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💯✅👍Misogyny is a resilient beast with much to protect, ready to shape shift as its survival demands.Women have been taking a more progressive view on politics all century. It is a growing trend that is repeated in Australia.
This is something to celebrate and encourage. Instead, the commentary has focussed on the more reactionary views of some young men – which threaten to embolden authoritarians. The pattern is unmistakeable but local specifics vary and matter.
As almost half the world goes to the polls this year, we will learn whether this generation of better educated, more aware and powerful young women are able to tip the results against authoritarian populists elsewhere as well. As Donald Trump regularly demonstrates, belittling women is a marker of this world view.
Australia, in its occasional role as an early marker of global trends, embraced this movement early. In the 2022 election professional women in the teal independents remade the traditionally conservative inner suburban heartland of the Liberal party in their image. The Labor party pre-selected record numbers of women and acknowledged their power to change the agenda.
This was in no small measure the result of the grand lessons of courage and refusal to be shamed, embodied by Grace Tame, Chanel Contos and Brittany Higgins. Their advocacy changed the political terrain – taking men and women on an empowering journey, changing laws, curricula and expectations.
They have since been battered by the business-as-usual brutality of the Australian political/legal/media machine.
By focussing on the political gap between young women and men, the beacon of hope is obscured. In Australia the data shows that young men are also more progressive than they were two decades ago.
#FsckThePatriarchy #Feminism #WomensRights #Politics #AusPol #Misogyny #Sexism
💯✅👍Misogyny is a resilient beast with much to protect, ready to shape shift as its survival demands.Women have been taking a more progressive view on politics all century. It is a growing trend that is repeated in Australia.
This is something to celebrate and encourage. Instead, the commentary has focussed on the more reactionary views of some young men – which threaten to embolden authoritarians. The pattern is unmistakeable but local specifics vary and matter.
As almost half the world goes to the polls this year, we will learn whether this generation of better educated, more aware and powerful young women are able to tip the results against authoritarian populists elsewhere as well. As Donald Trump regularly demonstrates, belittling women is a marker of this world view.
Australia, in its occasional role as an early marker of global trends, embraced this movement early. In the 2022 election professional women in the teal independents remade the traditionally conservative inner suburban heartland of the Liberal party in their image. The Labor party pre-selected record numbers of women and acknowledged their power to change the agenda.
This was in no small measure the result of the grand lessons of courage and refusal to be shamed, embodied by Grace Tame, Chanel Contos and Brittany Higgins. Their advocacy changed the political terrain – taking men and women on an empowering journey, changing laws, curricula and expectations.
They have since been battered by the business-as-usual brutality of the Australian political/legal/media machine.
By focussing on the political gap between young women and men, the beacon of hope is obscured. In Australia the data shows that young men are also more progressive than they were two decades ago.
#FsckThePatriarchy #Feminism #WomensRights #Politics #AusPol #Misogyny #Sexism