Women’s Voices In Parliament – Shut Up and Make Me A Cuppa Tea!!
"Gosh! I'm So Grateful To Be Serving Another Male Chauvinistic Pig!"
The Liberal Party of Australia has come out – testosterone blazing – to defend it’s chauvinistic record on women MP’s getting to say anything at all during parliamentary question time.
A clever party, facing accusations their equal opportunity principles are laughable, would find among it’s MP’s a nice intelligent and assertive woman to reassure the people of Australia that this was untrue.
A clever party would.
But what would a party without a real equal opportunity platform they truly believed in do?
They’d do what the Liberals have done and trot out a blokey back bencher – Jamie Briggs – to declare the whole thing a “…storm in a tea cup.”
Yes, in deference to its illustrious history of advancing women – like Alexander Bummer’s Downer’s “joke” about “…the things that batter…” when speaking on domestic violence and women, the conservatives have quickly affirmed their understanding of ‘Lady Voters’.
It goes something like this:
“Be a good girl and when you finish voting for me, go make me a cuppa tea.”
Labor’s Amanda Rishworth, took aim when she stated “…there are strong women in the Liberal Party … that deserve to have a say.”
She claims: …”the coalition was not doing enough to promote the roles of women and was severely out of touch.”
Of course they are! The problem here is the Liberal/National Party coalition has an old saying:
“Behind every great man is a… Hell! We only have great men!”
This is because in the world of the Tories – mired deeply in 1956 – “a woman’s place is in…why are you asking? She should already know her place!”
They ought to make a movie about themselves, with a catch phrase:
“There can be only – men!”
Updated: 11:00 pm 15/09/2009
This article was written prior to the Australian Liberal party declaring Peter Costello’s parliamentary seat of Higgins – a safe Liberal seat – was “not a seat for a woman“. Not satisfied with silencing their elected female members, the old boys club of the Conservatives wants to make sure their male buddies are guaranteed a safe seat too. Strike a light! They must find women extremely threatening.
Go get them ladies!
Scott Kane
