When Julia Gillard was prime minister, any mention of her attire was sure to be met with outraged screeching from the Lady Pages of the media. Even feminist icon Germaine Greer wasn’t spared the wrath of the Fright Bat Inquisition. The taxpayer-funded woke-media, the ABC was particularly indignant on Gillard’s behalf.
Yet, as is always with the left-elite, when it’s them doing it, it’s just dandy.
South Australian Liberal MP Nicolle Flint isn’t having any of this double-standard.
Liberal MP Nicolle Flint isn’t afraid of trash talk. The South Australian stripped down to a literal garbage bag on Monday, in protest against comments made about her appearance by ABC radio host Peter Goers.
In his Sunday Mail column, Goers wrote: “Nicolle wears pearl earrings and a pearly smile. She favours a vast wardrobe of blazers, coats and tight, black, ankle-freezing trousers and stiletto heels. She presents herself in her own newsletter, 23 times as a fashion plate. She has blazers and coats in black, blue, pink, red, beige, green, white, cream, floral and two in grey.”
Flint has already endured far more harassment from the left than any MP, male or female, should. During the election campaign, she was specifically targeted by the shady leftist activists, GetUp. Flint was forced to take a police order out against a stalker who followed her campaign events with a “zoom lens camera” and pursued her online. Her campaign office and vehicle were attacked and defaced, including the word “prostitute” graffitied on her campaign office.
“This was a campaign to destroy me personally,” she said. “They wanted to get me to a point where I could not function as a candidate, where I was afraid to go out.”
Understandably, she’s not taking any more.
She decided to respond via video, calling for women in public life to be judged on what they stand for (not what they wear).
“Mr Goers, what I want to know is what should a woman in politics wear? How about a garbage bag to match your garbage views,” Flint asks, as she strips off a black coat to reveal a black garbage bag (with belt) underneath.
Perhaps she ought to take a leaf from Pauline Hanson’s book and wear a burqa to Parliament?
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