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ABC content producers, I surmise, are under the impression that the Australian public hasn’t had quite enough queer content of late. Although our ABC provided celebratory and at times even reverent coverage of Sydney’s WorldPride last month, when the party ended there was an urgent need for new rainbow-themed programming.
My readers, I suspect, have probably skipped the latest offering from iview, Queerstralia, a documentary series on the allegedly neglected history of our nation’s LGBTQIA+ movement and its key figures. Similarly, for those Quadrant readers not on Instagram, the most recent investment of our tax dollars may have gone unnoticed. I refer to ABCQueer, a social media channel which promotes both trans allyship and the view that the gender binary arrived — yes, I wish I was joking — with the First Fleet.
And yet, as Q&A bookers must have lamented, there was still a shortage of queer representation on ABC screens, which is probably why Deni Todorovic (above) turned up on the flagship panel show on Monday night. Mr Todorovic, for those who have remained until now happily unaware, is a non-binary author, transgender activist and podcast host. He enjoyed quite a bit of attention last month when women’s swimwear company Seafolly marked International Women’s Day celebrations by making him a brand ambassador. An odd choice, one might have reasonably thought, although the photoshoot with Todorovic accoutred in a lime-green bikini had many customers reaching for more derogatory adjectives.
Facing the backlash, Todorovic sniffed about his wounded feelings but instructed the naysayers to get over it: some women, he averred, have penises. Not long ago, as you’ll recall, a belief like this might have made one sound like an asylum escapee, even in elite circles; today, however, any failure to affirm this orthodoxy is quickly followed by the usual whinging about transphobia, which was just one of Todorovic’s talking points on Q&A.
He squared off against Victorian Liberal Party president Greg Mirabella, who offered a tepid defence of the brilliant and embattled MP Moira Deeming. Deeming, who has just received a nine-month suspension from her own party, participated in a Melbourne women’s rights rally organised by British activist Posie Parker. According to our cretinous politicians and media, however, there was little to no difference between Deeming and the neo-Nazis who gatecrashed the event.
I must admit it was tricky work to sift through all of Todorovic’s non-sequiturs, especially when he was banging on about micro-aggressions and the intergenerational trauma he’d supposedly suffered. His anxiety about choosing the men’s or women’s bathroom when in public, I thought, was yet another example of his narcissistic windbaggery, though the crowd seemed to like it.
One of his more clearly expressed suggestions, that Parker’s and Deeming’s views extended to the desire to kill transgender children, went unchallenged by host Stan Grant and the other panellists. Warming to his subject, Todorovic added to his contemptible slur that Deeming’s punishment was inadequate and she deserved expulsion. He really lapped up the audience’s cheers for that remark.
When Mirabella tried to explain Deeming’s pro-women’s rights positions, an exasperated Todorovic threw back the customary phrase: “But trans women are women!” This, apparently, clinched the argument, as a pusillanimous Mirabella refused even to raise a sceptical eyebrow at such an obvious lie.
Now, I generally try to avoid both watching and writing about Q&A, which is a risible program just waiting to be cancelled. This showdown, however, between Todorovic and a Liberal representative illuminates, I think, the party’s possible paths ahead.
Todorovic offered to spend at least 90 minutes in the Liberals’ party room, where he would presumably inform everyone of the entreaties of the LGBTQIA+ community. “I’m simply asking,” he simpered, “for a seat at the table.” Regrettably, I think more than a few MPs would be open to the general thrust of such a stupid idea.
In the last few weeks, there’s been some loose talk about both the direction and fate of the Liberal Party. For its own survival, some have urged, it needs to modernise, which apparently involves becoming indistinguishable from the Greens on culture war issues. It may not be in the spirit of inclusion and diversity, but I would simply argue that a transactivist loon like Deni Todorovic and any of his sympathisers be left out of consultations. It would be a serious mistake to do otherwise. The backlash against the transgender activist movement isn’t on its way — it’s already here and it’s only going to get more energetic. Transgender demands are incompatible with women’s sex-based rights, and there needs to be a party to represent the views of men and women who know precisely what words like men and women mean.
Todorovic, the habitual liar, told the Q&A audience, “All we want is to be respected.” To show that respect with any kind of sincerity, consider what you’re going to have to allow: the entry of biological men into women’s bathrooms as well as their dominance of women’s sporting categories; the extirpation from the language a word like mother and its replacement with chest feeder or uterus-haver; agreement on absurdities like the ability of men to give birth; the enthusiastic embrace of drag queen story hour and irreversible medical treatment for minors. This list, by the way, will get updated any minute now, as new demands for “inclusivity” are imagined and your respect is continually tested.
So, no, I think we can happily ignore Deni Todorovic’s policy preferences for the Liberal Party, just as I have ignored — I realise at this late point in the essay — his preferred pronouns. The Q&A producers even added the requisite they/them to the broadcast supers for their non-binary guest, but I must have failed to notice.
Todorovic and his co-aggrieved might think me deliberately disrespectful, but I guess that’s the remedial lesson to take from this episode: we shouldn’t care what they think.
In electronics a device that can flip between two states is called bistable. My advice if they flipped and is having trouble choosing a toilet is to use the intersectional perve-ometer. If you think you’re a lesbian woman then go where you can perve on other women. If you think you’re equvalent to a traditionally called woman, then go where you can perve on men. And don’t forget to introduce yourself and explain your presence, because how can anyone respect you if theyr don’t know you’re so special. But best to keep silent when you’re checking out others at the urinal, unshaved and dressed in a pink frock.
“Hairy Man in Silly Dress Cries ‘Respect!’ This ‘man’ is crying ‘Respect’ but the the dress he wears is advertising the opposite, and that gives the game away. The dress front says: ” Victim On Board”. The dress back says: “Kick Me”. The object of this hairy fairy’s game is not to gain respect, but to be harassed so that the victim can signal his ‘virtue’ of beseeeching respect. Yet another iteration of virtue signalling.
Chest-feeder and uterus-haver sound very Anglo-Saxon. Much like bread-protector for man, bread-maker for woman, and bread-consumer for a servant. Perhaps we need more plain English talk with words that mean what they mean. A mother can be child-birther, but children aren’t popular these days so we need something more modern, how about organic-human-bearer? When robots are everywhere, it won’t go out of date.
What is it that makes a man want to pretend to be a woman?
One answer is that it is a variation on the theme of masturbation and I say that because invariably they dress like prostitutes, indicating it is all about a sexual ‘hit’ of some kind. Otherwise, the blonde hair, fake nails, fake eyelashes, red lipstick and high heels, the quintessential costume for a woman on the make and a lot of street-walkers, would not be their attire of choice.
When men pretend to be women they do so as sexist stereotypes from a time when women were simply sex objects. One presumes that in the doing they ‘get off on themselves’ which probably saves a bit of money on the real thing. Indeed, I have seen little boys who think they are girls dress in this way. If little girls were tarted up like this, as little girls, there would be outrage and cries of paedo bait. But it seems that confused little boys can do it and get away with it.
And yes, women pretending to be men, do the stereotypical butch act, as do many lesbians. It is all caricature and sad farce. They are acting out a myth of their own making and a sexual fantasy written upon their own body. What is astonishing is how many people are prepared to go along with it.
One thing is certain, a man pretending to be a woman or a woman pretending to be a man is psychologically unwell and in need of help and compassion, not encouragement.
This guy, and others like him represent an underlying misogynistic impulse: being a woman, in their conception, is so trivial, it would seem, as to allow one to ‘be’ a woman by merely claiming to be one. Indeed, so facile as to enable a man to ‘feel’ like a women; and one wonders how a male would know he felt like a woman. By the puerile act and the vacuous claim they denigrate women…but few in the wokebrigade or legbiter cackle (the collective noun for legbiters) have sufficient insight or care to notice, it would seem.
Firstly let’s clear up the issue of respect. No one, not even me, is just entitled to respect. Respect has to be earned. I have many friends and acquaintances I respect along with many public figures. There are also many I don’t respect due, obviously, to the activities or opinions. For the vast majority of people I have no view either way. As for the hairy bloke in the dress demanding respect disqualifies him.
The toilet issue seems simple to me. Long, long ago in the early 1970s, there was a bar is Oxford St, Sydney called Keaton’s. It was owned by a young homosexual couple who introduced themselves as a lady poofter and a gentleman poofter. I don’t think you can use that term in polite conversation today. They had an idea of having three toilets marked, Ladies, Gentlemen and confused. It was just a joke, of course and they didn’t do it.
As for today why not mark the toilets men (people with penises) and women (people without penises). This would mean our hairy “friend” would have to use the men’s. Now if he had his penis lopped off he still wouldn’t be a women he would be a Eunuch, wouldn’t he.
I believe the majority of us do not fear homosexuals so would prefer the term homomiseo as more appropriate ie a dislike.
To the left, the term or suffix “phobia” simply means to disagree with the diktats of leftist ideology. It is a term of derision used by those incapable of engaging in rational discussion to silence their opponents and has lost all meaning.
See also “Nazi”, “fascist”, “inclusive”, “tolerance”, and many others.
A lady once told me that I was Homophobic; not true, I am not scared of them, I just do not like them – more specifically their credos for living, also……… respect pigs backside…….I think not.
Give them an inch and they will take a mile applies to the gay brigade whether female or male. My guess is that they know subconsciously that what they are, or think they are, is irrational and unnatural and they want desperately to believe the opposite. For that to happen, they need everyone to enter into their delusion, hence the growing pressure and bullying to achieve that goal.
Having been accepted in society and having most people accept they can marry, why don’t they just go off and do whatever it is that gays do, or want to do, and shut up about themselves? Because, they want something they can never have, absolute equality with the norm which is male and female in union. They are chasing a fantasy and a dream which just makes them more unstable.
This is why society, in compassion, should be supporting but not encouraging. There is far too much encouragement of the delusion that same-sex couples are no different to male/female couples. They are and they always will be. And they need to be encouraged to accept that and go away and be proud or prideful somewhere else, because constantly ramming it down people’s throats, no pun intended, is creating resentment and the homophobia they fear.
Transwomen are women is the Woke ideology’s two plus two equals five: an expression of raw ideological power.
And remember Voltaire’s quip that “people who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”.
And indeed, respect wept.
Pride is a bad counsellor ….. It deceives.
The mental processes of the vandal are, in my opinion, to be found also in those who call themselves artists but who only engage to debase and to shock. True art is a communication not debasement. Sadly it seems that there may also be vandalism of the human body.
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There may be parallels between vandals and the likes of Todorovic. But my feelings are of sadness and sympathy that a man is, for whatever reason, denied the great joy that a loving family life can bring and apparently is driven to shock.
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In this I do not include the same sex attracted couples who have found quite fulfillment together and who do not engage in heterophobic demonstrations.
“Quiet” not “quite”.