Australian Manbaby Loses While Winning In Court

What's so hilarious about the Ladies' Lounge is that it was such a perfect piss-take.  Ten out of ten stars.

In creating a "Ladies' Lounge" and deeming it for women only, other than attractive men under 25 who may serve as butlers, Kirsha Kaechele has done some trolling that would make Andy Kauffman beam with pride.  She created a scenario in which she could not lose.

Inside the Tasmanian museum, the Ladies Lounge was a private space for women only.  The best pieces in the collection were hoarded there.  The idea came from the old days, when women weren't allowed in public bars in Australia, so they'd have a separate "Ladies Lounge."  One teeny-tiny little example of how we've been getting ordered around since forever.

It's interesting to me that Kaechele is apparently an American, where gender discrimination is still fully legal.  And so this entire performance definitely wouldn't have ended the same way, a point she never brings up, and the Tasmanians don't seem to notice.  Jason Lau probably wouldn't have won his case in America, because it's fully constitutional to discriminate based on gender here, as far as I know. 

As I understand it, it's 100% legal in my country to pay me less and charge me more based on my gender, cradle to grave.  There were more things I was excluded from than what I was eligible for growing up, seriously.  I'm from 1964.

So everything about Jason Lau getting ass-chafed enough to take her to court because he couldn't go into one art exhibit out of a whole museum?  Makes me belly laugh.   He couldn't even grasp the concept after it was explained to him.

The Guardian:
"Lau argued that denying men access to some of the museum’s most important works (there is a Sidney Nolan, a Pablo Picasso and a trove of antiquities from Mesopotamia, Central America and Africa in the women-only space) is discriminatory. Kaechele said that was the point."

Holy shit Jason Lau wouldn't survive being a woman for one day, not an hour. I didn't get to see a Picasso!  Call me a waaaaaahmbulance :(  And then a lawyer.  Because seriously I'm that big of  a manbaby LOL

"Kaechele admits the museum has amassed a “large file” of complaints over Ladies Lounge. But apart from the current case, only one other complainant has sought formal redress.

“Like Jason, he felt it was sexual discrimination and wanted access for men. And when I said, ‘well, men can’t come in’, he said ‘then why should I have to pay the same amount if I don’t get to experience the artwork?’ And I said, ‘you do experience the artwork, because the rejection is the artwork’. And he understood that and he appreciated it and he dropped the case.”

Okay, sure.  But this bit:

"Then why should I have to pay the same amount if I don’t get to experience the artwork?’"

You know, do they ever ask themselves that when they're paying us less and charging us more, why should women participate with them?  Because I'm pretty sure they know that's a thing and always has been.  I'm pretty sure they all know why there's a ladies' lounge.  It's because men insisted on throwing us out and in general being huge jerks from time immemorial and counting.  So all of this is a huge fuck-you if you don't like it IMHO.

And it was just winning and ten times more winning for Kirsha Kaechele, and me, and everyone else who totally gets it. 

Because you can't force consent.

You can't stop somebody from not giving a fuck about you and not wanting to hang out with you.  There's no way you can force that woman to care what you think or want you around.  She's three steps ahead of both Jason Lau and the judge who sided with him.  She will always be ten times cooler and have more fun than both of them put together.

VICE:

"In his decision, [Judge] Grueber commented Kaechele’s appearance at the hearing, where she was accompanied by 25 women in navy business attire and pearls.

In what Kaechele later described as an extension of the artwork, the cohort had performed synchronised movements during proceedings , including leaning forward, crossing their legs, and peering over their spectacles.

Grueber said while it didn’t disrupt the hearing, “it was inappropriate, discourteous and disrespectful, and at worst contumelious and contemptuous.”"

Well, I thoroughly enjoyed it.  And Jason Lau, whose mega tantrum this whole thing was in the first place, actually got much more than $35 worth of entertainment, didn't he?  That's what baby Huey was suing over, a $35 art ticket. 

Just MWAH, the whole thing.  Suing her about this, or ruling against her with the word "contumelious," was such a football bat, such a soup sandwich for the incel community.

Because the whole thing always was performance art, which by definition must come to an organic conclusion.  And Jason Lau volunteered to be the stooge.  That lack of self-awareness is like a grave that just keeps getting deeper the more you dig.

Congratulations, professor.  You'll never get in there.  She's closing The Ladies Lounge rather than open it to you.  And you gave her the perfect way to shut it down with a bang instead of a whimper. 

At first this really did piss me off because I saw it being about consent.  It couldn't have ended better.  Thanks, Jason Lau.