'I am really grateful to John Coates. He gave a masterclass in how to be an arrogant powerbroker when he schooled Brisbane 2032 Olympic bid-winning Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk at a late-night press conference in Tokyo,' writes jennaprice | OPINION
Look, I am really grateful to John Coates. He gave a masterclass in how to be an arrogant powerbroker when he schooled Brisbane 2032 Olympic bid-winning Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk at aPalaszczuk, who went to Tokyo to cheer on her city’s successful bid, was determined not to attend the Tokyo opening ceremony. For all the good reasons. She didn’t want to look like she was on a junket when most of Australia is in miserable lockdown.
And he said it in the tone of voice with which all of us who have ever been bullied by our bosses will be familiar. He was playful. He was “joking”. It was going to be his way or the highway.So why am I grateful? For the past, I dunno, millennium, men – not all men – have demeaned and degraded women repetitively, continuously, relentlessly. Women have been told to put up with it. Told that we have no sense of humour. That we take things too seriously.
I asked Geoff Dickson, director of the Centre for Sport and Social Impact at La Trobe University, what he thought of Coates’ behaviour. He too sees Coates schooling Palaszczuk: “He was effectively telling her, in public, she was ignorant of Olympic history and protocol and he had to upskill her.” “The problem is that women politicians are always in a double bind,” says Carol Johnson, Australia’s foremost scholar on political leadership and one of the authors in. “If they stand up to men who have treated them inappropriately they are seen as being aggressive and difficult but if they don’t stand up, they aren’t calling out the behaviour.”
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