October 12, 2012 Why I don't care about the Gillard-Abbott sexism war and neither should you As regular readers of Major Karnage will probably have figured out, I like to follow Australian politics. As you may have guessed (and those who know me would know), I also like to talk about Australian politics. People I associate with know this, so they tend to engage me whenever an issue in Australian politics catches their attention -- I even have some friendships based around these conversations. Crazy, I know. So when there is a huge scandal in Australian politics that the whole world is talking about , I expect that it will come up somewhere. Sure enough, a lot of people have been asking me about Julia Gillard's now world-famous speech calling Tony Abbott a misogynist. My answer has surprised a few people, so I now feel the need to write a post and justify it. Simply put: I don't really care. It just doesn't really interest me. I watched a recording of the speech and got bored after a couple of minutes. Since it was such a big thing, I went back and watched the rest later, but now I just want that 10 minutes back. So why this uncharacteristic apathy? Well, I don't really see this as anything new. The issue that was much more important/interesting was the resignation of Speaker Peter Slipper because of the revelation of lewd and offensive text messages that he sent his former staffer. The