"If Kitching was a male, would the government now be bleating about "mean boys" or would it be assumed to be just the nature of politics?"

Again, it needs to be remembered that the actual bleating all originally came from within the ALP in general and the women and her supporters specifically.

The government is merely twisting the knife that was wielded by those within the ALP. But, some (no names mind you) are adept at forgetting that which they don't want to be true and replacing it with fantasy.

It's true that if Kitching was a bloke then none of this would have happened. That's because a male Kitching wouldn't have been whining about all those bullies not letting me play on their team.

Dear Rache,

Bullying claims by female Liberal MPs have been
routinely dismissed by colleagues who have painted
the allegations made by painting it all as just
the "cost of doing politics." The Kitching case has
been championed by the Coalition and the Murdoch
Press - . It a case of Pot. kettle, black.

People are weaponizing her death and can't see why
that's awful. No causal link has been established for
her death. Nor is it likely to be.

It's interesting to remember that the concept of "Mean Girls" came from the Hebrew psychologist and the movie of the same name- many prominent psychologists are Hebrew- Edwin Bernays brought many psychologists over from Europe apparently when he invented US consumer culture. To untie the situations and motivations behind the vested interests of psychology and the Hebrew's and women and men is something for another time. It's interesting that in these situations there are those that present their narrow self serving views as objective and authoritative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Girls
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Wiseman

If a foreign power wants to dominate a culture it stands to reason that they would want to weaken it- and everyone wants more power.

In the movie it's said that "women shouldn't attack each other and the real battle is between men and women"- perhaps men and women both should work together for a higher goal similar to Ayn Rand's productivity is being the measure of the ability to sustain life. If women can't do things to sustain life then at least they should support those that do. It seems in history women have been the ones to create and nurture life- men have been the ones to sustain it by protecting and hunting. Perhaps Rosalind Wiseman wants to be one to control the creation and distribution of the produce by causing conflict between women and men.

Perhaps Rosalind Wiseman should just focus on being productive rather than controlling production