19 January

Annabel Crabb has the gift of explaining what stinks in an argument with only a few, witty words. On this topic, when you strip away the hypocrisy of the critics, what’s left in plain view is the clear dislike of women. “The weird thing about having a baby as a female elected representative is that it is — historically speaking — an offence only rivalled in seriousness by the offence of not having one.” “The only criticism that lingers is the one about how a mother's undivided attention is the most important thing for a child (an argument that is advanced near-uninterruptedly by certain authorities, and relieved only by periods of arguing — in instances of lesbian or single motherhood — that what the kid REALLY needs is a father).”