Money well spent
Nothing is too good for the gender-special.
Who needs a “non-gendered language cancer campaign”? What’s the point of such a thing? To spare the tender feelings of the tiny minority of people who think they’re the sex they’re not? To spare those purported feelings by putting real women in danger? Real women who are indigenous or migrant and thus face language barriers? A super-special luxury cancer campaign crafted to obscure the language around cancers that happen to women, in order to make the gender-special feel cuddled and looked after and pampered. The hell with indigenous and migrant women, yeah? They’re just there as a photo op for men who like to pretend to be women.
The federal government awarded a $7 million contract to a LGBTQ lobby group to produce a women’s cancer campaign using non-gendered language, despite the public health message meant primarily for Indigenous and migrant women.
Despite the fact that the message was meant for, that is.
Documents obtained under Freedom of Information reveal the Department of Health and Ageing granted the lucrative funding to ACON, which describes itself as NSW’s “leading HIV and LGBTQ+ health organisation”, without the contract going to tender.
The seven-figure deal was struck in spite of a quarter of women surveyed raising concerns about the use of “confusing” and “political” language in the campaign.
Spend 7 million bucks to make health information for women more obscure, for the sake of the feefees of a small number of petulant men.
Why? Why would anyone, even the most gender-besotted, think this is a good idea?
There’s a popular belief that “all forms of oppression are connected.” You can’t be for women’s rights without being for gay rights, indigenous rights, black rights, trans rights, whale rights, etc. Perhaps this has now morphed into a kind of Spiritual belief in the inter-connectiveness of all things. If you do something for LGBTQ+ rights, then indigenous rights will somehow rise to a higher level & cancer recedes. Promote animal rights by being a vegan and inequalities in math scores among races will begin to harmonize.
It’s holistic. We Are All One.
Detractors of such thinking call it “the Omnicause”:
https://mickhartley.typepad.com/blog/2024/06/the-omnicause.html
From reading that link perhaps FFB should stand for Fact Free Books.
But of course you can be for all those other rights without being for women’s rights. Funny how that works.
They’ve contracted this organization to reduce something’s usefulness, in this case the communication of information. This is a job that doesn’t need doing. It’s like paying someone to remove nutrition from food, or to put potholes in roads. It’s vandalism and malevolent, hegemonic bullying all in one. Reprinting the information in an Old German typeface would have reduced its accessibility without compromising its content, but that wouldn’t have been enough. Making the information less accessible is not actually the job, just a side effect. They’re being paid all this money in order to erase women. The agency hiring them is going out of its way to erase women.That’s the sole point of this. If only they’d all been willing to accept $7 million to fuck off and leave women alone. That would have been worth it.