Jeez, how absolutely loopy is Bettina Arndt, not to mention ungrateful to a government which thought they were on her side of the culture wars and gave her an AM.
The crazy old Cassie, at the blog for ageing Australian wingnuts and Putin admirers, has extracted a part from an email Bettina sent out to her subscribers after the election:
It wasn’t that the Morrison government didn’t listen to women. This pussy-whipped crew sniveled, and groveled, like a cuckolded man clutching desperately at the ankles of his departing wife. Remember the appalling apology to Brittany Higgins? Or Morrison’s forced smile when Grace Tame insulted him with her infantile side-eye. Or the cowardly act of allowing Christian Porter and Alan Tudge to be pushed out of their ministerial roles over unproven sexual assault allegations. Or the cringing over the parliamentary harassment report, denying the very low incidence of actual harassment and high rates of female bullying.
Beautifully put Bettina.
Ha! Yes, if only the Morrison government had talked tougher to the women appalled at an apparent cover up of an alleged rape at Parliament House. If only Morrison had refused to have any type of enquiry into a historical rape allegation against the nation's top law officer. Wait - he did!
You have to be extraordinarily stupid to think that Morrison (or, of course, Porter, who folded his defamation action) handled it appropriately or well.
I like the way she uses the sexist term "pussy whipped" too - and when I Google that, I see she used it against the Shorten government - but she still got her AM from Morrison - what an embarrassment.
Earlier this year, Arndt wrote a bizarre piece at online Quadrant about the inquest about the Hannah Clarke murder case - the one where the husband burned alive his wife and 3 young children - in which she claims to condemn his actions (well, duh) - but then criticises the attitude of the police officer that the murderer's nightly demand for sex was a domestic violence warning sign. Yes, it's all feminism gone mad, pushing a man beyond his limits. [Sarc]. Ridiculously, Bettina lists a string of other appalling and extremely controlling behaviour by the father that came out of the inquest, including threats to kill a previous partner - but she still concluded "I will now write an article about how this man was not given enough help." You know someone has pushed the line when a reader of Quadrant responds in comments:
It’s not often I disagree with anything Ms Arndt writes, but she’s lost me on this one.
But that's Bettina for you. She's absolutely nuts. (As is Cassie - whose hyperventilating climate change post I might copy one day too.)
Cassie is one of the most popular posters on Catallaxy. When I argued that choosing that man who immolated his family was the worst possible example for men's rights I was ridiculed. I was delighted when the election revealed a widespread revolt against the character of Morrison. I never liked the man. A devout Christian lacking compassion, engaging in devious rhetorical tactics that were deliberately designed to mislead people, and his last trick of publishing an on water event on election day, are all behaviors of man lacking a moral compass and more intent on power than upholding Christian values. None of that surprises me because his Christianity was a function of the prosperity gospel, one of the most pernicious and evil interpretations of the Bible to have ever been created.
ReplyDeletetotally agree on that.
ReplyDeleteI was always annoyed some said morrison was evangelical when he was clearly pentecostal who are not very biblically literate.
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ReplyDeleteHoly hell. If I knew I wouldn't be blocked I would have left out the oj phrase.
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