Houllebecq, I read all the article. That sentence was the author's opinion, not mine.
I am no fan of Julia Gillard, but she never struck me as a 'feminist hero' at any time.
Just because she is a woman in a position of power does not mean she is, or considers herself to be, a 'feminist hero'.

She is holding the highest political position in Australia.
Most women are happy with that, even if they don't like her politics...

No Arjay, integrity is non-sexual.

AWB were all men, they stole $300 million for a UN fund to feed starving Iraqis and have received less abuse than Craig Thomson who reports galore have shown did nothing illegal or wrong.

Have you looked at the video Marilyn? Bob Kernohan is in a sweat and fearful of his life.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBgxVo5gTA&feature=player_embedded If Bob Kernohan is right,we have criminals in charge of our Govt.Why did not Bob take a safe Labor seat and shut his mouth? Why does Gillard shun an investigation and write it all off as some minor indiscretion that happened 17 yrs ago?

Julia Gillard and Labor came to power on an outright lie, "There will be no carbon tax under the Govt I lead." That cannot be denied.

The issue of feminism is just another distraction in the World Championship Wrestling of politics.

The Rockerfellers brag about promoting feminism since this gave them another tax source via their international banking cartels.They create the debt by counterfeiting our currencies and our Govts tax us ( now both male and female) to pay it back.

The feminists have been sucked in by the Global financial elites and they don't have the brains to realise it.

who are the feminist heroes and in whose eyes? There are many great achievers among woman but feminism as such stinks.

>>her speech was an embarrassment to older women like me who know what she is really like.<<

Do you really know what she is really like Marilyn? How do you know what she is really like? What is the nature of your acquaintanceship beyond what you can anyone can learn from the media? When did you two last speak? If you've never met her and got to know her properly can you reasonably claim to know her any better than you would another stranger - me for example? How do you arrive at this knowledge?

If you know what somebody is really like without getting to know them personally that tells me that you have the magical power of mind-reading. And you've admitted to being an old woman. So that would make you an old woman who can do magic. Or in other words: a witch.

Not in the derogatory 'Ditch the Witch' sense for 'men' who are too 'polite' to spell bitch properly on placards: when I talk about witches I mean them in the sense of Terry Pratchett's archetypal witch Granny Weatherwax - ugly, unpleasant, cantankerous, semi-literate, pointy-hatted old crones who can do magic. That is the image I have in my head right now - although Granny Weatherwax does have some redeeming qualities like a strong sense of morality and justice and a sense of duty to protect the weak: I doubt very much that Granny Shepherd has any redeeming qualities like that.

Not nice is it? And certainly not big or clever of me: I could have played the ball and not the woman. I could have focused on your arguments and not your gender and age. I could have done a number of gentlemanly things but instead I chose to make unfounded personal attacks on my scant understanding of 'what you're really like' instead of addressing your arguments or your policies. Cheap, petty, childish, shallow and deliberately inflammatory could all be considered accurate descriptions of my comments. But it's OK as long as I know what you're 'really like' isn't it Marilyn?

Cheers,

Tony

Tony Lavis.I was down at Canberra for that protest and CATA( Consumers and Tax Payers Association) asked that indiviual to take that sign "Ditch the Witch" down.So far we have a degree of free speech,but our financial/Govt masters are slowly removing that right.

If you all want to know the truth and reality, see this site; http://www.globalresearch.ca/ Pilger's article also appears here.