Australian women only lesbian event not allowed.

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I am not informed enough in this space to make serious comment on whether there are legal grounds etc so I’ll just share the tweet with archive article link, to show what’s going on here. twitter.com/satirianews/status/1416286186994376708?s=21

I don't understand the mentality of people who would want to go to something like that when they weren't in the intended group. I'd feel uncomfortable and bad about muscling my way into something for a minority group I didn't belong to :-/ I get intellectually that they want validation, and think they're punching up for some topsy-turvy reason, but intuitively I can't think myself into that headspace. Bizarre

@ClumpingBambooIsALie

I don't understand the mentality of people who would want to go to something like that when they weren't in the intended group. I'd feel uncomfortable and bad about muscling my way into something for a minority group I didn't belong to :-/ I get intellectually that they want validation, and think they're punching up for some topsy-turvy reason, but intuitively I can't think myself into that headspace. Bizarre

That is exactly what men have done throughout history. Entitlement over women in every way.

"Bid to exclude ‘people with penises’ "

They are going to demand to see what attendees have between their legs? Should be interesting.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.

@Gottalife

"Bid to exclude ‘people with penises’ "

They are going to demand to see what attendees have between their legs? Should be interesting.

And heaven forbid anyone should just expect males to have the courtesy to stay away from something they’re not invited to…

*Agreed, I think for any rational person it's bizarre to try and get our heads round this.
Unfortunately, many of these people aren't like that. Many of them actively enjoy making women uncomfortable by knowingly invading their space and gloating about it.

Actually, I think your reasonable attitude is one the sticking points for why so many people don't see or want to see the extremes that some are going to in all this.
So many think that is must be a mistake/ an overreaction etc. because they could never imagine being so ridiculous to demand that others comply with their delusion.
So they refuse to believe there's a problem, it must be women being hysterical about nothing.*

Totally agree Mulletsaremisunderstood
Reasonable people don't understand or believe that other people do not have the same standards of politeness and reasonableness. They just don't believe there is a problem.

The total fucking irony of this is that Tasmania is a redneck homophobic state, in a pretty redneck homophobic country (I lived there for 30 years, I know the place). Or rather, lesbophobic. Gay men are acceptable now in Australia if they're funny & camp & cute.

But the arguments and the misogyny and lesbophobia rampant in the Sydney Mardi Gras organisation when I lived in Sydney in the 1980s was unbelievable.

And in Tasmania, lesbophobia also rampant (just listen to Hannah Gadsby), together with homophobia. So this move to "inclusion" is just grandstanding.

But basically, Australia is a misogynist's paradise. Think about why some of the most kick ass feminist come from there - Germaine Greer, Carmen Calil ...