Cate Blanchett's fears for women

Agree that how Gillard was treated is shocking - particularly how she managed to go for so long without scrutiny of her role in the AWU scandal. Absolutely disgusting that she hasn't had to fully explain herself yet. Simply shocking Kate.

Thank goodness!! for that Cate Blanchett has ruled out Politics can't take much more of fake people in the public eye (or more like in my face)her career is based on playing pretend in front of a camera (bit like the ALP party politic).

Oh I hope that we get to witness the wailing, and the gnashing of teeth from these buffoons when Karma runs over JG's Dogma ...

We've so many fake versions of Labor that I had forgotten that one.

Oh for Goodness sake Cate Blankette,go away.
You live in fantasy land.

It's a shame when the opinions of high profile people like Cate Blanchett (don't mind her acting) and David Williamson (great playwright - but a tired old leftie as heard on Q&A this week) are given so much airplay by journalists and other media groups who have never had thier youthfull idealsim tested/modified by having to work in the real World.

Evocative opinions, ever thought provoking but rarely coming up with real or practical solutions to problems.

I have ZERO interest in the opinions of Actors whose $$ demands are so far out of whack or from juvenile journalists providing "all-knowing" commentary on matters about which they know very little.

A bit also like school teachers who know a little about a lot but act as self-proclaimed experts on everything!!

Maybe I'm just a bit tired of having leftist theology proclaimed from all sources for the past 6 years!!

Hoorah for 7 September 2013!!!! Proud to be Australian again.

Fairfax now sets about the task of softening history and takes a rather cowardly poke at Michaelsmithnews.com in publishing Paul Sheehan today. I am quite disappointed. I mistakenly thought more highly of Sheehan. I won't be filling an extra glass if I spot him navigating towards my table. Another hack on the agenda teat.

Gee I wonder how long it took Cate to decide she didn't want to be a politician?
I mean really, I'm sure her financial adviser would have had to be consulted......and that analytical brain of hers must be itching to change the world. She has so much to offer the plebs of Australia.

Another dope who thinks she's smarter than everyone else just because she sat next to Rudd while other dickheads took a photo of him with her.

Oh but she is.

When her career tapers off, look to see her suddenly coming back and actually pretending to be an Australian again.

I'm so disappointed. I really admire her as an actor. Who'd have thought that she's actually as dumb as dog poo. Well her and Ms? Summers will be very happy together on their crusade to rid the world of sexist men. Start in the Middle East please. Leave us thinking women alone.

Well an actor with how much money and success is complaining about misoginy? Where is her glass ceiling? It must be in her bank account. What a tosser!

Carbon Cate - she of the Climate catastrophe commercials who makes a handsome living pretending to be someone else, reading dialogue written by other people who, ignoring her own dire warnings of rising sea levels, buys a beachfront property in Vanuatu.

I can almost guarantee she didn't actually buy Summers' book - it would have been sent to her as part of its marketing strategy - but, true to form, Cate needs cues written by other people. As a professional 'mouthpiece', she can be relied upon to 'deliver' on time and on budget.

Btw, in the top pic, is that Hugh Jackman impersonating a stunned mullet?

"Do as I say, not as I do"

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/cate-blanchetts-island-buy-in-vanuatu-ignores-rising-seas/story-e6frfmvr-1226070683300

So true Michelle. We are all sick of dills.

"She is concerned that a 'wave of conservatism sweeping the globe' is affecting the role of women in society" - unlike Islam.

For someone who has spent a lot of time in the UK, Ms Blanchett posed for a dodgy political snippet which showed the Battersea Powerhouse as a current source of pollution. Her conduct was deceptive and as a theatre director she must have known that her conduct was unworthy.

The Clean Air act which came into effect in 1957-8 in the UK. It cleaned up the London Smog and closed the Battersea Powerhouse. It did not tax Carbon Di-oxide. It stopped the burning of dirty 'coal' in open hearths and made people use 'coke'.

The pollutant was carbon particulates and acids not carbon dioxide and few in the UK would have denied a wish for some global warming.

I agree with Brad's comment. True. She got away with it... up until now...

Like Di Smith? Did you see how that turned out? ROFL

Bribie John

Fair-weather Feminist, Weekend Earth-Mother & Chardonnay Socialist spring to mind

Celebs do a really good job selling glossy magazines & attracting members to the Scientologists. Does not really improve my life, how about yours?

I disagree about Cate's acting ability. It is not that great.... Did you see her in the latest Robin Hood movie? She was not that good.

Blancett is someone who has been given every opportunity and is still not happy. The sense of entitlement is alive and well. I no longer go and watch Blancett's films after her association with the last Labor govt. Next they will be suggesting that we give women a head start in politics, just like we even out the horse races. Unless we ensure the best candidate wins this is a race to the bottom.

What a joke! Who was one of the most famous detractors of Julia? The leader of the feminist movement Germaine Greer. How does cate explain this or has this incident been moved to the Rudd family's forgettery?

I love that actors/actress always hit the headline with something they have dug up when a movie they are staring in is about to be released (uncanny). Also how self justification can always be turned on when the person you are working with has a checkered record, ie: a movie about feminism/misogyny directed by Woody Allen ha ha ha give me a break! It's all about money and fame.

couldn't agree more, twitchy,these acting types get well paid
for carrying out the directions of others, speaking the words of others, and all of a sudden they think they have the solutions for everything & their s*** doesn't stink.

A position may command respect but, the person holding that position must earn respect.

Children left behind in a World where famous women want to be greater than all and feminists want us to be patronised with promotions purely for our gender and not our ability or talent. Date Blanchett andb Julia Gillard do nothing for women as both live in a world of fantasy.

Cate Blanchett and her fellow travellers just dont get it. Perhaps they never will if they are determined enough not to.

According to Blanchett, "Whether you admire her as a politician or not, as a woman and out of respect for the office of the Prime Minister, how she was treated was quite shocking".
Julia Gillard was not liked or respected by a large majority of Australians. It wasn't because she is a woman. Nor was it because of her political persuasion. Nor was it just becasue she was prepared to use the knife to take the Prime Ministership before she was ready for it (and there is plenty of evidence to now say she would never be ready or suitable for the role).

Blanchett and the rest of the gaggle that have been totally focussed on their gender war, say that "as a woman and out of respect for the office of the Prime Minister" that Gillard should have been treated with more respect and that her treatment was shocking. The facts are that Gillard did great harm to the Office of Prime Minister and indeed for the cause of women. And worse, like her supporters, she seems clueless about it. The reasons why she was so totally disliked and offensive to a large section of the electorate are numerous. Make your own list.

Off topic but funny

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/09/a-turning-point-for-the-ipcc-and-humanity/

A climate modeler increasing his model’s sensitivity.

Please Kenny, she's an actress, no more of this PC crap. Men are actors, females are actresses. I'll call them all actors the day they award ONE Academy Award for acting.

Can't stand her. In London to promote it's new film directed by WOODY ALLEN - nuff said.

Carbon Cate ....

"how she was treated was quite shocking."

.... please provide evidence of any treatment dished out to Julia which was different to any other politician male or female. Whatever happens, if you are shit at your job , don't deliver anything of substance and trash a country you deserve to be pilloried from pillar to post relentlessly until you learn. Gillard never learned anything from her time as Australia's worst PM and Albanese and Shorten are heading down the same track.

To claim or infer that Gillard was unfairly treated because she was a woman is absolute crap. She was fairly treated because she was no good as PM of this great country.

Cate, Cate, Cate..... we have moved on from self promotional fools who want to be loved and adored.

You see while you were swanning around Cannes promoting Woody Allen and his stepchild/wife's latest movie we the Australian people voted in a government that will govern. I know it is shocking I mean you must have nearly choked on your evian or hermitage but it was true.

Poor Julia tried to get the Labor car on the road - but it turned out she was hopeless and when her own party started sharpening the knives she pointed to Tony Abbott and said it was all his fault as he was a women hater. It worked for a little while but you see Julia got it from her own party and they put back your Acting friend Rudd.

I say acting friend because Kevin spent more time wanting to be loved by everyone he forgot about policy.

Time for you to zip it (i.e. your lips now) and go back to Americal.

PS so relieved to know that you are not going to do anything but act in the future - don't think you have anything else to offer.

Hey Cate, Bugger off.....we don't need another human headline. Your movies are not all that good, go away and get some practice in. JEG deserved all she got and then some

This is a very disappointing post ... it displays all the worst attributes of "playing the man" (in this case a woman) rather than "playing the ball". Furthermore it has engendered catty invective from some of your blog followers.

None of this advances the debate on the status of women (ie. whether it has progressed or regressed) because none of it addresses this issue.

The only aspect of the Blanchett segment that caught my eye was "'I'm reading a book by Ann Summers called 'The Misogyny Factor'". Blanchett would do well to diversify her sources.

Of course you may have a personal antipathy towards Blanchett but using your blog in this overtly personal and defamatory way is simply gutless. If you have concerns about Blanchett barracking for the left of politics, perhaps you should consider looking in a mirror.

Journalistically methinks you should aim higher.

[Thanks for your frankness Max, I always value your thought through comments. I have a particular aversion, you are right and I do react badly. Particularly at the end of a lengthy day!]

As my cousins in Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy would say > 😉📢🐓

That obscenely paid hypocrite, blonde bombshell, Hollywood starlet carbon Cate Blanchett is an air head adored by the elitist Labor/Green, intelligenza...ditto macho man, tough guy actor Rusty Crower.

No, Cate, what I find "shocking" is a PM who (allegedly) uses her position as a union lawyer to rip off union members' money to fill her, and boyfriend's wallets; tells a flagrant lie about not introducing a carbon tax before an election; falsely accuses an honest, decent man of being a "misogynist" while hiding behind the privilege of "coward's castle" (as part of a defence of a true misogynits!); and, probably worst of all, provokes a race riot designed to make Abbott look like a racist, and her look good.

Oh, and Cate, I think it's very rich for a multi-millionairess actress to be pontificating about "misogyny", and "conservatives."

"pretending to be an Australian again."

You sure are one bitter moron.