Strain showing on Thai PM as crisis - and sexist attacks - continue

[boston bean]

When 46-year-old Ms Yingluck won power in a landslide election victory in 2011 she said one of the first world leaders she wanted to meet was Australia’s then prime minister Julia Gillard because she saw a lot in common with her. But she could never have foreseen Ms Gillard’s famous vow a year later to “call out misogyny and sexism wherever I see it” and the crude attacks that were later to come her own way.

A university professor recommended sending a large group of men to “sexually snare” Ms Yingluck, according to reports by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

A well-known doctor offered to give her vaginal repair surgery and to change her sanitary pads and said she could become a nude model because she has hasn’t yet reached menopause.

At major intersections in Bangkok which protesters are blockading, huge photoshopped posters have been put up calling Ms Yingluck crude names or showing her with phalluses.

Late last year British-educated opposition leader and former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva referred to Ms Yingluck as a “stupid bitch”.

The crude attacks have come from women and men as Thailand’s political crisis has become increasingly bitter.

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[shenmue]

1. Wow, what pieces of shit

What is the quality of life going to be like, if you hate half the population?

[OregonBlue]

2. These sexist attacks are disgusting. I don't care for her because I agree with her critics.

They claim Ms Yingluck is a puppet of her elder brother Thaksin Shinawatra, a divisive figure in Thailand, who lives abroad to avoid a jail sentence for corruption.

She is a puppet for her corrupt brother but that has nothing to do with her sex, only her ideology. The Shinawatra family are oligarchs to the core.

[Zorra]

3. “a deep-rooted patriarchal culture in Thai society, even among people who claim to uphold morality”.

Just about the entire world is a deep-rooted patriarchal culture, even among people who claim to uphold morality, near as I can tell.

I'm fucking sick of it, too.