Ridiculous propaganda video from Australia

SD1978 curious about how the attitude of your council is affecting women and children living in Victoria? Can you give some examples please?

It’s just so stupid as well as misogynistic. The one with the middle aged man who drops a box in front of his new neighbour, who helps him. Is that supposed to signal a “positive message to trans people”? It’s just what the vast majority of people would do! It’s not a non-verbal signal of kindness to trans, it’s just normal human behaviour.

This is worth a watch - subtitles added to show just what's 'unsaid'......

https://x.com/RachaelWongAus/status/1806862383446729193

The tram one is fascinating. No suggestion that clearing the seat for the person who could actually be pregnant would be a better idea. I remember decades ago a pregnant friend (who had been warned about standing after a scare) saying she'd given up expecting courtesy from men on public transport, and if she needed a seat would ask a woman. Very mad world.

So the messaging is - play dress-up to get respect. Ordinary clothes = natural victim. Interesting.

That ad has really sat with me since watching it yesterday.

Is it illustrative of how people - men especially - who don't get it see things?

How can the producers and actors not see the way the male stands so close and stares so intensely at the woman? Was that scripted or unintentional? It's not how humans behave in crowded places, and lifts tend to be in cities.

Watching it I feel so utterly degraded as a woman. I know it's Australian and not put out by the uk labour party, but this is seriously making me reconsider my vote: the thought that the Keir Starmers out there would watch this and feel sympathy for the male and think the woman a bigot for reading social cues and being brave enough to act on gut feelings.

clearly not a well thought out,

Personally I think that they’ve put a lot of thought into it and that the messages that it’s sending to women are exactly what they intended.

Bloody hell. That advert is something else. Makes me slightly embarrassed to be living in Victoria 🤣 the lift- she looks scared and he looks borderline aggressive. The tram- cant move his rucksack for any of the already standing passengers (women) but will for the individual in the sparkly shirt.......and please, come play on our team, you're huge and will (literally) crush the competition and we will smile and be so happy about it....... clearly not a well thought out, but probably bloody expensive advert.

@SamuelDJackson @InWalksBarberalla It's crystal clear that whoever came up with this ad believes that there are two categories of individuals:

1. Special people who are fully human and allowed to have the special and most important emotions, e.g. feeling "unsafe"
2. Partially-sentient support bipeds who exist to service the special fully human people. They are only allowed partial sentience, because they are required to possess particular limited emotions, e.g. BeKind.

Also the bloke on the tram offering a big smile and instantly moving over for the bloke in the floral shirt and makeup ... yeah, bollocks. Not in forty years of using Melbourne public transport did I ever see any man act like that in response to anyone.

Yup, body language in the lift scene is very off - comes in glaring/scowling and arranges themself very close/shoulder to shoulder with the woman (do people still do this since COVID?), the mirror behind them emphasizing the trans identifying individuals broad shoulders and height.
Just like the 'not cool girl/bystander' train/coffee/suicide ads where woman were encouraged to approach unwell men on public transport, evil lift woman is dressed as a frumpy dumpy stereotype, with her high necked uptight blouse, untucked at the back, and round shouldered grey cardigan, poor makeup, clearly not performing 'feminine' as well as the trans individual, and also deficient in her female socialisation in not being a good little support human. The message is you dont want to be like her, older, unfashionable, overweight, not confident.
But the last minute, nervous bolt for the doors, without a derisory look or word to the male who has just made her uncomfortable, suggest fear of being in an enclosed space with a male rather than an act of aggression. Who really felt unsafe in this scenario - it seems a bit of an own goal advert?

It's just the most fucked up ad. That man doesn't feel unsafe. He looks pissed off that the woman (who did appear to feel unsafe) didn't want to play along with his delusion. And yeah let's encourage woman to stay in enclosed spaces with angry mentally ill men in the guise of being kind. So fucking over this bullshit.

Victoria Smith tweeted regarding this new ad and I quite agree with her:

https://x.com/glosswitch/status/1806984505116291180

'I think this kind of messaging sits alongside the "don't be a Karen" stuff - part of a whole series of ways in which it's 'progressive' to ridicule women's fears and make them too inhibited to speak out for fear of looking 'conservative'.'

It's absolute, pure rape culture, being promoted by the government.

Yep, this is why I've spoiled my ballot for years.

This ad is from the Victorian labor government who have been in power for ages. The previous leader of this party hosted drag queens in parliament house to show his support for drag queen story time in public libraries. Then the other side - the liberal (conservative) party leader is the one that expelled a woman from his party for being involved in the Let Women Speak rallies (and had a defamation case against him by KJK). So women in the state of Victoria are just screwed.

It's unfettered male supremacism. Access all areas, including the bodies of whoever they want sexually. It's the most successful face of the MRA movement.

This bears repeating

and putting on a large banner

and a t shirt

Not only a male, but one parading his fetishisation of women. Red flags everywhere.

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What also was very clear was the messaging of vulnerability. The older male moving in and dropping a box. Yes, male people drop boxes, but that scene was contrived to portray a ‘female’ stereotype. Female people are more likely to drop boxes due to our skeletal proportions and grip strength, our hips and our height.

The footballer’s expression struck me as childlike.

However, the male in the lift looked petulant to me. Not vulnerable though.

"How exactly is the transwoman made to feel unsafe by being alone in the lift?!"

The word 'unsafe' has had its meaning changed by this ideology. Trans people feel 'unsafe' when reminded of reality.

Nothing to do with physical danger, or even an outside threat, but their structure of self-deception topples when reminded the fantasy isn't real and everyone knows it.

Frankly I’d be delighted if every time I got in a lift a misogynist walked out.

Why can’t they make little videos to tell these men to NOT scowl at women to intimidate them, demand women lie to them, bully them, expect to ‘pass’, not shove girls of sports teams… huh?