- Details a shameful episode in Australian political history, when Senator David Leyonhjem slut-shamed Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young by yelling to her across the chamber: 'you should stop shagging men Sarah'.
- Although Hanson-Young never details her private life in this small book, the essential question is: what on earth does anyone's private life have to do with anything?
- It’s plainly written, without flourish or style, yet paints a brutal picture of the constant and ugly attacks on women by men in all walks of life.
- Hanson-Young rightly attacks the right wing Murdoch media and Fairfax shock jocks. This is how these tiny dicks get off.
- She recounts an ugly episode when a drunken Cory Bernadi hounded her and sidled up to her while she was speaking in the Senate and whispered foul things to her. What an utter sleazebag that supposed Christian is.
- Her defence of Labor politician Emma Husar is passionate and angry. Good to see. A woman whose political career was destroyed by slut-shaming.
- And an excellent appreciation of Julia Gillard and the awful misogynistic treatment she constantly received as PM.
- Not a terribly insightful book but worth reading.
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