A fiery column by Stuff journalist Andrea Vance targeting the Government’s halt on pay equity claims has ignited backlash for its use of the C-word directed at Finance Minister Nicola Willis and other female coalition MPs.
Vance accused the ministers of betraying underpaid women in feminised professions, prompting widespread condemnation from politicians including Judith Collins and former Prime Minister Dame Jenny Shipley, who called the language misogynistic and repulsive.
While the legacy mainstream media outlet defended the editorial decision, critics argued the shock value undermined the substance of Vance’s argument. PR and media commentators noted the language overshadowed the debate on systemic gender-based pay inequity.
So NZ Herald thought this was OK to publish while Stuff publish Andrea Vance’s opinion that Nicola Willis is a C●●t.
These are clear examples of why MSM in NZ deserves to die a slow painful death. They are not professional, they are clearly biased to the left. Disgusting! pic.twitter.com/qwtvyHU4VO— Infideliter 🇳🇿✖⚖✖🇳🇿 (@Infideliter2022) May 12, 2025
Formal Complaint sent to @SundayStarTimes Editor
Hi Tracy
We would like to lay a formal complaint against Andrea Vance’s article “The girl-math budget that will cut deep, especially for women”https://t.co/E5JRS1aMtM
Specifically, the paragraph:
“𝑻𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖… pic.twitter.com/VF5nGKi8HG— 𝓑𝓸𝓫 𝓜𝓬𝓒𝓸𝓼𝓴𝓻𝓲𝓮 🇳🇿 (@bobmccoskrienz) May 12, 2025
Formal Complaint sent to @SundayStarTimes Editor
Hi Tracy
We would like to lay a formal complaint against Andrea Vance’s article “The girl-math budget that will cut deep, especially for women”https://t.co/E5JRS1aMtM
Specifically, the paragraph:
“𝑻𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖… pic.twitter.com/VF5nGKi8HG— 𝓑𝓸𝓫 𝓜𝓬𝓒𝓸𝓼𝓴𝓻𝓲𝓮 🇳🇿 (@bobmccoskrienz) May 12, 2025
I’m stunned.
Yes, opinion pieces can be pretty direct but to see Andrea Vance, the National Affairs Editor for The Post and Sunday Star- Times effectively calling some female govt MP’s c*^ts in print is nothing short of extraordinary.
I am amazed this article was allowed to go… pic.twitter.com/KP7WvZEUoO
— Suit and tie (@Suitandtie9999) May 11, 2025
Horrific thing is that creature….
If she is working for stuff she is not a journalist. As for the pay gap there is no such thing, everybody in every job gets paid more or less than same one else in that same job and their gender has nothing to do with it.
The MSM has been a political poodle, for far too long. Much as I don’t like Vance, its high time they demonstrated some genuine criticism, of the so called government. A government who seem to think they are above the people, they claim to represent.
I don’t read Stuff so I’ve got no idea what all the fuss is about. Ignorance is bliss, as they say…
Predictable responses. If writing (and publishing) c*** which could be read as crab or crat or crum or curb or colt or cool or cash or camp or cell or chip then the inference is on the reader’s interpretation and preconception. Andrea Vance’s rant just explained what it was that was causing the anger and perturbation.
The great Ozzy Osbourne is an outrageous user of the word cunt, as are approximately 20million Australians and New Zealanders, often used affectionately as in “good cunt”. To make this storm in a teacup over ride the real issue is disingenuous.
C-word… I thought we were talking about Cancer… oh – Legacy MSM opinion journalists… then yes we are talking about the same cancer.
C is for cookie and that’s good enough for me. The muppets.
C is for Conspiracy, as in the Covid Conspiracy, JFK Conspiracy, Zionist Conspiracy, etc…
On & on the conspiracies go…and it’s very true that the Zionist-controlled factions of the ‘Global Government’ have now infested and infected the due processes of government which is arrogantly elitists and have truly forgotten who they are supposed to represent and be working for!
No wonder they have made firearms ownership impossible…
But my new 3D printer is doing just fine…as are my home-based reloads…
After all; IF GUNS WERE OUTLAWED, ONLY OUTLAWS WOULD HAVE GUNS!
We see this in the Hawks Bay and further ‘up north’…BAWHAWHAWHAWHAWHAW…mememememe…lalalalala… ; – )
Quite clear from this whole furore who the c*** is in this instance. No self-respecting journalist would write an abusive article such as this – but there again she’s not a proper journalist is she?
Legacy fake news media all groomers and pedos !!!
Definitely gone over to the dark side.
Angrier Vance
Muldoon would have called it “the gutter press”
Typical putrid behaviour from our creepy lying sinister woke MSM ‘journalists’.