{"id":34269,"date":"2013-06-21T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=34269"},"modified":"2013-06-21T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T08:13:00","slug":"julia-gillard-versus-preston-kfc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=34269","title":{"rendered":"Julia Gillard ~versus~ Preston KFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/herenowmisogyny-e1371801675267.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been mucking about on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/slackbastard\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> today, trying to track down <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mattt_Fairhurst\/status\/347904385143169024\" target=\"_blank\">a story about a poster<\/a>. It seems that once upon a time, a few months ago, a poster appeared in the window of the Preston KFC (128 Bell Street). The poster contains a really awful sexist joke about Julia Gillard, one which may be traced back a few years. The earliest online example I could find of the poster in question appeared in July 2011&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>kfc julia gillard snack pack lol <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/QCyew4d\">http:\/\/t.co\/QCyew4d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Simon Wang \u2655 (@simonwang12) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simonwang12\/statuses\/88930725860098048\">July 7, 2011<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but the KFC theme has its origins in similar jokes made about Hilary Clinton back in the &#8217;90s (as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/clintons\/special.asp\" target=\"_blank\">documented<\/a> by snopes.com and indirectly referred to in a recent column in <em>The Australian<\/em> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/national-affairs\/the-bad-taste-joke-demeaning-julia-gillard-has-been-around-for-two-decades\/story-fn59niix-1226663468602\" target=\"_blank\">#menugate<\/a>). Anyway, to cut a long Twitter story short, the writer <a href=\"http:\/\/annesummers.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Summers<\/a> assures me that, based on a conversation she had with a journalist who witnessed it, the poster did indeed appear at the KFC in question. The only other detail I think worth adding at this stage is that local (Darebin) Greens councillor\/comedian Trent McCarthy apparently contacted the shop and got the following response:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/trent.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>See also<\/em> : Anne Summers, &#8216;More in Anger: The politics of gender in Australia in 2013&#8217; (Emily&#8217;s List Oration 2013), June 19, 2013 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilyslist.org.au\/images\/stories\/pdf\/Media_Releases\/2013\/orationspeech2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been mucking about on Twitter today, trying to track down a story about a poster. It seems that once upon a time, a few months ago, a poster appeared in the window of the Preston KFC (128 Bell Street). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=34269\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,12,29,16,14,9],"tags":[322,1633],"class_list":["post-34269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natas","category-art","category-broken-windows","category-media","category-sex-sexuality","category-state","tag-julia-gillard","tag-kfc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-8UJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34269"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34290,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34269\/revisions\/34290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}