bingle but they published it anyway for the sake of the almighty dollar – and to humiliate Lara for the pleasure of female readers who hate her so.
Read the original article here…
Ad Goes Flat…
“Paris Hilton is too hot for Brazil. A beer ad featuring the socialite has been pulled after consumer complaints. It showed her in a short black dress rubbing a can of Devassa beer on herself, as people watch through a window,”
I for one am glad this advert has been pulled, I can think of only one thing more likely to make me throw up a little in my mouth than watch Paris Hilton rubbing a can of beer on herself – and that would be if VB decided to produce their own version of the advert starring Tony Abbott and his marvellous budgie smugglers.
On this particular day I read the quality news publication that it is Herald Sun – and required an immediate decontaminating shower afterwards.
