Happy International Erase Women Day
Last Wednesday was International Women’s Day so, to all of my female readers, congratulations.
Virgin Airlines - never ones to miss an opportunity to turn a 737 into a flying virtue signal - marked the week by staging the first ever domestic flight by an all-female crew.
The plane made it safely from Sydney to Brisbane, though it was running three hours late and needed someone else to park it.
Personally, I don’t feel any need to know details of my flight crew’s genitals. So long as they are good at landings, take-offs and the bit in between, I’m pretty happy.
Nevertheless, Virgin proved that girls can do anything. Which we already knew. Now if they could find my bags, that would also be great.
Meanwhile, iconic swimwear brand Seafolly decided to mark International Women’s Day by using a bearded man who identifies as almost a woman but not quite (he’s non-binary) to model their swimwear.
Virgin reckon a woman can do anything. Seafolly reckon a woman can be anyone.
Deni Todorovic, 34, featured in the swimwear campaign sporting a lime green high-waisted bikini brief and matching coverup.
Were it not for the beard, distinctly flat chest, thick thighs and the weird sausage-like bulge protruding from Deni’s bikini, he could well have been part of an all female Virgin Airlines crew.
“Today we make history,” Todorovic said triumphantly, as if he was the first person to appropriate womanhood.
Perth Now reported that the campaign “quickly became the subject of vile comments from those taking issue with Todorovic’s appointment, even threatening to boycott the brand”.
Did it never occur to the diversity, inclusion and equity lovers at Perth Now that celebrating women by turning them into men might be considered ‘vile’?
Seafolly used to get Miranda Kerr to model their bikinis …
Now they’re using this guy …
Tell me again how great Western culture is?
And while you’re at it, tell me how women wanting to purchase women’s bathers are meant to make a decision based on seeing them modelled by a man.
Go to Seafolly to see folly.
Someone wrote on Seafolly’s Instagram page …
“Since when do women have penises in their bikini bottoms?”
Seafolly quickly condemned the statement.
“We are here to celebrate the Australian beach lifestyle and inspire one another to feel confident at the beach,” the brand wrote in response, which was no doubt inspiring for people wanting to pack a little extra in their bikini this summer.
Todorovic told The Daily Mail that critics needed “education” and then declared …
“Some women do have penises.”
Well I guess that settles it.
Also, the earth is flat and Justin Trudeau is a lizard creature. Ok, but I was serious about the earth not being flat.
And in case you were tempted to argue the toss, Todorovic warned that disagreeing with him would lead to deaths.
“Trans people attempt suicide 15 times more than cis-people,” Todorovic said.
“This little piece of visibility, and Seafolly's incredible reaction to our collab literally has the power to save lives.”
Don’t think of it as a penis in a bikini. Think of it as a lifesaver.
Seafolly warned their Instagram followers:
“In this community, we do not tolerate abusive, offensive, hateful language, trolling, deliberate disruption of discussion, or spam.”
To which I say, ‘ha!’
Does it get any more offensive than a man in a bikini “educating” us that “women can have penises” and warning that people will attempt suicide if you dare disagree?
“We do no tolerate trolling,” Seafolly insist. Um, it kinda seems like their marketing strategy!
The Canadian Prime Minister, who is always railing against misinformation and disinformation, tweeted:
Oh but Justin, trans women are very clearly not women. The “trans” prefix gives it away.
For three years of the pandemic Trudeau told us to “follow the science” and now he tells us that pointing out the science is “hate”.
I wonder if it ever occurs to Justin and co that there would be far less antagonism towards trans people if they simply stopped demanding people suspend reality.
Speaking of suspending reality, Dr Jill Biden used International Women’s Day to hand out an “International Women of Courage” award to a trans man.
It begs the question as to why they let Dr Jill hand awards to women when she clearly does not know what a woman is.
If Dr Jill was a woman of courage she would have pointed out that Alba Rueda was not actually a woman, or particularly courageous.
Rueda is Argentina’s Special Envoy for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship.
Yep, I had to read that three times slowly too. And it still didn’t make any sense. But what does in 2023?
According to the US State Department’s own notes, Rueda was honoured on Women’s Day because …
She actively campaigned to change the name of the National Women’s Conference to the “Plurinational Conference of Women and Lesbian, Cross-Dresser, Transgender, Bisexual, Intersex and Non-Binary Persons”
Or, for short, the PCWLCDTBINBP.
As if destroying the name of a conference was not enough, Rueda also …
“ … was the driving force behind Argentina’s executive order on the transgender labor quota in the public sector which was converted into the Transgender Labor Quota Act.”
The law in Argentina now requires 1 per cent of all public service jobs to go to women with a penis, or men with a vagina as the case may be. The Argentine public service could be a burgeoning export market for Seafolly.
Of course, not all the women recognised on International Women’s Day were men.
There was a female Afghani doctor who helped women escape the Taliban. And there was an Ethiopian journalist who reported on her country’s war at great risk to her own life.
But you have to wonder how the other gals felt receiving courage awards alongside Rueda.
Decades of hard work from feminists has come to this … men winning awards for being courageous women.
Oh well.
Once again, happy International Women’s Day ladies. And I’m sorry it’s late, but then again, being a woman seems so passé.
And I was worried about my thighs being too big in a bikini. I’m off to the fruit’n’veg store in haste.
I’m just glad that I can now qualify for international men’s day! If my menopausal beard would just hurry up, I’ll be ready to start campaigning. Wish me luck!
Well James, let me say that I'm all at sea over the folly of this and I sympathise with the budgies and smugglers maligned by this stupidity.
Good to see you back.