By Jessica Champion
Recently a pet chew toy has been released
called ‘Droolia Julia’, the toy being a caricature of Prime Minister Julia
Gillard with over-exagerated features such as the nose, breast and buttocks. The
toy has been under speculation whether it is offensive or not and if its just
another way that shows Australia isn’t ready for a female leader.
The Adelaide pet store “P&K Pets” has
been overloaded with orders and the occasional complaint not long after it put
the toy on its shelves. Employee Kyle who works there has told multiple news
companies that he has received many orders and keep getting more from all sorts
of places. “We’ve had orders from everywhere ~ Queensland, Victoria, WA, even
the Northern Territory.” Though the toy has been popular, Kyle says that he has
also received many complaints, in store and over the phone. Some employees have
said that some customers have been quite abusive towards them about the toy
saying that they are “sexist” and ‘they wouldn’t do it to a man’.
Though many people have had a “good laugh”
over it, others have called it a “sick memento” and “extremely offensive”. Could
it be showing that we as a country are not ready for female leadership, that
deep down we are still a male dominated and sexist society?
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