Ridiculous propaganda video from Australia

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https://x.com/marycatedelvey/status/1806857007808315681

This has to be a parody, right?!

If I had a shilling for every time I've picked someone's bag off a seat and sat down I'd be RICH. They get so hissy.

If the other story was told, I always agreed that when the actual owner of the bag got back from wherever, I'd stand up. Funny how often they never appeared.

those subtitles are spot on. Australian feminists have got a hell of a mess to sort out there

Absolutely this.

Message, women it’s your job to put men before yourself.

Good women do this.

Women who don’t, deserve your hatred.

God the sport one! Is that rugby? So women should be prepared to be injured in a contact sport to ‘be nice’. Why can’t the men ‘be nice’ and let him on the team?

And the bus one! There are other people standing on that bus, including women. Why is only the special trans person worthy of notice and accommodation. The message is ‘treat trans people better than everyone else, especially the boring ordinary women standing on the bus’.

My Mum taught me to 'give up your seat for a lady' when I was little. Don't parents do that any more?

I was thinking about that - before the early 60s it was quite likely that an adult woman on public transport was either pregnant or breast-feeding. If not either of those, then menstruating. Pre-war, even more likely. None of that was talked about, but there was a tacit understanding that women had physical needs that provided a reason for giving them particular consideration. Not as true post the pill.

Now, we have to put on a sparkly cardi and flirt to get a seat - is that the idea?

God the sport one! Is that rugby?

I'd guess Aussie Rules, although possibly rugby league (and both called 'footy' in Oz). But both are full-on contact sports.

That one struck me as the TW doing performative incompetence. "Tee hee! I'm a poor clumsy woman!"

As for the sport ... Hannah Mouncey, breaker of women's legs, comes to mind. Or Fallon Fox.

That one struck me as the TW doing performative incompetence. "Tee hee! I'm a poor clumsy woman"

Yes, that box dropping was very deliberate.

Yes re the box-dropping. ‘Gosh, us girls are so weak from all this oestrogen, we can’t really manage to carry a box all on our own.’

I was also struck by '... they have been among us for decades without anyone knowing... they pass'...

Yep. The creators of this ad used female stereotypes to portray that male person as being ‘vulnerable’. It is an obvious device and misogynistic in its use here. Just like the rest of the ad. Misogynistic from start to finish.

It is interesting how we manage to.be horribly phobic and discriminatory.towards people we are unable to identify. Probably counts as a superpower.

Obviously this is mostly bollox, but even if true, how is this supposed to be a good thing?! Basically admitting to decades of no consent.

Even the idea of "passing" shows it's all about deceit. It means successfully pretending to be something they're not. Lying. Fooling people. Removing consent, as pp said.

The sour joke being that they don't, anyway. Those men are unmistakably men.

I agree. It's all about deception. They used to talk about "going stealth". Like that's possible for 99.9% of these males.

Appropriate that stealthing is also the term for men removing condoms without women's consent, ie rape by deception.

I've had to play against transwomen in a contact sport and you can rest assured a welcoming smile was not my response. I eventually quit the sport.

Well done Rachael!

Unbelievable that anyone would find the original ad either plausible or admirable. Shut up and put up, women, you have no rights.

@Runor- the government is fully behind the TWAW, but the actual 'locals' not so much. Australia is one of those places where there is the claim of laid back, which really just means rampant racism and sexism. Have found it anything but laid back. Hospitals in Victoria have just introduced sex and gender to booking forms, which I very much agree with as previously you could have the gender you wanted, not sex you are. No care here (in general) for women's based rights and single spaces. It's not talked about, and all our hospital wards are mixed sex anyway, and always have been.

Considering the very important push that the federal government has been doing with ‘consent’, I am actually rather confused by the Vic govt’s lack of understanding of consent in this issue. Both are labor governments, but it shows the ideological skew about who gets to consent in what situations.

There is a significant disconnect around female people‘s consent vs what some male people demand that is very apparent in this ad. And the organisation within Vic govt that commissioned this ad doesn’t understand, or doesn’t recognise, that female people have the right to consent who they get into small locked spaces with. Or who one the team plays against males when they expect only to play against female people.

I have found it discordant. I have been in Australia for a few weeks and have had constant consent ads and this ad is a significant sign that labor doesn’t really understand what they are promoting. Which is a concern.

Australian MNetters can complain to:

https://adstandards.com.au/about/ad-standards/

The URL for the YouTube full version of the ad is:

I wish my video editing skills were better. I would love to be able to add an alternative interpretation on them.

Since the advertisement was made in Victoria, probably Australian Rules. Which is not quite as full-contact as rugby, but pretty close.

(Now I'm waiting for the follow-up ad where the big, booffy footballer follows the other players into the female locker room after the match. But I bet that one will be too much for even VicGov to swallow.)