My posting below, Dealing with the ideologically deaf has now been posted at Quadrant on Line under the lovely title, Gillard’s Feminine Mystique.

Because there is not a single policy or decision that has not turned absolutely sour on her causing the polls to indicate a Labor wipeout at the next election, she has decided to scrape the bottom of the political barrel by arguing that the Leader of the Opposition is not merely a sexist – that is, someone who believes women are different from men and for that reason might take different roles in society – but is a full flown misogynist – an actual hater of women and womankind. She is thus poisoning political debate by dragging in arguments which aside from being beside the point on every major issue of significance at the moment, are also absolutely untrue. That she cannot distinguish between:

(a) I don’t like your policies
(b) I don’t like you because of what you stand for, and
(c) I don’t like you because you are woman

is merely par for the course given how obtuse she has shown herself to be in every other regard. By invoking (c) when what is being said is (a) is, moreover, destructive of politics and political debate, creating animosities where none had existed before. Pandering to the worst instincts and dredging up the badge of victimhood merely for her own political advantage, she is debasing our politics and making Australia a worse place than it was. But it is a reminder just how out of her depth she is adding another example of how destructive she has been to our social peace.

My article at Quadrant Online deals with Gillard burrowing into this pile of dirt because for her it is the only answer she has to the criticisms she so rightly receives. Since Little Miss Perfect cannot believe she is personally at fault about anything, the flaw must lie within her critics. That is what my article tries to say. Here is one para and you can go to QoL if you would like to read the rest:

For someone such as myself, who felt as strongly and positively about Margaret Thatcher as I did about Ronald Reagan, the notion that behind my disgust at the policies of such as astonishingly incompetent Prime Minister as Gillard has proven to be are attitudes based on her sex is both insulting and ridiculous. But for her such beliefs are a talisman that protects her from every criticism since she never has to take them seriously because to her they are based on biological facts on not on her personal incompetence.

Or to put it differently, if she hadn’t run up the deficit why producing nothing worthwhile, created an immense debt where none had existed before, fatally weakened our border protections by dismantling the system that had been carefully put in place by John Howard, brought in a carbon tax after promising in the week before the election that she would not, introduced the NBN that is likely to make our communications system far worse than if she had merely left it alone, and now intends to direct the media so that she will not have to read criticisms of her policies over the Weetbix in the morning, I might have had a different view of both her policies and her persona. But if she believes that either Tony Abbott or anyone else would have been happy had a male done all of this instead, then she is exactly as dense as I actually think she is.