Please tell me this is a piss-take… non binary male complaining about being told to join men’s queue for Heaven nightclub

[AngeloMysterioso]

I mean it reads like a Titania McGrath-esque parody but I really don’t think it is…

Person called Jordan Bennett on Twitter has posted this amusing/ridiculous tale… (copied and pasted directly from 6 tweets)

Okay so I had the most DISGUSTING INVALIDATING experience at heaven nightclub last night- a place where I am meant to feel free and accepted. Queuing to enter the club it splits into 2 lines- MAN and WOMAN- to be checked by seperate people. I am non-binary so OF COURSE I’m gonna queue in the women’s line in sheer protest of where I know they would expect me to queue based on my appearance. I wait to be checked nervously and then one of the security staff rudely gestures me to the other line for men. I then kindly tell them that I am non-binary whilst highlighting the pronouns on my earrings which clearly say ‘They/Them’. They carried on refusing me access, repeatedly saying this side was for ‘women only’. I shamefully walk to the other side. The two distinctly separate box-like detectors for each queue added to the prison-like atmosphere. I felt invalidated and embarrassed. As a place that hangs the pride flag on every wall, invites non-binary performers every week to perform, calls themselves a QUEER VENUE. This is anything BUT a queer venue. What really upset me most was guest @theebillyporter , who is such an inspiration to me, introducing himself and celebrating every gender identity when they were on stage. @JeremyJoseph this type of treatment at your establishment NEEDS TO CHANGE. And until this backwards, dangerous rhetoric is reversed, HEAVEN IS NOT AND WILL NEVER BE a queer venue. I’m appalled.

I think not ...

If it's not a piss-take, I really wonder what Jordan thinks the reason for having two separate lines is.

Hint: it's not so the security staff can check how well the people in them conform to masculine and feminine gender stereotypes.

Oh. Em
Gee.

That was soooo invalidating.

Pillock.

What really upset me most was guest @theebillyporter , who is such an inspiration to me, introducing himself and celebrating every gender identity when they were on stage.*

I don't understand this. Is Jordan misgendering and invalidating Billy Porter here?

That's got to be a parody account, hasn't it? No-one really believes a non-binary identity actually overrides their sex do they?

I am non-binary so OF COURSE I’m gonna queue in the women’s line in sheer protest of where I know they would expect me to queue based on my appearance

And who gives a fuck about how the female staff might feel about that, eh?

Brilliant.

I love Heaven. Haven’t been in years (decades?).

Absolutely loving the idea Heaven ‘is not and can never be a QUEER venue’

@yourhairiswinterfire

I am non-binary so OF COURSE I’m gonna queue in the women’s line in sheer protest of where I know they would expect me to queue based on my appearance

And who gives a fuck about how the female staff might feel about that, eh?

That bit’s the best bit!

“I DELIBERATELY stood in the queue I KNEW wasn’t for me - in protest at something I didn’t need to protest about - and then was TOTES INVALIDATED and OFFENDED when the thing I was pretty sure would happen happened.”

My god these people need to get some real problems.
Imagine going by life deliberately trying to find things to get upset about.
It's not healthy.

The pronoun earrings make this a sheer masterpiece. Or they would if it was satire.

"I shamefully walk to the other side".

Well, at least you got something right.

@IsabelleSE19

The pronoun earrings make this a sheer masterpiece. Or they would if it was satire.

That’s my favourite part too. The benevolence of our hero “kindly” informing the bouncer that he is non binary… as evidenced by the earrings.

I'm chuckling at the pronoun earrings. It really does sum up the sheer ridiculousness of some people and the whole situation. Pronoun earrings Whatever next?

@CervixSampler

I'm chuckling at the pronoun earrings. It really does sum up the sheer ridiculousness of some people and the whole situation. Pronoun earrings Whatever next?

Anything you have two of and can hang rings from?

Pronoun earrings are a thing! Who knew?

Surely that's a spoof?! The bit about the earrings is genius!

@NewlyGranny

Pronoun earrings are a thing! Who knew?

Oh god. I hope they don't become the new version of the pronouns on our email signatures. Like, we're all expected to wear earrings that announce our pronouns?

arrogance of the male sex to think they can force women to search them. lacking the concept of consent here I think.

I wait to be checked nervously

Is this a scintilla of empathy for the presumably female bouncer who may well indeed be nervous about checking him or just poor grammar?

Oh I thought this chapx was a woman.

I imagine Jordan not being able to go to the post office now for fear of being in the wrong queue ...

... you know when one moves quicker than the other and you think "shall I change now or just stay as I am?"

Female security staff and police officers have to put up with this though, this has been going on for years. I'm glad he was asked to change queues. Presumably it was just a wand and not a body search anyway?
I haven't been in years.

That is definitely not a parody. Sadly.