Patricia about death threats to Miss Netherlands: ‘Written by people with children!’
Patricia van Liemt is a radio presenter, writer and mother of Maria (13) and Phaedra (10). Every Friday she writes striking, honest, funny and above all recognizable columns about her life and motherhood.
“I don’t really like that I feel that way, but I find it difficult when my son puts on a dress.” These are the well-considered words of a colleague. We are on a company outing with a beer in our hand. He continues that he really went looking for himself why he still finds it difficult. And comes out on tradition, his father and social expectations. He adds that he obviously doesn’t say anything about it to his son, but that he finds it especially annoying to notice that he has an intrinsic judgment.
Miss Netherlands
All Dutch people who have said something ugly about the new Miss Netherlands can take an example here. In case you missed it, Rikki Kollie is transgender and was crowned the new Miss Netherlands last week. Look, I am of course not in favor of this gender stereotyping, in the form of a beauty pageant, but I will leave it for now. I’m quite shocked by the responses.
I’ll put together a few comments for you:
- She’s not a menstruating woman, so get rid of that stage
- How can a man win a beauty pageant?
- Hormones and mutilating operations don’t make a man a woman
- Dirty emaciated rabbit
- This is just a dirty business model
- Real women didn’t stand a chance in this moronic woke world
And then there were also death threats against her. And these are not just so-called lone wolfs who only throw offensive things on the internet for nothing, no… there are a lot of parents with children among them.
“It’s not just lone wolves who throw offensive stuff on the internet. No, there are a lot of parents with children among them.”
No choice
And I imagine if their son wanted to put on a dress, or their daughter feels more like a boy, there’s absolutely no room for that. ‘You act normal for once!’ But I hope so much that these people will come to the realization that being transgender is not a choice. But something is happening to you. That you are born in a body that you don’t feel at home in. And I know it’s hard to move yourself. And I also know that we have deep, very deep roots in our culture, in which the female and male stigma is entrenched.
But let’s take an example from my colleague. Who signals it, dares to talk about it and who has respect for the person concerned. If it is your own child, but also a complete stranger who receives a crown.
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