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🎙️ Peaked Wilders or Women - Who Saved the Dutch from Genderwang Host: Róisín Michaux
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I fangirled a bit hard while talking to Lydia, aka The Dutchess, aka Insufferable TERF, who talked to me about the fate of the various gender laws in the Netherlands, which have been mercifully shunted aside for now. The Dutch had been facing the same unholy throuple of genderwangery as the rest of Europe: hate speech, conversion therapy, and of course, the king of gender absurdities, sex falsification (euphemised as "legal gender recognition by self-determination" by the activist class). All those laws are on the backburner for now, says Lydia, because there's no longer a majority in the kamer that will support them. And let me tell you, the green-haired brigade are fuckin seeeeeethin lol. It all went tits-up after the electoral success of Geert Wilders, who got famous for his disdain for the Muslim faith and his mission to erase its visible manifestations from Dutch public life. Lydia reckons the very visible pro-Palestine marches might have scared people into voting for Wilders, infused as they are with proudly Islamic symbolism (basically just Arabic writing, big beards, and Yasser Arafat scarves). These visual cues don't go down well with people who have difficulty untangling them from images of mangled metro carriages, beheaded reporters and so forth (this is my dumb-guy interpretation, at least).
Anyway, what of the women? Did the Dutch TERFs - of whom there are many - have anything to do with the demotion of the genderwhackery laws? How influential were they in alerting the voting populace to the dangers of erasing sex as a valid and important legal category? What about the heroinic work of Caroline Fransens, who laboured for years as the lonely frontwoman of Voorzij? She was one of the earliest to raise the alarm about the sex-falsification movement. Or the Insufferable Lydia herself, a relative latecomer who went viral on social media when she invaded the safe space of the ruling class to point a finger in their faces? If you haven't already, please enjoy the video below of anti-woman "feminist", leader of the liberal loons, Sigrid Kaag, getting told (swoon).
Kaag tells Lydia to come up on stage, saying "I can't hear you sweetie" (condescending bitch amiright), and Lydia is majestic as she lists the duplicitous Kaag's crimes against women such as destroying our sports leagues and letting men into our changing rooms. Lydia gets a few very loud male boooooos from the crowd, of course, before flouncing off in her flowing satin white attire, which I mistakenly assumed was a nod to the suffragettes. What's next? But what dangers for women lurk under the Geert Wilders political platform? Will he send us back to the kitchen right after he's finished sending the migrants back to MENA? What does right wing mean these days? Are we all right wing now? If everyone is right wing, do I have to still keep hating everyone? We also talked about the effect of the Zembla documentaries (see below), the absolute sham that is Amsterdam Pride now, and why gender critical "Ultras" might end up clearing a path for normies to take a reasonable-sounding, less "extreme" TERFy position. Sorry for the crap quality of the recording, if anyone can help me figure out how to keep the podcast low-effort while improving its sound, I'm all ears. Lydia on Twitter Link to the first Zembla documentary on the Dutch Protocol Apropos of nothing, here's a story about Sigrid Kaag's party's advocacy for teaching kids that paedophilia is normal and cool
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