The international reaction over the brutal attack on Kellie-Jay Keen AKA Posie Parker while she was attempting to speak at a rally in NZ, has been extraordinary. Many women have responded to my original piece with anger and frustration that we are being sidelined by violent extremists who are taking over our spaces and wish us harm. This week’s show will be dedicated to women prevented from speaking, meaning all of us - with a special guest of course.
My AP, Dorothea and I are inviting female readers of this Stack to record a greeting for Kellie-Jay and any thoughts you have about what happened to her in Auckland. Your name is not necessary but is welcome. And if you are comfortable, leave the name of your town, no matter where you live.
Our record button can be found by navigating to my website where it sits as a small blue tab on the left-hand side of the page. Or you can LEAVE A MESSAGE HERE.
You can also leave your thoughts in the comments below.
Here is a long version of the atrocities aimed at women fighting to save actual womanhood.
Please leave a short voicemail and we will select some for the show this week. Kellie-Jay will hear them. This is a tipping point. Shame on all who enabled this disgusting time in our history. I fought for gay rights. And they’ve got them. Who will fight for us?
Ever see violence against women flags displayed like below? Or hockey sticks taped for rape crisis centres?
Take some time to listen to a different woman who survived the Auckland event and was in a total state of shock over what New Zealand has become in allowing violence in the name of inclusion. It is heartbreaking.
Let Women Speak.
And I hope you do.
And we will see you on the pod later in the week.
Stay critical all of you adult human females.
Trish, you mentioned in the podcast that women in general, and feminists in particular, had been early supporters of the "gay" movement, and I agree -- you were. With great respect, let me ask you to consider how good an idea that was, in retrospect. There's a clear line of descent from the sexually-inverted fraternity and sorority to this novel form of perversion. I see the feminists' early support of the L and G parts of today's growing alphabet soup as being like the way some people think it's cute to adopt an adorable little chimpanzee as a pet and companion. It turns out that a grownup chimpanzee is an extremely strong and aggressive beast that is quite capable of, and sometimes willing to, kill an adult human, and in ugly ways. What happened to Kellie-Jay is obviously unacceptable, and you're right when you say that men wearing pants are obliged to stand between women and men wearing dresses, and protect them (the real women, that is). I accept that obligation, and am ready to do so, personally.
But I would like to hear some hint of recognition that Kellie-Jay's mobbing is an instance of the feminists' exotic pets growing up in a strange and horrible way, and turning on them.
“This is what happens when women try to speak?” Really!?
This is the kind of headline statement made by journalists that reveals them to be seekers of sensational stories that divide people by some personal characteristics such as colour, race, religion, etcetera. Recall what happened when Dr. Jordan Peterson was accosted at the University of Toronto when facing angry students who insisted that he call them by their preferred pronouns. He paid the price for not submitting to compelled speech. The price Jordan paid is likely greater than what Kelly-Jay will suffer from her Auckland event.
My point is, woke ideology in all of its manifestations is a problem for everyone who expects to be protected under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Canada, and the equivalent constitutional rights in other democratic nations.
If the headline had read “This is what happens to anyone who chooses to publicly exercise freedom of speech in today’s ‘woke moment’ of history”, I would not be writing this. The fact that it was portrayed by you, Trish, as a case of female victimology and a “feminism” issue, was disappointing to me as an “old school” man (age 71). I am a long time supporter of your show and have come to expect more of you than this spin of the Auckland event as a feminist issue.
I don’t doubt that your life lens was shaped by your career in journalism, and especially the Fifth Estate, which trained you to seek sensational stories and leverage them to attract readers/viewers. “Eyeballs that pay” are good for business. I don’t blame you for trying to expand your customer base. I am simply disappointed that you chose to portray this story as a feminist issue and not an issue for every ‘freedom lover’ who feels threatened by growing public ignorance (an instance of mass formation psychosis?) and an aggressive manifestation of an increasingly balkanized society.
Yes, I feel sad that Kelly-Jay became a public victim that day in Aukland, but I wish you had made the story about the decline of Democracy by a thousand cuts rather than about one unfortunate event that could have occurred to either a man (like Dr. Peterson) or woman. Fight for all of us, Trish, not just women. Put away your “old school feminist” persona and replace it with a media avatar (think Wonder Woman) who champions the cause of freedom and safety for everyone equally without favouring the cause of feminism.