Jenny Morrison a victim of ‘toxic feminism’ in woke Twitter attacks
“Toxic feminism” has been blamed for a double standard that has seen Jenny Morrison as fair game for social media attacks while Grace Tame is considered above reproach.
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“Toxic feminism” is to blame for a double standard that sees Jenny Morrison as fair game for social media attacks while Grace Tame is considered above reproach, with conservative Australian women blasting the “hypocrisy” of the left.
Social media platform Twitter lit up with vile attacks against Mrs Morrison on Sunday night after Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his family appeared on 60 Minutes.
There was criticism from prominent left-wing figures attacking Mrs Morrison.
Kon Karapanagiotidis, head of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, tweeted: “It’s so subtle isn’t it, having Jenny tell us it’s about manners, so we think Grace Tame is the … uncivilised one. Yet Grace is the hero of this story & Morrison the villain.”
The tweet was “liked” by Ms Tame.
Ex-Greens leader Christine Milne tweeted: “ I don’t care what Jenny Morrison thinks about anything or what she advises (her husband).”
Former Sydney Morning Herald columnist Mike Carlton — who has a long record of attacking conservative women — tweeted: “In which Jen describes Kirribilli House as ‘our home’. NO IT’S NOT. It’s an official guesthouse for Prime Ministers visiting Sydney. The sense of entitlement is gross.”
“Many activists on the left are simply using identity politics as a smokescreen. Attacks on a woman like Jenny Morrison who doesn’t subscribe to their ideology is perfectly acceptable to them but the slightest of Grace Tame results in a mob pile on. It is hypocrisy of the highest order,” said Dr Bella d’Abrera, Director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program at the Institute of Public Affairs
“This kind of behaviour is completely unacceptable for anyone, and should be called out regardless of gender.”
“While many in the media are happy to propagate the myth of toxic masculinity by portraying all men as being born fundamentally bad, Jenny Morrison’s detractors are displaying what could be regarded as toxic feminism.”
“Jenny Morrison was absolutely justified in her remarks, which were actually quite restrained, about Grace Tame’s less than polite behaviour.”
Dr d’Abrera’s comments have been echoed by NSW Senator Hollie Hughes, who said Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s wife was “all class”.
“Shame on everyone attacking the spouses and children of politicians – they are conscripts in a fight they did not ask for, and they do not deserve to be targeted,” Senator Hughes said.
“Jenny Morrison is all class, unlike so many others on Twitter,” she added.
Queensland Senator Amanda Stoker said: “is anyone surprised that the nasty Labor and Green activists have again piled on a conservative woman?”
“It fits their well-established pattern of selectively caring about respect for women perfectly.”
Katherine Deves — a lawyer and women’s rights advocate willing to take on
Zali Steggall in Warringah — said: “While I recognise that the trope that women must be polite and well-mannered is a systemic and oppressive form of silencing, suppressing, or eradicating marginal voices, I still think personal civility in public debate is indispensable.”
“Common decency is necessary to permit members of a free society to be free from things that lower their chances of being safe, secure, and happy.
“Free expression of opinion is balanced by a responsibility to be as inoffensive as possible in expressing one’s view while still getting a point across.
“Ms Tame’s behaviour when being welcomed into Mrs Morrison’s home was completely superfluous and gratuitous use of her position.
“The vituperative reaction to Mrs Morrison for simply pointing this out, just serves to underline yet again the hypocrisy of her critics.”
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