Saturday 25 March 2023

“The Sheilas will not be silenced” | Jo Burchill

In the last three years the only news of Australia has been negative: how uptight and woke it is.
Novak "Novax" not allowed to play the Australian Open in 2022, because he was unvaxxed, despite having had Covid twice and being super fit. Zero science there. Just the "no one is above the law" sanctimonious sludge.
Then Victoria, took the prize as the most locked down place in the world, under wretched Premier Dan Andrews. And they're proud of it! Including of the cops who beat up elderly protesters. No freedom of assembly there.
Now the hate on women. Misogyny masquerading as trans rights. “Misogyny in drag”. The rights of men who say they are women to invade women's spaces trump the rights of women to privacy. For which delusion men and other Trans Radical Activists bay for the blood of women. TRAs include Dreadful Dan, who gleefully weighed in, smearing Kellie-Jay Kean, the founder of Let Women Speak, with untrue conflation of her with neo-Nazis. Untrue and nasty. Does he know KJK has zero to do with the Nazis? I don’t know. If he does and still conflates her with them, he’s a Knave. If he doesn’t know, he’s a Fool. A Fool or a Knave, Mr Dan Andrews. In either case, anti women.
If I didn't think that the majority of Aussies thought all this was so much nonsense, and thought that women ought be allowed to speak, I'd be truly ashamed of Australia.
I hope I'm right.
I can't be fully sure. I read in the South China Morning Post the other day that "Australia is the wokest place on earth". God help us if true.
PS: There's a lot of pretty negative reporting in Australia in the AUKUS treaty and its commitment to nuclear powered submarines.
I don’t know who thinks Australians still say “Sheilas” except the Brits, but still… here’s the headline article.
ADDED (27/3): Things went even worse in Auckland where threats, intimidation and assault by a group of Trans Radical Activists, many plain-vanilla men, led to Kellie-Jay Kean having to flee. As in flee New Zealand. Virtually all the main media will report this on the side of the TRAs, conflating Let Women Speak with Nazis, and “anti-trans activism” (it’s not). For balance: views from the other side, the pro-feminist side, here and here and here and here (“Aussie pussies”, including Nick McKim’s non-stop ad hominem)