{"id":132664,"date":"2023-10-25T03:11:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T03:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=132664"},"modified":"2023-10-25T03:11:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T03:11:12","slug":"jacinta-allan-lashes-out-at-sexualised-cartoon-depicting-her-naked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/world-news\/jacinta-allan-lashes-out-at-sexualised-cartoon-depicting-her-naked\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacinta Allan lashes out at &apos;sexualised&apos; cartoon depicting her naked"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Jacinta Allan rages at &#8216;sexualised&#8217; cartoon showing the new Victorian premier walking naked down a catwalk: &#8216;It&#8217;s not the 1950s&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Victorian Premier lashes out at cartoonist for naked depiction\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jacinta Allan said women don&#8217;t deserve to be &#8216;sexualised&#8217; in the media<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Jacinta Allan slams claims she did not know about new land tax\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A newspaper cartoonist has offended Victoria&#8217;s new premier Jacinta Allan after he drew her walking down a catwalk completely naked.<\/p>\n<p>The cartoon was published by the Herald Sun&#8217;s Mark Knight on Tuesday, depicting the Labor leader nude on the runway of Melbourne\u00a0Fashion Week in a reference to the fable of the &#8216;The Emperor&#8217;s New Clothes&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;From the Commonwealth Games cancellation collection &#8230; the premier&#8217;s new clothes,&#8217; the cartoon&#8217;s caption reads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Walkley Award-winning cartoonist was attempting to link the folktale to Ms Allan&#8217;s questioning by a committee into the cancellation of the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Victoria.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ms Allan objected to the depiction, saying women deserved to be able to see themselves in the media in a way that &#8216;doesn&#8217;t use sexualised imagery&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Knight vehemently defended his cartoon, saying it is not &#8216;sexist&#8217; and instead described it is as fair &#8216;political comment&#8217;.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE: See Pauline Hanson&#8217;s bizarre new cartoon series mocking Barnaby as a beetroot, Peter Dutton as Voldemort and Scott Morrison as a try-hard beach bum<\/h3>\n<p>The premier criticised the cartoon while speaking to the media on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s 2023 and I think it&#8217;s pretty reasonable to expect that the Herald Sun in-house cartoonist should be able to draw women without using sexualised imagery,&#8217; Ms Allan said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think it&#8217;s pretty reasonable for women, regardless of profession or background, to be able to have themselves represented in a way that doesn&#8217;t use sexualised imagery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s not the 1950s, it&#8217;s 2023.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>When asked if she had seen any male politicians being drawn naked on a catwalk, Ms Allan responded: &#8216;Not to my recollection&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Former Labor premier of Victoria between 1999 and 2007, Steve Bracks, also condemned the cartoon, saying: &#8216;we need to do better&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was premier for almost eight years and not once was I subjected to this awful, sexualised treatment,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Premier\u00a0Jacinta Allan has received in less than a month. We need to do better.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the opposition in the state&#8217;s upper house, Georgie Crozier, defended the cartoon and called the backlash a &#8216;distraction&#8217; to policy debate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There are bigger issues facing Victoria than the premier worrying about a cartoon,&#8217; Ms Crozier said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The premier has been fully exposed and needs to front the Commonwealth Games inquiry and tell Victorians what happened.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/25\/00\/76960563-12668323-Herald_Sun_cartoonist_Mark_Knight_has_come_under_fire_from_Victo-a-22_1698190143180.jpg\" height=\"426\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Herald Sun cartoonist, Mark Knight, has come under fire from Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan (pictured), after he drew her naked while on the catwalk at a fashion show<\/p>\n<h2><span>Poll<\/span><\/h2>\n<p> Do you think the cartoon of Jacinta Allan is sexist? <\/p>\n<p> Do you think the cartoon of Jacinta Allan is sexist? <\/p>\n<p>Now share your opinion<\/p>\n<p>Mr Knight defended his stance on his presentation of politicians, having produced a cartoon of Mr Andrews appearing naked in reference to the iconic album cover of Nirvana&#8217;s &#8216;Nevermind&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He has also previously drawn both opposition leader Peter Dutton and former Prime Minister Tony Abbott nude.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Knight drew the cartoon of Ms Allan after she was questioned by the committee into the Commonwealth Games on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I felt that some of the information that was coming out left the premier a little bit exposed and my cartoonist brain clicked into gear, and it was Fashion Week and, I thought, &#8220;well, this is not a bad idea&#8221;,&#8217; Knight told ABC Radio.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Knight later told 3AW&#8217;s Neil Mitchell that he doesn&#8217;t &#8216;see the premier as a woman&#8217; but just as &#8216;the premier&#8217;, and would have drawn any politician in that scenario in the same way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If Daniel Andrews was still premier, I would have drawn him on that catwalk in the same position.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I thought it was a very fair and non-sexualised comment on the premier using an age-old folktale.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The fable was first published in\u00a01837 by\u00a0Danish author Hans Christian Andersen and is a cautionary tail about a vain emperor.<\/p>\n<p>in the tail, the emperor is conned into buying a suit made of fabric that can not be seen by those who are stupid or incompetent.<\/p>\n<p>The conmen then pretend to weave a suit and mime dressing him in it, to which the emperor does not resist so he as not to appear stupid.<\/p>\n<p>The emperor, believing to be dressed in a fine suit, then parades himself naked throughout the town.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/25\/00\/76960565-12668323-Mr_Knight_pictured_defended_his_cartoon_saying_it_was_fair_polit-a-23_1698190143298.jpg\" height=\"371\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mr Knight (pictured) defended his cartoon, saying it was fair &#8216;political commentary&#8217; 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