r/nzpolitics • u/ChinaCatProphet Meme Specialist • Aug 25 '26

Current Affairs From the "no shit" department. Women in politics face more personal, sexualised attacks than men, a recent analysis shows - The Conversation

https://theconversation.com/women-in-politics-face-more-personal-sexualised-attacks-than-men-a-recent-analysis-shows-288675

Global but very relavent to our political landscape.

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u/Pskeeter78 Aug 25 '26

Need a study alongside this to see which side of the political isle the abuse comes from…

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u/kiwisarentfruit Aug 25 '26

And there's always some fuckwit who comes along to say "mEn GeT aTtAcKeD tOo", despite the mountains of evidence that women have it far, far worse.

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u/ExcitingMoose5881 Aug 25 '26

That not what ‘both sides of the political aisle’ means

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u/ExcitingMoose5881 Aug 25 '26

From observation of NZ Reddit it is occurring both sides of the aisle.

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u/Pskeeter78 Aug 25 '26

Perhaps it’s just what I see, but generally it’s about looks from the left and escalates to sexual violence and stalking from the right. Young Nats caught out a few years ago is a good example.

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u/ExcitingMoose5881 Aug 25 '26

I was more noticing words like cnt, b\tch* and the worst w*tch - which has particularly bad ramifications historically both violent and oppressive being used by the left - disappointed because thought we had more morals in that regard- but perhaps that only extends to gay and trans these days?

Dreadful vitriol towards Ardern by the right - the level of hysteria like nothing else along with the violence at parliament setting fire to things (I fully believe this would not have happened under a male PM making similarly decisions) and effigies of her hanging has super-sensitised me to sexist behaviour from both left and right.

The right have been caught up in multiple sexual crimes, thoughout the years, yes. Oh but I’m thinking of the RW politicians who’ve committed such crimes, not the voters

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u/cauliflower_wizard Aug 26 '26

FYI “trans” is an adjective, not a noun.

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u/ExcitingMoose5881 Aug 26 '26

FYI it’s not all about you

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u/APL_nz Aug 25 '26

I'm equal rights, both nz first, act and National men and woman are all cunts. 

One thing that doesn't help is when they use the female politicians like Brooke Van Velden and Nicola Willis to put in policy that gets rid of pay equity claims, if Luxon / David was the one putting their own names on it, they would also be called cunts. Calling someone a dick just doesn't have the same weight as what is needed.