She has never set out to court controversy, but her recent book, Welcome to Sex, provided little relief from the pile-ons.
Fitz: Yumi, how did you get into the whole media world?
YS: I don’t think so. I think I completely wanted to be incognito and treated like a “regular” Australian, and it was just one of those things that was thrust upon me: to see things from the perspective of the minority and the underdog and to represent that.on footage of a buff Ben Roberts-Smith VC and said, “He’s going to dive down to the bottom of the pool and see if his brain’s there,” whereupon co-host George Negus said, amused, “I wonder if he’s not up to it in the sack.
YS: You know what? If I could have done that, I would have. Because I’m not attracted to this feeling of being besieged, of being hated. I just want to live a peaceful life with my family. But at the same time, I do have strong convictions around politics, racism and women’s health and women’s safety, and I do want to live according to those values. To be honest, I thought I was choosing a safer, more measured path by writing books. Just trying to keep my head beneath the parapet.
Fitz: And then, two months after publication, the controversy explodes – accusing you of everything from being a “paedo” to “grooming”. Where did it blow up?YS: First, among the cookers on the net; and then the whole controversy got picked up by Ben Fordham on 2GB [which is owned by Nine, publisher of this masthead], which saw the outrage go mainstream.
Fitz: But you’ve been here before, Yumi! You’re a veteran. When you push the envelope, there is pushback. You’re a survivor, who knows the current gunfire will fall away as they whip up the mob for their next target, and you’ll be still standing.
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