Notorious B.i.G. wrote:I can’t say definitively that they don’t. But it obviously wasn’t a big issue for them because Rudd still won the election. If women voters gave enough of a 'shit', they wouldn’t have voted for Rudd
Again, huh? This and above make no sense. And what have Indians got to do with this? The cabbie that Latham punched was a white male, so why bring up Indians at all?
And that kind of behaviour isn’t exclusive to cabbies from the Sub-cotenant. It is typical cabbie behaviour, in any City.
That’s rather sexist. I guess, gossiping is women’s only behaviour. Not a like a man to gossip, saying things such as “not sure of her political alligence (sic) myself, I'll look into it, Labor supporter had done to get revenge”.
Well that's what Rudd percieved would be the issue in my own personal opinion. Even if it wasn't in the end(Partly because he came out and confessed it, which is pretty much all he could do anyway).
There's alot of Indian cabbies in Melbourne, that's all I'm saying. I know it's typical "cabbie union" behaviour, but in Melbourne the majority of them are from the sub-continent so forgive me for pointing that out.
Although certainly men can be Vexatious too, I can't lie and say I've ever actually heard of any man do it in my own social circles. I mostly hear about women doing it far more than I've ever heard about men doing that(I've NEVER heard it done by a male in my usual circles). Yes, in the media I've heard about men you would describe using that word, but not in the local groups.
Most of the harrasment I've heard men purportrate in my local area is of that "stalking/threatening a woman(or another man if they are gay) with violence/rape" kind. Which frankly, i'm going to say this too, I've never heard of a woman I know doing that to a man(and we all know the statistics on rape/stalking show that men are far more likely to commit it than women, so this has statistics that back it up). I know it happens too from women, but I mostly hear stories about men that make what Mel Gibson did look like "he was just trying to be nice". Most men end up getting over it and moving on, even forgetting they ever did it(till it happens again).
I wonder if there's a bit of that dual dynamic in this incident actually.... That woman or the media being Vexatious and dragging up a story 30 years old about an incident a man like Abbott(or Latham, etc) MIGHT have committed and then frankly personally gotten over it even to the point of having forgotten it ever happened. To him it might have just been an off the cuff male angst moment(we've all experienced that surely, I know I have) and then it was gone and over.... To her being a woman, she probably didn't understand he was just letting off steam on the Wall(if indeed the incident ever happened) and no real "threat" was ever being made.... Heck Alistair Clarkson punched a massive hole in the MCG coaching box wall(heck and his side is doing so well now they're Premiership favourites so the "wall punch steam letoff" probably helped him concentrate on the season ahead), and no one thought anything major of it.. there was even another incident he was involved in a few weeks later at a Kids footy clenic too where he punched an umpire(or something like that). Did he get sacked? NO(his side is on target for Premiership 2012). Ok so did it get reported on end for days and then years, even after he's probably forgotten the moment ever happened, some woman bring it up? NO, both incidents got a few pages and then were promptly forgotten about as after all he's likely to win the Jock Mchale medal this year. Imagine if there had of been a woman in the box watching the game sitting there seeing him put his fist in the wall right near her.... Yet it was immediatly there in the paper and then gone, and didn't cost him his job or his reputation... only a couple of bucks to fix the wall. Yet Abbott is getting mauled in Polls for something that has no evidence beyond eyewitness account, is more than 30 years old(almost 40 actually) and which even if he did do it, he probably got over it, dealt with his frustration and just moved on to the point of forgetting it ever occured.
P.S. Instead, Carlton Coach Bret Ratten, one of the nicest people in the AFL, got a knife in the back just because he dared bring the side up from 30% win rate to a 55% win rate, made the finals 3 out of 5 years(After Carlton spent many years at 16th) and they thought it wasn't good enough so he was sacked.... meanwhile the Wall-Umpire puncher only had to pay a few bucks to the 'G.
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