Tamihere: Being male doesn't mean everything's my fault

MP John Tamihere says he is sick of being deemed the perpetrator of the world's problems simply because he is male.

He made his comment in another indiscreet interview, this time with Australia's FHM (For Him Magazine) that sells in New Zealand on sex and gender issues.

Mr Tamihere did not repeat the phrase "front bums" for women that he used in a controversial interview with Investigate magazine this year, but responded to questions about them. Asked whether he was "more popular since the 'front-bum' comment about butch females in Government," the MP replied: "People are still waving five fingers at me. They haven't taken to one or two yet."

In the article, he says he has been molested twice by women.

Mr Tamihere says the world would be no different if women ran it: "We've got to get rid of this bullshit that they're a loving, caring species."

Commenting on whether there would be as many phallic-shaped monuments if women ruled the world, he says: "They are shaped like rockets 'cause that's how you pierce the stratosphere. You don't do it with a rocket shaped like two big boobs."

A spokesman for Prime Minister Helen Clark said she would not be bothering to read the interview "and she quickly concluded she wasn't in the target audience".

Mr Tamihere said last night that the interview was not an indiscretion just because a woman journalist thought it was one.