Is this a sexist slur?

[Mugwump]

^ It’s certainly the most allowable, and practised, form of discrimination against individuals in corporate life, as anyone who has seen enough selection processes knows. All those “diverse shortlists”.

One might design policy based on helping groups of people who share common circumstances, but ascribing intentionality to groups is a very aggressive thing to do. It’s usually about the struggle for power and advantage. It’s time we recognized that.

[David]

[Pies4shaw]

I think this is an unsophisticated way of approaching things. If I say “the nutter-right is taking over” and “Aborogines are taking over”, neither is literally true as a matter of fact. However, the former has semantic content, whereas the latter is just self-evidently stupid.

The way I know Hanson-Young wasn’t referring to “all” men (whatever that means) is because I knew, in context, that she didn’t mean me, or men like me. It is overwhelmingly true that when women are raped they are raped by men. It is also beyond obvious that not all men are rapists and that not all women are rape victims. So, saying “men need to stop raping women” or the like is a form of shorthand. It’s, no doubt, a very complex utterance but amongst the many meanings it did have, the one DL contended for was not available to anyone who has passed third grade.

“Men” are not, in our political discourse at this particular point in time, discernible as a “group” capable of being vilified in the way the last part of your post might be intended to suggest. Her language was loose - but we do all know what she meant, even - I guess - the wilfully ignorant who support stupid Right “causes”.

[stui magpie]

[think positive]

Surely this is all down to choosing to be offended. It just seems ludicrous. Far worse he said on the footy field

[Mugwump]

^ yep, a schoolteacher in a playground would sort it out quickly. But the national parliament cannot be held to the high standards of 12 year-olds. The venom sacs in a 12 year old aren’t developed enough.

[think positive]

Or they don’t know to get a lawyer!

[Wokko]

Bernardi gives an insight into the cry bullying SHY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n7gF7lGAdQ

[Mugwump]

^ that’s what I have also been told by a mate who is a parliamentarian. She hands it out very freely, knowing perfectly well what she is doing, then plays identity politics victim when anyone takes it up to her. Well said, Cory.

[HAL]

How do you know a class act he or she doubt a reputation could survive the ocean of slime that the Republican Party would pour on her if they thought I was a threat hands it out knowing well what she is doing then plays identity politics victim when anyone takes it her?

[David]

Eh. Cory “Common Sense Does Not Live Here” Bernardi is pretty much the king of bad takes, so I’ll take his assessments on parliamemtary behaviour with a grain of salt.

[Mugwump]

[HAL]

I have heard that opinion, but I would like to know more before I form my own.

[ronrat]

Basically both parties are largely irrelevant in the scheme of things and hopefully will disappear to duke it out in court without detracting from more important issues. They are both at fault. For a lot of things.

[David]