For doing nothing but trying to reduce violence against women and people in minority groups, witches, weāre now ourselves repeatedly threatened with violence.
Usually by men with the biggest fame, most money and most powerful media platforms in the country.
The irony would be incredible, if it werenāt 100% true.
On Friday, it was (predictably) Karl Stefanovicās turn. As the keynote speaker at Prince Alfred Collegeās Old Boyās dinner in Adelaide (as we posted on last week), he said this:
āThe outspoken podcaster didnāt miss when taking aim at his critics, referencing the MFW (Mad F***ing Witch) Facebook page that condemned Prince Alfred Collegeās decision to welcome Stefanovic to their annual dinner. The page had earlier launched a #KancelKarl campaign targeting Stefanovic and calling for advertisers to pull funding from his Nine shows. āI would love to see ā this is going to be a tricky one for you ā I would love to see those mad witches with a spitfire up their arseā he said to loud applause and cheers from the audience.ā
https://t.co/K5GaUxrPeC
Yep. Just for wanting him to stop breathlessly adoring Nazis (among other transgressions) on his new podcast, Stefanovic publicly stated he wants us blown up using bloodthirsty war rhetoric (a Spitfire is a British WW2 fighter plane, for those who donāt know). The quote also has a crude and possibly intended sexual context as used against a woman or group of women, which makes it even more depraved and threatening.
Is this kind of language the āFree Speechā youāre so fond of calling for, Karl? Blowing us up for wanting you to stop the racism and hate? Why is the freedom to say what you want only for YOU?
And yeah, if asked about this now Karl will say it was ājust a jokeā to get a laugh from an adoring room full of wealthy older men. But this is what men like this always say, isnāt it? And as women we know itās all ājust a jokeā ⦠until it fucking isnāt.
Heās not unique in this technique, of course. Heās just the latest in a long line of men who want women they disagree with maimed or killed or burned at the stake. We still have three Admins living away from home (at great expense and astounding hardship) due to credible personal threats made by Sandilands. And we face waves of abuse and violence on our threads and in our DMs every single day we call it out.
Yet now, Stefanovic feels free to add to all this by saying he wants us Admins violated and destroyed merely for objecting to his showcasing a violent racist. This is so often where they end up going, witches. When over-privileged men donāt get their way. Because they canāt take any kind of criticism or censure or being called to account, no matter how reasonable it is.
So hereās the big question, witches. Was Stefanovic always like this and just hid it while on mainstream television, or has he just recently developed (because heās now unshackled from his pesky bosses at Nine) this new and public wish to have women who disagree with him blown sky high?
Whatever the answer, thereās little we can do about his and other mensā hatred of MFW but keep calling it out, and keep going with our campaigns to expose them, explain their shitfucked actions, and successfully get them as far away as possible from us and anyone who also cops their filth, lies and hate.
So with your support, thatās exactly what weāll do.
Oh, and fuck off forever, Karl.
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And the wins just keep on a-keep on a-coming, witches.
This time, itās HUUUUUUUGE.
Because weāre back to Kyle Sandilands and specifically, his gig on Channel 7ās yearly TV show āAustralian Idolā.
As regular witches know, we ran a big campaign protesting Sandipantsā appearance on Idol starting in January this year, concurrently with the KiisFM radio campaign (before that abruptly finished in March). It was a lot of work for a lot of witches to run both campaigns, but now weāre oh-so-glad we did.
Because this was the last big conquest we wanted to make on this issue, and itās just brilliant Kyle has now āresignedā or been sacked from that broadcast as well as from his radio show.
Witches could not be happier:
āKyle Sandilands has quit Australian Idol, telling the Seven Network on Friday morning that he wanted to insulate the show from an oncoming campaign by activist group the Mad F---ing Witches, this masthead can reveal. āSo Iāve told Channel Seven this morning, just prior to speaking to you, that Iām standing down from Idol for the good of the brand to continueā he said. Sandilands was part of the showās relaunch on Network Seven in 2023, and currently appears alongside fellow judges Marcia Hines and Amy Shark. The showās 11th season aired its finale in April, and Sandilands said he will not be renewing his one-year contract in September.ā
https://t.co/r8TmUnpelr
If someoneās unfit to appear in the mainstream media, theyāre unfit. There are no ifs, buts, maybes or exceptions. Thatās why we expanded our campaign to Idol this year as well as KiisFM, because we donāt want Kyleās verbal violence and misogyny anywhere near free-to-air commercial media channels.
We knew Channel 7 were hurting from the campaign, and we knew they were really worried about having him back in 2027, when our entire laser focus would have been on Idol advertisers rather than shared with those on the radio. He says this himself and accidentally reveals why heās gone: the sales team were mighty upset, and very very worried about their income from the show.
As well they fucking should be.
Letās celebrate this huge win as we go into the weekend, lovelies. And letās thank all the hard-working witches who recorded the Idol advertisers and wrote to them to ask them if they wanted to fund Kyleās filth. Many, many of them agreed with us that they didnāt want to, and to them weāre also grateful.
One final thing for today. If you want these successes to continue and expand, witches, please consider funding what we do (if you donāt already). A small monthly contribution would hardly be missed by many from their bank account, but it does so much good and causes so much witchy dancing when our campaigns hit the mark. Itās so unfortunate that we canāt do more almost solely due to a lack of financial support. We really want to.
And we really love the way this āresignationā gives a bit of an extra kicking to Stokes (who, remember, more-or-less paid rapist Bruce Lehrmann for his sob-fest on 7ās flagship TV show a few years ago), and also, obliquely, to Gina Reinhart, who now also part-owns Channel 7. So if you love annoying billionaires as much as we do, please get on board and support us. Read the last paragraph to find out how.
Letās fucking go, witches.
Weāre on a roll, and thereās no fucking stopping us now.
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Luke Batty was an 11 year old kid who just wanted to play sport yeah.
One day, his dad walked up to him and killed him with a bat to the head.
Yet, Pauline Hanson thinks that maybe, just maybe, It might have been Luke's fault.
No to One Nation. Never.
@Idontgive2u Itās peace and some sadness here and there. Iām content alone, and sometimes I miss moments of the feelings of my social party days. Then I remember that dark side of that life and Iām ok
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