So how’s all the ‘ Labour Party man ban’ hysteria working out for you?

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Remember all the screams from the media at the so called ‘man ban’ of the Labour Party?

Labour’s attempt at gender equality was really just more evidence of Labour’s man hate,  feminists were taking over, heterosexual red blooded men burnt at the stake. Blah blah blah. 

Well these are the gender stats for candidates based on Party lists… 

National: 29% Women, 71% Men. 

Labour: 45% Women, 55% Men. 

How’s all that sexist hysteria working out now then? Why isn’t National’s list getting the same kind of negative attention Labour’s did? Why isn’t National’s list called a sexist misogynistic slap in the face to NZ Women everywhere that National can pay such insipid lip service to genuine equality? 

Haven’t noticed those narratives being explored by our friends in pundit land.

How shit this blatant can become woven into fact is bewildering.

18 COMMENTS

  1. Ugh…on Paula Bennetts FB page her own fan club call her “good girl”, comment on what shes wearing & basically are so inadvertently patronising towards her that she honestly must feel insulted.

    • I don’t think she’s bright enough to see it as an insult. There’s not much happening between the ears there.

  2. A brief glance at the 2013 census stats shows that 48.4% of the population is male, 51.3% is female. So which party better reflects the gender make-up of the nation? Women need to unite and make their voices heard this election

  3. “Why isn’t National’s list getting the same kind of negative attention Labour’s did? Why isn’t National’s list called a sexist misogynistic slap in the face to NZ Women everywhere that National can pay such insipid lip service to genuine equality?”

    I’ll have a go at answering that question if I may Martyn.

    Its because white males dominate all of NZs powerful decision making positions. All of them. Thats the way its always been and so everyone sees it as normal and doesn’t think theres anything wrong in it.

  4. because National are more competent sexists than Labour are. I mean what are Labour good at again? the Left will lose not because of the mainstream media but because Labour is cant get its shit together. look at the Greens. solid. Internet-Mana. direction. Labour should have ejected its right-wing assholes years ago…..

  5. Depends if you want equal opportunity or equal outcome

    National has the former, Labour has the latter

  6. National choose best PERSON for the job (no discrimination )
    Labour choose BEST LADY FOR THE JOB.( gender discrimination )

    • Oh, fuck me. So Nick Smith, Paula Bennett, Simon Bridges, Anne Tolley, Gerry Brownlee, Judith Collins, Murray McCully, Hekia Parata, Maurice Wiliamson, Katrina Shanks, Aaron Gilmour, Pansy Wong, John Banks, Melissa Lee…

      Yeah, they were all THE BEST people for the job. None of them made a hatchet job of anything they touched.

      • Exactly.

        And if Aaron Gilmore is an example of how they choose on “merit”, then the bar is set pretty low.

        I’m sure plenty of women could meet that standard, and exceed it. Its not hard!

  7. Yes Martyn.
    True words.
    You need to get yourself on the telly, and reach all the armchair politically ignorant of our society, and the ones who think their votes don’t matter, and the ones who have become so terribly complacent in their poverty and vulnerabilities and disabilities, that they can’t be bothered because it’s all too hard – they spend every minute of their day just trying to survive, and the ones who became so disillusioned with their NZ that they high-tailed it to another country.

    Opinion.

  8. It seems whalespew readers are here again.

    If you posit that National has more men than women because they select solely based upon merit, then logically you must believe that men are the better candidates for selection. That women are not as good as, nor as competent as men in the field of politics.

    And when you put it like that…. it seems like bullshit.

    You would also have to posit that Pakeha men are by far better candidates than all other ethnicities in the field of politics. After all, their party list is dominated by white males.

    And when you put it like that… again looks like bullshit.

    Or… something else is going on.

    • This is my favourite counter right wing argument, that somehow Nationals rankings are a meritocracy. When tobacco and booze lobbyists are seen as examples of meritocracy you appreciate how warped national party views on ‘merit’ actually extend to

    • It’ll be a cold day in hell before heaven ever has anything to do with that bunch of selfish pricks.

  9. Perhaps women who value National Party aspirations are thinner on the ground than white, middle class, authoritarian wannabees!

  10. poor old Facebook page The Labour Party’s War on Men are howling and gibbering about MRA and how hard done by men are. No doubt they’ll read this blog (as they seem to have their snout in truffling about for ammo) and come up with some more rubbish about how underpriviledged men are and we don’t need any more women in Parliament. It’s not like we’re asking for much, just equal opportunity to have our voices heard just like men, we don’t want your balls on a plate or anything, just a fair go. Mainstream media pulled the same shenanagans when screaming about Cunliffes short holiday break, meanwhile Key was off at his holiday home *cough – read mansion* in Hawaii for a break. same old same old

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