A promotional clip for New Zealand uploaded to social media the other day looked like the usual decorous fare churned out by the country’s tourism agency: all deep-blue skies, golden sands and soaring mountains. The words were another matter.
There was no come-hither voice enjoining visitors to experience ‘pure New Zealand’. Rather there was the miserable sound of Auckland this past weekend as the women who gathered to hear the biological sex campaigner Posie Parker were confronted by a much burlier mob determined to ‘turf the Terfs’, as one of their placards had it.
New Zealand’s record tallies with Parker’s view of it being ‘the worst place for women’ she had ever visited
The mash-up clip and hundreds of other appalling publicity items like it have appeared over recent days on Twitter under the trending hashtag #NZHatesWomen. ‘Having witnessed the treatment of women trying to speak in a public place in Auckland, I won’t be visiting New Zealand anytime soon,’ said one Twitter user.
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