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
She denied the abundantly documented and proven mass rape of Jewish girls on October 7th.
She is evil incarnated and should be shunned from polite society.
Agree
Julia Gillardโs silence is deafening.
I am offended that she has not apologised to the women of Australia.
I am offended that she has remained silent.
The woman who stood in Parliament and declared โI was very offended on behalf of the women of Australiaโ and โI will not be lectured about sexism and misogynyโฆ not now, not everโ cannot now hide from the consequences of her own 2013 changes to the Sex Discrimination Act.
She cannot continue to talk about women as Australiaโs first female Prime Minister while presiding over the legal erasure of the very category โ โwomanโ as adult human female โ that made that achievement meaningful.
The 2013 changes Julia Gillard drove have directly led to this mess: Giggle v Tickle, compromised single-sex spaces, and the ongoing assault on womenโs rights.
History will judge Julia harshly for abandoning biological reality when it mattered most.
Thank you Sall for your courage in fighting this.
Biology isnโt bigotry.
#Auspol #BiologyIsntBigotry #GiggleVTickle
@salltweets@KirralieS@JuliaGillard
@salltweets I was briefly a conciliator with the human rights an equal opportunity commission in Queensland - it was a festering shit hole then! Now even more ridiculous.