Dr Dee Michell #cep

Former foster kid, former academic at the University of Adelaide, Kaurna country. Views are mine.

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I loved reading Bri Lee's "Who Gets to be Smart". It was great to be thinking about kyriarchy again. https://t.co/YkQ0ypb608

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"Half of Parliament was drinking to cope" — Former Prime Minister on the... https://t.co/fAR8uwD7Ef via @YouTube

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Beetroot Barnaby Joyce has major housing train wreck interview on his comms Sky news network. Even Andrew Bolt said blunder shows they are ‘literally making up policy as it goes along’
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“We’re going to find this Mexican and send him back immediately."

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@ThPeterLockhart I hope someone reports you for Islamphobia

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It's a good questions critics should be asking themselves:

"Why are they spending so much energy attacking a survivor instead of supporting the change she helped create?"

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I am absolutely fed up with the relentless targeting of Grace Tame.

Let's be clear. There is a difference between fair criticism and a public pile-on. What we keep seeing directed at Grace is not constructive debate. It is constant scrutiny, personal attacks, outrage cycles and a level of judgment that seems reserved for women who dare to speak too loudly, too honestly or too unapologetically.

Grace Tame survived child sexual abuse. She helped change laws. She gave a voice to countless survivors. She has spent years doing work that most people would never have the courage to do.

Yet the attacks never seem to stop.

A few weeks ago it was the Prime Minister taking aim at her. Now it's Charlie Pickering. Before that, countless commentators, columnists and social media critics. Different names, same pattern.

And frankly, it disgusts me.

No, women in public life should not be immune from criticism. Nobody is. But there is a world of difference between criticism and the kind of sustained public hounding that seeks to diminish, discredit and exhaust someone.

As someone who has experienced public judgment and media attacks, I know how destructive these campaigns can be. They reduce human beings to caricatures. They erase context. They encourage outrage while ignoring the very real emotional toll on the person at the centre of it.

What troubles me most is that women who survive violence are so often expected to be perfect. The moment they become angry, outspoken, political, imperfect or inconvenient, they are treated as fair game.

Grace Tame has contributed more to the conversation about sexual abuse and survivor advocacy in this country than most of her critics ever will.

Maybe it's time some of the men lining up to take shots at her stopped and asked themselves a simple question:

Why are they spending so much energy attacking a survivor instead of supporting the change she helped create?

Enough. #gracetame #charliepickering

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@ThPeterLockhart Have you meant any Muslims @ThPeterLockhart ? I have & that's not true. So who is divorced from reality?

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@ThPeterLockhart another personal attack. I'm done.

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@ThPeterLockhart nope it hasnt stopped. have you seen the pastors accused/charged in the USA?
eg https://t.co/7dCwwyZIiM

you do know child marriage is permitted in a majority of American states?

I'm sorry to hear of your experience.

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@MyFirstCousin yes its puzzling isnt it. perhaps because they come across as a nasty bunch who'll work out some way to punish whoever speaks against them?

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@TerryMoran you've looked stupid to the rest of us since you voted him back in

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@TheKennyDevine love it!

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JUST IN: Barnaby Joyce apologises for 'trainwreck' Sky News appearance; admits to "bigotmaxxing" prior to interview.

Bigotmaxxing is a process where a person bangs their head against a hard surface until they consider voting for One Nation. Extreme bigotmaxxing may result in the individual blaming non-citizens for almost everything.

"In Mr Joyce's case, he's bigotmaxxed in combination with livermogging (boozing) and the results are what we witnessed last night", said one expert.

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@YBT0905 @MikeCarlton01 is hanson holding hands with farley?

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@GrumparseJeremy @JohnRowsthorne she's a disappointment

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@TabularasaMMXIX @Martina but they always rise to the top