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(NewsCore) - A senior member of an Australian state government claims that young men believe women are "fair game" for rape and abuse because of the "poisonous" influence of pop stars like Lady Gaga and Beyonce, the (Sydney) Sunday Telegraph reported.

In a sexually explicit speech, Labor Whip Greg Donnelly used a debate in the upper house of New South Wales Parliament about International Women's Day to claim that raunchy acts like Lady Gaga were twisting gender relations by "horrible, coarse sexualization" of young girls.

His comments have triggered uproar among female members of Parliament, who have accused the former shop assistants' union official of being "gratuitous."

Donnelly described acts of rape, sexual harassment and group sex to illustrate his point that young girls were becoming overly sexualized and that, as a consequence, they were targets for aggressive male desire.

"Young boys may start to think that women and young girls are fair game and that they can go to a party on the weekend, get loaded up with grog and that it's their right to ask a young girl for a head job or for anal sex or to push a young woman up against a wall and have sex," Donnelly, a right-wing Catholic, told Parliament Thursday night.

"Some members are grimacing, but that is the reality,” Donnelly said. “This material agitates a mindset in young boys, who grow into men, that women are fair game and that such behavior really doesn't matter; that they can get loaded up with grog or drugs and everything is OK."

Opposition Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Catherine Cusack said Donnelly's speech was out of line.

"He is trying to say the hypersexualization of girls gives guys an excuse to treat girls as sexual objects, and that is the cause of violence against women, which is disgraceful," Cusack said. "It's a perverted theory and it appalls me."

Greens MP Lee Rhiannon said it was a gratuitous, inappropriate speech.

"Many MPs of his own party were embarrassed," she said. "He should not be the Whip of the party."

Obviously this guy is talking ****.
But ....... Do you think that women nowadays dressing so ermmmm skimpy-ish is the cause for men seeing women as sexual objects?