NZ feminist mag, Broadsheet, is back live on Facebook, after being frozen for 33 months.

After having their Facebook page stopped cold, Broadsheet's back in action.

Good news! After 33 months in the frozen tundra of cancel culture, due to the successful efforts of transactivists, Broadsheet NZ’s Feminist Magazine is back on Facebook.

Broadsheet magazine - not to be confused with Broadsheet, an NZ/AUS food, drink, travel & art website (which might actually also be worth a look) - “was a monthly New Zealand feminist magazine produced in Auckland from 1972 to 1997. The magazine played a significant part in New Zealand women's activism. It was to become one of the world's longest-lived feminist magazines”¹.

In 2015, Broadsheet re-emerged on Facebook as a public page, and was openly not on board with gender ideology. They committed the cardinal sin of not believing that men could ever magically, surgically, medicinally, or simply by the power of their feelings, become women. Naturally, that didn’t sit well with transactivists, who relentlessly trolled the page, and made coordinated mass complaints to Facebook about Broadsheet.

Eventually, it seems that Facebook HO became riddled with enough wokesters drooling at the mouth in their excitement to cancel anything which dared defy gender ideology, and in August 2022 Broadsheet’s Facebook page was frozen. There was no explanation given for this, and Broadsheet got no response to their enquiries. There’s little doubt, though, they were put into limbo in response to yet another dogpile by transactivists who claimed Broadsheet made them very sad.

Of course, the transactivists could have stayed away, and not indulged in their doom-seeking behaviour. Why they didn’t is beyond the comprehension of normal, or even vaguely normal, people. In the early days of my terfing, it was the Broadsheet FB page where I tussled with a well-known ‘charmer’ tranny - i.e. a man who says he’s a woman, also widely known to be a grandmaster of narcissism, and one of the worst trans trolls in NZ. He shall remain nameless here, although, weirdly, he himself takes many opportunities to explicitly reveal how I really hurt his feelings one day several years ago, which has traumatised him ever since.

My bad.

As you may have gathered, this abovementioned chap is not altogether very lovely, as Broadsheet themselves will confirm. I believe they’ve blocked him from their FB page numerous times, as in every time he reappeared there under a sock-puppet account. I can only imagine the massive size of the dossier where Broadsheet will have undoubtedly saved all his poisonous spewings. In all likelihood, he will grace them with another sock-puppet account appearance, so he can indulge in his favourite pastime on their page once again of doom-scrolling for offence. Once he’s found something he can be butt-hurt over, then he can get into his happy place of trolling. It seems to be quite the passion for him.

My story about him, which I’ve deliberately told only in the broadest of terms, is actually a mild one compared to the stories others have about their unfortunate encounters with him. I simply tell it to illustrate the type of transactivist troll who was responsible for getting Broadsheet’s FB frozen for 33 months.

Now, though, Facebook HO has had a clean out of drooling wokesters, and Broadsheet’s back. Let’s raise a glass to that, and the signal of hope it gives that transactivists are losing their once maliciously enjoyed suppression of terf voices.

¹ Broadsheet Magazine - wikipedia