While anyone who speaks up against the sexual revolution inevitably faces backlash, women are often faced with the ugliest vitriol — misogynistic, sexually charged, and vaguely (if not overtly) threatening. Conservative women like German sociologist Gabrielle Kuby and UK commentator Caroline Farrow are almost constantly on the receiving end of abuse, and even liberal icons like J.K. Rowling are attacked, with Rowling receiving rape and death threats regularly. Because these women hold positions that the sexual revolutionaries consider outside the pale, the abuse they face is largely ignored. Most progressives seem to think they are asking for it by speaking their minds.
A recent example of this went viral on Twitter, where footage of a drag queen calling himself “Mistress Onya Becks” went viral. In the clip, he strips a blow-up doll allegedly portraying a female conservative Christian activist and mother of two and then mimes raping her for the cheering crowd. Jolene Bunting, an Ulster-Loyalist and former Belfast City Councillor, spoke to me about her activism, the backlash, and how she’s responding to this not-so-veiled threat of sexual assault.
Why are you being targeted in this vile way by a drag queen?
In June 2022, my children and I attended a fun day in my local community, The Shankill Road. The event was to celebrate Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s 70th Jubilee. When we arrived, there was a large stage. My nine-year-old pointed out that there was a backside with a thong fully visible from the back of the stage. I left my two children with my mum and went to find out what on earth was going on. To my horror, this man (a drag queen) was there dancing around in a thong to Disney music, surrounded by children. I was horrified that parents seemed happy to let it happen.
I took a photo of the drag queen. I wrote a social media post stating, “Not even our Queen’s Jubilee Celebrations are safe from the sexualisation of our children. I was disgusted after taking my young kids to this Jubilee event only to find a bloke wearing a thong and prancing around in front of young children.”
Three days after that social media post, police arrived at my door to demand I remove the tweet of this public performer from my social media accounts. I refused as I had not committed ANY crime. However, the police proceeded to caution me under the malicious communications act. This caution now has no further action on it.
