Destroy the Joint by Magonsdaughter

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Destroy the Joint

POSTED BY: MAGONSDAUGHTER
UPDATED: Monday, December 10, 2012 10:20
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Sunday, December 9, 2012 6:24 PM

AN ONLINE group formed to fight sexism is expected to rank highly when Australia's most influential female voices are announced on Tuesday.

Destroy the Joint was created in September after comments by the radio presenter Alan Jones. In conversation with the Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce, Jones said Australian women were "destroying the joint".

A Twitter hashtag was started by the media commentator Jane Caro with the tweet, "Got time on my hands tonight so thought I'd spend it coming up with new ways of 'destroying the joint' being a woman and all. Ideas welcome." Soon hundreds of women were humorously sharing how they, too, were #destroyingthejoint.

A Facebook group quickly followed. Launched by the Sydney academic Jenna Price, the social media collective now has more than 20,000 members.
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It played a key role in lobbying more than 70 advertisers to abandon advertising on Jones's program for six days after he said the father of the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, had "died of shame". The Fairfax website Daily Life, which announces the top 20 influencers, said Destroy the Joint has had a profound effect on many women and was rating well.

More recently, Destroy the Joint rallied its members to take on the Melbourne radio station FOX Fm when it ran a "Guess the Celebrity Boobs" photo gallery on its website. The group flooded the station with emails saying the images were offensive and inappropriate and, within a few hours, FOX had removed them.

It's proved an important year for Australian women. It is the year the RU846 drug became widely available; when 5000 people marched in a Reclaim the Night rally after the murder of a Melbourne woman, Jill Meagher; and when Ms Gillard's speech on misogyny became a global news story.

That speech was a watershed moment for women nominating contenders for Australia's Most Influential Female Voices. Many said it made it more acceptable to identify sexism in their lives and breathed new life into the feminist movement.

The full list of Australia's Most Influential Female Voices will be published by Daily Life on Tuesday.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/one-tweet-has-grown-into-
a-wide-and-influential-womens-network-20121209-2b3e5.html#ixzz2EcSrwnRh

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Sunday, December 9, 2012 8:08 PM

CANTTAKESKY

I am not familiar with the idiom, "destroying the joint." What does "joint" mean?

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Sunday, December 9, 2012 8:46 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

It means 'wreck the place'

From a misogynist DJ who claimed that women (in power) in Australia, were destroying the joint and has been now been taken on by women to describe taking action against misogyny.

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Monday, December 10, 2012 2:22 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Edited, as comments were based on mistaken ID of said individual.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Monday, December 10, 2012 4:49 AM

BYTEMITE

Different persons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Jones_%28radio_broadcaster%29

Alan Jones (radio broadcaster) born 1941, Australian radio broadcaster and former rugby league and union coach.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones_%28radio_host%29

Alex Jones (radio host) born 1974, U.S. conspiracy theorist, radio host and filmmaker.

They do both love attention.

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Monday, December 10, 2012 4:52 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important

Hello,

Good show. When proud sexism is as frowned upon as proud racism, the world will be a bit nicer.

--Anthony

Note to Self:
Raptor - woman testifying about birth control is a slut (the term applies.)
Context: http://tinyurl.com/d6ozfej
Six - Wow, isn't Niki quite the CUNT? And, yes, I spell that in all caps....
http://tinyurl.com/bdjgbpe
Wulf - Niki is a stupid fucking bitch who should hurry up and die.
Context: http://tinyurl.com/afve3r9

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” -T. S. Szasz

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Monday, December 10, 2012 5:08 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Ahh... Alan, not Alex. Gotchya. Don't know about the earlier Jones character.

Pardon the error.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Monday, December 10, 2012 5:54 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Funny...at first I thought it was talking about marijuana "joint" (bet some others did too), but I figured it out as I started reading. What pathetic mysoginy, and good for those women for fighting back!

Tit for tat got us where we are today. If we want to be grownups, we need to resist the ugliness. If we each did, this would be a better reflection on Firefly and a more welcome place. I will try.

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Monday, December 10, 2012 6:50 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

'Destroying the joint ', does sound like a descriptive way of saying 'let's light one up'.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Monday, December 10, 2012 10:20 AM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

If its in the name of ending misogyny, then go for it. All for a good cause, eh?

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