Australia's worst living prime minister attempts to lecture the world.
Thursday, 20 August 2020
One trick pony, it's the misogyny.
From The Australian.
Julia Gillard has weighed into the 2020 race for the White House. “It’s caught my eye that one of the first things President (Donald) Trump has said about Kamala Harris is, he’s used the word ‘nasty’,” our 27th prime minister said during her virtual sit down with Time Magazine. “I think he’s already conjuring with these sexist tropes that women who come forward, who are ambitious, and rightly ambitious, who have got the capacity to lead, who have done in the past strong things, are unlikeable.” Gillard continued: “He’s basically already wanting people to conclude (that) they won’t warm to Kamala Harris as the candidate for V-P and there’s gender baked into that.” Her advice to Joe Biden’s running mate? Find your viral misogyny speech moment.
“We’d love to be able to say you will step out into a world of gender equality, but the reality is — you won’t. You’ll step out into a world where there’s still a disproportionate focus on your appearance, a disproportionate focus on your family structures, where if you fall the wrong side of this strength and empathy tightrope, that people may conclude that you’re really unlikeable, that you’re really prickly, that you’re hard to get along with … I would say to any women aspiring for leadership, be aware these things are going to happen, and war game in advance what your response is going to be. Don’t be blindsided, don’t be caught in the moment.”