Turning the Tables 101: With America's GOP giddily marching ahead into the 18th century by disenfranchising, endangering and insulting women - slashing women's health services across Texas, calling sexual assault victims "controversial characters" in Missouri, claiming "some girls rape easy" in Wisconsin - it's invigorating to hear Julia Gillard, Australia's first female prime minister, furiously rip a new one for opposition leader Tony Abbott when he tries to link her to a sexist text-message scandal involving one of her allies. Bonus: the rowdy "hear-hears."

"I will not be lectured about misogyny and sexism by this man, not now, not ever....If he wants to know what misogyny looks like in modern Australia, he doesn't need a motion in the house of Representatives, he needs a mirror."