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I have not until this day felt such a passionate urge to Bobbit someone as when i read this interview with the lovely Bill Heffernan. It's a roller coaster of nasty things and dirty thoughts.

Firstly, to suggest that Julia Gillard is not fit for leadership because of her "deliberately barren'' state is utterly offensive and unworthy even of the Liberal party. The idea that even after years of feminism someone could still assert that women can't really fit in or be effective unless they have children is almost unbelievable. If it's all about understanding family, then surely the fact that we play parts in our own families (as sister, aunt, daughter, mother etc) gives us the experience that would be neccesary to fulfil this criteria. Really though, even this kind of supposition is ridiculous, it's not like women need children to make them more empathic or more able to take the human angle into account, we've pretty much got the monopoly on that one fellas.

Bills explanation is as stomach turning as it is incompreensible: "One of the great understandings in a community is family, and the relationship between mum, dad and a bucket of nappies." Is it particularly the fecal matter of children that bonds communities or could we substitute other animals i wonder?

Reasons Julia might need sprogs to lead the ALP:
1. Practice "time-outs" for when parliament gets too rowdy
2. Possible introduction of "naughty seat" technique
3. Developement of go-to-your-room arms (the ones that wobble for a little after the arm has been stretched out)
4. To learn the importance of wet-wipes (would have stood Bill CLinton in good stead after all)
5. So they can go to private schools and fool around with kids of the Liberal party hacks

and so it goes.