Former senator Jacqui Lambie offended an academic and an indigenous actress by suggesting women could stand up for themselves against workplace sexual harassment.
The Tasmanian firebrand also described the ‘Me Too’ movement as a victimhood campaign.
‘If you have a big woman who stands up to them and speaks straight down the line to them like their bloody mothers would, I can tell you now these men would move away pretty quickly,’ she told ABC-TV’s The Drum last week.
Former senator Jacqui Lambie offended an academic and an indigenous actress by suggesting women could stand up for themselves against male sexual predators
Ms Lambie grunted ‘ugh’ after Macquarie University research fellow Randa Abdel-Fattah argued refugee women couldn’t stand up for themselves in a workplace
Ms Lambie then grunted ‘ugh’ after Macquarie University research fellow Randa Abdel-Fattah argued refugee women couldn’t stand up for themselves in a workplace.
‘We’re still talking about this from a white women’s perspective,’ Dr Abdel-Fattah said. ‘Don’t “ugh” me.’
Indigenous actress Nakkiah Lui weighed in, accusing Ms Lambie of excusing the culture of sexual harassment at work.
‘When we bring it back to the women, when we say, “You’re not strong enough, you need to be more resilient”, you’re making the actual problem invisible and that is a culture of entitlement,’ she said.
Indigenous actress Nakkiah Lui weighed in, accusing Ms Lambie of excusing the culture of sexual harassment at work
Ms Lambie fired up after Randa Abdel-Fattah accused her of having no empathy for women who had been sexually harassed: ‘So we should run around like a victim, should we?’.
‘That’s a value system that this whole issue stems from which is sexism, which is people having less equality.’
Ms Lambie, 47, fired up after Dr Abdel-Fattah accused her of having no empathy for women who had been sexually harassed.
‘I’m just simply saying my coping mechanisms don’t go to”victim”,’ she said.
‘They stand up and fight. ‘So we should run around like a victim, should we?
‘That’s going the help the situation, girlfriend? I’m sorry.’