I think I might have lost my temper

I made the mistake of watching the news.

The 'gender debate' appears to be primarily about loads of media people saying that it's entirely fine for offensive things to be said about women and to women and that Gillard is to be judged severely for being a woman rather than for anything she's done or not done in office. The ABC is the latest to be struck off my list of organisations acting decently. Tonight they were saying that her being female is sufficient reason for a leadership change.

I've heard it all before. Normally it's about being Jewish rather than being female. An extended narrative has been invented that bears no relation to the truth. It's one that only does harm.

Extending the same views just a bit further from where they are now, the media is intimating that Australia really wants all women to disappear. Or maybe it's after an inoffensive type of hatred where all women just go quiet and pretend we don't exist? That's what good Jews do, after all, so it really ought to be what good women do.

Every day there is another story in the media that reinforces this narrative.

I'm ashamed to be Australian at this moment in time. Political campaigns run this way and along these lines don't have any redeeming features. Journalists who support the narrative that undermines us and our society are unredeemed ratbags.

I am neither a good Jew nor a good woman, obviously, and any media that plays in this foul game loses my respect.