The first disruptions in the flow of gender ideology into our schools, public services, and sporting bodies here in New Zealand have begun. Our incoming coalition government, comprising the three centre-right political parties of National, ACT, and NZ First
I think that most of us here in NZ felt the same about NZ, until Friday. It was only a change of govt that began the changes written in my blog, and only because it was a coalition govt. if it had just been a National Party govt, for example, I doubt they would have done anything except change education.
everytime another country turns away from this evil it makes it more likely the rest will follow. there is hope. but, honestly i know how you feel. because every day this continues more children are mutilated. it's heart breaking.
Do you think there is likely to be movement on the biological spaces thing? The Wellington zoo, botanical gardens and other public restrooms have removed male/female signs and replaced them with scribbles that are supposed to resemble toilets... How am I supposed to teach my kids about Boundaries when society has none ?
It's possible that there may be an eventual voluntary flow-on effect to reinstate single-sex amenities without legislation. For now, though, there won't be government intervention, unless something serious happens to force their hand. We will still have to apply pressure at a local level for a while yet, is my expectation. Yes, single-sex amenities are the best way we can teach boundaries right from a young age.
Congratulations NZ Women voters. Women's Rights and our physical protection should not be a Left or Right issue. Sort this out, first! And congratulations to Kellie-Jay Keen and the NZ women who organised the Auckland Let Women Speak Rally, putting themselves in real physical danger. You woke up your country. Keep speaking, brave Kiwi women!
Good news to be sure on the gender education and indoctrination front. I can't exactly celebrate the coalition though, having little faith in anything else this govt will do for women and children. Looks like the healthy lunch programme in schools that every left-wing govt this century has introduced and every right-wing govt has promptly vetoed when elected, because healthy eating children is the last thing the the Big Food billionaires that back the right-wing want, is for the chop again. Such a travesty that it has come to this for all modern Western democracies, having to choose between safety, dignity and fairness for women and children, on the one hand, and healthy affordable food for school children, especially the underprivileged children and families, on the other. But thank you for the clear roundup of the relevant policy positions; I'm certainly glad Winston is there to keep the other two from the extremes of free-market libertarianism and social conservatism.
I'm not overly enthusiastic about some of the other things this government will bring in with them, either. I put the blame squarely on the Left for this government, though, because if they hadn't done such a totalitarian job on us with woke ideology, those who abandoned it wouldn't have, and the Left would have sailed back into power.
Yes. It seems that's the sorry state of affairs we must live with today. As an active volunteer campaigner for Labour for decades, and a candidate in training for a brief time, I am still in disbelief and some grief too about the way the Left here as elsewhere has exposed itself as an anti-feminist, even anti-women movement.
I want to stop the influence of gender ideology in our education and elsewhere. But there is much else that damages far greater numbers of kids and women than gender ideology.
Allying with the right from the 1980s on pornography was a foolish, blind movement for women which has not limited the impact of pornography on young people of either sex or old ones either. Have you thought about the long term consequences of that experiment? The distortion of feminism into support for Xtian and other religious purity movements that prevented the emergence of a vision of female sexuality that was not based on purity and violence? The erotically charged emphasis on sexual danger child sexual abuse and rape that pervades girls' childhoods (and our whole culture) while domestic violence refugees are left impoverished and those who have suffered real abuse are barely supported?
How about you write a post that places the real damage that this right wing government wants to do to women and children and the damage that the right will do to LGB people once they get going alongside the slender gain that has been achieved today?
Hi Hera, I don't think the Right are entirely responsible for damage done to women and girls. I may have once agreed that the Left was more of a friend to us, but the last few years have changed my mind about that. Both the Left and Right have bad players in their ranks who perpetrate harms either ideologically or directly, they just use different justifications and gaslighting to do it. Personally, I think it benefits women to not wed ourselves monogamously to either side.
There are several policies in NZ's new centre-right government which I don't like - the re-introduction of live exports, is one - but I acknowledge the policies I do like, especially the ones which will help roll back the entrenchment of gender ideology.
Currently, I write about topical issues around the subject of gender ideology, rather than do deep dives into specific issues. However, the Women's Rights Party NZ (https://womensrightsparty.nz/) will be fleshing out their policies as they get more established, and the things you mention will be amongst them.
Is a 'left' that erases women's rights and kids' protections really a left? Is a left that has replaced class struggle with the promotion of bourgeois identitarianism really a left? I don't think so. Today's 'left' is simply displaying its abandonment of left principles and practices. I was actively involved in the far Left for more than 40 years. No more.
How much more damaging is it to LGB people than to deny same sex attraction and replace it with same 'gender' attraction? This enables hetero men to claim they are 'lesbians', join lesbian dating pools and pressure young lesbians to engage in hetero sex. It's happening, it's regressive and no genuine left person should support it. Not ever. The faux left has lost its mind, its politics, its way.
That is exactly right - it is not we who have changed our values (I'm speaking from the centre-left /social democratic viewpoint which seems to be predominant in the GC community). Till the globalism revolution the left was a predominantly working-class backed movement centred around unionised industrial labour. Once the working class were kicked out from our own movement it became dominated by a technocratic nomenklatura who run the public service, education system and the media (except the explicitly right wing press). The current one is a "bourgeois/academic/corporate left", yes that last one is an oxymoron.
Unfortunately its not as simple as just changing the govt. I'm happy for you across the Tasman but this movement has entrenched itself so deeply they have taken control of the education system to indoctrinate generations of children and actively curate news reporting to advance their ideological agendas. They have succeeded in the Marcusian/Dutschkian long march. This has to be recognised and fought over the long term.
Yes, these policies are just the beginning of a long haul. We may be helped along by the emergence of swathe of younger people who think gender ideology is bonkers and take the p*ss out of it now. Ridiculing and resisting it is like their rebellion. However, as you say, there’s still a huge cohort who have bought into it.
It sure was a fantastic day. Now that's it's been taken out of education, here's hoping for a snowball effect
I hope so.... What rights do we actually have if we can't say no men in ours or our daughters spaces?
wow. thank you. i honestly thought nz was beyond redemption. am feeling blindsided by hope.
I think it’s Australia that is beyond redemption. While the rest of the world is starting to wake up, the more Australia digs its heels in. 😢
I think that most of us here in NZ felt the same about NZ, until Friday. It was only a change of govt that began the changes written in my blog, and only because it was a coalition govt. if it had just been a National Party govt, for example, I doubt they would have done anything except change education.
everytime another country turns away from this evil it makes it more likely the rest will follow. there is hope. but, honestly i know how you feel. because every day this continues more children are mutilated. it's heart breaking.
Do you think there is likely to be movement on the biological spaces thing? The Wellington zoo, botanical gardens and other public restrooms have removed male/female signs and replaced them with scribbles that are supposed to resemble toilets... How am I supposed to teach my kids about Boundaries when society has none ?
It's possible that there may be an eventual voluntary flow-on effect to reinstate single-sex amenities without legislation. For now, though, there won't be government intervention, unless something serious happens to force their hand. We will still have to apply pressure at a local level for a while yet, is my expectation. Yes, single-sex amenities are the best way we can teach boundaries right from a young age.
Gosh I don't see anyone having much luck where I live... Wellington (wokest part of NZ)
That's true about Wellington - but, tbh, I think most councils are infected with wokery now.
woohoo! Doing the happy dance!
Congratulations NZ Women voters. Women's Rights and our physical protection should not be a Left or Right issue. Sort this out, first! And congratulations to Kellie-Jay Keen and the NZ women who organised the Auckland Let Women Speak Rally, putting themselves in real physical danger. You woke up your country. Keep speaking, brave Kiwi women!
Woohoo!
Well done to our Aotearoa/NZ sisters for your sterling advocacy. This brings a glisten to my eye. xxxxxx
Good news to be sure on the gender education and indoctrination front. I can't exactly celebrate the coalition though, having little faith in anything else this govt will do for women and children. Looks like the healthy lunch programme in schools that every left-wing govt this century has introduced and every right-wing govt has promptly vetoed when elected, because healthy eating children is the last thing the the Big Food billionaires that back the right-wing want, is for the chop again. Such a travesty that it has come to this for all modern Western democracies, having to choose between safety, dignity and fairness for women and children, on the one hand, and healthy affordable food for school children, especially the underprivileged children and families, on the other. But thank you for the clear roundup of the relevant policy positions; I'm certainly glad Winston is there to keep the other two from the extremes of free-market libertarianism and social conservatism.
I'm not overly enthusiastic about some of the other things this government will bring in with them, either. I put the blame squarely on the Left for this government, though, because if they hadn't done such a totalitarian job on us with woke ideology, those who abandoned it wouldn't have, and the Left would have sailed back into power.
Yes. It seems that's the sorry state of affairs we must live with today. As an active volunteer campaigner for Labour for decades, and a candidate in training for a brief time, I am still in disbelief and some grief too about the way the Left here as elsewhere has exposed itself as an anti-feminist, even anti-women movement.
Absolutely they are!!! I think we should be marching about this. Is such an abuse on women and girls...
I want to stop the influence of gender ideology in our education and elsewhere. But there is much else that damages far greater numbers of kids and women than gender ideology.
Allying with the right from the 1980s on pornography was a foolish, blind movement for women which has not limited the impact of pornography on young people of either sex or old ones either. Have you thought about the long term consequences of that experiment? The distortion of feminism into support for Xtian and other religious purity movements that prevented the emergence of a vision of female sexuality that was not based on purity and violence? The erotically charged emphasis on sexual danger child sexual abuse and rape that pervades girls' childhoods (and our whole culture) while domestic violence refugees are left impoverished and those who have suffered real abuse are barely supported?
How about you write a post that places the real damage that this right wing government wants to do to women and children and the damage that the right will do to LGB people once they get going alongside the slender gain that has been achieved today?
Hi Hera, I don't think the Right are entirely responsible for damage done to women and girls. I may have once agreed that the Left was more of a friend to us, but the last few years have changed my mind about that. Both the Left and Right have bad players in their ranks who perpetrate harms either ideologically or directly, they just use different justifications and gaslighting to do it. Personally, I think it benefits women to not wed ourselves monogamously to either side.
There are several policies in NZ's new centre-right government which I don't like - the re-introduction of live exports, is one - but I acknowledge the policies I do like, especially the ones which will help roll back the entrenchment of gender ideology.
Currently, I write about topical issues around the subject of gender ideology, rather than do deep dives into specific issues. However, the Women's Rights Party NZ (https://womensrightsparty.nz/) will be fleshing out their policies as they get more established, and the things you mention will be amongst them.
Is a 'left' that erases women's rights and kids' protections really a left? Is a left that has replaced class struggle with the promotion of bourgeois identitarianism really a left? I don't think so. Today's 'left' is simply displaying its abandonment of left principles and practices. I was actively involved in the far Left for more than 40 years. No more.
How much more damaging is it to LGB people than to deny same sex attraction and replace it with same 'gender' attraction? This enables hetero men to claim they are 'lesbians', join lesbian dating pools and pressure young lesbians to engage in hetero sex. It's happening, it's regressive and no genuine left person should support it. Not ever. The faux left has lost its mind, its politics, its way.
That is exactly right - it is not we who have changed our values (I'm speaking from the centre-left /social democratic viewpoint which seems to be predominant in the GC community). Till the globalism revolution the left was a predominantly working-class backed movement centred around unionised industrial labour. Once the working class were kicked out from our own movement it became dominated by a technocratic nomenklatura who run the public service, education system and the media (except the explicitly right wing press). The current one is a "bourgeois/academic/corporate left", yes that last one is an oxymoron.
Unfortunately its not as simple as just changing the govt. I'm happy for you across the Tasman but this movement has entrenched itself so deeply they have taken control of the education system to indoctrinate generations of children and actively curate news reporting to advance their ideological agendas. They have succeeded in the Marcusian/Dutschkian long march. This has to be recognised and fought over the long term.
Yes, these policies are just the beginning of a long haul. We may be helped along by the emergence of swathe of younger people who think gender ideology is bonkers and take the p*ss out of it now. Ridiculing and resisting it is like their rebellion. However, as you say, there’s still a huge cohort who have bought into it.