Fight Fire with Sapphire!

Fellow travellers, it never ceases to amaze me that even now, in 2007, appallingly sexist attitudes still dominate in the Australian media. 

Take, for instance, the endless and vicious campaign to destroy Julia Gillard.  Journalists continue to portray this feisty, sassy sister as hard, cold and lonely.  Remember that vicious campaign focusing on her "bare", "barren" kitchen?  Would a male politician have suffered such a violation?

Of course not. 

Tragically, the violence continues unabated.  Here, one of Rupert Murdoch's henchpersons reminds us that even though Julia has a significant other (who, fortunately for her, does seem to be be at least partially attitudinally reconstructed) Julia is still not the marrying kind.

Appalling.  Just appalling.