Red-hot Greens in Facebook stews and legal blues over hairy legs and power pussies
Shagging men is Green for slut-shaming. Nick O’Malley, The Sydney Morning Herald, September 9:
(Greens) senator Sarah Hanson-Young has offered to settle her defamation case against senator David Leyonhjelm for … $75,000 … a verdict in her favour and costs … Senator Hanson-Young … observed that women would not need weapons if men did not assault them, to which Senator Leyonhjelm, a Liberal Democrat, responded that if she did not like men she should stop “shagging” them … Senator Hanson-Young … (said) “David Leyonhjelm is suggesting … that I am sexually promiscuous. He is … slut-shaming me.”
Hot wife is Trumpish. Malcolm Farr, news.com.au, September 10:
Federal … (Greens MP) Adam Bandt had a weekend’s worth of criticism after posting a photo of himself and wife … on Facebook. “With hot wife at Bangarra opening night of ‘Dark Emu’,” the post said. One … (critic) blasted the MP for “putting your wife out there for public consumption” … Another … said: “Women in the public eye are sexually objectified enough … Have a firm word with your social media adviser or hire one if you are in danger of misjudged Trumpish outbursts like this.” … (Another wrote:) “Does your wife have a name? Is she only defined by her relationship to you and her perceived attractiveness? I thought we were better than this.”
Always look on the right side for bullies. ABC’s Q&A, September 10:
Deputy Nationals leader Bridget McKenzie: “(Julia Banks) mentions bullying … and she speaks specifically of the opposition … but all week, we’ve only heard about one side of that …”
Host Tony Jones: “So, just to confirm, you would like anyone who intimidated women on your side of politics … named and shamed?”
How Green was my bully. Lorna Knowles, abc.net.au September 6:
A former … leader (of the Victorian Greens, Greg Barber, brother-in-law of federal Greens leader Richard Di Natale is) accused of referring to women … as “fat, hairy lesbians”, “power pussies” and “hairy-legged feminists” … (and) having a “men’s room” in his office … that female staff … were not allowed to enter unless invited … “It was … like being in an alternative universe where I didn’t have rights” … (the former staffer said. Her husband said:) “This is the Greens. Can you believe this? I’m not making this up.” (He said) when his wife confronted Mr Barber … she was isolated and bullied … “she was told she could not leave the office at lunch time … she came home famished” … senior women in the Victorian Greens … (said to her) “ ‘if you put in a complaint, the bullying will come down on you fourfold and there’s nothing we can do about it’ … The Greens … would be the first people to call it out if it was … the Catholic Church … but within the Greens we tolerate it,” (he said) … (Barber agreed to take) “sex discrimination and unconscious bias” training …
Boxit. Steve Hawkes, Britain’s The Sun, September 9:
Boris Johnson’s long-suffering wife is set to serve divorce papers citing his “adultery” …
No Boxit. Matt Pritchett,Britain’s The Telegraph, September 8:
If Theresa May was in charge of Boris’s divorce he’d end up still married.
Boxit with benefits. Tim Shipman, The Sunday Times, September 9:
A close ally (of Johnson) said: “At least you know what you are getting. People talk about politicians with skeletons in their closets. All Boris’s skeletons have skin and big tits and are walking around the West End.”