Plebeian Resistance

Hex Work Limited

Alice Snedden, Duncan Grieve, Spinoff & Bauer

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Richard Seager
Apr 03, 2021
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Stand up for Women, which is a New Zealand group opposed to proposed law changes that make it easy for those born male to insert themselves in female spaces just by the simple statement ‘I am woman’ recently took the producers (or more accurately the distribution company, RNZ) of a short ‘documentary’ on their organisation to the Media Council hoping to get a ruling in their favour that the short was unfair and unreasonable. It was, in fact it was extremist nonsense, but they unfortunately failed in their quest.

The show was compered by Alice Snedden who is supposed to be a New Zealand comedian but nobody really knows of her. I guess that might be because her LinkedIn says that she’s a Brooklyn Lawyer*. But the more interesting part is that it was produced by Hex Work Limited which is owned mainly by Duncan Grieve and his wife but with some Toby Manhire involvement as well. Duncan is supposedly the founder of Spinoff, albeit I think that the evidence points to Spinoff being part of a v…

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