'Trojan Unicorn'

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https://www.thenational.scot/politics/24604739.perth-museums-new-unicorn-exhibition-appears/

'The youngest visitors will have skipped past the section about persecution to get to the toys, and were perhaps unlikely to question why anyone would be hiding in a Trojan horse – though some may well have been informed enough to know that such a thing is, by definition, not “peaceful”.
By the time I saw, inside the wooden belly, a unicorn plushie wearing a T-shirt advertising LGBT Youth Scotland, the controversy-dogged charity once run by a paedophile, I was questioning whether the exhibition might actually be a form of protest against the stealth operation to convince even the youngest of children that sex is merely “assigned” rather than fixed and that they might be happier, less anxious, more popular if they assumed a different gender identity, joined a waiting list for puberty-suppressing drugs and started saving up for surgery.'

Excellent article in the National. Wonders never cease.

Interesting to see this in The National - are they so desperate for ££ and clicks they've come to the dark side?

I had free tickets to this exhibition but didn't go because I could sense some fuckery would be afoot in a modern Scottish exhibition dedicated to unicorns, and that tacky rainbow unicorns would sadly not be as scarce as their mythological counterpart.

Current museum exhibitions these days seem curated by the middle-classes with luxury beliefs who can afford to dedicate years to courses like museum studies, and especially so in Scotland (see also the Burrell Collection fiasco). To give them the benefit of the doubt, as the article points out, they are probably also forced to concede space to the LGBQWERTY brigade in the name of "inclusion" when applying for funding. How willing they were to do so, on a scale of "through gritted teeth" to "busting out the maracas for LGBTYS" remains as mysterious as our national animal.

They had a Trojan Unicorn? Somebody knows what they are doing.

Any opportunity to target children with gender nonsense. And once you know that the toxic LGBTYS is involved.................

This is what my taxes are paying. Never knew that unicorns were connected with LGBT…whatever. They took the rainbow and now they’re taking the unicorn.

I always thought unicorns were attached with the swinging community. I wonder if there is a mention of this in the display. That would certainly be an education for the kiddies.
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Well said Shona Craven. Her last paragraph reads:

It seems our national animal, despite being so fleet of foot, still cannot outrun those who wish to exploit it to peddle pseudoscience. A future exhibition may question why so many were complicit in teaching damaging new myths to children.

Bleurgh! I've yet to get round to visiting the new Perth Museum (I'm old enough to have sung in concerts when it was the City Hall).

I think I'll leave it a while yet.