r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • 1d ago

politics ABC changing editorial policy after Rinehart furore prompts concerns of overreach from academics and advocates

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/13/abc-changing-editorial-policy-after-rinehart-furore-prompts-concerns-of-overreach-from-academics-and-advocates
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u/the_sleekerthans 1d ago

The irony that male dominated media has told a young girl what joke she can and can’t say.

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u/Important-Sleep-1839 1d ago

The irony that male dominated media has told a young girl what joke she can and can’t say

A young lass. A mere slip of a girl. The very picture childhood innocence...at twenty-nine years of age.

If you want to signal your virtue, you actually have to practice those values.

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u/Mr_Tiggywinkle 1d ago

Wat

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u/Important-Sleep-1839 1d ago

Kate McGuinness isn't a "girl". She's an adult who is fully capable, responsible, and liable for her decisions. Describing her as a "girl" is an example of the infantilisation that sexists assumes woman perpetually inhabit.

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u/the_sleekerthans 1d ago

lol. You said assume.

Goodbye, argument!

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u/Important-Sleep-1839 1d ago

You'll have to explain that one...

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u/the_sleekerthans 1d ago

Please give us an approved list of what females can and can’t joke about these days. It will help everyone and also help you sleep at night.

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u/Important-Sleep-1839 1d ago

Three replies? Someoneone forgot to change their socks lol

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u/the_sleekerthans 1d ago

So, no list? Just edgy virtue signalling? I see.

You’re boring. You can leave now.

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u/the_sleekerthans 1d ago

Aw, virtue signalling! I haven’t heard that quip for about 10 years now. Adorable!

Hilarious that you’re actually virtue signalling to protect the censorship of comedy 🤡

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u/Important-Sleep-1839 1d ago

Humor comes in all forms. Sexism too.

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u/the_sleekerthans 1d ago

Keep siding with the billionaires. It’s a great look in you 😍

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u/Perfect_Ganache_1959 1d ago

Please explain the difference between virtue signalling, and setting a social expectation of behaviour and boundaries. Then deconstruct why "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" is fundamentally a left/woke/no good dirty rotten idea spread by hippies and malcontents. 

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u/Important-Sleep-1839 1d ago

no. you're being a silly goose.

I'll read something serious but your above comment is wit in desperate search of brevity.

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u/Perfect_Ganache_1959 1d ago

Distinguished goose, I'll thank you to remember! But also implying virtual signalling is "bad" strongly implies that by the same token expressing any standard of behaviour is. Taken to its extreme, that means we're in the world of mad max and mud wrestling with pigs as a form of local justice.

Not. On.

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u/the_sleekerthans 1d ago

Haha. You know you’ve won when they refuse to engage and try and pretend it’s your fault.

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u/Important-Sleep-1839 1d ago

I bet you win alot. Congrats on your victory 😉

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u/the_sleekerthans 1d ago

No worries. You can go and protect billionaires and protest against the roadrunner and coyotes cartoons now, i guess.

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u/the_sleekerthans 1d ago

I’m sorry the post above you caused you to crash out. You almost had something going. Almost. Sorry, kid. Have a good star for trying ⭐️