10 years on - Julia Gillard's misogyny speech.

[ClaryFairchild]

10 years ago, the female Prime Minister of Australia gave a speech about misogyny.

Amazing speech, but has anything changed 10 years on?

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This is so powerful and I get chills watching it. Regardless of what side of politics you lean towards, you must admit that she had it tough and proved herself to be a very strong woman. It must have been difficult to cope with some days.

Sadly though, I think very little has changed. Perhaps though society itself has changed more than politicians?

I fear not much has changed but there have been a number of events in Australia to mark the anniversary. There is to me something quite profound in her fierce anger. She was a very effective and very underrated PM.

Your link won’t play but I’m off to watch it. I do every so often. It’s pure poetry. Angry, offended poetry!

Well that’s annoying. Has anybody else got the fill the letters thing when trying to link? I give up!

What the heck? 😳

Have you managed to get it open and watch it @Dontfuckingsaycheese?

I've got a playable link on your post.

I think her message is so true for all governments, not just in Australia. Misogyny in politics is at very high levels and with all of the "be kind" messages actually seems to be getting worse. If we, as women, ever get upset about things we are told to "be kind" first and foremost. No! I will be angry when faced with this sort of crap, not kind!!!

I watched it again a couple of days ago. I googled it on You Tube.

It’s interesting to watch the faces of the other parliamentarians as it starts to sink in that she is going for it full throttle.

Personally I think #BeKind has been an absolute disaster for women, especially the bit where we’re supposed to embrace the astrology ideology of gendered souls and other utter wankery.

WE ARE ENTITLED TO A BETTER STANDARD THAN THIS.

Powerful words at the conclusion there.

Yet the same day she gave this speech single mothers with children over 8 lost a large part of their income.

She was amazing in that speech, I remember it well and can't believe it's a decade ago!

She's got a book coming out!looks like she is still doing great work

I went to a talk she gave about this in London last week, being interviewed by Mary Beard.

If you're interested in her or the speech it is definitely worth watching - it starts with a short film about the speech, the context and aftermath and then goes into the interview.

There is a brief audience Q&A with a question right at the end asking for her reflections on feminism and the fact that 'we can no longer say what a woman is'. Her response is to caution against getting drawn into the 'culture wars' and focus more on achieving the maximum amount of inclusion .. I was disappointed by her response personally. Obviously we'd all love 'inclusion' but she didn't engage at all with the challenges that stand in the way of that. But I share the anxiety about getting sucked into culture war rhetoric.

Whaat?? Is it ten years?
Feeling a lot older now OP.