WATCH: Steve Price Defends ‘Hysterical’ Comment, Carrie & Waleed Let Him Have It
Unless you are currently inhabiting an igloo (it’s the right weather for it), then you would have heard about the ‘hysterical’ label Steve Price used when describing female columnist Vanessa Van Badham on Q&A last night.
The ridiculously sexist comment was made after Tarang Chawla told the panel:
“My sister Nakita was stabbed to death by her partner in January last year with a meat cleaver. She was 23,” he said.
“How will politicians and the media play a better role in bringing about long overdue cultural shifts so tragedies like what happened to my family are not normalised?”
This led to Price defending his mate Eddie McGuire, and in response Van Badham shifted the conversation to focus on the treatment of women in Australia and the “cultural attitudes that treat women differently”.
As Price and Vad Badham argued, Price said those six now notorious words: “I think you’re just being hysterical”.
The reaction to this insanely out-of-touch and sexist approach to a woman, just expressing her opinion, has not gone unnoticed online. Price has spent the day being sent a barrage of abuse for his archaic words and appeared on The Project tonight to make his defense.
Hosts Carrie Bickmore and Waleed Aly let him have it but Price does NOT back down and it sounds like he didn’t learn a thing.