Mediocre West Australian columnist Pam Casellas reveals that classic double standard of the cowardly PC feminist: It's only sexual harassment if your political enemies do it.
Sure, I agree that Troy Buswell has been a bonehead who deserves a spray for his silly behaviour. But why completely exempt Alan Carpenter from similar criticism, as airhead Pam does in this gargle?
"Shifty Lifty" Al is looking increasingly desperate in his denials because he still hasn't got that crucial explicit defence from Jaye Radisich.
To summarize: If the claim that he lifted her shirt is not true, then why has Radisich not offered an unambiguous and emphatic statement to that effect? And if it did happen, and she was okay with it (which is what she's tried to imply with her choice of words and selective silence -- but not very convincingly) why not say as much?
In my opinion there are two reasons for these omissions: One, because he did lift her shirt and she doesn't want to save the lying weasel's skin by telling a big fat porky herself. Two, because she was and remains angry that he did so. (And even if she didn't mind, that still doesn't make it okay, does it? That would mean he was still offending all women, much as Sam Newman did with his Caroline Wilson skit, wouldn't it?)
So, back to obedient Pam Casellas and her revealing reluctance to condemn Shifty Lifty: She's a feminist, isn't she? So why is she defending a pale patriarch who's clearly demeaned women with his sexist behaviour? I mean look at the guy, he's about as white as a white male can be!
The answer is obvious but I'll say it anyway: It's because she's a fellow traveler of Alan Carpenter, cynically invoking noble sentiment only when it suits. In her lame piece Pam reveals more about her own prejudice than the blokey boofheads she condemns -- namely that she has disdain and not goodwill for most women.
Feminists! They're so bloody hopeless that unreconsructed testosteroids like myself have to do their job for them. How sad is that?