My Career Goes Bung

One of my pet peeves are women who want special treatment simply because of their gender.

Employment quotas for instance, are abhorrent. My achievements are as a result of my hard work, not from someone doing me a favour.

That's the reason why I uncharacteristically blew my top yesterday evening( much to Nicky's surprise) when former chief magistrate Di Fingleton returned to the bench and made the following astounding statements:

"I was not to know it would be so famously, as the recipient of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in the history of the Queensland and Australian legal systems."

and this:

Ms Fingleton paid tribute to state Attorney-General Linda Lavarch for negotiating her return - "It took two women in the end to pull it all together" - but warned her fellow female legal figures to be cautious when making potentially difficult decisions and to remain alert.

The former chief magistrate faced trial and was convicted of threatening a witness against her in a workplace bullying matter.

Ms Fingleton served part of her custodial sentence before being freed after it was determined that she should not have been prosecuted because, as a magistrate, she had immunity from prosecution.

After threatening to sue left, right and centre, Ms Fingleton was mollified by a settlement worth almost half a million dollars and a cushy job as a magistrate in Caboolture, just north of Brisbane.

My issues with Ms Fingleton are these:

1. She was not the recipient of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in the history of the Queensland and Australian legal systems.

Ms Fingleton has not been cleared of threatening another magistrate, she got out on a technicality which, if she had been any good at her job in the first place, she would have known about.

Claiming it is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice is hyperbole to a disgusting degree.

2. Ms Fingleton also warned her fellow female legal figures to be cautious when making potentially difficult decisions and to remain alert

Why? Because we're women and can't handle the 'stwess'? No, this is not a gender or discrimination matter. Fingleton proved to be a bully and ignorant of the law that she is supposed to administer.

What is a woman who admits is 'moved to tears easily' doing as a judge for crying out loud?

I'm sick and tired of the Baby Boomer feminist who bursts into tears and bleats discrimination when it is proved that she's personally not up to the job.

There's a generation of women who don't want any Man-Hating-I-Am-Woman-Hear-Me-Roar-Bra-Burning-Take-Back-The-Night-Germaine-Greer-Quota-Emily's-List-Gender-Neutral-PC crap.

Step aside Ms Fingleton, you're getting in our way.

-- Nora